Eccelisa dropped back to where Dasavi was walking, the poor girl looked frustrated and cautious. "I know that this," she said to Dasavi as if she were musing, "can be a  little hard to take in, but its all not too bad." She hoped she were making sense. The child didn't really have much of a heads up before meeting males. But, then again, Eccelisa didn't have much of an introduction either.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #FFFF00">Little Eccelisa bounded up to where her mother sat, weaving a basket out of flexible branches. Her mother looked up at her, blue eyes twinkling from the two droplets of sunlight. <br/><br/>"What do you have there, 'Lisa?" she asked her dark haired daughter. Eccelisa smiled with all her crooked pearly teeth before showing the small handful of wildflowers. <br/><br/>"Fwowers mommy! Fwowers!" her voice heightened with child-like glee. Her mother's face animated instantly. Then she looked behind her beloved daughter's smiling eyes, and saw He had arrived again. Her eyes changed to horror.<br/><br/>"Eccelisa, get behind me! Get behind mommy!"</span></span><br/><br/>Visibly shaking herself from the memory, she continued on. Eyes like her mother's up ahead, as if she were building up her walls again. Blocking out everything, but the present.