Distracted by the lights, Quanil's first awareness is of the laughter and the time-honored command of children everywhere when hide-and-seek is beginning.
Quanil has always gotten on well with children, before the weight of the world begins to press in on them. Before their parents tell them that Quanil is to be avoided because they're too strange. Before they grow up and give away their toys.
The point of hide-and-seek is never really to find them. It's the seeking. The cathedral of dancing lights (as Quanil thought of it at the moment) was too small a place to effectively hide, and they spotted their guild master heading into the structure. The child would be found in due course; but that wasn't the fun of it. The fun was in pretending that the hidden could be anywhere, even in ridiculous places. The fun was in the make-believe, in the suspension of disbelief.
So Quanil made a great show of peeking under a sea shell. "Could you be... UNDER HERE?!" as they raised the sea shell well into the air. "Oh, nope. No one here! That's odd, I could have sworn..." They kept the sea shell in hand, as if to make sure no one could try to hide in it again. "Maaaaaaaybe you're over here...?" they asked, voice raised to make sure it carried, heading away from the cathedral a bit.
Quanil has always gotten on well with children, before the weight of the world begins to press in on them. Before their parents tell them that Quanil is to be avoided because they're too strange. Before they grow up and give away their toys.
The point of hide-and-seek is never really to find them. It's the seeking. The cathedral of dancing lights (as Quanil thought of it at the moment) was too small a place to effectively hide, and they spotted their guild master heading into the structure. The child would be found in due course; but that wasn't the fun of it. The fun was in pretending that the hidden could be anywhere, even in ridiculous places. The fun was in the make-believe, in the suspension of disbelief.
So Quanil made a great show of peeking under a sea shell. "Could you be... UNDER HERE?!" as they raised the sea shell well into the air. "Oh, nope. No one here! That's odd, I could have sworn..." They kept the sea shell in hand, as if to make sure no one could try to hide in it again. "Maaaaaaaybe you're over here...?" they asked, voice raised to make sure it carried, heading away from the cathedral a bit.
