When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

[shok_ebasit_hissra]

The Bull wasn't sure how he was supposed to settle in, but he would... find a way. He lived in the same building as Dorian, and that brought some small comfort. Cremisius was here somewhere, and that-- he didn't know how to deal with that yet. Instead he tried to learn he city. If he was stuck here he wanted to know every corner of it. It gave him something to focus on.

That was how he found himself in the park, near a playground, with a dozen children running around. He saw only a few adults that seemed to be tending them, and though they were all human (as far as he could tell), all he could think of were the tamassrans and their charges. He could almost remember being a rambunctious child. Ashkaari, they'd called him then.

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[37hours]

I'm so good at Rings now. I've been practicing almost every day — sometimes only one every two days — and my arms have so much more Strong! The skin on my hands is more rough, but Noah tells me that's fine, that just means I'm super at Rings and play on Rings a lot. I can go all the way across real easy, and sometimes I can go all the way back too without dropping down! It's because I have so many friends and they taught me ways to practice and be better at Rings.

I'm playing on Rings today, next I'll climb on the Jungle Gym because I want to be fast like Rey on that, too. I jump down from Rings and almost run to the Jungle Gym, but I forget to look where I'm going and I almost bump into somebody who's walking on the sidewalk.

Almost. I'm good at stopping so I don't really bump into him, but it's close. I look up to say sorry.

I have to look a really long way, and my mouth opens a little, I know it's not polite but I'm pretty surprised.

"S-sorry about that," I say. My eyes are open real big, wow! The man is so, so tall, bigger than anyone I saw before, and he's got big horns in his head! I never saw that before either.