Trees
They walked along slowly the next morning. Emma in only her white dressing gown. Her clothing and shoes had been left in a bush, for they only served to annoy her. She saw what looked like a sliver bird up ahead, glancing at Ed she raced ahead, trying to get a better view of the creature. It flitted back and forth in front of her, as if teasing her.
"Emma!" Ed cried from behind her. "Emma!" He yelled. She turned around to find she could no longer see him. She looked behind her, the bird was watching her from a tree branch.
"I'm right here!" She yelled before tearing off after the bird. "I'm goanna get you." She muttered as she ran. She leapt up into the air, she had it! She smiled as she tumbled to the ground. her momentum rolling her across the ground for several feet. And then it carried her into a tree. She expected pain, as she had been, in a way, watching the tree come closer and closer to her person. She opened her eyes to find herself inside a wood cylinder. Then she realized, she was in a tree. She opened her hands to examine the silver critter she had in her hands. It looked as if it was burning, but it didn't hurt her.
"What creature are you, hmm?" She asked it before looking around her circular cage. There seemed to be a set of stairs carved into one side. She glanced at the silver bird and sighed, all that work and I have to let it go! She rolled her eyes and set the bird down on the earthly floor and began climbing. As she climbed she wondered briefly if the bird was looking up her skirt. She quickly banished the though as it didn't really matter. There was no room for modesty in the immortals forest. She climbed higher and blinked as her head poked through a canopy of leaves. Smiling she climbed out onto a branch. Scanning the ground beneath her she searched for Ed's horse like build.
"Ed?" She yelled from her treetop. "Ed!" She yelled.
"Emma? Emma!" He yelled. Emma turned around carefully.
"Ed! Hi!" She yelled, looking down at him, hundreds of feet away.
"How in the gods mane did you get up there?" He yelled.
"I got stuck in the tree and climbed up the inside." She explained. "Do you see a way down?" She asked. Looking around her.
"No! You got stuck in a tree? How?" HE asked, obviously confused.
"I rolled into it." She said by way of explanation. She very carefully stepped onto the branch beneath her, her toes curled around the wide branch before she placed her other foot on it.
"What are you doing?" He shrieked, a very feminine shriek.
"Climbing down." She said, rolling her eyes.
"What? No! Don't due that!" He yelled. She giggled as she descended.
"Then you would have me stay in this tree forever?" She asked, amusement thick on her voice as she resumed climbing down. She tired of slowly climbing and deliberately missed the next branch on her way down. She half slid, half fell a good five feet before she stopped and Ed was yelling something fierce, she turned to look at him.
"What are you doing?!" He yelled, "You stay put, I'll figure out a way to get you down, just, stay!" he said as he looked around, panicking slightly. Emma sighed and resumed falling and sliding down the tree. She reached the ground with a thud. Looking up she bit her lip to suppress her laughter, he looked somewhat horrified and impressed.
"Hey, how ya doin?" She asked with a smile. He frowned.
"Hmph." Was all he would say for the rest of the morning. She spent most of the time chattering about nothing in particular and he finally turned and looked at her. She smiled prettily at him.
"Do you always babble like this?" He asked and she grinned.
"Only when I'm being ignored."
A/N: Okay, I'm not really into this, so if anyone wants the idea tell me and you can have it, otherwise I'll muddle along!