#fenixtj

Tito Woden blinks "You're here to take my JOB?"

"of COURSE not" Zane tells him, then mutters "Unless, of course, you're retiring?"

"We're the same age" Tito-Woden says

"Oh yea" A sigh from Zane "Well, I guess I'll just bum around. Maybe check the pitt out" A nose wrinkle "But it's mojo isn't my thing"

"Brujo! Salma, Ariel, El Brujo is here!"

Zane turns, he seems to have a lot of luggage, "Hey, your excellency, muy bien. How are you?"

"Muy bueno, gracias! Are you here to visit?"

"Well, that depends. I might just be passing through, but if I can get three nights here it would be.. nice" He looks sort of sad but the childling cheers him just a bit "I'm glad you're well..." He looks over "Oh dear... what's this? " He approaches, "Just a sec, your excellency, I think you do have a problem, with your nose. " He taps the tip of her nose "Better sneeze"

"Oh, oh no. I will try!"

Salma trots up - nowhere near as speedy as her amiga Ariel, and gives him a delighted look. "Our brujo came back!"

"If you steal her nose, there will be... a Reckoning. We have a sluagh, and he will come for you." She nods solemnly.

"Salma, I am trying to sneeze!"

"Ah.. ah..." She works at it!

"Think feathers and dust" The satyr wilder smiles

"And Ramona's fur on your pillow when you are trying to have a siesta."

"Achoo!"

A sound of a clinking in the satyr's hand as he puts it under her nose, "There we go. All Clear. Look, two American Dimes.. " he offers them to her.. it's like they just appeared out of no where. She really may have had them there

THen he smiles at Salma "Don't worry, Salma... it's like a wise man said: You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend's nose"

Salma peers at Zane curiously. "How did Americano coins get in her nose? Princesca, you haven't been sniffing purses, have you? It's supposed to be "snitching" and we are not supposed to do that."

"Oh, wow!"

"No! It was magic! See?" She offers Salma a dime.

She accepts it, and makes a show of pretending to wipe it with a handkerchief.

"Well, if they'd been quarters she couldn't have breathed at all" Zane suggests with an utterly sincere face

"ZANE!" Ariel tackles the satyr's legs!

"Oof.." He grunts, but he's used to it. His little sister maybe kinian but she does much the same "Hey, Ariel"

"Zane is visiting!"

Zane's magic is SO Powerful, Salma can't even sense the glamour

Tito-Woden smirks "Careful, you might end up babysitting" The troll grins

"We," Salma says firmly, "Are not babies."

"Right!" Affirming Salma's statement.

"You're in trouble now, Tito" Zane smiles at the troll

"Yeah, big trouble" Ariel huffs at the hold seer

TIto-Woden throws his hands up in the air "Childlings.. ugh. Fine. We'll talk later, Zane of Rivervale"

"Just..Zane now" The satyr wilder's face fell at that 'of rivervale' comment

"Why just Zane?"

"I'm.. looking for a new place" Zane smiles weakly "I'm not sure where yet."

Salma looks concerned, then reaches over to pat Zane on the hand. "You are not just where you are from. I am not Salma of the place I used to be. Now I am proud to be Salma of Fenix but it is not all that I am. You are Zane the Brujo, and if you were nice you would stay and tell us more stories of what you have done so we could call you Zane of those things as well."

"Well good luck" Tito-Woden says looking at the time "i'm about to be late for a date. See you later, my firend"

"Why? Were they mean?"

Zane smiles at Salma "Somethings I've done I may want to forget, but I might know a story or two," A nod to his friend "Have fun, Tito-Wodan, and thanks" Then to Ellie "No no...I was...rash, and it seems to have made things bad for someone. I thought I apologized right but I did not. Sometimes it can be hard to find out hwo much harm one has or hasn't done until it feels too late. That's why forgiveness is so important... it's like a heatherbalm for hurt spirits"

Ariel tilts her head at that

"Who needs to forgive you? How will they do that if you are here, and not there?" Salma reasons.

"I don't know... going away doesn't help in the movies. You have to show you are sorry by actions."

"Well, you may all be right, but I'm not ready for that. " He picks them up, starting with Ellie and lifts her in the air "Let's see how big we're getting? Oh are you like a whole inch taller? I think you might be"

Ariel giggles. "She really is a HIGH Ness now!"

"SO tall! I am taller than Ariel!"

"Well, minus the horns."

"Wait till my horns kick in..." Ariel protests

then laughs as they agree

Salma giggles at the antics.