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]

[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.]

[hellpyre]

[Half, but the point remains.]

One of the Cores got eaten by one'a the creatures out there. I snapped and attacked it without my friends. By the time they caught up with me I was this close [she held up her fingers, about an inch apart] to not bein' able to tell between them and the enemy.

Bon had to grab me... it distracted everyone else and Sonic wound up with a broken leg. We almost lost the Core, too. If we'd lost the Core we wouldn't have the hospital...

[wayofvoice]

[He listens patiently, and thinks on how similar it is to other stories he has heard throughout his long life. The young are not strangers to such trials, but he has heard adults fall into similar mistakes.]

So you recognize that going on your own was foolish?

[hellpyre]

[She nods, fingers curling in to her ankles.]

I know I can be better than that! I just... I was so tired of losing people. Of losing friends.

[wayofvoice]

[He blows out a large gust of air from his nostrils at her.]

Do not think of that. You have recognized your mistake. Thus, you have solved the first half of your situation. No life was yet lost, so do not focus on such a thing.

Now we must focus on the second half- your control.

[hellpyre]

[Another nod, and she lifted her hands to rub at her face. There were no tears, but she found herself doing it anyway.]

I ain't totally without control. I've been workin' on it for months...

[wayofvoice]

Pruzah. Initiative is always a good trait to have. How have you been working on it?

[hellpyre]

A little under a year. I didn't even find out what I was until last spring. ... well. Spring in Japan.

[wayofvoice]

Then you have still longer to practice. A year is not very long at all. [Says the immortal dragon.]

Yet I meant in what manner have you been practicing to control yourself?

[hellpyre]

No... I know that.

[She can be dim, but even she knows... most of her limits.]

Back home, it was sword trainin' and doin' things to improve my aim and control with my flames. Here... not much. Bon tries to get me to meditate with him but I ain't very good at it.

[wayofvoice]

[Awwww yes, meditation, that is his specialty]

How does he meditate?

[hellpyre]

Well he's Buddhist...

[Rin is a dragon really going to know what that is?]

So he usually just sits there and chants. I like... I like listenin' to him? It's calming... I just can't ever get my mind in it.

[wayofvoice]

[Nope, no idea, but he can make a reasonable guess.]

His way of meditation may not be the way you must follow. I could teach you a different way, if you so desired. It is one I have used for thousands of years to control my own destructive nature.

[hellpyre]

A different way... ?

[Well if Buddhist chants and Catholic prayers aren't helping her...]

I... it's worth a try. I'm a lot more open to ideas now than I was when all this shit started for me...

[wayofvoice]

Hopefully it will assist you as it has done so for me. But for now- shur. Go.

[He nudges his head in the direction of where they first met and where those bottles are still waiting.]

We may focus all our attentions onto this matter when you are done with your first task.

[hellpyre]

Hm? ... oh! Right, the jars!

[She stands and brushes her skirt off, giving a surprisingly respectful bow to him.]

Thanks for listenin'.

[wayofvoice]

Thank you for speaking of such things to me. When you wish to continue, I will be here.

Until then, su'um ahrk morah.

[hellpyre]

Yeah. See'ya later!

[And she's going to bounce off now, happily ready to get back to work.]