#anywhere

He punches fingers at the phone, trying to turn it off, and suddenly the ringing stops - blessed silence for a moment, before the voice comes through. "SYMON? -Answer this phone before we..." His hand cups over the speaker, muffling it, and he looks desperately embarrassed.

A sympathetic grimace.

He turns away for a moment, muttering into it. "No. I know. I told you - I don't -care-. I... I don't... It doesn't ma- " Finally he just pinches his lips shut and lets the muffled voice go on.

"Yeah. I'll be there soon." He finally mutters when given a chance. Hanging up, he glares at the phone, fingers curling around it as though he'd like to throw it into a tree.

"Gotta go?" Disappointed, but without ire.

"Sorry, Symon."

"Yeah. Would it kill them to leave me alone?" he shoves the phone into the bottom of his backpack. "I just can't..." He shrugs, shoulders slumping, and shakes his head. "Nothing. See ya."

A frown. "Yeah. Hey - you have first lunch? Wanna meet up at school?"

A nod, then he hesitates, and adds as a caveat, "Yeah, if I can. -She- thinks I need time off. I just need her to butt out." A huff. "No, I'll be there." A firmer nod, having made up his mind, apparently. "Not the boss of me." Muttered. He flicks a wave to Gerd. "Later, blueberry."

"Later, Symon..."

A wave and He slips off down the trail before his damnable phone can ring again!

"Bye, Symon"

She turns, "He's not so bad." She says to Dagmar "I coulda been nicer to him too."

"He's in my grade. Seems okay. He has a cat."

"Oh. I didn't see the cat"

"It's a chimera. She killed the other chimera at school."

"Ow.. that must have been gross, and also kind of neat" she observes recognizing the duality.

"Mostly neat."

"Well, you were there" A pause "Wilders get all the fun." A sigh

"You think? Siv sems pretty dour."

"I... don't know what Dour means" Embarrassed

"Down?"

'Oh yeah She feels really bad being grounded. " Gerd says "She tried to hep people, but I guess she did it the wrong way? So she got grounded. Boy, she's bored sometime. She's cleaning stuff half the time, and then leaping from the railing the other half."

"Mmph. She should skive off. Bet her parents wouldn't do nuthin'."

"Skive?"

"Wait, do you mean run off anyway?"

"Yeah, sure. If she's feeling cooped up."

"I don't think she will, at least not in the first week. Maybe if she doesn't get out enough after" SHe says "I think Siv messes with my Uncle's head a little. You know he can see in the future right? And he's like, soothsaying?"

An eyebrow. "Like, some kind of psychic?"

"Kind of yeah. House Beaumayn have visions sometimes. They're like prophets. ' A lowered voice, "It's a bit creepy."

"But also neat." She admits.

"I could see how that could suck, though. Imagine knowing you're gonna kick it, or something?"

"I heard him say that Siv can't be 'read' as easy. That he knows lines of fate and destiny in general for folks, but she's like a blind spot?"

"Oh we all have Da'ans... but yeah, it can be spooky for them. They gotta be cautious not to say too much."

Rolls her eyes. "We all have Da'ans."

"Like - somebody's Big Important Fate is to be a servant or some random nobody? Most people aren't going to be important."

"Oh, not always servants to people, to causes. "

"Or..even just destined to be somewhere to do ONE Thing, and that one thing is more importat than we know?"

"Oooo, the epic tale of the guard that let the REAL hero slip past his watch."

"Yeah, maybe... Da'an's aren't always pleasant." She says "My ..my previous life? Knew a lot more. But I listen. More than Valil knows. I know that there's a BIG destiny on three girls. He doesn't talk about it much when I'm around which makes me wonder if I'm one of them. "

She snorts. "Sure you are. Gonna be a big damn hero."

"Bet Sylvi and Siv are the other two. You're all so friggin' special."

She starts to say something at the 'big damn hero' thing, then stops "But Siv can't be."

"What? Because Vali can't read her easy? You want a big destiny, if it's tied to here, it's gonna be the important girls. So we have the kids of the Storm and Mountain, and the daughter of the Hearth. "

"It's not her," She says, "Vali already knows the three, he's not telling, and he says he doesn't know what her da'an is. So..i's not her."

"Or he's not telling you."

The childling looks Dagmar over, "Or maybe it's you?"

She barks a laugh.

"No, it ain't gonna be someone like me. You watch."

"Okay, but you know, I almost hope you're wrong and have a big heroic destiny anyway" in a mmph so there kind of way