It was a hard work day, but Ray had decided to leave his job earlier than usual to go out exploring in Forget-Me-Not. He didn't particularly had a reason to do so, but his feet simply led him in this direction. Normally his usual path was to the inn, and then to the beach, but he just wasn't in the mood. Something was tugging at his mind, he wanted to do something fun, and the word had been avoiding him for some time. Sure, there was the birthday party, and sure he met a couple of funny people, but he was bored of such trivial things.

So in order to challange himself, he started walking in the vast valley of Forget-Me-Not. The sun was shining hard down on him as the weather slowly started to adapt into Summer. Why, he heard that there was a nice heat wave coming along fairly soon. He was thrilled when he heard about that on the weather channel!

"...wait. Where am I exactly?" He asked no one when he turned his head to look around. Somehow the grass had stopped growing, and he was in front of a place that was full of charcoal. Nearby he saw two very short men scuttle up a ladder into some kind of tree house. And these were grown men. Well this place was weird...

Momoko was bored. This was a statement and a fact. She had lived in Forget-Me-Not Valley her entire life and felt lately that her life was really humdrum. She had seen every place there, known everyone; what else could she do? Wondering around the valley wasn't really fun, yet she did it anyway unconciously. Somehow, the minutes turned into hours as she wondered around and eventually found herself into a new place. Momoko started to panic, I had never seen this place before! she had thought panickly. Pacing around restlessly, she tried to retrace her steps, but it was no use. She was already far from where she was last... Taking in her suroundings, her light brown eyes detected, a treehouse, a bunch of charcole, and a blonde-haired boy wondering around too! What luck! she thought with relief.

"Hey! Do you know your way around here?" Momoko yelled at him.

He heard a sharp, shrill voice call out to him from behind, and instantly his blue eyes met with that of a young girl. She was only an inch shorter than him, but he knew that she was young. Her voice was the only cue he needed in order to deduce that, but seeing her face helped to confirm that. For all he knew, she probably thought that he was her age. Now as for the question she asked...?

"I wish I knew. It's my first time going this far, and I didn't feel like buying a map." He frowned, mostly because Van sold maps at such high prices, and he didn't think it was even close to being worth buying. Now he kind of wished that he had bought such a helpful little thing.

"You're not lost too, are you?" He looked at the young girl with sympathy, but she should just be glad that it was still early in the afternoon. Getting lost in the evening usually proved to be pretty scary.