More than anything, he had again wanted to be a dragon, but continued to remind himself that in the modern world that wasn't really an option. The area that he had been put into guardianship of since time immemorial was no longer a natural preserve where various birds and animals of the land would come to rest, but rather had become a condominium and amusement park development.<br/><br/>To make matters worse, the humans had apparently not continued to use many parts of the facility that they had constructed for themselves. They, for reasons unbeknownst to him, had abandoned the amusement park. He wasn't at all sure how that had happened to be perfectly honest.<br/><br/>Naturally he had little understanding of human economic practices, but he wished that they would at least use what they had. Sighing gently, he started his lonely walk up would have appeared, to anyone who could see it, as a giant bathhouse, which was apparently what he had worked at these days.<br/><br/>Considering that his original occupation as a guardian dragon was, today, defunct, it would have seemed that this were now his occupation and his day-to-day task. Still, though, he longed to get out but couldn't have possibly shared that with anyone or admitted it to him or her under any circumstances.<br/><br/>He simply felt that for the time being it was best to relax and settle into his newer life. It was all he had, and continuing to fight it for now wouldn't really open any further doors to him. Exhaling once more, he shut his eyes in turn and did his best not to reminisce about his earlier life. It wouldn't have done him any good after all.<br/><br/>Grasping a pail of water, Haku started to turn around again and allowed his straight-cut hair to follow along with his every motion. If he was forced to take the form of a human, then at least he was going to keep himself up and maintain his body as at least an aesthetically pleasing human.<br/><br/>It wasn't anything out of vanity so much as he was genuinely about respecting himself regardless of what situation he was forced into.