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 Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:09 am
The Raven and Rose
Over a span since her studio was destroyed, Avehi has created a new space. One to inspire, awe and provide shelter for creative endeavors as well as a place to nurture new ideas.
The area around the studio in the front is laden with gigantic trees and stone statues chiseled by Avehi’s hand. Strings of protective amulets and wards against evil spirits and beings, stones with runic symbols carved into them hung from branches and the beams of the studio on the outside.
It is resembling a Japanese tea house on the outside: black stained wood, a wrap-around porch and three different entryways. Into the interior, there are ten rooms total: a sitting area, kitchen, back room for when others may happen to come by, and other spots for her art. Hanging on the main walls in the building are pieces that she has painted. The outside of the studio, behind it, is much different from the inside. A serene garden, it has waterfalls and flowers and trees, and more statues. But this portion of the grounds is European influenced. Dragons with wings perch on the top of the floating pagoda on the main lake, with snarling mouths, while bronze-casted faeries hide underneath bushes and peek out.
But there are secrets to this seemingly enchanted place, and those are ones that Avehi dare not reveal until she must.
Enter the realm of magic, enter the realm of the Raven and Rose reborn.
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:52 pm
 ~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ Kenshin approached the newly built studio in all of its glory. It took a while but sure enough Avehi was back up and running. "Well I must say, well done Avehi" he said aloud not sure if she heard him or not. Under his arm he held a box, neatly wrapped with a bow on it. Obviously a house warming or studio warming gift. He looked around, trying to see if Avehi was indeed here or not.~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:22 pm
 From the inside of the house came a windchime like sound followed by a loud BANG! and a snarl. "Dokkalfar, stop squirming! You'll ruin your portrait with all that thrashing around!" And out came Avehi with her sword out and black ink ( or blood ) splattered on her face. Her robes were splattered and eyes were adjusting to the sun light as she went outside and left Dokkalfar screaming out in annoyance. "Stupid sorry- Kenshin!" She was slightly taken aback by his appearance and how haggard she looked as opposed to how she normally looked. "What are you doing here? Oh nevermind, please! Do come in!"
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 8:06 pm
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ "Well I heard your studio was rebuilt so I thought I'd come see for myself." With a smile he stepped inside the studio. It was just as nice on the inside as it was on the outside. He gazed at the designs around the studio before regaining focus. Judging by the ink all over her, it seemed she was painting. Or was that ink... "Oh, I didn't mean to intrude on anything I just wanted to see how you were" Kenshin says with a smile.~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 8:12 pm
"Pish posh to Freyja and Loki, you weren't interrupting-" "My portrait.... my regal visage is slaughtered!" And another growl of displeasure was heard from another room, the lights shaking around as the floor boards creaked. Avehi shook her head. "Dokkalfar is getting anxious. He wanted me to paint another picture of him since the original one I made got destroyed in the old studio. If you'd like to meet him for yourself, I can get him to be cordial enougg to have you see him." She was eying the box he held with sudden glee and interest. "What's in it?"
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 8:19 am
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ The sudden movement from the other room slightly caught him off guard. Kenshin looks in the direction of the voice but couldn't see who it was. "He's your zanpakuto spirit right? I don't mind meeting him. He seemed pretty nice before although, we didn't really get to talk considering the situation at the time." He then remembered him helping during the infection. Kenshin then noticed Avehi's attention towards his gift. "Oh this? It's a gift for your new studio. A studio warming gift I suppose" he says, handing it out to her. ~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 12:41 pm
Her interest in the box was child-like and filled with wonder, as she eyed it before taking it from him with a smile. Shaking it around a tad bit, she asked him and looked up at his face. "Can I have a hint to what's in it?" "Kitsune fur?" Hughin, sitting on a tabletop asked, while Mughin chimed in. "The eye of a gorgon mistress? Narwhale horn? Dragon fang and wolfsbane-" "No coming from nowhere from you two corvid birdbrains." She said with force in her voice but did not come off as being mean or in a bad mood to them. Her nimble hands began to tear off the shiny metallic wrapping, the birds flying down to the ripped-off scraps to frolic in them happily.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:19 pm
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ "A hint huh? Well it involves a black liquid, flat white sheets, and sticks with soft tips" Kenshin listed. Of course the hints were pretty obvious but that was he intention. Hughin and Mughin's guesses were way off but hilarious nonetheless. Kenshin chuckled as he watched the the shiny paper rain down on the floor. "Hope you enjoy it."~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:34 pm
She knew from his hints what exactly they were but she still accepted the box of artist supplies with happiness: she didnt get gifts all that often, after all due to the few friends she actually had in the Soul Society. Slowly, she took out one of the brushes from the box. This one seemed to be the longest in a series of three: the main part of it being a nice tan color with the Japanese kanji for fire embedded into it. The other two in the set were smaller: each of them were black with a green and gold ribbon wrapped around them. Avehi put the one back into the box and took out the smallest one: barely the length of her entire hand. Hanging from the end of it was a small silver charm in the shape of a trinity knot, with an emerald in it's center. "Kenshin," She said, her joy expressed in a soft voice. "Thank you. I shall cherish these as if they were the rarest gems in all of the land, be it the Soul Society or the-" "Does he know?" Mughnin asked her. "Of Faerie-world and Faerie-kind? If he is so treasured, it would pay for his future for him to be semi-knowledgable on such a topical thing."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 8:05 pm
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ Kenshin smiled seeing as Avehi enjoyed her gift. He remembered her love of art and chose his gift from that knowledge. The paintbrushes caught his attention in a store and knew they were the ones. "I'm glad you like them but...what's Faerie-world?" he asked based upon what Mughnin said. He never knew there were other worlds beside the World of the Living, Hueco Mundo, and here of course.~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 8:13 pm
 "That is knowledge.... I shall give you in a bit of time." She glared to Mughin and Hughnin. "Get Dokkalfar to calm down and look humane. We have company that wishes to meet him." Without any more chatter, they took to the wing and entered the room next door. "Kenshin, I would advise you to choose words carefully around Dokkalfar. While he may be my Zanpakuto spirit, he is indeed a very real, and very deadly being." She set the box down on the table and moved towards the room where the birds had flown to. There was a brief green flash and a series of caws before Avehi entered the room: the sight of a form rising up from the floor was what she was there for. "Dokkalfar, my friend." "Hrm?" He looked back at her, his face hidden by his hood. "My guest." She bowed to the spirit and moved aside for him to see Kenshin.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 10:17 pm
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ Kenshin watched as the birds flew off into another room. After Avehi's warning, he was slightly nervous and even cautious. A flash of green light and cawes didn't help none. He began to wonder what kind of being he really was. Well the a good impression is always a good step in the right direction. "Pleased to meet you. I'm Kenshin Harada" he says with a smile.~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:37 am
"Harada. I have heard of you through here and there, although most of the time, from Avehi." He rose to his feet, Hughin and Munin flying his gnarled staff over to him. He grabbed it from then, the two birds settling down on a nearby book case. "Kenshin, I introduce you to Dokkalfar, my Zanpankuto spirit-" "I heard you speaking of Faerie to him before. Avehi, does he not know of it?" Avehi looked into Dokkalfar's eyes. "I was going to tell him after he made your aqquantance."
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:48 pm
~Squad 2 Vice Captain~
~Kenshin Harada~ "Oh, you have?" Kenshin says smiling. "To be honest, I'm not sure what you mean by Faerie. Do you maybe mean like in stories?" Kenshin guessed. He really didn't know what they were talking about. But all the talk about it just made him more curious. Placing his hands in his sleeves, he listenes carefully for what they were to tell him.~'Failure is the one who doesn't try'~
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:09 pm
"Faeries, stories?" Dokkalfar seemed to openly question Kenshin, his posture changing slightly. "My aqquantance, the Good Folk-" Avehi interrupted him. "That is another name for faeries." Hughin bought over Avehi a leather tankard filled with some sort of ale, and she downed half of it on one gulp as Dokkalfar sat down on a pillow, sighing. "Faerie is the world which the Wee Folk dwell in but they themselves are called that as well. You may see that name spelt out in the way that most modern writers and average people spell it, F-A-I-R-Y." "Wings? They need no wings, unlike we corvids of air!" Munin cawed. "They can swim, fly, slither and walk like men of earth." "The Folk are true and real enough, as real as Hollows and Soul Reapers are. But they are diminutive beings, smaller then the smallest human alive. And there is not just one breed or type." "Bogles, seal skin-changing selkies and kappas of the Japanese islands." Avehi had put down her tankard. "Kelpies, the Ghillie Dhu and Plant Rhys Dwfen. ANd most important of all," SHe looked to Dokkalfar once before breathing in deeply. "The Light Faeries, Ljosofar, and Dark Faeries, which is what Dokkalfar is named for." "You should probably tell the boy about the Ljosofar then. After all, that IS your ra-" Avehi interrupted. "No word on that for now. All in due time."
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