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Lunari - Part 2 - The Gift

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I finally reached the hiding place, hauling myself onto the branch. "Alright, now can you tell me what it is?"

"Open it!" he said, thrusting the package towards me, bouncing up and down and grinning like an idiot. It was obvious that he was really exited about whatever was in the paper. I thought about waiting for a bit, just to see him go bananas, but I was really curious now, and started picking at the knots in the string he had tied around it.

After a few minutes of achieving nothing but hurting my fingers, I shot him a mock scowl, saying "Gee, you're good at tangling up string, Ru." He continued to make a big goofy grin, and finally I just used some of my power to cut the string. He had wrapped it pretty hastily, and the paper came right off in my hands, so fast I almost dropped what was inside.

"Oh, Ru..." It was a large green stone, a bit bigger than my hand, polished to a shine. It partly transparent, was glowing faintly with a pulsing green light. "It's beautiful... where did you get it?"

"Yanno how sometimes explorers go to planets and find stuff, and then come back here and sell it? Well I was wandering around, wondering what to get you, and I saw that. I asked about it, and the guy selling it said it was from that planet nearby, Gar-something-"

"Gargantia?"

"Yeah, that. He said it was a Power Stone, and that the people down there use it to store spare magic. Did you know that they can use magic, kinda like us?"

"Yes." I had been there, on my mother's insistence, when our ship had come in range of the planet, and the scouts had given her information about it.

"Oh. I thought I was gonna surprise you with that... Anyway, I asked him why it was glowing, and he said that there was some magic in it! How cool is that?!"

"Ok that's pretty neat!" I smiled at him, and looked at the stone. "What kind of magic, do you think?"

"The seller didn't know."

Another though occured to me. "Kayru, how much did this cost?"

He looked sheepish, and his ears began to twitch. "Umm... all my money?"

"Kayru!"

"Yeah, I know, I was supposed to save it, and my mom's probably gonna skin my tails or somehting- " his mother, Ariru, was the swordplay instructor- "But it was the only cool thing there! And you like it, right?"

"Well, of course, but-"

I was going to scold him a little more- I felt kinda bad, knowing that he had blown all his money on me, and how much trouble he'd be in- but then the loudest crash I had ever heard shook the entire tree...
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I love doing detailed pictures like this, because it gives me a lot of chances to experiment and learn. The problem is that my computer does not. I save it and it does the "generating full resolution composite/writing photoshop format" bit and makes horrible noises; I start sorta cheering for it, "You can do it, computer! Hang in there! Please don't explode!"
I need more RAM. Or CPUs. Or whatever it is that makes computers go faster (I learned it at school at one point, but now I've forgotten what it is).

I'm not sure how to draw the next scene. Maybe you caught on to this already, but some very bad things are about to happen...

If you have any questions, ask away!

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