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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄

𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐄

𝟑𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐂𝐄

          SITTING IN A FIELD IRENE WATCHED AS SOME OF THE LOCAL CHILDREN RAN AROUND HER. She had been out there most of the day playing with them and showing them her power. Making each one their own flower crowns, bracelets, necklaces, and everything in between. Irene loved this.

'You're just gonna stand there like a creep, watching me?' She asked in her head. Surprised to actually be able to hear her thoughts Druig let out a chuckle. 'Yes, I am. The kids scare me.' He replied back to her. Druig was standing not too far from where Irene and some of the kids were sitting.

She turned around and looked at him, "Come." She held out her hand for him to take. 'They're not that bad, I promise.' Druig tried to hold in a smile from her comment. 'We'll see about that.'

Irene giggled and watched as Druig took her hand. "Sit here," She gestured to the space beside a little girl. "I'm teaching her how to make a flower crown, I can teach you too. Or a bracelet if that's what you prefer." She smiled at Druig. He nodded and started picking his own flowers.

"Take the stem of your first flower," Irene continued to teach Druig and the little girl how to make crowns and bracelets, but Druig just wasn't getting it. She moved and sat in front of Druig. "Like this," She took the stem putting it under the other and knotting them so they'd stay. "And keep doing it like that." She looked up to see Druig staring at her. "Dru, are you even listening?" She laughed.

He was suddenly brought back into the real world, "No." He let himself smile when he heard Irene laugh at him. "Dru, pay attention this time okay?" He nodded and continued to watch her this time, hoping to understand how to make the bracelet.

After some time the other kids had left and it was just Druig and Irene. Druig was almost done with his bracelet and Irene was laying down beside him. "How do you tie the end off?" He asked. Irene sat up and took the bracelet from his hands. "So, take both ends and knot them like this." She handed it back to him so that he could do it. "Like," Druig carefully took both ends and started to form the knot. Irene couldn't help but smile at how cute he looked when he was concentrated. "This!" He held up the newly formed flower bracelet.

"Yes!" Irene exclaimed looking at his work. "Now you can make them whenever you want." she smiled at him laying back down on the grass.. He looked at her then to the sun that was setting. "I kept you here all day, I apologize." Irene grabbed his hand and looked at him with the most caring look Druig thinks he had ever experienced. "Druig, there is nothing to apologize for. I wouldn't want to spend my day with anyone else."

Druig couldn't help but smile at her, his new flower bracelet on his wrist. "Thank you, Flower." "It's just a bracelet." She offered. "No, not just the bracelet. Everything." Druig softly took hold of her hand, pressing his lips to the back of it. "Dru," "I know you talked to Ajak. I talked with her too."