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  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.
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!
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."
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.
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  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.
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