Bebby had been sitting still for too long, it was time to come BACK TO GEMINI!!

She had planned a whole day for herself, dragging along her dollhouse and her jewelry, aswell as a bag of nothing but FRUIT. sweet, sugary goodness. It was a bit of a struggle, dragging all of it in her mouth, but her teeth her sharp and nothing had broken yet!

She found a lovely spot by the waterfall, a hunk of crystal, broken in half at the middle, that was wide enough to seat her and her things with room to spare. She started setting everything up, decorating her beautiful dolls in some of her bracelets and clip-ons.

She giggled to herself as she played, smiling with her teeth.

"noooo! don't leave me, jared, you're all i have left!" one doll said, her voice a high shriek.

"it's too late, miriam! i'm leaving you for my assistant and taking our son with me!" another doll replied, voice deeper, before a smaller doll waddled after him and out the dollhouse doors.

"why! oh stars why!" the woman doll wailed, dramatically falling onto the floor in a heap of wooden parts.

Bebby tsk'd to herself, expression sad. "Don't worry, miriam, you don't need him."

Bebby was lost in her own little world.

Gemini was gorgeous, but uncanny. Sheets of crystal stretched upward like a forest, but instead of bark all Adenium could see was her own reflection. it felt like an imitation of something she knew, but absent of the life and movement of its original. Well, absent of life she understood. Walking through it made her homesick - she missed Eridanus. But something told them that they wouldn't be as safe their as they had been.

A piercing wail made snatched their attention away, and they whipped around. A ghost here would be fitting, in a cave full of reflections, transluscent surfaces and tricks of the light. But on the other hand, it was much more likely that the sound came from a distressed gembound, and Adenium felt obligated to investigate.

Their wariness was present in their movements, but they approached the crystal waterfall, watching the creature that played there (Who was decidedly not in any danger.) The dolls looked intriguing - the dryad wondered who had made them and, with a pang of envy, wondered if it could own a set of their own. "Hello? Uh - what're you doing?"

@Bebby

Bebby would hear the clinking of footsteps before she saw Adenium, and would look in their direction, eyes widening and muttering a soft "oooo.." in admiration. so tall!! and such pretty pink eyes!!!


"HII!!" bebby practically shrieked in delight, dropping her dolls and flittering upward to meet the dryad's eyeline. "OMG you're so cool looking!!! what's your name?? i'm Bebby!!!"

she looked down at her toys, smiling. "oh!! i'm playing house with my dolls!!!" she said, before leaning in with a whisper and a paw by her face, "between you and me? it's getting pretty intense."

she giggled. "you wanna join me?? i've got dolls to spare!" she asked, sitting back near her spot. "I've got fruit n bracelets i can share too!!!"

@Adenium

The second shriek made it freeze again, shrink back - it'd been a while since it had heard something quite that loud (Not that it couldn't meet Bebby's energy, it'd just take them a second). It took only these brief few moments for Adenium to recognise that the sparkle-cat was unlike anyone they'd encountered before, and that could be a good thing.

She straightened as she flitted closer, hands pressed together and fingers fiddling nervously. The wings at her back were a rosy holographic blur that hurt her head if she focused on them too long. "Thank... you? You look cool too - I like your hair!" Bebby was a lot more than her hair though; She was bright enough to make Gemini look dull in comparison. "I'm Adenium."

They did not know what 'intense' meant in this context, which served to interest them more. It took a only a brief pause before joining Bebby where she sat, cross-legged and eager. "Sure! What do I do?"

@Bebby

Bebby smiled a bit wider, if that was even possible, running her claws through her bangs. "AWWW thank you!!! yours too!!!" she mewed in thanks, sparkly sugar flakes falling from her hair as she messed with it.

she seemed to flattern herself to the ground, belly on the floor and arms outstretched to grab one of the dolls. she popped back up and handed it to Adenium, a feminine looking doll with a beaded bracelet wrapped a few times around her neck. "You play pretend with them!! you pick one up and make it say stuff but like, with your mouth. watch!!!" she explained, padding backward to shuffle through a small pile of dolls behind one of the dollhouse walls, returning with a smaller one.

She once again flattened herself to the ground, waddling the doll with one of her paws to meet the one she gave Adenium. "Hello there!" she squawked, the voice slightly off. if either of them knew what that meant, it'd sound british. "my name is-" UHHHH- "miss berry!! what's yours, kind stranger?"

she looked up at Adenium, voice a loud whisper. "now you make yours say something!"

@Adenium

Adenium turned the doll over in her hands, evidently fascinated. So she could make it say whatever she wanted? That was power, maybe too much for them - not that they planned on misusing it, but it felt like a pretty big responsibility. They could ruin this (entirely imagined persona of a doll)'s life, if they wished.

It watched Bebby as she flattened, wondering if it should do that too - it wasn't entirely comfortable to Assume The Position just yet. Instead it bent down, placing their own doll in front of them.

"Ah, hello! My name is-" All six of their eyes squinted in thought. "Queen Banana! Loyal subject, do tell me, what is your favourite fruit?"

@Bebby

Bebby giggled in positively giddy delight, smiling up at Adenium before looking back down.

"Oh hello my queen!! Why yes, i believe my favorite might just be bananas! it's our great land's sacred fruit for a reason, isn't it?" the doll spoke, beads clicking. "tell me, my queen, what brings you to our humble home!! the-" a pause, the jeopardy theme playing by total coincidence of thinking of the same notes in her head, "the- the FESTIVAL, yes the festival, isn't for another week!"

As if the mention of fruit at all seemed to remind her, another paw scrambled to the side, reaching into the bag next to bebby and pulling out some type of fruit, colorful and tropical looking, snapping up a good chunk in her teeth. licking her lips, she hoisted it up, whispering. "want some?"

She was definitely not a clean eater, at the very least, blue-ish juice dripping down the outstretched paw and down her chin. "tastes good."

@Adenium

They had been unsure of themselves, worried they had been playing right, so they took Bebby's smiles and giggles as affirmation. "Oh! you flatter the royal family!" She shook the doll in an attempt to communicate its bashfulness - whether the effect worked as intended was up to debate.

"Yes yes, but uh - uhm... It's never too early to prepare!" They paused as the sparkle-cat offered them a fruit. "Oh, yes please. They answered in a lower voice, since this was OOC of course. They didn't recognise it, but fruit's fruit, right? In fact, it gave them an idea.

They took a bite, lowering themselves to rest on their stomach as they settled into the situation. They tilted the doll to look at the bag. "I understand you were in charge of the float? Constructed in honour of our very own sacred fruit - representative of our, uh, glorious kingdom."

@Bebby

Bebby gave a toothy smile as Adenium accepted the fruit, humming lowly as she thought of a reply.

"Oh dear! I'm so sorry my wonderous queen, but as much as i try, i cannot find the materials to fulfill your request!! everything i make looks nothing like our sacred fruit!" the doll wails in despair, and with a free hand bebby tumbles some of the fruit in front of them out of the bag, none of them bananas.

bebby demonstrates how non-banana like they are by pushing away any of the fruits with yellow on them back into the bag, seemingly NOT fit for the scene she is crafting in her head. yellow fruit is not canon. "i tried so hard, and yet all i can make is these! i am all out of yellow paint, and nobody has any! dare i say, theres no more yellow paint in the kingdom! what will we DO?!" the doll cries, motioning to the other not-yellow, not-banana fruit "floats" and bebby herself looks awfully solemn.

bebby pokes her head from around her doll, voice a whisper. "what's a float?"

@Adenium

"Oh, truly unfortunate!" Its voice spoke of sinking ships and funerals in rain - her fruit-stained grin whispered of a silent conspiracy.

The doll Queen Banana raised a hand to her implied lips in shock and horror. But something else began to creep in her voice - anger? "Do tell me, Miss berry," The Queen hovered closer. Why that one looks like a melon? This is not a conspiracy, is it? Against our good Kingdom - support of the wretched Empire of Melons?" Adenium's tail began to wave slowly behind them, proud of the improvised plot.

She blinked out of her villianous expression for a moment."Uhhh... A float is like a big thing on wheels with people on it, sometimes. I think?

@Bebby