Out of the woods

Aspen was having a marvelous flight around the place. Over the city, looking at all the spectacular shops, and the people. She had started in the woods, but then it was just to good to stop ,and somehow, before she even knew it, she was over the city. But, the wind was blowing something fierce, and she decided to land before she became a human icicle. She touched down gently in a spot where there wasn't to many people, not that she could see anyway. She tucked her wings in comfortably and started walking. She doubted that it would get any warmer or any less windy, so she'd probably have to walk back to the school. It was a lot easier to navigate in the air, but on the ground, it was a totally different thing. She looked around confused, unsure of where she was. She saw the back of some one's head, mustering up the courage to ask them if they knew which direction the academy was. However, the person turned around, a man, and he gave whoever was standing near him an angry terrifying glare. Unfortunately for her, Aspen was standing right behind him. She let out a little whimper and turned to run away, but instead she ran into some one else. She let out a small, quiet shriek as she saw a weapon on his back, and she didn't know what to do.

She crouched on the ground, placing her hands over her head, hoping that the man, she presumed, wouldn't hurt her. Aspen was a strange girl. She was so quiet and gentle, she looked like she could just fall apart. But she wasn't hat fragile. Only around scary people. Like now, as she crouched cowering on the ground, hoping to have her life spared. She never had much interaction with people, so she was very much out of experience with them. Who was she to know what humans might do?

Aspen wasn't sure if she should plead forgiveness or run away screaming. The latter seemed a little unnecessary. Suddenly, a voice reached her ears, and made her whimper. What was she to tell the man? You have terrifying weapon on your back, and I think your scary? Or just stand up and say something intelligible. Aspen stood up to face the owner of the voice. He seemed as intimidating as his voice, and the weapon on his back, but that was what Aspen thought of most human men.

" I-I'm very sorry I ran into you, there was man over there and he looked at me very meanly", she said in a soft voice. Aspen seemed pathetic to most people, but really, she was she was thrown into a world full of new things, and she just didn't know what to do. She could not keep eye contact, it made her want to shrink down into the ground and wither away, or spread her wings and let the wind carry her away. She looked at a small map he was carrying. Hope! Maybe if he let her look at it, she could find her way back to the Academy. " I'm also kind of lost. I'm looking for the Academy, I flew away from it, and now I don't exactly know where I am anymore." She hoped that he would be nice, and not scary, and let her see where the school was.

Aspen was relieved that he didn't slash her to pieces. Honestly, she really wanted to learn more about people, so she wasn't always making little faery assumptions. She took his shrug as a sign or peace, happily listened to what he had to say. he didn't even feel her run into him? That was sorta strange. She knew she was light, but she didn't think that her walking into some one was unnoticeable. 'Oh well, doesn't matter any to me, makes my mission to not bother anyone even better.' She thought to herself.

"And, honestly, I don't know where I am any more than you are..."

She could barely catch the words because he said them so quietly, but she was pretty sure that he was lost too! Oh good, she was glad that she wasn't the only person who didn't know where they were. If only the wind weren't so cold and strong, she could scout from above and point him in the right direction. But for now, she couldn't, and she figured that she'd stick by him, in case he found the way. "oh, we can be lost together- I mean, maybe we could look for a way back? I don't do very well on my own." It osunded pathetic. She just wanted some one to help her find her way back to the school, and he seemed like the person to do. Despite the scary weapon on his back.

((OOC: Sorry! I read that wrong and thought he had a map. Haha.))

Aspen decided that she feared being lost forever more than following this guy. But, she couldn't follow him around calling him that guy or this guy, she was going to have to talk more. Although eh didn't exactly object to her following him, he didn't seem to happy to have a traveling buddy. She should probably make as little noise as possible, and be helpful if she could. "Oh, I will be quiet most of the trip if you want, but can I ask your name? I thought it would be nice to have something to address you with. My name is Aspen, you can call me that if you'd like, but if you don't want to that's fine. I'm done talking now." She closed her mouth, determined not to open it and let any words out, unless necessary. She decided to walk along his side, because looking at his weapon was making her nervous. She picked up her pace, in order to stay at his left side, and she looked at the street sign as they turned down it.

She sniffed a little, the cold air getting to her. She pulled the sides of her dandelion-fuzz insulated coat a little tighter. She was pretty good at directions, and finding her way around, but not in a place with all these tall... buildings. Since she'd only been at the school for two or three weeks, she'd never made her way to the city. It was a complete new thing to her. She'd only seen cities from the air. If it had been a woods, it would have been a completely different story.

Aspen felt that her calm quiet ways were making this guy relax a bit. She was glad for that. Annoying some one was just awful, and practically a crime for her. He seemed to have dropped his head very low, so that it was not visible to her anymore. He murmured something. " Einar" Oh, that was his name. She though it was a word of some other language. It was not a name she'd ever heard before, she always loved hearing new names. "Oh, that's a unique name! i was named after a kind of tree with thin leaves that sway in the gentle breeze." But, she was pretty sure he didn't feel like hearing that right now. Honestly, why did this city have to be so confusing?

"So, what does your name mean? Does it have a meaning? Oh sorry, I'm talking again." She felt as if some kind of conversation was needed, until they got back to the Academy, if they ever did. Besides, she figured he was a student of something like that, and if they bumped into each other again, they'd know something about each other.