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Eula pressed her paws against her temples, closing her eyes as if she was trying to block out the whole scene, though she continued listening to Sideswipe in silence. She let Sideswipe talk himself out, then opened her eyes. She looked at them with a tired expression on her features.

"Look," she said flatly. "I didn't keep it a secret because I wanted to hide it from everyone. I kept it secret because I have nothing to tell. At this very moment in time, you probably know just as much as I do."

She looked at Donato momentarily, then back at Sideswipe. "Even though I might have told Donato before anyone else, he was actually there, too. There... as in... my dream. His dream. Our dreams. Whatever." Eula was clearly just exhausted by everything at this point in time.

"As for knowing what Martin said," Eula continued calmly. "You know all of that. He only told me the riddle. The rest was Ura. What Gem heard me telling Donato - and the cause for her reaction at dinner - was that Faith is supposedly going to make some kind of decision that will be dangerous for Redwall." Eula left out "death," "doom" and "destruction," which were closer to the words she was using earlier. "What decision? I don't know. When will it happen? I don't know. I don't know anything else. So can't you understand why I didn't want to tell you that? I told you the riddle, because I imagine it has something to do with the same situation... but the rest... it only makes everyone worry, it doesn't help you."

"And there," she said tiredly. "Do with that what you will. But don't any of you dare be bothering me with this right now. I have family over that I've been wanting to enjoy visiting the past couple of days, but all I could do was worry about all this. So none of you bring it up, all of you leave me alone until they're gone, all right?"

She appeared finished, but she turned to Jasmine almost as an afterthought. "If you ever want to chew me out, maybe have the courtesy to pull me to the side and address your problem then? I'm really quite done with being treated like a child."

Eula watched Jasmine stand and leave without any real comment. No comeback, no apology, no understanding between the two of them. Frustrated, she just watched the vixen walk off, forced to bite her tongue. Eula didn't want to fight, she didn't want to argue with Jasmine - but she expected some form of respect, and instead Jasmine chewed her out, then hardly acknowledged Eula's side of the story.

She felt no such relief after telling Jasmine and Sideswipe about the situation as she had felt telling her father. Instead, she was thoroughly irritated by Jasmine's complete lack of understanding. She would NEVER win herself into that intolerable fox's good graces.

She didn't mean to be rude to Sideswipe, but she hardly paid him a bit of attention, instead turning about and making her way out of the orchard, opposite Jasmine's direction for fear she would say something she'd later regret.

UNBELIEVABLE! I try to get her to understand and I get THIS. She is completely impossible! How utterly unsympathetic can you get?

::Sideswipe only nodded with a sympathetic smile, before he too turned away to his own attentions with a deep sigh...::

::But Donato would have seen if he'd at least tried to look... when Sideswipe turned around, there was no bat winged beast upon his back...::

::Instead, the little creature was leaping from tree to tree, one after the other in an attempt to keep in line with Eula, as she saw the hare keep moving, and each time tried to raise her voice to speak with the hare, but thus far, hadn't seemed to have gained enough confidence to show herself out... until finally, she leapt again, ready to speak:: Eula, I-

::And slipped::

::There was a collective series of yelps and cries, as she tangled herself in her overdone silks and dresses before tumbling to the ground and landing in a heap, just sitting there for a second in silence, and then, slowly, began to well up tears in her eyes as she bit her lip and tried to fight back crying out loud...::

::This REALLY didnt' look like a good image to walk in on...::

I...I'm okay... ::The bat sniffed, making an incredible attempt to not cry... although at anybeast passing dibbun life, it maybe wasn't much of an achievement... unless of course she really HAD hurt something, or it was just Gem...::

::She managed to uncurl her wings, slowly, both unfolding out... both fine, the rest of her still seemed to be all tangled in her clothes, but she managed to wipe at her face there::

...'s you worried about... ::She sniffed again, looking up slowly::

...you're not okay... annat's my fault... I wanted to say sorry an'... ow... ow... ow... ::She whimpered, peeling a leg out from her jumbled up ball of clothing::

::As genuine as Eula's concern, so too was Gem's apologetic nature, but how endearing it could be possibly was certainly questionable...::

((Jas, you take next post, so I know what to do.))

Eula watched as Gem tested all her limbs, then sighed again as the bat winced with the movement of her leg. Fantastic. She turned and looked at Donato, and nodded. "All right, go ahead," she mumbled, even though Jasmine was the last person on the face of the planet she really wanted to see at this moment in time.

She returned her attention to Gem, lifting an eyebrow. "I'm pretty sure no one is going to... ah... drool on it," she replied slowly. She knew the bat had been reaching for another word, but was not currently in the mood to decipher her speech.

Amputate? Eula almost offered, but withdrew herself from the guessing game. She turned a bit and watched Donato leave, attempting to tune out Gem’s sniffling. She turned reluctantly when the bat said her name.

Sighing, she set her paw on the ground behind herself for a moment, sitting down from her squatting position. “Gem, you know I’m angry with you, and I think you know you deserve it, too. But I’m not just going to hate you because you made a mistake.” Although that and a combination of her other annoying habits might do it.

“Look, you just need to start growing up and understanding what’s right and wrong. Listening to someone else’s conversation is wrong. There’s no way to accidentally hear a conversation... but if that’s going to be your excuse, you still should have come to me first and not blurted it out to everyone else.”

“If you see me speaking alone with someone, especially Donato, chances are we want to be alone. And we definitely don’t want anyone listening. You need to stop your eavesdropping habit, because it will make a lot of creatures very angry with you. There’s plenty enough time for you to talk to me or anyone during the day, but sometimes I want to talk to someone else when no one else is around, you understand? You can’t follow me around, and you can’t eavesdrop on my private conversations.”

She stopped and looked at Gem now, to see if the young bat was taking this all in.