Sylph of the Sky, Flower of the Earth

Peculiar

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Hilda had been acting strange, stranger than normal. She dozed off mid sentence, wandered off without realizing it and avoided himself and a few of their friends.
Cagney wasn't sure of the cause, ever since the show, she was out of it. Lack of sleep? He knew Hilda was suppose to sleep in the day so she could manage the night, she always stayed up a bit in the day to hang out with her friends. She had been doing it for as long as they had known each other. It baffled Cagney, was she hiding something and of so what. He knew they bickered and teased but he knew that they were friends and that they cared for one another. If she was hiding something from him? Cagney tried to rationalize, perhaps something to do with King Dice or the Devil. If this was true, he would not hold back.
Cagney stopped himself there, wiping the water from his face. He glimpsed at the sky.  It was around 3 in the afternoon, Hilda was most likely asleep and wouldn't wake up until around 6 or 7.
Cagney regretfully buried himself towards Goopy's tree to ask about Hilda, his body aching from the though of talking to Goopy optionally. It wasn't that Goopy was a bad person, he was just annoying and everyone knew that the blob was a gossiper. Cagney recalled the guilty feeling of running into Goopy after having his soul contract taken. At the time, it was hilarious.  The loud mouth blob finally getting it, he only understood when the same happened to him.
Walking up to the tree, Cagney brough his hand to the door..
"Goopy isn't there today." A voice said behind him. It was one of the residents of Inkwell... Truth be told, he didn't know her name. She was a fish.
"Oh....where is he?" He asked, trying to look away.
"In the garden patch." She replied as she started walking away.
"Wait! Do you know if anything happened to Hilda?" She said before she walked away.
"Don't know, don't care. My business is with the water, only reason I know where Goopy is because I saw him." She sassily walked away, Cagney couldn't help but to feel a little bit offended.
"Goopy!" Cagney yelled as he buried up from underground. The blob was plopped on the ground with Moe Tato and Weepy.  They all held a cup of tea with the exception of Goopy who had the cup faced down on his head.
"Oh wow Cagney! Have you come to join us friend?" Onion asked. Cagney respectfully declined, straightening his stem.
"Um..so does anyone know what is going on with Hilda?"
"Well...no, I thought you knew since-"
"She's your girlfriend!!" Goopy sneered interrupting Weepy who pressed his fingers together, avoiding eye contact.
"Goopy!" Moe Tato yelled at Goopy started laughing, Cagney's face getting more and more red every second.
Cagney took a deep breath.
"She. Is. Not. MY GIRLFRIEND YOU STUPID BLOB!" Cagney yelled.
Weepy started to tear up, causing Goopy to glare at Cagney. "Sh- Weepy look it's fine, I was just mad at Goopy." Cagney placed one of his hands on Weepy's back.
"S-sorry Cagney." Weepy whimpered, Goopy's gaze softening.
"Heya Weepy look," Goopy gestured, "I'm Cagney! I am a mean wittle flower who loves sky witch! Muah muah muah!"
"Oh HAHA, even the devil is laughing." Cagney retorted, holding his anger down for the benefit of Weepy, "And she's not a witch!"
"Standing up for your girlfriend aye?"
"She is not my girlfr-"
"Okay!" Moe Tato interrupted, " Anyway can't say I know what happened with Hilda."
"You mean his girlfriend." Goopy slipped in causing Moe Tato to frown.
"S-sorry I don't know either, I noticed she has been acting strange but I can't say I know why, s-sorry Cags." Weepy said under his breath.
"Alright then", Cagney would be lying if he wasn't disappointed.
"Well why don't you just ask her, I mean she is your friend after all, who to know better." Cagney's eyes widened, Goopy offering good advice?!
Just as Cagney started to turn away, he got a "Thank you Goopy," just before he buried himself towards his oak tree, waiting for Hilda to awake. He would wait all night if he had to.