p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro didn't feel okay. It kept happening- emsomething/em kept happening, and every time it did seconds after he would have no idea what it was, and just be left with a vague feeling. It was terrifying./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He just wanted to leave already. But Wu had to leave the day after he came! Which was really upsetting- he can still mostly remember what happened./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd had walked him back to the warehouse (Morro could have gone by himself, but the blond insisted, which irritated Morro to no end.) from the night before and stuck around nearby until he could find Wu./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro searched the whole damn place, but the old man just emwasn't there/em. Once he had finally given up, he walked over to his cousin and sat on the ground next to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What happened?" Lloyd asked him, arching a brow curiously./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""emNothing./em Wasn't there." Morro said, extremely frustrated. He didn't feel like talking a whole lot./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What?!" The blond stood up and walked over the corner to see for himself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Less than a minute later, he came back and shook his head at Morro./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""He really isn't. He left on another one of his trips." His cousin spat with a flap of his arms. Morro didn't have the patience to respond, He just looked away and gritted his teeth. Eventually Lloyd started to walk away, only to turn back and look at him oddly, brow pinched./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""You coming? You have to stay with me until he gets back, you know," traces of irritation still lingered in his voice, clinging to the words as would crawling leeches to flesh. Or at least that was how Morro interpreted it. (Why did he know that. He emshouldn't/em know that.)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Logically, he shouldn't argue with a continual place to stay. He wasn't that foolish, but... He knew Lloyd also seemed upset, but he couldn't possibly understand the way Morro's mind was racing. What if Wu didn't come back? What if he was never able to get rid of the curse? What if-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""I'm not." Morro said, pushing himself up with the aid of the wind, forcefully pulling himself out of his own thoughts. He had already wasted a day on this, emwaiting/em to talk to Wu, he was emnot/em going through another day like the waking nightmare this one had been./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Lloyd rolled his eyes "Morro, come on." He took a step towards him, and lent out his palm, shaking it at him in an obviously annoyed way./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Morro stubbornly shook his head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""Come on-!" Lloyd reached for his wrist, like he had been doing all day, but this time Morro just emcouldn't handle the idea touch/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Without thinking, he pushed the blond away as hard as he could with a gust, resisting the urge to completely throw the blond off the docks. Lloyd was sent stumbling back, floundering over his own feet. The wind distorted Morro's words, and he relished in the feeling of breathing in power from it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I said emNO!" /emFor a moment, he felt emgood/em with the sudden burst of power rushing through him. …Then he realized what was happening and he suddenly had felt emvery/em light-headed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"After that? Well, his memory got a little foggy there. What he most clearly remembers emafter/em that is hiding on a roof top, trying his damn best not to cry. Why was he crying? He couldn't remember! Why couldn't he remember? Why did this keep happening?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"…whatever. Eventually after hiding on the roof for what must have been a couple of hours, he determined it was safe to find somewhere to sleep for the night. At that point, he couldn't remember what he was hiding from, he just knew he didn't want to be found./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"So, what did he do? He went crawling right on back to the forest like a coward. Thankfully though, Alder was still there. Once he had gotten far enough away as to not be able to hear the city, the bird gave Morro a warning emsquawk!/em Before landing gently on his shoulder./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He nearly jumped out of his skin at first, until the familiarity of Alder pressing their face onto his washed over Morro and calmed down substantially./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"And now he was here, taking shelter in some old, abandoned tree house./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was tired. emReally/em tired. As in, emthe second I lay down I'll fall asleep/em level of tired. So, Morro picked the most comfortable corner of the creaking wooden building and curled up in it, letting unconsciousness take him without fight./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"~~/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was standing in a large box. His foot, chained to the floor. Hardly any links on it./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He tested it, pulling himself hard away from where the chain was hooked to the floor, but it didn't give. The cold feeling of panic began to rise in his throat./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He noticed a crack splitting down one of the walls, a harsh glow emitting from it. He reached out to touch it, and it burst open, vibrant, blazing hot goop spewing out./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Scrambling as far as he can get away from it, he tries to take a deep breath, but the air is hot, too hot, the magma creeps closer too close, no no no no he can't do this again, not again not-/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro sat bolt upright, desperately taking in large gasps of air./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""It's fine, you're fine, it was just a dream, you're okay, you can breathe, it's okay, you're fine," He whispered between heavy breaths. How many times had he had that nightmare now? He had lost count forever ago./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"It had started once he had gotten cursed and had been plaguing him ever since. And he had no idea why. Thankfully though, he had gotten used to calming himself down./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Chirp!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro looked around, remembering he had slept in some random structure in the forest. After sweeping the whole room, he looked up and was met with familiar red, blue and black feathers. A weak smile made its way onto his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""G'morning, Alder," He grumbled, stretching as he stood up. The bird flapped their wings noisily in response./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's eyes flicked towards an opening in the wall that was likely meant to be a window. It was around mid-day if he had to guess./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Fsm, he really slept a while, didn't he? Whenever that happened, he was usually-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"His stomach let out a disgusting noise./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Yep. He was hungry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro sighed, rubbing the sleep from the corners of his eyes, and pinching his nose to wake himself up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"This would be fine he would just have to… to… He should… Maybe if he- What if… Spinjitzu Master, he couldn't think of a plan./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"In the last thirty-four hours, everything had been de-railed. This was great—Just emgreat!/em He didn't even really know the area around him, how the hell was he supposed to stick it out until Wu came back?!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"A pang from his abdomen reminded him of his priority—finding food. Right, he could do that. Probably. It pained him to not have a plan, he emalways /emhad a plan, he strongneeded-/strong/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But he couldn't think on an empty stomach, and he hadn't eaten in over a day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Turning his gaze upward again, Morro attempted to wet his dry throat, but to no avail./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Alder, could you help me out please?" He asked politely, giving the bird a pleading look. The latter tilted their head slightly, considering him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Alder bobbed up and down, before taking off, gliding out the 'window' beside Morro in response. He blew air past his lips, letting a short whine out as he did./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Then, he dove through the 'window' after the bird, blanketing himself with the wind to slow his fall, landing on the soft ground with a quick emthump/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"It was going to be a long day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He just wanted to leave already. But Wu had to leave the day after he came! Which was really upsetting- he can still mostly remember what happened./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd had walked him back to the warehouse (Morro could have gone by himself, but the blond insisted, which irritated Morro to no end.) from the night before and stuck around nearby until he could find Wu./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro searched the whole damn place, but the old man just emwasn't there/em. Once he had finally given up, he walked over to his cousin and sat on the ground next to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What happened?" Lloyd asked him, arching a brow curiously./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""emNothing./em Wasn't there." Morro said, extremely frustrated. He didn't feel like talking a whole lot./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What?!" The blond stood up and walked over the corner to see for himself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Less than a minute later, he came back and shook his head at Morro./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""He really isn't. He left on another one of his trips." His cousin spat with a flap of his arms. Morro didn't have the patience to respond, He just looked away and gritted his teeth. Eventually Lloyd started to walk away, only to turn back and look at him oddly, brow pinched./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""You coming? You have to stay with me until he gets back, you know," traces of irritation still lingered in his voice, clinging to the words as would crawling leeches to flesh. Or at least that was how Morro interpreted it. (Why did he know that. He emshouldn't/em know that.)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Logically, he shouldn't argue with a continual place to stay. He wasn't that foolish, but... He knew Lloyd also seemed upset, but he couldn't possibly understand the way Morro's mind was racing. What if Wu didn't come back? What if he was never able to get rid of the curse? What if-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""I'm not." Morro said, pushing himself up with the aid of the wind, forcefully pulling himself out of his own thoughts. He had already wasted a day on this, emwaiting/em to talk to Wu, he was emnot/em going through another day like the waking nightmare this one had been./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Lloyd rolled his eyes "Morro, come on." He took a step towards him, and lent out his palm, shaking it at him in an obviously annoyed way./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Morro stubbornly shook his head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;""Come on-!" Lloyd reached for his wrist, like he had been doing all day, but this time Morro just emcouldn't handle the idea touch/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal; background: white;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;"Without thinking, he pushed the blond away as hard as he could with a gust, resisting the urge to completely throw the blond off the docks. Lloyd was sent stumbling back, floundering over his own feet. The wind distorted Morro's words, and he relished in the feeling of breathing in power from it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I said emNO!" /emFor a moment, he felt emgood/em with the sudden burst of power rushing through him. …Then he realized what was happening and he suddenly had felt emvery/em light-headed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"After that? Well, his memory got a little foggy there. What he most clearly remembers emafter/em that is hiding on a roof top, trying his damn best not to cry. Why was he crying? He couldn't remember! Why couldn't he remember? Why did this keep happening?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"…whatever. Eventually after hiding on the roof for what must have been a couple of hours, he determined it was safe to find somewhere to sleep for the night. At that point, he couldn't remember what he was hiding from, he just knew he didn't want to be found./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"So, what did he do? He went crawling right on back to the forest like a coward. Thankfully though, Alder was still there. Once he had gotten far enough away as to not be able to hear the city, the bird gave Morro a warning emsquawk!/em Before landing gently on his shoulder./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He nearly jumped out of his skin at first, until the familiarity of Alder pressing their face onto his washed over Morro and calmed down substantially./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"And now he was here, taking shelter in some old, abandoned tree house./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was tired. emReally/em tired. As in, emthe second I lay down I'll fall asleep/em level of tired. So, Morro picked the most comfortable corner of the creaking wooden building and curled up in it, letting unconsciousness take him without fight./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"~~/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was standing in a large box. His foot, chained to the floor. Hardly any links on it./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He tested it, pulling himself hard away from where the chain was hooked to the floor, but it didn't give. The cold feeling of panic began to rise in his throat./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He noticed a crack splitting down one of the walls, a harsh glow emitting from it. He reached out to touch it, and it burst open, vibrant, blazing hot goop spewing out./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Scrambling as far as he can get away from it, he tries to take a deep breath, but the air is hot, too hot, the magma creeps closer too close, no no no no he can't do this again, not again not-/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro sat bolt upright, desperately taking in large gasps of air./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""It's fine, you're fine, it was just a dream, you're okay, you can breathe, it's okay, you're fine," He whispered between heavy breaths. How many times had he had that nightmare now? He had lost count forever ago./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"It had started once he had gotten cursed and had been plaguing him ever since. And he had no idea why. Thankfully though, he had gotten used to calming himself down./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Chirp!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro looked around, remembering he had slept in some random structure in the forest. After sweeping the whole room, he looked up and was met with familiar red, blue and black feathers. A weak smile made its way onto his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""G'morning, Alder," He grumbled, stretching as he stood up. The bird flapped their wings noisily in response./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's eyes flicked towards an opening in the wall that was likely meant to be a window. It was around mid-day if he had to guess./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Fsm, he really slept a while, didn't he? Whenever that happened, he was usually-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"His stomach let out a disgusting noise./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Yep. He was hungry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro sighed, rubbing the sleep from the corners of his eyes, and pinching his nose to wake himself up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"This would be fine he would just have to… to… He should… Maybe if he- What if… Spinjitzu Master, he couldn't think of a plan./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"In the last thirty-four hours, everything had been de-railed. This was great—Just emgreat!/em He didn't even really know the area around him, how the hell was he supposed to stick it out until Wu came back?!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"A pang from his abdomen reminded him of his priority—finding food. Right, he could do that. Probably. It pained him to not have a plan, he emalways /emhad a plan, he strongneeded-/strong/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But he couldn't think on an empty stomach, and he hadn't eaten in over a day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Turning his gaze upward again, Morro attempted to wet his dry throat, but to no avail./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Alder, could you help me out please?" He asked politely, giving the bird a pleading look. The latter tilted their head slightly, considering him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Alder bobbed up and down, before taking off, gliding out the 'window' beside Morro in response. He blew air past his lips, letting a short whine out as he did./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Then, he dove through the 'window' after the bird, blanketing himself with the wind to slow his fall, landing on the soft ground with a quick emthump/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"It was going to be a long day./span/p