daughterofursa: (serious face)
Zuko ([personal profile] daughterofursa) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2015-07-17 07:54 pm

Day 325 [Open]

Who: Zuko, Colin, Ikuri, and anyone else!
Open: Open!
When: Day 325
Where: Around the Bastion, Dragonfield
What: Time for some Talks
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor. Also fury, and not much patience.

It's been a few days since the disaster of Crona's death. Zuko would like to think that that's given her time and distance to process it, but most of her feelings haven't changed much since their return. If anything, she's just forced herself to focus on other things, and avoid dealing with her grief, and her guilt. Not that she's realized it.

It probably doesn't help that she hasn't gotten a decent night's sleep since. But she's used to that, and if she's going to lose sleep, she can at least do it standing guard instead of tossing and turning. She's been taking regular shifts guarding the prisoners, and she's taken to carrying her swords with her within the Bastion, as a precaution not only against escape attempts, but any threat of outside attack as well.


And the swords are also for Colin. Once she's finished a guard shift, she'll be looking for him to take him up on his challenge, and also for Ikuri, for the talk she thinks she's clear-headed enough now to give.


[Later...]
Besides all that, she is still a dragon mom, and that's probably the only thing that's gotten her to settle down at all. Later in the day, she can be found near dragonfield attempting to teach Kizuna how to breathe fire. In addition to a short demonstration, this seems to involve lying down on the ground with the little dragon on her chest so she can feel Zuko's breathing.

So far it doesn't seem to be working, but neither of them appear discouraged. For Kizuna's part, it may be because she doesn't know she's supposed to be breathing fire.

i'm picturing that music track playing from that point for this whole thread to now

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 02:48 am (UTC)(link)


Sleep hard.

[pouty protest. like, do you know how hard it is for me to get sleep without nightmares? do you? that was incredibly lucky and you ruined it for me, you meanieface.]


[meanwhile tiny dragon's adorable pseudosmiling face and eyes are judging you for entirely different reasons. You bothered my spot!]
freedom_engineer: (Wicked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Considering that you got Crona and Ragnarok killed, I'd hope you'd listen. But it's a slim hope right now.

[Friendliness? Civility? What's that?]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 02:58 am (UTC)(link)


Wouldn't wait all day!

[Do you really think she sleeps all day? Especially with how hard it is to sleep at all? So mean!]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)


[...fine, you know what? I'm laying back down.]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)


Talk later.

[go away.]

i'm chinhandsing like mad i'll have you know

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:13 am (UTC)(link)


Tired.

[why don't you understand]


[meanwhile tiny dragon adds his own protest: a grumblewhine almost immediately after Ikuri speaks, as though in support. odds are it isn't; tiny dragon's probably fussing for his own reasons]
freedom_engineer: (Irritation)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-07-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You were in charge, weren't you?

Leader?

Guiding everyone there?

Just like you seem to want to be doing?

You weren't ready. You got sloppy. Crona and Ragnarok died.

Everyone there let their guard down. SOMEONE should have told them to keep their eyes open.

If not for the person in charge, then who, Princess?

[With that, he steps onto the sky bridge and heads off out of the peace field.]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:21 am (UTC)(link)


Too long already! [And again with the pout.]

[Tiny dragon sniffs jerky. sniffs it again...then carefully opens its mouth and gently pulls on the treat to take it. if allowed, he'll take it from Zuko and get right down to a comfortable position to start nomming. Such good manners! ...but he's still not leaving his spot.]

Edited (for want of a letter, the usual tale) 2015-07-18 03:22 (UTC)

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:30 am (UTC)(link)



...

...

Friends.


[There. You like that? I'll talk if we're friends. ...Because I'm not interrupting my sleep for someone who doesn't think we're friends.]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:39 am (UTC)(link)


[gosh you are dense.]

[she actually sits up to look at you now, face like this. she has to maneuver around tiny dragon to avoid bothering him and actually takes care to do so; tiny dragon, for his part, shifts just slightly to avoid Ikuri but seems almost wholly preoccupied with his treat otherwise.]

Friends! [like how can you miss this. gestures to indicate you both!] Us friends!

[and after a second to let that sink in, she holds up an index finger in front of Zuko, pointing upward.]

No talk.

[Is that clear enough?]

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:43 am (UTC)(link)


Want to like you! [And you make it so hard!] Try!

[personal profile] darkshooter 2015-07-18 03:49 am (UTC)(link)


[because you won't give in, obviously]

No! Friends! Friends only!


[oh god she just crossed her arms. is this like dealing with a child or what.]

[tiny dragon, however, gives no more damns. he has his jerky and all is right with the world - which is to say he's totally oblivious to all of it.]

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