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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:02 pm
Boan woke up just after Blade left the building. He rolled out of bed and landed face down on the hardwood floor. “Motherfuuuuck,” He groaned, getting to his feet. He put his clothes back on and rewrapped his arms and legs in bandages, then put on his armor, and finally put on his blindfold. His curtains were closed entirely but that wasn’t enough so he threw a blanket over them. A few minutes later he was ordering paying the man who served as a bartender and waiter for his food and for the time he spent in the room and for the lock he broke. It didn’t cost as much as he thought it would. Maybe it was because they had found the previously fist-sized lock crushed to the size of a large marble.
Boan bought three plates of bacon, eggs, and a few other meats, as well as a large bowl of the soup Blade had dumped on his head and half of a cake. He was really, really hungry. He was finished with everything but a small amount of cake by the time Blade got back, but she didn’t seem to notice him as she walked into her room. She probably thought he would try to look through her clothes all the time. He couldn’t blame her. But once had been enough for him. Boan wasn’t thirteen anymore. He didn’t try to see as many naked women as possible anymore.
No, he wouldn’t be looking at Blade anymore unless he had a reason.
[Banana muffins and sexy, naked women = THE GREATEST COMBO EVER!]
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:22 pm
Aiko was really rubbing her eyes starting to get a little annoyed by her tears. With a heavy sigh she stood up ready to get something to hold to her eyes to soak up the tears. Just as she pushed herself off the bed her door opened causing her to take a step back. Her hand unconsciously took hold of the handle to her hatchet next to her bed. It was Boan, the blindfold male she keeps seeing. She didn't even hear him at the door let alone knock. Her deep green eyes glowed softly in the moonlight shining through her window reflecting its light off her tears.
"Uh, sorry… for… interrupting, but I'm supposed to tell you that we leave for the mountains at dawn. If you're with our group, that is. I don't… never mind. I'll just go now," He went on before leaving. The whole time she stood still not moving glade she hadn't tossed her weapon. She frowned once the door was shut and he was gone. Did he see her tears? Did he know she was crying? 'He must think I'm a child', her thoughts went on. Oh, well she finally dropped her guard, 'tomorrow at dawn, thanks', she told herself.
Tears still fell from her eyes dripping off her chin like a running foist. She hopped on the side of her bed pulling the sheets over her head. Then taking a pillow and pulling it close letting her tears stoke up in it.
Aiko woke early hearing someone walk pass the door of her room. She wasn't even sure when she went to sleep. Blinking a few times she was relieved to see her tears had stopped. Crying was weird especially in the way she had. She couldn't stop no matter what she did. Was it a sign of pain or frustration? She didn't know.
Forcing herself up from the comfort of her bed she looked down at her body. She had slept in her clothes but it was something she was use to with the traveling she had done. Finally standing she stretched picking up her weapons and hooking them on her side. Her body half turned towards the window she looked at the morning sky. The sun wasn't up yet but the morning air would feel good right now. Aiko walked to the window opening it up to smell the first light air. She felt good and rejuvenated. Then taking one more deep breath, holding it for a few seconds she let it go and turned from the window.
She left her room to go and pay for her bath before getting something to eat. Aiko never noticed Boan until she was done eating her food. She sat back patting her stomach when her eyes fell on him eating himself. She wondered how long he was sitting there without her noticing. Then pushing herself from the table she placed her hands on top of the table lifting her short body up and began walking over towards him.
Aiko approached him at his right side waiting until he noticed her before she spoke, "Um...Thanks for letting me know...about when we're leaving." She chuckled a little putting her hand behind her head. "My name is Aiko, Aiko Hana," she raised her other small hand to shake his. She didn't mean to interrupt his breakfast and hoped he wouldn't be bothered by it. "You know you should really wait until someone say's you can come in. Before you walk into their room. I'll let you slid this time," a playful smile crossed her face, her hand from behind her head. This was her first attempt in a long time to try and make friends.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:13 pm
Boan watched as the woman who he seen crying in her room last night walked by without noticing him. People weren’t seeing him today, were they? She came back later, probably after taking a bath, and ordered some food. After she finished eating he could feel her eyes lock onto his back. The hairs on the back of his neck rose up and went back down as she came to sit by him. He glanced at the woman to his right and took another bite of his cake, which only had a few bites left. His plates were stacked up and ready to be taken back but the bartender must have been busy.
"Um...Thanks for letting me know...about when we're leaving." She said, putting her hand behind her head. "My name is Aiko, Aiko Hana." He sat up straight and turned in his seat a little to look at her. So she was with the group. He had felt a little weird because he had no idea if she was with them. Boan grabbed her hand when she stuck it out and gave it a good shake, making sure be gentle. He’d broken fingers during handshakes without knowing it before, and he didn’t want that to happen again. She spoke again, this time about opening her door.
“I’m Boan, Boan Silven,” he said, smiling just a little bit. Boan tried to be friendly to most of the people he met. He never quite understood the people who though a grunt was a good greeting. They were stupid. “And I knocked before I opened the door. I just assumed you were asleep when I got no response. I apologize if I disturbed your cr-… um… if I disturbed you.” Boan cut himself off and reminded himself to kick his own a** later. That was a very, very stupid thing to say. To make up for it he smiled a bigger and laughed a bit, “I didn’t want to open the door. I’m sure I nearly got a knife to the eye for it.”
Boan had his blindfold on so he was sure she would notice when he took a quick look at the rest of her, since he’d been looking at her face. She was short, obviously, and that gave her a young look. Her clothing was a little odd, but who was he to talk? He wore most black and his arms and legs were almost constantly wrapped in bandages, even when he had no wounds. He had his reasons for them, but he knew looked a little odd. She was pretty cute actually. He worked his way back up to her face and waited for a response. He could check women out later. Not the time for it right now.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:39 pm
Aiko smiled slightly as he took her hand to shake easing her discomfort. 'So far so good' she thought to herself letting go of his massive hand, well thats how she felt about it. She never realized how long it's been since she really talked to someone until now. “Nice meting you Mr. Silven,” she smiled mischievously. Now Boan was explaining what had happened before he opened the door. She arched her eyebrow hearing the sudden stop in his sentence. "No you didn't disturb me..." her eyes narrowed with the thought of last night. Then looking up at his wide smile towards her somewhat made her feel better. She never did like being down so she would always try to keep herself happy by not thinking about it.
"I didn't want to open the door. I'm sure I nearly got a knife to the eye for it." Aiko laughed a little, sitting in the chair next to him. "Lucky for you I look before I throw," she giggled. This was untrue of course he just happen to catch her unbalanced. She only hesitated because she was concentrating on stopping tears in her eyes. She rest her elbow on the surface in front of her rolling her head to the side, "It's not like you saw anything, right?" She was asking him indirectly about her crying. "Cause-I-mean I was just laying there not doing nothing," she now seemed to be trying to prove it to herself rather then to him.
Aiko paused looking at him and taking note once again at how little she was. Yet at the same time sitting next to him made it seem cute in a way. She pressed her lips together holding in a small and soft snicker. She began to sway her feet back in froth under her. For once she didn't mind being small.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:14 am
Boan ate the last bit of his cake while she spoke and wasn’t sure how to answer. "It's not like you saw anything, right? Cause-I-mean I was just laying there not doing nothing.” Of course he saw something. He saw her crying. Just sitting there and crying. There was no obvious reason for it, but there didn’t have to be. People just cried sometimes. Boan felt bad for the woman. He never cried. Partly because of an old, hard-wired idea from his childhood and the army that men shouldn’t cry, and partly because it just wouldn’t happen. He’d tried.
So what to say? No, I didn’t see anything! It was too dark? That was stupid. She wouldn’t believe him if he said it. It was pretty obvious he’d noticed her tears by the way he talked last night before he shut the door. Crap. Boan turned back to the woman and sighed. He ran his fingers through his hair once and decided he’d say it flat out. “No, I saw something. But I’d be happy to pretend I didn’t, if that’s what you want.” He smiled again. “I kind of envy you, actually.”
For a moment Boan considered telling her that he was always willing to listen if she had a problem. He said that a lot, mostly because he had a lot of free time and liked to help people, but this one didn’t look like she wanted it. She was trying to convince herself that she wasn’t crying in the first place! Messed up.
He liked her.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:16 am
Aiko had only laughed to herself because she found it funny to think that she didn't mind being small. Something she has been beating herself up about for a while now. She kept her eyes off of him, looking everywhere but at him. Maybe if she didn't look at him he wouldn't be able to see through her. Maybe he would just say no and that would be the end of it. Ha, wishful thinking with so many tears, it would be hard not to see. Then if he lied to her how would she be able to trust someone willing to lie? Then again this wouldn't be a big lie so she would be fine. After all she was deceitful to herself anyway.
When Boan spoke telling her he did, she frowned letting her deep olive eyes narrow. He had also indirectly answered another question she had. If he saw something then he wasn't blind. The whole time she thought he had some other kind of intellect or power to help him move around. Then why bear one? This was odd to her but she shook it off finally looking back at him when he offered to operate as if he didn't see anything.
She smiled happily...wow he made her smile a great deal. He was kind and extremely tall when normally she would avoid tall people. She never like the way they made her feel but he was different...maybe because he was sitting down. "You don't have to pretend you didn't. It's not my place to come to a decision for your actions." she paused when his voice met her ears again.
Boan envied her. Why? This was also strange, a male envying a small female. Aiko saw nothing in herself that anyone would be envious of. Normally it was the other way around. She stopped swaying her feet and let them stop with her toes on the floor. "Why would you envy me?" A confused look over took her face as she awaited an answer.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:59 am
Blade hadn't really noticed Boan until she'd spotted Aiko, who came and walked over to him. They were saying something, she couldn't really tell, but it wasn't her business to butt in. Instead she leaned back in her chair, her head hanging back. After a while she straited her back and rubbed her head, wondering if she should get some sort of drink to ease the pain away. Nah, she shouldn't drink so early in the morning. Bad idea, her head just might get more achy later. Instead Blade picked up her cup of water and drank it while looking over at Boan and Aiko. It sounded as if they were getting along, that was good. She lowered her cup, yawned again, and thought about banging her head against the table. She wanted this head ache to go away, and she was still sleepy. Such wonderful, delightful things happened when she got sick.
Then Blade heard the air whisper a few things into her ears, making a mischevious grin crawl itself upon the tomboy's lips. It seemed as if Boan liked Aiko.
It would be fun to tease him later on. Maybe she wouldn't, maybe she would. Blade herself was actually a little jealous. Wasn't this pretty room full of envy? She wasn't really jealous over Boan, it just made her feel jealous whenever she saw people talking together like that. She really had no idea if Boan was flirting or not, she wasn't paying attention to what the two were saying. Her mind was preoccupied over the face of a certain elf. Valandil, she really wished that she could just forget about him, and yet at the same time she never wanted to. Feelings could be screwed up like that. Maybe she wouldn't miss him so badly if it weren't for the fact that she knew that she'd never see him again.
Elvan children were always quick to mature, being around that had made Blade grow more mature as well. And living mostly on the streets of her childhood and experiencing Tidal she'd grown up before she'd been adopted by them. It sounded stupid to most people but Valandil had wanted to marry her. That was how things were. Elves were usually engaged by the time that they were twelve. She would have said yes, if she hadn't been planning on leaving. So whenever he'd asked her she just told him that he'd have to wait. She'd just been a preteen then, meeting him at the age of ten and then growing on each other even more at the age of elevan and then being unseperable at the age of twelve and then getting even "worse" once she was thirteen. Valandil had always been about two years than she was, and depending on the time of the year three. Blade sank back into her chair with her head hanging off of the back of the chair again, irritated. It probably wasn't a good idea to have her head upside-down when she had a head ache, but she didn't really care right now. So far today wasn't turning out too great for her. She would be stuck being love-sick all day.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:18 pm
Boan noticed that Blade was watching them and wondered how she was feeling. She’d gone through some rough s**t last night and even though it had happened before, he was pretty sure it was still hard. Boan had had his eyes for years and he could barely stand watching the sunset with his blindfold half-off. Light hurt. But Blade was a tough woman and she always got through. They had a group now, and the water spawn was already dead. Another dead spawn would make them famous. Not a good thing.
His attention shifted back to Aiko. The small woman looked like a child when compared to him. Most people her size were usually intimidated by his size. Aiko, however, seemed pretty happy. This was a good thing. Being the reason that someone felt bad… not fun. He wondered if she had thought he was blind. The blindfold made people think that because most blind men wore them. There was no real reason for a blind guy to wear a blindfold other than to signal to the world that you were blind. And blind eyes were kind of creepy sometimes.
Yes, Boan definitely liked this woman. He wondered what she could do, exactly in combat. Most people in the world couldn’t use magic and had no power, but the best to find the people who did was to look for spawn hunters. They always had some sort of magical ability. A normal man couldn’t take on a spawn without something to back him up.
“All right, I just won’t tell anyone. How about that?” Aiko obviously was uncomfortable crying in the first place, and she probably thought people would see her as weak because of it. This was all a guess, though. No way to be sure.
"Why would you envy me?" The woman asked, with a confused look on her face.
Why did he? “I envy your ability to cry, honestly. I haven’t been able to cry since the age of twelve,” He replied. It was the truth. He didn’t really want to cry, but he did want to be able to do so when the situation called for it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:26 am
Yes, Eni was supposed to find Rina, Rani, and Nago, but somehow she found herself looking for an empt room. And once she found one, she couldn't resist the urge to go in. Locking the door and blocking it with a chair while she was at it, Eni pretty much forgot about Rina's wound. Her mind was twisting into extreme paranoia at what the incident between Ebon and her. She had looked like a complete fool; she had openly given Ebon another excuse to laugh at her. Smacking her forehead at her stupidity as she went over to the comfortable-looking bed, Eni hoped Ebon nor Boan would go around retelling the story to anyone. Anyone.
Falling onto the bed as she thought hard, trying to wiggle herself out of the story, Eni struggled to keep her eyes open. She yawned a few times as her eyes began to water from fatigue. Then finally giving in, Eni drifted off to a rather restful sleep.
Waking earlier than she had needed to, Eni exited the inn when it was still relatively emptied. Since she didn't have money on her, she had to skip breakfast and headed straight into the main street. Shops and stands were opening up and Eni saw this as the perfect opportunity to get some odd jobs. Asking around at a few shops and stands, Eni moved some boxes, cleaned some tables, ran some errands, and took care of a few child who thought pulling Eni's hair was the most fun thing ever. Eni had managed to earn a pouch full of money. The girl was quite happy and satisifed...even though she had no sense of money value.
Stepping back into the inn, Eni noticed that Boan, Aiko, and Blade were all up. Right, Blade said they were leaving at dawn right? Well, it was past dawn already and they were still...here. Sighing as she wondered where Rina was and if Nago had taken a look at her, Eni sat down on an empty table by herself quietly and ordered some buns since she had no clue what those other things on the menu was. Well, a cave girl couldn't read...you know?
Eni tapped her fingers on the table as she waited impatiently for her food. Her first hard-earned meal...she just knew it would taste delicious...even if it was only buns!
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:32 am
Aiko's confused looked whipped away from her face as he spoke telling her what he envied of her. It was hard to believe that he had never cried for so long. What could keep a person from crying for year's without even dropping a single tear? Even Aiko cried from time to time but only in the rain. She loved the rain only because it made it easier for her to say that the rain was in her eyes. That way her mind could accept her lie easier because it wouldn't be entirely untrue, the rain would be in her eyes. The rain was her only friend in her long journey but...last night was the first for her to unwillingly cry.
"That's sad to hear...I'm sure when the time is right your tears will fall. When they do it will be extremely hard to stop, I think...because when you do you will cry for all the times you didn't and wanted to." She smiled, no longer wanting to feel sad or even talk about tears. She had made a new friend and wanted to know more about him. Him and everyone else in the group, she wanted to befriend them all. Then again her normal thinking came back to mind. People don't last forever...there will come a time when something will happen. Her eyes had drifted from him losing the glow they once had.
Making friends was hard for her only because she feared losing them. She had lost a few others before and couldn't do anything about it. Sometimes it was her fault. Now here she was about to get herself into something she wasn't going to willingly let go. In the little bit of time she had talked to him she had come to like Boan and almost feared it. The door she had attempted to open had slammed itself shut in her face. Aiko would no longer pry into his business or ask him or anyone anymore questions. She was going back to her old self before she first spoke to Eni.
"Umm..." She parted her lips to speck but quickly shut them biting on her bottom lip. Something she always did when she was thinking. Aikok hopped out of her sit patting her side, "I'll be going now. Thanks again," a weak smile trailed across her face with the feelings of uncertainties. Then turning from him she finally noticed Blade sitting in a chair. Then she noticed Eni most likely waiting on her food. She only looked at both of them for a brief moment before she quickly began to make her way out of the inn.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:24 am
Boan only listened to the woman, and said nothing when she left. She was going to say something before she headed out of the Inn but something had made her stop. What? She seemed to lose the happiness behind her smile. She was still smiling when she left but it looked fake somehow. Did he say something? Was it what she said? It was too sudden for him to really understand it. Everything he had gathered from what she said and how she acted could be wrong. “And another woman walks away… crap,” Boan sighed, standing up and putting his hands in his pockets. He hadn’t seen Eni walk into the Inn and wondered if it was because the girl was so quiet or because he was just too deep in conversation to notice.
So what now? He went back to his room for a minute to grab his bag and went back out to the main room where Eni was still apparently waiting for her food. He walked over to Blades tablet and took a seat. He dropped the pack next to his chair. “Thinking of him again, eh?” Boan did not actually know much about Blade’s past, or who it was she was thinking about, but he knew it was a man. Originally he’d thought she was kind of into women, but it became obvious after a while that she was mainly into men. Who knew if she was into anything else? Didn’t really matter.
Anyway, what Boan did know about Blade was that her real first name was Eve, she was the sole survivor of her now almost-forgotten village, and the elves of a village Boan had yet to locate had saved her from a young death and raised her for at least three years. Her swords were originally made by the dwarves hiding in an unknown mountain, but he was not sure if she still used those blades or if the ones she used now were new. She probably fought Tidal in the past but he was not certain. He had also heard several small details of her past from Blade herself, though only a third of what he knew about her was what she had told him. The rest had come from talking to people who had met Blade in the past or heard of her from friends of friends of friends. Boan was not sure how much of it was true, but it was all he had.
He would have looked for the elves that had taken her in but after an incident involving three elven women, alcohol, honey, grapes, some moaning, two back injuries, four ropes, fire, and the husband of one of the women, that resulted in the destruction of a good third of the town, Boan stayed clear of most Elven cities. They had a very good drawing of him on a wanted poster that they hung in every bar. They gave him a slightly stronger jaw than he had… made him wonder who gave the artist his description.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:09 am
Once Aiko was outside she slowed down from her quick pace. She wasn't much of an inside type of person and liked space. When she was outside it seemed as if her mind had space to think as well. Being in any type of room would be like standing in a caged box sometimes. She took a few deep breaths running her hand along her hair that was pulled back into a ponytail. There seemed to be a little more people out then when she looked out her window early this morning. She wondered when the group would be heading out. It didn't matter if they left her she would catch up after she set her mind right again.
Aiko walked mostly in a daze lost in her mind once again. Her body was moving but she wasn't thinking of where she was heading. When she stopped she blinked looking around noticing the fountain. She could almost see Blade sitting in her place playing her music. Her ear pleasing music that seemed to ring her heart still felt as if it lingered in the air. The image of Blade vanished from its spot and the image of Boan showed up standing next to her with his blanket watching Blade and not noticing her. Then through the crowed she could see Eni but all of this was in her mind.
A gentle breeze caused the sliver spears on the ends of her hatchets to sway slowly. The few strands that hung from her ponytail danced on her head. She managed to smile. She only met some of the group and knew little of them and yet...she felt as if she had already made some type of invisible bond to them. Her eyes trailed towards the raising sun off in the distance.
'If I fear I'm going to lose them. I should make myself stronger...stronger-faster' she thought to herself. Aiko was good with hand to hand combat but because she was so small strength wasn't something on the list. Yes she was stronger then the average women but to face a spawn without using her dark power would be hard. It always was. She unhooked her axe from her side staring at the green eyes that looked back at her looking for an answer. Lowering her hand with her weapon in hand she looked around still thinking.
Aiko found herself in front of another shop a place where they sold a number of things. She checked the little amount of money she had left when the owner of the shop walked to her side. "How can I help you?" the young female asked kindly. Aiko removed the warmers from around her arm's and legs, "I need for you to sew pockets on the inside of these...umm make sure they are sturdy and about an inch wide all the way around. I'm going to slide some things inside them and I don't need it to move around or brush against my skin." The women nod and took the warmers from her. Aiko smiled waving as she left, "I'll be back for them in a little thank you," she stopped halfway out the door before turning back around to pay her. Heh, she almost forgot. Waving again she left heading to another shop maybe one selling something heavy.
She felt as if she had to get stronger in order to make friends without worries. Aiko knew well that this group was strong, they killed a water spawn after all! She didn't want them to have to worry about her in battle and she didn't want to get in the way. She barely managed to but a bent in a spawn when ever she came across one. Dose this mean she is weak? No she wasn't she just wouldn't use her power. If she did it would help her greatly but she will never use it, never.
"Mother I wish you were here. You could see your little girl make friends and grow strong. I wish you seen the things I've done. To wrap your arms around me and say well done, well done my girl. You would be so proud of me. You would know what to say to make me feel better and wipe this frown off my face. Why can't you be here?" She didn't notice that she had stopped walking resting most of her weight on her left leg. "I'm going to grow strong to protect the new friends I have to come. I'm going to help defeat each spawn that's left. Tidal will be nothing more then a memory mom." She clinched her fist in front of her as she mumbled on. "I'm trying too stay strong…keep watching over me." She smiled again starting to walk once more.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:01 pm
Blade rolled her head back up when she heard Boan's voice. Thinking of him again? Blade had never told anyone of Valandil, but nevermind. It was usually easy to tell when someone was lovesick, so that was what he was thinking. Or that's what she guessed... blah! Nevermind. She leaned forward and looked at Boan and just shrugged. "No point, really." Blade responded as her gaze wandered off. "My life is guaranteed to be short so there's not much of a point of missing him."
Blade didn't really like to be bitter, so a second later she slapped her hand on the table and looked around. "Hey! You slow-pokes ready to get going yet or not? C'mon, we're late! Move it or we're gonna take off without you!"
Hopefully it wouldn't really come down to that. Blade didn't want to leave Rani or Rina behind, after all, they brightened up the group. And not only that, if it hadn't been for Rina the spawn could have gotten away. It was only thanks to Rina's arrows that the water spawn had been slowed down at all. If it hadn't been slowed down, there wasn't any way it could have been killed. Blade gave a silent prayer to the spawn, her eyes flashing shut for a brief moment before reopening them again. The faster that the spawn died the better, and the more time that Blade had to be sure that Tidal was killed the better. She hated him with everything she inside of her. Everything.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:31 am
That was it. That was the very thing about Blade completely pissed him off. Every single time he heard her talk that way he got angry. He got sad. His hands balled into fists without his consent. Blade, in her hatred for Tidal, had condemned herself to death. Even with her life draining power she still had a good twenty five years left, at least. Blade just didn’t know how to control the damage. She’d told him that the power built up if she didn’t use it, and that she got sick when she did use it, so either way she started coughing up blood and screaming at the slightest hints of light. But if she just released little bits of her power at regular intervals… it would take longer for the power to destroy her body.
But Boan would never tell her. She didn’t care. When you got right down to it, she didn’t really care about anyone but herself and the man she was always dreaming about. At least, that was what Boan saw. He was different. He was not some loner anti-hero. Tidal and the spawn… they were all s**t. People were what really mattered to him.
He stayed calm though, and his voice was the same as ever when he spoke. “Who, exactly, are you talking to? Me, you, and Eni are the only people in this room. None of us are really ready to go.”
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:26 pm
Aiko found an iron shop and asked them if they could make her some weights. With little money she had to work for them. They made her cut and mold her own inch wide iron each about six to seven inches long. Aiko never thought that it would be so simple but they of course thought they would get a kick out of a little girl working hard. They ended up helping her anyway to make sure she had the weight right. Once they were done she smiled happily placing them all in a large cloth pulling the ends together to make a larger bag.
At first she was having a little bit of trouble getting it off the ground but she soon managed to lift it with the help of others. Once it was on her back she made her way back to the other shop to get her warmers. She walked slow stopping ever now and then before starting to walk again.
When she finally made it back the women was just cutting the last thread and setting them down. "Just in time," she smiled handing her items towards Aiko. Aiko smiled studying the work she did then thanking her. She then took her things back to the fountain and taking a set. Slowly she slides on weight into each pocket then wrapping it around her leg. Then the next, then the next, and finally the last. She had a few extra peaces and placed them in her side pouch.
With them all together they seemed extremely heavy but apart and balanced on her as they were they were a little light. That's was she thought until she stood up. Gravity took its toll pulling her arms down...man why did they get so heavy. Gritting her teeth she moved one leg at a time before she managed to walk around. It didn't take her long to get use to she had done this to herself before. Though she still moved slower then normally and she could feel the slight burn of her working muscles. She was going to get stronger the matter price.
Finally she walked slowly back to the inn opening the door she leaned on the frame…she mad it! She was tired and her arms and legs hurt maybe she put a little too much weight on herself. Catching her breath she closed her mouth and began to walk again still has a little trouble. She fell hard in her set noticing that everyone was still here...good she didn't have to run after them. She let her arms hang lifelessly at her side and did her best not to move her feet dangling below her. She could feel the weights pulling down on her.
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