He continued to run towards her until the distance between them was no longer more than a meter and there, he crouched down right next to the little girl who was lost in her thoughts and too busy collecting mushrooms to notice that a little person was next to her.
And with a big innocent smile on his lips he said with a warm voice
"Hi you !"
Which brought the little girl's thinking mind back to reality and Ayanine, inspired as he was by the idea of getting to know this girl, wanted to add a word but a basket made with palm leaves and half filled with mushrooms hit him in the face and the completely frightened little girl emitted an almost deafening scream
"Get away from me you creep!"
And started running towards the trees as fast as she could with her little legs.
Ayanine completely taken by what just happened moaned in pain touching his face
'This girl ain't normal !'
But when he wanted to get up, he saw the basket trying to stabilize after having been used as a cannonball against half a portion of human and a dozen mushrooms scattered all around Ayanine.
'Oh no, she forgot her mushrooms!'
This is what Ayanine said to himself as he put himself in the same position as he was about 6 years ago, that is to say on all fours and began to pick up the mushrooms to put them back in the basket without even realizing that his nose was starting to bleed slightly.
'And hop, hop, hop, 2, 3, 5, 8,...'
And soon he already finished collecting the mushrooms and began to run as quickly as possible towards the direction where the girl was going.
This is a fairly large reserve, in fact it had a small hill preceding a green valley, with a few trees here and there, it was a valley of at least 200 square meters in surface area, it was the only one in this reserve, it is not so big but had a river that made room for itself, which made this place almost heavenly with the different animals and birds that come to drink there.
But it was almost heavenly because with the exception of the watercourse, the trees, the flowers... There was there, half hidden by grasses, an old wooden cabin at least 10 meters square of area having a door alomost broken and a roof with cracks which by their size show that water seeps into the house every time it rains.
Right next to this cabin are two poles of at least one and a half meters each, connected by an iron wire, where three dresses were exposed to the sun which seem to be their owner's only clothes.
And about 30 meters away, what appeared to be two small figures chasing each other were speeding down the small rise.
It was Ayanine who was trying to catch up with the young girl to try to understand why she had run away and to give her back her basket and her mushrooms.
'Hey wait! Why are you running away?'
'Wait for me !'
But the little girl seemed to ignore the voice of the person behind her as she ran and accelerated towards the cabin with a look of determination on her face.
A few seconds later, a few ignored words from Ayanine later, the little girl finally arrived at the door of the cabin and with impressive agility, opened it and continued inside without even closing it behind her.
And after Ayanine finally covered the distance that separated them, and stopped right at the door of the starnge cabin but just as he was starting to catch his breath from their chase, the sharp end of a rake, or what was left of it as it was quite damaged was directed straight towards his eyes
"Leave me alone you goddamn creep!
Go away!"
Shouted the little girl, waving the rake as a weapon of defense.
"What are you talking about!"
Replied Ayanine still not understanding what is happening
"I have nothing to give to you so leave me alone!"
She said but this time with eyes full of tears ready to flow at any moment.
"I don't want anything from you! I've seen you picking up mushrooms so I came to talk to you and trying to be your friend!"
Replied Ayanine with a feeling of regret and guilt upon seeing the little girl's tears
"You scared me! You acted like a creep!"
She screamed as her tears start to drop from both her eyes
"You scared yourself! And you ran away!"
Replied Ayanine to defend himself
"No you scared me!"
Ayanine was about to respond in defense but he suddenly remembered that 'Vinson' the trusted major of the royal family once said to him
[What women want, God wants and what they want above all else is to always be right...]
"You girls are the same, don't you?"
Said Ayanine sighing
"What !"
Replied the little girl, confused
"You're right, I acted like a creep, I apologize, I just wanted to get to know each other, my name is Ayanine"
He said, extending his hand towards her with an innocent smile on his lips.
"At least you admit that you're wrong..."
"My name is Naomi"
Replied the young girl, lowering the rake and shaking his hand.
'Vinson you're always right!'
Thought Ayanine smiling and handed her a tissue to clean her tears
"I'm delighted to meet you Naomi"