[Backdated to Afternoon of Arrival]

[subdueme]

[He figured out the trick with the book after the bear incident. After the majority of the day without an answer to the problem he'd stumbled across he decides to see if use of the book would help.]

Swan Lake. Does anyone know where that is? We've searched all over town and have been unable to find it. I found a swan that was told by the locals that she needs to find it by nightfall. It's getting closer to sunset and we aren't any closer.

What is this place that it can turn someone so powerful into little more than a bird?

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[subdueme]

Nothing is going to happen. It isn't like you would have any powers even if you were in your normal form.

[He's not happy having his powers stripped here at all.]

[moonflowering]

[Even so...

Anyway, a little tired from trying to work out her new form and legs and wings, she wanders back next to him, dragging her book along before lying down. She looks up at him expectantly, as though to say 'any information'?]

[subdueme]

[This time he just naturally picks up the book for her without having to be prodded. Then proceeds to shut his own book in kind before stashing them both in the bag he'd found earlier in town.]

At least an hours walk from here. We should get going.

[Getting tired is for the weak. You're a pureblood. Get over it.]

[moonflowering]

[Harsh. But after a moment she forces herself to get up. And because it's much easier to fly than walk, she takes back to the air. It can just get difficult when her pace while flying is faster than his walk.

. . . So when she finds a stream that they can walk along, she alights into the water and is much more content to swim than do any of the rest.]

[subdueme]

[He's glad she can fly, for one thing. Because having her waddle behind him was uncomfortable after a bit. The swimming wasn't much faster than walking but Zero wasn't one to often rush places unless it was an emergency. After an hour goes by of their travels, he calls out to her. By this time there is no water nearby and she's in the sky again.]

We should be close by now. Do you see any larger bodies of water?

[moonflowering]

[Close now. Lifting up higher into the air so she can get a better vantage point, she looks around for anything that stands out.

-- And finds something. A partially over grown castle beside a lake? That could be it, right!?

Swooping back down she flies ahead of him, turning around to indicate for him to follow her. It's just right up ahead.

[subdueme]

[And follow he does. The sun is getting closer to sunset, the sky starting to turn into bright colors in the sky.]

I hope this is it because I don't think we have much time left.

[moonflowering]

[She hoped so too. Not that she really understood how a lake was supposed to help her. It didn't take all that long to reach it, though.

Careful, she flew out onto the lake. Considering the season she thought it would have been cold, but it really wasn't that bad on the water. Floating atop the lake, she glanced up to the sky for a moment, before she floated along the shore, her eyes upon Zero.

Something was off. Maybe different? She couldn't say, but somehow he seemed a little different from how she remembered. Maybe not much, but... it was hard to tell when she couldn't out right speak with him.]

[subdueme]

[He debates on what to do now, if he should stay and wait with her for sunset to complete and see what happened. The other choice is to just head back home to that giant house alone. Curiousity gets the better of him though and he sits against a nearby tree where he begins to pull things out of the satchel he'd picked up.]