<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ZQc7Deq.jpg)</div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Rin</span></strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337368.msg16018996#msg16018996)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Long Sunsets</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em></em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong><em>Helping!</em><br/><br/>Rin, over the course of time, comes to know these little mortal things less as wrigglymathings and more as...specialmathings. They had potential. Like the babyphants they were eager to learn. Though their noses couldn't do as many neat tricks as the babyphants could. And their bigger mortals seemed to get more upset if she tried to take them out to see the island. Even the bigger little mortals seemed to have trouble allowing that. She so wanted to show them the glass beach and the floaty islands and take them to meet the babyphants and Scamper and all her friends. But their tiny little legs couldn't move fast enough to escape the clutches of the bigger mortals when she'd tried to lead them on expeditions.<br/><br/>So she'd resolved to bring some of the island to the tiny mortals. She spent hours down on the beach, making little tiny glass spheres that she'd presented to them as gifts. They seemed to enjoy rolling this way and that and plinking against each other. Occasionally one of the braver little animals would sneak a visit and she would translate what they said as they told stories about the island and their loved ones. The little mortals were always quick to hide them from the bigger mortals.<br/><br/>She was most proud of the way though she would make pictures out of the little fire in the big tent for them. Sometimes she would show them bits of the island. Sometimes she would make up stories. Her favorite to tell was stories about the Wise Old Elephant, though she wasn't quite so old in the fire. Always stamping this way and that and kind and full of energy. Whenever this telling of a vision was on, and the little mortals got too noisy they would be checked on. Of course, they would tell the truth and tell the big mortals they were looking at pictures in the fire, which got a shake of the head and back to work.<br/><br/>She of course, always made rounds when she noticed a little wriggler absent from the big tent or about, making sure they were always warm, always safe. She did notice that some of the bigger biggest little mortals seemed...distracted when she was around. So tired they were from chores and such they didn't seem to notice her as much. But the others seemed to like her.<br/><br/>So when the beseeching began, Rin had watched her fellow spirits reveal, or not, themselves to the Mortals. They yammered this way and that and she had sighed. So many thoughts and questions and needs. She perked up though when the conversation moved to Blossom. Their Blossoms? No....she had just seen her. How could these mortals know her? She was a good friend, was she friends with them? She felt like she missed a lot of conversation when Aqua proposed a meet. She pondered if she should be there, to watch for her friend Blossom...more pondering.