Fakir sat on the low stone dyke that separated his garden from the forest. He was leaning against a wild apple tree that grew right next to the fence with a book in his hand. All in all, it was a relaxing way to spend the afternoon after a hard day's work cleaning, gardening, and doing just general chores. Of course that wasn't to last.
"Fakir, quick!" With loud, gasping breaths, Ahiru was already latched onto the writer's arm and pulling on him before he had even fully realized she was there. "You have to come with me!"
"What's the emergency?" Asked Fakir confusedly as he tried to mark his spot in the book and lay it aside while Ahiru kept tugging.
"Piqué and Lillié are trapped and need help out! C'mon!"
"Who?" asked the confused Fakir as he let Ahiru drag him away.
"They're friends of mine, I wanted you guys to meet a while ago but they're shy 'cause you're human."
"That's understandable," huffed Fakir as he jogged along after Ahiru. After going half way around the town Fakir had technically moved into they came upon some rather long and tall walls bordering the forest. 'Must be the backside of the mansions belonging the row of millionaires with summer homes here,' thought Fakir to himself. They came to one that was not just tall concrete that had been put up several years ago judging from the many vines trailing up it and even a few languidly flopped over the top, but had a wrought iron fence on top of the concrete. The iron fence appeared to be new, still dark and completely lacking in any kind of wear or corrosion. As he looked further along the fence Fakir noticed something strange: a pair of animal hinds poking through the spokes of the iron fence with hoofed legs scraping uselessly against the concrete.
"Piqué, Lillié, I've brought help."
There was a faint bleat from the other side of the concrete, he supposed they were too distressed to do much else at the moment.
"Right, I'll go around to the other side and we'll try to push them back out." Fakir nodded to Ahiru, who worriedly nodded back, before heading along the wall to the front.
Sneaking into the millionaire's garden was easier than he supposed it would be from the wall. Judging from the way it opened up at the front of the house, the wall was specifically for keeping forest creatures out of the geraniums. Fakir was no judge, but the way the garden was set up looked like it was full of prize winning flowers and he did not want to ruin any of them. Fortunately the two Forest Folk weren't far, Fakir rounded the corner and spotted them quickly.
"Hello, Ahiru's friends," he called out gently, not wanting to surprise the skittish creatures. In unison the two brightly colored heads turned to look at him with matching expressions of embarrassment, ears cocked forward to regard him curiously. Okay, so skittish was a premature assumption on his part. The writer quickly strode over to them, walking up to the nearest one and getting ready to help push it back out. The deer sniffed his hair and clothes curiously. "Ahiru, I'm ready."
"Okay, who are you pushing first?"
"Uh... the blond one?"
"Huh?" Ahiru asked, her voice dripping with confusion.
"The one with yellow fur."
"Oh, that's Lillié. Okay, whenever you're ready."
Both deer were sniffing Fakir all over now, one of them playfully tugged on his shirt. "The two of you can stop with the act any time, anything you can do to help would be just fabulous." He braced himself and got into position to help push the bright yellow deer. "Okay, now!" The writer and his Forest friend worked together and managed to get the yellow deer back over the other side of the wall.
"She's free! Great! Now to get Piqué down." Fakir's only response to Ahiru's glee was a grunt as he moved over to the plum colored deer. "Ready!" Called out Ahiru.
"Okay!" Called back Fakir, shoving against Ahiru's other friend. This one moved much easier, either she wasn't as stuck or the first one was helping too. Either way she was soon slipped over to the other side and Fakir decided to high tail it off whomever's property this was.
On rounding the wall to head back towards the forest he was surprised to see Ahiru standing next to the same two brightly colored deer. "Thank you so much Fakir, I was so worried about them!"
"You are quite welcome. Though what were you two doing? Anyone who saw you would just assume you were trying to get at their garden for a nibble." The two deer just wagged their tails as they eagerly leaned forward to sniff him again. Fakir rolled his eyes, "And you may as well cut out the innocent deer act. Normal deer aren't bright yellow or plum colored." He thought he heard a giggle as the two turned tail and bounded back into the forest.
"I should go with them, thanks again Fakir!" Ahiru waved as she turned and ran after her friends. Fakir waved back as he watched her go.
Inspired by a picture on Tumblr of a pair of adolescent deer who tried to jump through an iron fence and got stuck. And really, what better way is there for Fakir to meet the disaster twins?