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[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Billy's out by the lake, playing a game of tag with his three Nobody bodyguards. They're faster than he is, of course, but he's playing a good game.

Come join them?

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[harmitwithspark.livejournal.com]

Well, Larxene certainly approved. The ninja paused a moment as the Nobody approached, allowing the woman to touch her shoulder gently and nod as if listening.

Then? Well, the rest of the girls joined the game.

"You're treating her well." Larxene noted quietly to Billy.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Billy pauses, panting, and looks up at her curiously.

"Huh?"

[harmitwithspark.livejournal.com]

Larxene just smiled at him, and not her usual, cold twitch of lips either. "Hello Billy. You're doing well, I approve of the game." she noted.

"Do you play with them in your world too?"

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

"I haven't been back to my world much," He admits. "I've been staying here. We named her."

[harmitwithspark.livejournal.com]

"I see." she noted, pacing around Billy even as she watched the girls playing "Teddy and yourself? And what have you given her?"

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

"Istari," he answers, getting a little dizzy as she paces.

[harmitwithspark.livejournal.com]

"Does it mean anything?" she asked curiously. Names weren't her thing. Far from...but it was good to know what significance was attached to one of her girls. If he wanted to keep focusing on her and make himself dizzy so be it.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

He blinks a few times, then turns his attention back to the Lessers' games.

"It's a race of demi-gods, from the same book Eowyn and Galadriel come from."

[harmitwithspark.livejournal.com]

"...that is an odd choice." odd was an understatement, but hey, Somebodies were weird.

The lessers, pounding through their game, each seemed to take a turn poking Istari's bow on her hilt. "It's...hard. Hard for the Ninjas to operate so individually. They prefer each others company, and interaction...but she is not suffering as much as is possible. She will do well with you." that was the most she'd ever told anyone about her girls, honestly.

[sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com]

Xaldin - watches. From above, and only the Dragoon called Eowyn knows when he gets there.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

She notices immediately, and breaks away from the game to fly to him. Billy squints up and shakes his head, which unfortunately gives the dancer enough time to kick him.

[sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com]

Xaldin waits for whatever report it is that she will give, nodding once or twice. He then sends her down again.

He's keeping his distance, as promised, but - he is watching.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

It's creeping Billy out, too, and he withdraws from the game to float slowly Xaldin's way.

[sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com]

"My apologies." Xaldin says when Billy is within speaking distance. "I simply - was curious. I did not mean to disturb you, and will leave."

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

"It's a free sky," he says, cautiously. "We're just playing."

[sliceitwithwind.livejournal.com]

"I know." Xaldin says, "I - have not seen a Somebody play with Nobodies before.

"Or one of my girls play." It's not that he doesn't treat them well. It's not that he doesn't treat them like women. It's just that - he doesn't play. He's too busy with the intent effort of keeping himself together.

"I remember playing."

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

"I saw Larxene playing tag with her Girls, and I thought they might be bored." He looks curiously down at Eowyn.

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy might be sneaking into the game. Of course, he might be sneaking in from the sky and alighting as another Dragoon... will Billy notice?

(It was the least girl-shaped of the bunch.)

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Billy does notice. Except the girl thing. "Hey, where did you come from?"

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy points up at the sky silently, then spins faster than the eye can see to tag Billy with his tail, and flies away from him a little bit.

Will he catch on? And is that a Dragoon's neck grinning?

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Okay, what? No, really, what.

Billy rockets after the dragoon, curious now.

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

And Teddy flies away--Dragoon wings are fast when they need to be--flying in circles around the other Nobodies, and landing in the group of them, and now he matches the other Dragoon, ribbon and all.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, he's on to you now, Mister.

"Teddy! There's only one with a ribbon!"

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

Yes, he realizes this, but which one is it?

That's the question.

Because he is, for all intents and purposes, a mirror image of the other Dragoon.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Billy stands in the middle of the game, trying to decide if zapping him is worth it.

Nah.

"Can't kiss anyone with a pointy mouth," He points out. "Hmm."