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

[hellpyre]

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...]

Comments

[hellpyre]

Mhm! So if you ever need anythin' from here, lemmie know. I can even pack some good travelin' food if you decide to head out to the Skyway. Also, you might wanna ask around. I know a few people have started goin' in pretty big groups, if you wanna join 'em. Oh, and every coupla weeks, Nathaniel finds another Core on the Skyway for us to go look for. That usually means takin' a lotta people for extra manpower and whatever.

[daughterofursa]

I'm a pretty good fighter on my own.

[She may not be quite ready to team up with a bunch of strangers.

...

Maybe the dragon.]

[hellpyre]

[That gets a bit of a frown from Rin.]

I am, too. [Well. She's strong and has a lot of power. Her skil with the blade is somewhat relative in that case.

Speaking of which, it is near by, tucked in a corner in a red silk case with her leather harness for it and the other sword she uses leaning against it.]

And I've still had things out there almost get me. I had a pretty scary run in with one'a the Caelondia devices not that long ago. I probably woulda died, if my friends hadn't been there to drag me out.

... that said, you can go out alone. It's your choice. I just know people that have done that and not come back.

[daughterofursa]

Then I guess they weren't as talented as they thought they were.

[Clearly Zuko's estimation of her own skills and how they rank against whatever monsters are out there is completely accurate.

It's difficult for her to imagine there being any creature, besides a dragon, that would be any tougher than her own family. She's fought and learned from the best.]

[hellpyre]

[Whoops that would be a button you just accidentally pushed, Zuko.]

... Night was one of the best exorcists in the business back home, and she still wound up with a fuckin' hole through her chest. Marie was one of the top Death Scythes from her world, she wound up lost. And Maka was from the same world and he was no pushover, either. Sonic, one'a the fastest things I've ever seen. Osahar, Shion, Nezumi, Shiro... I can't even count all of 'em. In the three months I've been here, we've lost just as much as we've gained out there.

Number one rule of the Skyway: Don't underestimate what's out there. And don't overestimate yourself. Anyone can fall. Even you.

You didn't know them, and I barely know you, but I'd like it if you didn't talk shit about the dead.

[daughterofursa]

[Another person would probably back down and apologize. Zuko, not so much.]

If their pride in their abilities is what got them killed, then that stands even after they're dead.

But if the same thing happens to me, you're free to call me an idiot once I'm gone, too. I've heard worse to my face.

[hellpyre]

I wouldn't do that.

[She'll call plenty of people things to their faces. She'll tell a person when they're being stupid out right, so long as they could hear it. But speaking ill of some one who's dead and gone? Hell no. The worst she ever gets is still calling Shiro "shitty old man" sometimes, and that's more out of her own inner guilt that she still can't really deal with.]

It wasn't pride. Not for them. For me? Hell yeah. I was bein' stupid, I was in the wrong place at the right time and I paid for it.

But not for them. You'll see when you get out there again. It might not happen right away, but sooner or later somethin' is gonna hit you too hard at just the right time. But if that happens, and we lose you... ?

I don't care how little I know you, or if we've become friends by then. I'll be sad you're gone either way.

[Rin put her hands on the table, leaving her half finished stew as she stood up and headed for the door.]

... if you haven't settled in yet, the tower as nicer apartments. It's pretty cramped in the other ones.

[daughterofursa]

[Rin is one of those types, isn't she? Someone who instinctively knows the right thing to do, and when she messes up, it probably isn't for lack of trying.

Is it more like her father or her sister to say what she just did? It's not as though Zuko thinks they deserved it, or that she's glad they're dead. But Rin's response definitely wasn't her first instinct.

She's probably not going to say the right thing if she tries to respond to that.]

...

I'll keep that in mind.

[hellpyre]

[She tries to do what's right, but it does backfire on her a lot. Violent tenancies and all that. But she does try.

She just wants to survive, and for the ones that are there to do the same. They've already lost so many...

And she wants more moments like earlier, where the end of the world doesn't feel like such a weight on her shoulders and she can be happy, if only for a short time.

That's gone now, but she can walk away hoping maybe Zuko understands a little more, what's at stake and why those moments are so damn precious.

You never know when you're going to be gone, and that uncertainty is even stronger here...

She lets out a sigh, a glance over her shoulder, but she says nothing before leaving the kitchen for good.]