Tristian easily hopped off he smirked at Arra before slowly lifting him of carefully putting him down. "Easy though you might have sea legs now…" He said as looked at him.

Arra stumbled a bit, but steadied himself before he fell. He quickly scuttled away from the horses, not wanting to be near them any longer than he had to be.

Moonlight whinned as she took off knowing exactly where she had to go.

Tristian smirked looking at Arra, "Come on boy....let's take you to Hideaway..." He said smaking his head gently as he began to walk.

"Ow..." Arra rubbed his head, mournfully, and then followed him. He didn't know where he had to go, so he kept Tristian in sight.

((I'll be back in a bit--have to eat.))

((kay!))

Tristian chuckled smugly as he heard him, "Are you always so sensitive to touch?" He asked a dark look in his eyes.

"I don't like getting hit..." Arra mumbled, quietly. He seemed so puzzled as to why he'd asked that...

"I meant any touch..." He said rolling his eye as he looked at Arra.

"Um...I don't know...maybe?" Still, Arra seemed completely nonplussed. What was he getting at?

"hmmm well we'll see soon..." He smirked patting Arra's head gently as he lead him down a hidden hill were behind it was an old abandoned town, "Welcome to Hidaway...impossible to find unless you know where to look..." He smirked.

"Okay..." Arra looked around, quite puzzled. "It looks lonely..." His little-kid instincts made him very blunt about certain things...

"Well of course...all of us were gone..." He said looking at him, "Come on...I'll show you the rooms...you'll be staying in mine till ....well till I get time to clear a room for you..."

"Oh...okay." Arra didn't seem to find much wrong with staying in the same room as Tristian. Once again, his childish side was showing. "I don't mind that."

"I didn't think you would..." He said smirking keeping the 'yet' to himself happily as he led Arra into a old in taking him back to a Master Suite, "Here we are..." He said opening the door, "Welcome..."

He stepped in flicking on the lights. The room was more on the large side as well as the bed which was King sized there were many pieces of art hung up around the room. He smiled looking around. His eyes pausing on the portait picture of a young boy. He frowned a bit, "I thought that I left that covered..." He said picking up a fallen sheet and draping it gently over the picture.

Arra was too busy studying the room to take much notice to the portrait. He had never had his own room back at the farmhouse, as he'd told Tristian...he'd been forced to sleep in the shed. And it hadn't been comfortable.

"Well..." Tristian said said turning to him, "What do you think?" He smiled proud of his room.

"I like it." Arra stretched his arms out. "I only got to sleep in the shed at home..." He spoke of it like it wasn't a strange thing at all.

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((Hey, I'll be right back--I'm at a friend's and I have to head on home.))

"Good I'm glad...you'll be in here for a while..." He smirked, "I want you to be comfortable...have you ever slept in a bed before?" He asked looking at him.

((kay! No problem..I was just going to eat lunch))

Araqiel's brow furrowed. "...No...I slept on the floor in the shed." He looked up, puzzled. "Do you expect me to sleep on the floor here, too?"

"No you dummy your sleeping in my bed..." He rolled his eye chuckling, "On the floor...wouldn't be comfortable...."

"Oh!" Arra tilted his head. "Are you sure you don't mind? If I take up too much space, I'll gladly sleep on the floor..."

"I wouldn't have you sleeping anywhere but with me..." He said looking at him intently, "Unless you rather sleep with someone else...." He said frowning a bit.

"...I don't think I'd rather sleep with someone else..." It was obvious that Arra held some degree of trust for Tristian, since he had been the least threatening or violent to him so far. He tightened his grip on his bunny.

"Good let's keep it that way then..." He said looking at he boy smirking, "Do you like all stuffed animals?" He asked softly.

Arra thought about that for a moment. "...Well, I love Credence...but I like all stuffed animals, yes." He nodded, confident about that answer.

"Follow me then but remain silent about this...It's a secret...just for us..." He said smiling at Arra as he opened a hidden door that led to a secret room that once the lights were up revealed many stuffed toys and animals.