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Twinflame · **11-10-2013, 04:11 AM**

((Mostly unedited RP transcripts. The first of these scenes takes place immediately after this thread over here))

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((As they head back to Vesper Bay, K'ailia and K'luuha manage to get K'ile alone while K'luha walks on ahead.))

K'ailiaYohko: jes a moment!

K'ileTwinflame: What is it?

K'ailiaYohko: Yarzon be poisonous

K'ailiaYohko: I dun wanna take chances

K'ailiaYohko: I need ta look at ma's arm.

K'ileTwinflame: She going to get sick before we got back to Ul'dah?

K'ailiaYohko: Dunno.

K'haaliThalen grins. "Why don't you offer to suck out the poison K'ile"

K'ileTwinflame looks at K'haali, "Why don't you?"

((K'luha returns!))

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K'luhaHaaz: What did I miss?

K'haaliThalen: I didn't want to ruin your opportunity!

K'ileTwinflame: They're still on about that bite.

K'ailiaYohko: Ma, Yarzon be poisonous

K'ailiaYohko: I really wanna check that wound

K'luhaHaaz rolls her eyes. "It only got one bite off. It's fine. You all worry too much."

K'ileTwinflame: Just let 'em take care of it so they stop worrying.

K'haaliThalen: "She can check it now or check it when it goes purple and drops off; I heard yarzon bites do that"

K'luhaHaaz laughs at K'haali Thalen.

K'luhaHaaz: I highly doubt it will come to that.

K'haaliThalen puts on her best game face

K'ailiaYohko: Well can I at least use a spell ta treat any poison?

K'ailiaYohko: Wont hurt!

K'haaliThalen raises an eyebrow at the suggestion that "magic won't hurt"

K'luhaHaaz makes a face and sighs, about to give in before K'haali speaks up. "Hrn, no. It's fine. I'll pick up an antidote at the merchant."

K'ailiaYohko sighs.

K'ileTwinflame: And you lose. Well played, girls.

K'haaliThalen: I'd call it a draw

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K'ileTwinflame: Don't trust magic?

K'luhaHaaz: No... well, not really but I just don't want K'ailia healing me. I already feel enough of a failure. I don't need my daughter taking care of me now too.

K'ileTwinflame smiles, "I hear ya. I don't think a little bite will matter that much, though."

K'luhaHaaz: Bah. That's precisely why I don't want her healing it. It's such a stupid little thing.

K'ileTwinflame: Whatever you say. Let's go before they start making fun of us again.

K'luhaHaaz sighs and nods, starting off again.

Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 04:51 AM**

K'ileTwinflame: What're you kids doing? Staring at walls? Let's go!

K'haaliThalen pouts at the accusation of being a "kid"

K'luhaHaaz: K'ile, I have got to teach you to ride a Chocobo.

K'ileTwinflame: Good luck. Find me a hipparion! I'll ride that til I die!

K'luhaHaaz: What about a courel?

K'luhaHaaz: Or a unicorn?

K'ileTwinflame thinkgs for awhile and says, "Yeah, I could do a Coeurl. Unicron's out, though."

K'luhaHaaz laughs at you.

K'luhaHaaz: I think you'd look good on a unicorn though.

K'luhaHaaz: We should definitely find you one.

K'haaliThalen: I didn't even think coeurl were native to this region anymore; where'd you find a herd to train. And a unicorn...

K'ileTwinflame: I'd look better on a hipparion.

K'haaliThalen: "kids"

K'ailiaYohko: or one of these!

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((Queue Garlean mechasuit))

K'luhaHaaz looks at K'ailia Yohko and panics!

K'haaliThalen: Couldn't you just paint stripes on a horse?

K'ileTwinflame: Put it up, K'ailia.

((K'luharan off again))

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'ileTwinflame: Ul'dah's tackiness is rubbing off on you a bit.

K'haaliThalen: I'm thinking of ways to fulfill your demands in your own lifetime

((Catchingup to Luha))

K'luhaHaaz expresses her annoyance with K'ailia Yohko.

K'ileTwinflame: Have a nice jog, K'uha?

K'luhaHaaz: Stop scaring me with that stupid thing!

K'ailiaYohko: hehe

K'luhaHaaz: You shush your mouth!

K'ileTwinflame: It's just an ugly toy.

K'luhaHaaz: Yeah, but she got it out of nowhere!

K'luhaHaaz: I don't like that thing.

K'ileTwinflame: Garlean magic is meant to scare people. Thats just how it's made.

K'ileTwinflame: Hey, hold up out there!

K'luhaHaaz: It works too well for my tastes.

K'ileTwinflame: I don't hate this area. There any places around here that aren't owned by anyone?

K'ailiaYohko pulls out her map

K'luhaHaaz: Is right here owned by anyone? It's pretty close to Ul'dah though.

K'ailiaYohko: Well I know a spot near here, that technically be in central

K'ailiaYohko: it's not owned by anyone, jes has tracks runnin' through it.

K'luhaHaaz: Let's see as much as we can before we really start deciding.

K'ileTwinflame: We need enough room to have hunting grounds. It's like better game than piestes and cactuar, but let's not be too picky.

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'luhaHaaz: Central's this way.

K'ailiaYohko: cross this bridge we make a left.

K'luhaHaaz: Out here is nice.

K'ailiaYohko: Aye

K'ileTwinflame: But everywhere you look there's buildings and archways.

K'ailiaYohko: the spot I saw is jes like this

K'haaliThalen: How can you tell, that mist still hasn't lifted?

K'luhaHaaz: I can see enough.

K'haaliThalen points.

K'haaliThalen: This won't do...

K'haaliThalen: Look at those termite mounds

K'ileTwinflame: What's wrong with it?

K'ileTwinflame: What? no.

K'ileTwinflame: Where?

K'luhaHaaz: That's a rock

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'luhaHaaz makes a poking gesture.

K'luhaHaaz: Rock.

K'luhaHaaz frowns at all the damn flies and shakes her head.

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K'luhaHaaz: Ugh. These damn flies.

((K'ailiadoes something sparkly and the flies all die))

K'luhaHaaz: Oh, that's better.

K'ileTwinflame punches the wooden support beams. "Owned. Someone owns this land."

K'ailiaYohko: Well this be the only other area I seen.

K'luhaHaaz: No, I don't think so. It's just the train track.

K'haaliThalen unhooks her botany tools form her shoulder strap and replaces it with a hunting spear

K'ailiaYohko: Aye jes a tracks, they dun own it.

K'ileTwinflame: They own the tracks.

K'luhaHaaz: But, I don't think we want to be so close to a train...

K'ailiaYohko: well oh wait!

K'ailiaYohko: follow me!

K'ailiaYohko: I had almost forgot about that

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'luhaHaaz looks around.

K'haaliThalen corrects her balance at the cliff edge

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K'ileTwinflame: Ruins again.

K'luhaHaaz: Awful lot of spprigans.

K'haaliThalen: I see rocks;...

K'luhaHaaz: The river is nice.

K'ileTwinflame looks to the left. "Waterfall. Ain't seen one of those in a decade."

K'haaliThalen: Sure there's water, but... that's all.

((K'luharuns off again))

K'ileTwinflame: Heh. Your mom's exploring.

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'ailiaYohko plays in the water.

K'ileTwinflame doesn't look like he trusts the water.

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K'luhaHaaz: Well it's not a bad spot. All the water is very nice. And it's moving so it's fairly clean.

K'haaliThalen: Huh... this water flows into the rocks; where does it flow from? - A location with caves would make excellent shelter from dust storms

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'ileTwinflame: If you say so. K'haali, how are the rocks?

K'luhaHaaz smirks faintly and kicks the water to splash K'ile. "And K'ile can finally take a bath here."

K'ileTwinflame: Would you girls just leave me alone?

K'haaliThalen jabs the rock. "Just sandstone."

K'luhaHaaz: Put on a shirt and maybe.

K'ailiaYohko: Sorry mister K'ile.

K'ailiaYohko smiles.

K'ileTwinflame looks to have a retort on his tongue, but swallows it.

K'ailiaYohko: an' above be them giant bird things.

K'ailiaYohko: good eatin'

K'luhaHaaz: Well, the only problem is all the Spriggans but they seem to be friendly.

K'ileTwinflame: Spriggans carry things away, don't they?

K'ileTwinflame: We don't want them absonding all our stuff.

K'luhaHaaz nods to you.

K'luhaHaaz: They carry ore mostly.

K'luhaHaaz: From what I know at least.

K'haaliThalen: Crystals, I thought. I think they consume the aether in them

K'ailiaYohko pulls out her map so everyone can see "Where ta next?"

K'luhaHaaz: Oh?

K'luhaHaaz peers over at K'ailia's map and hums.

K'ailiaYohko: we are here.

K'ailiaYohko points to the spot

K'haaliThalen peers over k'ailias shoulder

K'ileTwinflame doesn't bother to look at the map.

K'haaliThalen or tries, being short

K'ileTwinflame watchs the waterfall instead.

K'ailiaYohko turns around so everyone can see.

K'haaliThalen: I think we should track this water back upriver.

K'luhaHaaz: Sounds good to me. We could see who else uses the water for what.

K'haaliThalen: Where there's water, there's a good site to settle

K'ailiaYohko: That aint a bad idea!

K'ileTwinflame: Sure. Might find a place with fewer sprigans.

K'haaliThalen swats biting insects aside "and bugs"

((walkingonward now...))

K'ailiaYohko: well there's cactuses

K'haaliThalen: These rocks seem to contain minerals, but. I can't tell you what just looking

K'luhaHaaz: Eck. Ants.

K'ailiaYohko: there's the water

K'ileTwinflame: You could grab some of the rocks maybe?

K'haaliThalen: Annnd herrrre's our river

K'luhaHaaz: A... refugee camp?

K'haaliThalen: Orobon? - I thought they were sand-swimmers

K'ileTwinflame looks at the pile of rock and lichen before them. "Now that's awesome."

Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 05:25 AM**

K'haaliThalen: This is what i hoped we might find

K'ileTwinflame: I said I don't like cold wet places. So they doung hte coldest, wettest place they could.

K'luhaHaaz: It could be worse.

K'haaliThalen grins

K'ileTwinflame gestures to the Efts, "You're right. There could be efts."

K'luhaHaaz: There ARE efts.

K'ileTwinflame: Nooo.

K'luhaHaaz laughs at you.

K'ileTwinflame: Before either of you says it, we aren't living in any caves!

K'ailiaYohko: I agree K'ile

K'luhaHaaz: I don't think any of us were seriously considering that.

K'ileTwinflame: Just making sure.

K'haaliThalen looks quizziclly, having missed the conversation

K'ailiaYohko: Hmm... that way leads ta eastern thanalan.

K'luhaHaaz pulls out her map from her boot again and glances down. "So... it seems we can go east or north from here pretty easily. Which way shouled we go?"

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'ailiaYohko: hmm I got an idea!

K'haaliThalen: The ground here must be host to a huge ant hive; I doubt anywhere within miles of here is habitable

K'ailiaYohko pulls out a single gil and tosses it in the air "Heads we go north, tails we go east"

K'luhaHaaz frowns as she looks to the north. "Wait, the north is all industrialized... "

K'ailiaYohko 's coin lands tails up

K'ileTwinflame: We shouldn't be leaving this to a coin-flip.

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'luhaHaaz: East is...

K'luhaHaaz trails off and goes quiet.

K'ailiaYohko: East is Drybone.

K'haaliThalen: I can't see the guardian through this mist...

K'ileTwinflame: Guardian?

K'haaliThalen: Azeyma, the sun!

K'ailiaYohko: Come ta' think o' it, east had a lot' o' open land.

K'ileTwinflame looks up, "Oh. Of course."

K'haaliThalen: She'd show us east from west

K'ileTwinflame: Ask K'ailia's map which way is east.

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'ailiaYohko: that way

K'ileTwinflame: Alright.

((...walking...))

K'ileTwinflame: They've got some crazy rocks around here!

K'ileTwinflame: Damned frogs.

((Killingfrogs at the Unholy Heir))

K'ailiaYohko: frog legs anyone?

K'ailiaYohko bursts out laughing.

K'ileTwinflame: No thanks.

((Theparty zones into Eastern Thanalan, going from cloudy skies to sudden torrential downpour!))

K'luhaHaaz: Gah.
K'luhaHaaz shivers from the sudden change in temperature and going from dry to soaked.

K'haaliThalen shouts over the storm. "I thought you said the mist would clear!"

K'ailiaYohko: eeep!

K'luhaHaaz: Well, I THOUGHT it would!

K'ailiaYohko puts her hood up

K'ileTwinflame lays his ears flat against his head, "Dammit. This is... Kind of nice, but cold."

K'ileTwinflame: Cold and wet.

K'ailiaYohko: an' the town out here be called drybone.

K'ailiaYohko: How did it get its name with this rain?

K'luhaHaaz: Ha.

K'haaliThalen: On the upside, can we really complain about extra water?

K'luhaHaaz: We can find shelter out here somewhere while the storm passes.

K'ileTwinflame: Rain like this in the desert can cause flooding.

K'ailiaYohko: no actually, I kinda like it

K'haaliThalen: If it rains, we can try growing crops

K'ailiaYohko: Aye drybone very close

K'ailiaYohko: we can go ta the inn or the church

K'haaliThalen: Those moles don't look very threatening; but plenty fat

K'ileTwinflame: We don't need shleter. Just listen for any waterwalls or mudslides.

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K'ileTwinflame: Now I know I smell carcasses here.

K'luhaHaaz crouches under the oning and shivers. "It's fucking cold."

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'haaliThalen: Reeks of death yet everyone here is acting normally...

K'luhaHaaz: That's because everything that dies in Thanalan comes here to its final resting place.

K'ailiaYohko: I found shelter!

K'ailiaYohko: I found shelter

K'ileTwinflame crosses his arms, looking up at the oning, "We're wasting time."

K'haaliThalen raises an eyebrow at K'ailia declaring the "place where things come to die" as a palce for them to go

K'ailiaYohko: So what shall we do?

K'luhaHaaz gets up, a bit irritated and holds her arms tightly across her chest. "Alright, fine. Get going. I'll follow."

K'ailiaYohko nods to you.

K'ailiaYohko: Well... followin' roads takes us inta settlements.

K'haaliThalen: If K'ile had brought a shirt, he could offer it to you right about now.

K'ailiaYohko: So maybe we should go off road?

K'haaliThalen offers an impish grin

K'ileTwinflame weathers K'luha's irritation briefly, then shakes his head. "You look like a sad, wet old cat." He looks to K'ailia, "We can take shelter for a few minutes. Rain like this can't last too long, right?"

K'haaliThalen: Anywhere that has roads is obviously bleonging to, or clsoe to ul'dar property

K'ailiaYohko: Aye, the inn is over there

K'haaliThalen: it's not like we can see much through the storm.

K'luhaHaaz: Who are you calling old?

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'haaliThalen: I'll be easier to survey by daylight

K'ailiaYohko: Oh an they dun allow chocobos in there.

K'luhaHaaz grumbles irritably and follows anyway.

K'haaliThalen leads K'weh away

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K'ailiaYohko pulls her hood down and shakes the water everywhere off herself.

K'haaliThalen: I think that was the stables... until they do fried chocobo out here.

K'ileTwinflame: We'll just wait out the storm. Just that.

K'luhaHaaz wrinkles her nose and wrings out her hair. "Smells like dead bodies."

K'haaliThalen: Are you sure this is "that" kind of resting place?

K'ileTwinflame tosses his bow against a wall, rings out his bandana, drops into the seat next to K'luha. "I didn't say you were old. I said you looked like an old cat."

K'ailiaYohko: Well gotta say one thin'

K'luhaHaaz shivered violently next to K'ile before glancing at him a bit darkly. "So I just look old then?"

K'ailiaYohko: We wont want fer water.

K'ailiaYohko: Get some pots, set em outside the tents an' we'd have plenty o water.

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

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K'ileTwinflame shakes his head at K'luha, and his hair throws drops of water, "Old cats don't look old. They're jsut cats."

K'ailiaYohko delivers a confident smirk.

K'luhaHaaz grumbled irritably and reached over to pinch K'ile's arm. "Are you telling me I look like an old lady or not?"

K'luhaHaaz is annoyed with you.

K'ailiaYohko: K'ile I think yer diggin' yerself a big hole.

K'ailiaYohko: Better ta jes say sowwy an' nod.

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'haaliThalen dozes off quietly.

K'ileTwinflame glares at K'ailia, "Just leave me to die, okay?" and then to K'luha, "No, I'm not."

K'luhaHaaz: So say it properly then. What are you saying?

K'ailiaYohko falls on the floor laughing and rolling around.

K'haaliThalen dodges the topic by feigning tiredness

K'ileTwinflame crosses his arms, "Well starting now I'm not saying anything."

K'luhaHaaz: Don't be a baby. Tell me properly. And K'ailia, don't be rude.

K'ailiaYohko: I am gonna go out an' see if I can get the elements ta stop drownin' us.

K'ileTwinflame: I'm not being a-... What, do you want me to call you old? I'm older than you are. I was just saying you looked all cold and sad!

K'haaliThalen watches her go

NathalaneeReinhart ducked in out of the rain, grumbling a bit.

K'ileTwinflame glances past K'luha, "And now you chased the girls off by being scary too."

K'luhaHaaz: I don't want you to call me old. You could have just said that in the first place.

K'luhaHaaz sighed and glanced down to the ground, going quiet.

NathalaneeReinhart raised an eyebrow, looking over towards K'ile and K'luha for a moment.

K'ileTwinflame sighs and stands, "you're only as old is you feel. Don't listen to what I say."

K'ailiaYohko waves to K'haali Thalen.

K'haaliThalen looks at K'ailia. "I think the old guys are still going at it in there"

K'luhaHaaz stays quiet, looking somehow mournfully at the ground.

K'ailiaYohko: oi oi.

K'ailiaYohko: Ol' people move slow, an' worry about weird stuff.

K'ailiaYohko nods to K'haali Thalen.

K'ailiaYohko: I am gonna ask around about the surroundin' areas.

NathalaneeReinhart spun around on her heel after a few moments and headed back out, shielding her grimoire under her arm again.

K'haaliThalen looks at a sky made of wet blankets. "I, think it might be clearring up?"

K'haaliThalen: Who'm i kidding...

NathalaneeReinhart: "That was bloody awkward."

K'ileTwinflame tries to come up with something to say but can't manage. After a moment he mutters something incoherent and walks towards the door.

K'luhaHaaz looks to K'ile as he walks off, but says nothing and looking back to the ground sadly.

NathalaneeReinhart moved to stand more or less in the doorway of the armoury, reaching up to wring a bit of water out of her ponytail.

K'ileTwinflame: Hey, Kailia!

K'ailiaYohko: This man at the tavern.

K'ailiaYohko: Said ther-

Youwave to K'ailia Yohko.

K'ailiaYohko: yeah

K'luhaHaaz's eyes brim over with tears.

K'ileTwinflame looks past her at K'haali, then back to K'ailia, "Uh, what's going on?"

K'ailiaYohko: I went an' asked around about the surroundin' area.

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K'ileTwinflame: Ah. And... There goes your mom. Great.

K'haaliThalen shrugs. "I couldn't say, I've been seeing if I can out-stare the clouds."

K'ailiaYohko: This man at the tavern said there's a spot with a dead Goobbue that has grown a paradise o' plants an stuff.

K'ailiaYohko: Oi! what did ya do?!

K'ileTwinflame: I think I called her old or something. Someone should get after her.

K'ailiaYohko: I will.

K'ileTwinflame: Okay, thank you!

((K'ilewaits a long time. K'haali wanders off, leaving him alone.))

K'ileTwinflame stands alone for a time before muttering. "Damn women." And venturing back out into the rain.

Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 05:50 AM**

((K'ile finds K'haali outside of town))

K'ileTwinflame: What're you doing out here?

K'haaliThalen: I'm asking myself the same thing!

K'haaliThalen: Luha ran off; and Ailia went after her on chocobo, but I couldn't tell you where in this weather

K'ileTwinflame answers easily, "West. So much for taking shelter from the rain, huh?"

K'haaliThalen: ....and which way is west?

K'ileTwinflame: Come on.

K'haaliThalen motions to lead on

K'ileTwinflame: Leave it to Yohko's woman and kid to run off on us in a storm.

((Someminutes later...))

K'haaliThalen: You're lost yoo....

K'ileTwinflame: And now I don't have the scent anymore. The rain's pulling up all the dirt and stink.

K'haaliThalen: Well, town's back down this road at least. if nothing else

K'ileTwinflame: Feh. Alright, let's back-track. We'll have to wait for them to come back.

K'haaliThalen: I'm sure they'll be fine on their own. A little rain isn't going to kill them... perhaos they need the quiet time anyway

K'ileTwinflame: Maybe. How long can this rain last?

K'haaliThalen: Looks at the sky, apparently made out of a sponge. "soon?"

K'ileTwinflame utter in exasperation, "Those women better not make us wait too long."

K'ileTwinflame stands with his arms crossed, brooding, "Let me know if you see them."

((Backin Drybone, having waited for a time...))

K'ailiaYohko: oi oi!

K'ailiaYohko: Come on ya two!

K'haaliThalen welcomes K'ailia Yohko.

K'ileTwinflame: Hm? Where the hell'd you go?

K'ailiaYohko: Ma thinks we found the perfect spot!

K'ailiaYohko: les go!

K'haaliThalen: K'ile's nose failed us

K'ailiaYohko beckons to you.

K'ileTwinflame: Oh, she just runs off intot he ran and sents a messenger back to get us, hm?

K'haaliThalen Don't bean old sour-puss

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'haaliThalen grins

K'ileTwinflame: We decided to wait out the storm cause she was being all cold and pathetic in the first place.

((Headingout of town))

K'haaliThalen: I thoguht you said they ran West!

K'ileTwinflame: THey must've ran back east.

K'haaliThalen: Your nose isn't what it used to be

K'ileTwinflame grumbles.

K'haaliThalen: No shortage of game or water

K'ileTwinflame: If you like goats.

K'haaliThalen: It beats sandworm

K'haaliThalen: Maybe the cold has made his joints sieze

K'ailiaYohko laughs at you.

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((Arrivingat that giant goobbue corpse in far eastern Thanalan, the rain suddenly ends and then sun comes out))

K'ailiaYohko: this is the place

K'haaliThalen: What is that?

K'ailiaYohko: A dead goobbue

K'ailiaYohko: Yay! rain stopped!

K'luhaHaaz: The rain stopped..

K'luhaHaaz: I feel like that's a sign or something...

K'ailiaYohko smiles.

K'ileTwinflame shakes water off his arms, "Finally." And he fixes K'luha with a glare, "The hell is wrong with you?"

K'haaliThalen: If that's not auspicious I don't know what is

K'luhaHaaz: What?

K'ileTwinflame chews on his words for a moment and then shakes his head, "Later."

K'luhaHaaz flattens her ears to her head and glance at the other two. "Well, what do you two think?"

K'ailiaYohko: Plenty o' plants. An up that hill be goats with lots o' meat

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'ileTwinflame: ... It's a little creepy.

K'luhaHaaz: The giatn dead carass you mean?

K'ileTwinflame: It's eyes and teeth.

K'luhaHaaz seems lost in thought.

K'ileTwinflame: Gotta love the view, though.

K'ailiaYohko: What ya think sister?

K'haaliThalen: It is lovely; but a view doesn't make a good place to settle. I want to survey the area better

K'ailiaYohko: an' we'd have privacy too

K'ailiaYohko nods.

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K'ileTwinflame crosses his arms, looks down at K'luha, "This is a nice hole, but we need more than one pretty campsite. We need land to move around in."

K'luhaHaaz: Did you look at the lands on your way here? It's only Drybone and they mostly stick to themselves. All that other land is free. Not to mention there's a bridge to the east with more unfettered lands.

K'ailiaYohko: An' a lot o' these plants bare fruits.

K'ileTwinflame: I was watching. K'haali! What do you think of the resources here?

K'ailiaYohko: An some can even be used fer medicines.

K'haaliThalen: These plants are certainly of great value; even if there isn't enoguh here to support the tribe, if those rains occur frequently we can try and grow more

K'ailiaYohko: an up that path be lots o' game.

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'ailiaYohko: plenty o' food

K'haaliThalen: I want to survey the surrounding land now the weather's broken. There's no doubt game, we at least stumbled upon those; but accessible water

K'ailiaYohko: Water, I found a lil lake up this way

K'ailiaYohko: It was how I got back ta drybone.

K'ileTwinflame: Another thing to look for is alternate camp sites. We should pick out three or four.

((Upthe hill and back in the plains, there's a decently sized watering hole not too far off!))

K'haaliThalen: Well this is ideal; water, food, game.

K'ailiaYohko: Maybe they jes dun care about this land yet.

K'haaliThalen: I daresay we might all become fat and spoiled living here

K'haaliThalen bursts out laughing.

K'luhaHaaz: No. There's one problem.

K'ileTwinflame shakes his head, "This water's only here because of the rain."

K'ailiaYohko: Or maybe we've gone beyond Ul'dahn lands?

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K'luhaHaaz: There's an Amalj'aa Encampment just south of here.

K'luhaHaaz: That's why they haven't settled here. Because the Amalj'aa are trying to do the same.

K'ileTwinflame idly pulls at the leaves of the plant next to him. "How south is just south?"

K'ailiaYohko stretches.

K'ileTwinflame watches K'luha walk off unhappily.

K'haaliThalen seems lost in thought.

K'ailiaYohko: Can't be as big a camp as the one we passed in Sagolii

K'ileTwinflame: K'luha and I can scout out the Amal'jaa camp. You two don't need to worry about it yet.

K'haaliThalen tosses a rock across the water

K'ailiaYohko: want us ta scout north?

K'luhaHaaz: Maybe a day's walk south from here.

K'luhaHaaz: That's my estimate.

K'ileTwinflame: A day's walk isn't far enough to be comfortable.

K'luhaHaaz: Like I said. That's the problem.

K'haaliThalen looks dejected at yet another good opportunity running into a snag

K'ailiaYohko: Course, maybe the Amalj'aa jes got a tiny lil encampment an haven't spread up anymore.

K'ailiaYohko shrugs.

K'ileTwinflame: Still not a big enough problem to knock it out of the list. It's got good resources and nobody owns it far as I cn tell.

K'ailiaYohko: An' we'd be able ta get fed real good.

K'luhaHaaz closed her eyes and crossed her arms, thinking on it.

K'ileTwinflame: How's the trading at that Drybone place?

K'ailiaYohko seems lost in thought.

K'haaliThalen: Unless you sell funerary goods....

K'ailiaYohko: Ma' an' I when we headed ta Gridania, our wagon went by another settlement at a bridge.

K'ailiaYohko: Why dun we check their markets?

K'luhaHaaz: Highbridge. They do okay trade.

K'luhaHaaz: Not to mention wer're only a day or two from the South Shroud.

K'ileTwinflame looks at K'luha. "Okay's good enough for us. We're not trying to get rich."

K'luhaHaaz nods.

K'ailiaYohko: Well... if we all in agreement.

K'haaliThalen shrugs.

K'ailiaYohko: We should prolly map a good course fer the tribe ta travel ta get here.

K'haaliThalen: I'd certainly like to get a better look at the lands

K'ileTwinflame: I'm going to stay out here until someone secures a time to meet with Ventus. No better way to judge the area than live off it.

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'luhaHaaz: That's true. I'll send him a moogle message from Drybone then. Hopefully he'll respond quickly.

K'haaliThalen pouts. "I was planning on doing the same, but with you around you'd likely eat all the goats!"

K'luhaHaaz laughs at K'haali Thalen.

K'ileTwinflame: K'luha. You and I will have to walk down and scout out the Amal'jaa camp. That's a couple days there. You okay with that?

K'ailiaYohko: So who goes back ta camp ta tell the elders?

K'luhaHaaz nods to you.

K'haaliThalen eyes turns to K'ailia

K'ileTwinflame: We haven't decided anything yet, so there's nothing to tell the elders.

K'ailiaYohko: Okay.

K'ailiaYohko: What ya want me ta do?

K'luhaHaaz: Perhaps try and get in contact with Ventus again. Set something up perhaps.

K'luhaHaaz: I don't think K'haali should be out here by herself though.

K'ailiaYohko: I can do that when he stops sleepin'.

K'ailiaYohko pulls out her necklace with the linkpearl.

K'luhaHaaz: Then perhaps you should stay with K'haali then while you wait for him.

K'ailiaYohko: Okay.

K'ileTwinflame: Why not? K'haali, you scared of a bunch of goats?

K'ailiaYohko: Actually... there's wolves out here too.

K'luhaHaaz looks irritably to K'ile. "That is what I thought a long time ago K'ile. And we all know how that ended...."

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'ailiaYohko: like thatone over there

K'haaliThalen: This place seems like paradise compared to the sagolii and I spend plenty of days and night out by myself.

K'ailiaYohko: Oh there's high bridge

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'luhaHaaz: Still. You could be overwhealmed in your sleep. Or run across trouble you can't handle. I would feel better if someone where with you.

K'ileTwinflame: Kluha's right, but it's up to you, K'haali.

K'haaliThalen: I'll have K'weh for company!

K'ailiaYohko: Well I can always go see about settin' up a meetin' with Ventus.

K'ailiaYohko: While she scouts.

K'ileTwinflame smiles, and says, "Well, at least for the first night, I'll be within a stone's throw of the goobue. You can all stay with me if you want. After that K'luha and I will be on our way to the Amal'jaa camp.

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'haaliThalen: So, rendevous here, tommorow morning before you depart?

K'luhaHaaz: That works as well as anything.

K'haaliThalen: Well; at the goobue.

Younod to K'haali Thalen.

K'haaliThalen: That suits me just fine; you watch - by tommorow morning I'll have found and prepared a full set of hunting gear entirely from local resources, just to prove it's viable!.

K'ailiaYohko laughs.

K'ileTwinflame: Hah. If you did that I'd be impressed!

K'luhaHaaz: Where shall we stay tonight then? Here?

K'ileTwinflame: I'll be setting up camp at the goobbue and then hunting dinner.

K'luhaHaaz: I'll stay with you then I suppose.

K'ileTwinflame nods to punctuate his statement, and then turns to head back there, "I'd like it if you did. The two of us together can hunt something more fun!"

K'luhaHaaz smiled faintly and nodded. "Alright then. Will the two of you be staying here as well?"

K'ailiaYohko: Aye

K'haaliThalen looks to the hills to the north. "I'd rather hoped i might explore north before nightfall and set up camp along the ravine in a secluded spot.

K'ailiaYohko: Lily has my belongin's

K'ailiaYohko: So I can get some hand ta hand practice in.

K'ailiaYohko nods.

K'luhaHaaz: Alright. We'll meet back here tomorrow morning. You should set up your campsit.

K'ileTwinflame: Enjoy your mountains, K'haali.

Youbid farewell to K'haali Thalen.

K'ailiaYohko: I wonder though

K'ailiaYohko points.

K'haaliThalen: Maybe i like rocks!

K'ailiaYohko: what are them giant glowin' rocks?

K'luhaHaaz laughs at K'haali Thalen.

K'haaliThalen: But, see you in the morning

K'ailiaYohko: they shaped so weird.

K'luhaHaaz: I don't know.

K'haaliThalen: They remind me of aether crystals, but, collosal

K'ileTwinflame: Can't you ask your teachers, K'ailia?

K'ailiaYohko: Aye, when they pick their pearls up

K'ailiaYohko: hehe folks sleep a lot taday

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Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 06:00 AM**

K'ile Tia: Evenings in Thanalan settled in quickly this time of year. The sun had no sooner turned red for twilight than it had begun to fade into night. K'ile knew he would be hunting in the dark, so didn't bother to rush making camp. But camp, to him, was a simple thing: a comfortable piece of earth near the cliff opposite the goobbue's corpse, a pile of wood to make a fire that would warm him and guide him back from the hunt, and a decent place to lean his bow when he wasn't using it.

After building the pile of wood that would become the fire, setling some kindling about it and stacking up a reserve of dry wood behind him, he took one of the limbs and shook it. As though it were his staff back in camp, the thing spawned fires on either end, and he flipped it a couple of times with a playful smirk before sticking it lengthwise in the pile to start the fire.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha had busied herself mostly with examining the platlife around the new area. Any sort of fruit would be good to try, albiet making sure it wasn't poisonous first. While she didn't find much in the way of fruit, she did find a plant good for soothing wounds and pulled out a small dagger strapped to her leg, cutting the plant from its roots.Â

She carefully pulled off her ringband gloves and braces to examine the bite from earlier. It really wasn't that bad, although it had started to sting a little. K'luha poked it and winced before carefully slicing the plant in two and placing the inside over the wound in two covering strips.Â

"Stupid..." she muttered mostly to herself, narrowing her eyes as she noticed that somehow it had turned dark already. Her eyes were quckily drawn to K'ile and his fiery staff. It was good one of them had gotten the fire together. K'luha hiked up to where the campfire was to be and sat down on the rock, looking over her makeshift bandage and treatment again.

*

K'ile Tia: Humming happily at the fire that was growing, K'ile amused himself by grabbing an extra stick in each hand. A quick flick and they both lit on either end, and he spun them as he watched K'luha drop down near him. She seemed to be in some kind of mood, but everyone always looked like they were in a mood by the fire, and K'luha tended towards moods anyway.

Noticing where the woman's eyes were focused, he said, "How's that bite?" and tossed one of his two sticks onto the growing fire.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha took parcial notice of K'ile's fire stick twirling, but didn't say anything about it. For a Tia, he really did like to show off, didn't he? Still, K'luha lightly picked at her wound only glancing up when he spoke to her.

"It's really fine. It's a bit nothing. Give it a day and it will be healed."

*

K'ile Tia: "One day on its own for the same end that your daughter coudl get you in five seconds," K'ile said, but quickly put a hand up to stave off whatever retort she could manage. "But I get it! You're not wrong, and it makes sense. Where is K'ailia, anyway?"

*

K'luha Haaz: "Off to train. I assume she'll end up with K'haali or in Ul'dah or Drybone." K'luha frowned and clicked her tongue a bit irritably. While it was true that K'ailia could fix everything so easily, somehow it felt like wounds meant nothing if you could instantly heal them away. Didn't pain have to have some sort of meaning with it or something. She sighed again. Maybe not.

*

K'ile Tia: "Kids. She says she'll camp, but off she goes! I swear, if she had to spend just one week in a single place, she'd never last." The single flaming stick in his hand spun idly, and he watched it. His staff back home was belt to contain the fire on the ends, but there was no such precaution here. The fire was slowly working its way towards his fingers, and he watched it. "Oh, but she's an adult now, isn't she?"

*

K'luha Haaz: "Technically she is. Remember, that's what we argued about at the meeting?" K'luha gave a small sly grin to K'ile before looked back down to the fire. "Sometimes she acts more like an adult than I do... and sometimes I am reminded just how young she is." K'luha frowned deeply at the fire. "And then I wonder what her brother would have been like..."

*

K'ile Tia: The stick stopped suddenly in his hand, and it kicked sparks out into the sky. "Don't do that to yourself." The heat on his hands reminded him of the fire seeking out his fingers, and he tossed the stick into the coals. "I know it's hard, but don't."

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha stayed quiet, looking into the fire like she might find her son there. She wanted so badly to see him. To see what he would have become. He hadn't even gotten a real name yet when he died. He'd only lived a few months... If only she hadn't gone by herself. If only she could have saved him.

*

K'ile Tia: K'ile dropped down next to K'luha, leaving the fire to grow and turn as it wished. The wind that blew across dirty land above eddied over the cliff and curved the wind around them, leaving the two Miqo'te in a windless haven. The smoke from the fire moved straight up for a few meters before it began to drift and was eventually dissipated in a sudden maelstrom.

"What kind of children do you think K'ailia will have?" he said.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha stopped and glanced over to K'ile. When he had sat down next to her? Although, he question was a good one. She smirked faintly and playfully elbow'd his side. "Hopefully not arrogant brats like you."

*

K'ile Tia: He barely felt her elbow, but he embellished the squirm away from it. With a chuckle, he said, "I hope she does have a kid just like me. And one like K'thalen. And K'raqi, too! Three wild boys to drive her crazy!"

The eyes of the dead goobbue caught the firelight and flashed at him in the dark. The distant, endless thunder of a waterfall kept the air heavy.

Smiling at nothing, he said, "And she can have a daughter like you to keep her sane. Everyone deserves a little help with that."

*

K'luha Haaz: "Three boys? Are you trying to start a Nunh war?" K'luha joked lightly, shaking her head. Although his last comment took her a bit by surprise. She was so surprised by it, she flushed faintly and looked back at the fire. That was... was that compliment? "Heh, I don't think I would keep her sane K'ile. More like infuriate her with my stubborness." she joked back lightly, her tail coming up behind her and moving to lightly smack the back of K'ile's head.

*

K'ile Tia: Hitting people was one of K'luha's main methods of expression, and he was just going to have to deal with that. Shaking his head to make his hair resttled where here tail had tussled it oddly, he said, "You say stubborn. I say confident. Well-grounded! People who aren't like that just make it an insult so they feel better. Stubborn's a good thing."

*

K'luha Haaz: "Hmm... Maybe. But maybe not sometimes. After all, your stubborness gets you in trouble as well K'ile." K'luha turned and raised a brow at him. "Don't you remember how angry we got at each other for being stubborn? And how angry K'ailia was with you when you so vehemently rejected her idea?"

*

K'ile Tia: The Tia just shrugged at that, "Apologies cleared it up. That's how it works with family. Anyway, it's possible to be stubborn without being rude over it. I just suck at it."

*

K'luha Haaz: "That's true." she smirked again, looking him over. "You do suck at that." K'luha shook her head and looked back to the fire. Jeez, she was doing a lot of head shaking over K'ile. Despite him being older, she often felt like he was just a kit.

*

K'ile Tia: K'ile couldn't help the smile on his face when he stood. The sense of great success had him as sure as he'd shot down a Sand Drake with a blowgun. For once in his life, he'd stopped a woman from crying on the first try! If only K'thalen could be alive to see it!

"Feel up to some hunting?" K'ile trotted around the fire to get his bow.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha frowned slightly at the fire. Still, it bothered her. Especially now that they were here. Where it all happened. She could feel the place on her back where that Amalj'aa had stomped on her. She could feel where they ripped the bundle from her arms. All because she'd interuptted some sacred ritual. She hadn't even known. K'luha pulled her arm bands back on and readjusted her shirt.Â

"If my son had lived... I would have wanted him to be like you..." K'luha muttered quietly to herself before picking up her own bow and forcing herself to give K'ile a cheerful look. "Of course I am. Let's quit wasting time. I'm hungry."

*

K'ile Tia: Not many things froze K'ile in place, but what K'luha said just then did. He stood with one hand on his bow as though unsure if he should take it, waiting for his mind to do something with her words. Her voice seemed to settle over his arms and shoulders, leaving him heavy. His head felt empty of thought, and yet somehow he scrabbled together enough of one to look over and say, "You're not going to start thinking of me as a son, are you?"

He had enough presence of mind to add a chuckle, making it sound like a joke. The cheer on K'luha's features probably helped. He pulled his bow up over his shoulder and added on, "Cause I'm just a few years short of being your dad." That was undershooting it. A few years as in, like, ten. But still!

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha had to chuckle softly at his reaction. She had almost hoped he hadn't heard that but, since he did she was glad he didn't take it badly at least. It was a compliment after all. As for thinking of him as a son, maybe. Not quite though. She wasn't as protective of him as she would have been of a child. Although, he did make her feel younger. She had to grow up so quickly because of the need for children. Trying to raise one, and then raising K'ailia when she was only seventeen? She had tried to grow up fast. But sometimes K'ile brought out that seventeen year old that never got the opportunity to be a stupid teenager.Â

"A dad, or a mate." K'luha added, chuckling again as she walked past him. Her tail lightly flicked his shoulder as she nimbly hoped up a rock formation to look over the dark plains.

*

K'ile Tia: K'ile was surprised by the strength of K'luha's tail against his shoulder. It didn't deel that different from getting slapped, except that the furt made it softer. His own tail whipped about self-conciously behind him. He stood still and watched her move away from him for a few seconds before grabbing his quiver and moving with her.

Looking up at where she stood on the rock above him, he said, "You're not going to see much this time of night. We should try and sniff out a wolf! Two hunters shouldn't settle for a dumb old goat."

*

K'luha Haaz: "Way ahead of you old man." K'luha teased. She was already sniffing the air for wolf and bigger prey. She didn't want to go after something too terribly large though. It could be a waste of food... but if she salted it she could preserve it as rations for the next days of travel.Â

"I smell... mostly goat and dust but..." Her ears flicked back and forth, listening keenly for the tell-tale sounds of a wolf pack. "No wolf. Maybe further out then... you?"

*

K'ile Tia: "Oh, there's wolves. Has to be! Picking them out of the damned goats and this godsdamned pollen would be a trick, though." K'ile was good help on a hunt, but it wasn't really his thing. His senses were better for tracking people. It was a less practical skill, especially out here where no one was. It would come in handy when they were scouting the Amal'jaa, though! "Want to try getting away from the goobbue some? Head towards that fresh water? We can follow the smoke back."

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha gave a short nod and deftly hopped up and over the rock. With a silent step, she glided gracefully across the nightscape. Her footsteps made hardly a sound and her dark skin and clothing in the nighttime made her very difficult to see as she moved.Â

She lead, or rather she hoped K'ile could follow her, further inland. Her best bet was that water source they found earlier. No doubt game would come there for water as well. They just had to pick up a scent there.Â

As they approached, K'luha ducked beneath some foliage and examined the watering hole. It was mostly empty now, but the scent of fresh game was all over it. Mostly goats, but where there were goats there would be wolves.Â

K'luha glanced about for K'ile for a moment, hoping he had been able to follow her easily enough.

*

K'ile Tia: That woman was a beast in the night. K'ile hadn't realized how effective her dark leathers would be until she'd gone out ahead of him and vanished. Once he'd lost sight of her, he paused for a moment. And then he followed again, this time by scent. She was easier to pick out than any wolf; he'd been exposed to that scent for most of his life, after all.

Besides. He knew where the water was, so he wasn't exactly going to get lost.

K'ile didn't keep her waiting too long, stepping from the night to join her by the foliage. No game hanging out by the water, but that would be too much to ask. The wolves would probably do something similar to what they were doing and track pray from here into the open desert. If he was lucky...

A smile split his lips. "I smell a kill," he said in a hushed tone. "Someone doesn't have anything against eating the goats." He pointed upwind.

*

K'luha Haaz: "Get lost?" K'luha jibed lightly as K'ile finally appeared some time later. She squinted out into the night again and looked for any signs of movement. The dirt was more malleable here than in the sands of the Sagolii. Tracks remained for a long time after the prey had moved through the area. She would have to learn fresh tracks from stale ones.Â

K'luha sniffed the air deeply as he mentioned a kill upwind. Yes, he was right. His nose was better than hers was, but she was glad for it at the moment. "Right. Let's go." she motioned with her tail to move and again darted out silently through the plains. She kept low to the ground even while running, obscuring her form to blend in with the local brush.Â

It was probably about a five minutes run northward, but finally the thick smell of blood caught her nose. It was very close. She could smell the wolven scent as well; musky and earthy. It was distinct, and stood out strongly from that of the nannies and billies in the area.Â

K'luha darted behind a thick brush and peered out at the scene about four hundred yards in front of her. She counted for wolves at least and a large Billy that had been taken for dinner. Four wolves, meant there was probably more around the area. It could mean trouble. They would be best if they could pick one off. But wolves had very keen hearing. The trouble was how to communicate with K'ile, and if K'ile would be silent enough to stalk a wolf pack.

*

K'ile Tia: K'ile did okay with being quiet. He was up next to K'luh before she heard him at least, so he figured that was pretty good. He didn't know if the woman's hearing was a good gauge for the wolves, figured it probably wasn't, but still felt pretty prepared.He was about to say something to K'luha when he remembered the whole silence thing.

Sand worms, drakes and orobons don't hear that well, so he'd almost forgotten it. He wasn't clear how to communicate without speaking, so he just gave K'luha a rather helpless look and tried not to look ridiculous doing so.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha frowned faintly. Well, at least K'ile was too terribly noisy. She peered past the brush at the pack, watching the alpha eat first before he started walking away and letting the rest of the trio fight for the carass. The alpha wandered off eastward and K'luha saw their chance for dinner.Â

She let her tail talk for her, reaching back to tap K'ile and point in the direction of the Alpha. With that, she swiftly moved through the brush, crouching low and stalking the large wolf through the plains and waiting for an opportunity to strike.

*

K'ile Tia: He almost missed the tail, and was again more surprised by it than anything. K'ile probably wouldn't have been if he'd been watching the wolves more closely. A few seconds after K'luha's gesture he noticed the one wandering off alone, and discerned her intentions.

Following her closely, he took his bow out and held it below him, watching to make sure he didn't hit anything with the arms and make unnecessary noise. Reaching back to take a bow from his quiver, he realized he didn't have his quiver and fuck that what in the seven hells was even wrong with him.

He padded over towards K'luha and whacked her with his tail to get her attention. Having no idea how to sign that he needed an arrow, he just decided to help himself to her quiver. He didn't feel very smooth in that moment.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha was focused intently on her prey, looking through the dark with glowing eyes to find its weak spot. The perfect target would be... of course. On the neck. She could see precisely where to put her arrows. But the question was, could she hit her mark? Of course, she assurred herself. And even if she didn't she could take down a single wolf.Â

Although, all was almost lost when something whacked her. She jumped faintly, making a rustling noise before shooking a glowering look back at K'ile. He took her arrow? She glanced back towards his back and noted he had forgotten his quiver. With another shake of her head she took her own arrow and looked forward at the wolf.Â

Which had promptly spotted her. Fabulous. The wolf was snarling and looking directly at her, which mean she only had one shot. She pulled her own arrow out and stood, releasing the bow to fly true... and totally miss her intended target to hit the wolf's torso instead. The wolf let out a loud howl and before K'luha knew it she could ear the movement of the entire pack. Yay.Â

K'luha pulled another arrow from her quiver and shot again, hitting the wolf between the eyes this time. The beast staggered and K'luha threw her bow around her body to pull out a dagger that was strapped to her leg again. This was going to get messy.

*

K'ile Tia: Around the time K'luha was launching her first arrow, K'ile was putting his arrow against the string and trying to remember how he'd seen K'nahli do it. But K'nahli's fingers were so much smaller than his, and something just wasn't working. He'd fired some arrows before, but he really thought it would just come naturally once he was in a real hunt with his bow. And it wasn't.

His head popped up at that howl, and he heard the rest of the pack moving their way. He was too hungry to abandon the kill, and from how K'luha went for her dagger, she agreed. So they'd have to defend it.

Jumping up his feet, K'ile ran over towards the fresh carcasse, forgetting the arrow in his hands. He said quickly, "K'luha, get close to the dead wolf." With a shake of his wrist, the terminal ends of his bows' arms suddenly burst into flames. There was a pop as the bowstring snapped. He'd need a new bow.

Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 02:56 PM**

K'luha Haaz: For some reason, K'luha had simply assumed K'ile could even use a bow in the first place. She simply assumed anyone in the tribe, save for K'ailia, was able to at the very least shoot and hit a target. Wrong.Â

K'luha looked to K'ile, shocked for a moment that he was doing it all wrong. He was clusmy and had terrible posture and was totally going to get them killed if she didn't get him something he could actually use.Â

At least he could use it like a torch. Wait, how the hell did he keep simply lighting things on fire!? K'luha dashed forward anyway before pushing her knife into K'ile's hand.Â

"Use that." she snapped sharply, pulling up her bow again and readying an arrow as the pack started closing it. She pressed her back to K'ile to watch their oppositie direction and shot an arrow out, hitting another wolf in the chest. She laced her bow ready once more and turned to shoot another wolf that was starting to charge K'ile.

*

K'ile Tia: Looking at the knife as though she'd given him a peice of lettuce to fight with, K'ile frowned. "If you just shoot them all before they get here we're not going to have any fun!" He slipped the knife in his belt and leaned a bit of his weight against K'luha, just so that she could feel he was still present.

He tested the spin of the bow. It wasn't really balanced like a staff, which meant he wouldn't be able to do anything fancy with it. Still, he was able to turn it at a decent rate, and in the night it drew a very definite red circle in front of him.

K'ile Tia: K'ile turned the fire on a wolf that had been in mere charge and barked, "Come on! I'll cook ya before I skin ya!" and the wolf changed its mind, probably more confused than scared. He wouldn't actually be able to cook or kill anything with the bow, though, now that he though about it. The wolves were kind of big.

"Actually, keep shooting them," he said. "I was wrong. It was a good idea."

*

K'luha Haaz: Fun? They could get mauled by wolves!? And he was thinking of fun!? Was he fourty or freaking fourteen!? K'luha huffed irritably, letting loose another arrow into the torso of a third wolf and then a fourth. She glanced back for a moment when he tried intimidating a wolf. That was... weird. But a bit effective. Not very much so for K'luha. While she was distracted a wolf came up on her and jumped.Â

K'luha yelped, the wolf pouncing on top of her and knocking her off to the side of K'ile. She dropped her arrow but held the bow tightly in her left hand. There were still what, like six or seven left? The wolf on top of her went for her throat, but K'luha shoved her bow in its bow instead and tried to push it back. She could feel its claws in her shoulders.

*

K'ile Tia: Knocked rolling by the wolf that had hit K'luha, K'ile found his feet quickly. He turned first to her, his immediate instinct being to help, but the pounding of paws and the yip of a hungry beast invaded his instincts and turned him around to face the slathering jowls of a beast that was almost on top of him.

Wolves would all pounce at once, just like the tribe did. They were hunters after all.

K'ile swing the bow hard, laying the taste of fire on the wolf's tongue. Its body convulsed at the heat, its head shook, and when K'ile pulled the bow free of its teeth the wolf coughed out splintered wood and sparks. It's painful cries only came after.

The stink of wolves permeated K'ile's senses. He could hear them converging. His immediate thought would've been to throw fire on the ground, but thanks to the earlier downpout he knew nothing would catch.

In his hand he spun the bow, and he turned it on all sides of him as he looked for the animals. Unfortunately, the light from his fire was ruining his night vision. After a few moments of searching in darkness, he called out, "K'luha, let me know where you are!"

*

K'luha Haaz: None of the beasts wanted to get near the fire. As K'ile rolled away to take on a few, the rest turned to the already subdued prey. K'luha's ears flattened in fear as she tried to fight off the wolf on top of her. It snarled and gnashed at her, his teeth continuously getting caught on the metal handle in the middle of her bow. K'luha pushed the bow up further against the wolf's mouth and kicked her feet up to kick it off her.Â

No sooner had one wolf tumbled off but two more jumped forward. One bite down on hear ear and the other at her leg. K'luha screeched loudly and swung her bow blindly at the one nearer to her face. Her legs kicked to try and free her leg from the wolf's bite and she managed to kick the other wolf in the face. But the remaining wolves were beginning to swarm with the sound and smell of injured prey.Â

Still, as the wolves released her she scrambled to her feet, trying desperate to put distance between herself and the pack.

*

K'ile Tia: The sound K'luhai made wasn't one that K'ile had ever wanted to hear from her. Without thought or planning, everything in him turned and rushed towards her cry. The fire moved nturally with him, even as one end of the bow sputtered into streaks and coals. His other hand pulled the knife from his belt.

And that was all the preparation he had when he jumped bodily at the wolves that had beset K'luha. They'd seen him coming, of course, and he probably shouted as well, for one of them ad already jumped away. The other took fire right to the facce, and whipped about in a sudden panic made of teeth and fur.

Still, the best he was doing was scaring it and making it angry. He stabbed at its neck, but didn't have what he needed to kill it clean and easy.

He recoiled from that wolf. The others were still close. Even in the rush of movement and canine sounds, he could hear K'luha retreating. He hoped at least he'd startled the pack into taking a moment to regroup. Still, he gave a flourish of fire from his dying bow as he followed quick behind K'luha.

*

K'luha Haaz: Much like a cat in trouble, K'luha's panic sent her darting across the landscape again. As hungry as she was, death really wasn't all that appetizing for her right now. All she could think of was to get out of reach of those wolves and figure out what to do from there. From the corner of her eye she caught sight of a tree and sharply made a b-line for it.Â

Her nimbe form scaled the tree with relative easy and she came to rest at the top of a heavier branch, clinging to it like she might death otherwise. And it was true, she indeed might have. Wolves couldn't climb after all. They would be stuck waiting below, giving K'luha all the time in the world to think.Â

Suddenly from her panic she remembered she was not alone and quickly scanned the horizon for her companion. "K'ile!" she yelled out, looking around in another panic. Even if she had to jump down, she would find him again.

*

K'ile Tia: He really, really didn't want his bow to stop burning. So of course it did, and all but collapsed from his hand into ash and coals. This left him not only defensless, but senseless as well. All he could smell was smoke, singed fur, and the stink of wolves. The smell of a panicked K'luha was somewhere for sure, but he couldn't track it. And he couldn't see, either, his night vision by now completely claimed by the light he'd been swinging around. The clouds from the earlier storm hadn't cleared, leaving the moon completely blotted out.

So every sense he had was full of nothing but wolves, and an angry dozen of them at least. They didn't rush him immediately, probably afraid he'd pull out more fire, but that would only buy him until he demonstrated some kind of fear.

His first instinct was to run like hell. He obeyed that instinct. The wolves, sensing his fear and already having him surrounded, pounced quickly and caught him as he ran. His screams were more like blood-curdled sqwaks when his throat was peeled from his spine, leaving him to writhe pitifully while he was eaten alive.

Luckily, the above did not occur. About five seconds before that happened, K'ile's fate had actually been changed when he ran face-first into a rickety tree trunk that swayed in the night above him. Sparing a half a second to mutter insults at the "Bitch tree sneaking up on me," he dug the knife into the side and pulled himself up its length.

Not too long after this, everyone in the desert would see the canopy of a lone tree burst into flames seemingly without cause. Oddly enough, the base of it caught fire too, and in between was a laughing Tia throwing burning sticks at the wolves that surrounded him.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha clusmily dropped from her perch to grope desperately around for her bow and an arrow. She spun desperately, looking for some sign of K'ile. Something, anything would do! And about three seconds later she yelped and fell over, covering her eyes from a sudden burst of light. In the darkness, it seemed and entire tree went up in flames just south of her.Â

It was all she could do to collect herself only to screech and fall over again as the pack of injured wolves went running, yipping and howling from the fire. K'luha shakily sat back up and started to crawl towards the tree that had been set alight. No doubt it was K'ile... probably.Â

"K'ile? K'ile!" she called out worriedly, only to yell again when she pressed her front hand into the corpse of the alpha wolf. She pulled it back and wiped off the wolf's blood on her good leg. Thank god it wasn't totally for nothing. She was slightly moritifed at how horrible hunters they were though.Â

K'luha stood agian and grabbed the wolf corpse by its neck, hauling its dead weight across the ground and towards the burning tree again. "K-k'ile!?" she called, squinting as she got closer to the tree.

*

K'ile Tia: There was a small circle of burnt sticks around the tree, all of which he'd thrown at the wolves. He was sure he hadn't actually hurt any of them, but exploding a whole tree ought to keep them away! To drive home the point, K'ile was calmly standing upon a branch, arms to either side, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Flee, beasts! I am the Sagolii Fire God! I hold the power of Azeyma in my hands!" He laughed at this a great deal. So much that he almost fell out of the tree.

He still eventually heard K'luha shouting at him, and when he saw her pulling the wolf's carcass towards him, he smiled broadly and waved over his head, calling her name, "K'luha!" When they'd given primary chase to him, he'd assumed she'd gotten away. Since she was still thinking about food, she was probably fine, too. So they'd done well! He was down a bow, but that was fine.

"K'luha! Hold on, I'll help you with that!" He shouted, and then clambered back to the trunk of the tree to climb down. Obviously climbing down was impossible, though, because he'd set the base of the tree on fire. So he went right back out on that limb. But he couldn't really jump off without hurting himself. He needed to do something different. So he made his way back to the trunk of the tree, which was still on fire, and actually kind of more on fire now than it had been last time. Yes, that fire was definitely coming up towards him.

So, okay. He was going to burn to death in the tree he'd set on fire. No, he decided he didn't like that plan. "I'll be right down!" he called out, still trying to figure out how. He ended up walking back out onto the primary branch, rubbing at his chin in thought. He'd just have to jump.

He cleared the ring of fire, landed foot-first but collapsed unpoetically right away, his body hitting the earth with a heavy thud. He lay there for several seconds before pulling himself up on all fours, forehead still in the dirt, and coughing.

*

K'luha Haaz: Hnn... arrogant as ever. K'luha's ears twitched lightly when she heard him yell something about being a Sagolii Fire God. While she wasn't really sure how he lit things on fire so easily, she was sure that he wasn't a God. Sexy bodies and lighting things on fire didn't make you a god. Because if it did, K'luha was definitely a Goddess.Â

She looked up as he walked back and forth on a branch... that was quickly burning. It was high up and, yup. He jumped and landed terribly ungracefully on the ground. K'luha winced at the sound he made and grabbed the carrass over closer to him before kneling down at his side.Â

"You okay Sagolii Fire God?" she questioned, smirking faintly.

*

K'ile Tia: K'ile's initial attempt to answer K'luha's question came out as a shuttering cough, so he took a few more moments to catch his breath. He managed first, "Fine," and then, "Immortal god," and finally, "Always fine," before just waving her off.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha narrowed her gaze at him. Coughing? Really, she hadn't thought the injury was that bad. Even if it had been mortifying, she almost... ALMOST wished K'ailia was here to heal him.Â

"You idiot." she hissed lightly, realizing he was more hurt that she at first thought. She reached a hand out to lightly try and press on his chest to assess the damage done.

*

K'ile Tia: Nope.

K'luha's first breath of mothering was enough. He rolled to the side quick as could be and was on his feet before should could touch him. "I'm fine," he said, feeling faint. He stumbled a bit, shook himself. He supporessed a cough and decided he'd count broken ribs later. "I'm good. You good? How are you? Did you get bit again?"

A single cough escaped and he suppressed it.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha frowned as the damned idiot Fire God rolled up and got to his side, practically falling over again. She clicked her tongue and motioned for him to sit again.Â

"Sit the hell down. You've got broken ribs and I know it!" she ordered, her concern for K'ile very obviously overpowering any cocern for her own wellbeing. Namely her complete ignorance of the biting pain in her leg where a wolf had taken a nasty chunk, and her right ear which also was now missing a large chunck and bleeding profusely down her hair and the side of her face.

*

K'ile Tia: Crossing his arms over his chest, K'ile protested weakly, "So what if I do?" and then, with a cough a wince, let his arms fall to his sides and dropped into a defeat crouch. "You're bleeding."

*

K'luha Haaz: "Lay the fuck down." K'luha ordered sharply before crawling across the ground to sit next to K'ile again. "Let me check. I might be able to help. If nothing else I can assess the damage. Come on K'ile...please?" If she had to resort to pleading and giving him the saddest face she could muster, so be it.

*

K'ile Tia: Rolling his eyes, K'ile let himself flop onto his back. Probably not the best idea he ever had, because he had him wincing and coughing again. He pulled himself back together pretty quick, though.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha let out a small breath of relief. It was a little victory, but one that meant a lot to her. The younger Miq'ote carefully ran her hands over K'ile's chest and tried to remember something she learnt in Limsa. How did the healing spell go? Something... something... channeling aether... something something... life forces... In a small burst of green, K'luha managed a fairly pathetic healing Physick, about the equivalent of tacking his ribs back together with duck tape.

*

K'ile Tia: Staring at the burning tree above them with a scowl on his face, K'ile tried not to feel too humiliated by K'luha's touch. Particularly since the woman was also obviously hurt and wasn't even acknowledging it. The sudden flash of green light surprised him, but not enough to make him flinch. His chest felt a bit different afterward, and the urge to cough was dimishing. Looking down at where she was touching, he said, "Now where'd you learn that?"

*

K'luha Haaz: "Someplace cold and wet." K'luha replied with a small smirk. She pulled her hands from his chest and glanced over to their kill. What a pathetic attempt. She sighed to herself. She had really been slacking on hunting. K'luha quietly promised herself to start going on hunts again as much as possible.Â

As her worry for K'ile's well being diminished, her hunger and pain started to set in. Still, she was more hungry than anything.Â

"Still have that knife?" she asked, glancing back to K'ile.

*

K'ile Tia: "You can have the knife," K'ile said, "When you do something about your wounds. You can't heal me and just sit there bleeding all over the place. You make me look like I can't take a hit."

*

K'luha Haaz: "Well I'm hungry and I have no bandages." K'luha replied with a small huff, holding out her hand for the knife. "If you want to cut up the kill while I bleed, feel free but someone needs to start cooking."

*

K'ile Tia: Rising to a sitting position -- slowly, this time, to test the set of his ribs -- K'ile took a knife from his belt. It was not K'luha's knife. He'd actually had his own all along, but she hadn't really asked. "Do that shiney thing. I don't want any of your wounds getting infected. We've got a hike tomorrow, remember."

He got to his feet and walked around to the wolf carcass. The alpha's pack would come back, but probably not until the tree burned down. It seemed to have enough fuel to last a bit.

*

K'luha Haaz: It was easier said than done honestly. Still, K'luha gingerly touched her bite wound on her leg and attempted the same sort of channeling. Blah blah blah aether blah blah blah math blah blah balh life force... although this time it was more like a pathetic spark that sharply fizzled out and then nothing. K'luha tried a few times, but every time it seemed to do the same. Apparently healing herself didn't work so well. Or maybe she was just stubborn that wound ought to mean something.Â

Either way, K'luha sighed and looked to the tree.Â

"Think that will last until morning...?"

*

K'ile Tia: "No," he said. "I'd try to take the whole carcass back to camp but that would make the walk take a long time. And I'm afraid those wolves will be smelling your blood." Even under the fire, with the burnt fur and wet dirt all around him, the blood cut right through. "I'll be better to cut off what we can carry and bury the rest until later. Don't suppose you borught a shovel and something to wrap it in, though, did you?" If they couldn't keep the meat around, they'd have to settle for goat in the morning. No way was he hunting more wolves when he didn't even have a bow.

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha shook her head no. She didn't really want the wolves to follow her back to the camp either. But how to get ride of the smell of blood? Maybe dirt? She frowned and glanced to the ground. "Cut what you can take I guess. I have nothing but my clothing, which I guess we could use but I kind of only have that and it's not very plible like that. So that's a no go."

*

K'ile Tia: "I'll try not to be disappointed. I'd offer my shirt, but, ya know." He began to chop into the wolf, and he put a smile on for it. The sounds of tearing flesh could be heard underneath his muttering, "You can't fight now cause you're dead. Who killed you? It was us. We killed you."

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha smirked faintly herself. "One of these days..." she muttered to herself before lying down on the ground for a few moments. She waited until she was sure he was done before standing and starting to limp towards the camp. "Come on. We'll eat back at the camp."

*

K'ile Tia: "Yep," he held the flesh to one side, having adapted his bow's strap into a makeshift sling for it. "Just gotta follow the smell of the smoke back to camp!... Stupid tree." He cast a glare back up at the burning tree, which was completely obscuring his ability to smell the fire he'd left at camp. "I really need to learn to stay out of my own way. Okay, I'll just follow you then."

*

K'luha Haaz: K'luha smiled weakly back at K'ile and started out towards the general direction in with a limp. After a few minutes of walkign she finally picked up the scent of their camp and within another ten minutes they were finally back. K'luha clambered up onto the warm rock and flopped down, finally getting the chance to look at her injuries again. Save that she didn't want to look at them at all. She wanted to eat and sleep. She motioned for K'ile to pass her a share of the food so that she might eat in relative silence.

*

K'ile Tia: He cooked the food and gave it K'luha and was just a generally useless Tia all night.

Twinflame · **11-14-2013, 03:22 PM**

K'luha Haaz had fallen asleep rather quickly after she had eaten, leaving K'ile to mostly fend for himself. Her leg burned and shot pain up her spine all night and it kept waking her up. Her shoulders too, cried out from the deep claw wounds that the wolves hand inflicted. Worst of it all was probably her ear, which she couldn't put any weight on but kept turning on it to sleep comfortably. After about the eighth time she woke up that night crying, she realized now that she was also freezing.

K'luha Haaz sat up and looked at K'ile with a small glower. Stupid idiot. If only he wore a shirt she could just still it, but no. He had to run around without a shirt all the time. Disgruntled, K'luha dragged herself across the rock and put her back to his to sleep, leeching whatever little or much bodyheat he had to try and get back to sleep again. Thankfully, it worked enough for her to finally fall back asleep until the sun came up. At the first touches of sunlight on her skin, K'luha winced and opened her eyes to note that her face was buried in something very red. And possibly also brown. But it was also rather warm and comfortable. For about ten seconds before K'luha realized she had at some point during his disgruntled back to back warm leeching, turned around to a full on cuddle. With a sudden and loud flail, K'luha promptly smacked K'ile in the head before scrambling to her feet like she had never done it in the first place. Only to regret that very much and fall back down to what was probably directly on K'ile's face. "Ow!"

K'ile Twinflame is kind of an inconsiderate shit, so he didn't once wake up all night. Sleep is top priority, even when some chick is snuggling up to you and there's nobody else in a thousand malms. He awoke not for the cuddling, now the flailing, scquirmed and resisted waking up for the smack and only finally stirred when she fell on his head. Which is where we must remember that he's inconsiderate and has no idea what's going on. So he obeys his instincts and reacts as though he's been struck. He knocks K'luha off of him with both fists, snarling, and jumps to his feet. A pile of curses so dense as to be unintelligble peels from his lips, and he stops just short of kicking the woman.
K'ile Twinflame doesn't manage a smooth recovery, just grabbing his head and growling out, "Ah, K'luha, what in the hells!"

K'luha Haaz cried out in pain as she fell ungracefully, only to cry out a second time; this time more loudly than the first and more desperate. She wasn't so terribly light as that he could kick her off and fling her around, but since she was already close to the wall her head managed to sharply smack backwards into it. K'luha sharply curled up into a, her hands covering the back of her head which had just struck rock, and cried. A cry of pain that sounded unlike anything a Hyur or any other race could make. A distinct Miq'ote cry that indicated an extreme amount of pain, and there had only been two other types K'luha had cried like that. The first was when she lost her son. The second, when she and her sister fought which lead to her sister's exile.

K'ile Twinflame hesitates in his sleepiness. He's not without pain himself, since his ribs were broken just last night (even though he'd been healed somewhat). It takes him a moment to work his way around to "Gods damn it," and then he moves over to K'luha and crouches over her, reaching out to her, "You okay?"

K'luha Haaz found her head throbbing heavily with pain. It felt like she'd opened something up on her shoulder as well, but maybe it was just lingering pain from moving so fast. Still, her tail was terribly frazzled and tucked between her legs from the sudden attack. She hadn't expected to fall, much less be thrown onto rock as quickly as she'd fallen. Her head was hurting so much she hadn't even heard K'ile, much less noticed his reach.

K'ile Twinflame mutters more curses as he puts his hands upon K'luha's. "Hey, what's hurt? What'd I do?"

K'luha Haaz mewled out in pain, curling up into a small ball when K'ile put his hands on hers. She couldn't even properly think of words as her head still seared with tremendous pain. He would simply have to wait while it died down before she could speak again.

K'ile Twinflame hissed, "Twelve-cursed... What am I supposed to?" he bent over K'luha to look her over. "You're bleeding. Hold still." He took his bandana off his head and pulled the shells and fetishes from it, shaking it out into a strip of cloth. Kneeling, he put one hand to K'luha's head to see if she would protest the contact.

K'luha Haaz did not protest, other than to mewl again with agonizing pain.

K'ile Twinflame put the bandana behind K'luha's head and put pressure against the wond to try and stop the bleeding, and maybe help with the pain some (though the immediate effect would probably quite the opposite).

K'luha Haaz cried loudly at the pressure, raising a hand to scratch at K'ile's arm weakly. She stopped after a few moments and went mostly silent, though her ears were presed down to her head still.

K'ile Twinflame stubbronly ignores her protests and, with one hand still on her head, puts his other beneath her shoulders and lifts her shoulders onto his lap so he can get a better angle on her poor skill. HIs next task would be to carefully tie the bandanna very tightly around her head, making sure not to pin her ears down.

K'luha Haaz whined loudly at his touch to her shoulders, which were still injured as well. Still, she didn't fight him back and tensely settled into her new position.

K'ile Twinflame successfully ties of the bandana and now has completely exhausted his knowledge of first aid. He looks over her, but all the wounds he sees were there last night, and she didn't complain about them then, so they couldn't be the problem now.

K'luha Haaz remained tense, moving her hands to grasp at K'ile's legs. Something, anything to cling to to help alieviate some of the pain. She dug her sharp nails into his legs and remaind still and silent, save for the occasional pained cry.

K'ile Twinflame didn't really have much to do, so he waited. Her nails didn't hurt him through his clothes, and he wasn't against just holding her until she felt better. He kept one hand on her shoulder and his other on his head to support it, well away from any injury.

K'luha Haaz after what felt to K'luha like hours, but perhaps was more like a few minutes, the pain started to recede. However, the broken and painful sleep she had gotten left her exhausted and the strange, but welcome comfort from K'ile lulled her back to a light sleep for a time.

K'ile Twinflame was busy waiting patiently for K'luha to stop being in pain, and when she wasn't groaning or writhing anymore, he muttered, "Hey, so... did I hurt you or... Oh you're asleep. That's... Uhm. Okay." And so he sat there like that. And his knees hurt and his legs cramped and his arm got so tired supporting her head he thought it might fall off, but he stayed there and just alternated between watching K'luha and watching the wall. It was fine.

K'luha Haaz couldn't sleep for long. Especially not with the sun rising higher in the sky. She was probably only asleep for another ten minutes before a soft whine alerted K'ile to her awakening. She slowly tried lifting her head and found it still throbbing dully. "Nngh..." she groaned, bringing her hands from K'ile's legs to her head.

K'ile Twinflame continued to support her and, but moved his hand from her shoulder to her side. Obviously he wasn't trying to make things less awkward. Any awkwardness in the situation hadn't occured to him. At K'luha's first groan he flinched, an instinctive reaction to having essentially knocked out one of the most volatile people in the tribe. After a moment's ponderance, he forced a smile, though it didn't show in his eyes. "Ah. Good morning. How... uhm... how was... sleep?"

K'luha Haaz ever so slowly moved to sit up, hands pressed to her head. She was trying to remember why she hurt so much, but the reason wasn't coming to her. She looked to K'ile hazily, taking a few seconds to first recongize him and second comprehend what he had asked. "Sleep...?" she repeated hazily, looking at him completely clueless and glassy eyed.

K'ile Twinflame blinking at K'luha and taking a few long seconds to consider his answer, K'ile at length replied, "Yes. Good morning. Are you okay? You hit your head pretty bad."

K'luha Haaz blinked at K'ile before wincing again. Head. Pain. Ow. "I... did?"

K'ile Twinflame: Yes. First you hit my head, and then you hit yours. I think. That's how you woke me up.

K'luha Haaz blinked at K'ile as if she didn't quiet understand what he was saying. After a few moments she leaned back against the rock wall and closed her eyes again. "Oh."

K'ile Twinflame stands and stretches to loosen the joints that cramped while he was cradling K'luha, "When you fell back to sleep I was abit worried. Are you alright? You were honestly bleeding."

K'luha Haaz opened her eyes slowly and looked down at herself. Her shoulders were torn, there was a huge chunk out of her leg, she could feel her head still pounding where it was hit, and she could still feel the missing chunk out of her right ear. "Fine."

K'ile Twinflame points at the sky, "Azeyma can't see so clear, so you can get away with lying to me for now. But either way, we're having K'ailia heal what she can when she gets here."

K'luha Haaz seemed to perk up a bit, well a lot, when K'ile mentioned K'ailia healing her. "Absolutely not." she snapped sharply, eyes coming into a quick focus on K'ile.

K'ile Twinflame crosses his arms and leans over K'luha, "Blame your injuries on me if you want. Say we got in a fight and beat you up. I don't care. But if you don't get healed, I can't take you with me on the scouting trip."

K'luha Haaz clicked her tongue and looked K'ile over. "Says Mr. Half-broken ribs." she grumbled, forcing herself to an unstable stance. "Our pathetic hunt last night is not something I am going to ever admit to K'ailia. There's no way I would let her heal me after such a mortifying night. "

K'ile Twinflame couldn't keep the hard edge out of his voice, "I'm going to have her heal me, too. The difference is that you hurt your leg and have a head injury. Those aren't things you play with. If you're not going to let her heal you, that's fine. I'll just go alone while you wallow in Drybone."

K'luha Haaz expresses her annoyance with you.
K'luha Haaz: You will do no such of a thing!

K'ile Twinflame: Maybe you hit your head harder than I thought. If you think I'd even consider taking an injured huntress to an Amal'jaa camp.

K'luha Haaz: Maybe you hit yours if you think I would let you go on your own after that pitiful display!

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K'ile Twinflame: Then I guess you're going to have to let your daughter heal you, aren't you!

K'luha Haaz growled deeply in her throat at K'ile. He was right, like he was always right, but she hated it. She hated that he was always right. "Can't you just be wrong for once you stupid arrogant shirtless bastard!?"

K'ile Twinflame turns his gaze towards the goobbue. "I'm not going to apologize for that. Stop losing arguments so much and I'll stop winning them."

K'luha Haaz pulled at her hair furiously and screeched loudly before dropping back to the floor in anger and defeat. She turned her head away from K'ile and crossed her arms under her chest, fuming.

K'ile Twinflame mutters, "At least we know your head's okay. Okay as it ever is anyway. By the way," he looks back at K'luha, "I'd decided not to get you about running off on me during that downpour in Drybone yesterday, but as long as we're fighting in the first place."

K'luha Haaz blinked and looked back at K'ile, confused for a second. Running off? Oh, that's... that was... K'luha frowned again, less angry and more saddened. "Was that what you were talking about yesterday?"

K'ile Twinflame nodded, "Right. I told you rainstorms like that were dangerous out here, and off you go! K'ailia went off after you alone, putting her in danger. K'haali and I went looking for you too."

K'luha Haaz clicked her tongue, her ears flattening out while she looked away again. "You never said such a thing. Not that you needed to. And no one needed to look for me. It wasn't as if I wouldn't return after I did what I needed to."

K'ile Twinflame punches the rock wall next to him, "I did say, that there would be flash floods and mudslides in that weather. You should've taken someone with you or at least said where you were going. Or anything! Other than me just looking up and seeing your tail swing off into the rain."

K'luha Haaz: Tch. Don't break your hand too...

K'ile Twinflame grinds his knuckles against the stone for a moment, then puts his hand back to his side, "I doubt whatever you had to do was that important anyway."

K'luha Haaz: I... visited his grave. It was important to me.

K'ile Twinflame squints, takes a moment to think and then huffs, "Dammit, dont..." he swings a hand to one side, "I still have a right to be mad at you! You could've told me that! I would've understood."

K'luha Haaz didn't look to K'ile, but instead looked back to the ground away from him. "No... you can't. You can't understand what it felt like to dig that grave with your bare bleeding hands while you were dying. And you can't understand how it feels to dig up that dead body and move it to a real graveyard. That is something you cannot understand K'ile."

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K'ile Twinflame looks away, muttering, "That's not what I was talking about. Is that were doing out there last night?"

K'luha Haaz there was a persistant silence for a time before K'luha sharply inhaled at a sudden pain her leg. She pressed her hands to it and frowned. "You cannot tell K'ailia what happened." she insisted, looking back to K'ile.

K'ile Twinflame shakes it his limbs, muttering curses, "Bah, Warden damn it all." He runs his hands over his face and sighs heavil. Then, he approaches K'luha, exhaling annoyance, "Which part of what am I not telling K'ailia about?" He drops down next to the woman.

K'luha Haaz let up a little, relieved that he was going to follow through on her request. Supposedly. "Our epic failure as hunters, obviously." she scolded, massaging her half eaten leg. "Come up with a better story. I don't even care what it is, but anything is better than that."

K'ile Twinflame: If we said we got in a fight, everyone would believe us. Probably better to say we took on a few wolves. We'll just flip it so they were hunting us and got their tails whipped instead of the other way around.

K'luha Haaz slowly nodded before crossing her arms. "Yes. That will work..." she mumbled before giving a relieved sigh.

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K'ile Twinflame: Good. You should've taken me with you when you walked out of Drybone all alone last night. I know we'd just been arguing and it was personal, but I... Don't get it. I respect it.

K'luha Haaz looked down at the ground somberly again. "....Do you remember? When K'yohko brought me home after it happened...?"

K'ile Twinflame moves over against K'luha and puts his arm around her, carefull not to hurt her, "Yes."

K'luha Haaz leaned into K'ile lightly, looking still out at the ground. "I can't remember it. I just remember watching him die. I remember pain. I remember crawling across the floor. I don't even remember how K'yohko found me, or what happened when I got back to the tribe... Just... it's all a whitewash of pain."

K'ile Twinflame says, "It was nothing worth reliving. You shouldn't..." but he stops talking, and seems to run out of words. He's quiet for a few moments, and then. "I'm not saying to forget about it. I'm not saying not to talk about it. You didn't need to run off yesterday and you can talk to me about it when you need to."

K'luha Haaz nodded distantly, still lightly leaning on K'ile. Everything hurt. It was nice to have someone to lean on a little bit. "It's hard... to talk about it. I don't think... It's not something I can really explain. I just... I just remember overhearing someone outside my tent one night. Saying about how I would never be able to be any good for the tribe now. That I was just going to end up being a waste of food and space. And it made me mad. I was so angry that someone would think that... I..."
K'luha Haaz shook her head a little and looked away. "I went to K'yohko that night and insisted on it. It was... bad. I shouldn't have done that. Because I insisted on it while I was still weak K'ailia came out so small. I thought she was going to die too..."

K'ile Twinflame pulls on one ear, "Okay yeah I don't need to think about you and Kyohko doing anything!" He chuckles, awkwardly. "Sorry, go ahead."

K'luha Haaz smiled weakly at K'ile and rubbed the back of her neck. "Sorry... I didn't... It wasn't even that good. I was so angry... it was..." she laughed weakly at the memory without going into detail.

K'ile Twinflame looks uncomfortable, his ears pinned flat on his head.

K'luha Haaz looked over to K'ile, noting his discomfort very quickly. "K'ile...? What's wrong...?" she asked quietly, her brows raising to show her instant concern.

K'ile Twinflame looks away for a second, and his ears bounce back up. "Nothing! Uhm." Turning back to K'luha, "Listen, it doesn't matter how small K'ailia started out or why she started that way. She grew a big, powerful personality. Being small's not a huge problem, and you can trust me on that one."

K'luha Haaz flattened her own ears against her head. There was something... something he wasn't telling her. About why he didn't want to be the nunh. Did it have something to do about his sexuality? Or maybe it was some sort of physical limiation? He was hiding something from her. She sensed it inately now. Although... Was his thing small or something? Or maybe he was just refering to being short. K'luha frowned and rubbed the back of her head ever so lightly.
She was overthinking this again. "K'ile... You've been there for me so much... you know I'm here for you too. If you have something you want to talk about. Anything. I'll be here for you. Even though I'm stubborn and I get angry with you, I'll always do my best to support you too.

K'ile Twinflame listens to K'luha with an unmoving expression, watching her face as she speaks. When she she's done, he blinks at her, and his lips twitch. He turns his gaze to watch the goobbue's corpse for a moment, turns his ears to listen to the wall behind him. After a long time, her just squeezes K'luha slightly and says, "Hey, you know me."

K'luha Haaz bit her bottom Â lip lightly. "I know you're hiding something from me K'ile.... but I won't force it out of you. If you want to talk about it, or anything else though..." K'luha shifted her hand lightly and grasped for K'ile's free hand.

K'ile Twinflame doesn't change expression or tone in response to K'luha's gesture, but he does grab her hand. "I'm not hiding anything. I've got nothing to hide." He smiles, "I don't even wear a shirt. I'm just how I look, right on the surface."

K'luha Haaz gave a small squeeze to his hand and continued to hold it while looking out towards the sunrise. It was really... a beautiful spot they had found. The tribe would surely, if nothing else, like the view. It was fine if K'ile was going to insist he had nothing to hide. There was something he wasn't speaking about, and in good time perhaps he would tell her.

K'ile Twinflame sits in silence for a time. After a minute or so, he yawns, then shakes his head. His bright hair twists back and forth beneath his ears and then settles over his eyes. "Wonder if we can catch a mole or something for breakfast."

K'luha Haaz snorted lightly. She had enjoyed the silence, but he brought up a good question on breakfast. "With your fabulous skills at the bow, we'd be lucky not to set everything on fire and kill ourselves." she scoffed, hitting him lightly with the side of her head, only to lead her head against him again. "Maybe one of these plants has fruit."

K'ile Twinflame: I usually hunt with a spear. Spears don't ned quivers.

K'luha Haaz rolled her eyes again. "Then why didn't you bring a stupid spear?"

K'ile Twinflame: Because I'm trying to learn the bow! I can shoot it just fine if I get the arrows on the stupid string and the thing I'm shooting at isn't moving.

K'luha Haaz narrowed her gaze at K'ile. Really? "So unless it's already dead on the ground, you can't hit it? You're such an idiot sometimes." she huffed. "Have K'nahli or K'yohko or someone teach you! Hell, I can teach you if you really want!"

K'ile Twinflame looks defiantly away from K'luha, saying, "K'nahli's teaching me, thanks. If I need someone to shoot /at/ me, I'll let you know." Though he said that with annoyance he laughs at it a half second later.

K'luha Haaz huffed somewhat annoyed, but also relenting. "Maybe if I shot at you, you would learn to bring a spear with you!"

K'ile Twinflame leans a bit more of his weight against K'luha, "Nah. If you were really after me, I'd know better than to defend myself. I'd just give up."

K'luha Haaz huffed again, leaning back against K'ile as if to compete against him. "Oh? Then you know what's good for you."

K'ile Twinflame: Yes. Allowing myself to be killed would be better for me. Assuming you'd kill me and not just aim for the knees or something cruel like that.

K'luha Haaz: Oh come now. Do you really think I'm so cruel? Although, I wouldn't kill you anyway.

K'ile Twinflame looks at K'luha, "Cruel, yes. It's not an insult."

K'luha Haaz stuck her tongue out at K'ile before leaning all the way against him. "Hush you. I'm going to sleep again until the others get here. Don't move. You're a good pillow."

K'ile Twinflame chuckles, "Not that again." He turns slightly, "You should hold me up this time. I'm not your cot." In the next moment, though, he just flops backward against the rock wall putting one hand behind his head and pulling K'luha against him with the other, "Or we compromise."

K'luha Haaz blinked as she was suddenly shifted again. Well... that was strangely comfortably. She shrugged faintly, mindful of her wounds before closing her eyes. "Good enough. I'm still exhausted..." she mumbled, closing her eyes again. "I'm sure K'ailia and K'haali will wake us up when they get here so..." she yawned and decided on stopping talking and just sleeping.

K'luha Haaz falls asleep beside you.

K'ile Twinflame half-heartedly protests, "We were supposed to meet them by... Well, whatever." And then is quiet as well.

Twinflame · **11-15-2013, 04:56 PM**

K'ailia Yohko: hi guys!

K'ailia Yohko: Hmm they asleep?

K'haali Thalen bows theatrically. "I come bearing the gifts of the north!" before noticing they've dozed off

K'haali Thalen: Huh...

K'ailia Yohko: hehe I gots idea!

K'luha Haaz is completely dead asleep, still exhausted and looking a little bit like shit. Mostly notable was the dried blood, the tip of he right ear missing, claw marks on her shoulders, and a large chuck bitten out of her right left.

K'haali Thalen: Does it involve drawing, because, i have a stick of charcoal...

K'ile Twinflame is like all that except less wounded. All he has is a severely bruised chest. He must just be a wuss.

K'ailia Yohko begins moving her arms in motion as magic begins playing across her hands, and above... a glob of water forms...

K'luha Haaz would like to point out that K'ile is totally a wuss.

K'ailia Yohko stops the spell and the water crashes down on the two sleepyheads.

K'haali Thalen: I'd like to make it formally known I have no part in this plan of yours... and i object, but won't stop you

K'luha Haaz forgot to mention her head is wrapped up with K'ile's scarf, as she also has a head injury.

K'ailia Yohko laughs.

K'haali Thalen looks at K'ailia Yohko and panics!

K'haali Thalen pokes you.

K'haali Thalen gives a concerned look at K'ailia

K'ailia Yohko: Oi... what's wrong with em?

K'ile Twinflame stirs slughishly out of the water. Luckily he doesn't assosciate being splashed with water with being attacked or he would've reacted differently. Actually, he barely even wakes up, just muttering groggily.

K'haali Thalen shrugs at K'ailia Yohko.

K'ailia Yohko: Oi oi K'ile?

K'ailia Yohko: Ma?

K'luha Haaz squeaked loudly at the sudden freezing cold water being poured onto her. Her ears suddenly went alert , and her tail frazzled, but she had already learned her lesson about jumping and flailing. She was still too tired to do that yet. K'luha blinked a few times, still groggy herself and looked around. "The fuck...?"

K'haali Thalen points incriminatingly at K'ailia

K'ailia Yohko: Oh hi ma. Glad yer awake

K'ailia Yohko laughs.

K'luha Haaz slowly looks to K'ailia for a moment before scowling. "Very cute." she scoffed.

K'luha Haaz is annoyed with K'ailia Yohko.

K'ailia Yohko: Haali ya realize, I jes gave K'ile his bath

K'ile Twinflame mutters, "Don't need a fuckin..."

K'ailia Yohko: What happened ta you two?

K'luha Haaz lightly pulled at K'ile's ear. "Oiy. Wake up."

K'ile Twinflame pushes K'luuha off of him and rolls away from her, managing to his feet groggily, "Why are you women always bugging me?"

K'ailia Yohko: So... yer scoutin' mission seemed ta suggest maybe I should o' went with you two.

K'luha Haaz gave a loud 'oof' as she was pushed off of K'ile and onto her stomach. She grumbled, but didn't move quite yet. "Idiot."

K'haali Thalen: It was something that worried me while you were away; you wouldn't have access to treatment if you had to fight...

K'ile Twinflame mutters a general 'bleh' K'luha, then looked over at K'ailia, "You don't listen to anything, do you? We haven't done any scouting yet. Just heal your mom, okay?"

K'luha Haaz: Says Mister broken ass ribs. Go heal him first.

K'ailia Yohko: yes ma.

K'haali Thalen: You always were fond of tossing coins

K'ailia Yohko: bah! I am gonna hit ya both!

K'luha Haaz whips her tail back at K'ile, smacking his leg.

K'ailia Yohko begins channeling Medica II

K'ile Twinflame crosses his arms over his chest, "Your mom has a head injury. I'm fine until she's healed. Don't let her bully you."

K'haali Thalen ducks

K'ailia Yohko: That spell should help the more serious wounds.

K'ailia Yohko: But still gonna need ta rest.

K'luha Haaz blinks at the sudden and somewhat disturbing healing of wounds. After a few moments she legs to her leg, which is good as new. She carefully got to her feet and stretched.

K'luha Haaz stretches.

K'ailia Yohko: Anyways ma... got a question fer ya.

K'luha Haaz: What is it?

K'ailia Yohko: Do ya' know who a K'makanee Haaz is?

K'luha Haaz looks at K'ailia Yohko in shock!

K'luha Haaz: I... do.

K'ailia Yohko: So was she part o' our tribe?

K'luha Haaz nods to K'ailia Yohko.

K'luha Haaz: She was...

K'haali Thalen fetches a roll of fresh linen gauze from K'weh's bags and hands it to k'ailia

K'ailia Yohko: Alright... well... I got a letter from Gridania taday.

K'luha Haaz quirks a brow, wondering what a Gridanian letter has to do with it. "Is K'makanee in Gridania then?"

K'ailia Yohko: Seems they want ta give her daughter ta us.

K'luha Haaz looked quizzically at K'ailia and tilted her head. "Why would K'makanee want to give her daughter to us?"

K'ile Twinflame looks suspicious, "What does that mean?"

K'ailia Yohko: The letter dinna say it was from her. Jes from some matron in Gridania.

K'luha Haaz gazes upon K'ailia Yohko in deep reflection.

K'luha Haaz: Some matron? Why would some Matron have K'makanee's child... unless?

K'ile Twinflame: Matron? What's that?

K'haali Thalen gives a sad shrug

K'ailia Yohko: Dunno, very vague letter.

K'luha Haaz: There's no way K'makanee would ever give someone her daughter... she must have died....

K'ailia Yohko: So... should I go get the kid?

K'ailia Yohko: I know my way around the shroud better than yall

K'ile Twinflame says sternly, "No, K'ailia. You should not."

K'ailia Yohko: a-alright...

K'luha Haaz looks sadly at the floor, her ears flattening to her head. "So then... she did have that child? I thought for sure she would miscarry because of the fight..." K'luha shook her head and looked to K'ile. "Since she was exiled, is her child exiled as well?"

K'haali Thalen: It seems unlikely she'd raise her child to follow the tribe's customs if she was exiled. No doubt the Gridanians are simply looking at the closest family she has

K'ile Twinflame turns a frazzled gaze an K'luha as though she said something unthinkable, "What? That...! I don't. Hey, I'm not assuming Maka is dead."

K'ailia Yohko: But... if she is dead, maybe we can mold her daughter ta our ways?

K'ailia Yohko: We'd get at least, another huntress ta assist in huntin'

K'ile Twinflame scoffs at K'ailia, "We can't even mold you to our ways."

K'luha Haaz frowned and shook her head. "Maka is my sister, remember? I know her. She would have never given her child up. And she would have never offered to give her child to us if she was alive."

K'ailia Yohko: Who says I've forsaken our ways K'ile.

K'luha Haaz: Well, you parcially have.

K'ile Twinflame throws his hands in the air, "By the Matron can we not have that conversation right now!"

K'haali Thalen hangs on to one of K'wehs reigns and leans into his breast for support while observinging the exchange

K'ailia Yohko: Hmm... well... maybe the elders will know how ta address this letter.

K'luha Haaz winced a little and looked down to the ground again. Thinking for a moment she sighed. "We're going to have to deal with it eventually K'ile...."

K'ailia Yohko seems lost in thought.

K'ile Twinflame shakes his head, "No, Ka'ilia's right. It's not up to us what to do with the girl. That's all on the elders. They'll decide what to do about it and who should take care of it."

K'ailia Yohko: Mister K'ile... if it will make ya' happy.. if the tribe moves here. I will give myself over ta whatever ya wish ta teach me.

K'ailia Yohko: Ya' can mold me however ya want.

K'ile Twinflame frowns, "I'd have you breed, so don't make that promise."

K'luha Haaz nodded faintly in agreement. The elders would have to decide that girl's fate for now. "In other news... there's plenty of game here." K'luha quickly changed the subject, not wanting to linger.

K'ailia Yohko 's jaw drops

K'ile Twinflame hops on K'luha's bandwagon by turning to K'haali, "How'd your evening go?"

K'ailia Yohko looks shocked.

K'haali Thalen seems to recover from his breeding talk. "Well... as a change of pace from everyone else's day; fantastic"

K'ailia Yohko: Yeaaaah.... takin' that offer back. Anyways, I really like this place.

K'luha Haaz: Oh?

K'ailia Yohko: I definitely think it is perfect for our needs.

K'haali Thalen opens K'weh's panniers to reveal a bounty of fauna, some evidentlly edible, some of questionable use.

K'haali Thalen: "I think this is corn isn't it?"

K'haali Thalen: There's fields upon fields at the base of the hills to the north

K'luha Haaz peered over at the bag. "Wow..."

K'ailia Yohko looks it over.

K'ile Twinflame: That's edible?

K'luha Haaz shrugs at you.

K'ailia Yohko: Yeah that definitely is corn!

K'ailia Yohko: It is very good food.

K'ailia Yohko: We jes have ta cook it first, an season it.

K'ailia Yohko holds her hand out for the corn.

K'ile Twinflame puts a fist on his hip, "Medicine plants in there too?"

K'haali Thalen opening another satchel she pulls out a creamy-white crystal. "And, this is alumen salts isn't it?"

K'haali Thalen: I recognise it from the sagolii, but there's loads of it in the hills to the north.

K'ailia Yohko: Hmm... why it look more like a crystal though?

K'haali Thalen: Which is good, because we sued it to treat sandwurm hide, havign a supply close to hand will be useful.

K'haali Thalen shrugs. "Richer supply I guess"

K'ailia Yohko: Ya' sure it aint jes a crystal?

K'haali Thalen: Well, that's why I wanted your opinion, I'm pretty sure it's the same stuff we used tio treat the wurm hides. But i might be wrong

K'ile Twinflame: Why don't you try taking it to the markets near here and see if someone there is interested in it? If it seels like salt, that's what it is.

K'haali Thalen: That's a rather good idea... unless, they also assume it's salt incorrectly

K'ailia Yohko: Hehe if it be salt, there be two places I know that could tell ya' fer sure.

K'luha Haaz seems lost in thought.

K'ailia Yohko: The botanist guild in Gridania, or the culinary guild in Limsa Lominsa.

K'haali Thalen: We could just take an aldgoat rawhide and try treatting it, see what happens.

K'ailia Yohko: Oh that's not a bad idea!

K'ailia Yohko: Want me ta help ya take one down?

K'haali Thalen: If it tans it, it's good enoguh for the job, even if it's not the salt I thought it wasÂ

K'haali Thalen: That depends if everyone feels like aldgoat tonight

K'ailia Yohko: Oh yeah an' mister K'ile, Ventus said he will see ya when he finishes some business o' his.

K'luha Haaz: When would that be?

K'ailia Yohko: Today.

K'ailia Yohko: His business apparently is eatin' a good meal an' takenin a bath.

K'ile Twinflame frowns at K'ailia. "He better be coming here, then. I've business of my own."

K'ailia Yohko: Oh aye, told him ta come ta drybone.

K'luha Haaz: K'ile should we delay to see him until we have scouted, or should we head to Ul'dah this evening first?

K'haali Thalen: Well, I'm content from what I've already seen, that this place is a veritable paradise!. And no doubt we'll discover more once we settle in.

K'ile Twinflame: No. He can come here and we'll ask him what his lands have toffer that this place doesn't. If he can't answer well, we can just take him out and throw his body in a ravine. Nobody will ever know.

K'luha Haaz laughs at you.

K'haali Thalen bursts out laughing at you.

K'ailia Yohko: Hey! No need ta kill him!

K'ailia Yohko: But, maybe instead o' takin' his offer.

K'ailia Yohko: Maybe we can hire him ta help the tribe get past the amalj'aa canyon

K'ile Twinflame: No. I prefer killing him.

K'ailia Yohko is annoyed with you.

K'luha Haaz: K'ile, K'ailia. Play nice.

You smirk confidently at K'ailia Yohko.

K'haali Thalen gives an impish grin at K'ailia. "I've always wondered what a hyur-leather saddle would feel like.

K'luha Haaz: Everyone has to place nice with the Hyur man.

K'haali Thalen wallows in self-pity.

K'ile Twinflame: You're joking.

K'ailia Yohko: But like I said, we could prolly use protection gettin' past them Amalj'aa

K'luha Haaz raises a brow at K'ile. "Do I look like I'm joking?"

K'ile Twinflame squints at K'luha. "... Yes."

K'haali Thalen: If nothing else, their stomping about would serve as an admirable distraction from the tribesfolk

K'luha Haaz reaches forward and pinches K'ile's cheek. "No, you have to play nice. He's K'ailia's teacher."

K'ailia Yohko beams with delight at K'luha Haaz.

K'ile Twinflame smacks K'luha's hand away, "Strange coming from you."

K'luha Haaz smirked faintly and dropped her hands back to her hips. "I already had a discussion with him. So we can play nice for now."

K'ile Twinflame: Hey, you're not the only one who has a right to bloody someone's lip.

K'ailia Yohko: Aaaan' I will be over there. Yeah...

K'luha Haaz: I didn't say I was. In any case, should we meet with Ventus tonight or later?

K'ile Twinflame: Hey!

K'ile Twinflame mutters to K'luha, "We'll meet him today if he's coming out here," and then to K'ailia, "We're still talking. Don't just run off."

K'luha Haaz nods to you.

K'luha Haaz gazes upon K'ailia Yohko in deep reflection.

K'luha Haaz: I think she's taking after me in terms of running off.

K'ailia Yohko laughs.

K'haali Thalen: Oh!. I almost forgot I also found these; they're fungi I think, but some fungi are edible... I'm wondering maybe someone could identify them.

K'haali Thalen presents a mixture of fungi, some rock lichens but also truffles and button mushrooms.

K'luha Haaz: We could perhaps get them checked out in Drybone?

K'ile Twinflame: There should be healers or shaman there who know.

K'ailia Yohko: Actually, there's a merchant that sells that kind o' stuff over at the bridge.

K'haali Thalen nods

K'luha Haaz: Then we could just go look at his wares and discern what they are for ourselves.

K'ailia Yohko nods.

K'haali Thalen: maybe I should just start digging up every likely looking object and have you run them by the merchants at highbridge K'ailia

K'haali Thalen bursts out laughing at K'ailia Yohko.

K'haali Thalen: Distribution of labour

K'luha Haaz smirks confidently at K'ailia Yohko.

K'luha Haaz: All yours then K'ailia.

K'ailia Yohko: Alright.

K'ile Twinflame: Alright, so let's do it this way...

K'ailia Yohko pulls out a little black box and presses a button.

K'ailia Yohko: Shall we?

((Garlean mechasuit appears))

K'haali Thalen takes the panniers off K'weh and drapes them over K'ailia's shoulders; they weigh a fair bit.

K'ailia Yohko: No problem, I be back soon!

((K'ailia disappears))

K'ile Twinflame was about to speak, but then, "Did K'ailia just run off again?"

K'ile Twinflame: Idiot girl.

K'luha Haaz laughs at you.

K'luha Haaz: Sorry, she takes after me.

K'ile Twinflame: Now we have to change our plans.

K'ile Twinflame looks over at K'haali, "Did she take the salts too?"

K'haali Thalen nods. "She also took a few other things they might find interesting to look over... she also took my medical supplies and lunch, I didn't expect her to actually take the panniers, they were rather heavy..."

K'ile Twinflame: Yes, well, she doesn't listen well.

K'ile Twinflame looks at K'luha, "Are you too injured to hunt down an Aldgoat on your own? They can get mean."

K'luha Haaz sighed and frowned. "I have to drop by Drybone first. I lost my bow last night."

K'ile Twinflame: Same. I guess we're together in that. Do we have money?

K'luha Haaz nodded yes and pulled out a small sack of coins from her boot. She kind of kept a lot of stuff in her boots. "Enough for a LANCE and a bow."

K'ile Twinflame: That's fine. I guess we'll just buy our food and weapons tonight and head south once we're ready.

K'luha Haaz nods to you.

K'ile Twinflame: K'haali, what's your plan?

K'haali Thalen: i guess i hadn't thought that far ahead. I was going to wait to see what you did, I presume we'll be meeting the gentlemen from that university soon, and then going back to the tribe?

K'luha Haaz: Yes, that's about right.

K'ile Twinflame: I'm meeting the Hyur and then K'luha and I will be heading south for a couple of days to scout the Amal'jaa camp.

K'ile Twinflame: Someone needs to let the Elders know about that child K'ailia mentioned.

K'luha Haaz: You're going to meet with Ventus on your own first?

K'ile Twinflame: Probably. You just pick out a nice big lance for me and we'll meet up in Drybone to eat.

K'haali Thalen: I could begin the journey to report in the the elders now; or might it be wiser to wait til after we meet Ventus so I can tell them how that went, if I go now they'll only know about the potential settlement site

K'haali Thalen: Interesting, but not that useful without the full picture

K'luha Haaz nodded to K'ile. "Alright. Do you want me to help you use the Aehteryte to get there and to Drybone?" she questioned before looking back to K'haali. "It's up to you really K'haali. Could you make it back on your own?"

K'ile Twinflame thinks, "There's no point telling the Elders about the migration sites until we've at least scouted out the Amal'jaa camp. I don't like leaving the matter with the kid alone, though."

K'haali Thalen: I believe so; a few days south of here takes you through broken water, and the little al mhigan mesas. After that it's familiar territory, the red labyrinth to avoid the amal'ja patrols

K'haali Thalen: However, as you say, leaving too soon seems like a wasted journey

K'ile Twinflame: You can keep harvesting things. It might be faster to just wait for K'luha and I to be done scouting and send her back through the aetherytes.

K'haali Thalen shrugs. "I'll just make myself useful here for now, and stand by to travel back to the tribe when you need me to"

K'luha Haaz nods to K'haali Thalen.

K'luha Haaz: Thank you K'haali.

K'ile Twinflame: Is using aetherytes something a person can help with?

K'luha Haaz nods to you.

K'ile Twinflame: Huh. That's... Okay, if you say so.

K'haali Thalen looks at the sun. "I'll prepare to make camp for myself Â then."

K'luha Haaz: I can bring people along with me through Aetheryte travel. But... I would only do so once with either you at K'haali as it will pretty much exhaust your supply of aether for a long time."

K'ile Twinflame: I'm not even using my aether.

K'luha Haaz: That's probably a good idea. We should go K'ile."

K'ile Twinflame watches K'haali walk off, "Okay, bye."

K'ile Twinflame: Yes, fine. No reason to tarry.

K'luha Haaz: So how do you plan to meet with Ventus? Have him come out here?

K'ile Twinflame: That's what K'ailia said she told him to do. I assume she'll turn up when he does.

K'luha Haaz nods to you.

K'luha Haaz: We should start walking then. And avoid any wolves.

K'luha Haaz: Although, we could also the the Aetheryte there.

K'ile Twinflame: I'd assumed we would. I don't need you tiring out your leg before we head out south.

K'luha Haaz scoffed lightly before bringing her hand forward. "Alright, take my hands then."

K'ile Twinflame awkwardly grabs K'luha's hands, "Why does magic have to be so touchy?"

K'luha Haaz rolls her eyes lightly and squeezes K'ile's hand. "Hold on tight and don't let go, lest you be lost in the Aetherways forever."

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