Like a six year old ninja!

[mitochondriaaya]

She'd meant it when she said her dad was all done with his photo's. He'd gotten a bonus for finishing the tourism spread early, and bonuses were good as far as Aya could tell...but it meant they'd been here less than a year.

She didn't want to move. She didn't want to leave. And she was pretty sure the boys didn't want her to either.

That left her one option: running away!

It was really late at night when there was a tapping at the boy's bedroom window. Aya was outside, sitting in the tree by the window. If she was careful she could push the branch enough to make it tap the glass! She had a flashlight carefully tied to the backpack she was wearing, and she knew the tree by heart so it wasn't nearly as dangerous as it looked!

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[sliceitwithwind]

"Now I let your dad know where you are," Elcy says and her husband picks up with, "And you get a second bath and put to bed. Your own, or do you want to crash in here with Braig and Dilan?"

"In here." says Dilan, before Aya gets a chance to respond.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Awww, I didn't get that dirty!" She'd only climbed a tree! And been pulled over a sill by Braig! She started shucking her pack anyway, since they were adults and they weren't going to do anything like call the cops apparently.

"And I guess I sleep in here! Guard my stuff guys?" The Moogle was poking out of the top of her bag, jaunty little head bobble waving.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Dirty enough." Yinsi informed her, scooping her up when her pack was off, "Now. Do you want the pink bubbles, the orange bubbles, or the green bubbles?"

"We'll take care of it." Dilan told Aya, seriously. Braig was already making up a nest on the floor that he could sleep on; he took having the others in that room seriously and was the eldest so he got the floor. Even Dilan had stopped arguing.

[mitochondriaaya]

This was obviously a big decision! She draped over Yinsi's shoulder, thinking it over before deciding "Green! Kind of like slime, from a monster in a pirate cave!" She had been rather enchanted by the idea of living in a cave for a few days.

"Okay, I'll be back soon! I have fruit gummies in my bag if you want some!" They were SURVIVAL SUPPLIES!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Green it is." he bounced her a couple of times on the way to the bathroom, then set her down so that he could get the bubbles and the bath toys out. Including the new one, brand new for Aya rather than something from when the boys were her age; a squeaky, floating Moogle.

"Mmm, gummies..."
"No, Dilan, you've already brushed your teeth."
"Tomorrow, sweet gummies...tomorrow..."

[mitochondriaaya]

Bounce, bounce...an then finally a giggle. She was not immune to bouncing! "Yay! That's...more like grass. Neat!" It was a very different shade of green than what she'd pictured! Annnnd...yes, latching onto the squeaky moogle toy happily. By the time Super Moogle had saved the city of bubbles from the evil submarine men, well, it'd been close to an hour?

She was well scrubbed though.

And the PJs she was wearing smelled like they belonged in Braig's house! "Hey, is there room in there?" She, naturally, was poking the blankets on the floor when she returned!

[sliceitwithwind]

"You can have my bed, Aya." Braig mumbled from his pile of blankets and pillows. He wouldn't argue if she did curl up with him, though, he was already close enough to asleep that it would take another little girl showing up outside the window to get him to move.

Dilan was taking advantage of that! He'd already pulled pillows and blankets down to join the older boy on the floor, so he just held out an arm and said, "Uh huh. C'mon, lets cuddle."

[mitochondriaaya]

It totally would not be fair if they got to have a blanket nest and she had to stay on the bed! She dug her moogle out of her bag and carefully peeled back a blanket or two so she could wiggle into the blankets without kicking anyone. "I guess this is better than a pirate cave..." She yawned and draped an arm over each boy, the stuffed toy having been relegated to 'pillow'.

[sliceitwithwind]

The already snoring Braig's arms flopped out so that each of his younger friends could easily use him as a pillow, which was what Dilan was shamelessly doing. It was warmer that way! "Uh huh. You're with us."

[mitochondriaaya]

Ooo, warm pillow vs. Moogle Pillow. Hmmm, the Moogle ended up sandwiched between Aya and Braig,a soft, squishy addition as she yawned herself. "Yeah, and no pirates, which could have been bad I guess...goodnight guys."

[sliceitwithwind]

"G'night, Ayay." Dilan murmured.

Braig's response, alas, was merely, "SNNNRKKGGGGHGHHHHKKKKKTTTT" but that was normal for sleeping Braig.