~The Hidden Cove~

[Kiro_Hoto]

OoC: Keep this alive. Someone?

[Arretsu]

She was now just silent, sitting back down upon the porch swing, her eyes staring distantly out at the lake. "Since..nothing.." She finally sighed, a lonely look in her eyes. "Its quiet now."

She didn't feel Taigeku's presence, she really just shut herself off from the world, not wanting to feel much of anything. Slowly she rocked back and forth on the swing, now humming softly.

[The Oblivionic]

Narakuten felt his approach more than a mile off. Such blatant display of power, levitation, that one with his senses couldn't help but be focused on its arrival. He knows this 'man', very familiar to him indeed.

Yet, his attention to Terra hadn't been completely broken. She had replied, and in such a dismissive action. Before his old friend arrived, he throws in his two cents.

"Nothing it is, then.... It isn't so quiet to me, though."

The energies of the living and the dead, the moving and inanimate, and the air itself, gave way to his 'vision', and it nearly deafened him constantly. Truly, he thought, to be omniscient would be the same as ever-present, for being consciously aware of all, made one a part of it. And then...

"Hello, Taigeku..."

[Taigeku]

Narakuten's voice startled him as he broke his very still stare off of Terra's form. He could see that Nar had changed, ... he always was.

"Haven't seen you in a while..." He glanced back to Terra, and his eyes returned to Nar. "...And what shall I call this form?"

It was strange for Taigeku to be inhibited by mortal beauty. Through his lifetime, he had thought as mortal's as just a way to feed his lust... but now there was something else with this peace keeper. His eyes searched her form, he longed for her attention. He focused his eyes on Nar, but his Telepathy on some grass particles, and swirled them about into a carnation just in front of where Terra's eyes seemed to be staring off to.

[Arretsu]

She was still lost in her own little world, like a empty shell of her former, and her real self was else where.

But the sound of two voices finally snapped her back to reality, and she glanced at the two men talking. She blinked, recognizing Taigeku, and a warm smile graced her glossed lips.

She also realized she had given Narakuten an dismissive remark and frowned. She got to her feet again with a soft sigh, and spoke softly. "Sorry Nara, I tend to zone out a lot these days." She said sadly, then looked to Taigeku and bowed her head in greeting, causing strands of silver to fall around her face with the movement. "Its been awhile Taigeku, I hope you are well. Staying out of trouble and all."

[Darth Raize]

A black-clad figure stops to smell the air, not but a few miles off from the cove.
Familiar.
"He is here."

[Alala Alala]

[I can't watch the place dwindle, Arretsu. Fancy a visit?]

[Arretsu]

((Do not mind))

[The Oblivionic]

"What, indeed..."

Turning his attention back to Terra:

"That is forgivable. Now if you will excuse me, I'll go that place you mentioned."

Intentionally vague, to throw of Taigeku.
Meanwhile, Raize stayed well out of his awareness' boundary.

[Alala Alala]

Fortune favors the brave indeed. The remnants of the Cleric Pei [that which made it through to the winds from Rishaad gently cleaved a path into the skies above a wooded forest, gently breezing across the tips of conifers or bonsais.

Above, Pesha had rigged the flag of the Corsairs, the flailing Mummy's skull a symbol of no significance, in fact, Pesha had to question.

"Why the hell do we have a Mummy's head on our ship?" Realizing she spoke to no one, she shrugged her shoulders, and simply walked into the galley to eat the remainder of salted cuts she had stolen from the Dock Hag before they left.

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Speaking of Mummy heads, Roy seemed to have the due diligence to attempt to speak to the one plastered to the mast. It looked to not have heard his question at first, gently smacking its wooden lips together [which created an odd "clackity" sound] and morosely groaning.

Eventually, it looked at Roy with its bandaged head, broken teeth staring in quiet awe at the new crew-member, before finally.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAH"

It echoed a scream that shook the forest, sending birds flying from their nest, and causing the very fabric of one's eardrums to rupture. From the galley, Pesha emerged with a piece of pork still in her hand.

"Damnit, Roy! I had gone a whole day without having to listen to that thing scream, and you go and talk to the bloody piece of rubbish, I oughta knock you senseles-"

She paused. Her anger was accosted by the view of the forest surrounding the Cove, an astonishingly green area that was far different from that which she had ever known before. Rishaad was blue and beige, and red, on occasion [the unpleasant ones.] However, the forest of the Cove was something entirely new, and in the face of this fresh sight, she was awe-struck and silent.

"Anchor here, Roy. I'll put the sails down. Prepare your things, you and I will be the landing party." Still simmering in amazement, she shifted back to the Captain's quarters, to prepare herself for landing.

[Roy Solena]

The anchor crashed to the ground dragging through the damp soil till it snagged on a thick tree. The ship had already been moving at a slow pace when Roy had released the catch on the anchor, but even still the ship jumped to shaky stop as the tree decided that it was going to hold.

Quickly pushing the heavy bundle of wood and rope over the side, the ladder let out a quick snap as it finished unraveling about two feet above the earth’s surface.

Grabbing only his second tool belt, Roy descended the ladder, each step making the heavy aromas of the forest only stronger in his nose. Jumping to the ground, he stumbles as the forest floor gives underneath his bare feet, revealing the spongy nature of the thick water-logged mosses that coat the dark soil.

Roy finds himself in a small wooded clearing. A small bird flies out the bushes letting out a quick chirp before it swoops out of sight deeper into the forest. Off to the left, Roy hears the sound of a waterfall.

Sloshing his way on the semi-solid ground Roy begins to secure the heavy mooring lines that hang from the sides of the ship, that sits nestled in the tops of the trees so many feet above.

[Arretsu]

She had known of the ship, having felt it come into the vicinity of the cove. She walked down from the porch and her gold eyes stared up into the sky. It amazed her really, and she thought how nice it would be to travel in one of those.

She was about to go up and say hello herself, but had noticed them anchoring and decided against it.

Raising her hand she reached up to tuck back strands of silver that danced in the breeze and in front of her eyes.

Her eyes silently followed the path of the landing party, and she waited for them to approach her.

[Darth Raize]

'A ship, here?!?', the Sith questions in his mind.
And immediately he pulls the darkness of the Force about him, enshrouding himself in its shadow and clouding all that which might detect him.

It must be destroyed - it cannot stand in my way.

Once again calling upon the Force, it augments his already honed physical abilities.
He bounds for the anchoring ship with lightning speed.

[The Oblivionic]

"Eh?"

Narakuten suddenly feels a familiar presence. A black dot against a blacker background that vanishes in a fleeting moment. But before he can search for it further, a 'flare' dulls his awareness. So bright, so full of life. Some kind of vessel, traveling through the air.

It carried with it a 'good' sensation, that of the positive. If those on board wished harm, they were misguided in their own righteousness. But assuming otherwise, he merely stands in place. Trying to pick up Terra's own take on the new arrivals.

[Taigeku]

Taigeku was slightly confused with Nar's answer, and pretty much obliviousy to everyone but Terra. He spoke with a gentler tone in his voice, "I've been well... but staying out of trouble..."


He paused as Nar walked away.

"Thats just no fun."

He smile at Terra just as her attention seemed to sway elsewhere.