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[false_kyllikki]

Kyllikki had told herself that she was only going out because she had hopes of windfall nuts or early mushrooms. The cool darkness of the forest had beckoned her, as a respite from the loneliness gathering like gallstones inside her, and she had followed the thin pathways ever deeper into the trees

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[thesunbird]

The funny thing is if she does that she'll maybe start to notice a little flash of salt-white in the brush. He's perfectly silent, but in the slight moonlight and her candle his hair shows up like silver.

[false_kyllikki]

She turns at that flash of brightness, not sure for a moment if it is an animal or a man or something stranger than the two. "Hello?" she calls, low but carrying.

[thesunbird]

Well, there was really no point in lying low anyway, and she isn't a threat--it seems to Telemakos, looking at her, that she isn't a threat, so he slips out into proper view. "--Woyzaro," prostrating himself politely on the ground.

[false_kyllikki]

She startles a little at the sight of him, but laughs when he bows. "Oh--! You must not lower yourself so to me--!"