<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9845.msg589617#msg589617">Quote from: Cherri Tart on 03-05-2008, 20:26:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Lily trotted after him - skipped, really - catching up to Io as he reached the bike. "No.  I really didn't think at all.  Everything's just so... well, a little overwhelming still, and new..." her smile was replaced by a more serious look, and her eyes glistened suddenly with unshed tears. She brushed at her eyes, peering around the Satyr, as he worked on the engine.  "Can I do anything to help?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>She could tell he bit back his first reply. Instead he answered, after a few seconds:<br/>"No thank you, not right now. I can see the problem. I will have it sorted in a couple of minutes, then we'll be on our way."<br/>What she could help him with later he never said, and she wasn't sure she wanted to know. In any case, Io was true to his word and 10 minutes later they were back on the road.<br/>"Not far now," Io yelled back to her. If the school lay somewhere along here the students were lucky, Lily thought. The surrounding had become more and more idylic for the last 30 minutes, now it looked like something out of a fairytail, the scene around them alternated between snow covered forrests and white open fields.