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Twinflame · **01-23-2014, 11:16 PM**

"Idiot!" K'takka snapped her sharpened fingernail away from K'nahli's chin fast and harsh, so that it would hurt, her tone hardening suddenly, "You are not broken and you do not need to be salvaged! If you think I am wrong it is because you think are a better judge than I am, and that is pride."

The elder rose to her feet and stepped back from the girl, "You are speaking both from cowardice and selfishness. You are afraid, and you are focused on your own feelings, giving in to the fear and letting it guide you. Do not concern yourself with redemption; you have yet to collapse. You needÂ to collapse."

K'nahli · **01-24-2014, 12:02 AM**

The scratch mark left by K'takka stung fiercely as her nail sliced through the girl's delicate skin causing it to bleed lightly. Without a moment's delay, the young archer's expression quickly grew fierce with anger as K'takka's outburst summoned the burning, fighter within her. Defensive K'nahli had arrived.

"Your claim to being a better judge of someone you know nothing about is no better!" the girl spat with a vicious tone in response. In her mind, no matter how well she thought she knew K'nahli, it was nothing that would put her in a position to make such claims.

"Knowledge and experience can only make you so wise, elder. Treating your audience as though their opinions are of little value next to yours is obscenely arrogant" she continued with a decreasing resonance, though her anger still prevailed throughout the way she spoke.

The girl glanced away in disgruntlement, taking a second or two before speaking again.

"You are right in that I am selfish, but I do not seek redemption. I.. cannot change" K'nahli added more somberly, though her expression retained an irritated appearance as she eyed the weatherproof fabric of the tent that enclosed them with an absent stare.

"And I am not one who learns more effectively through fear or punishment..." were her final words spoken as a form of jab toward K'takka's unnecessary outburst. Ironic as it was for her to think such a thing.

Twinflame · **01-24-2014, 01:39 AM**

"No," K'takka said, the statement straight and final, as though it contained an entire dialogue and closed out every thought. She turned away from K'nahli, her head and shoulders swaying tiredly. He sharp fingernails dug into the colored pillow at her chest. "You need to leave now. There is nothing else to say to you."

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 02:08 AM**

A long, but enlightening explanation. Through all of K'ailia's twists and turns and head nodding and sighs, K'yohko remained as stone as ever. His eyes closed and his ears stood up tall, taking in the words as they tumbled from her mouth and slipped into his ears. And yet, for all her explanations he could not make sense of her decisions. They were rash and thoughtless, like she had always been; like her mother. Especially from Drybone... He hadn't realized that they went to that place, to Eastern Thanalan.

It came as no surprise to K'yohko that K'luha was running away. Especially if she was away from the tribe and out anywhere near Eastern Thanalen. Keeping her away from that place and busy with K'ailia had really been the only reason she had been so sane for all those years after really. Or, it was what K'yohko reasoned and the reason he had finally given into K'luha in the first place. Which in turn, lead to his placement in the sand today with his wayward daughter.

However with all of her words done and said, things didn't add up to the Nunh. How could she have left in the first place when she still supposedly cared? He knew K'luha had told her the implications of leaving the tribe. But in truth, she was still a child and perhaps did not actually understand what leaving the tribe meant. She seemed to have said it rashly out of hurt feelings, more than an actual desire to leave. This, to K'yohko, seemed more reasonable. And more reason to propose his solution.

"A long time ago..." K'yohko began after a long silence, "Your mother went to Ul'dah. She was fascinated with the trinkets and people and city life. She expressed a deep desire to move to the city. She ran away. I brought her home and promised her never to tell that she had ever left. That is why when she first turned of age, she chose me as her mate. And her first child was not you. It was a boy. When he was only a few months old, he died. Her child was killed and she was beaten to a near death by a pack of Amaljaa in Eastern Thalanen. I brought her back, but she has never been the same since. Two months he died, she came to me demanding a second opportunity. In the void left by her dead son, she devoted every once of her being to keeping you safe and healthy."

There was a long moment of silence in which K'yohko caught his breath. His arms crossed slowly over his chest and he looked to the vast blue sky overhead.

"To see you leave, perhaps has reopened wounds that never healed properly. Returning to Drybone, probably also prompted her behavior. However, that is the case of your mother..."

His eyes turned and looked to K'ailia finally, casting judgement upon her, but not damnation. His ears twitched in a faint motion display only a mystery of emotions and his tail shifted tightly behind him.

"K'ailia, do you know what it means to leave the tribe?" The question was simple, and yet it stood with such a weight upon it may have crushed her.

Kailia · **01-24-2014, 02:20 AM**

K'ailia's ears flattened, "It meant going out on ones own. To be away from family and make a life for themselves... I never wanted to leave home. But it felt like I was being forced away. K'ile telling me I was not welcomed around them..."

Her tail curled between her legs, "And when he said he'd force me to mate... mother and K'haali never spoke against it..."

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 02:33 AM**

"No." His answer was blunt. For her to not even understand what she had done... his supisious were correct. And thus, his solution felt equally correct. "To leave the tribe means to deny your family. To leave means to purposefully and knowingly, walk away forever and leave us to die. The tribe must not waste resources, for we have none to waste. Those whom we nuture and raise into adults, must take responsbility for the burdens placed during their childhood, and seek to repay the tribe with their talents. To leave the tribe, is to waste everything we have given to you and leave your family to die in the desert."

K'yohko's voice had grown hard and strict with his wordy explanation. There was not a way to stress this enough. It was completely beyond his understanding that K'ailia did not understand what she did when she left her family.

"K'ailia, do you care about your family and the survival of this tribe?"

Kailia · **01-24-2014, 02:42 AM**

K'ailia listened to her father tell what it truly meant. And it finally dawned upon her, what she had done. That was never her intention. She never wanted her tribe to die.

"K'ailia, do you care about your family and the survival of this tribe?"

She looked up at her father, this time as his daughter, "I still love my family. I love my mother, and my sisters. I want to help the tribe. Even if I cannot return to the tribe, I want to help the tribe."

Her ears finally stood up, and her tail uncurled, "I'd do anything to help ensure the tribes safety. I am even willing to use Ul'dah Garden's resources, so mother wont have to deal with the bad merchants no more."

K'nahli · **01-24-2014, 02:45 AM**

K'takka's reply was not one K'nahli had expected... nor one that she had wanted. The young girl's expression gradually softened though it still bared hint of her slowly fading agitation. Her crimson eyes narrowed in focus upon her weary elder's back that silently spoke of only the disappointment she held for K'nahli in that moment.

("You won't even try...?")

It was a strange realisation that had only occurred to her after the fact. Though her words were sincere, she did not want a K'takka to submit so easily.

"...do you yet see what you are dealing with?" the girl inquired after a short period of silence as her eyes fell to the ground shamefully. K'nahli had regrettably proved her initial point before even a minute had passed, but it was not something she could feel any form of satisfaction from. She sighed quietly to herself in lament.

"Though I do not deserve it, I pray you can forgive me..." she added downtroddenly before offering a modest bow in silence and turning to exit the tent.

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 05:04 AM**

K'yohko could see the realization upon K'ailia's visage, and it was indeed as he thought. The child did not know what she said when she said it. Was she then, really able to be held accountable for such a thing? Although she had been considered an adult and to have passed her trial, it was decided too hastily. She was still too much a child to be held accountable like an adult could. Yohko was not sure what was at fault for this slow maturing of her mind, but he did not fret himself with where to place blame.

Instead he slowly looked his daughter over. She was genuine enough, surely. He could see it in the way her body moved and the light in her eyes. She loved her family and she did not know leaving the tribe meant to condemn them to death.

Yohko breathed out a heavy breath of air. The Calamity had stunted growth in all peoples and left everyone burned and scarred and sick with a poison.

"How is it that you help the tribe by being in the city?" Yohko looked earnestly at his daughter. This was something K'ailia needed to realize. In what ways did she help her family survive by being so far away? She needed to bring forth tangible proof of how precisely she helped the tribe by working and living in the city.

Kailia · **01-24-2014, 01:18 PM**

"How is it that you help the tribe by being in the city?"

K'yohko's big question to her. She looked her father in the eyes before answering.

"Father, our tribe is starving. In the time I was away, there was one less mouth to feed. I am not good at hunting. My strengths lie in healing. And then there are the ones who take trips to the city to get supplies. I've seen what Ul'dah has done to my mother." she said. For the first time since she came back, she refered to her K'yohko as father.

"Not all outsiders are good. But there are still many good outsiders. I've been given full control of Ul'dah Garden because of Ventus's condition. A condition, that had resulted in mother being almost killed..." she looked to her feet.

"I never want to see my mother hurt again. I am conflicted. I want to be here, home, but I also want to continue learning skills on the outside and try to change the world around us, so the tribe can survive. So... I guess in the end, I do not know. I don't know the first thing about running something like Garden..." she explained, before loooking back at her father with her bright green eyes.

"So what is your idea? K'ile when he gave me the invitation, suggested I be a representative between the tribe and outsiders. But I do not trust his judgments. Even now, I still remember him aiming his spear at me and telling me I was not welcomed and that I should leave. But... you... you genuinely care, or you would not be explaining and talking to me." she gave a weak smile.

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 01:49 PM**

Although K'ailia did not answer his question, it pleased K'yohko that she finally understood him just a little bit. He cared deeply about his people, about his girls. He had not been involved directly in their upbringing perhaps as much as he wanted to or should have been, but it did not mean he disregarded them or cared any less. His daughters were very precious people, and when they truly needed his help, he had long ago vowed to be there for them.

While K'yohko also was faintly tempted to foster K'ailia's dislike of K'ile, as he had mixed feelings about the red-head and his former brood, he would never have someone unjustly hate another family member. For even though K'ile had swung to new lows in his behavior, K'yohko felt he still had good intentions at heart.

"K'ailia, you did not answer my question." He sighed lightly, not frustrated with her or angry, but patient. She struggled to understand things, so he needed to spell things out clearly for the girl. "How do you help the tribe by being in the city? How do you help us on a daily basis gather food and water so we don't starve? How do you help up thrive in the desert, when you are not here? When someone is ill or injured, how do you help heal them when you are so far away? Give me proof. Give me tangible things. Tell me how it is you think you can do these things in the city away from us." K'yohko looked earnestly at his daughter, imploring her for the answers to these questions. Could he get more blunt than this? Perhaps not. He hoped she understood this time why no one believed she was helping the tribe in the city.

Kailia · **01-24-2014, 02:11 PM**

K'ailia listened and closed her eyes, processing the questions. When next she opened them, it was with sadness, "I don't... I am useless being away..."

But then, what was she to do about Garden? But for now, she understood, she needs to put those matters away, and focus on the tribe, since she was here. But then... what was her father's plan?

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 02:30 PM**

She understood. The sadness on her face told him that she finally understood. It was a relief to him that he was able to explain it clearly. K'yohko finally understood a little more about K'ailia as well. His daughter was so unlike him in many ways and yet, she at least shared his deep caring for the tribe.

"This has been my point, our point, since you left. You said you wanted to help the tribe and only thought of us when you went to the city, however..." K'yohko faintly gestured towards K'ailia, his voice was softer than usual, as was his expression.

K'yohko dropped his arms and folded them under his chest again. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, ears flicking lightly as when a soft breeze blew by.

"You are still a child. And there is nothing wrong with that." His eyes opened and he looked to his daughter. "I do not think when you returned, that you passed your trial. Your behavior is not consistant with your magical prowess, and because of that, I believe your status as an adult should be revoked. I also do not think you should be held to your words of leaving the tribe, when you did not understand them as an adult. I will ask them for amnesty on your behalf, on the conditions that your status as an adult is revoked and that you will stay with the tribe. As the outside world is still so much of value however, I will ask that you stay with us until we move out of the Sagoli. There is much you can still learn from us K'ailia. As much to learn from us as there is from the outside world. Whence we are properly settled in Eastern Thalanen, I will ask for privilege for you. In which you may spend time in the city so long as you return for at least a week of each month." This was K'yohko's only solution other than to chain K'ailia down. He was unsure if the elders would agree, but to hold a child accoutable for things they did not understand did not settle well with K'yohko. He would speak on her behalf, but even that may not have enough weight to it. But it was worth a try.

"Is this agreeable to you? Or would you prefer to simply leave the tribe now that you know what it truly means?"

Kailia · **01-24-2014, 02:43 PM**

K'ailia was to surprised at the suggestion.Â So his solution, would be to revoke her status as an adult. She'd be required to stay with the tribe, until the tribe moved. She would need to at least get those affairs in order.

"When... would I be able to retake my trials father? And... I still believe we can use Garden's resources to help the tribe during the move." she asked, "But I will agree to remain here till the tribe moved. I am assuming the move is soon?"

Nauta Lyehga · **01-24-2014, 02:47 PM**

"You would have to make more than a simple hunting trial this time K'ailia. The matter of retaking a trial will have to be discussed at length with the elders until a suitable test can be found." K'yohko explained briefly before looking back towards the Elder's tent. They should head back soon if they were to make any progress at all. His eyes turned back towards K'ailia and he nodded affirmatively.

"As soon as we have enough food and K'luha and K'ile have returned, we will probably begin the move. I haven't yet discussed it at length with the elders, but I intend to do so shortly. Now come, my voice is growing hoarse with all of this talk." K'yohko turned and started his pace back to the elder's tent.

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