Despite wanting to get some sleep, Kanda could not get himself to. With some anxious pacing in his bedroom he finally makes up his mind on what to do. Making as little noise as possible Kanda opens his closet and digs around for particular items. A pack was filled his travel belongings from earlier along with along white cloak. Once finished with this small task Kanda makes his way out of the house without disturbing his guest. The long-haired man constantly checked around for things and creatures that could be watching him. Every time a lizard would stare at him for too long or the rustling of a bird in movement put him on edge and would get him to freeze in place. Being carefully made the trip long, but soon enough Kanda makes it to his stable. Just outside of Allen's stall floats the yellow wisp and as it notices Kanda's presence it floats over.
"Worry not. I am leaving with him now." Kanda speaks softly to the wisp as it lingers at his shoulder.
"Kanda?" Allen asks through a yawn as he peeks out of his stall. "Is everything alright?"
"No Moyashi, it's not." Kanda shakes his head. "Although not in the manner I assumed he'd do it, Lavi did make the poachers aware of you being here. Something, someone, many I don't know, but he's being tailed and watched. We need to go."
"…But where would we go? And we've only been at rest for so long…" Allen pouts as he watches Kanda go to Mugen's stall.
"We'll find a place to camp out in the woods. Let's just get you home." Kanda sighs as he opens Mugen's stall, slightly startling the mare. "Sorry girl, but there's trouble."
"Okay…Say is that the yellow wisp again?" Allen makes note of the creature on Kanda's shoulder.
"Yes, I'm sure it wants you out of here just as much as I do." Kanda moves so that Mugen could exit her stall; he wasn't utilizing her halter at all. He then removes his pack to open it and pull out the white cloak that he had pulled from the depths of his closet.
"Put this on." He practically demands as he tosses it at Allen. The centaur can't help but squeak as he just barely catches the fabric.
"Oh, it's really soft…" Allen comments as he brings it closer to his chest.
"It's got some residual magic laced in it. Makes others second guess if you're really standing there or not." Kanda explains as he makes sure his pack is closed up right.
"Really?" Allen marvels as he slips the enchanted cloak around his shoulders. He wanted to question farther, such as how this human came across an item like this, but he knew now was not the time. Though his question must have been prominent over his features because Kanda goes on to speak on it.
"It was a gift from a friend…he was very close. Though he passed on due to illness."
"I am sorry to hear." Allen offers.
"Nothing you could have done about it." Kanda frowns as he looks the centaurs way and walks over. He goes and adjusts the cloak and pulls the hood up over Allen's head. The fur trimming around the hood seemed to blend in with his hair and the inside was a beautiful silver. Taking a handful of the cloak Allen brings it closer to his front and smiles softly. The yellow wisp makes a whistle and moves from Kanda's shoulder to the top of Allen's head.
"Let's go." The black cloak Kanda himself had on had its hood pulled up and the man got up onto Mugen barebacked. Taking her mane into his hands he carefully leads her out of the stable. Although there was the thrill of panic in their escape, they moved slowly through the fields all the way to the woods. Once surrounded by trees the pair picked up the speed a bit. They kept moving until the yellow wisp flew away from Allen to spin in circles around a tree whose trunk was far more grand than any of those around it.
"I guess we can stop here." Kanda sighs and dismounts from Mugen. Allen moans out as he happily flops down and leans against the tree. Mugen makes a whiny and follows the same action. A tinkling noise comes from the yellow wisp as it moves between Allen and Mugen happily.
"You'll watch over us?" Kanda questions the wisp as he leans against the tree between his two companions. The wisp bounces up and down as if in agreement.
"You always speak to the Timcanpy in another tongue." Allen can't help but point out.
"Timcanpy?"
"I named it okay?" Allen blushes and turns his head away. Kanda is glad the centaur turned away because he couldn't stop the smile that creeped up.
"It just feels right to do so." Kanda does give Allen a proper response from the previous statement which in return Allen only hums and fiddles with the end of the cloak.
"Can I…Can I ask about the person that gave you this cloak?" Kanda scowls, but his features lighten up and he turns his head to the sky.
"Thinking back on it I have good reason to believe he wasn't human and I'm still not too sure what he could have been. That cloak was something he had made up so that I wouldn't get caught when visiting him by the Lost Blossom Lake. It's probably enchanted, I had thought he was just saying so to be cool."
"Lost Blossom Lake…I think I've been there before. It was very pretty, I can see why he'd always meet you there." Allen also turns to the sky to watch the stars. "Thank you for entrusting me with the cloak."
"It's a good thing it actually works, even after all these years. Besides you need it more than I do." Kanda huffs matter-of-factly.
"I'll take that as 'you're welcome'." Allen gives a light chuckle and shuffles his weight around a bit. "And say, I've gone and drudged up some of your past, it's only fair to allow you the same. Is there anything you'd like to know about me?" Kanda turns to face the centaur and raises a brow at his words. It seemed the long-haired man needed a minute before he came up with something to say.
"When we first met, you had mentioned that your herd was not very fond of you. Do you mean that or was that you just telling yourself that?"
"That's not the kind of thing I was expecting you to ask." Allen just chuckles, "But I guess it's a bit of both to tell the truth. My father loves me more than anyone else, but as for the rest of the herd…I'm not too sure…I've heard rumors that they tell amongst themselves, that I'm cursed. That one day I'm to bring destruction to the herd. And I'm starting to think that this could be that curse…to lead the akuma right to them without meaning to." Just as Allen begins to duck his head in shame he can feel a hand against his chin.
"Look, I haven't known you for long but I do know one thing, and that is you are too freaking nice. Cursed or not you won't be the bringer of the end times for your herd. You and I can deal with these akuma and poachers, fight for your worth and then return you home without a worry."
"I don't like the idea of fighting the Noah, that's the organization of the poachers that hunt us myths, but it's better than letting them chase me like rabbit back to its burrow. If we're going to do this we have to go straight to the top, the demon of a man that leads them all." Allen lets a big breath out his nose and straightens up as he speaks.
"Good, now get some sleep, we can talk more about this once we're better rested." Kanda stretches out his arms before relaxing against the tree and shutting his eyes.
"Alright, alright." Allen yawns and relaxes himself in-spite of just having gotten worked up. As he too shuts his eyes Timcanpy gives a twirl and the wisp's color dims. The group slept soundly as the world around them seemed to forget their existence. For now they were safe and now it wasn't just Timcanpy with them, but all the wisps of the wood were there for them; whether they realized it or not.