Moping

[Jeni]

What the hell was Zeth supposed to do for an entire year without Amaranth?! He was already a mess, moping around and confused. And it had been a grand total of 4 hours.... He was off to a good start.
He was currently occupiying himself by sitting at a table, with a glass of water in front of him. He then turned a small ball of water into a little bug and made it fly around and watch as Flame tried to eat them. Yep. Great fun.

[Amaranth]

((XP Poor guy. Four hours and he's already falling apart.))

Demitri was distracted. He wasn't paying any attention to where he was going, because he was too busy watching Norai watch little bugs that appeared to be made of water flitting around. She was so cute. He couldn't get over it. He couldn't talk about it, either, because she'd bite him. Since he wasn't paying attention, he ran right into a girl carrying a mug of tea. The mug was flung backward, spilled all over the girl's blouse, and shattered on the floor.
"Ack!" Demitri said, immediately panicking. "Oh- I'm so sorry, miss! Are you all right?! The tea didn't burn you, did it?! Did it?! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! Are you all right? Are you sure you're all right? Oh no! I hurt you, didn't I? Oh no! Here, let me help you-"
Norai shook her head as Demitri continued to babble. The girl was staring at him. Wow.

[Jeni]

((*laughs*))

Zeth snapped out of his little revere as the mug hit the floor. The current bug he had been controling immediately dissinegrated and became a small puddle as Zeth looked around, trying to find the source of the comotion. "Would you like any help in cleaning that up?" He asked to Demitri and the girl who was staring at him and covered in spilled tea.

[Amaranth]

"No, no, I'm fine," Demitri said. "Please excuse me, miss-" he reached out and touched a part of the stain on her blouse with a finger, being extremely careful not to touch anything he shouldn't, and pulled his hand away. The tea followed his finger from the fabric and hung in the air as he waved with his other hand at the shattered remnants of the mug, which reassembled themselves. He deposited the tea into the mug and handed the girl her tea back. "I'm very sorry, miss," he said again. "Here, should I make you some more tea? You probably don't want that tea anymore..."

[Jeni]

Zeth watched as the mug was neatly reassembled and Demitri gave it back. "So, you're a mage too." He said with a small grin. He was genuienly interested, being a mage himself. "Are you new around here?" He asked curiously. He had never seen him before. He also noticed Norai, he had seen her out of the corner of his eye watching the little bugs. Which, Flame had noticed the absence of and was pecking at the puddle water, wanting it to come back to life.

[Amaranth]

"Hn? Oh, yes. I am. Demitri," he said, as soon as the girl had shaken her head at the offer, smiling, and left. "This is Norai. Well... that's usually Norai, but I have no idea what she's doing." Norai had joined Flame and was now pawing mournfully at the puddle. She obviously wanted the bugs back. They were pretty.

[Jeni]

"My name's Zeth." He introduced, then looked over at Flame and Norai. Smiling at their playfullness, he resumed his previous activity, making the big fly out from under Norai's paw and fly around. "He," Zeth said, indicating the bird, "is Flame. An Aris Aretus. "

[Amaranth]

"Really?" Demitri said, instantly interested. "I've read history on them, but I thought they were extinct... Wow. Guess we don't know everything, now, do we?" He frowned. "Are you all right? You look a little- oh no! Are you sick?! I'm sorry- I'm standing here blabbering while you're- wait. I'm not going to do that again. You're not sick. No sickly green aura. Okay. Stay calm. I'm sorry, I always do that."
He does.

[Jeni]

((*bursts out laughing* Demitri.... what a card.))

"No, they're not extinct. It sure took a while to find some information on them though." Zeth said, remembering back to the trip to the library. Which also brought his thoughts back to his wife. And it must have shown on his face because Demitri flipped out. Zeth waved a hand. "No, no, I'm not sick. I'm perfectly healthy." He assured as Demitri calmed down. "Although I'm not... in the greatest of moods I guess you could say."

[Amaranth]

"Why, if you don't mind my asking?" Demitri asked. "Ah- if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine, I mean, I'm some random guy who just wandered in and broke a tea mug and made problems. I'm sorry."
Demitri. No apologizing. You're not allowed. It makes me sad when you apologize too much.
"Ack! I'm sorry! Please don't be-"
Quit it.
"I'm-"
Don't.
Demetri shut his mouth.

[Jeni]

"Well," Zeth started, "you see, I was just married four months ago. To the most wonderful girl and I love her more than anything. Yet, about four hours ago I noticed she was missing and I found a note that she left me. She said that she had to go somehwere to do something and she wouldn't say what. I'm very confused, not to mention completely lost, and she's going to be gone for an entire year!" He finished. Why did he spew it all out? Maybe it was to make himself feel better. Yeah... it didn't really work

[Amaranth]

Demitri winced. "Ouch," he said. "But at least she'll be back. People vanish all the time- most of the time they don't come back. Ever. Well, if she could leave without you noticing, she must be able to take care of herself. And you have no idea why she left?"

[Jeni]

Zeth sighed. "No. I have no idea why she left, what's she going to do, or where she's going. She said in the letter that it was some sort of secret and she couldn't tell me. Though, as you gathered, she is very capable of taking care of herself. But that still doesn't stop the slight worry, or that fact that she is gone."

[Amaranth]

"No, it doesn't," Demitri agreed. "And you don't expect people to just vanish, suddenly. But at least she left a note. She left on purpose- nothing happened to her or anything. I'm sure she'll be fine- you shouldn't kill yourself worrying. Which it looks like you're working on."

[Jeni]

Zeth nodded slowly. "Yeah, I guess you're right." He said, realizing that he couldn't mope around for an entire year. That just wouldn't be good. "She did say it might not take a whole year. I do hope she comes back sooner." He said hopefully.
Don't worry Zeth, she will be back before you know it. Flame added, trying to cheer him up. Because his species was very good at reading and detecting emotions, he hadn't been in the best mood either because Zeth was feeling so horrible.