I got to Lappy Lake with a rush of adrenaline. I was excited. I wanted to see how Sai would teach Call, whatever it was. Stanley hadn't had time to explain it before I went rushing off, but I was sure Sai would help me understand what it was.
As I ran, a voice stopped me from going where I had last seen Sai.
"Hey, Kaci!" it sounded like Sai.
"Where are you?" I ask, looking around until I finally spotted him on an island that looks so high from the water that I wondered how he got up there.
From where I am, I run to the edge of the small island and see him do what I guessed was Call. He howled and a hippo came up, it carried him all the way over to where I was and I just stood there wagging my tail. Anything I thought of talking about was gone from my memory except of how to learn Call.
"Thanks again for that homemade apple pie." Sai told me when he reached land. "Anything else I can help you with?"
Anyone would see that he wanted me to ask for something else so that he could get something in return.
So I asked him what I set out to do. "What was that you just did?"
"Oh, that? It's something called Call. You can use it to summon an animal and have them help you. Would you like to learn it?"
"Of course I would!" I told him energetically, making him smile.
"Okay, I can teach you. . . in exchange for a pear tart!"
"Why am I not surprised?" I said, pulling a chuckle out of him.
"Can you get Ione to make one and bring it to me? I'll be waiting!" almost as if to say 'you won't be able to get to me unless you get me what I want', Sai went back to call on the Hippo and stayed at that small island.
I went home to find my mother where I left her from the last time when I came to get a homemade apple pie.
"Sai wants a pear tart now." I told her with a sigh, and I realized my mother laughing. Not because he wants another pear tart, but because of my sigh, since the word 'sigh' sounds like 'Sai'. I laughed as well.
When we stopped laughing, she asked, "Now he wants to eat one of my pear tarts? Very well! I'll bake him a pear tart, then!"
"All right!" I say, about to sit down before my mother stops me.
"Oh, dear. . . I don't have any pears!"
"I already have it!" I say, giving her a pear that I had gotten earlier when I had to find cotton.
"Oh, perfect. Just what I needed. . . a pear! Hold on a moment."
I watched my mother bake the pear tart until she was finished. I could figure out why I wasn't feeling bored with just watching her do this when I did learning about the Orchestra Insect (Male), but it was just the way it was.
"Here you go." she said, handing me the pear tart.
Back to Lappy Lake, Sai smelled the pear tart and came across to retrieve it. I watched him on the hippo, just sitting there, and I thought I would if I had to sit down. My thoughts were on standing.
"I have the pear tart for you!" I tell him, handing him the pear tart as if I was his butler. I didn't understand why I took a liking to him when he would have me get him food in order to get something important from him. There was just something about him that intrigued me.
"This is it! This, right here! Oh boy, does that look good!" then he noticed me standing there, I was happy I didn't have to say something in order to break his thoughts. In a way, he was intrigued by me as well. "Oh, right – I have a promise to keep, don't I? I'll teach you how to Call."
He taught me within some manner of time, though I'd lost track. I kept my thoughts onto what Sai was telling me. He told me a lot of information that I can't put into words here, but I have the last parts of what he said.
"In certain places, you can call animals to help you. Just find a sign with a paw print on it and howl for the animal told come to your aid. Use it wisely!" Sai said, then giving me 450G. I'd finally gotten used to getting money from those I helped, but I never expected it from Sai. "I heard Godfrey's water wheel has been fixed. But now he'd got another problem. You helped get the water wheel fixed, didn't you? Why not go take a look?"
As I walked away, I couldn't help but look back at Sai one more time. He was fun to be around, but there was no way of getting him unless I needed something. Somehow, he was finding his way around Pawville, and he found out that I helped fix a lot of places. I thought maybe that was why he was intrigued by me, but why am I intrigued by him?