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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:12 pm
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Perhaps with some forethought Uquin had closed the screens the night before, saving him from the piercing light of morning - though whether it was morning, truly, he couldn't tell. After the celebration of the night before, odds were the settlement was all sleeping off their 'celebrations', especially with all the extra food that had been amassed for the celebration.
But urgh, just the thought of food made his stomach turn. Uquin had passed out laying on his stomach, something in his brain telling him that sleeping on his back was unsafe - but it wasn't until he stirred that he realized... his arm was slung around the side of ... someone. He tensed, but was careful to leave his arm from coiling tighter around this person. Instead, he carefully drew his arm off and away, sitting up and rubbing his temple, searching his drunken, scattered mind for clues.
... Pahana. Pahana, that's right - he could tell it was her from the streak of pink in her loose hair, which pooled against the pillow she slept on. Oh spirits, this was mortifying - and having made drunken advances on someone who was sister to a man he respected, and on such a (if his memory could be trusted as accurate) sweet and welcoming woman in her own right, then he may well have ruined any hope of making friends with this family.
Uq let out a tensed up breath, but found his normal jacket and pants, drawing them on - but leaving the scarf and anklet off. He only needed the minimum of clothing, after all. During the night his own hair had come loose of its tie, but for the moment he let it hang messily along his shoulders and instead grabbed half blindly for a flash of water, since he didn't have the water provisions other old tree homes had, and took a greedy drink, groaning in relief at the feel of the blessed liquid on his parched throat (though he somehow stopped just short of half, to leave Pahana some). He left the water skin on the floor beside her, then tepped to the slat opposite where she was facing and pulled it so it was slightly open, letting in just a few beams of light - but just enough that he could sit by the newly made window and force himself to read through a tome on healing he'd brought home from Jauhar.
So she didn't think he was staring at her as she slept,of course, and also because his mind was going nuts at the ramifications of this - and reading, or pretending to read, helped. Just a bit.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:52 pm
Pahana stirred ever so slowly from her slumber and sat up to rub an eye. Well, that festival had taken quite a toll upon her body, had she really danced that much? Her legs and arms were so tired and floppy... Ugh, it was really hard to wake up, too!
"Mmmmrrr..." She mumbled, allowing her arms to stretch, before flopping back onto the bed. Her hands moved outwards and above her head, until they bopped into something seated on the other side of the bed, which she tilted her eyes to look at. "Oh! Hi, Uquin! Did you enjoy the festival last night?"
She smiled up towards him, before pausing. ...Why was Uquin in her room? She sat up again with a squeak, everything that had happened the previous night flooding back to her. Oh... OH... She was in his house... What was she doing in his house?
"Oh... My GOD." She gasped, turning towards Uquin again. "What happened to us last night?!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:25 pm
For a few minutes, Pahana made noises like she would wake up. At every quiet grunt or sigh Uq tensed up and stared at her, half clutching the book against his chest. But each time she settled again, for a short while. Eventually though she sat up, and Uquin quickly ducked his eyes from her (admittedly cute) sleepy face, pretending he had been reading.
He did, however, envy her apparent lack of a hangover. His own head was splitting, and just the light filtering over his shoulder and onto the pages of the book made it even worse. Once Pahana stretched her arm, bopping him on the knee, Uq finally closed his book and settled it on his lap, gazing at her - then raising an eyebrow when she simply looked at him, smiled, and asked... well. Such a question.
Finally she got it though. One long look around the room, and she realized she wasn't somewhere she recognized. Beyond that, he couldn't guess how much, if anything, she remembered. For Uquin he only remembered getting drunk - that at one point they'd kissed, and then - waking up, here.
"Before, during, or after we became intoxicated?" He asked slowly, his voice a bit raspy from sleep and from his hangover, his fingers idly picking at the delicate cover of the tome in his lap. For a long moment he simply looked at Pahana, but finally he let his bright eyes flick down and away instead.
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:25 pm
"All of it! Every single thing-OHMYGOSH!" Pahana squealed, wriggling up into a seated position. How the hell had this happened? Her father was going to flip! What would her mother say? ...Probably nothing, but still! AND YAHO. YAHOLO WOULD BE IN STITCHES OR VERY VERY UNHAPPY! ...Or he would be happy and concerned, or just concerned, or just happy, or angry, maybe just angry, HOW WAS SHE TO DETERMINE HER BROTHER'S ABILITY TO HANDLE HIS LITTLE SISTER GETTING LAID?!
She flopped her head against the wall harshly, causing the rest of her hair to fall from her bun, and heaved a sigh. Oh spirits... Oh spirits... OH... OH...
"This. This is..." She stammered, tossing one of her hair ties across the room. "Bonkers! BONKERS! What in the name of my brother happened?!"
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:36 pm
Uquin didn't blame her, but still - the squealing shot straight into his cranium, and it felt like the noise had made his brain seize into a fit. He hissed and rubbed his fingers against his temple, peeking at her through eyes squinted against his headache. Was it bad that, at this given moment, he was horrible distracted by just how pretty her (now loose) brown and pink hair looked, falling in crimped waves over her shoulders?
He stared a moment, then gulped and guiltily looked up at her face again. What in the name of her brother?? What sort of swear was that?? He tilted his head, but chose not to question it - instead he felt his lips lift, just a bit, in quiet amusement, before straightening again into a thoughtful look, so as not to make her think he was amused at her perceived suffering. "Well we... imbibed far too much alcohol, retreated to my place - where I assume we had... relations, of an intimate kind." He cleared his throat and looked away, tapping the book against his leg.
What did you suggest in such situations? Tansy Tea? Then again, such a tea - used to prevent pregnancies- were best taken after the act itself, and taken so many hours afterward would severely lower its effectiveness. Beyond that, saying 'Hey, we had some fun right, now drink this' was ridiculously shady to him. "Can I... get you anything?" He asked, instead, shifting nervously and tinging pink in the cheeks from his nervousness.
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:55 pm
Pahana blushed as Uquin explained what had happened to them and moved to cover her face with her hands. They... They did it. They actually did it. Her mouth twisted, her feet curled inwards, and out from her mouth came...
A flurry of giggles.
"SO... We had a little tumble, per say?" She laughed, scooting towards him. "I remember NOTHING, and yet, I feel SO MUCH. Like... WHAT."
She leaned her head on his shoulder and tried to drag her smile down. Her emotions were so BIG and so RAW. Like... How was she supposed to feel? Scared? Happy? Accomplished? Attracted?
...Oh, gods... She gazed up to him. ...He was cute. She actually thought a guy was... CUTE! Everything she knew about herself, GONE.
"...Uh..." She muttered. "...I... Dunno. ...Water?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 11:54 pm
For a moment Pahana covered her face and... Uquin felt a jolt shoot through him. Was she crying? Setting his book down, the Healer scooted closer, his eyebrows furrowed, tilting his head to peer at her. When she suddenly began to laugh, he jumped and leaned away - just as she pulled her hands from her face and looked at him, laughing. "A...a what?" He asked dumbly, eyes widening a bit. Then she scooted closer, and Uquin stared at her, at a loss.
He ... had never really had much experience with others, in this sense. So he leaned just a bit away, but not enough that he was trying to escape from her advances. And - having her smile so uncontrollably, her head moving to lean on his shoulder, Uquin felt a flutter in his chest that, after a moment, he realized was warmth and contentment.
He hesitated, but after a moment Uquin slipped his arm around Pahana's middle, resting it very gingerly on her waist, unaware of her thoughts. When she finally asked about water, he chuckled softly and leaned only a small ways away to the water skin he'd pulled out for her already, setting it into her hand - though his own lingered for a moment, briefly brushing his fingertips over the soft skin of her knuckles. Then he drew his hand away. "Are you alright?" He asked, softly, in regards to her 'feeling so much.' Was she hungover? She looked lovely, well rested, despite how horribly his own head ached. He was almost jealous.
Thoughtfully, he lifted his hand and brushed his fingers through the soft waves of her bun-curled hair, thinking.
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:27 pm
Pahana took the water skin as if it were her life and quickly took a few steady gulps from it. All the alcohol from the night before had left her dehydrated and woozy, and having her first sip of water in twenty four hours felt like a miracle. After she had taken what she had wanted from the skin, she recapped it and handed it back to Uquin, her body resting against his side again.
"Thank you, I really needed that." She said, flushing red. "Uh, yeah! I'm okay! Just... Eh-heh-heh... I'm a little... Excited, I guess?"
As he brushed his fingers through her hair, she couldn't help but sigh and smile at the feeling. She had never though a man would be so... Comfortable. For a split second she thanked the spirits for the drunken night that helped her realize this, until another more jarring realization took hold of her.
"N-not to freak you out or anything, but we're going to be in a bit of situation in nine months." She peeped, her eyes growing wide. "...Assuming that you'll be a part of that, if you know what I mean."
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 11:49 pm
Well, it was good to see that she was affected by the alcohol at least in one sense, or he would have begun to think that she was superhuman in some way. Uquin looked away as she drank - not especially sure why, but probably out of the awkward nervousness he found himself feeling at this situation. Once she finished, though, he took the skin back, took a drink of his own (to finish it off), then set it back on the floor again. He could go fill it back up if Pahana needed more water, after all.
"Hmm? Oh- yes, yes you did. Because alcohol -- makes you thirsty." He said distracted. 'I'm a healer!' His mind pointed out again, and it was only then that he came to realize how ridiculous his mumbling was. Of course she knew she was thirsty, what sort of stupid, imbecilic--
At that point he realized that Pahana was looking at him, eyes widening as she spoke, and it was only through luck that he didn't miss the entirety of what she had said. "Well - maybe not, it's not always certain but..." He trailed off, tapping his fingertip against her waist, where his hand was settled, almost in thought - and then when he realized just what might be occuring in her belly, he rose his hands away as if his contact would disrupt or injure her, somehow. "But... yes. Yes we will." Children? No, he wasn't ready for children in the least, not really, not when he'd already come to understand that traveling and healing and helping everyone he could, not just those locally, was what he wanted.
But he had also been drunk and ... imbibed the night before. And looking at Pahana now, he couldn't imagine just disappearing forever. So he paused, opened his mouth, then took a breath. " I... imagine I'll travel, quite a bit in the future, but... if in nine months - I would not leave you to deal with this alone, of course."
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 5:43 pm
Scarlett Arbuckle I apologize for the weakness in this reply. XP
"You'll be traveling? Where to?" She asked, tilting her head. "Is it because of the war? ...I heard that it was only going to get worse from here on out."
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:27 pm
The confused look only made Uquin feel guilty for bringing it up. So he didn't elaborate - instead he gave a shake of his head, along with a soft laugh. "After the first battle, I learned what I could from Jauhar - I gathered tomes and old scrolls with instructions. There was a... an old healer there who grew his own healing herbs. This close to Jauhar, maybe I could cultivate a garden here too, if I had living samples of the plants I need." He wanted to gush more - about the impressive gardens, the variety of plants in Jauhar that were used for healing.
But he decided against it - Pahana probably wasn't as intrigued by the healing arts as he was. So instead he ducked his head, making shapes with his finger against her hand. "But... if war does break out, I'm a healer too. I... want to be where I can be useful."
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:12 pm
Pahana's eyes changed expressions again as Uquin spoke. Jauhar, herbs, a garden? It seemed almost odd to her that he wanted to grow a garden with things from Jauhar out her in Tale. It was a desert and it barely had plants of it's own. How was he going to do such a thing without using water magic every day? She wiggled, again, and pouted pensively.
"My cousin's a monk who likes to wander around Jauhar." She said, almost selectively over other thoughts she might have had. "Maybe I could ask him to meet up with you so we can keep in contact? He's pretty good at keeping up with letters, and trading is a thing he does..."
Idly, she traced her fingers along his chest, drawing circles with the motion as she continued to think. She was sure that Rastian wouldn't mind hanging out with Uquin, he wasn't a busy person. Right? He was always on his own anyway. He needed a friend, and what better way to find a friend than to find on in a similar class?
"Last time I heard from him he was on his way here to deliver a package." She mused. "Something about Enlil needing a bag of herbs and no one else wanting to be bothered to deliver it... He's such a grump about things, sometimes."
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:40 pm
(( Do you want to end the play here?? I'm not sure what to post, but if you need this for Pahana to grow we can continue? o^o ))
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:25 pm
Scarlett Arbuckle (( Do you want to end the play here?? I'm not sure what to post, but if you need this for Pahana to grow we can continue? o^o ))
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