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Who: Temari and OPEN
When: During the event
Where: Wherever you want
What: So a broken little dove is following her around. What could possibly go wrong here?
Rating/Warning: Nothing too terrible. Some bloody memories, if they come up.

[a]
[Temari of the Sand, sister and bodyguard to the Kazekage of the Hidden Village of Sand in the Land of Wind and respected leader of her village is currently failing at shopping for food. In her defense, she's completely distracted by both the ridiculous selection she apparently has and the small broken dove following her around. No one else has commented on it, so she's pretty sure she's either gone absolutely insane or something weird is happening thanks to this rather unpredictable place.

Hard to say but the way her gaze keeps settling on something that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't seem to be really there while she's trying to read an ingredient list mind garner comments.]

[b]
[The garden is a favorite place of hers already and here is where she finds some time to address the small, sad creature dogging her steps. She kneels but doesn't try to touch the dove -- there's a touch of paranoia still, wondering what would happen if she did try. But even with the paranoia comes aching sympathy; so broken and tattered and just plain pitiful.]

So what happened to you? [She's painfully aware that it seems she's speaking to the ground but Temari has never been that self-conscious.] Poor thing. You should be flying.

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[If she didn't have her own invisible friend, she might have drawn the kunai if he'd said that. Talk about odd. She glances at the dove, wing dragging the ground, and looks back to him.]

It's been following me around all day.

Tch. [So he was right, then.] I guess everyone has one of those things.

[And some of them are birds, apparently. New information.]

That's what happens when they run into someone. They show off memories. [Without permission or giving any clue what the memory they showed might have been.] What was it you saw?

[Temari nodded slowly as she withdrew her hand - sans kunai - from the pouch.] So if anyone brushes against the one following me... [She says it quietly, almost musing to herself.]

[she looks up at him, brow furrowed.] You wanted to fly? [She saw more than that, but that was the general gist of whole thing.]

[He's not sure what moment that was, since that was something he wanted for quite a while. But it tells him enough, if that's what stood out. He moves from his spot in the tree, and he doesn't need his wings to hop down from there, but he spreads them anyway, staying in the air just a second longer than necessary before he lands and lets them disappear again, leaving only a couple scattered red feathers behind. An unspoken answer to the inevitable question of whether he ever got his wings. He looks a bit smug as he glances back at her.]

Yeah. I wanted that.

[She eyes the wings with a long moment, residual traces of longing that's not hers placated by the sight.]

You have it. [She nods.] Good.

I usually get what I want, in the end.

[Doesn't he sound confident.]

I admire those who do.

[If anything there's a bit of a smirk as he turns to walk away before his fox finds an excuse to run into her a second time. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know where her bird is by now and accidentally steps through it.]

[Temari takes a step forward, hand rising as if to stop him, but too late.] Oh no...

[She stumbles to a stop, suddenly lightheaded for a moment. Her hand covers her mouth, if only because she knows what's going to happen and there's nothing she can do about it. Someone else seeing her memories... Nothing about that is okay.

He'll see snippets of times with her brothers: growing up in a joyless household, scared to death of one brother and trying to protect the other. Monster, they whisper, and she feels frightened and sad all at once.

Gaara, half-transformed into the Shukaku beast, tossing her aside with impunity and she was so frightened she could only cower and cry.

Then the news of Kankurou's poisoning and Gaara's abduction; such fear and grief and anger filled her heart that should hardly move.]

[He freezes for a moment as the memories take hold, and maybe there are hints of the emotions being tossed at him on his face; fear and sadness are too natural in his eyes. He eventually blinks, glancing around to regain a sense of his surroundings as he comes out of it. It's not as confusing as the first time that happened, at least. But still...

His gaze lands on Temari and at this point it's calculatedly neutral, though he looks a little deeper than before.]