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Lyssan nods and morphs back into her kitsune form, picking him up and cuddling him close. "But no more playing with the matches, ok? You can get hurt really bad, Kero, and tht would make me very sad." Then she looks around with a tiny frown. "But where is your Daddy? I could have sworn I saw you leave with him."

Lyssan sighs and carries him out the door of her office. "Now why in the world would you run away from him?" she asks with a tired laugh.

"That's what I want to know," says a harried Amestru from where he is leaning against a wall a short distance down the hall. "I never even got to tell him what I wanted him to do. One minute I'm talking to his face and the next... thin air..."

Amestru sighs, while Lyssan gives them both a strange look.

"Kero, I said I would write the letter... not you... oh, yeah, you had bolted by then, hadn't ye. Dang it... had ye stuck around, something tells me, we wouldn't be out here standing in this hall, huh? What's the matter with your paws away?" Moaning he looks at Lyssan. "Don't tell me...."

She nods and kisses Kero on the head. "The little dickens returned to the scene of the crime, it seems."

Amestru examines his paws and frowns, then conjures a small ice pack for Kero to hold in his paws until they get them doctored. "Won't heal them but it should help make them feel a little better, kiddo. So you are taking him to Enia, huh? Might be best... keep him away from the kitchen... Champhy is on the war path."

Lyssan gives him a puzzled look while Kero cowers even more into her arms,

"Not sure what he did there but as one helper put it... it all went boom..."

(and so it began... and life in the realm was never quite the same again.... rofl )

Amestru gives him a funny look. "Never said you did, kiddo, only that I had no idea what you went in there for. As for what happened... Champhy knows what happened. And it wasn't something you did, she saw you duck through the kitchen race to the other side and out again. Said she's never seen you move so fast before... or seen you this small. Ignore her, sometimes she has trouble remembering what time frame she's in... No the boom came just as you were leaving and dropped a visitor right into the middle of the only fireplace which wasn't lit in the kitchen... fortuately for him it was being cleaned at the time... unfortuantely for Champhy... for there is now ash all over the place and she had to restart dinner... and if there is one thing that horse can't stand is throwing away food."

Lyssan knows how afraid he is and is willing to cuddle and comfort him, but as she does, she reminds him that red flowers have a mind of their own and that only grown ups should handle them.

"Those red flowers... we call that fire... it keeps us warm and cooks our food... lights our nights and scares away the bad guys... but even we grown ups can get burned really bad if we are not careful with how we handle it. Had you not already burned all the paper around my desk earlier, you could have easily started another big one just like before... and Kero... we will teach you about fire... ok? Just not right away..."

She kisses him gently on the forehead and then leads the way to the nursery, telling him to keep the ice on his paws so the burns don't get worse.

Lyssan hugs him close and sighs. "Would that I could, but burns are nothing to play with and I"m not a healer, Kero. I can doctor them and then sing you to sleep, but the best I can do is dull the pain, I'm afraid. Now if Tam were here he could sing it away..."

Enia overhears the conversation and come running with the first aid kit. "This cream should help... not completely but Champhy says her staff swears by it and if anyone gets burned alot around here, it some of them. A few are so careless... How did you get burned like this anyway?"

She carefully applies the salve to the burns then wraps them in guaze. It still hurts, but like both Lyssan and the nurse said, it's not nearly as bad as it was. Still Kero doesn't want to be picking up anything, any time soon.

Kyara flies over crooning in worry. "Wuff hawpan to you?" she demands to know, landing on his shoulder, giving him a comforting nuzzle.