06-17-2015, 09:42 PM
Plan? I don't need a plan!
He shows up, and she gives him her best entirely unimpressed look. Of course she's not really unimpressed, he had appeared so comfortable amongst the tripping-hazards that seem to litter this place. She notes with pride that she's called him and he's come quite literally running. So what if there had been a little bit of collateral damage in the form of a bunch of birds? Details, really. There's probably bunches more of them here anyway. She doesn't startle when he almost runs her over. She's very difficult to startle, being that she's got little in the way of fear. Perhaps that will change once she finds herself orphaned at an early age, but for now she doesn't have a sense that anything can go wrong in the world. In her mind, Val and Thorny and Mom and Dad are all more or less invincible, and the world is butterflies, rainbows, and sunshine. And, apparently, Zai. She does notice that he seems disgruntled, perhaps exasperated. But she also doesn't especially care – and he doesn't seem entirely unwilling to tolerate her presence. Not that that would've necessarily stopped her.
"What are you doing here? she returns, her voice exactly as adorably sassy as you're currently picturing it in your head. She hasn't answered Zai's question, and she knows it, and she doesn't intend to change her answer. Or, really, her non-answer. She doesn't have to give him a reason she's here. And anyway, her reason is mostly some combination of "because you taste funny" (which he does, even when compared with dirt and that tree she licked on the way into the jungle) and "because you came here and it looked interesting" and above all "because I was bored."
Instead, she looks at him with a stern expression, which on her youthful face just comes out looking…well, more than a little silly. "You're supposed to be in the Valley. Mom said." she scolds, her voice confident. Librette hadn't said that he was supposed to be in the Valley. Librette hadn't said anything of the sort, and had in fact never mentioned anything about it to Val one way or the other. But Zai didn't know that.
And with that she is quiet, her stance defiant, her small face stubborn, as though daring him to come up with a reason not to report him to her mother.
VALKERINE!
tomboy daughter of librette & covet