Nathan giggles from the great big kiss and returns it with showers of magical valentine bubbles directed at Igatho.  "I love you too, Igatho."

The meaning of the song stuns him, and he's left with a sinking feeling in his stomach to hear a toddler mention drinking blood in the name of a false god.  But his mood brightens when she goes after the fake halo and the witch shrieks!

"That it is!" Nathan laughs, following after the tot.

Igatho plays with Nathan and Jamie. Pan chats with Darcy and Tark. Henry patiently waits for the meeting while letting Justin vent to him about whatever... though he also tries to get Justin to drink as much alcohol with him as possible.

Fast forward occurring!

While silly and/or fun times are had by the characters for the most part, Pan and her company finish patrolling Parnast and soon after, the meeting begins. Everyone who happens to be present is invited to take part in the meeting (Even Karl Kinderforge if he is there, but if he is, Pan will pull him aside for a stern talking to before the meeting). Pan opens the meeting by giving Justin a run-down of the current progress of the town and what still yet needs to be done.

Igatho sits in on the meeting out of curiosity and listens. That and since Justin is at the meeting, Igatho thinks she should be too.

Pan adds, "Also, it has come to my attention that someone we know is missing. A rabbit by the name of Meiou. I do not know how urgent this is yet, but I take missing persons very seriously. So the moment I am told this has become an urgent matter, I will personally form a team specialized in tracking and set out to find him." She gives Justin an expecting look, as if waiting to see what he wants to say. "And on that note, I am done filling you in, Justin."

Igatho raises her hand and, when called on, says, "Meiou is a bunny!" and seems very happy to have shared this revelation with the crowd.

In reply to Pan Flute (msg # 68):

OOC:  There's going to be a cut scene where Jamie turns Sarah back into Meiou; it'll probably be a new thread.  (If Meiou appears, he'll be under some orders from, "A Private Friend.")

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There were a couple chuckles at Igatho when she made her comment.  "I think we all know that already, kiddo." one of them said.

"Go easy on Igatho, folks," Justin said as he drank some beer from his tankard.  "She's going easy on us, isn't she?"

He glances over to where the Frost Giant is setting, outside on the patio since she can't fit through the door.  She's sitting on a log placed earlier.  Most of the villagers are checking her out, some cautiously, others were actually coming up to her.

Justin returned to the page in his ever present notebook.  "Meiou's known for being away for long stretches of time," Justin said, "but if people are worried, I'll let them track around to find the little buggar.

In other news, we might need to find a barn that we ain't using anymore and convert it for a place for Igatho to hang out in.  I've already got help with her with the Council folks at Saint Omer.  Granted, having a kiddie Frost Giant can be strange to us Small Folk, but having been with Igatho here, I'm sure she doesn't mean any harm."

Someone in the back then blurted, "Just don't be under her foot!"

That produced some laughs.

Justin just nodded.  After a few moments for everyone to calm town, he said, "Anyone has anyone to comment over this?"

Almost as if on cue from all this talk about him a young girl in a pink dress and bow with long blonde hair blinked and reached up peeling her face back and off with a loud snap to reveal the bunny " Worried about me? What did someone loose their valuables again and blame me?  I keep telling check the squirrels mimic! "

This elected a glare from Sassy as she was serving refreshments to everyone in attendance at the meeting. Free of charge ofcourse it was a special event  after all. " Rabbit if you accuse me again I'll bloody well hire some mage to make one of those rubber things of yours your new face!"

  "I'm good for helping Igatho get a proper roof over her head sooner rather than later."

  Tark blinks, considering Meiou's taste in disguises is a little more Bugs Bunny than expected.  "Well, when someone has not been seen or heard from in a while.  People who are not apathetic, or in on their disappearance, like to have more than 'Eh, I'm sure he's fine!' to go on."

  At least, he thinks so?  Tark has not had very consistent luck with how empathetic co-workers or fellow citizens are to be honest, so maybe he's got unrealistic expectations of 'gives a **** about other people' to compensate?

  Either way, he thanks Sassy for the drinks and avoids commenting on her outburst.

Nathan thought Igatho was being helpful.  After all, he'd never met the person before, so the beginnings of a description was more than he was getting from anyone else in the know.  He'd used a little magic to sneak himself a treat and offers to share it with her as a thank-you.

And then, Mission Impossible mask removal!

"Wait...  That's Meiou?  But Pan said, 'he.'  Is Meiou a 'he' or a 'she?'"

To Igatho he comments, "I'll teach you a fun foot game after the meeting.  We may need Pan's help, though."

Igatho squeals happily and claps at the mention of builing something for her.

Whenever people do approach Igatho with curiosity, she usually gives them a smile and, if able to get away with it, a pat on the head with a happy-baby giggle.

Pan looks over to Meiou and with a tone that suggests clarity, sternness and tender concern, says, "....you heard what I said, Meiou. I take missing persons seriously. For all anyone knew, you could be captured, hurt, or dying somewhere. I care about you, OK? And I am not alone on that. So, thank you for letting us know you are alright."

Henry raises his hand, looking in Justin's direction. "I do have a comment for the cold kid: I have heard frost giants are extremely violent by nature and while this kid has shown surprising restraint for her race's reputation, she also has shown an absolute *need* for it. What assurances does this town have she is not a walking safety hazard?"

"Oh God, my head," was all Justin can say when he sees Meiou appear, antics and all.  "And I have to tell you that someone's worried about a certain young daughter who is in Saint Omer now learning how to be a bard.  Get a new outfit, rabbit."

There was a bunch of laughs at Meiou's expense, but then the conversation segued to the [over] 800 pound [gorilla] frost giant in the room.

"I've talked with Igatho about staying to the outskirts of town so that she won't crash into anyone.  Even at her age, she's got enough sense not to go into city squares like the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop."  He glances over to Igatho.  "Her main house is in the mountains to the south, where we converted a former ogre cave into something more fitting for a giant.  Add to that some Council members have been tutoring her, and you can see the initial steps I've been taking.  I might suggest a couple."  He lifts one of his hand to give a 'meeeh' expression. "...training dummies for Igatho here to release some aggression on? She's known for dragging her latest riff-raff victim around like a rag doll.  I spent the last couple days stitching up an example, I don't know if Igatho has seen it yet."

Almost as an illustration, Igatho saw something flopped against the side of the church; a burlap rag doll of a bandit slumped inert against the stone wall.  Inside the stitched sacks a bunch of wood chips (lacquered to resist splinters) and repurposed sacks that had too many holes in them, all around a 'skeleton' of tree limbs).

The rabbit huffed " I dont see the problem. Kid gets to learn about music like she wanted and I get to have fun. Its a win/win situation here."  when the conversation shifted to igatho he spoke up again " Kids fine. I'm like everyone's punching bag and she leaves me alone. I'm sure Justin's toy will be keep her happy. He then looks back to Pan rubbing the back of his head. Why did she remind him of a mother or sister looking out for him.  " Yeah well I'm sorry but I do have other contracts I have to go tend to once awhile. Letting everyone know where I am is usually not my thing to do."


Sassy smiled to Tark before continuing to make her rounds with refreshments making sure everyone had something to drink wether alcoholic or virgin.

  Say what you will about the many Work-In-Progress parts of this town.  The drinks are great.

  "So, sounds like one of the hard parts will be finding stuffing that will hold up to Igatho, but not hurt her knuckles."  We filled your doll with sling stones!...Wait.

Nathan giggles at Justin's reaction to Meiou's appearance, and the silly excuses Meiou offers.  Apparently clarifying what gender he/she is isn't high on his/her priority list.  Or Pan's.  Or anyone else in the know.  If anyone is in the know.

"SheHe it is!  TeeHee!"

He flutters up to sit on Igatho's shoulders and give her head a hug from behind, rubbing his cheek on her hair.

"Who could consider such a sweet girl as this a hazard?" he asks before answering himself, "Badguys!  That's who!  So if you're a good little boy, you've nothing to fear from the good not-so-little girl.  But if you've been a BAD boy.  Well..."

He sings a song about bad boys.

(( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6xexu_wJY ))

And speaking of being a bad boy, he tries to sneak one of the grown-up drinks.

Igatho squeals happily from the angel hugs and reaches up to pet Nathan.

Pan walks over to Meiou and sits next to him, just to be there for him if he wanted anything, privately or otherwise.

Igatho crawls inside the bar, now more of a steed for Nathan, the doorway just barely wide enough for Igatho's shoulders and hips as she happily crawls towards Justin, barking like a dog. "Arf! Arf!" and crawls quickly over towards Justin with the intent of tackling him and licking his face! In her excitement, she knocks over a chair or two.

Henry looks annoyed with the sight, but most of the people in the place are laughing. Even if some are laughing nervously, worried she might break something... or someone.
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Justin, of course, couldn't stop laughing, being pounced on by Igatho who's pretending to be a puppy.  A puppy the size of two fully grown Saint Benards, but chaos aside, only a couple tipped over chair and him landing into the Frost Giant proves that no harm has been done.

"Hey Hey Hey!" came a voice that was distinctfully dwarven.  "Can't you read, Sassy?  No selling alcahol to minors!"  Wherever Karl's been, he's now back.  And he's laughing at the sight as well, seeing more than a dwarven child (or was it himself as a child) do just that.

The rabbit rolled his eyes at all the commotion and looked abit uncomfortable as Pan came over. He decided to hide rather than face her and pulled the mask back on slipping back into the cheery persona of the girl who fusses with her hair. Pan was nice and all just something about her made him feel different. Not love different but different. Like he was trying to remember something but he couldnt find it.


Sassy rotated her tray ever so slightly so that nathan took a mug of cider instead of ale before glaring over at the dwarf as she walked to him and yanked the mug out of his hands "Well guess that means your staying sober than Karl. " after all the stereotyping went most dwarves were miners/fighters

  Oh, well Tark isn't a Miner anymore so he should be okay for having taken those drinks-wait...  Damn you, wordplays.

  So instead he will joke about other semantics.  "Well Nathan didn't pay for it, so it's not really selling." Tark comments, as he rights the fallen furniture.

Simultaneously humming a tune, drinking cider, and riding on the back of a frost giant who's busy play-pretending to be a wolf and tackling a man is something most would find impossible to do.  But Nathan succeeds!  If with a little spillage.  Which only serves to make him giggle.

"Chilled cider!  Yum!"

He grins impishly to the grownups and declares, "I'm not a miner!  I'm an A major!"

He sings the note.

Being an empath, Pan feels Meiou's feelings and decides maybe it is time she talk to Karl instead. She gently puts a hand on Meiou's shoulder and says, "If you ever need an ear, I will listen." is all she says before standing and heading over to Karl.

Once within reach of Karl, Pan says in a quieted tone, "Excuse me, Karl, may I have a minute of your time?"

Meanwhile, Harry is unamused, but can't really comment about the frost kid since it seems she is winning the hearts of the town. So for now, he keeps quiet.

Igatho goes from licking to kissing all over Justin's face. Then feels cider spill on her and looks over at it curious. The cider freezes solid before it can drip to the ground. During that time, Nathan felt Igatho's skin temperature drop drastically for a brief moment before returning to her normal "just chilly" levels. Igatho sits on her feet, then sits up, smiling up at Nathan and giggling along with the crowd's laughter. She turns her attention to Sassy and says, "If Karl can't drink it, I will!" making grabby-hands motions in Sassy's direction.

"Best give her something non-alcoholic," Justin told Sassy, "Oh, and Igatho, please drink it outside, you know how crowded you get in little folk houses."

Darcy found her way in, if for nothing else than to ensure that Igatho can get out without wrecking the place.

Meanwhile, Karl just leans over to Pan.  "Sure thing, ma'dam.  I hope you no do anything foolish like what Justin did."

"Ofcourse Justin let just get something more appropriate for her." She went off somewhere and returned moments later carrying a giant sized mug with a sippy spout something justin had her get when she was doing business. "One mug of cider for the frost giant baby." she said somehow lifting it herself as she brought it to igatho.

Meiou didn't mean to be cold to pan its just there were things he didnt know about himself that he was scared of and those feelings she caused him to feel just trigged his usual clam up. Pipkin usually had his own ways of triggering the bunny out of it.Chances were with paying his debt that Jamie had learned those tricks too.

  Tark gets the impression that not only will Pan avoid kicking Karl, but she wouldn't hurt her foot in the process if she decided to anyways.

  "I'm still needing to adjust to the fact it's safer to let a baby smash bandits than it is to let them drink whatever they want.  Even if it makes sense in the life is crazy sort of way."

  He offers Justin a towel, at least.

Nathan had been thinking of lapping up the frozen cider like a popsicle to make the baby giggle, but now he's worried his tongue would get stuck to her like it would to metal in midwinter.

"You sure got chilly there, Igatho."

When Igatho is served cider he bursts into song.

♫ "She drinks a lager drink!
She drinks a cider drink!
She sings the songs that remind her of the good times!" ♩

He grins at Tark and sings the chorus.

♫ "She gets knocked down
But she gets up again!
You're never gonna keep her down!" ♪

Igatho takes the drink. "Thank you, Sassy!" She bobs to Nathan's singing as usual and pats her leg to the rhythm, once again showing she can keep rhythm really well... but when Justin makes his suggestion, Igatho says, "O-tay, Daddy!" and crawls for the outside with her new drink.

Pan raises an eyebrow at Karl. She is a doctor who has trained since infancy on how to fight, what causes pain, and what relieves pain. However, she is also far from one to brag of her prowess. Which includes social kung-fu. "Karl. I do not desire to inflict pain on friends. The question is why do you?" She asks with a tone that communicates she is not angry... but sad.

Justin just looks over to the crowd with a sheepish grin, testing his ankle as Karl's arrival reminded him of it, and helped Darcy guide the frost giant child out.  Fortunately, the tavern is made of sterner stuff, as only a couple chairs got tipped over, which was slipped back into place.  "Most people know how kids act at times.  Uber cute, even when they're big 'uns." That produced some more chuckles as the meeting continues.

"I didn't hurt him," Karl said.  "He hurt himself trying to drop kick a dwarf. Big difference.  Besides, all I wanted is glance at his little black book and help Karl find girlfriend, the casanova!."  Those last two words were louder and aimed at a certain burgomaster inside the tavern.

"I am not a casanova!" Justin spat back while Karl grabbed the nearest tankard of mead and started to quaff it.

sassy smiles and heads back to get a fresh tray of drinks to replace anyones finished drink with .

The girl hopped up followed after justin having nothing else on her agenda. She'd rob someone but yknow everyone would know it was her so what was the fun in it.

  "It's okay Justin, I believe you"... Okay, telling your boss you believe he's not good at picking up dates may not be the kind of encouragement that is helpful, Tark.

  He does wonder why Nathan thinks he's worth singing over, but at least the short angel is good at it.,