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Fly up, gain speed, land on ice, slide uncontrollably, crash-land in snowdrift, repeat! This was the current routine Fiakra was performing. Whilst playing among the snowdrifts, he had come upon a beautiful frozen lake. It was so crystal clear it perfectly reflected the blue sky with it's speckling of white clouds. When he walked on top of the ice (or something close to walking that involved feet constantly sliding and moving to maintain a semblance of balance), it almost felt the same as flying in the sky, but with a slight sense of vertigo as his mind and vision gave conflicting information to his sense of direction.

Still, regardless of everything else, he was having a great amount of fun! The only thing that would make it more enjoyable was if he could slide around on the ice with some friends, but sadly he seemed to be the only one around. Still, no sense in feeling down when there was this much fun to be had! He continued on his random sliding, sometimes going straight, sometimes twirling in circles so fast he didn't know where he was going. It was during one of these spinning slides that he noticed something odd upon his crash landing in the snow drift. For one, it hurt more than usual (the powdery snow was quite soft), and second he felt fur beneath him, not the cold snip of white snow.

As the world came back into focus, he noticed a large splash of red in front of him. Mind still spinning, he poked at it curiously. He was fairly certain it wasn't blood, he didn't crash that hard, but his brain was not yet fully functioning to grasp what it was beneath him.

At the growl, Fiakra's wings snapped fully open in surprise. At first he thought he'd hit some rabid animal (maybe a bunny? wait, bunnies don't growl...), but as soon as the hate-filled words were spoken, Fiakra realized it was a Wishful like him! Oh happy day! The content of the stranger's sentence completely forgotten, Fiakra excitedly hopped off his new found companion to get a better look. She had red fur, with sweeping white markings, and a green coat, with quite an angry scowl on her face. His tail flicked a little in excitement.

"Hi!" He said rather enthusiastically while gazing at her in the hole in the snowdrift they had made. It was in quite an amusing shape, as was its occupant's pose.

At the intended insult, he only took it as a greeting. His mother, heck his entire family, called him that, and most people he met for the first time tended to say that about him as well. After a while it began to lose it's derogatory essence, and simply felt as if someone was calling him by name. "Hey whacha doin'?" He said with an obvious smile on his face as the girl continued to preen herself from the melting snow. He walked up a bit closer to her, totally invading her privacy bubble.

"I'm Fiakra, what's your name?" Fiakra certainly had no sense of reading the mood at all, and as the girl had said, he was indeed an idiot, but sadly for her, he was an ever-happy and optimistic idiot.

For a passing thought, he wondered if 'leave me alone' was her name, but quickly dismissed it. As she walked away and continued to ignore him he followed her, leaping form snow drift to snow drift, often burying himself in snow with each landing. As they continued walking he piped up again, "Can I help?" Eyes large with curiosity at this mysterious task the girl was performing. Fiakra liked Mysteries, they were fun! Perhaps he could find some clues!

Before he knew it, Fiakra was eating snow, with a massive headache to follow. He wasn't quite sure what happened at first. He pulled his head free of the snow, and shook it back and forth to get the snow off. Once he recovered, he finally figured out what happened. She was playing tag with him! What fun! =D

She awfully slow though...perhaps there was a rule that you could only walk, not run. That must be it! Putting himself back together, he walked quickly over to Yulina (though most would probably call it a trot). As soon as he was close enough, he hunkered down and raised his haunches, then sprang forth to pounce on the girl. "Tag! You're it!" Then he hopped off and started walking away, constantly looking behind to see if she was following yet.

Fiakra kept waiting for the girl to follow him, but she just kept walking on. He stopped and was about to chase after her to make sure she still wanted to play, but then he realized her evil mastermind plan! By pretending to be uninterested, she knew he would come close to her, and that's when she'd strike! D:

Oh no! Fiakra wasn't falling for that one! He might be stupid, but he wasn't dumb! (or was it the other way around?) As he made himself steadfast in his resolve, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. His ears flicked towards the sound before his body turned, but alluvasudden he had a sense of dread. He turned his head slowly and found a very large brown bear standing behind him, teeth becoming bared, a deep rumble beginning to emanate from its throat. His whole body turned quickly, ears flattened in fear against his head, his large tail somehow curling up under his legs. When the large bear finally let out a menacing roar, Fiakra turned and ran for his life, screaming all the while.