First Word :: Day 114

[wayofvoice]

Who: Paarthurnax OR Aoi, and you!
Status: Open
When: Day 114, towards the 'evening'
Where: The Bastion
What: Two new arrivals make their way in. One of them is a cute teenage girl. The other is a giant dragon.

[Sometime towards the end of Day 114, a few people watching the Skyway might notice something very big making its way towards the Bastion. Big and airborne, for that matter. It's upon the Bastion in very little time, an enormous wyvern if you want to be technical and simply dragon if you don't. When it lands at the entrance to the Bastion, the earth shakes a bit and it lowers its head...]

[Huh, that sure is a cute teenage girl seated on its neck.]

[Anyone particularly close might be able to hear a brief exchange between the two of them.]

Now we part ways. They would react better to you, I believe. Zu'u fen pek het. I will wait here.

Guess so, huh... Okay! We'll meet up later, then!

[With that, the girl sets off to investigate while the dragon waits near the Skyway as he observes from a distance.]

[Who do you approach?]

Comments

[wayofvoice]

It would be appreciated. Perhaps if I accompanied you to this... distillery, I may spot something.

[hellpyre]

Sure! I gotta get this stuff back there anyway.

[wayofvoice]

Rinik pruzah. Then I shall follow whenever you are ready.

[hellpyre]

[Rin nodded, gathering the jars up in her arms and standing. She couldn't get all of them, but they would be easy enough to come back for later.]

This way!

[wayofvoice]

[Paarthurnax follows after, taking great care to pass by the remaining jars so that his wings or tail would not knock them over. He's not the most elegant strider, having to use his wings to help him walk along ht eearth, but it still works.]

So, Rin Okumura, what tasks do you do in this bastion?

[hellpyre]

[It's nice that he's trying to be so cautious, though.]

Hm? Well I've been workin' in the kitchen mostly. The other woman who cooks is pregnant and can't be on her feet much.

[wayofvoice]

Bringing life even into a world so troubled? Su'um ahrk morah for her, then. Such things do not stop even for disasters such as these.

[hellpyre]

It happened before... and she lost her husband. But we're gonna do our best to help her.

[wayofvoice]

Do you have healers amongst your ranks?

[He's pretty sure that's what you need when it comes to birth. Also midwives, maybe??? Listen, he is an old dragon who knows a lot of stuff but human birth is not his expertise, what do you want from him]

[hellpyre]

Yeah, we do. And we have a hospital now, too.

[More than once Rin had wished Yuki was there with them, but that was a thought she didn't want to linger on, even if Mirelle's pregnancy was a valid reason to bring it up.]

[wayofvoice]

[The word 'hospital' is a foreign word to one such as himself, but he can guess the meaning well enough. A place you go to for matters of the body, at least if you are human or mer.]

Then you are as prepared as it is possible to be. Akatosh and time will tell.

[hellpyre]

[Basically.]

Pretty much.

[Rin smiled a little at that, trying to remain hopeful.]

I think we'll get through it alright.

[wayofvoice]

I would believe such a statement. [His warm breath goes gently over the back of Rin's head.] Mortal races are often determined. I have seen them survive catastrophes before. It is admirable.

[hellpyre]

Mn...

[There was a lot of truth in that. Rin herself had seen a lot of determination to survive in people. The incident in Kyoto was the strongest case of that, with odds stacked against them so high any wrong step from anyone could have resulted in the death hundreds. Yet they kept fighting until they won against the Impure King.

Yet morale in the Bastion had been low for weeks, and the recent Core retrieval only lowered it further. It made Rin wonder how long they could keep pushing forward before they all gave up.]

Yeah...

[wayofvoice]

[It doesn't take a thousand year old dragon to be able to see that things are not doing well in Bastion, or at least not with this girl in particular.]

Much seems to be weighing itself down on you, goraan gein. Would you care to speak of it after your task?

[hellpyre]

[Rin's shoulders slump a bit, and it's not from the weight of the jars in her arms.]

That obvious, huh?

[wayofvoice]

There is no shame in it. As they say, orin strunmah vis kos worn tum- even mountains can be worn down. Sometimes an exchange of words can help ease such burden.

[hellpyre]

I suppose it couldn't hurt...

[She gives a nod, motioning to the open kitchen back door.]

I'll be back in a minute then.

[wayofvoice]

I will wait here.

[It's not like he can go in, after all. It's nice to just look around the Bastion from his position, anyway.]

[hellpyre]

[Nodding, Rin slipped inside, putting the jars away properly before coming back out. She had to get the rest, of course, but it could wait.]

[wayofvoice]

[When he hears her come out, Paarthurnax lowers himself a bit. He had raised himself up a little to get a better view of the Bastion, but now he brings himself down.]

There is a river we could speak by, if that would be quiet enough a place for you.

[hellpyre]

Sure.

[It was a good spot. She liked to spend time in the Onsen more, but being near water in general as fairly calming.

Nodding again, she moved along towards the river quietly, hands behind her back as she walked.]

[wayofvoice]

[With a bit of effort, Paarthurnax keeps with her slower pace. The sound of a running river is something he had missed in his returns to the Throat of the World, and he settles simply enough when they reach their destination.]

Now then, tinvaak wah zey do hin arokon. Speak to me of your troubles.

[hellpyre]

[Rin found a grassy spot to nestle in to crossing her legs under herself and tucking loose strands of black behind a pointed ear.]

It's not just one thing... it's been tough ever since we got here. And last time we went to look for a Core I just... lost control. My friends got hurt because of me.

[wayofvoice]

Ah, control... That I can understand very well. What occurred?

[It's fairly obvious thanks to the tail that Rin isn't human, after all. Loss of control could mean a lot of things.]