#winterfes2022

With the speed of a little animal the child grabs Alhaithams arm and begins to climb, making her way up to his head where she grabs the top of his head and finally settles on his shoulders.

" Uwahhh.... I'm so sorry. "

" Look Kaya can you not climb on strangers? You still got soup left! Come to eat... It's not good to leave food."

It had been but a small path, surrounded by thickly grown greenery cradling the tiny space from above. You had to lean forward to travel along while moving aside many, thin, twig-like branches away from your face. Eiden reconsidered it twice or thrice but the curiosity gave in - it seemed a little like a path to a secret lair. 

When the those branches morphed into the hallway Eiden didn’t realize. He found himself in front of a familiar looking door that led into just a children’s playroom, just as familiar, that seemed to have been decorated for something important - balloons, flagbanners and little stickable stars planted on a blackboard. 

In the midst of it sat a boy with a pencils and papers scattered around him, wearing varsity coat, hoodie, shorts and a sour expression. 

“ Oh great. “

“ Quickly idiot -- you should hide me from it! Since you’re adult and you’re me too. If it does something I might die and then you’d die too! “

“ N-not that I’m scared or anything -- I’m just being STRATEGIC and stuff... “ 

Eiden has to say he didn’t expect to meet anyone looking like that here either. He didn’t expect to find himself here, neither of his selves, to be entirely fair. And yet the grumpy boy standing behind him (he didn’t grab him by anything though, just stood there peeking). 

Maybe it was because this ...being looked like he could be one of those toys that had attacked him in that one dream. It didn’t seem like he was though so Eiden didn’t exactly feel the need to run away, he was too baffled to do so anyhow--

“ Tsk. Useless, I’m going to go get some building block to throw --- “

Eiden quickly grabs the kid’s hood.