Submission (#6252) Approved

Elnin: https://worldofeyre.com/character/ELN2936
Region: Ealei

Other Elnin:
https://worldofeyre.com/character/MYO-ELN246
https://worldofeyre.com/character/ELN2884

Word count: 687

Payout:
6EC +1EC ( pomu ) = 7EC

King would have never admitted it out loud, but the trees in Ealei were a little intimidating.

The large kittom stepped off the airship onto the wooden dock and looked around. With the miasma coming in, he had decided to spend the next several months outside his home of Ahza. He wasn’t going to gain experience by staying in one place, and he had decided several days ago that he was now old enough to start roaming around and taking in the world of eyre. It wasn’t like he was going to be completely alone- his pomu named Calla, a black fluffy pomu that had wings and could fly like King,  would be joining him.

Even before the airship had landed, King saw the large trees of Ealei from a distance. Ahza was a land of sand and not much else, so seeing so much water and plant life in one area was a little jarring. King did his best to keep up his calm and collected appearance as he continued to make his way across the docks, other Elnin keeping a wide berth. Once King reached a part of the docks where there weren’t many elnin, the dire kittom took to the air and soared up towards the top of the trees with his pomu flittering behind him.

Once he was in the air, King saw the famous tree cities of Ealei. The docks below led to wooden staircases which twisted up to towns built on the branches and inside trees, all of them connected by bridges made of wood and rope. As King looked around, something caught his eye. On one of the bridges was a kittom and an elnin. The elnin had a basket of manaberries in his arms and was talking and smiling. The kittom also had a basket of manaberries and was following behind, listening and nodding. The kittom’s basket had been filled way too much, and many of the manaberries were at risk of toppling off the top and falling out of the basket. 

Just as some of the manaberries rolled off the top and began to fall, King flew over and caught the manaberries in his paws. Calla managed to catch a manaberry as well. With a grin the large kitten landed on the bridge in front of the other two, his pomu landing on his head. “Here you go! You almost lost these!” He and the pomu handed back the rogue manaberries.

A short conversation later, King learned that the kitten’s name was Nova and the elnin’s name was Marco. They two had decided to stay in Ealei for the miasma season, and that they were helping with the manaberry harvest. The two were renting a room at one of the inns, which was something King hadn’t planned out in advance. Where were he and Calla going to stay for the next few months? As if reading his mind, Marco smiled brightly and suggested that King could stay with the two of them- if he was willing to help out like they were. A good start would be to help with the manaberries. King gave an enthusiastic nod before he and Calla took off into the sky again.

For the next few hours they worked together to harvest the nearby manaberries. Or rather - the two kittoms and pomu helped while Marco decided to take it easy and supervise the young ones. King and Calla would pick the manaberries from the high branches while Nova picked from the lower branches before they placed the berries into baskets. Before long, the branches were bare and the baskets were full. 

The three elnin carried the baskets across the bridges and down the staircases to where others were bringing their harvest hauls. While King was a little bummed out that he wouldn’t be able to keep everything he helped pick, they were able to take a basket of goodies back to their inn room. Marco even offered to teach him and Nova how to make some manaberry jam.

All in all, this was a pretty good first day of his vacation in Ealei.