The silver-painted girl was not an early riser by nature, but she had not been lucky enough to have good dreams the night before, so she was thankful to escape the Manor as the sun began its ascent into the sky. Artemis avoided going out at night, as too much had already happened to her in life that she did not want to put herself at risk right now. If the war wasn't going on, the situation would have been different, but her mother and father did not need more to worry about, and she tried not to cause more.
There was another reason, one she held deep within her mind, that caused her to stay inside where it was safe at night. Artemis remembered painfully the worry she had felt when Cypress had been gone, even if she could not explain why it scared her so much. If something happened to her, she hoped he would be just as worried, but she did not want to give him reason to be.
Stepping among the blue flowers that matched the colors of the scarf she wore, Artemis spotted the large earthen-hued creature stretched out in the flowers and laughed softly to herself. "Ciao, Zio," she called out to him.
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