#rivervale_lodge

"So I don't THINK it's them"

"Right?"

"So who would do such nice stuff, in secret?"

"A ninja boggan!"

"Well... true."

"Anne Marie? Lucia? Romona? Oh..probably not Ramona she's new.."

"I don't think it'd be a boggan. A camera is expensive..."

"Gotta be."

"Well, a nocker helped it.. there's the maker's mark"

"Yeah. Bert."

"It... no, it wasn't Sylvi..."

"So ask Bert maybe he knows?" Jack Flap says "The Mountain always says if you keep on trucking you'll get there"

"True. I think he's at Firnost..."

"Maybe that's one way to learn" He nods "IF he'll tell. Some nockers won't reveal who paid them even if you do water torture and long knives and shake shake... furk you, they say...which I guess they say all the time anyway... but maybe he wasn't paid for silence and can tell you... and he'll be 'furk sure'"

"True!" She brightens at that.

Jack Flap looks proud as Dagmar seems to like his suggestion

"I will do that tomorrow. Thanks for the good idea."

"You're welcome. I want to be useful, .well, I want to have fun but also to be useful" A pause "Also want a family, but while I'm waiting for parents I can be useful and have fun. Etsie told me that... you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need."

"Sounds lke her."

"Yeah.. I.. still am jumpy about the gift being so used so casual like but... I guess the other satyrs aren't so bad"

"Most of them are ok, yeah."

"Zane says if I like gardening and it turns out to be my passion, it's definitely different, but he'll back my play" A pause "It SOUNDS positive"

"Well, don't see why you need just one passion..."

"Well, Satyrs tend to have a main something to their soul..it's hard to splain... but some take years and years to find em"

A smile "Come on, let's go test the camera!"

"We can take SO MANY pictures!"

"I saw a big blue flower behind a tree... it's bluer than you" He motions her to follow

"Ooo..." She follows.

And there it is...

glowing in the tree's shadow

"See?" he points

"...oh..."

"That's beautiful." She lines up the camera to take a picture.

And a chimerical picture pops into the air and flutters to the ground. A perfect copy that no mortal can see

"NEAT!"

"Oh!"

"Oh, man, I'll have to show this to Nadeen..."

Well, no unenchanted one

"And the photo for Chief..."

"She's like it"

"I think she would, yeah."

"Another wilderflower? or the horses?"

"Any other special flowers? If not, oh, the horses..."

"Well, it's your camera..actually I think it said 'and the lodge' but like you're definitely in charge of it" HE grins

"Yeah, gonna talk to Bert."

"Wear a mask, stay 6 foot away from folks... wash your hands"

Eyebrow.

"you got to set a good xample in case any mortals see you" He says "you're a knight hero princess.. okay, maybe not a princess, but the first two. " And he leads her "Look, these look like they're floating"