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Fiadh Dea Arduinna
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#1
Go play, Papa says, and that's code for I need a gods damned minute Fiadh, and so off she goes into the woods. They keep her safe, and they always bring her back to the wagon, so there's no fear in this already fearless child as she clambers around vines and over tree trunks, plucking flowers that she pokes into her hair and eating berries that are probably ok to eat. Who knows. Who cares?

But then up ahead, stuff's happening, and it's on all fours that Fiadh creeps forth to check it out. Looks like someone is building something, and she hopes it's not made out of the same wood that the trees are made from, because they won't be happy about it. A hanging snake pokes its tongue into her ear, and she giggles and swats it away, before clambering closer.

She doesn't know this yet, but the contraptions are meant to be catapaults. What will they fling? Little girls, if Fiadh has her way.
Remi Taliesin
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#2
maybe i'm a runaway train, maybe i'm a feather in a hurricane
It feels good to be working with his hands again. With little to no magic to assist with this, Remi has had to thoughtfully pack his supplies and ration out what he has with him. It's for this reason that Fiadh finds the catapult unsupervised; Remi needs a bit more rope than he thought and is currently on his way back from the Sidhe Village with some wrapped around one arm. There aren't many children around, especially near the outskirts of the Woods, and so Remi hasn't even thought to leave his contraption in a 'safe' arrangement.

Will Fiadh be the reason that Remi's catapults come with safety switches? Time will tell.

Muttering something under his breath—Remi talks to himself a fair bit...would it be less weird if he had a companion?—the alchemist's thoughts are entirely on how he'll aim the large device and what he and Ronin will have for dinner that evening.
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Fiadh Dea Arduinna
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#3
Is Fiadh already in the bucket of the catapault, where ammo is supposed to be? Yeah, she absolutely is. And she's taken quite a comfortable seat in it, in fact - it's obviously some sort of chariot, for being pulled around in - the young Attuned busying herself making long strings of daisy chains with a deftness that suggests a certain Wishing Wagon is already full of them. At the sound of a musical voice muttering to himself, her copper head pops up from the catapault bucket to see a familiar curly head striding into view.

"Hallo Unca Remi!" she announces with a cheesy grin. "Want to ride in my chariot? It'll cost you two snacks, or one piggyback ride." Doesn't matter if it's not her catapault. Doesn't matter if there's nothing to pull it once they're both riding in it. Fiadh drives a hard bargain, as Remi is about to discover.
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#4
maybe i'm a runaway train, maybe i'm a feather in a hurricane
Unprepared to hear anyone speaking to him, it's with a rather surprised flutter of his lashes that Remi surveys the foliage to see what spirit he's disturbed today. The sudden pop of orange hair has his mouth dropping open, not because he's unhappy to see Ianto's daughter, but because of where she's currently sitting. "Hey Fiadh.." He replies in a voice that betrays how calm he's trying to be. It's as if he's trying to stalk up on an easily-startled creature that he approached the young attuned now.

"Absolutely I want a ride..only, I think part of the chariot is broken. That's what I've brought the rope for." He replies, gesturing to the long coil looped over his arm. "And we don't want to break it any further, right? So..what's the most careful you can get out of there, do you think?"
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#5
Fiadh's smile instantly drops away to hear that the chariot is broken (boo), but if Remi has brought rope for fixing it, then she might still get her ride by the time the day is out. The fact that this is obviously his doesn't occur to her - he left it unattended, and by the laws of the woods, finders keepers, sir. "What will the rope do to fix it?" she asks, draping her considerable daisy chain around her shoulders like a scarf and wiggling to get out of the catapault bucket.

"I got it," she tells him, but the Lullaby is about to learn that Fiadh's version of most careful is not at all that delicate. She wiggles herself right over the edge of the bucket, legs dangling, skirts mostly hitched up, before she lets go and hits the grass with a thump that would knock the breath out of most. "Is it ok?" she asks of her chariot.
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#6
maybe i'm a runaway train, maybe i'm a feather in a hurricane
As she wriggles around, Remi can hear the different mechanisms and pulleys in the catapult begin to groan and whine in protest. As Fiadh gracelessly dismounts, one of the ropes snaps and the entire bucket flies up and into the air, landing with a crash in one of the nearby trees with enough force that it breaks a few boughs, Remi hisses in a breath that's as relieved as it is unhappy. "That is what needs fixing." He says with a shaky smile as his mind re-plays what might have happened had Fiadh not gotten out in time.

"But we can fix it. We just need to get that part back." Remi mutters, more to himself than Fiadh, as he stares up into the tree with a perplexed look. A manticore is too big to fly through such dense airspace, and as a hawk he hasn't the strength. Trying to figure out how he might fly up there as himself to pull it down, it doesn't occur to him at all that the freckled-face at his side might actually be able to do just as much harm as she can good, in this situation.
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Fiadh Dea Arduinna
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#7
"Oooooooh!" Because of course that is the girl's reaction upon seeing her chariot fly. The crunching of the boughs does erase her bright grin somewhat, and she glances up at Remi with utmost seriousness as she scrambles back to her feet. "The trees will not be happy about that," she says, tromping up to stand beside him and gaze aaaaaaaall the way up into the tree. "Do we need to shake it down?" she wonders.

Because if that is the case, she can absolutely definitely help. "I'll go," she announces, beaming at him before promptly disappearing. Or rather, the ginger haired girl disappears. In her place sits a furry, masked little fiend, chittering up at Remi and raising up on her hind legs with outstretched, dark little fingers. Put me in the tree, then, the gesture seems to say.
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