I'm your little butterfly

[papillonmagique]

Who: Zoe Gallais and OPEN
Where: Capricorn District
Summary: Zoe has a quest that she needs to complete, but she's not that great at it.
Warnings: Possible hitting with nets will occur.

[The quest Zoe had been given by the Velvet Room involved catching a blue butterfly. So today Zoe was out in the Capricorn District trying to find said blue butterfly. Unfortunately, she doesn't have much experience with bug catching and tends to mostly been flailing around with the net she had be given.

So she apologizes in advance if she hits or nearly hits anyone with the net; she just really wants to catch the blue butterfly and nothing will stop her, even if that means hitting someone by accident. But she will also gladly welcome any help, since she does has very little idea about what she is doing.]

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[frequent_flyer]

[He was bent over, retrieving a baseball when she crashed into him, sending him off balance and landing rather spectacularly on his face, sending baseballs rolling in all directions.]

Ow! Wha- [He put his hands to the ground, getting his face out of the dirt and looking over his shoulder, ready to lay into whoever had pushed him over...]

[Only to see that a cute girl had fallen over on top of him.]

[Oh.]

[The irritation was fleeting, doing a complete 180 and flashing her a grin.] Are you alright? I think I cushioned your fall...

[papillonmagique]

[Zoe watches the butterfly flutter away for a moment, before realizing that she has crashed into someone and that he's... grinning at her?

She stares at him for a second, before quickly getting up onto her feet.]

I am so sorry! I am fine, but are you all right? [And just going to offer a hand to help him up.]

[frequent_flyer]

[He takes her hand as she offers it, trying not to tug too harshly on her as he lets her help him to his feet. It only takes a moment to dust himself off, although the dirt still stood out pretty strongly against the pale blue of his t-shirt.]

I'm fine! Don't worry~ [He announced, waving a hand at her dismissively. Never mind that he'd landed funny on his arm and it was sore, but she didn't need to know that.]

So ah... did you trip? [Surely there must have been a reason he ended up on the ground, right?]

[papillonmagique]

[He'll find that she is far stronger than how she appears, since she easily pulls him to his feet. And since he looks and says that he's okay, besides the dirt on his shirt, Zoe relaxes a bit, motioning to the net in her hand.]

No, it's more like I was focused on something else and thus I... Didn't notice that you were there. [Now she looks sheepish.]

I should have paid more attention, so I apologize for that.

[frequent_flyer]

[She is stronger than she looks... he has to wonder if she's some kind of athlete.]

Don't worry about it! I've dealt with worse... [He cleared his throat to chase that line of thought away, grinning brightly.] What were you focusing on?

[papillonmagique]

[He would be sort of correct in that assumption. And Zoe will just point to the butterfly fluttering some distance away.]

I was given the task to catch that blue butterfly. However I am very... Inexperienced when it comes to bug catching.

[frequent_flyer]

[He looks where she's pointing, seeing the blue butterfly in question fluttering some distance away. He hadn't tried bug-catching since he was a kid, but he'd played enough video games to have a half-baked idea.]

Maybe running and swinging at it is your problem... [Especially if she's doing it in a hazardous enough fashion to crash into people.] Have you tried baiting it and sneaking up on it?

[papillonmagique]

[Zoe is sadly not the kind of person to be sneaky, so she usually tends to default to 'charge and hope for the best'.]

Not yet... Maybe I should wait and see if it lands on a patch of flowers first.

[frequent_flyer]

Ahh, I played a game once where you had to crouch down and sneak close to the ground, then pounce like a cat or something. Try that!

[Hinata... video game mechanics are not indicative of real life.]

[papillonmagique]

[Zoe blinks at him before chuckling quietly, twisting her net in her hands slightly.]

Maybe I'll switch 'pounce like a cat' with 'strike out with my net'. Less chance of hitting my face in the dirt and flattening flowers that way.