<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d5/Ayshia.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Who:</strong> Valko<br/><strong>Where: </strong> By the cooking fire<br/><strong>When:</strong> Late afternoon <hr/>When she saw that there were no more vegetables to clean and cut, Ayshia cleaned her knife and drained the remains of her cool cup of tea. “I’d love to learn to swim… and perhaps fish too, though if it’s company you want, I don’t mind carrying my things to the river and work on some of my own projects.” Ayshia said, and then she offered Valko a broad smile when he said he was game to try her cooking. Ayshia was quite sure her father might try to discourage him from trying.  Maybe he would see that it was easy for him to find a way to spend some time with her now, Ayshia thought to herself. It was a nice prank he had pulled, she had made herself an easy victim when he had pulled her against him. To Ayshia, that’s what he had done, pulling her against him. She had no idea that her landing there was a miscalculation on his part.<br/><br/>“I don’t think I need help with anything, but if you can wait here for a bit, I’ll go get one or two things from my area and I’ll be right back.” Ayshia said, taking both the basket in one hand and the cooking pot in the other to put them where Lorna would expect to find them. “Actually… Would you like to come to the Crane Hearth with me? I’m going to try the needle, I think it’s only fair that you be there when I do. I am quite sure my father wouldn’t mind. This place will get pretty busy for the meal preparation, so if we want to talk…” <em>Stop talking now,</em> Ayshia told herself, <em>give him time to answer or you’ll turn into a babbling fool.</em> She stood by the fire, looking at him expectantly.  Her cup of tea, empty now, was still on the seat beside him, but it was the only thing she had to pick up before going to her father’s Hearth.<br/><br/>Continued here (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167251.new#new)<br/></div>