Ike

That's enough! Now before Gatrie gives us any disgusting images, I'm going to distract you with my own story.

Soren and I were alone in a forest… now before you get any ideas, Shinon, we were nine years old at the time… and we were watching the frogs hop across the lily pads in the river.

I idly asked him, "Do you know why the frogs hop across the lily pads?"

I don't really remember what he said but whatever it was, I'm sure he was right. Then I suggested, "I wonder what would happen if a human hopped across the lily pads?" Keep in mind, we were nine years old, and I didn't know the word "beorc" yet.

"You wanna try?" he asked me.

And since we were nine, I was all, "Sure!"

So we both tried hopping across the lily pads. Unsurprisingly, we wound up soaking wet. I remember seeing a tadpole trying desperately to escape from the abyss that was Soren's hair. Soren had a lily pad on his head and he was laughing at me, so I can only assume I did too.

"You did."

But we were having so much fun, that we didn't notice Dad calling us in for dinner. When he finally found us, we were totally soaked from head to toe in river water, and covered in water plants. "Ike!" Dad scolded me, "How dare you pressure Soren into doing something like that?", like he expected it to be ME who came up with the idea. When I said it was Soren's idea, and Soren backed me up, Dad laughed his head off. Apparently it's only bad if it was my idea. Dad always worried about Soren because he's so tiny.

We were going to go back to dinner, but I found a mud puddle on the way back, and it was all too tempting to push Soren into the mud. I did, and his hair got all dirty. "Ike, you jerk!" he shouted at me, pulling me into the mud with him.

Dad came back thirty minutes later and scolded me again. I mean we were FILTHY! Remember those Begnion guys we were fighting in the Serenes forest? Yeah, well we were about as dirty as their shoes. I remember how Dad sighed as he put us in a washtub and poured water over us. Soren and I couldn't stop giggling though. We giggled until it was time for bed. As Dad put us in bed he asked, "How did you two get so hyperactive?"

I said, "Dad, you should just be thankful I can make Soren smile."

Shinon pointed his finger at his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and made a gagging sound. "Mia, save me from this garbage!" he demanded.