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🧙 WHO: Princess Aurora, her many animal friends, and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Aurora is going to help with some of the fae and clean up after the storm
🕒 WHEN: Early January
🗺️ WHERE: All over
⚠️ WARNINGS: None I can readily think of

A. A Knocking We Will Go:

There was, perhaps, some weird twist of fate that Aurora had just been explaining fae, brownies amongst them, and not even a few weeks later, would need to help get rid of them.

Still, she comes up to the next address that was begging for assistance, her eagle owl comfortably sitting on her shoulder, though his size and weight must have surely been uncomfortable, but Aurora gave no indication of pain.

She looked up when she heard someone come towards her, about to knock on the door and paused.

"Oh, is this your home?" she asked, smiling.

B. After the Storm:

Aurora was no stranger to hard work and getting your hands dirty. She had lived her life as a peasant in the woods. Literally, everything was dependent on her and her aunts doing things for themselves from chopping wood for the winter, hatching the roof from leaks, gathering water, and everything else in between.

So something as simple as removing debris and helping with a mess was not that difficult a task.

The princess was currently on top of a roof along with several birds, squirrels, and even a raccoon or two as they were getting large branches from felled trees off the shingles.

As she was headed back to the ladder that had let her up there, though, unfortunately, it had been blown down by the wind.

So as you are going about your day, you may notice a group of animals trying to get a ladder out of the snow and back up against the wall or, you may hear yourself being called to from above.

"Oh! Excuse me, could I trouble you for but a moment?"

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Gokudera has no idea what is happening. Fortunately or unfortunately, this is only a curse, and one with a time limit. He'll be back to his grouchy self in a matter of minutes. But for now he's acting like a stupid boy with a clever dog brain.

"Bark!" He says happily, as though telling her she's welcome. Gokudera is happy to help. At least when he's like this. Maybe not quite so much when he's normal.

He stares on at that stick and watches as she takes it, slouching forward a bit suddenly as if holding himself from lunging to grab it from her hand.

At the mention of the ladder again, he just blinks at her. He knows kind of what she's talking about but he wouldn't dream of taking his eyes off the sticks in her hand.

Aurora had never met a dog. She had, of course, encountered wolves in the forest, but wolves and dogs were not the same. Sitll, she pressed a hand to her lips and hoped neither of them would regret this. She reached out and lightly patted his head.

"You're being a very good boy," she soothed. This had to be one of the strangest experiences of her life... and she had lived with three faeries in the woods. But as she did not wish to throw a stick on a ROOF and cause either of them to slip and fall, while she noticed the movement at the stick, they would have to wait to be on more solid ground.

She stood up, putting the stick in hand.

"Come here, dear. We'll play on the ground," she offered. She had played with wolves before, she supposed it was the same principle.

Gokudera lifts his head up into those pats, chin up and proud, and happy to be praised. He works plenty hard when he's in his right mind and never gets a single ounce of the kind of recognition she's offering him. So nice! He smiles and then moves to the ladder.

And realizes he has no idea how to get down. Gokudera whines pathetically at it, then lowers himself and looks down over the edge of the roof. It's not that high up... is it? He got up here okay... so he can get down okay, right?

Nothing has ever trained him for going down a ladder facing the wrong direction.

Aurora was not far behind him as they headed over to the ladder. When she hears the poor boy whine, she immediately treats him like she might a scared and injured animal.

"Oh now, shh, it's alright." She gently rubbed his back.

"We cannot go together, but I can climb down some ways and then help you, alright?"

This is the first person to treat him accordingly, and so naturally, he wants to communicate with her, looks up, then back down and whines again.

He's no longer clinging onto the roof like he's going to throw himself off it, though, so that's good. Maybe watching her will help. It's worth a shot. Good idea, Aurora.

"It's alright, you're going to be okay," she soothed, reaching up and resting a hand atop his. "I won't let anything happen to you, alright? Just follow me down, dear." She keeps her voice soothing, gentle, and kind. She speaks to him like she would any scared animal.

"Here, follow me, alright? Right this way."

Gokudera looks down at her hand on his own and then nods in understanding. He follows her, watching as she moves to the ladder. Okay. Just gotta go down.

Knees still on the roof, he leans forward and grabs the top rung above her hands, misunderstanding entirely that his body won’t work the way hers does because he has no idea he’s human. It seems shaky, and he moves one hand back, the other pushing a little on the ladder and making it shift, which startles him. He feels he might knock her off, then backs up and lets go, prioritizing her safety over his own. Seems even as a dog, he doesn’t value himself like he should.

Aurora does suddenly tighten her grip when the ladder shakes at his movement. She takes a deep breath, though, and lets it out, smiling even though her heart was racing just a bit faster from the movement.

"It's alright, you're alright," she soothed. "Step back a bit, do you think you could try going feet first, dear?"

Gokudera whimpers gently in apology and sits down, looking off the roof and wondering if he could jump off safely. Again, he doesn’t think they’re too terribly high up...

At her assurance, he moves forward once again, mistaking his hands for feet. This time, however, he grips the ladder firmly as though holding it still for her, even turns his head and bits at the side of it. See? Go ahead, Aurora. He’ll come down after she’s safe below.

"We'll get down, you'll see, now, do you think you can watch me and how I go?" she asked, not sure how much he understood even if should have understood everything.

"Just watch how I go down the ladder, and then do the same, alright?" she soothed as she began her descent once more, surer in her climb with him holding the ladder. She reached the bottom, holding it there.

"Do you think you can come down just like that?" she called up to him.

He's watching her alright, and very firmly holding the ladder still. There's no nodding involved, and he lets go when she's below safely. Relieved to see her there, he beams.

"Bark!" Sure, he'll come down!

And he crouches, jumping off the roof which is not at all what she asked of him. There's a strange bubble that forms up out of the snow, shifting debris around, and acting as a sort of trampoline. Gokudera lands on it, and then bounces off of it.

"Oof!" He's on his back in the dirt, confused and a little sore, but not in too sorry a state. "What happened?" Gokudera rubs at his shoulder and sits up, looking around. He doesn't remember helping move debris.

"AH! NO!" Aurora called out, but it was too late and her heart pounded in her ears as she watched him leap off the roof. What brief relief there is from the bubble is quickly changed by him ricocheting off the thing.

Aurora hurried over to Gokudera's side, kneeling beside him. "Are you- are you alright?"

At least the bubble took most of the impact, so he's not injured much except for being a little sore. He's curiously looking around when Aurora moves to his side, and he gives he a slightly startled look.

"I'm fine! What happened?!" Did he get hit with some debris or something? That would explain the amnesia.

Well, this was... new.

She glanced away for a moment and then took a breath, smiling.

"Well, as I have no desire to lie to you, the short answer would be that you jumped off the roof."

"Ugh, but there's a ladder," He says, sitting up. Gokudera can see it just fine. It isn't that he doesn't believe this woman saying that he jumped off a roof, but he doesn't remember doing so and wouldn't under pretty much any circumstances.

"Good thing this ground broke my fall." The boy gets up and starts brushing himself off. He's going to make to leave, since clearly everything is alright. He's just a little sore and confused.

"I am aware, that would be how I got down. Your decision, however, was to be so inclined as to not use it. Admittedly, it was much faster."

"Tch! Obviously!" Unless he gets the wild idea that she pushed him off the roof, then climbed down. Given her concern when he snapped back to himself, he won't even humor the thought.

"Well, whatever! It's not like I chose to do that!" He's fine. Just going to resume being a grumpy teenager about most everything.

Aurora is many things, but not that.

"Here," she stood up and held out a hand to him for him to take. "Where are you staying?" perhaps she should walk him home in case he happens to be taken over by such a mindset again.

What a wonderful person!

It's a real shame that Gokudera is so prickly and refuses most help. He brushes her hand away with the back of his own and wipes at his mouth. Tastes weird, and it's kind of gritty like dirt. He spits off to the side and gets out a cigarette.

"None of your business, lady."

Aurora lets her fingers curl and her hand falls to her side. Gokudera may suddenly feel an acorn thrown at his head, or perhaps it was just an accident of the tree dropping it. Either way, a nearby squirrel if it COULD whistle, would be.

"My apologies. I hope you get home safe, then."

Edited 2021-01-26 05:52 (UTC)

The acorn hits him right in the temple, and he claps a hand to it with a small "ow" before he's looking around. He should have just gotten up and ran off before ever talking to anyone. It's probably some karma or something. He has no idea, but he's walking away and lifts a hand in farewell to her over his shoulder.

Aurora watches him leave, waving goodbye, and then looks up at the squirrel, wagging a finger before said squirrel climbs down.

Oh, she realizes, as she gathers up the debris for disposal or reuse, she had not exchanged names with him.

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Oh I'm not complaining! I think he'd have to actually be a dog for it to work though XD

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