Thoughts of the Past

-Road outside abbey-

Leon is walking along the dirt road, after an herb hunt and ajusts his pack on his shoulder sighing some.

Wildfire watches the mouse as he walks up the road and steps out of the woods and onto the road, "So why is a mouse walking alone and why is he sighing, good way to alert trouble to yourself I say." She then awaits an answer.

Leon slows and looks at the ferret, "I just have a lot on my mind, things of the past coming back to haunt me, even had a bad dream on it last night so decided to go hunting for herbs and some mint leaves for a friend who likes mint tea...and why am I speaking to you on my problems?"

Wildfire shrugs, "I have no clue, no one else that will listen, or is it cause I am vermin and woodies tend to usually stay away from us"

Leon says, "I tend to try and gain trust if I think one is worthy of trust, and it’s not just vermin who can be dishonest, woodlanders can too"

Wildfire seems very curious of this "Oh..Do tell, how can the ever goodie god woodlander be dishonest in anything...same can go for my kind too, not all of us are dishonest. My name is Wildfire, Inn keeper of Ferravale and right now on vacation, trust me it was needed." She smirks "Your turn..mouse"

Leon frowns, "Its Leon, not mouse and. My sister's mate, he was dishonest and lied, more than once. He lied to me and to her and who knows who else, he recently left and, may sound mean but, hope he never returns."

Wildfire shrugs, "Tell her to find someone better."

Leon frowns as he sits on a tree stump, "She died, of an illness. One she could of gotten over if he had given her the herbs, he at first made me believe it was my fault for not returning soon enough on a trip to get a herb that was two days from my village, due to a fire in the woods, some herbs we used were gone and we had to go deeper into the woods to find them, I had sprang my ankle and got back a day and a half later than should of, and she had died that morning, I was back in afternoon. I was heartbroken and left, also he had said her daughter, my niece, was taken by vermin, by some random fox."

Wildfire asks, "Let me guess, you hate all foxes now, am I right?"

Leon shakes his head, "Not all, well not now. At first I hated all foxes and wishes them dead, I refused to help one if it was injured, and I traveled by myself a good while till can to Redwall and been there ever since."

Wildfire chuckles, "Ya know their champion is a fox, right? How that is possible no clue what so ever"

Leon answers "I know, and at first I hated him and didn’t trust him but slowly I started to trust and started to learn not all foxes or species were bad, it’s what you do and your heart that makes you what you are. Not which species you are."

Wildfire nods "I see, well so you’re a healer at the abbey, am I right? You live there or extended stay?"

Leon says, "I live there, soon to be a brother in 2-3 weeks or less, and I am a healer there and a very skilled one, I have learned a lot there, in Ferravale, on travels before that and from my mother, she was a healer and my father knew some but he was more a fighter, which I never was into much, did learn to use a dagger some, but not enough to truly be in too long of a fight, mainly to defend myself from common robbers and such."

Wildfire listens, "So you have no family then...none at all?"

Leon smiles some "I have my niece, she is alive and I will care for her, and I have Dorarose and my friends, they are family now."

Wildfire asks, "So ever going back to that village?"

Leon shakes his head, "Don’t think so, still remember that last day was there, I limped into the house due to my ankle and my sister Renee was not there, or my niece or Boris...my sister's mate, Boris stomps in and starts to attack me, saying how Renee is dead and it was all my fault she died and I believed him at the time, and how was my fault my niece was gone, I left after that. But find out recently from Boris himself, who left my nice at Redwall...Abandon her, found out he never gave her the first doze of herbs, and that he told her I died in some accident by this waterfall, and he lied to her on her daughter, she didn’t want to fight her illness then and gave up, she died...my niece was alive and with a relative that think died of old age and ended up back with Boris who used the first chance he had to get rid of her when he passed the abbey, it could of been worse, he could of killed her and I am glad he did not kill her.”

Wildfire has been listening to all this and finally nods, "Probably yaps a lot doesn’t she"

Leon shakes his head sadly, "She doesn't talk, she can hear but she doesn't talk, she use to say one or two words when she was younger and now....seems she can't or just won't for whatever reason"

Wildfire nods, "Yeah, well one never knows, if excuse me I must be on my way...good day"

-Soon inside the abbey by the pond-

Leon is by the pond; he has his lyre and moves his fingers along the strings.

Corinne wanders in slowly, upon seeing Leon she looks back and forth and then rushes over to him since he is by himself.

Leon hums and then smiles as he sees Corinne, "Hey Corinne, you ok, want to stay with me for a little while?"

Corinne nods and smiles at this idea, she lays down close to Leon an yawns, seems she got up too early or didn’t sleep well last night.

Leon smiles and starts to sing as he plays the Lyre "Close your eyes, little one. Come paint some dreams on a pillow. I will be here, to keep..Away away harm little one, Dreams come as a river will flow. So sleep now and dream, yes have sweet...dreams.."

Corinne listens to the singing and the music and smiles; she curls up beside him and starts to fall asleep for a nap.