She gave him a smile, taking his hands and kissing the soft skin under his jaw gently. "Okay. Let's get packing." (Zoop for both?)
Ellis laid back on his bedroll, looking up at the stars. He shifted tiredly before looking over at Jaz. "We don't really talk much, do we?"
He gave a small smile, looking back up at the stars. "Well... how are things going with you and Lucy? You two seem really happy together."
He brightened, tilting his head. "We are! She's really great. Smart too; I could never come up with stuff like she does."
Ellis laughed slightly, tilting his head. "Yeah, she's kinda amazing in that regard. Did she ever tell you how we found her?"
"Well, for a really long time, it was just Emerson, Aisling and me. Aisling taught me how to scout and Emerson handled the executive duties. But one day, we were in the woods and Aisling noticed this, like... hook, almost? A spade? Anyway, it was submerged in the trees, so you couldn't see it at all, but Emerson was really curious. So we sat for a while and tried to figure out what it was. As it got late, the hook lowered from the trees and started digging in the dirt, and as we watched, it pulled out vegetables that had been growing in the ground and pulled it back up to the foliage up above." He shifted on his bedroll, looking up at the sky. "You might have guessed, but that was the first one of her inventions we ever saw. Emerson went back one day and climbed the tree to find a whole house up there. He went into the home and apparently, when Luce first saw him, she screamed and started throwing *squee!* at him, shoes, gears, lightbulbs, you name it. Anything she could get her hands on. Her parents had passed away from old age a couple years prior and she hadn't spoken to another person since."
He smiled slightly. "Wow.. That's really interesting. I'm guessing Emerson wasn't really prepared to be attacked like that?"
He laughed slightly, lying back. "No, not at all. He wasn't really sure what to expect, but certainly not a 13-year-old girl with an immaculately clean home and blueprints everywhere. He gained her trust after a while, though... she was found in the woods by her parents who were older than most - I think they were in their 80s when they found her - so she was generally very polite. She just got scared."
He nodded slightly. "That makes sense. She still seems very polite and kind now.." He paused, looking thoughtful. "I was one of the found people of the group."
He considered this slowly, nodding. "Yeah. I think Blaisey may have mentioned something about that when you guys went to explore a while ago."
He nodded slowly. "We escaped one night after.. some stuff happened and it got bad. We were on the run and crashed into one of their patrols. I think Blaise was in it. They helped us escape and took us in after some interrogation."
He looked over at Jaz thoughtfully. "Ville Clan is pretty hospitable, huh? Always taking care of people in need."
