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 Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:40 am
Sanar stood, panting softly at the back door to the house that her mother had made sure she knew was Sin and Gael's.
She'd run here, forcing herself to leave the artifact behind since carrying it, either in her hands or her bag, hadn't seemed like a very good idea. Hopefully nothing would happen to it in the time that she was gone.
Catching her breath she stood and rapped on the door, fidgeting and hoping that Gael would answer and not Sin.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:45 am
Gael looked up from the blank page that she'd been trying to fill for the past hour. She didn't know what she was trying to do, but it was irking her that she was unable to get anything set down on paper.
She rose, wondering what the knocking sound was, and headed to the back door, the one that Sin never used. It was strange for someone to come to that door, but still, the knocking persisted.
Pulling back the heavy door to reveil the screan door made Gael remember many unpleasant things all at once.
She turned around and started to walk away. She would not even dignify this with a response.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:58 am
Sanar blinked as Gael began to walk away.
That was weird, normally people said 'hallo' or something. Idly she wondered if this qualified as a 'rude action' that Chao had gone on about.
She shook her head to beat off the thoughts and eyed the screen door, pondering opening it herself and going after the other girl.
Sanar decided to try talking first, "Gael, wait!" she gestured back behind her with dirt smeared fingers, "I found somethin'! Somethin' old with glyphs on it." She fidgeted watching the other girl to see if that caught her attention. If not she'd go back, haul the thing up herself and find someone who could make light and use of it.
Not that she had a clue of who else might understand glyphs. Gael was really the only person who immediately popped to mind.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:01 am
She paused, her interest peaked. She couldn't help but wonder what this 'old' thing was. She turned slowly, critically looking at Sanar. The girl was filthy. How did she expect to come in and tell her about it in that state.
"Wash up in the water barrel when you come in." Was all she said, turning to head back to her blank book. "Don't track in any dirt."
Sin'd have my head.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:06 am
Sanar smiled, perking up as Gael replied to her before shaking her head.
"I don't have it with me," she explained, still waiting behind the screen door, as washing up and going in would be fairly useless in the end, "I had t'leave it. I thought that if I brought it with me I'd just break it. Or drop it. Or somethin'." She shrugged making a slight face. She hadn't liked leaving it but it's been so heavy when she'd been digging it out, though perhaps that was just caked on dirt....
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:10 am
Gael sighed and turned to face Sanar, her head poking out from just around the door into the living room. "Give me a moment."
She hurried across the room, willing herself to not get excited, to not sound curious, to not want to really see what ever it was that Sanar had uncovered. She was not curious, she would not admit it.
She grabbed her jacket and her bag, and, as an after thought, the blank book. At least she could write things down as they passed them.
She headed back to the door, letting herself out silently, "Well." She stared expectantly at Sanar, "Lead the way."
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:22 am
Sanar hummed as she waited, quietly wondering if the other girl would be able to make more sense of the thing, its glyphs, than she could. She couldn't be sure if it but she was glad that Gael was willing to come and look.
As Gael reappeared she smiled, sensitive ears twitching and nodded, "'kay," she replied and set off.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:21 pm
Gael drudgingly followed, not wanting to appear as though she was annoyed by this idea - this venture, but not wanting to seem overly interested either. It was not her place to make peace with this girl who had been so awful so soon after they had grown.
Even though they were stated to grow at the same time - it did not connect their souls. That was a job for a force far stonger than either of them could see, written in the stars or otherwise.
She paused, stooping to pick up a mushroom, keeping half an eye on Sanar. The girl had left a noticible path through the bracken, so if she needed to fall back - she could.
"Wait!" She called, putting the mushroom into her bag and hurrying to catch up with the infuriating girl.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:43 pm
Sanar stopped as Gael called, cocking her head and an ear at the other girl who'd been so quiet during their trek.
Gael hunched her shoulders and dragged her feet to the point that Sanar was curious if the other girl even cared about what she'd found.
Although, if she didn't, why would she bother to come?
Sanar scratched her cheek, attempting to puzzel out what could make the other girl like that. Maybe she'd done something? She did remember Gael punching her, the last time they'd been together. Although that memory was slightly hazy from age and the fact that Sanar had mostly moved on from it, leaving it behind after being chided by Chao for her own behavior.
Maybe she'd tried to steal something? Hrm. Maybe.
"M'sorry, Gael, for wha'ever has you so angry," Sanar stated simply, nodding her head at Gael when the other girl caught up. She smiled then started off again in the direction of her bag and the curious artifact.
"It's not far now."
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:52 pm
Gael shrugged her shoulders in a way of accepting the girl's words. She, to tell the truth, remembered very little of why she didn't like the girl - it was far more in the principal of the thing. She just didn't want to get along with her.
It was like the other girl just brought out everything in her that made her feel dislike... and suchwhat.
Gael followed, silently lost in her thoughts, picking flowers as she went. It was in her nature to pick up things that struck her as interesting, and to write all about them when they reached their destination.
She had never been in the woods this way.
"That's good." She admitted, her pace quickening as she followed Sanar towards the intriguing, and yet annoying object of questionable-strangeness.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:00 pm
Sanar was, for once, not collecting things. Her thoughts were on what they were heading for and all the questions which surrounded it.
Finally led them up and over a small knoll and over to the other side where the grass ended and it dropped off in the form of a tiny cliff.
The Aerandir girl scrambled up the cliff a small ways then gently extracted her bag and the tablet she'd left on it from a hole and, as carefully as she could, made her way back down. Once she was back to Gael she placed the broken thing on the ground in front of the other Aerandir girl and squatted, gesturing to it and gently flicking some still caked dirt off it, although she'd removed most of it before.
"I found it like this," she explained, indictaing how the tablet was broken. "One half was deeper into the hill but I dunno where the bottom is. I looked, but..." she shrugged helplessly.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:04 pm
Gael's breath caught. It seemed that the other had actually done something worthwhile for once. This was by far more interesting than the leaves and flowers that she had collected on her way.
"I've never seen characters like this before." She said, carefully tracing the lines of text with her finger. She looked at Sanar with strange eyes, "You can't find the bottom piece?" She questioned again.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:11 pm
Sanar shook her head again and sighed, looking up to the hole in the side of the cliff where she'd found the tablet. It was a fairly large hole, espically for someone who was just going at it with her own fingers.
"I dug around as much as I could lookin' for it... but then I started to just find bigger rocks and stuffs I coul'n't get past with my fingers. I tried going deeper but I started to think it might fall in on me so I stopped..." she wiggled her sore fingers a bit and shivered.
She might like playing in the earth but being trapped in it wasn't something she wanted.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:18 pm
Gael survayed the hole with uninterested eyes. "Big hole." She commented, before going back to looking again at the glyphs.
Pulling out her blank book and her pencil, she began to sketch what the hole looked like, and how, she guessed the slabs had been found within it.
Minimal conversation was a must in a situation like this.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:02 pm
Sanar, catching the look of concentration Gael was giving her book and the tablet and recognizing it as the same one her mother would give books on occassion, often when they were "really good so please don't interrupt, Sanar", quietly stood up and padded off to give the other girl some room and attempt to remove the temptation of talking to her while she worked.
She knelt down and about five yards away in the high grass and began gather up interesting, or useful looking, grasses, slowly moving around in the area as the plantlife caught her eye.
Occassionally her head would pop up out of the grass and she'd glance over to see if Gael had finished with her book. She really wanted to know if the other girl could make sense of it but was keeping her tounge under control. Partially because it was late and the grasses in this area were long and very flexible and, thusly, very interesting....
But mostly because she couldn't help but feel like Gael would probably throw something at her if she interrupted.
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