Light years away from home, just my demons and I alone

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin Okumura and anyone else in the Bastion
When: After Groups A and B return and the Core is installed
Where: Near the apartment building
Style: [these fun things]
Status: OOOOPEN

[So hey. There's this girl. She's been in this place for a while, helped out with a lot of things, and today she got to help do something awesome! Cores are important to the Bastion after all, so that's a good thing.

Except she kind of... lit herself on fire and a lot of people saw it.

Anyone want to talk to her about that?

In all seriousness, Rin can be found after all that hubbub taking a break near the apartments, outside because she really doesn't want to be in her room right now. She's nursing a bit of a wound on her thigh from sliding on her legs under the bird earlier, but whatever road rash she got from doing so is starting to fade finally. Her sword is lying next to her in the grass, and she's just on her back, watching the odd sky above the Bastion quietly.

Mostly because her ears are still kind of ringing from what Crona did.

Ringing ears won't stop her from holding a conversation, though, if anyone cares to bother her, and she's in a decent mood given their accomplishments.]

Comments

[hellpyre]

Well... if you're sure...

[Obviously Duke offered because she wanted to, but Rin was one of those 'don't be a burden on people' types. Still, it wasn't exactly comfortable.]

[notduchess]

[ Well, the knight would have one more-

And when Duke said that the healing spell was kinda sucky, Duke meant it was kinda sucky. Stabbing the ground a good three feet from Rin for a blue-white seal that patches the girl up isn't... that flexible of a spell. ]

There.

[hellpyre]

[Flexible or not, Rin is pretty impressed regardless. She rubs a hand over her thigh, finding it clean and free of scrapes.]

Wow... that is really cool...

[notduchess]

It's mostly useful in fights, which is probably why it looks the way it does.

[ Duke sits down, dusting dirt off the blade and putting it back. ]

Starting to wonder if I ought to try to remember how the healing spells went.

[hellpyre]

Might be helpful. Flames aren't exactly a healin' power...

[notduchess]

Ah, well, if someone's bleeding a lot..

[ Way to be .. not-morbid, Duke- ]

[hellpyre]

... I don't have that much control.

[notduchess]

... All on fire or no fire?

[hellpyre]

Kinda... there really isn't that much of an in between.

[notduchess]

.... Yeah, that might be a bit of a problem for anything.

[hellpyre]

It's good for attackin' at least?

[notduchess]

Definitely. Although if its bad enough, a hand on fire could probably be enough.

[hellpyre]

Well--... thing is... I only started usin' this power recently...

[Hence the lack of complete control over it]

[notduchess]

... And the ... rules, of here, don't exactly encourage practice.

[hellpyre]

No, not really.

... I can kinda cheat it though... ?

[notduchess]

.. Hmn?

[ Curious- ]

[hellpyre]

Welllll... I can't train with candles like I used to, since every attempt would be considered one, y'know?

But when the sword comes out... that's one. Until I put it back in.

[She figures if it's limited at all, then there's a chance even that "one" will burn out sooner or later, but it still lasts longer than say a single spell.]

[notduchess]

... We could clear you a section of Skyway, get candles, and you sit with the sword out...

[ Because really it could help- ]

.... But who knows how many candles we can find.

[hellpyre]

... yeah I don't wanna use somethin' we actually need.

[Rin lets out a frustrated sigh]

Even if I can't be an exorcist here I still need to train somehow.

[notduchess]

.... rig up cheap torches. Or use useless wood; stuff that's gotten rotted or wormy or... something. Those old stalls might have some use to them.

[hellpyre]

Maybe...

The way my teacher had me trainin' was to light the two candles on the outside at the same time, without lightin' anything else.

[notduchess]

... then something like a railing without the handrail. A bunch of boards sticking up in a row, sounds close enough.

[hellpyre]

It's worth a try.

... heh. Wow. I'm actually takin' imitative with my own trainin'. Shura would actually be proud.

[As amused as she sounded, there was still a note of sadness in there. As difficult as her teacher was, she was among the many that Rin missed.]

[notduchess]

Teachers usually like it when you don't have to be prodded to get moving.

[hellpyre]

Yeah, but most teachers aren't drunken twenty six year olds who are lazier than their students most of the time.