thebastion | [Day 153] I understood the meaning of love... [OPEN]

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[Day 153] I understood the meaning of love... [OPEN]

Who: Rin and YOU!
Open: Open
When: 153, afternoon
Where: The Gazebo
What: The past few days have been difficult, but Rin is in a surprisingly good mood today. Apparently that's enough to warrant randomly singing??
Format: Starting in action, but I'll folow
Warnings: Rin being Rin is a given by now.

[The past few days had been a whirlwind of emotion. Some good, some bad, but all of it actually fairly exhausting. In it, though, Rin had gotten out some much needed things that had been bottling up for some time, and in a stark contrast to the anger that had nearly destroyed the kitchen, she found herself in a surprisingly good mood this day.

Like. Really good mood.

Good enough to apparently sing. Which she didn't do very often at all. Sometimes she could be caught humming a song while working, but actually singing something?

Well, she did used to be in the church choir growing up, so it wasn't that far fetched of an idea. But it had been years since then, and her voice was a little out of practice.

Still, something about that good mood compelled her to make her way over to the gazebo where the piano was. She couldn't play (Yuki could, but even she had fallen out of practice with that in recent years, too) but she knew enough to strike a note and start from there. She wasn't singing to anyone in particular, and the song that came out of here surprisingly wasn't a church hymn.]

Kuon no shijima yagate sora ni
aoku aoku tokete nijinde
mahiru no tsuki no usui kage wa
sugu ni sugu ni mirai wo yobu...

[It didn't quite sound the same without some accompaniment, but she still got rather in to it. Enough that she probably wouldn't notice if some one stopped to listen...]

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[Zuko will see your good mood and match you an equally bad one. It's only her second day here, and while she doesn't feel so close to breaking down anymore, the whole end of the world concept is still weighing on her pretty heavily.]

How can you sing in a situation like this?

[Oops. Sorry, Zuko.

Rin stops mid-note, both eyebrows going up as her tail gives a visible twitch behind her.]

... d'you really wanna hear the answer to that or are you just askin' cause you're pissy?

[She's been here long enough to recognize the "newbie pissed off that the world ended" tone.]

[Oh. She didn't notice the tail. Of course, she's seen some pretty strange-looking people walking around since yesterday so she barely blinks an eye at it. Fine, so the end of the world is fully of weirdos instead of anyone she cares about.

The answer to Rin's question is really that she's pissy, but she's not about to admit to that. Zuko folds her arms.]

No, go ahead. Tell me. What's so great that you have to sing about it?

[Huh. She wasn't expecting that, and she blinks a few times, big blue eyes showing momentary confusion.

Eventually, though, she shrugs, finger moving over to pluck at one of the piano keys idly.]

I'unno. I got a lotta things off my chest recently and I guess I'm feelin' pretty good for it. I know it sucks, bein' in the situation but... it could be a lot worse. Hell, it was a lot worse, not that long ago.

You're probably too new to realize it, but... we've come a long way. This place used to be tiny, and we barely had enough to feed everyone...

Forgive me if I don't see that as much of an up side.

[In a way it's almost worse. Here she is in a place where she could live in relative comfort, while the rest of her world perished. She could have at least fought her way here.

If this is what you'd call luck, then she definitely doesn't want it.]

[Rin sighed at that, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning against the piano.]

Well... that's your choice then. I ain't here to make anyone see a different side to all this, that's just how I feel about it.

For whatever it's worth, though... just remember that you ain't the only one who lost people here. We're all did.

[She wants to say that maybe they didn't mean as much if Rin is in such a chipper mood, but even she realizes it's a dumb thing to say. Some people are better at moving on than others.

Instead she sighs and admits:]

I only got here yesterday. It's... hard.

[Some people were forced to move on even before the world ended. And Rin would be lying if she said she was completely okay all of the time. Her heart constantly hurts at the absence of her sister, and not a day goes by she doesn't think about her classmates...]

... it is. I ain't sayin' it isn't. I ain't sayin' it's ever gonna not be hard. But we're alive, right? And this place can't run on it's own...

[She's in no position to force anyone to find a place in the Bastion, but she'll certainly encourage it.]

[At least Zuko doesn't have to deal with missing her sister.]

...what do you mean by that?

[Yuki is a saint in comparison to Azula.]

It won't bring anythin' back, but we've survived this long because everyone is workin' together. If anythin'... it makes you feel like you've got a purpose in all this.

[Not a difficult feat.]

I'm not sure I understand what you're working towards. As soon as I can, I'm heading back out there to look for survivors.

[She's really still hoping to find someone she knows. She had the help of a dragon getting here, so it makes sense that she'd be the first one. There could still be others.]

[Rin starts to say something, but she closes her mouth a second later. She's not going to bring up the statutes, or the pin she hides on a thin leather strap around her neck and beneath her shirt. This person might not believe her anyway...

Instead she shifts on her feet a bit, before answering.]

Just... surviving. That's it. We're lookin' for things called Cores, they give power to this place. Enough of 'em, we might not even need to hunt around for supplies anymore.

[She lets out a sigh, kicking a foot at the wood of the gazebo gently.]

What else can we do? If we give up now then everythin' we've done will be for nothin'.

Well, I don't believe in giving up.

[She's sure her uncle would have something encouraging to say in this situation, about how if they just stick together and keep trying, they might find something unexpected. But her uncle isn't here, and without him to say it in that wise and sometimes infuriating way of his, the thought feels empty.

Still, whether or not there's anything more to work towards than survival, she's not going to let this beat her.]

Good. You're gonna need that here.

[Rin pushed off the piano, crossing the gazebo to the stairs. Determination was a good thing to have in the Bastion.]

Things are nice right now, but it ain't always like that. And there's a lotta hard work to be done still.

There always is.

[Okay, she may be watching that tail a little bit. Should it look that natural on a person?]

Guess it keeps your mind off things, too.

It does.

[Maybe in not the healthiest of ways, but it's better than wallowing in sorrow. Even Rin knows that, for how much she tends to mope around this place.]

...sorry if I ruined your mood.

[The apology isn't completely sincere. Part of her still feels like anyone being happy in this situation is an audacity, that it's the wrong attitude to have. But she also knows she's no authority on how to deal with things.]

[... yeah Rin can kind of tell.

But she won't hold it against Zuko. She shrugs, tail giving another twitch thoughtfully.]

Don't sweat it. I've had worse days. Y'hungry at all?

Now that you mention it... Yeah, a little.

Why?

Well you just happened to meet the best damn cook in the Bastion!

[Whoops there goes Rin's ego all over the place.]

C'mon. The kitchen is over this way.

Really.

[Zuko is astounded by your modesty. Of course, with the number of people in this place it just might be true.

Anyway she's at least got a pretty good chance of being a better cook than Zuko, so she'll go ahead and follow.]

[I know, it's just so amazing how modest Rin is.]

Really!

[And she's just going to bounce ahead of Zuko, tail wagging as she leads her the distance across the Bastion to the Distillery]

[Zuko is not anywhere near bouncy. In fact her movements still seem a little stiff if Rin were to notice.

She's silent all the way to the distillery, where she finally gives in to curiosity.]

...does everyone have a tail where you come from?

[Don't mind her having way too much energy for her own good.

Rin opens the door, turning around when Zuko asks that question.]

Oh uh. No. Just some people.

Huh.

[Yeah, Zuko is still assuming there is a race of tailed humans in Rin's world.]

It's... not as strange as I would've thought.

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