The Preserve - Saturday Morning

[notagoose]

With the exception of going to class, Goose has spent most of the past week handwavily in his room. He had even stopped his training for that week as he had found it difficult to concentrate and that had kept going until his last class on Thursday because he decided he'd had enough and was going to spend the last couple of days back home on BETA Mountain.

He had gotten back earlier that morning and when he discovered that whatever had been the cause of the strange sensations he had been getting all week seemed to have gone, he was back to his usual training run through the preserve.

He was making his way back to the dorm when the cries of "DAD, DAD, DAD!" could be heard and he found a small child running towards him and wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Star?" he blinked, remembering her visit from last year.

[for the kids but can be open]

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[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

"DAD!" Star yelled again, not letting go of her father's waist, "I got to go through the portal again!"

In case that hadn't been obvious.

[notagoose]

"I see," Goose didn't really know what to say, even though she was his potential future daughter, he was still slightly awkward around her like he had been last year, "is your brother here to?"

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

"Uh Huh," Star nodded, finally letting go of her father's waist, "I raced him from the portal," in addition to her senses picking up her father's scent, they'd both had an idea of where to look for him, "I won," she said happily.

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

"Actually," they turned to see Max heading up through the preserve towards them, "you took off, I seem to remember asking you to wait,"

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

Star shrugged, "I still beat you," she was quite smug about that.

[notagoose]

Max was about to say something in response so Goose intervened, "Ok that's enough," Goose raised his voice slightly, it wasn't yelling but it was enough to make Star and Max fall silent or at least it was until Star stuck her tongue out at Max, to which he replied by rolling his eyes.

"Star, Max," he warned, he motioned them to follow him to the nearby picnic tables where they could talk.

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

Star took hold of her father's hand and silently followed him to nearby tables. Once he had sat down, he held out his arms for her to sit on his lap.

Max sat on the seat opposite them.

[notagoose]

"So," Goose began once they were seated, "how much time has been for you since you were last here?" he figured that would be a safe question. He wondered if it had been a bit over a year for them as it had been for him.

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

"About a year give or take," Max shrugged, "I'm 17 now and Star is 6," he paused, "I'm still at Fandom but I have early acceptance to the Ranger Academy when I finish next year,"

[tinytroopers.livejournal.com]

"I started school as well," Star piped up, "I'm home schooled with the other kids on BETA Mountain, Mrs. Foxx and my mum teach us,"

[notagoose]

"It's been about the same time for me as well," Goose told them.