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RP from December 10thK'luha Haaz: The night had not been kind to K'luha and when she awoke at the first light of day it was even less kind. She struggled to sit up and look about, and found that K'ile was not only back with the breakfast he was supposedly hunting; which he ran off without his spear no less; but he was simply missing. With a lot of struggling, she limped her way over to the carriage driver and inquired about the red-haired male. It was then she found his abscence apparently premeditated, as the carriage driver said K'ile told them he would meet up with them on his own in Drybone.Â
Luha felt like her heart dropped right out of her torso and crestfallen, limped back to her bench. Explaining the situation to Tahj when she awoke was difficult, but she did so in simple terms and with a smile. She was sure not to mention the night's previous goings on, but the few cuts on bruises on her from falling spoke for themselves.Â
K'luha was quiet the rest of the way to Drybone. She directed the carriage driver to head east of Drybone so they might be able to pick up K'haali... and maybe K'ile, before they left for the Sagolii. She did her best to seem upbeat, but the radiating misery was pretty hard to conceal, or miss.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj was quiet, sensing her aunt's mood, but scooted over to sit next to her and hold her hand, in an attempt to give some comfort.
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 K'luha Haaz: K'luha squeezed Tahj's hand lightly, but didn't look to Tahj. It was comforting, even if the comfort was only a small soothing against the torrent of depression she was feeling. Part of her couldn't wait to go back to the tribe. She was read to boil beneath the sun about now. Maybe it would kick some sense into her stupid head. She was sure when she went home... mostly everything would go back to normal. K'ile would go back to being distant or whatever and she would be able to deal with it again.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Using her free hand to mop at the layer of sweat beginning to build on her face,Tahj was miserably hot, ears drooping and hair behind her ears wet with sweat. Reaching down, she retrieved the water skin and took a drink, offering it to K'luha.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha shook her head, politely declining the water as they reared through the vast and hot terrain. At least it wasn't raining. A small consolation prize.Â
"Tahj... if you ever want to leave the tribe, please don't tell me. Just... stab me in the torso or something so I don't have to deal with it." K'luha sighed heavily, depressingly serious about it but attempting to pass it off as a sort of joke. "In any case... we're almost there..." Luha clearned her voice and leaned out the edge of the carriage to peer across the plains and the cliff.Â
"K'haali! K'haali come here! Are you here K'haali!?" she yelled loudly, hoping to attract the attention of the poor girl.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali took a moment to sit up and wipe the sweat off her brow from her exertions tanning the aldgoat hide. Two weeks had passed since the rest of the expedition had left her to hold the fort and she hadn't wasted a moment of it; despite having so much game and resources on hand however, a part of her was longing to see the Sagolii again, to feel warm sand under her feet and dunes far as the eye could see, in a way she revelled in the challenge of surviving in such a harsh place, and this land felt like it was bribing her to stay, rather than being a true home.
The familiarty of K;luha's voice, combined with the sound of the approaching caravan came so unexpectedly that it took a while for the sound to register in the back of her mind as anythign more than her imagination. Suddenly alarmed, she makes a bolt; first towards the noise to identify the source, but then for cover in case it's a threat, before finally running back again for her bow and quiver hanging in the shade of an acacia...
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj shot a sharp look at her aunt, but didn't comment and began looking eagerly outside for the new arrival.
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K'haali Thalen: Clambering up a seemingly sheer part of the cliff she'd learned to scale in the wait, she crept through the brush offering a view of the carriage and it's lalafell driver. But not it's occupants...
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha winced a little at Tahj's sharp glare, but turned her head slowly to peer around the corner. With a heavy sigh, Luha yelled for the carriage driver to stop. Her hand slipped into her pack and pulled out a mint leaf, she was running out of them and using them got rid of the pain but... it didn't help her hip at all, other than letting her limp around on it. Still, she stuck it in her mouth and shivered a bit. It had a very cool tingling sensation that numbed most of her body.Â
Luha carefully stood and limped herself off the carriage before motioning to Tahj.Â
"It's just around the cliff-face here. I'm sure she's there. We'll just be a second or two..." And with that Luha started limping over towards the actual campsite.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj frowned and jumped off after her aunt,"No! You need to sit, I'll go find her."Staring at her aunt firmly with both hands on her hips.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha gave a weak smile to Tahj and rubbed at her numb, but dangerously injured hip. "Ah... but K'haali doesn't know you yet.... well.. fine." With a huff Luha limped back over to the carriage and sat down on the bench. "It's just around the cliff face. Her name is K'haali Thalen. Â I think she remembers Maka so just let her know you're my neice that K'ailia talked about."
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K'haali Thalen: Ears pricked up, K'haali doesn't have any trouble hearring every word of their conversation behind the caravan, and recognising K'luha's voice.
She pops out from her prickly hiding place at the rim of the cliff, startling the driver as she strides towards the carriage in plain sight, bow still in hand. Approaching  the corner of the carriage she knocks on the wood to get their attention before popping her head around the corner, exclaiming (with an impish grin aimed to startle) "Hi!"
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K'tahjha Yohko: Startled, Tahj spun around reaching for her bow, but not knocking an arrow upon seeing another miqo'te.
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K'luha Haaz: Luha jumped a little with K'haali's sudden appearance. After a moment she breathed out, relieved and motioned for Tahj to put down her bow.Â
"I'm glad you didn't just up and leave K'haali." Luha smiled weakly. "K'ile and I went to pick up Tahj from Gridania. Speaking of him... he hasn't come by the camp has he?"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali raises an eyebrow, with a distinctly unimpressed air. "Here am I am wondering if you hadn't all been eaten by wolves, or swallowed up by the shroud. And your first question for me, is whether I've seen K'ile, who last check was with you?Â
Asides from some rocks, goats, a very angry sryphid nest and K'ailia I havn't had company here in weeks. And I'm not sure which of the aforementioned was the worst company to suffer".
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K'luha Haaz: "He he would meet us at Drybone..." K'luha interjected before shrinking back and looking away from K'haali. "If you met K'ailia, did she tell you she's left the tribe then?"
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K'haali Thalen: "She what?" K'haali struggles to find an eevn more unimpressed expression. "This was, well some time back. She told me about another member of the tribe having turned up in Gridania"
She casts a look at the blonde miqo'te in Gridanian garb. "Who, I would guess you found?"
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K'haali Thalen: "But she never mentioned planning to abandon us..."
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj smiles and steps forward offering her hand to K'haali,"Hi I'm Tahj."
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali looks at Tahj's hand, puzzled, and considers offering a friendly hug, before settling on a hand wave. "Pleasure to meet you"
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K'haali Thalen: Having had time to process the flood of information, K'haali's thoughts turn to the rest of the expedition. She rubs her temples trying to get it all straight. "So, we've somehow misplaced my uncle, K'ailia's run off and... you look like you got in a fight with a rock elemental Luha, are you ok too, what happened while you were all gone?"
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K'luha Haaz: "I... ugh.." K'luha rubbed her temples. The whole story, that's right. K'haali had no idea. "I challenge that Ventus man, the head of K'ailia's school, to a fight. I wanted to see if he was all bark and no bite. Turns out he's slightly insane and tried to kill me. He punched me through a tree and then I got knocked out. Next I think K'ailia's trying to heal me and you know my distaste of conjury's healing. So I left. Came back to Drybone by Aetheryte and ran off. K'ile found me, so did K'haz strangely enough and then, not so strangely enough, K'ailia showed up to. She said she was leaving the tribe and for some forsaken reason she cast some sort of spell at K'ile that threw a very fast and pointy rock at him. So I stepped in front of it and blocked it. I still don't know why K'ailia did that much. Anyway, she left the tribe, K'haz when off on his own again. K'ile said we should pick up Tahj because apparently K'ailia had gone over and talked to her first. So we went over and picked her up and now we've come back. And last night K'ile..." K'luha paused, feeling particularly upset at this as it was entirely her fault K'ile was missing and possibly dead because he was too dumb to take his lance. "I was talking to him and I guess I upset him because he ran off saying he was going to hunt for breakfast. And now he's just... gone." K'luha threw her hands up in the air, both frustrated and terribly upset. "So I guess that means I've managed to loose my daughter and your uncle in one damn trip out of the tribe, which is putting me at a whopping four people dead or missing because of me!" K'luha pressed her hands to her face for a moment, taking deep breaths and trying to collect herself.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj drops her hand and her smile falters, wondering if she commited an error. But her attention quickly redirected to K'luha and she went over and placed a hand on her shoulder, looking concerned.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali puts an arm over K'luhas shoulder and offers a hug  in attempt to console her - casting a look back at the driver, watching them impatiently. Clearly things had gone very wrong during the expedition, but K'haali immediatly did what she did best; strategising.Â
Instead of dwelling she begins pondering on the next step - cleaning up the camp, that was a nessecary anc achievable goal right now. Finding K'ile would need time, and K'ailia was something that only time can fix.
K'haali Thalen: As was K'luhas injuries.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha found comfort in both Tahj's and K'haali's touch. It was a very tangible reminder that she still had family, and that they were still there for her during this difficult period of time. After a moment she took another deep breath and dropped her hands to her lap.Â
"Thank you two... I-i'll be okay." Luha murmured, wiping at her eyes quickly with her forearm. "Do you have much in the way of a camp Haali? Were you able to live here with much trouble?"
[12/11/2013 3:00:58 PM] K'haali Thalen: K'haali manages to illicit a chuckle. "We didn't start with much of one, but I'll need an able bodied volunteeer to pack up what we had by the end" K'haali frowns "I... not we. I've been alone too long"
"Still, the place is a veritable garden, you have to really try to go hungry here."
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 K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj steps forward and nods,"I can help, aunt Luha needs to sit still till we can get her looked at." She shoots a firm look at her aunt to be sure she doesn't move.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha looked to Haali with a sort of solmen smile. "Ah. Sorry. That's my fault. We should have hurried, or let you know where we were going..." She trailed off as Tahj volunteered herself and shot Luha a dirty look. Luha raised her hands in defeat and smiled again. "I'm not moving!"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali leads K'tahj down the slope towards the camp, a simple tent alongside a large tarp drawn out between two acacia trees. Beneath which a vertible bounty of sacks and rolls of hide lie. Oddly enough, there's a lrge scorch mark up the cliff face and the dry grass surrounding it has been burnt away.
"Ideally wel want all of it. But, I'm not sure if the caravan driver will be willing to take all. The hide is definitly something we'll want"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali rubs her chin thoughtfully as K'tahj gets a chance to survey the supplies
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj eyes the huge stack of supplies and wipes sweat from her eyes,"We we should hurry then I suppose." she smiles at K'haali and she goes to the pile of skins , scooping as many as she can possibly carry and staggerin g off towards the wagon.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali shoulders a cured leg of aldgoat and recovers a smaller pouch carefully hidden below a boulder behind the tent before returning to the carriage.
She plops the leg down opposite K'luha grinning with the prize hoping it might cheer her up a little. And drops the pouch into her lap, which falls open to reveal a number of walnut sized gold nuggets.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha sat quietly, doing her best not to think while she was alone. She was thankful when K'haali returned, dropping a whole cured leg of meat next to her on the bench and a small pouch. Luah blinked and looked down at it, examining the gold. "That's... worth so much... heh... with enough of it we could buy out a huge portion of land and keep those damn Ul'dahns off our property." Luha smirked faintly, tucking the gold back into the pouch.
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K'haali Thalen: "If we can keep them off the property long enough, that might just be possible" - K'haali gestures into the distance, at a large waterfall on the edge of the wall of flame.
"When the moon broke the land it exposed a fresh rock that's never seen the light of day, there's a lot more where that came from, if we had the patience or expertise"
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj staggered slowly to  the wagon, face bright red and panting heavily between the heat and the weight of the skins she was carrying. With a grunt she dropped the pile on the tail of the wagon.
Meanwhile, Rhiki sees the new person and seems to be curious about her glasses leaning in dangerously close to attmpt to pick at them.
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K'luha Haaz: Luha chuckled lightly and looked to K'haali. That sort of settled the whole account for her. They were moving to Eastern Thalan, at least for now. "Well then, I guess I'm going to become a miner."
As Tahj came about the corner and dumped the skins in, Luha blinked for a moment. "You look hot Tahj, are you okay? Do you need water?"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali chuckles too. "And to think everyone objected to my suggestion we dig rocks for a living back in the sagol-", the nipping and probing over Tahj's chocobo interuppts her prompting her to push it's head away from her "Shoo, stupid..."Â
She casts a glance at the sweatting, red-faced miqo'te. "I meant I needed help loading K'weh's panniers silly. her could've carried it up the hill for you"
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj's eyes become slightly unfocused and she staggers back, only the old bird's bulk prevent her from landing on her tail. Regaining her blalance she mumbles,"Maybe I could use a drink."
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K'luha Haaz: "Tahj?" K'luha called, standing carefully and reaching out towards the girl. "Haali, help Tahj up into the shade, please?" The elder Miq'ote requested before digging through their supplies and finding the water canteen. "Tahj, water. Come now, you'll be okay."
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K'haali Thalen: Reaching her arm under K'tahj's she helps her up onto the carriage and seats her alongside K'luha.
"I'll get the tent and sheets packed while you sort things out here". Before scooting back down the hill, pushing Rhiki's beak out of her face as the chocobo tries nip at her glasses on the way past
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K'tahjha Yohko: Ears drooping out to the side, earfur and hair soaked and plastered to her skull, Tahj gulped at the water. "Sorry Aunt Luha, it just got so hot." she leans back into the bench looking miserable.
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K'luha Haaz: "It's okay Tahj..." Luha smiled lightly, taking a hand and wiping some of the hair from Tahj's face. "It's even hotters in the Sagolii but... there are tricks to stay cooler. It'll be difficult, but I think you'll get used to it."
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K'haali Thalen: it doesn't take long before K'haali returns up the hill with with K'weh, tent and the remaining bags neatly packed in the panniers. Before offloading them into the cart
"I hope we'll have room for K'ile in here... I'm sure he'll be at Drybone. He might be stubborn at times but he is house trained", K'haali tries offer a reassuring grin, typical of the family.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Beginning to cool off, Tahj eyes K'haali's bird. "He's pretty, I don't have any gear for Rhiki." she retrieves 2 coins from her pocket,"Do you think this would at least buy him a bridle?"
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K'luha Haaz: Haali's words were... somewhat reassuring. If K'ile simply wandered off and never came back well... K'luha tried her very best not to think about it. Surely she hadn't upset him that much, had she? Surely because she was depressed about K'ailia's leaving, he wouldn't just... leave forever would he? Luha nervously gripped at her skirt and looked to Tahj's coins. "Yeah, I'm sure we can get him a bridle in Drybone." she assured Tahj.
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K'haali Thalen: "We could just make him one when we get back to the tribe" K'haali offers.
K'haali observes Rhiki - "the both of you would need to learn to ride all over again anyway, running on sand isn't something that comes naturally to chocobos.
...or miqo'te."
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 K'tahjha Yohko: "He listens to me well enough without gear, but we can't carry anything with out it." she frowns slightly,"There wasn't time to put it on him, so we-I left it in the woods." Tahj falls silent, then smiles slighlty as the old bird reaches in the back of the wagon to tap the top of her head gently with his beak.
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K'haali Thalen: "Speaking of which, I'm all packed up, and, on the off chance K'ile is on his way here I left a tracking mark, K'weh'll follow us. So K'luha, are we ready to move on?"
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha nodded slowly. "Yes... We're going to Drybone to stock up on more water and then it's back off to the Forgotten Springs. From there we ride, since K'yori my chocobo is waiting there as well."
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj looks concerned,"Will Rhiki be ok? K'haali said he'd need to learn to carry me."
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K'luha Haaz: "He's old but... we'll see. K'yori's strong enough for two if we need to do that."
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali leans back and taps on the board behind the driver's head causing him to jump. "What, what?"
"We're ready to go", The lalafell puts on his best business voice" "Where to?", K'haali frowns at him. "Don't pretend you wern't listening in! - Drybone". A twitch of the reigns later and the cart begins to slowly pull away, weighed down by the extra load.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Settling back for the ride, Tahj rummages until she finds the left over rabbit,taking a bit for herself to nibble, she offers it to K'luha and K'haali.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha shook her head, politely declining. She wasn't feeling too terribly hungry, even though she knew she had to eat sometime. "I'll eat when we get to Drybone..." she promised Tahj.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali pulls off a leg without hesitation and gets stuck in. Only stopping briefly to bob her head and offer a muffled thanks through a mouthful of meat.
Still chewing the food she ponders discussing how the elders might respond to the results of the expedition, and Tahj's background. But remember her late mother was a close relative of Luha, and K'luha is sore enough, literally and figuratively without more probing questions.
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K'luha Haaz: There was a long time of silence while the carriage continued on. They would be able to make it to Drybone by nightfall... probably. Maybe. Still, Kluha frowned and looked towards K'haali. "Hey, Haali? How badly do you think they would punish me for disobeying laws concerning tias?" she asked somewhat offhandedly.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali raises an eyebrow at the question. Could she be talking about K'ile? - She'd gotten that vibe from them before they left...Â
She offers a cheshire grin "I guess that'd depend if they caught you"
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K'luha Haaz: "It wasn't anything really... wrong!" Luha protested quietly, furrowing his brows at Haali. "Just a kiss but... by his insistance I have to tell the elders so... you think I'm going to be racked for it?"
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K'tahjha Yohko: Listening intently to the conversation, Tahj frowns,"They can't do that until they fix your hip!"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali carries on in a deeply sarcastic tone. "I'm sure they'll stake you out in the sun for the vultures and feed your eyes to the orobon".
"In seriousness. I don't see why they need to know. It's not like you're secretly mated outside of law, or planning to overthrow K'yohko" K'haali takes a second look. "Are you?"
She bursts out laughing
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K'luha Haaz: Luha blushed a little and shrugged. "K'ile might have said something about possibly wanting to become a nunh maybe?" she said so very softly neither might not have heard it over Haali's laughter.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj eyes K'haali, before deciding she was joking and settles back watching the scenery.
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K'haali Thalen: Not hearring what K'luha said, but remarking offhandedly. K'haali jokingly confides. "K'ile does of course represent family, so if he was plotting I'd lend him my support; but I don't think it works that way. His backers have to be willing mates, and being my uncle... I'm not sure that'd be wise or even legal".
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha cleared her throat a little more and rubbed at her hip. "It is legal. As long as you're not a sister or brother, it's legal. And I already said I would give him my support if he wanted it. Seeing as we're not really even related."
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K'haali Thalen: She scratches her head. "Hrm, that changes things in an awkward fashion, useful, but akward".
K'haali slumps down  in her seat and goes quiet, apparently deeply contemplating her toes.
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K'luha Haaz: "I mean... you don't HAVE to mate with him. There's still K'yohko..." Luha suggested, reaching over to lightly elbow Haali's shoulder. "Or you could be like your sister K'iara and just never mate ever."
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K'tahjha Yohko: Peering between the two in slight confusion, Tahj desides she doesnt want to know and continues watching the land roll past.
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K'haali Thalen: "I think that's a topic that'll need more thought". K'haali concludes, apparently noticing K'tahjha's gaze and trying figure out what she is looking at.
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K'luha Haaz: Luha agreed with a silent nodd and joined the others in staring out at the land as it rolled by.
Luha felt like her heart dropped right out of her torso and crestfallen, limped back to her bench. Explaining the situation to Tahj when she awoke was difficult, but she did so in simple terms and with a smile. She was sure not to mention the night's previous goings on, but the few cuts on bruises on her from falling spoke for themselves.Â
K'luha was quiet the rest of the way to Drybone. She directed the carriage driver to head east of Drybone so they might be able to pick up K'haali... and maybe K'ile, before they left for the Sagolii. She did her best to seem upbeat, but the radiating misery was pretty hard to conceal, or miss.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj was quiet, sensing her aunt's mood, but scooted over to sit next to her and hold her hand, in an attempt to give some comfort.
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 K'luha Haaz: K'luha squeezed Tahj's hand lightly, but didn't look to Tahj. It was comforting, even if the comfort was only a small soothing against the torrent of depression she was feeling. Part of her couldn't wait to go back to the tribe. She was read to boil beneath the sun about now. Maybe it would kick some sense into her stupid head. She was sure when she went home... mostly everything would go back to normal. K'ile would go back to being distant or whatever and she would be able to deal with it again.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Using her free hand to mop at the layer of sweat beginning to build on her face,Tahj was miserably hot, ears drooping and hair behind her ears wet with sweat. Reaching down, she retrieved the water skin and took a drink, offering it to K'luha.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha shook her head, politely declining the water as they reared through the vast and hot terrain. At least it wasn't raining. A small consolation prize.Â
"Tahj... if you ever want to leave the tribe, please don't tell me. Just... stab me in the torso or something so I don't have to deal with it." K'luha sighed heavily, depressingly serious about it but attempting to pass it off as a sort of joke. "In any case... we're almost there..." Luha clearned her voice and leaned out the edge of the carriage to peer across the plains and the cliff.Â
"K'haali! K'haali come here! Are you here K'haali!?" she yelled loudly, hoping to attract the attention of the poor girl.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali took a moment to sit up and wipe the sweat off her brow from her exertions tanning the aldgoat hide. Two weeks had passed since the rest of the expedition had left her to hold the fort and she hadn't wasted a moment of it; despite having so much game and resources on hand however, a part of her was longing to see the Sagolii again, to feel warm sand under her feet and dunes far as the eye could see, in a way she revelled in the challenge of surviving in such a harsh place, and this land felt like it was bribing her to stay, rather than being a true home.
The familiarty of K;luha's voice, combined with the sound of the approaching caravan came so unexpectedly that it took a while for the sound to register in the back of her mind as anythign more than her imagination. Suddenly alarmed, she makes a bolt; first towards the noise to identify the source, but then for cover in case it's a threat, before finally running back again for her bow and quiver hanging in the shade of an acacia...
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj shot a sharp look at her aunt, but didn't comment and began looking eagerly outside for the new arrival.
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K'haali Thalen: Clambering up a seemingly sheer part of the cliff she'd learned to scale in the wait, she crept through the brush offering a view of the carriage and it's lalafell driver. But not it's occupants...
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha winced a little at Tahj's sharp glare, but turned her head slowly to peer around the corner. With a heavy sigh, Luha yelled for the carriage driver to stop. Her hand slipped into her pack and pulled out a mint leaf, she was running out of them and using them got rid of the pain but... it didn't help her hip at all, other than letting her limp around on it. Still, she stuck it in her mouth and shivered a bit. It had a very cool tingling sensation that numbed most of her body.Â
Luha carefully stood and limped herself off the carriage before motioning to Tahj.Â
"It's just around the cliff-face here. I'm sure she's there. We'll just be a second or two..." And with that Luha started limping over towards the actual campsite.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj frowned and jumped off after her aunt,"No! You need to sit, I'll go find her."Staring at her aunt firmly with both hands on her hips.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha gave a weak smile to Tahj and rubbed at her numb, but dangerously injured hip. "Ah... but K'haali doesn't know you yet.... well.. fine." With a huff Luha limped back over to the carriage and sat down on the bench. "It's just around the cliff face. Her name is K'haali Thalen. Â I think she remembers Maka so just let her know you're my neice that K'ailia talked about."
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K'haali Thalen: Ears pricked up, K'haali doesn't have any trouble hearring every word of their conversation behind the caravan, and recognising K'luha's voice.
She pops out from her prickly hiding place at the rim of the cliff, startling the driver as she strides towards the carriage in plain sight, bow still in hand. Approaching  the corner of the carriage she knocks on the wood to get their attention before popping her head around the corner, exclaiming (with an impish grin aimed to startle) "Hi!"
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K'tahjha Yohko: Startled, Tahj spun around reaching for her bow, but not knocking an arrow upon seeing another miqo'te.
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K'luha Haaz: Luha jumped a little with K'haali's sudden appearance. After a moment she breathed out, relieved and motioned for Tahj to put down her bow.Â
"I'm glad you didn't just up and leave K'haali." Luha smiled weakly. "K'ile and I went to pick up Tahj from Gridania. Speaking of him... he hasn't come by the camp has he?"
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali raises an eyebrow, with a distinctly unimpressed air. "Here am I am wondering if you hadn't all been eaten by wolves, or swallowed up by the shroud. And your first question for me, is whether I've seen K'ile, who last check was with you?Â
Asides from some rocks, goats, a very angry sryphid nest and K'ailia I havn't had company here in weeks. And I'm not sure which of the aforementioned was the worst company to suffer".
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K'luha Haaz: "He he would meet us at Drybone..." K'luha interjected before shrinking back and looking away from K'haali. "If you met K'ailia, did she tell you she's left the tribe then?"
*
K'haali Thalen: "She what?" K'haali struggles to find an eevn more unimpressed expression. "This was, well some time back. She told me about another member of the tribe having turned up in Gridania"
She casts a look at the blonde miqo'te in Gridanian garb. "Who, I would guess you found?"
*
K'haali Thalen: "But she never mentioned planning to abandon us..."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj smiles and steps forward offering her hand to K'haali,"Hi I'm Tahj."
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali looks at Tahj's hand, puzzled, and considers offering a friendly hug, before settling on a hand wave. "Pleasure to meet you"
*
K'haali Thalen: Having had time to process the flood of information, K'haali's thoughts turn to the rest of the expedition. She rubs her temples trying to get it all straight. "So, we've somehow misplaced my uncle, K'ailia's run off and... you look like you got in a fight with a rock elemental Luha, are you ok too, what happened while you were all gone?"
*
K'luha Haaz: "I... ugh.." K'luha rubbed her temples. The whole story, that's right. K'haali had no idea. "I challenge that Ventus man, the head of K'ailia's school, to a fight. I wanted to see if he was all bark and no bite. Turns out he's slightly insane and tried to kill me. He punched me through a tree and then I got knocked out. Next I think K'ailia's trying to heal me and you know my distaste of conjury's healing. So I left. Came back to Drybone by Aetheryte and ran off. K'ile found me, so did K'haz strangely enough and then, not so strangely enough, K'ailia showed up to. She said she was leaving the tribe and for some forsaken reason she cast some sort of spell at K'ile that threw a very fast and pointy rock at him. So I stepped in front of it and blocked it. I still don't know why K'ailia did that much. Anyway, she left the tribe, K'haz when off on his own again. K'ile said we should pick up Tahj because apparently K'ailia had gone over and talked to her first. So we went over and picked her up and now we've come back. And last night K'ile..." K'luha paused, feeling particularly upset at this as it was entirely her fault K'ile was missing and possibly dead because he was too dumb to take his lance. "I was talking to him and I guess I upset him because he ran off saying he was going to hunt for breakfast. And now he's just... gone." K'luha threw her hands up in the air, both frustrated and terribly upset. "So I guess that means I've managed to loose my daughter and your uncle in one damn trip out of the tribe, which is putting me at a whopping four people dead or missing because of me!" K'luha pressed her hands to her face for a moment, taking deep breaths and trying to collect herself.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj drops her hand and her smile falters, wondering if she commited an error. But her attention quickly redirected to K'luha and she went over and placed a hand on her shoulder, looking concerned.
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali puts an arm over K'luhas shoulder and offers a hug  in attempt to console her - casting a look back at the driver, watching them impatiently. Clearly things had gone very wrong during the expedition, but K'haali immediatly did what she did best; strategising.Â
Instead of dwelling she begins pondering on the next step - cleaning up the camp, that was a nessecary anc achievable goal right now. Finding K'ile would need time, and K'ailia was something that only time can fix.
K'haali Thalen: As was K'luhas injuries.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha found comfort in both Tahj's and K'haali's touch. It was a very tangible reminder that she still had family, and that they were still there for her during this difficult period of time. After a moment she took another deep breath and dropped her hands to her lap.Â
"Thank you two... I-i'll be okay." Luha murmured, wiping at her eyes quickly with her forearm. "Do you have much in the way of a camp Haali? Were you able to live here with much trouble?"
[12/11/2013 3:00:58 PM] K'haali Thalen: K'haali manages to illicit a chuckle. "We didn't start with much of one, but I'll need an able bodied volunteeer to pack up what we had by the end" K'haali frowns "I... not we. I've been alone too long"
"Still, the place is a veritable garden, you have to really try to go hungry here."
*
 K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj steps forward and nods,"I can help, aunt Luha needs to sit still till we can get her looked at." She shoots a firm look at her aunt to be sure she doesn't move.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha looked to Haali with a sort of solmen smile. "Ah. Sorry. That's my fault. We should have hurried, or let you know where we were going..." She trailed off as Tahj volunteered herself and shot Luha a dirty look. Luha raised her hands in defeat and smiled again. "I'm not moving!"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali leads K'tahj down the slope towards the camp, a simple tent alongside a large tarp drawn out between two acacia trees. Beneath which a vertible bounty of sacks and rolls of hide lie. Oddly enough, there's a lrge scorch mark up the cliff face and the dry grass surrounding it has been burnt away.
"Ideally wel want all of it. But, I'm not sure if the caravan driver will be willing to take all. The hide is definitly something we'll want"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali rubs her chin thoughtfully as K'tahj gets a chance to survey the supplies
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj eyes the huge stack of supplies and wipes sweat from her eyes,"We we should hurry then I suppose." she smiles at K'haali and she goes to the pile of skins , scooping as many as she can possibly carry and staggerin g off towards the wagon.
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali shoulders a cured leg of aldgoat and recovers a smaller pouch carefully hidden below a boulder behind the tent before returning to the carriage.
She plops the leg down opposite K'luha grinning with the prize hoping it might cheer her up a little. And drops the pouch into her lap, which falls open to reveal a number of walnut sized gold nuggets.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha sat quietly, doing her best not to think while she was alone. She was thankful when K'haali returned, dropping a whole cured leg of meat next to her on the bench and a small pouch. Luah blinked and looked down at it, examining the gold. "That's... worth so much... heh... with enough of it we could buy out a huge portion of land and keep those damn Ul'dahns off our property." Luha smirked faintly, tucking the gold back into the pouch.
*
K'haali Thalen: "If we can keep them off the property long enough, that might just be possible" - K'haali gestures into the distance, at a large waterfall on the edge of the wall of flame.
"When the moon broke the land it exposed a fresh rock that's never seen the light of day, there's a lot more where that came from, if we had the patience or expertise"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj staggered slowly to  the wagon, face bright red and panting heavily between the heat and the weight of the skins she was carrying. With a grunt she dropped the pile on the tail of the wagon.
Meanwhile, Rhiki sees the new person and seems to be curious about her glasses leaning in dangerously close to attmpt to pick at them.
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha chuckled lightly and looked to K'haali. That sort of settled the whole account for her. They were moving to Eastern Thalan, at least for now. "Well then, I guess I'm going to become a miner."
As Tahj came about the corner and dumped the skins in, Luha blinked for a moment. "You look hot Tahj, are you okay? Do you need water?"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali chuckles too. "And to think everyone objected to my suggestion we dig rocks for a living back in the sagol-", the nipping and probing over Tahj's chocobo interuppts her prompting her to push it's head away from her "Shoo, stupid..."Â
She casts a glance at the sweatting, red-faced miqo'te. "I meant I needed help loading K'weh's panniers silly. her could've carried it up the hill for you"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj's eyes become slightly unfocused and she staggers back, only the old bird's bulk prevent her from landing on her tail. Regaining her blalance she mumbles,"Maybe I could use a drink."
*
K'luha Haaz: "Tahj?" K'luha called, standing carefully and reaching out towards the girl. "Haali, help Tahj up into the shade, please?" The elder Miq'ote requested before digging through their supplies and finding the water canteen. "Tahj, water. Come now, you'll be okay."
*
K'haali Thalen: Reaching her arm under K'tahj's she helps her up onto the carriage and seats her alongside K'luha.
"I'll get the tent and sheets packed while you sort things out here". Before scooting back down the hill, pushing Rhiki's beak out of her face as the chocobo tries nip at her glasses on the way past
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Ears drooping out to the side, earfur and hair soaked and plastered to her skull, Tahj gulped at the water. "Sorry Aunt Luha, it just got so hot." she leans back into the bench looking miserable.
*
K'luha Haaz: "It's okay Tahj..." Luha smiled lightly, taking a hand and wiping some of the hair from Tahj's face. "It's even hotters in the Sagolii but... there are tricks to stay cooler. It'll be difficult, but I think you'll get used to it."
*
K'haali Thalen: it doesn't take long before K'haali returns up the hill with with K'weh, tent and the remaining bags neatly packed in the panniers. Before offloading them into the cart
"I hope we'll have room for K'ile in here... I'm sure he'll be at Drybone. He might be stubborn at times but he is house trained", K'haali tries offer a reassuring grin, typical of the family.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Beginning to cool off, Tahj eyes K'haali's bird. "He's pretty, I don't have any gear for Rhiki." she retrieves 2 coins from her pocket,"Do you think this would at least buy him a bridle?"
*
K'luha Haaz: Haali's words were... somewhat reassuring. If K'ile simply wandered off and never came back well... K'luha tried her very best not to think about it. Surely she hadn't upset him that much, had she? Surely because she was depressed about K'ailia's leaving, he wouldn't just... leave forever would he? Luha nervously gripped at her skirt and looked to Tahj's coins. "Yeah, I'm sure we can get him a bridle in Drybone." she assured Tahj.
*
K'haali Thalen: "We could just make him one when we get back to the tribe" K'haali offers.
K'haali observes Rhiki - "the both of you would need to learn to ride all over again anyway, running on sand isn't something that comes naturally to chocobos.
...or miqo'te."
*
 K'tahjha Yohko: "He listens to me well enough without gear, but we can't carry anything with out it." she frowns slightly,"There wasn't time to put it on him, so we-I left it in the woods." Tahj falls silent, then smiles slighlty as the old bird reaches in the back of the wagon to tap the top of her head gently with his beak.
*
K'haali Thalen: "Speaking of which, I'm all packed up, and, on the off chance K'ile is on his way here I left a tracking mark, K'weh'll follow us. So K'luha, are we ready to move on?"
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha nodded slowly. "Yes... We're going to Drybone to stock up on more water and then it's back off to the Forgotten Springs. From there we ride, since K'yori my chocobo is waiting there as well."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj looks concerned,"Will Rhiki be ok? K'haali said he'd need to learn to carry me."
*
K'luha Haaz: "He's old but... we'll see. K'yori's strong enough for two if we need to do that."
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali leans back and taps on the board behind the driver's head causing him to jump. "What, what?"
"We're ready to go", The lalafell puts on his best business voice" "Where to?", K'haali frowns at him. "Don't pretend you wern't listening in! - Drybone". A twitch of the reigns later and the cart begins to slowly pull away, weighed down by the extra load.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Settling back for the ride, Tahj rummages until she finds the left over rabbit,taking a bit for herself to nibble, she offers it to K'luha and K'haali.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha shook her head, politely declining. She wasn't feeling too terribly hungry, even though she knew she had to eat sometime. "I'll eat when we get to Drybone..." she promised Tahj.
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali pulls off a leg without hesitation and gets stuck in. Only stopping briefly to bob her head and offer a muffled thanks through a mouthful of meat.
Still chewing the food she ponders discussing how the elders might respond to the results of the expedition, and Tahj's background. But remember her late mother was a close relative of Luha, and K'luha is sore enough, literally and figuratively without more probing questions.
*
K'luha Haaz: There was a long time of silence while the carriage continued on. They would be able to make it to Drybone by nightfall... probably. Maybe. Still, Kluha frowned and looked towards K'haali. "Hey, Haali? How badly do you think they would punish me for disobeying laws concerning tias?" she asked somewhat offhandedly.
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali raises an eyebrow at the question. Could she be talking about K'ile? - She'd gotten that vibe from them before they left...Â
She offers a cheshire grin "I guess that'd depend if they caught you"
*
K'luha Haaz: "It wasn't anything really... wrong!" Luha protested quietly, furrowing his brows at Haali. "Just a kiss but... by his insistance I have to tell the elders so... you think I'm going to be racked for it?"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Listening intently to the conversation, Tahj frowns,"They can't do that until they fix your hip!"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali carries on in a deeply sarcastic tone. "I'm sure they'll stake you out in the sun for the vultures and feed your eyes to the orobon".
"In seriousness. I don't see why they need to know. It's not like you're secretly mated outside of law, or planning to overthrow K'yohko" K'haali takes a second look. "Are you?"
She bursts out laughing
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha blushed a little and shrugged. "K'ile might have said something about possibly wanting to become a nunh maybe?" she said so very softly neither might not have heard it over Haali's laughter.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj eyes K'haali, before deciding she was joking and settles back watching the scenery.
*
K'haali Thalen: Not hearring what K'luha said, but remarking offhandedly. K'haali jokingly confides. "K'ile does of course represent family, so if he was plotting I'd lend him my support; but I don't think it works that way. His backers have to be willing mates, and being my uncle... I'm not sure that'd be wise or even legal".
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha cleared her throat a little more and rubbed at her hip. "It is legal. As long as you're not a sister or brother, it's legal. And I already said I would give him my support if he wanted it. Seeing as we're not really even related."
*
K'haali Thalen: She scratches her head. "Hrm, that changes things in an awkward fashion, useful, but akward".
K'haali slumps down  in her seat and goes quiet, apparently deeply contemplating her toes.
*
K'luha Haaz: "I mean... you don't HAVE to mate with him. There's still K'yohko..." Luha suggested, reaching over to lightly elbow Haali's shoulder. "Or you could be like your sister K'iara and just never mate ever."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Peering between the two in slight confusion, Tahj desides she doesnt want to know and continues watching the land roll past.
*
K'haali Thalen: "I think that's a topic that'll need more thought". K'haali concludes, apparently noticing K'tahjha's gaze and trying figure out what she is looking at.
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha agreed with a silent nodd and joined the others in staring out at the land as it rolled by.
(( Meanwhile, K'ile is over here failing at vision quests or something. ))
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RP from December 11th
K'luha Haaz: At some point during the rest of the fairly quite way to Drybone, Luha made a point that Tahj and Haali shouldn't go about saying that she'd said anything in the first place. Causing needless trouble and worry would be a little pointless.Â
The trio made it to Drybone sometime in the morning, the carriage driver pulling up to the chocobo stand and letting them all know they'd arrived. K'luha was hoping she would find some sort of sign of K'ile about but then again... She pulled another leaf from her pack, she only had two more of those, and got up from the carriage. It wasn't like Haali or Tahj could carry her weight after all.Â
"We can rent an inn room for the night and stock up on supplies before we leave." She explained briefly to Tahj and Haali. "Hopefully we find K'ile and if not... then... I don't know." Luha frowned and looked to the dirt ground. "He knows the way home. Maybe he just went home..."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj frowns,"You can't walk all that way, you'll hurt yourself. Here.."Tahj motioned to Rhiki and he lay down close to K'luha to make mounting eaiser."He can carry you until we get to a place to sit."
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali frowns for a moment, apparently lacking the same optimism K'luha has, or seeing through the poor self-told lie. Without a weapon, K'ile wouldn't be in a position to make the journey all the way to the Sagolii, however, taking pity on K'luha's already fragile state she opts to bite her tongue than cause more worry.
*
K'luha Haaz: "It's..." K'luha paused as Tahj brought her chocobo over. She bit her bottom lip and with a sigh sat down on it, riding side saddle for the comfort of her hip. "Alright... " K'luha gave in, still disliking the amount of sitting she had to do but tolerating it for Tahj's sake. Maybe she could find some more herbal pain killers at the small markets here.Â
"The inn is just over there." Luha motioned down the hill and towards a small building beneath the rocky overhangs. "I have enough gil left for a room and some water but, Haali, maybe we could try selling some of our less useful things here? For enough gil to make it to the Springs and buy supplies over there I mean.."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj clucked and the large bird rose to his feet and began folluing her in the direction K'luha had indicated.
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali nods at Luha's instruction and begins unpacking the carriage, carefully loading most of it onto K'weh's panniers and harness to take to the market. She still knew where the inn was from their earlier visit to drybone, when the storms had closed in some weeks before.
"I'll check back in when I have something".
*
K'luha Haaz: "Right. I'll get the inn room. Just ask the front desk for the room number and come in when you find something. And ask around about K'ile if you can?" Luha sighed, not too terribly hopeful that he had even come this way. Maybe he came back to the camp and got his lance at least... maybe.Â
Reguardless, Luha directed Tahj and Rhiki to the front of the inn where she carefully got off and entered. Pulling out a quickly dwindling pouch of gil, she fround at the lightness of it and requested for a room. The innkeeper looked her over for a moment before pulling out a small envelope.Â
"What's this...?" Luha questioned, looking it over. The innkeeper shrugged and handed off a roomkey as well. With a frowned, K'luha limped towards their room number and opened up the small message. Her eyes scanned it quickly and after a few passes over the words she stopped in front of their room and scowled. "Being held under investigation!? What kind of crap this is!?" Luha loudly cursed before opening the door to their room. "What bullshit!"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj peers at K'luha with concern,"Did someothing happen to K'ile?"
*
 K'luha Haaz: Luah scoffed and waved the message at Tahj. "No, but something happened to our food that she bought in Gridania. Apparently the Brass Blades are 'holding it under a pending investigation'! Which means someone's got to go to Ul'dah and fight with them to get it back, or we'll just have to give it over." This explanation was followed by a muttered string of curses and angry mutters while Luha moving to sit on the particularly large bed pressed against the back corner of the room.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "It's our food, you paid for it. But we are allready late." Tahj sighs in confusion and sits down heavily.
*
K'luha Haaz: "I know..." K'luha replied after a heavy moment of silence. "We're late and K'ile's missing and..." With another heavy sigh K'luha sat up and looked to Tahj. "But everything will work out. Worse comes to worse we'll have to buy something again. This time from Ul'dah."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: A sudden thought passes through Tahj's mind and she grins,"I bet we can have a hot bath here! It'll make your hip feel better and I am dirty from sweating so much."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha glanced over to Tahj again and ndoed. "I was thinking the same thing actually." She gave a little chuckle and ran her hands thorough her hair. "It's much different in the Sagoli though. No bathes or anything I mean. We use soap weed mostly since water is so precious."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj wrinkles her nose,"Does everyone stink?"
*
K'luha Haaz: "No. The soap weed is actually very good at cleaning your body, and it leaves a nice fresh scent." Luha nodded, thinking fondly of it. "Although... since I usually run goods between the tribe and the city, I take bathes when I'm in the city. When we move to Eastern Thanalan, which I believe we will soon, there's a lot more water there. I'm sure we might be able to manage a bath."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "Can I get you anything?" Tahj pats the soft bed,"I might take a nap"
*
K'haali Thalen: Meanwhile, at the market K'haali took a rectangular hessian sack from kweh's pack and unwrapped it to reveal a heavy, raptor hide bound book. With practiced ease she found the right bookmark and opened it out onto a page on field medicine filled with a number of drawings of medicinal plants, as well as a number of more arcane schematics.
Looking up, she surveyed her battlefield - a tailor flanked the left, while the middleground was held by a funeral supplies vendor; definitly not someone she need visit. Then it caught her eye; a leatherworker, entrenched in a small alcove off the main marketplace; they might be interested in taking the heavy sack of alumen off her hands.
*
K'luha Haaz: "No, go ahead and nap. I'll probably take a bath and wait for K'haali in the meantime..." Luha smiled and stood, moving off to the bathroom.
*
K'haali Thalen: She continued to scan the field, a customer striking a riposte at a vendor's outrageous prices, trying to wear them down. Then a smell caught her attention, flowers - almost trying sneak up on her - the florist mostly sold flowers for the graves, but, she hoped they might have more practical herbs on hand. Once she'd conquerered the leatherworker and come away with his treasure, she'd used it to lay claim to whatever pain killing plants they might have.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj called after K'luha,"Should we share the bath to save the hot water? Mama said you should never waste water even if it seemed you had enough."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha paused as she turned on the water. Sharing a bath... huh? She looked sad for a moment before shaking her head. "The bathtub's too small, but if you're really worried about it I'll leave the water in the tub when I'm done. That way we don't waste much."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "Ok" she called back and begain stripping out of her dirty clothes and folding them neatly until she was just in underclothes and climbing onto the bed , promptly falling asleep.
*
K'haali Thalen: The sun was already going down when K'haali finally returned to the inn, sporting a victorious grin, a full money purse and a a satchel of oddly fragrant wonders which she plopped onto the bed next to K'tahj's dozing form shaking her.
"I come bearring the gtifts of Thanalan!" she called loud enough to wake the dead (Not the wisest thing to do in Drybone), hoping K'luha might here her, wherever she might be.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj stirs and yawns sleepily immediately smelling the herbs,"What's that? It smells pretty."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha stepped out from the bathroom as K'haali finally reappeared. She felt much clearned, and looked a little bit better, though without the grime some of her other cuts and bruises showed up. Still, Luha pulled on her shirt and skirt again before limping over to sit on the bed again.Â
"Smells good, and you got paid well. You're a good haggling Haali." Luha smiled. "What'cha get?"
*
K'haali Thalen: "Well, when I showed him the miraculous quality of that aldgoat hide I treated using the same crystals, and reminded him how much more pleasant it is to use than treating leather the OTHER way... it lightened our load, and his purse quite a bit!"
"Anyroads. I found a florist who knew a guy, who knew a guy and after being led through every dingy backstreet in drybone I was led to a lalafell who was able to hook me up with some painkilling herbs. They look rather like what I saw you chewing in the carriage" - K'haali offers K'luha the herbs from her satchel in the dimming light.
She suddenly stops and sniffs the air. "Is that soapweed?"
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha blinked and carefully took the herbs. Painkilling herbs? That would be useful. Though, she would have to be mindful about moving even with the painkillers. She set the herb in her lap and looked up to Haali before chuckling.Â
"No, it's soap. Which is similar but not made of the same thing. I took a bath. Tahj you can use it next. Make sure to wash up outside of the tub and then use a little water to rinse before you get in the tub. Keeps the tub water cleaner. Haali you're welcome to one as well."
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali deflates. "That's a shame, prepared properly real soapweed would help ease the pain, I checked the market but in "civilised" lands they prefer soap bar to the real thing; and the sun is almost down now. Too late to go out and find a bush or three."Â
She peers around the corner at the bathtub and wrinkles her nose at the used water. "I happen to think i smell just fine!"
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha chuckled and gave a small shrug. "Suit yourself. But... you didn't hear anything about K'ile while you were out did you?" K'luha looked somewhat hopefully at K'haali.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj hops off the bed and goes into the bathroom happy to scub off the film of sweat and dirt.
*
K'haali Thalen: Watching K'tahja leave, K'haali takes the opportunity to hop on the empty bed and snuggles into it claiming it as her own.
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha took Haali's silence as a no and looked crestfallen at the ground.Â
'What's wrong K'ile...? Was it really me that would have you abandon us...?' Luha thought to herself before shaking her head again, trying to push past the depressing thoughts that settled on her like a lead weight.Â
"What do we do about K'ile?" she asked finally. "Do we just leave and go home...? Or do we try to find him?"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali contemplated the ceiling, studying a number of cobwebs painted black by the grime and dust in the air.
"It's a long way back since you parted ways, he could be anywhere by now. Just striking out and trying to find him would be a fools errand, it'd take days to scour the area and we may miss him anyway. But, if I know K'ile, I wouldn't be surprised  if he's been tailing us this whole time, feeling foolish for storming off, but too proud to come and apologise"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj comes wandering out of the bathroom without even a towel, and begind hunting through her bag for a clean set of clothes. "He knows his way home doesn't he? He might have beat us there."
*
K'luha Haaz: It made Luha feel a little bitter to feel like he might have been tailing them. Still... she rubbed her legs nervously only looking up with Tahj came through waring nothing and looking around for her clothing. K'luha frowned more and gripped at her skirt.Â
"He hasn't beaten us. There's no way he could have beaten us but..." She sighed heavily. "Then what? We just leave for home tomorrow and hope he is tailing us?"
*
K'haali Thalen: She let's out a sigh. "Besides asking around in the morning if anyone has seen a red-hairred shirtless miqo'te I don't see what more we _can_ do..."
K'haali rolls over and contemplates a way to reserve her bed... "I mean, I could go out tonight and see if I can spot any campfires and maybe try sneak up on him if that's the case. But it's a long shot"
*
K'luha Haaz: "No... it's... you're right." Luha gave in, laying back in her own bed and staring up at the grimy ceiling. "That's all we can do... isn't it?"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj grins as her stomach growls loudly," We should eat, and I'm not sure you've eaten anything lately Aunt Luha."
*
K'haali Thalen: Without moving from her prone position K'haali lifts up and jingles her bag of coins. "I thought we might be able to get a warm meal at the public house over the square instead of goat jerky, again..."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha looked at the other two. She didn't have much of an appetite still. Too busy worrying over K'ile and his whereabouts but... She sat up again and carefully ran her hands through her hair. "Alright. But only if you're dressed Tahj and you take a bath Haali."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj finds her clean clothes and begins putting them on wrinkling her nose at K'haali with a sly grin,"Aye you smell like Rhiki."
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K'haali Thalen: "Well you smell like... Ul'dahn decadance!" K'haali retorts, swiftly removing her dalmatica and tossing it at K'tahjha's head.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj ducks the article of clothing and looks puzzled,"What's deca-- whatever she said?"
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha chuckled a little and gave Tahj a shrug. "Decadance or no, I'm not riding another two days in a cart with you when you already smell like that Haali!" Luha called back, unwavering on her insistance.
*
K'haali Thalen: "Fine, fine, I guess I can suffer smelling like an Ul'dahn merchant for one day... I already spent the evening pretending to be one" K'haali mutters, struggling to remove a thighboot, first sat on the edge of the bed trying to loosen the straps, then trying prize it off with her other foot - at which point her foot finally pops out suddenly causing her to flop back on the bed and K'tajha.
"And now you smell like K'weh too anyway!"
Dusting herself off, and managing to remove the other boot with drasticlly less trouble she heads around the corner to the bathtub, stopping only to remove and throw her underwear onto the bed in vain attempt to reserve it.
"I'll smell like you two anyway after this, this water's filthy!"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj giggles at K'haali and begins picking up and folding the other girl's dirty clothes,"How do we wash all these dirty clothes?'
*
K'luha Haaz: "Haali!" Luha scolded as the girl fell over, only to shake her head and groan. "You should bathe before you put your grime over all the bed. Hurry up now, come on. You wanna eat nice food or what?"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali peeks back around the corner. "I'm trying to weigh up the lesser evil; getting in this filthy water, or surviving on goat jerky".
A splash and a grumble seemed to declare her decision for the evening...
K'luha Haaz: At some point during the rest of the fairly quite way to Drybone, Luha made a point that Tahj and Haali shouldn't go about saying that she'd said anything in the first place. Causing needless trouble and worry would be a little pointless.Â
The trio made it to Drybone sometime in the morning, the carriage driver pulling up to the chocobo stand and letting them all know they'd arrived. K'luha was hoping she would find some sort of sign of K'ile about but then again... She pulled another leaf from her pack, she only had two more of those, and got up from the carriage. It wasn't like Haali or Tahj could carry her weight after all.Â
"We can rent an inn room for the night and stock up on supplies before we leave." She explained briefly to Tahj and Haali. "Hopefully we find K'ile and if not... then... I don't know." Luha frowned and looked to the dirt ground. "He knows the way home. Maybe he just went home..."
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj frowns,"You can't walk all that way, you'll hurt yourself. Here.."Tahj motioned to Rhiki and he lay down close to K'luha to make mounting eaiser."He can carry you until we get to a place to sit."
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali frowns for a moment, apparently lacking the same optimism K'luha has, or seeing through the poor self-told lie. Without a weapon, K'ile wouldn't be in a position to make the journey all the way to the Sagolii, however, taking pity on K'luha's already fragile state she opts to bite her tongue than cause more worry.
*
K'luha Haaz: "It's..." K'luha paused as Tahj brought her chocobo over. She bit her bottom lip and with a sigh sat down on it, riding side saddle for the comfort of her hip. "Alright... " K'luha gave in, still disliking the amount of sitting she had to do but tolerating it for Tahj's sake. Maybe she could find some more herbal pain killers at the small markets here.Â
"The inn is just over there." Luha motioned down the hill and towards a small building beneath the rocky overhangs. "I have enough gil left for a room and some water but, Haali, maybe we could try selling some of our less useful things here? For enough gil to make it to the Springs and buy supplies over there I mean.."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj clucked and the large bird rose to his feet and began folluing her in the direction K'luha had indicated.
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali nods at Luha's instruction and begins unpacking the carriage, carefully loading most of it onto K'weh's panniers and harness to take to the market. She still knew where the inn was from their earlier visit to drybone, when the storms had closed in some weeks before.
"I'll check back in when I have something".
*
K'luha Haaz: "Right. I'll get the inn room. Just ask the front desk for the room number and come in when you find something. And ask around about K'ile if you can?" Luha sighed, not too terribly hopeful that he had even come this way. Maybe he came back to the camp and got his lance at least... maybe.Â
Reguardless, Luha directed Tahj and Rhiki to the front of the inn where she carefully got off and entered. Pulling out a quickly dwindling pouch of gil, she fround at the lightness of it and requested for a room. The innkeeper looked her over for a moment before pulling out a small envelope.Â
"What's this...?" Luha questioned, looking it over. The innkeeper shrugged and handed off a roomkey as well. With a frowned, K'luha limped towards their room number and opened up the small message. Her eyes scanned it quickly and after a few passes over the words she stopped in front of their room and scowled. "Being held under investigation!? What kind of crap this is!?" Luha loudly cursed before opening the door to their room. "What bullshit!"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj peers at K'luha with concern,"Did someothing happen to K'ile?"
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 K'luha Haaz: Luah scoffed and waved the message at Tahj. "No, but something happened to our food that she bought in Gridania. Apparently the Brass Blades are 'holding it under a pending investigation'! Which means someone's got to go to Ul'dah and fight with them to get it back, or we'll just have to give it over." This explanation was followed by a muttered string of curses and angry mutters while Luha moving to sit on the particularly large bed pressed against the back corner of the room.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "It's our food, you paid for it. But we are allready late." Tahj sighs in confusion and sits down heavily.
*
K'luha Haaz: "I know..." K'luha replied after a heavy moment of silence. "We're late and K'ile's missing and..." With another heavy sigh K'luha sat up and looked to Tahj. "But everything will work out. Worse comes to worse we'll have to buy something again. This time from Ul'dah."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: A sudden thought passes through Tahj's mind and she grins,"I bet we can have a hot bath here! It'll make your hip feel better and I am dirty from sweating so much."
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K'luha Haaz: Luha glanced over to Tahj again and ndoed. "I was thinking the same thing actually." She gave a little chuckle and ran her hands thorough her hair. "It's much different in the Sagoli though. No bathes or anything I mean. We use soap weed mostly since water is so precious."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj wrinkles her nose,"Does everyone stink?"
*
K'luha Haaz: "No. The soap weed is actually very good at cleaning your body, and it leaves a nice fresh scent." Luha nodded, thinking fondly of it. "Although... since I usually run goods between the tribe and the city, I take bathes when I'm in the city. When we move to Eastern Thanalan, which I believe we will soon, there's a lot more water there. I'm sure we might be able to manage a bath."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "Can I get you anything?" Tahj pats the soft bed,"I might take a nap"
*
K'haali Thalen: Meanwhile, at the market K'haali took a rectangular hessian sack from kweh's pack and unwrapped it to reveal a heavy, raptor hide bound book. With practiced ease she found the right bookmark and opened it out onto a page on field medicine filled with a number of drawings of medicinal plants, as well as a number of more arcane schematics.
Looking up, she surveyed her battlefield - a tailor flanked the left, while the middleground was held by a funeral supplies vendor; definitly not someone she need visit. Then it caught her eye; a leatherworker, entrenched in a small alcove off the main marketplace; they might be interested in taking the heavy sack of alumen off her hands.
*
K'luha Haaz: "No, go ahead and nap. I'll probably take a bath and wait for K'haali in the meantime..." Luha smiled and stood, moving off to the bathroom.
*
K'haali Thalen: She continued to scan the field, a customer striking a riposte at a vendor's outrageous prices, trying to wear them down. Then a smell caught her attention, flowers - almost trying sneak up on her - the florist mostly sold flowers for the graves, but, she hoped they might have more practical herbs on hand. Once she'd conquerered the leatherworker and come away with his treasure, she'd used it to lay claim to whatever pain killing plants they might have.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj called after K'luha,"Should we share the bath to save the hot water? Mama said you should never waste water even if it seemed you had enough."
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K'luha Haaz: Luha paused as she turned on the water. Sharing a bath... huh? She looked sad for a moment before shaking her head. "The bathtub's too small, but if you're really worried about it I'll leave the water in the tub when I'm done. That way we don't waste much."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: "Ok" she called back and begain stripping out of her dirty clothes and folding them neatly until she was just in underclothes and climbing onto the bed , promptly falling asleep.
*
K'haali Thalen: The sun was already going down when K'haali finally returned to the inn, sporting a victorious grin, a full money purse and a a satchel of oddly fragrant wonders which she plopped onto the bed next to K'tahj's dozing form shaking her.
"I come bearring the gtifts of Thanalan!" she called loud enough to wake the dead (Not the wisest thing to do in Drybone), hoping K'luha might here her, wherever she might be.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj stirs and yawns sleepily immediately smelling the herbs,"What's that? It smells pretty."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha stepped out from the bathroom as K'haali finally reappeared. She felt much clearned, and looked a little bit better, though without the grime some of her other cuts and bruises showed up. Still, Luha pulled on her shirt and skirt again before limping over to sit on the bed again.Â
"Smells good, and you got paid well. You're a good haggling Haali." Luha smiled. "What'cha get?"
*
K'haali Thalen: "Well, when I showed him the miraculous quality of that aldgoat hide I treated using the same crystals, and reminded him how much more pleasant it is to use than treating leather the OTHER way... it lightened our load, and his purse quite a bit!"
"Anyroads. I found a florist who knew a guy, who knew a guy and after being led through every dingy backstreet in drybone I was led to a lalafell who was able to hook me up with some painkilling herbs. They look rather like what I saw you chewing in the carriage" - K'haali offers K'luha the herbs from her satchel in the dimming light.
She suddenly stops and sniffs the air. "Is that soapweed?"
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha blinked and carefully took the herbs. Painkilling herbs? That would be useful. Though, she would have to be mindful about moving even with the painkillers. She set the herb in her lap and looked up to Haali before chuckling.Â
"No, it's soap. Which is similar but not made of the same thing. I took a bath. Tahj you can use it next. Make sure to wash up outside of the tub and then use a little water to rinse before you get in the tub. Keeps the tub water cleaner. Haali you're welcome to one as well."
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K'haali Thalen: K'haali deflates. "That's a shame, prepared properly real soapweed would help ease the pain, I checked the market but in "civilised" lands they prefer soap bar to the real thing; and the sun is almost down now. Too late to go out and find a bush or three."Â
She peers around the corner at the bathtub and wrinkles her nose at the used water. "I happen to think i smell just fine!"
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha chuckled and gave a small shrug. "Suit yourself. But... you didn't hear anything about K'ile while you were out did you?" K'luha looked somewhat hopefully at K'haali.
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K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj hops off the bed and goes into the bathroom happy to scub off the film of sweat and dirt.
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K'haali Thalen: Watching K'tahja leave, K'haali takes the opportunity to hop on the empty bed and snuggles into it claiming it as her own.
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K'luha Haaz: Luha took Haali's silence as a no and looked crestfallen at the ground.Â
'What's wrong K'ile...? Was it really me that would have you abandon us...?' Luha thought to herself before shaking her head again, trying to push past the depressing thoughts that settled on her like a lead weight.Â
"What do we do about K'ile?" she asked finally. "Do we just leave and go home...? Or do we try to find him?"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali contemplated the ceiling, studying a number of cobwebs painted black by the grime and dust in the air.
"It's a long way back since you parted ways, he could be anywhere by now. Just striking out and trying to find him would be a fools errand, it'd take days to scour the area and we may miss him anyway. But, if I know K'ile, I wouldn't be surprised  if he's been tailing us this whole time, feeling foolish for storming off, but too proud to come and apologise"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj comes wandering out of the bathroom without even a towel, and begind hunting through her bag for a clean set of clothes. "He knows his way home doesn't he? He might have beat us there."
*
K'luha Haaz: It made Luha feel a little bitter to feel like he might have been tailing them. Still... she rubbed her legs nervously only looking up with Tahj came through waring nothing and looking around for her clothing. K'luha frowned more and gripped at her skirt.Â
"He hasn't beaten us. There's no way he could have beaten us but..." She sighed heavily. "Then what? We just leave for home tomorrow and hope he is tailing us?"
*
K'haali Thalen: She let's out a sigh. "Besides asking around in the morning if anyone has seen a red-hairred shirtless miqo'te I don't see what more we _can_ do..."
K'haali rolls over and contemplates a way to reserve her bed... "I mean, I could go out tonight and see if I can spot any campfires and maybe try sneak up on him if that's the case. But it's a long shot"
*
K'luha Haaz: "No... it's... you're right." Luha gave in, laying back in her own bed and staring up at the grimy ceiling. "That's all we can do... isn't it?"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj grins as her stomach growls loudly," We should eat, and I'm not sure you've eaten anything lately Aunt Luha."
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K'haali Thalen: Without moving from her prone position K'haali lifts up and jingles her bag of coins. "I thought we might be able to get a warm meal at the public house over the square instead of goat jerky, again..."
*
K'luha Haaz: Luha looked at the other two. She didn't have much of an appetite still. Too busy worrying over K'ile and his whereabouts but... She sat up again and carefully ran her hands through her hair. "Alright. But only if you're dressed Tahj and you take a bath Haali."
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj finds her clean clothes and begins putting them on wrinkling her nose at K'haali with a sly grin,"Aye you smell like Rhiki."
*
K'haali Thalen: "Well you smell like... Ul'dahn decadance!" K'haali retorts, swiftly removing her dalmatica and tossing it at K'tahjha's head.
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj ducks the article of clothing and looks puzzled,"What's deca-- whatever she said?"
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha chuckled a little and gave Tahj a shrug. "Decadance or no, I'm not riding another two days in a cart with you when you already smell like that Haali!" Luha called back, unwavering on her insistance.
*
K'haali Thalen: "Fine, fine, I guess I can suffer smelling like an Ul'dahn merchant for one day... I already spent the evening pretending to be one" K'haali mutters, struggling to remove a thighboot, first sat on the edge of the bed trying to loosen the straps, then trying prize it off with her other foot - at which point her foot finally pops out suddenly causing her to flop back on the bed and K'tajha.
"And now you smell like K'weh too anyway!"
Dusting herself off, and managing to remove the other boot with drasticlly less trouble she heads around the corner to the bathtub, stopping only to remove and throw her underwear onto the bed in vain attempt to reserve it.
"I'll smell like you two anyway after this, this water's filthy!"
*
K'tahjha Yohko: Tahj giggles at K'haali and begins picking up and folding the other girl's dirty clothes,"How do we wash all these dirty clothes?'
*
K'luha Haaz: "Haali!" Luha scolded as the girl fell over, only to shake her head and groan. "You should bathe before you put your grime over all the bed. Hurry up now, come on. You wanna eat nice food or what?"
*
K'haali Thalen: K'haali peeks back around the corner. "I'm trying to weigh up the lesser evil; getting in this filthy water, or surviving on goat jerky".
A splash and a grumble seemed to declare her decision for the evening...
(( So then this happens over here.
And then this happens over here. ))
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RP from December 16thTwinflame: The refugee camps were full all of all kinds of heinous smells. Starvation had a stinck to it. Desperation and death. The campfires added just enough smoke to the mix to remind K'ile Tia what the tribe's camp had smelled like when he'd returned from Cartenau. It turned his stomach, but he went anyway, for he smelt someone specific had come through here.
Picking out K'ailia was simple. Not only did she have a distinctive smell, but her pale skin made her seem to glow whenever she caught the light, and she was always at the center of some kind of attention, small as she was. Approaching her was going to take a good amount of courage, especially if he didn't want a repeat of his last interaction with the girl. He took a moment to stretch out his limbs and prepare for a fury that he guessed would be about equal to the worst K'luha had ever given him.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia was busy passing out to the children in the camp, a number of small bowls filled with chicken and mushrooms from the black shroud. She had been stockpiling these meals for a while, and for this reason.
But then, she got the scent of one she did not like. She smiled and the children and patted their heads handing out the last of the bowls, then walked away to a more secluded spot outside the refugee camp and waited for him to come to her.
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Twinflame: By the time K'ile was done girding himself for conflict, K'ailia had finished being a saint and gone outside the camp, and was standing there. K'ile was fairly certain she was going to murder him. He hoped it wouldn't hurt too much.
Walking solemnly out of camp and holding his palms up as he approached K'ailia, he greeted her by saying, "K'ailia. Hi. Two minutes?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia narrowed her eyes for a moment, letting him sweat just for a couple seconds before saying, "Fine. You at least aren't pointing a weapon at me this time."
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Twinflame: Chuckling nervously, his body still tensed in preparation for being hit by some kind of angry spell, K'ile said, "I admit that wasn't the wisest thing I've ever done, but to be fair, your mother told me Ventus tried to kill her. So I guess I was just being super defensive!"
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia crossed her arms, "What Ventus did was not good. I make no excuses for him."
She took a deep breath, "I had healed my mother's wounds that he had inflicted and told her not to move around or she'd hurt herself again. I came out there to find her, and the first thing I get was a spear pointed at my head. You know my scent, there was no reason for that, nor any escuse for it either."
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Twinflame: "I'm not making an excuse," K'ile waved his hands in the air, "Just saying. I was protecting your mom and that's good." He finally dropped his arms to his sides, though he still wore his forced, static smile.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "So what is it you wanted?"
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Twinflame: "Uhm," K'ile said, at first. He didn't want to say something stupid, so he decided to stall, reaching up and pulling at one ear, "Well, you remember when we first came to Ul'dah and you and your mom fought and we all had some nice talks? I felt there were five or so minutes around there where I thought you and I kinda... you know... had a friendship sort of... understanding... going on...?" His expression was hopeful.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "You were definitely on my good side. I was starting to like you some. But... the day you said the tribe couldn't mold me into a proper tribemate and I said I'd be willing to give myself over to learn from you. You remember your response to me?"
*
Twinflame: "Uhm," he said again. He looked at the sky, and thought he say ill omens in the clouds, and this prompted him to think very hard. "I said... I think... that it was... nice?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia shook her head, "You told me to think twice, because you'd force me to mate. Even knowing that I expressed no desire nor, any interest in ever doing it."
She crossed her arms, "That would be like me suddenly telling you that I am going to force you to be a nuhn despite your clear statement that you have no intention of ever being one. It was insulting and rude."
*
Twinflame: "Uhm," he said, for a third time, which he was sure was making him sound intelligent. "Oh, right. Oh. You know what that was, was me telling you that you shouldn't make promises you can't keep. I know you didn't want to. I don't want to be Nunh. But look, I'm going to end up being Nunh!" He tried to infuse his voice with humor "Good thing you didn't make any promises like I did! Because damn!"
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked to the ground to her left, "Then you could of simply said don't make promises you cannot keep. You should not of used the one thing I expressed a disinterest in as a weapon in that statement."
She looks back up to K'ile, "K'haz even said you were an idiot for making such a statement." her tail swished with hints of annoyance, "I'm just glad K'haz at least healed mother after she blocked my attack on you."
*
Twinflame: "I'm glad K'haz did that too," K'ile said, and belatedly, "And what does it matter if K'haz thinks I'm an idiot? He's not the brightest guy," and with exceptional delay, "And you know that rock of yours really messedyour mom up!"
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked at K'ile in confusion, "What do you mean? Don't tell me she continued to move after he tried healing her..."
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Twinflame: Giving K'ailia an incredulous look, he said, "It's your mom. Of course she walked all the way to Gridania before she even let anybody know her hip was broken. And then it was a battle to make her rest at all!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia slapped her palm over her face, "I swear she is more stuborn than an Anole in heat... Please tell me you at least forced her to see a conjurer..."
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Twinflame: "I was going to," K'ile confessed, "But she said being healed by magic felt like having her body violated. How the hell am I supposed to argue with that?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia throws her hands up, "So she's still walking around with that busted hip?!"
She looks in the direction of Ul'dah, "I will have to pay a visit to her."
*
Twinflame: "Uhm," he said again, and cursed inwardly at himself. "You're going to go all the way to the tribe to heal her?"
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked at K'ile, "She's in the inn of Ul'dah right now actually. She brought my stuff from the tribe so I could make my dorm room look more like home."
*
K'ailia sighed, "And yes, I still respect the tribe ways. I will never forsake our ways. But I know I can do more for the tribe outside of the tribe than I can inside. Also... till the tribe is on its feet, I am one less mouth to feed."
*
Twinflame: Forcing himself to stay quiet a moment so that he didn't utter another 'uhm', K'ile at length said, "Uhm - dammit. No, that's not... I wasn't thinking anything like that. I mean, you picky what's important to you and that's fine."
*
K'ailia Yohko: "Uh... what?" was all she could ask, because she didn't understand a single thing of what he was saying.
*
Twinflame: K'ile was pulling on both ears now and pacing. K'luha was in Ul'dah now? That could really screw him up if she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, even if he could smell her coming ahead of time. K'ailia's question eventually reached through his fretting and he said, "I don't think you won't respect tribe traditions. I never thought you wouldn't. You're still you no matter where you go or what you decide you care about."
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded at that, "K'piru is also in Ul'dah I believe, though I hadn't seen her since we left on the scouting mission. So I don't know if she's still in the city. But I do know a lalafell that travels with her had made threats at me, if I spoke to her again."
*
Twinflame: "Aaaauuuuuh," he uttered a long buzz of sound and tensed, turning away from K'ailia and stretching his arms over his head. His tail shook and shivered behind him, turning in great, vibrant cricles. He coughed a few times, and then spun to say, "Back on topic, I think I'm going to end up fighting for Nunh and you should show up and cheer for... someone. Doesn't matter who."
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia frowned at that, "What brought that on? And would I even be welcomed back at camp... considering I had left the tribe."
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Twinflame: He waved his hands over his head, smiling, "Forget what brought it on, the whole thing with you having elft the tribe is the whole reason -- no, part of the reason -- I want you there. See, Luha and I were talking, and we think the tribe shouldn't be so against outsiders as it is."
*
K'ailia Yohko: It was now K'ailia's turn to do a double take... but she ended up doing a triple take, "Buh... guh... uh... wha?"
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Twinflame: Laughing at that, K'ile said, "It's true. I think it would go a long way to convince the Elders that outsiders aren't so bad if you showed up at the feast and demonstrated that you can be part of the family and respect the tribe, even though you've left."
*
K'ailia Yohko: "So... you would have me join you for a feast... as an outsider? Wont that be a bit... weird?" she asked.
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Twinflame: He nodded, "It'll be different, but also the same, and that's the whole point. Family doesn't need to stop at the tribe, and I want the Elders to see that."
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "Well... alright... I will go. And I already know different. When I returned to the tribe from Gridania, I was already feeling like an outsider. I don't know what happened or how things changed... but they did..."
*
Twinflame: K'ile made a very solemn face, and said, "I feel like an outsider, too, most of the time. The tribe isn't the same as it was. But the world is empty, so... Family is family."
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled, "Then we should collect mother and go back together... all three of us. Also... Ventus is no longer a threat. I've gotten to the bottom of what he has been dabbling in, and we created a... sollution of sort."
*
Twinflame: Smiling suddenly, K'ile said, "Didja kill him?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled shaking her head, "No, but what had took over him is supressed. I will just have to monitor him for a while. Believe me, I wont let what happen to my mother happen to another. My goals is to help the people of Eorzea. If he proved to be a threat, then yeah, I'd use a Stone two spell on him."
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Twinflame: He seemed a bit disappointed, but said instead, "I dunno if I'm gonna head back with your mom or not. I havne't exactly talked to the Elders about this yet."
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "I know you are disappointed he isn't dead. But I don't like taking life unless I have no choice. I will defend myself, and I will defend my friends and family. But if a life can be saved, I feel I must try..."
But then K'ailia looked to Ul'dah, "Sometimes, you must do what is best for family, and yourself. I think all three of us have explaining to do to the elders."
She looked back at K'ile, "Though it makes us uncomfortable, sometimes, we must do what is uncomfortable, for the greater good. Morales might be higher if all three of us returned together... but if you feel that way, then I will collect mother and we will head on back. without you."
*
Twinflame: "Yeah, nice lecture." K'ile said, and then continued, "I got stuff to do around town before I leave. If you're still around when I'm done we'll hook up. Otherwise, I'll see you back home."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled and nodded, "Alright..." with that she started walking past him but paused putting a hand on his shoulder, "And just some advice. Be more mindful in the future of your words." and with that, continued towards Ul'dah to see her mother.
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Twinflame: K'ile muttered in passing, "Yeah, yeah. You could be more understanding too. Bye now."
Picking out K'ailia was simple. Not only did she have a distinctive smell, but her pale skin made her seem to glow whenever she caught the light, and she was always at the center of some kind of attention, small as she was. Approaching her was going to take a good amount of courage, especially if he didn't want a repeat of his last interaction with the girl. He took a moment to stretch out his limbs and prepare for a fury that he guessed would be about equal to the worst K'luha had ever given him.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia was busy passing out to the children in the camp, a number of small bowls filled with chicken and mushrooms from the black shroud. She had been stockpiling these meals for a while, and for this reason.
But then, she got the scent of one she did not like. She smiled and the children and patted their heads handing out the last of the bowls, then walked away to a more secluded spot outside the refugee camp and waited for him to come to her.
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Twinflame: By the time K'ile was done girding himself for conflict, K'ailia had finished being a saint and gone outside the camp, and was standing there. K'ile was fairly certain she was going to murder him. He hoped it wouldn't hurt too much.
Walking solemnly out of camp and holding his palms up as he approached K'ailia, he greeted her by saying, "K'ailia. Hi. Two minutes?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia narrowed her eyes for a moment, letting him sweat just for a couple seconds before saying, "Fine. You at least aren't pointing a weapon at me this time."
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Twinflame: Chuckling nervously, his body still tensed in preparation for being hit by some kind of angry spell, K'ile said, "I admit that wasn't the wisest thing I've ever done, but to be fair, your mother told me Ventus tried to kill her. So I guess I was just being super defensive!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia crossed her arms, "What Ventus did was not good. I make no excuses for him."
She took a deep breath, "I had healed my mother's wounds that he had inflicted and told her not to move around or she'd hurt herself again. I came out there to find her, and the first thing I get was a spear pointed at my head. You know my scent, there was no reason for that, nor any escuse for it either."
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Twinflame: "I'm not making an excuse," K'ile waved his hands in the air, "Just saying. I was protecting your mom and that's good." He finally dropped his arms to his sides, though he still wore his forced, static smile.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "So what is it you wanted?"
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Twinflame: "Uhm," K'ile said, at first. He didn't want to say something stupid, so he decided to stall, reaching up and pulling at one ear, "Well, you remember when we first came to Ul'dah and you and your mom fought and we all had some nice talks? I felt there were five or so minutes around there where I thought you and I kinda... you know... had a friendship sort of... understanding... going on...?" His expression was hopeful.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "You were definitely on my good side. I was starting to like you some. But... the day you said the tribe couldn't mold me into a proper tribemate and I said I'd be willing to give myself over to learn from you. You remember your response to me?"
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Twinflame: "Uhm," he said again. He looked at the sky, and thought he say ill omens in the clouds, and this prompted him to think very hard. "I said... I think... that it was... nice?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia shook her head, "You told me to think twice, because you'd force me to mate. Even knowing that I expressed no desire nor, any interest in ever doing it."
She crossed her arms, "That would be like me suddenly telling you that I am going to force you to be a nuhn despite your clear statement that you have no intention of ever being one. It was insulting and rude."
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Twinflame: "Uhm," he said, for a third time, which he was sure was making him sound intelligent. "Oh, right. Oh. You know what that was, was me telling you that you shouldn't make promises you can't keep. I know you didn't want to. I don't want to be Nunh. But look, I'm going to end up being Nunh!" He tried to infuse his voice with humor "Good thing you didn't make any promises like I did! Because damn!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked to the ground to her left, "Then you could of simply said don't make promises you cannot keep. You should not of used the one thing I expressed a disinterest in as a weapon in that statement."
She looks back up to K'ile, "K'haz even said you were an idiot for making such a statement." her tail swished with hints of annoyance, "I'm just glad K'haz at least healed mother after she blocked my attack on you."
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Twinflame: "I'm glad K'haz did that too," K'ile said, and belatedly, "And what does it matter if K'haz thinks I'm an idiot? He's not the brightest guy," and with exceptional delay, "And you know that rock of yours really messedyour mom up!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked at K'ile in confusion, "What do you mean? Don't tell me she continued to move after he tried healing her..."
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Twinflame: Giving K'ailia an incredulous look, he said, "It's your mom. Of course she walked all the way to Gridania before she even let anybody know her hip was broken. And then it was a battle to make her rest at all!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia slapped her palm over her face, "I swear she is more stuborn than an Anole in heat... Please tell me you at least forced her to see a conjurer..."
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Twinflame: "I was going to," K'ile confessed, "But she said being healed by magic felt like having her body violated. How the hell am I supposed to argue with that?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia throws her hands up, "So she's still walking around with that busted hip?!"
She looks in the direction of Ul'dah, "I will have to pay a visit to her."
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Twinflame: "Uhm," he said again, and cursed inwardly at himself. "You're going to go all the way to the tribe to heal her?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked at K'ile, "She's in the inn of Ul'dah right now actually. She brought my stuff from the tribe so I could make my dorm room look more like home."
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K'ailia sighed, "And yes, I still respect the tribe ways. I will never forsake our ways. But I know I can do more for the tribe outside of the tribe than I can inside. Also... till the tribe is on its feet, I am one less mouth to feed."
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Twinflame: Forcing himself to stay quiet a moment so that he didn't utter another 'uhm', K'ile at length said, "Uhm - dammit. No, that's not... I wasn't thinking anything like that. I mean, you picky what's important to you and that's fine."
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K'ailia Yohko: "Uh... what?" was all she could ask, because she didn't understand a single thing of what he was saying.
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Twinflame: K'ile was pulling on both ears now and pacing. K'luha was in Ul'dah now? That could really screw him up if she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, even if he could smell her coming ahead of time. K'ailia's question eventually reached through his fretting and he said, "I don't think you won't respect tribe traditions. I never thought you wouldn't. You're still you no matter where you go or what you decide you care about."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded at that, "K'piru is also in Ul'dah I believe, though I hadn't seen her since we left on the scouting mission. So I don't know if she's still in the city. But I do know a lalafell that travels with her had made threats at me, if I spoke to her again."
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Twinflame: "Aaaauuuuuh," he uttered a long buzz of sound and tensed, turning away from K'ailia and stretching his arms over his head. His tail shook and shivered behind him, turning in great, vibrant cricles. He coughed a few times, and then spun to say, "Back on topic, I think I'm going to end up fighting for Nunh and you should show up and cheer for... someone. Doesn't matter who."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia frowned at that, "What brought that on? And would I even be welcomed back at camp... considering I had left the tribe."
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Twinflame: He waved his hands over his head, smiling, "Forget what brought it on, the whole thing with you having elft the tribe is the whole reason -- no, part of the reason -- I want you there. See, Luha and I were talking, and we think the tribe shouldn't be so against outsiders as it is."
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K'ailia Yohko: It was now K'ailia's turn to do a double take... but she ended up doing a triple take, "Buh... guh... uh... wha?"
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Twinflame: Laughing at that, K'ile said, "It's true. I think it would go a long way to convince the Elders that outsiders aren't so bad if you showed up at the feast and demonstrated that you can be part of the family and respect the tribe, even though you've left."
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K'ailia Yohko: "So... you would have me join you for a feast... as an outsider? Wont that be a bit... weird?" she asked.
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Twinflame: He nodded, "It'll be different, but also the same, and that's the whole point. Family doesn't need to stop at the tribe, and I want the Elders to see that."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "Well... alright... I will go. And I already know different. When I returned to the tribe from Gridania, I was already feeling like an outsider. I don't know what happened or how things changed... but they did..."
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Twinflame: K'ile made a very solemn face, and said, "I feel like an outsider, too, most of the time. The tribe isn't the same as it was. But the world is empty, so... Family is family."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled, "Then we should collect mother and go back together... all three of us. Also... Ventus is no longer a threat. I've gotten to the bottom of what he has been dabbling in, and we created a... sollution of sort."
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Twinflame: Smiling suddenly, K'ile said, "Didja kill him?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled shaking her head, "No, but what had took over him is supressed. I will just have to monitor him for a while. Believe me, I wont let what happen to my mother happen to another. My goals is to help the people of Eorzea. If he proved to be a threat, then yeah, I'd use a Stone two spell on him."
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Twinflame: He seemed a bit disappointed, but said instead, "I dunno if I'm gonna head back with your mom or not. I havne't exactly talked to the Elders about this yet."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia nodded, "I know you are disappointed he isn't dead. But I don't like taking life unless I have no choice. I will defend myself, and I will defend my friends and family. But if a life can be saved, I feel I must try..."
But then K'ailia looked to Ul'dah, "Sometimes, you must do what is best for family, and yourself. I think all three of us have explaining to do to the elders."
She looked back at K'ile, "Though it makes us uncomfortable, sometimes, we must do what is uncomfortable, for the greater good. Morales might be higher if all three of us returned together... but if you feel that way, then I will collect mother and we will head on back. without you."
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Twinflame: "Yeah, nice lecture." K'ile said, and then continued, "I got stuff to do around town before I leave. If you're still around when I'm done we'll hook up. Otherwise, I'll see you back home."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia smiled and nodded, "Alright..." with that she started walking past him but paused putting a hand on his shoulder, "And just some advice. Be more mindful in the future of your words." and with that, continued towards Ul'dah to see her mother.
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Twinflame: K'ile muttered in passing, "Yeah, yeah. You could be more understanding too. Bye now."
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RP from December 17thK'luha Haaz: K'luha sat on the edge of her bed in the inn room, rubbing at her hip. If felt a little better these days. Laying on a soft bed instead of sand or a bouncing Chocobo had really aided. That and she had bought a few salves and potions to pour on it. It definietely looked better now, even though it still hurt. She managed to get a few more of those Gridanian leaves for running around Ul'dah but... K'luha picked up a small message on her nightstand. Under investigation and being held? Ugh. She wasn't sure how she was going to deal with that.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia walked down the hallway of the quicksand's inn till she came to K'luha's door. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she knocked lightly.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha paused in her musings and looked up at the door. She was particularly clothed since she had been putting salves and such on her hip. With a frown and looked around for clothing and grabbed the first shirt and pants she could find.Â
"Just a minute!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia called in, "Ma, it's me. I need to see you please."
She crossed her arms and waited for the response.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha flinced lightly. Why did K'ailia sound... angry? She wasn't really sure she wanted to open the door now. With a grunt, K'luha pulled on the sleeveless white shirt and pantlettes that went with it. At least it covered up her hip.Â
"What's going on? You alright K'ailia...?" K'luha called nervously in return.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia softened her voice, "I just ran into K'ile, can I come in?"
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha paled for a second. K'ile? He was here? In Ul'dah? Why was he...? That no good fucking piece of shit Tia. K'luha grabbed at the bed sheets, clawing at them furiously. She had lost sleep for fucking WEEKS over that asshole, and he just shows up in Ul'dah willy nilly? Did he have any IDEA the stress she was in over that idiot!?Â
But... if K'ailia ran into him... he was alive. K'luha slowly untensed. He was alive and fine, and that was what she was most concerned with. Just an inconsiderate asshole.Â
"What's K'ile doing in Ul'dah anyway? Did you know he ran off in the middle of the desert and said he would meet us in Drybone, and then didn't show his fucking face again?" K'luha scoffed back irritably.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia leaned against the doorframe, "Well... I'm not too concerned with that, so... can I come in?"
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K'luha Haaz: "I am!" K'luha shot back. "Do you know how worried I was? He just up and walked away from me and then didn't come fucking back! And now he's in Ul'dah!? What the fuck!?" K'luha snarled, grabbing the lamp from the nighstand and throwing it hard at the door. There was a loud crash and a shattering sound as K'luha watched it break against the door.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia sighed and put her hand on the door knob, "He's here picking up some feast he said, but always wanted to see me apparently... what was that crash? Are you alright?"
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K'luha Haaz: "Well if he hadn't fucking walked away then he would fucking know the goddamn Brass Blades are holding it on some sort of fucking investiagation!" K'luha snarled bac, grabbing pretty much anything she could get her hands on and chucking it at the door. An empty bottle was the next to smash into the wall and shatter into a million pieces.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia tried the door knob, but found it locked and sighed, "Ma... calm down. I'd like to come in and talk to you face to face..."
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K'luha Haaz: "Well I wanted my daughter not to abandon our family. I wanted K'ile to not be such a dick! But no one gets anything they damn well want do they!?" Another bottle, another crash.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia sighed, "I came to apologize for hurting your hip... and because I hurt it... I'd like to treat it before we head back to the tribe camp. I don't want my mother hurting on this trip..."
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K'luha Haaz: There was silence for a few moments while K'luha thought. She pressed her face into ther hands and just sat there, ears pressed tightly down to her head and tail curled up around her waist.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia planted her head against the door, "I feel terrible you hurt so bad ma... I never meant to hurt you. I am so sorry... K'haz had told me he had healed you, I thought you were all better... I didn't know..."
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K'luha Haaz: "It happened after K'haz healed me. It's not his fault."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia lifted her head, "Well I'd like a chance to make it better... to make things right. I know you are scared of magic ma... but you shouldn't be. And it's still a long ways from Sagolii for you and I to travel..."
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K'luha Haaz: "You and I?" K'luha called back wearily, confused at the notion.
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K'ailia Yohko: "That's right. You and I are going back to the tribe camp together. And possibly with K'ile depending on if his business here is done on time." K'ailia called back.
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K'luha Haaz: There was a screech that sounded like K'luha was in a lot of pain before there was a bombardent of things against the door and everything went quiet.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia frowned, "So... are you almost out of ammunition to throw at the door yet? Or shall I come in and you can beat me up if you like."
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha didn't answer K'ailia at all, but sat wearily on the edge of her back, face still pressed into her hands.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stepped away from the door and focusing on the door, she casted Stone II to shatter the door then stepped into the room, ready for a barage of flying objects. She had resolved to be her mothers punching bag till she got it out of her system.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha flinched at the sudden collision of door and rock, but stayed firmly seated with her head hanging low and her hands pressed to her face. Even her ears stayed flat against her head and tail around her waist. She didn't really want K'ailia to see her like this. K'luha couldn't get over her daughter's betrayl, for that was what it felt like. And now it felt like K'ile was doing the same. Running off like that and not saying a word to her, what was she supposed to feel like? Like nothing was wrong? Like he wasn't running away from her? She couldn't help but feel like everything she had ever worked towards, was falling apart in front of her.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia gave a soft smile to her mother, "I know that look ma. You wear the look you had when I was leaving the tribe."
She took a step forward, "You are thinking you are losing your family. But even K'ile told me, we are still family. We still care about each other, regardless of what tribe laws dictate."
She stepped closer, "I am still your daughter. The tribe is still my family, regardless of if I am at the camp or not. K'ile invited me to come to the feast to eat with my brothers and sisters. Even if I am considered an outsider."
With a wider smile, "K'ile thinks the tribe needs to be open to outsiders. To stop shunning even family that left the tribe. I was surprised he felt that way. He also said you too feel the same."
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K'luha Haaz: This was not something she wanted to listen to from her ingrateful daughter. Did K'ailia really think she could just lecture her own mother? Did she really think that was going to help by breaking down the door and forcing her way in? Luha reached down to the pack she had on the nightsand and pulled out a small leaf. She quickly slipped it into her mouth and let the numbing sensation numb her to her physical pain. It didn't do much for her mental anguish, but at least it stopped her hip from hurting.
Luha knit her hands together, thinking deeply and not looking to her daughter. Tribe law was in place for a reason. Where those reasons outdated now? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe the reason she shouldn't like a Tia's company was because they were unreliable and skittish. If she had listened, she wouldn't be in pain over K'ile. The reason they didn't let family leave was because the temptations of the outsiders. She had let K'ailia leave and now K'ailia had left for good. And would she feel so torn in two if she ahd just let K'ailia go like tribe law said?Â
"Why would K'ile say that...?" Luha finally muttered, shaking her head. "Maybe open to family members that had left, but outsiders? What could have changed his mind so quickly...?"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stepped up to her mother then knelt to eye level, "I don't know. But if even he is thinking this way, then maybe it is time the tribe started to change."
She looked deeply into her mothers eyes, "Regardless, you and I, we are family. No laws will change that. You will always be my mother, and I will always be your daughter. Just as my sisters will always be my sisters."
Placing a hand on K'luha's knee, she continued, "If tribe law causes you so much pain, then maybe it is time to change tribe law. K'ile used to be completely against change. But now, he seems to believe the tribe must change."
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha refused to look at K'ailia's face, much less to her eyes. She felt like a kit again. A stupid lost kit and she hated it. She hated feeling like that in front of her own damned daughter. Luha sharply pushed K'ailia's hand off of her knees when she put it there. She stood just as sharply and took a step back.Â
"Do not lecture me K'ailia! Show some damned respect for you mother. We will always be mother and daughter, but you have hurt me in a way you cannot fathom! I am bleeding and I know not what can stop the pain, but it is certainly not your words! You tell K'ile to sort this shit out with the Brass Blades and have you take him to the tribe, because I am going to do to him what he's done to me!" K'luha yelled loudly and turned to leave. "And you'd best have the money to fix this inn room K'ailia. I would talk to the inn keeper immediately and pay for the damage you've done." And with that K'luha sharply stormed out the hall, ignoring his numbed and still in pain hip.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked to her mother who was storming out, "You ever think maybe if you weren't behaving like a kit throwing tantrums at every turn, and running away while hurt, you wouldn't need to be lectured?"
She ran after her mother, "You destroyed your inn room before I even destroyed that door. But there you go. Running away from me, from your problems. Running away from being treated for your injuries."
Finally she turned away from the direction her mother was running, "Fine then, keep running. I am tired of chasing after you. I am tired of apologizing. I will pay for the door, but you must take responsibility for all the shit you broke!" and with that, she stormed down the hall, while sniffing the air, trying to find K'ile's scent.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha covered her ears and ran. Yes, she was behaving like a child. Yes, she was running away from her problems. But that was all she knew how to do. In what way could she make right what had turned so wrong? How could she ever look at K'ailia without feeling as if she had failed. How could she speak to her daughter, like her daughter again? K'ailia was certainly enjoying the freedom of berating her mother with harsh, unkindnesses; or so K'luha thought. Did K'ailia just enjoy hurting her? Perhaps she did. K'ailia had aways run off and K'luha had always gotten hurt when she followed.Â
What was she supposed to do anymore? How could she help Tahj when her own daughter had turned into... this nightmare. So cruel and quick to judge, when she did not understand. Constantly calling her own mother a child... it was too much for K'luha.Â
She ran until the numbness in her hip turned to crunching pain and it could no longer support her weight. The sands outside Ul'dah were at least kind to her when she fell, and she sustained no injury but the one in her chest and hip. K'luha looked around wearily, and found only sands and a few trees and grass to her horizon. She could still see the high walls of Ul'dah behind her in a blurr, but other than that she was completely lost.Â
K'luha pressed her head into the sand and took fistfuls of sand. Why had things turned out so badly? Why could she not look at her daughter and act like a mother? Why was healing magic so terribly disgusting to her? It would all just be easier if she could detach herself like K'yohko... but tried as she had, it wasn't something she could do. So she just laid in the sand  silently.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stopped at the innkeeper and from her uniform, pulled out a small pouch of gil and asked how much a door would cost. Needless to say the innkeeper paled and asked just what happened and with a little explaining, she paid the fee, which left her pouch mostly empty now, and she proceeded onwards to try and find K'ile
When did her mother become such a psychotic kit. She used to look up to her mother as her morale compass. But now, her mother runs from her everytime they meet. She talks about wanting respect from her daughter, but doesn't seem to even respect herself. K'ailia was now convinced, there's more to her behavior than just her leaving the tribe. There was emotional trauma there that existed long before K'ailia entertained the notion of leaving the tribe. But what was it? Maybe K'ile could answer.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia walked down the hallway of the quicksand's inn till she came to K'luha's door. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she knocked lightly.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha paused in her musings and looked up at the door. She was particularly clothed since she had been putting salves and such on her hip. With a frown and looked around for clothing and grabbed the first shirt and pants she could find.Â
"Just a minute!"
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia called in, "Ma, it's me. I need to see you please."
She crossed her arms and waited for the response.
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha flinced lightly. Why did K'ailia sound... angry? She wasn't really sure she wanted to open the door now. With a grunt, K'luha pulled on the sleeveless white shirt and pantlettes that went with it. At least it covered up her hip.Â
"What's going on? You alright K'ailia...?" K'luha called nervously in return.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia softened her voice, "I just ran into K'ile, can I come in?"
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha paled for a second. K'ile? He was here? In Ul'dah? Why was he...? That no good fucking piece of shit Tia. K'luha grabbed at the bed sheets, clawing at them furiously. She had lost sleep for fucking WEEKS over that asshole, and he just shows up in Ul'dah willy nilly? Did he have any IDEA the stress she was in over that idiot!?Â
But... if K'ailia ran into him... he was alive. K'luha slowly untensed. He was alive and fine, and that was what she was most concerned with. Just an inconsiderate asshole.Â
"What's K'ile doing in Ul'dah anyway? Did you know he ran off in the middle of the desert and said he would meet us in Drybone, and then didn't show his fucking face again?" K'luha scoffed back irritably.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia leaned against the doorframe, "Well... I'm not too concerned with that, so... can I come in?"
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K'luha Haaz: "I am!" K'luha shot back. "Do you know how worried I was? He just up and walked away from me and then didn't come fucking back! And now he's in Ul'dah!? What the fuck!?" K'luha snarled, grabbing the lamp from the nighstand and throwing it hard at the door. There was a loud crash and a shattering sound as K'luha watched it break against the door.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia sighed and put her hand on the door knob, "He's here picking up some feast he said, but always wanted to see me apparently... what was that crash? Are you alright?"
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K'luha Haaz: "Well if he hadn't fucking walked away then he would fucking know the goddamn Brass Blades are holding it on some sort of fucking investiagation!" K'luha snarled bac, grabbing pretty much anything she could get her hands on and chucking it at the door. An empty bottle was the next to smash into the wall and shatter into a million pieces.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia tried the door knob, but found it locked and sighed, "Ma... calm down. I'd like to come in and talk to you face to face..."
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K'luha Haaz: "Well I wanted my daughter not to abandon our family. I wanted K'ile to not be such a dick! But no one gets anything they damn well want do they!?" Another bottle, another crash.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia sighed, "I came to apologize for hurting your hip... and because I hurt it... I'd like to treat it before we head back to the tribe camp. I don't want my mother hurting on this trip..."
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K'luha Haaz: There was silence for a few moments while K'luha thought. She pressed her face into ther hands and just sat there, ears pressed tightly down to her head and tail curled up around her waist.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia planted her head against the door, "I feel terrible you hurt so bad ma... I never meant to hurt you. I am so sorry... K'haz had told me he had healed you, I thought you were all better... I didn't know..."
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K'luha Haaz: "It happened after K'haz healed me. It's not his fault."
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia lifted her head, "Well I'd like a chance to make it better... to make things right. I know you are scared of magic ma... but you shouldn't be. And it's still a long ways from Sagolii for you and I to travel..."
*
K'luha Haaz: "You and I?" K'luha called back wearily, confused at the notion.
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K'ailia Yohko: "That's right. You and I are going back to the tribe camp together. And possibly with K'ile depending on if his business here is done on time." K'ailia called back.
*
K'luha Haaz: There was a screech that sounded like K'luha was in a lot of pain before there was a bombardent of things against the door and everything went quiet.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia frowned, "So... are you almost out of ammunition to throw at the door yet? Or shall I come in and you can beat me up if you like."
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K'luha Haaz: K'luha didn't answer K'ailia at all, but sat wearily on the edge of her back, face still pressed into her hands.
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K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stepped away from the door and focusing on the door, she casted Stone II to shatter the door then stepped into the room, ready for a barage of flying objects. She had resolved to be her mothers punching bag till she got it out of her system.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha flinched at the sudden collision of door and rock, but stayed firmly seated with her head hanging low and her hands pressed to her face. Even her ears stayed flat against her head and tail around her waist. She didn't really want K'ailia to see her like this. K'luha couldn't get over her daughter's betrayl, for that was what it felt like. And now it felt like K'ile was doing the same. Running off like that and not saying a word to her, what was she supposed to feel like? Like nothing was wrong? Like he wasn't running away from her? She couldn't help but feel like everything she had ever worked towards, was falling apart in front of her.
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia gave a soft smile to her mother, "I know that look ma. You wear the look you had when I was leaving the tribe."
She took a step forward, "You are thinking you are losing your family. But even K'ile told me, we are still family. We still care about each other, regardless of what tribe laws dictate."
She stepped closer, "I am still your daughter. The tribe is still my family, regardless of if I am at the camp or not. K'ile invited me to come to the feast to eat with my brothers and sisters. Even if I am considered an outsider."
With a wider smile, "K'ile thinks the tribe needs to be open to outsiders. To stop shunning even family that left the tribe. I was surprised he felt that way. He also said you too feel the same."
*
K'luha Haaz: This was not something she wanted to listen to from her ingrateful daughter. Did K'ailia really think she could just lecture her own mother? Did she really think that was going to help by breaking down the door and forcing her way in? Luha reached down to the pack she had on the nightsand and pulled out a small leaf. She quickly slipped it into her mouth and let the numbing sensation numb her to her physical pain. It didn't do much for her mental anguish, but at least it stopped her hip from hurting.
Luha knit her hands together, thinking deeply and not looking to her daughter. Tribe law was in place for a reason. Where those reasons outdated now? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe the reason she shouldn't like a Tia's company was because they were unreliable and skittish. If she had listened, she wouldn't be in pain over K'ile. The reason they didn't let family leave was because the temptations of the outsiders. She had let K'ailia leave and now K'ailia had left for good. And would she feel so torn in two if she ahd just let K'ailia go like tribe law said?Â
"Why would K'ile say that...?" Luha finally muttered, shaking her head. "Maybe open to family members that had left, but outsiders? What could have changed his mind so quickly...?"
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stepped up to her mother then knelt to eye level, "I don't know. But if even he is thinking this way, then maybe it is time the tribe started to change."
She looked deeply into her mothers eyes, "Regardless, you and I, we are family. No laws will change that. You will always be my mother, and I will always be your daughter. Just as my sisters will always be my sisters."
Placing a hand on K'luha's knee, she continued, "If tribe law causes you so much pain, then maybe it is time to change tribe law. K'ile used to be completely against change. But now, he seems to believe the tribe must change."
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha refused to look at K'ailia's face, much less to her eyes. She felt like a kit again. A stupid lost kit and she hated it. She hated feeling like that in front of her own damned daughter. Luha sharply pushed K'ailia's hand off of her knees when she put it there. She stood just as sharply and took a step back.Â
"Do not lecture me K'ailia! Show some damned respect for you mother. We will always be mother and daughter, but you have hurt me in a way you cannot fathom! I am bleeding and I know not what can stop the pain, but it is certainly not your words! You tell K'ile to sort this shit out with the Brass Blades and have you take him to the tribe, because I am going to do to him what he's done to me!" K'luha yelled loudly and turned to leave. "And you'd best have the money to fix this inn room K'ailia. I would talk to the inn keeper immediately and pay for the damage you've done." And with that K'luha sharply stormed out the hall, ignoring his numbed and still in pain hip.
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia looked to her mother who was storming out, "You ever think maybe if you weren't behaving like a kit throwing tantrums at every turn, and running away while hurt, you wouldn't need to be lectured?"
She ran after her mother, "You destroyed your inn room before I even destroyed that door. But there you go. Running away from me, from your problems. Running away from being treated for your injuries."
Finally she turned away from the direction her mother was running, "Fine then, keep running. I am tired of chasing after you. I am tired of apologizing. I will pay for the door, but you must take responsibility for all the shit you broke!" and with that, she stormed down the hall, while sniffing the air, trying to find K'ile's scent.
*
K'luha Haaz: K'luha covered her ears and ran. Yes, she was behaving like a child. Yes, she was running away from her problems. But that was all she knew how to do. In what way could she make right what had turned so wrong? How could she ever look at K'ailia without feeling as if she had failed. How could she speak to her daughter, like her daughter again? K'ailia was certainly enjoying the freedom of berating her mother with harsh, unkindnesses; or so K'luha thought. Did K'ailia just enjoy hurting her? Perhaps she did. K'ailia had aways run off and K'luha had always gotten hurt when she followed.Â
What was she supposed to do anymore? How could she help Tahj when her own daughter had turned into... this nightmare. So cruel and quick to judge, when she did not understand. Constantly calling her own mother a child... it was too much for K'luha.Â
She ran until the numbness in her hip turned to crunching pain and it could no longer support her weight. The sands outside Ul'dah were at least kind to her when she fell, and she sustained no injury but the one in her chest and hip. K'luha looked around wearily, and found only sands and a few trees and grass to her horizon. She could still see the high walls of Ul'dah behind her in a blurr, but other than that she was completely lost.Â
K'luha pressed her head into the sand and took fistfuls of sand. Why had things turned out so badly? Why could she not look at her daughter and act like a mother? Why was healing magic so terribly disgusting to her? It would all just be easier if she could detach herself like K'yohko... but tried as she had, it wasn't something she could do. So she just laid in the sand  silently.
*
K'ailia Yohko: K'ailia stopped at the innkeeper and from her uniform, pulled out a small pouch of gil and asked how much a door would cost. Needless to say the innkeeper paled and asked just what happened and with a little explaining, she paid the fee, which left her pouch mostly empty now, and she proceeded onwards to try and find K'ile
When did her mother become such a psychotic kit. She used to look up to her mother as her morale compass. But now, her mother runs from her everytime they meet. She talks about wanting respect from her daughter, but doesn't seem to even respect herself. K'ailia was now convinced, there's more to her behavior than just her leaving the tribe. There was emotional trauma there that existed long before K'ailia entertained the notion of leaving the tribe. But what was it? Maybe K'ile could answer.
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