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Reill stepped back into the city, huffing miserably and dragging his feet, Matori had been nice, he should have just stayed there and delt with all the staring he really wasn't as scary as he looked and he looked like that so he wouldn't have to fight too many people. Scare tactics of course scared them off that was the whole point, although he could pull his mask down in the more proper areas of town. Bandits, theives, ugh, it was enough to drive an honest Oban up the wall..or into Matori.

He stomped into the market gazing around for a likely food stall when his eyes landed on a familiar but at the same time nearly forgotten form. "Var?"

Reill scooped her up and span her in his arms delighted that it was in fact her. "I haven't seen you in ages! How have you been?" He set her down gently and whipped his face mask down so he could look at her and she him in return. Let her see the changes time had wrought. "I must say you look as fine as ever. "

He soaked her up for a bit, someone else he knew someone who wasn't family and who was well female, yes female was good, much nicer to look upon. He sighed contentedly. The stress from so many days just magically melted off him. How lucky had he been to catch her here in all of Oba by simple chance alone. "I just returned from Matori, a little late or early and I would have missed you altogether." He hugged her again. This woman had been there for the brothers where no one else had and her letters had been a saving grace more than once.

"Very good, very good, got Keelthy reinstated after crawling all over tendaji for a bit, got bored out of my tree working out of the palace, while my brother has gone galavanting without me, the gall of that boy. So then I went to Matori after a pack of perzi kicked my butt and now I'm off to go looking for some missing waterfolk." It was just so easy with Var to fit right back into his spot beside her like he had never left. "I find I lack purpose so I'm doing my best to find it. And helping to find lost relatives seems like an alright pass time don't you think?"

"I never did find your father though, so I guess I'm not all that good at it."

“Oh yes so much happy for him, I do resent the fact that he left me behind but he had to go out on his own to prove himself.” He sighed a little deflated and held her close as they walked, he was very used to constant companionship and didn’t want to admit how much the loss of that had left him cast adrift in the sea of sand. “Yes a waterling with a zanteer had lost some family that haven’t contacted him as of yet so I’ll be doing my best to inquire of Father to see if we can find them withing the knooks and crannies of Oba. I don’t know why they didn’t just go home.”
“You know if you ever want to travel and train all you have to do is ask and I will be there as soon as I can get there. Yes I’m sure being a hand maiden would be a little more interesting than palace guard but perhaps does not fulfill you enough? I thought I could follow father and become a guard full time but I just can’t stand the boredom, and the thought of standing in that hallway for forty years makes me want to run as far and as fast from the place as I can.”
“Of course I will come for a visit, when would it be appropriate do you think?”

Reillan gave her a withering look, which slowly morphed into a smile as she too faltered. She was one of the few people he couldn't intimidate based on muscles and dress and he adored that about her, he could show his true self in play and not worry about sending her running for the hills.

With all dignity he accepted the proferred fruit. "Thank you."

"I think I saw a worm disapear into that one," he said with a mock innocent face, there was no worm but she had taken forever to pick out fruit and he couldn't resist poking at her a little. Grow up indeed.

"Well when is your next time off?"

"I have to find what I can on those missing people then I'll be going back to Matori to pass off the news, I don't know how long that will take though since there are a lot of people to be alerted. So I think I have about two weeks."

Hopefully enough time to gather what information he could, "What about three days from now will that give your lady enough warning do you think? I wouldn't want to encumber you at all."

He would see his father tonight and pass on word so he could do some of his own visiting with Var who definitely needed some quality time. His mouth quirked just the slightest bit.

"Well I think the Jauhar land is the most exotic. Everything glows from the critters to the trees to the people. They have so many trees in fact that you can make a living collecting the moss off them and leaving the tree completely alone. The downside is they eat alot of bugs but on the upside they have all kinds of fantastic fruits. The critters are a bit intimidating with big teeth on the Radaku but everything is pretty small." At least in comparison with a janarim. "I never did have the misfortune of meeting one of the crystal spiders for which I am most grateful."

"The weather is awful, you blink and it rains, you yawn and it rains, no matter how often you do the sundance that Keelthy and I made up IT RAINS."

"As for doing things wierd, the shifters sleep in trees and the Alks worship one. We are lucky to get a scrub bush out here never mind a whole tree."

"No, thankfully you don't shrivel, its just cold and wet and dank, even in the heat of the rainforest." He shuddered in memory. "Everything you own is damp. It makes you want to wring out your clothes, I don't know how they do it. Then the sun comes out and you feel like dancing."

"I'm pretty sure they worship the tree itself, I've heard it is their mother both figuratively and literally. Apparently they come out of buds, and they are all female except for the hybrids which are occasionally male but I don't really..get how that works so I try not to think on it that much, some sort of strong magic I figure."