Life's a Happy Song {Giselle}

[Naveen]

Naveen had situated himself in the commons for today, specifically near a tree. He'd found that he could best avoid the various work crews by keeping moving, staying one step ahead of them, as it were. This did interfere with his relaxing and living the enjoyable life, and he was sorely missing parties and whatnot (soon, very soon), but it was better than the alternative. Currently he had his guitar resting in his lap, strumming a little happy song.

"Everything is great, everything is grand. I got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand. Everything is perfect; it's falling into place. I can't seem to wipe this smile off my face. Life's a happy song, when they're someone by my song to sing along...~" Naveen paused, looking around. There didn't appear to be people but... wait, were there now small creatures gathering? Naveen looked up, only slightly surprised to see birds and squirrels gathered about. He twisted to see that there were rabbits nearby.

"Where did you come from?" he asked, twisting to look around. IT was then that he noticed that there was, in fact, someone else singing as well, and doing so in quite a charming manner at that...

[Giselle]

Without any classes Giselle had almost nothing to do and she needed to keep occupied, so she was out in the commons. She had gathered a basket full of the prettiest flowers she could find. She sat in the grass, her skirt surrounded around her. She carefully and slowly began to fold the flower stems together to create a chain.

And as she sat there various animals came over to watch. Crows watched from above. They always seemed to be around these days, keeping an eye on her. They were unpredictable, but still good friends. Other birds flitted closer and then, when they were spooked, flew a bit farther away. They were still getting used to her presence again. And the squirrels seemed to be coming a few at a time. So Giselle started making small crowns for each of her friends.

"Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, when you are kig, dilly dilly, I'll be your queen," she sang softly to the animals. Rabbits, the shyest of all the creatures seemed to be creeping closer, a bit cautiously. She didn't want to give them any reason to scare them away, so she continued to sing softly to them. "Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so? Twas my own heart, dilly dilly, than told me so."

One of the crows gave a sudden caw and Giselle looked up over her head at it. "Hush," she told it gently. "Let's not frighten away our new friends. They're feeling rather shy."

[Naveen]

The gathering creatures continued to distract Naveen. He all but popped up, startling a few of the creatures that had been closest to him. He followed their scattered fleeing toward the source of the sound, only slightly surprised to see a beautiful girl there. IN point of fact, she looked vaguely familiar: Naveen thought that he'd seen her during that first meeting when he'd arrived all those many days ago.

"Why hello there lady most beautiful," he said, putting on his most charming smile as he sauntered toward her. "It is most pleasing to hear your beautiful singing," he noticed all the animals about, and he paused, standing at the edge of sort of the ring of them. They seemed slightly nervous around them, but that didn't stop Naveen from bending down to try and pet one of them. The poor animal of choice gave Giselle an almost terrified look as Naveen pet it arguably too hard.

"This is quite impressive. You must teach me how you charm the animals!" he said, adding a laugh as he kept right on stroking.

[Giselle]

Giselle looked around, twisting as far as she could, to look at the person who was speaking to her. She smiled when she saw the man. "Hello," she said pleasantly. "Oh thank you. I like to sing while I work." She raised a small flower crown from her lap to show him. Singing while she worked was the only was to work really. It helped a lot and made the work fun.

Giselle untwisted her body and then turned to face Naveen, arranging her skirts when she did. She noticed the poor scared thing under Naveen's hand. "Oh, please be very gentle with my friends." She stood quickly and reached down to scoop up the little squirrel, freeing it from petting that it did not seem to be enjoying at all. "Oh, I don't charm them." She smiled down at the little squirrel and then placed it on her shoulder. "They're my friends. But some of them are feeling a bit shy."

A crow flew down from a nearby tree. It landed in front of Naveen and cawed at him. Then it hopped forward a couple of hops and cawed again, looking for attention.

[Naveen]

"I mostly just like to sing. The working? Not so much," admitted Naveen, chuckling. He leaned forward to study the flower crown, admiring the workmanship. That didn't help his petting of the animal, which was starting to feel even more put out by the attention. Fortunately for it, Giselle's rescue came before Naveen leaned a little further down or started paying even more attention to the little creature.

He rose fully, looking around again. "You are taking the old saying, the, ah, how it goes: music soothe the savage beast, you are taking it quite to another level,' Naveen looked around admirably, nodding.

"You do not have to be afraid of me, small animal creatures!" he called, ignoring the crow either on purpose or on accident, hard to tell with Naveen. "I am very friendly! And i sing!" he started strumming, swaying energetically as he went. "Oh Life's a happy song, when there's some by my side to sing along~," he piped, giving Giselle a wink. He might have also almost stepped on the crow in the process. That one, at least, was definitely an accident.

[Giselle]

Giselle blinked. If someone didn't do any work, then how did they get anything done? She didn't understand how that was possible. She got so many things done when she had a song to sing. She didn't understand how other people didn't work while they were singing. "Oh, I couldn't do that," she told him gently.

Giselle tilted her head to one side. Was she soothing the savage beast with music? None of her animal friends were savage and she wasn't using music to soothe them. "I don't think so..." she said trailing off, unsure what he meant. Her animal friends were here because they wanted to be here.

She wanted to comfort her animal friends. This man was very loud and he seemed to be scaring off some of the more skittish creatures. There were a few rabbits dashing away right and left. "Oh dear," Giselle said as her friends darted off. "Please don't yell. They don't like yelling." The crow squawked and then rose from the ground in a flutter of ruffled feathers. "Oh dear," Giselle repeated. This was going terribly. "Oh, please do be more careful," she pleaded. "You almost stepped on my friend."