<span style="font-size: 12px">"Uh, where <i>exactly</i> are we going?" Vee asked, combing some loose leaves and floating pollen out of her hair.  As she followed her new step-sister through the forest, she held back what felt to be an angry and painful sneeze.<br/>
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"This isn't going to be one of those, angry girl stabs new step-sister fourteen times in the forest, is it?" she grumbled.  After she had mentioned it though, she stifled a mysterious shiver and glared at the back of Farris' head suspiciously.  She was positive Farris didn't have an evil bone in her body, but it's always the one you least expect, isn't ━ "Ah <i>choo</i>!" She sniffled, rubbing at her nose. "...Ugh..."<br/>
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Vee, being a girl with short pigtails and glasses that were constantly sliding down her face, held the very atmosphere of your stereotypical bookworm.  To top it off, she enjoyed reading and doodling in her textbooks by the window, staring outside at the view but not participating in it.  However, it wasn't because she was a "bookworm" that she wasn't keen on this mysterious excursion.  She enjoyed nature and birds and long, sweaty hikes through weird woods as much as the next person.  The issue was that she was quite <i>allergic</i> to a lot of the local flora and fauna (and, if one was to be really technical and exact, the sunlight made her a tad itchy, too).<br/>
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As a result, she normally avoided being outside for long periods of time, especially when it concerned pollen and unknown plants and poison ivy.  She eyed the weaving greenery to the left of them.<br/>
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"Lots of poison ivy here, Farris..." she mumbled.  "Lots and lots of poison ivy..."</span>