Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[As night falls, silhouetting the castle in shadow, a tiny form can be found standing on the path outside. Mouth agape, she's got her head tilted back as she stares in wide-eyed wonder at the building in front of her. Clutched in her hands, a forgotten book (which, unbeknownst to her, happens to be her journal) dangles open, pages swinging in her careless grip.]

Woah...

[someone's not in Tyson, anymore.]

[Loss start! Feel free to find her outside the castle, bug her over the journals or, if you'd prefer, find her once she starts exploring. Because she won't stand still for long]

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exploring, you say?

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

[Five's on his way back up to his room after taking an evening stroll down into town, when he spots the little girl in the lobby with the journal dangling from her hand like a stuffed animal]

Well, hello, there. [he offers her a warm smile] And who might you be, mm?

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[There's a moment to consider whether or not she should tell him...but he wasn't like her brothers' friends, who were loud and mean and didn't like her hanging around any more than she wanted to be around them. And he was a grownup. She didn't want to get in trouble for being rude to a grownup]

'm Jillian.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

Like the one in Red Riding Hood? [no, she hasn't connected this to the 'puppy' she's riding]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

The brave kind.

[there's a pause as she looks away from him to stare up at the building...and then back] How come there's a castle?

\o/

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[Jilly's already met an assortment of unusual people and, so far, everyone's been quite nice. So she only hesitates a little before pulling her gaze from the arching ceilings and grand staircase to answer him]

Hello.

[her lips press together a moment, as if thinking. Or maybe just chasing away the distraction of the immense castle] I'm Jillian.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Jillian?

[he smiles, but his eyes widen as he looks more closely at hers. so bright, so familiar -- and that hair! even in miniature --]

Nooo.

[but to his credit, he recovers remarkably fast, crouching down to offer her a hand] Well, it's an absolute pleasure to meet you, Jillian! I'm the Doctor.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[she takes his hand uncertainly, but doesn't shake it. Some things still haven't been completely learned] I'm not sick.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

And no one ever said you had to be, to be friends with a doctor, my dear. [he gives her hand a little shake, to show her how it's done, and lets go] And even if you did? I'm not that sort of doctor.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

Doctors take care of sicked people.

[she's sure of this]

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Oh, some of them do, certainly. But others do all kinds of things, like help discover new plants and animals, or explain why the stars shine. The thing all doctors really have in common, Jillian - and this is the important bit! - is that they help make the world a little better in their own way.

[and with that, he'll beep her on the nose, lightly, smiling]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[the move gets a laugh, a bright smile splitting her features as she shakes her head and wrinkles her nose]

[onlyanapple.livejournal.com]

Oh that's a...

[Oh no. Oh nooo]

Coppercorn?

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

He's not the type to eat little old ladies, if that's what you're asking.

[exanimatus.livejournal.com]

[he leans up, looking at it himself.]

People say it's magic.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[she shakes her head, curls waving with the motion] I'm Jillian Carter.... [she pauses, thinking that maybe that wasn't very polite and she didn't want anyone getting mad. So, a little belated, she adds to it] -...Mister.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

How come wolves eat people? Don't they taste funny?

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[there's a teasing smile]

Only if they're not cooked right.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a castle before.

[exanimatus.livejournal.com]

It's a very nice one. Even prettier on the inside.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

[have a nose wrinkle, Natsuki] You don't cook people.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be fancy for the prince and princess. ['cause all castles had princes and princesses, don't ya know]

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Maybe not wolves, but I bet dragons cook people.

[looking up at the moon again]

My friend Mai had a dragon. [dragon-phoenix-fighter-jet thing] Kagutsuchi would spit out massive fireballs to protect her from the bad guys.

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

....a good dragon?

[sexyhitchhiker.livejournal.com]

[scratches Duran's ears]

Just like how some wolves are good.

[wooo! Do you like your story + moral?]

[tehoniongirl.livejournal.com]

I never met a dragon before.