Cerillium wrote:Giovenith wrote:Giovenith tilted her head and looked up at the newly-appeared Marcus, having not spotted him before. It took a while for her to actually remember who he was, having only met him once as a child, and then a second time as this age back on Gilese. The lightbulb eventually pinged however, lighting up a sincere smile on her face.
"Of course," she said pleasantly, reaching over, picking up the yoyo, and wrapping up the string. "Yoyo's are tricky, but lots of fun." She carefully stood up from her crouching position to hand it over to him. "You're, you're, um, Marcus, right? Mister Ceril's son! I remember you were little, and then not little on Gilese."
"Uh huh," a shy smile brightened Marcus' face. He accepted the yoyo and slipped the string's looped tail over his finger. "We left before the last Drone invasion. Went to the future. My dad wouldn't let me stay here alone so I spent a few years there before coming back here."
The yoyo descended and swung lazily near his knee. He chuckled and rewound the string. "You're Giovenith, right? I remember seeing you at the ball."
His hand flicked and the yoyo complied with his request, gracefully rolling outward before returning to his waiting palm. He became absorbed in the effort for a few moments and then tried to 'walk the dog' - very unsuccessfully.
"Ah well. I used to know trick moves but I've forgotten them. Know any?" He handed the toy back to her.
"Hmmm," Giovenith carefully took the yoyo, looped the loop around her finger, and let it run up and down a few times before carefully whizzing it in the air above her, then snapping it back into her palm. "That a few times, but just so, nothing too super fancy."
Giovenith turned her head side to side to exchange bright smiles with Yuna and Myra, making sure they were in on the fun of the yoyo as well, but also to shrug in sheepish apology for her own less-than-fantastic display. There were lots of other things she could do, but this was not one of them.
"I've got tons of yoyos and other toys though, so you can keep this if you'd like," she said mellowly, untying the toy from her hand and offering it again to Marcus. "By the way, these are my friends, Yuna..." She gestured to Yuna. "... and Myra!" Then to Myra. "Torii is here at the bonfire too, but she's busy right now, very important things to do, I imagine. I'm sure you know a lot about that." Giovenith tended to assume that people who weren't around often usually had more productive things to be doing.