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Lover's stones pt 2

Lynx raced back to the small camp they had set up half from excitement, half from the fear that if she stayed close to Winter long enough for him to be illuminated by the pale moonlight she would say something very stupid that she would regret very much. 
 
She got to the camp in a relatively short amount of time, and made sure to slow her pace to a walk as she made her way to where the actual people were so as not to scare anyone; and tried to quiet her thoughts about the ice wing prince. No one knew that she'd found out Moon was a mind reader and she preferred it that way.

Even though no one was actually able to see her walk up, when she got there, everyone was already looking her way. Lynx assumed that Tamarin had simply told them about her arrival beforehand as the small and kind Rainwing girl was so observant that it was almost scary.

She put on her usual smile and distantly thought about how she had suddenly lost all of her reservations in front of Winter only a short while ago (moons she had actually laughed at him)  before shaking those thoughts away with a tilt of her head. "We managed to find Gold Crystals, they all lead in a path I am simply here to ask if anyone wants to go with me and the Prince. 'Perhaps addressing him properly will stop all of these embarrassing thoughts' Lynx thought.

"OOH! OOH! Mememememememe! I wanna go!" Smiled Kinkajou brightly. Tamarin and Anemone followed soon after, along with Cricket, and after a bit of convincing from Moon, Qibli came as well.

She walked back to the oasis with the crew in tow and smiled while telling them of how exhausting it was looking for the crystals. But then Cricket, lovely, sweet, innocent Cricket asked how they had actually found the crystals. Everyone looked at her and for the first time in her whole entire life, Lynx actually managed to stutter and stumble over her speech.

That made everyone do something of a double-take and Qibli swooped in for the kill faster than she could get her horrible emotions under control. "Is there perhaps something you're too embarrassed to tell us, Lynx?"

There was a silence that only could have lasted a few seconds but still felt like an eternity to Lynx. She allowed herself to blush and smile as she bashfully looked toward the ground and slowed her pace just enough so that Tamarin and Qibli had certainly taken note. "Well- we- uh, kind of fell?" At their confused faces, Lynx grasped at the opportunity to elaborate. "It's terribly embarrassing to admit but I accidentally knocked Winter over and he grabbed me on the descent, after the fall we got up and the trail was there. I know that it might not matter to you but the fact that I was tired enough to bump into Winter in the first place is rather shameful."

Lynx looked up to see them all looking mildly disappointed and allowed herself a small smile as she picked up the pace once more. It wasn't as though they needed to know the whole truth after all, the water fighting was unnecessary to mention, as was the three minutes the two good friends had spent gazing at each other before she laughed in his face.

After that, the conversation took a different turn, as did the group; they were now only around three minutes away from the oasis. Once they had finished talking about Turtles' new strange affinity for cooked fish they arrived at a very bored Winter sitting in front of the strange new trail they uncovered.

"Hope you weren't too bored without me" Qibli smiled running up to his pale-skinned friend. "Never." the aforementioned friend responded cooly with a ghost of a smile. He then Got up and dusted the sand off of his ice-blue pants as they started the trek.

The path itself was actually rather short and they had only been walking for around an hour when a cave appeared in their field of vision. Kinkajou, ever so energetic ran up ahead and dragged Tamarin along who in turn took a fuming Anemone who was not terribly pleased to see Tamarin's hand grasped by Kinkajou's. Lynx allowed a light chuckle that seemed to make Winter tense up. Perhaps she really should apologize for laughing at him... twice she suddenly recalled with an internal wince.