The Gig | Wednesday May 12

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn was much more cheerful than she had been last week, and the animals at the Gig noticed it. She fed the horses and then took her time cleaning out their stalls and the rest of the barn. She groomed them and then took them all on a short ride before she had to run off for an hour to be a TA.

When she came back, she groomed all of the horses again, and then sat on a couple of hay bales in the barn. She was flipping through a catalog of class stuff that Eve had sent her to see if she was interested in any of it. Or, she would have been flipping through it if the horses didn't seem to be taking turns trying to get it from her so that she would pay more attention to them.

The Gig is open.

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[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Sorry horses, here came another distraction.

"Ahoy the barn!"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked up and smiled at the voice.

"Come on in, Tim!"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey so, I guess you won huh?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She grinned, hopping down from the bales of hay.

"They decided that perhaps it was in everyone's best interests if I was allowed to stay."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Now Gwynn, did you threaten them with head smacking?" he teased.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She shook her head. "Not my father. Just Froderick and Phillp."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Your father didn't need it? Or did Philip convince him after you cowed him?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"It was actually my father that sought me out first," she said. "He told me that they reacted that way because they were scared." She was still surprised about that as she had never seen her father frightened before.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well to be perfectly honest, I was a little worried myself. I know you can handle yourself, but Chimeras are a pretty nasty piece of work."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"But you didn't immediately think that I wouldn't be able to fight back," Gwynn said logically. "So, I'm not at all upset that you were worried."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah that is a little strange, that they wouldn't think of that. Haven't they seen you kick ass before?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn sighed. "Yes, they have and more than once. My father also saw me stop the arrow that was meant to kill him. So I don't understand why what happened at graduation upset them so much. They should know by now that I can handle myself in a battle."

Perhaps it was the magic that was used to transform you, Gwynn. Or, you know, the giant damn chimera monster?

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Those other times were they involved in the fight too?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She thought about it and then nodded. "Yes, at least one of them always were."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Maybe that's why they freaked out so hard this time. All they could do is watch."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She frowned as she thought about that logic. "They can't always be in every fight that I'm in," she finally said quietly.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"No. But I think letting go of the idea of you being a kid is gonna be hard for 'em. Sometimes I think my mom's still working on it."