From here on begins the mishaps, fortunes, drama and comedy of Areränia's life. Please read the Journal guide and rules on the first page if you are going to post here. Otherwise, please enjoy reading! heart
((Cross-posted from Nai's journal; RP from the main thread -- Because Nai is awesome like that. :3 [Added the entrie rp now.] ))
Nai is obviously bored. Having wandered in and out of every building there more than once, she wanted something exciting to happen. She'd even be happy to see Siff, if it livened things up a bit. Sighing deeply, she wanders over to the garden, picking a large rose-like flower and taking a deep sniff.
Tia's ears slightly moved back from the sound of someone coming toward her. She turned her head a bit sleepily to Nai and smiled.
"Haven't talked to you in awhile,"
Nai glances over as Tia greets her.
"It has been a while, hasn't it."
She sits down near Tia, and tucks the flower behind one of her ears.
"I hope life's been more exciting for you than for me."
"Exceitement eh? I think I've been sleeping for three days straight," she laughs, sitting up straight.
"Well, unless you consider Leila excitement ... that diety is something else," she chuckles to herslef.
"Though ... this place seems promosing... "
She chuckles, and shakes her head.
"Oh, is that what we call that now?"
She lays back, resting her head on her hands and shutting her eyes halfway.
"It's beautiful here, but nothing's happened. It almost makes me feel as if it's not real. I'm probably not making any sense, am I?"
"Apprently so ... " she smirkes, streching her arms.
"Oh no, perfect sense to me ... since the portal was in a clocktower, water was found in it and well it's hard to believe anything could be so real. Not to mention how quickly things happened ... it wasn't even in progression," she sighs pulling out a mint from her pocket. "Would you like one?"
"Though, there is still time for something exciting to happen ... "
She shakes her head at the offer of a mint.
"Nah, none for me thanks. And I hope something semi-interesting happens soon. I'm gonna drive myself crazy at this rate, or Dazzle and Blues will do it for me."
She put the mint back into her pocket, sucking on her own.
"Perhaps ..." she pauses, "... A little excursion is in order then?"
Turning her head towards Tia slightly and raising an eyebrow, she inquires.
"Oh? What do you have in mind?"
"Well ... if it's excitement, then I'm sure exploring this area into deatil would be exciting ... of course we could just make the excuse that we're doing it to expand the village area or something ..." she chuckles with a smirk.
"Pfft. Who needs an excuse. We're bored, so we're going exploring."
She props herself up on her elbows and looks around the clearing.
"That's also true ... " she sits up from her seat as well, looking into some bushes.
"The bushes maybe? Something hidden behind things could reveal excitement ... "
She raises an eyebrow in amusement.
"Right. There's gonna be something hidden in the bushes at an abandoned town."
She snickers, and looks around for something else possibly worth exploring.
"If we got through a portal in a clocktower ... watch something pop up from a hole in the ground ... behind the bushes," she calls back with a snort.
Meanwhile, Leila kicks a few rocks into place.
There ... she smirks tossing her hair aside as if she's done something with ease. She moves carefully among the greenery appearing from behind the in in the shade of a nearby tree. She eases her back against it, cloak flowing with the breeze that had happened to sweep by.
Tia felt a small chill down her spine. Oh goodness ... she sighes placing her palm to her forehead.
What's she been up to now ...
She looks slightly concerned at the odd expression on Tia's face.
"What's wrong? You look like you drank spoiled milk or something."
"Ah, well Leila's here ... and usually that's not a good thing," she gives a meek smile as Leila smirks once more beneath the hair covering her eyes.
"I don't understand why she acts that way when she's a big softie inside ..."
She thinks for a minute, then speaks slowly, as if hesitant.
"Leila is Present, right? Isn't she the one that Mili always gets into trouble with?"
"Yes, she is the Present. And well ... I suppose you could say he does ... really I think he just bugs her but that's my opinion on the situation ... regardless, I think if we asked her for excitement she'd give us something crazy enough to kill us," she looks over to Leila not wanting to know what her next move was. Then again, she couldn't really tell with her.
She smirks, and chuckles quietly.
"Well, Mili does seem to attract trouble just a bit. He's got a good heart though."
She glances around lazily.
"Well, I can't say I'm big on the idea of dying, but my brain's gonna rot if I don't do something."
"Also true," she smiles at the comment.
"Well, I doubt she's in a bad mood with those smirks ... so it can't be something bad ... we could go talk to her .... "
"Well, I'm up for a risk, let's go."
She climbs to her feet and straightens up her clothes a bit, and waits for Tia.
"Alright then," she smiles as she beings to walk forward.
Finally ... took them long enough to get moving ...
She shakes her head walking away from the tree to them as well.
"My my ..."
Walking a step behind Tia, Nai watches the goddess approach. As they meet in the middle, she bows her head respectfully.
"Good day, Lady Present."
"Leila," Tia acknowledges her.
Leila smirks to Tia in thought for a moment before turning her head to Nai.
"Good day, you see this Tia? This is the respect I should be treated in ... I can tell this one's got a mind," she scans Nai from head to toe and circles around them once.
"How'd you two like to go and find something in ... say oh ... 27 minutes hmm?"
"Whats the catch?" Tia asks raising an eyebrow.
"Oh heavens dear, why would there be a catch? All you have to do is find something ... that I think both of you should be capable of caring for ... in 27 minutes ... no catch."
"Find something in 27 minutes... I'm game."
She looks to Tia questioningly.
"What about you?"
"Well I guess it can't hurt to try ... right Leila?"
"Hurt you? No ... it shouldn't, either way you both accept then?" she looks to Tia manily.
"Alright then, how do we go about this?"
"There are two objects hidden here in Sabilasi. If you find them you are to keep them and care for them, understood?"
"Yes,"
"These two objects are hidden carefully ... so you best use your time wisely. Also ... if you do not find them ... I'll have to pick another two humans to complete this," she speaks almost playfully.
"Return to me with the objects before the time is finished,"
"I guess that means we're in. Ready Nai?" Tia questions her eyes darting around a little.
She nods, and also starts glancing around the clearing.
"Yeah, let's do this."
She starts to walk off, before suddenly turning back to Leila.
"Within the village, or outside?"
She smirks, "Where ever you think relics would ly," before turning off back to her spot under the tree.
Tia blinks repeatedly before looking to Nai, "... Did she just say what I think she said?"
"26 minutes!"
Tia smiles as she tries to remember where a relic would be.
"Think we should try behind the Inn? That's where we saw her come from ... "
Blinking with eyes wide, she replies.
"I... think she did..."
Leila's statement snaps her out of her semi-trance, and she looks around thouroughly.
"That'd be way too easy. The ieldi live in trees, so I think we should be looking up."
"Knowing Leila she probably stuck them on a cliff ... " she smirks.
"We could try tree tops though ..." she answers trailing off to some hidden trees.
She laughs as she starts peering upwards.
"Luckily for us I don't see any cliffs around here."
She walks over to one of the smaller trees and starts climbing, stopping occasionally to see where Tia's looking.
Tia makes her way around various shrubbery trying to to get caught by the branches.
"I wish Leila would make this easy ..." she mumbles while pushig further getting her foot stuck in the ground.
"A hole already ..." she laughes taking her foot out and gets on all fours looking up through the branches in the trees.
Nai reaches a fairly high branch in the tree, and sits down. She looks around the village from the higher vantage point. Failing to see anything looking remotely like a relic, she sighs.
"Hey, Tia! Any luck down there?"
Tia shakes her head. "No, besides getting my foot stuck ... I would figure though that they would have to be camouflaged somewhere," she thinks aloud.
"Perhaps they aren't seeable right away maybe attached to something ... assuming they are made out of wood,"
She sighs, and jumps out of the tree.
"Of course they're made of wood. And you'd think that they'd be obvious, what with being covered in feathers and crap."
"Don't get too discouraged ... Leila doesn't make things obvious," she stands up from the ground grushes the dirt away.
"If they aren't in the trees or in the ground ... where's the only place left? ... there has to be some trick to all this ..."
She taps a finger against her chin idly as she thinks.
"If they're not in the trees or on the ground, that leaves the water, which there's nowhere near enough of here to hide anything, or the sky, and I think we'd have noticed floating relics before now."
She sighs and looks around again, then suddenly blinks several times.
"We're idiots. We should've checked the buildings first, there's tons of places to hide stuff inside."
"Wood would rot in water as well ... if they stayed their long enough," tia pauses to hear Nai.
"Yes I think that does make us idiots ... want to split up for the buildings? I think we've got about 15 minutes left ..."
She nods firmly, and glances around at the buildings once.
"You take the ones on the left, I'll take the ones on the right?"
"Gotcha!" she replies before darting to the largest building scanning the base first. Her hands touch the wooden base nothing seeming out of the ordinary, before a small white fether falls from above.
"Feather?" she whispers squinting up to the Lumia hive.
"I have to climb up there?!"
Finally the game gets interesting ... took them long enough to get to the spots ... at least I know their brains work. Let's see thier physical strength. Leila thinks to herself sweeping slowly behind the trees observing.
"13 minutes ..."
Crap ... Tia gripped her fingers into the moss tightly attempting to scale the building.
Nai jogs over to the tavern, and walks quickly around it once. Seeing nothing, she drops to her knees and peers under the boardwalk at the front of the building. Cursing, she stands up and yells to Tia.
"You have a flashlight!? I can't see a damn thing under here!"
"I've got too much damn light!" Tia calls back as she crawled further to the Hive.
If the relic isn't up here and I become blind oh Leila you are going to get it! Tia huffs almost having to close her eyes.
"These may come in handy ..." she says under her breath tossing a pair of sunglasses into the high part of the moss.
"Thank god!" Tia edges over slowly grabbign the pair, grinning and climbing forward.
Leila glides over to the tavern flicking out a small lamp from inside her cloak and kicking it on the floor into the tavern.
"I'm so kind," she smirks to herslef heading back toward her tree.
Snatching the lamp off the floor, Nai turns around quickly, calling after Leila.
"Thank you very much!"
She drops to her knees again, lamp in hand, and pokes her head under the deck. Still unable to see very far into the darkness, she rolls the lamp ahead of her a few feet and starts to crawl underneath the building.
Tia places a hand at the very edge of the hive still haveing the light seep through her glasses. She mangages herself up to the top covered in blinding white light. She shuts her eyes and aimlessly reaches out in front of her for anything. Lumia scatter a bit from her as she enters their territory. Almost to the very core of the hive her hands falls into a hole where she feels something soft to the touch. She dares ot open one eye to find a pink feather between her fingers. She grins esctatically, until she finds that the relic is pushed into a hole much smaller, which means she can't pull it out.
"Now what?" she pauses, as she hears 9 minutes ring from below.
"Gah!"
Startled as she hears Leila announce 9 minutes, she curses colorfully as she smacks her head on the underside of the deck. Rubbing her head gently, she continues crawling around under the building.
"Damnit... Now why the hell did we agree to this again..."
Wrapped up in her muttering, Nai is startled again when the lamp smacks into something hard and smashes.
"Bloody hell! What did I do to deserve this!?"
Continuing her tirade, she crawls over to the object, careful to avoid the smashed glass of the lamp. Running her fingers over the object, she concludes that it's made of wood, and thinks that it's probably a support beam for the building. That is, until she feels feathers.
"Finally!"
Grasping the relic firmly, she gives it a yank, dissappointed when it only moves about an inch.
"Oh, this is gonna take a while..."
Tia's mind drifts at a fast rate, until she finally thinks of an idea out of desperation.
"Well, damn! If the thing won't be pulled out I'll push it!" she finds the hole small, but big enough for her to slide into. She drops straight onto the relic the blinding light gone.
"Well, finally the light is gone ... GAH!" she starts before a small scream is heard and she starts to swirl down as if on a slide.
"What the-?!" she comes flying out of a hole in the bottom landing face first into the grass.
"Ouch ..." she rubs her arms and head before noticing she was on the ground.
"Yes!" she replies in victory rolling the relic to Leila.
"That seemed to easy Leila ..." she speaks with a raised eyebrow to the relic.
"Only because you were helped, you might want to help your friend too, since their are only 4 minutes left ..."
Tia drops the relic by Leila and shouts out. "Nai! Where are you? 4 minutes!"
She smacks her head again as Tia yells, and curses more.
"God damnit!"
She'd managed to move the relic a few feet, but that's it.
"I'm under the tavern! I found it though!"
Tia rushes toward the tavern from the opposite side of where Nai is and peeks her head under to see the glowing light.
"I pushed mine out! Try pushing yours! Will it roll?"
"It's too big, I can't tip it over! The deck's in the way!"
Frustrated with the lack of progress, she crawls behind the relic, putting her back to it, and pushes with her feet. The relic moves much faster than before, but still slowly.
Tia gets intto a combat position poking her head into the hole letting her arms reach out to the relic. "Keep pushing!"
"Will they make it?" Leila snickers admiring her nails to pass the time.
Still pushing the relic along, she glances over her shoulder, able to see Tia's silhouette against the faint light outside.
"Geez, I'm going as fast as I can."
"Sorry, we've only got about 2 minutes," Tia says with a wary smile.
Nai huffs in irritation, and gives the relic one last shove to get it clear of the deck. Crawling out after it, she sweeps some of the dust off her clothes and mutters various curse words.
"There. Finally got the damn thing. This'd better be worth it."
"I'm sure it will," Tia smiles as she makes her way back to Leila, helping Nai with the relic.
Leila puts down her hands folding them.
"Well, you've done brilliantly I should say," she gives half a smile.
"We've been waiting for responsible human caretakers, as you know relics aren't given at whim ..." she pauses to push the relic Tia found toward her.
"The relics you found are now your own. Welcome to the world of Ieldi," she places her hands on her hips triumphantly, before walking away. She turns once more,
"Oh, and by the way ... pick your shelves and you may start to attract a spirit and I'll be waiting for your little ones to show up, because remember without me, you wouldn't have gotten them now would you?" she gives a devious smile before heading into a shaded area twirling her cloak as she vanishes.
"Wow ... this feels so odd," Tia smiles admiring her relic for the first time.
Nai blinks after Leila, then whispers behind her hand to Tia.
"How do you deal with her on a regular basis?"
Shrugging, she turns to examine her relic, and busies herself cleaning all the dirt off it.
"Does feel strange, doesn't it? Oh well, I guess."
She peered around the new area, it looked friendly almost inviting. ?I could get used to this,? she whispered under her breath. Varen had already ran off investigating every nook and cranny. She saw some people and walked over to them with a wave and smile.
Tia whispers back, "Honestly? Agree with her most of the time, or else she'll just go off into a tangent," she laughes, "Deep down she is just a big softie, and at least she isn't evil,"
Tia sits down beside her relic and give a small sigh, "It's just so odd that we've been waiting for so long and all of a sudden ... we have two relics right infront of us," she smiles feeling the feathers.
"Wonder what kind of birds they'll attract?"
Tia spots another person walking toward them, she gives a friendly smile.
She puts a hand to her mouth at Tia's reply, glancing up to see if said diety was listening. Satisfied that Leila was far enough away, she removes her hand and bursts out laughing.
"Oh my... I'm sorry, but..."
She manages to pull herself together after a few minutes, and loks over at Tia as she touches the feathers of her relic. She does the same, runing her fingers along the soft feathers, but suddenly jerks her hand back, staring at her fingers oddly.
"Heh, you should see her in the mornings then,"
She pauses to turn to Nai. "What's wrong?"
She looks at her right hand in confusion, then holds the other up next to it. She slowly curls her left hand into a fist, then uncurls it. The fingers of her right hand only twitch slightly.
"...My hand's gone numb."
Tia blinks suddenly, "We should probably get something on that hand!" She looks to the feathers curiously.
"And find out what kind of bird those feathers came from!"
Her eyebrows furrow together slightly as she peers at the feathers.
"Yeah, I guess we should..."
She tries to curl her fingers again, and they move only slightly more than before.
Did Nai and Tia had relics? She rubbed her eyes but the little wood shapes were still there. "Wow, congratulations you guys!" she shouted across the field. Coming closer she examined them more closely, "They really are beautiful." She stood in shock of the two new relics.
Seeing K approach, Nai waves with the hand that she still has feeling in.
"Hey, you wouldn't know how to get rid of numbness, would you?"
She thought about all the remddies she knew, "unless it's somesort of effect of poisioning I think it will eventually go away like when the dentist uses novicain. Rubbing it might make it feel better," she said with a little nod.
She groans loudly.
"With my f***ing luck it probably is poisoning."
Muttering curse words to herself, she starts rubbing her hand vigorously.
"Well I don't thinnk any birds are posionus to humans so I think you should be ok on that end," she touched the inflicted hand.
"Famous last words?"
She sighs and stops rubbing her hand. When she tries to curl her fingers again, they curl up about halfway before falling limp again.
"Well, it looks like it's getting better, a little bit."
"Thank you K! Was a bit of a hassle to get it but Leila's that way," she smirks before standing up.
"I think we could put some ointment of some kind, let me go get some from my room ..." she waves suddenly popping into the Inn and grabbing her bag, then heading back out.
She sits down next to Nai, feeling the crips blades of grass. She turns to Nia with a confused expression, "You never did say why your hand went numb?"
She gestures vaguely at the relic with her left hand, the one that still has feeling.
"Touched the feathers. I guess I'll have to go back to town tomorrow and do some research on poisonous feathers. Maybe I can pick up some sort of antidote. We'll see."
"I hope it's nothing too serious and that it dosen't effect other ideli." She thinks about what might happen if the little bird ever found a mate, she chuckles softly to herself.
"We'll just have to see, I suppose. I'd bet that I could find some sort of cure, if I look hard enough."
She sighs and pokes idly at her numbed hand, sometimes looking at the relic.
Tia rushes back franticially to the two of them.
"I've got some Neosporin ... not sure if it works with numbness though ... and a bird book," she pants a bit falling back into her place.
She shrugs and takes the Neosporin.
"Well, I've got nothing to lose."
As she rubs the cream onto her hand, she peers at the book a bit.
She takes the book from Tia, and looks under "p" in the glossary, "poison...poison...ah here it is page 58," she turns to it and starts reading.
As if drawn to the relics, Koniryu drifts over towards the humans and their new charges. "Ah..." the nature deity breathes, first looking at the relics and then peering, eyes narrowed, at the humans.
He walks quietly over to Naien and Tiagra, coming up behind them. "New relics, I see?" he asks, trying to be conversational - although he can't quite cover up all the suspicion in his voice.
She starts to dictate from the book, "The only two known poisonous birds are the Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous, also called the "garbage bird") and the Ifrita (Ifrita kowaldi) from Papua, New Guinea. The toxin (homobatrachotoxin, a steroidal alkaloid) is concentrated in these bird's feathers and skin, and is probably obtained from some plant that they eat." she stops for a second, "Wow, I had no idea birds could be poisonous."
She turns around rather quickly at the diety's voice, but regains her composure quickly.
"Ah, yes Sir. Lady Leila sent us on a search for them."
She bows her head respectfully, albeit a bit belatedly.
"Leila... ah." He sidestepped the humans, ignoring the three of them for now, and concentrated on the relics. They were the real thing... not just mock-ups or ordinary birdhouses. He quickly traced around the woodwork of one of them with one green finger.
So, there were more of the relics around... interesting. He would have to ask Leila where she found these. He turned around to the humans again, this time fixing them all with a long look. "Are you prepared for the responsibility these entail?" he asked, with a stern tone to his voice. "And... what happened to you?" He arched one eyebrow at Naien.
"Wow, a poisonous bird?" Tia's reactions were quick to Koniryu. Leila was always sneaking up on her that it had become a habit, nodding her head in acknowledgement of the higher authority.
"Good afternoon," she smiled to the diety, "Leila mentioned that, I certainly am going to care for it as best I can ..."
She nods firmly at Koniryu's question, her expression serious.
"Yes Sir, I think we are."
She looks a bit startled at his second question, but again makes a fairly quick recovery.
"Oh, well I was just cleaning the relic up a bit, and when I touched the feathers my whole hand went numb right away. We think that the feathers are from a poisonous bird of some kind."
"Concluding from the book, I would think that Nai's bird would have to be a Hooded Pitohui or an Ifrita," she infored the group, giving a little nod
"A poisonous bird?" Koniryu held out his hand towards Naien. "Let me see," he ordered.
She holds her hand out to the nature diety obediantly, and watches to see what he might do.
"Urmm... Tia brought some cream that I put on it, but it didn't do much."
She scans the pages for some pictures, "ah here they are...um...they are both orange and black. But the Hooded Pitohui has more vivid colors, maybe that's your bird."
Koniryu reached out and cupped Naien's hand in his own. The pantheon tried not to cringe at the human's touch - even though he had initiated it, the unfamiliar feel of human still made him uneasy. A soft glow emanated from his hands, surrounding the human's hand as he felt for the affliction.
"Ah... yes, there is something unnatural there." He withdrew, then reached out to stroke one of the feathers. "Yes." His forehead wrinkled in thought. "I can try to heal it, although neither the toxin nor you is of Sabiliasi... I may not be as effective as if it were from my own world."
Tia sat back quietly before looking to her own relic. Why was it many differnt colored feathers were shown? For all she know it could be multiple birds ... unless there was a rainbow colored bird?
She watched the diety from her spot, he'd have more healing abilities than her ointment for sure.
She watched intently as the diety looked first at her hand, then at the feathers.
"I would appreciate it, but please don't feel obliged to. It might go away on it's own, and I'll just have to be careful with the relic."
Koniryu nodded. "I will try, then, with your permission. It will... teach me some about your kind." He knelt down and cupped her hand between his again, then closed his eyes.
A vivid green light seemed to flow out of his fingertips, enveloping Naien's numb hand in what felt like cool water.
Then, abruptly, the light faded and Koniryu stood up, shaking his hands as if they'd gotten pins and needles. "What a strange way of doing things," he murmured, to no one in particular. "Did it work?" He arched one eyebrow at Naien, questioning now.
She watches as her hand is cast in a green glow, then as Koniryu stands. She flexes her hand experimentally, and grins when her fingers curl into a fist.
"It did, thank you very much."
She glanced at the relic again, and said more to herself than anyone else.
"Now how am I going to get it anywhere?..."
Koniryu traced one finger down the wood of Naien's relic. "Simply covering it in cloth should suffice to move it," he said. "The wood does not seem affected, although I would be wary of touching where the feathers have rubbed. There are plants similar in Sabilasi that poison with oils that remain potent even when not on the parent leaf..."
He blinked. He was having a conversation with a human?
How odd.
"Hey, K do you think you could look up any rainbow colored birds? I'm guessing that this one has more than one color, like a parrot, but I've never seen a pastel colored parrot before," she asked softly.
Her hands brushed against the wood. If getting a relic was already this interesting, then actually raising an Ieldi would prove much more events.
She smiled at the thought.
She listens closely to the diety, and nods.
"That shouldn't be too hard then. I've got a blanket in my bag that I can use."
She blinks at the part about plants.
"That sounds a bit like poison ivy. It causes itching when touched."
She stops for a minute, then giggles.
"So I've got a poison ivy ieldi to look after."
"Quite possibly." Koniryu looked mildly amused, although he did not smile. "Where are you going to place them? Although one Ieldi has been born on the ground, those were extenuating circumstances indeed..."
She stops to think about the question, tapping her fingers against her leg idly.
"Well, I'm not sure. There are no shelves yet, and I certainly don't want to leave it on the ground."
She stops to think again, this time glancing around the village clearing.
"Maybe I could try and build a little shelf in one of those smaller trees near the edge of the clearing. Then the relic would be safe and off the ground, until something more permanent is availible."
Tia spoke, "If that was directed to both of us, I was going to choose a shelf, I would think being born to the ground may be a bit confusing," she scratched her head smiling before turning back to K.
"Hmm, the only other birds that could be different colors would be rollers ... or that I can think of,"
She gets no results for 'rainbow' this would be so much eaier if she had more information. She decied to look through the picture section for a bird that had colors like the relic's feathers. "maybe this one... no that's too colorful..how about this one," she pointed to a picture that had a caption of Lilac-Breasted Roller
"Ooo! That looks like a match! and what a beautiful bird to boot!" she grinned leaning over looking at the picture, skimming a few paragraphs on the page.
"We shall see." Koniryu looked up at the branches of the tree above them. "There is much to be found in the forests of Sabilasi. This is not your world, remember..."
With that, the nature deity nodded and turned on one hoofed foot, walking away from them briskly and into the forests around the new Kyendi clearing.
She blinks and stares after the retreating diety, and ponders his parting statement.
"...Goodbye."
Living in Sabilasi was still new to Tia, especially how the dieties were popping up all over the place. She nodded her head with a small smile to him. She felt a bit of a shiver from the breeze, more like of what she felt when Leila was around, but she ignored the feeling.
"Well, it's a good thing I've been crafting lately, seems there's going to be lots of spirits soon,"
She glances over at Tia at the mention of spirits.
"Well, I hope that some come, at least. I'll have to find some nice things to lure one with."
"I would think they would ... this world seems safer than our own and more familiar,"
"I think this is going to be an interesting journey we've agreed to, already we have to make the decision of raising them on land or in a tree ..." she trailed off in thought looking at the variuos branches in trees.
"Yeah, you're right. Tree is my choice, personally."
She also starts looking around at the trees surrounding the clearing, glancing occasionally back to the relics.
"Yeah, wouldn't want to confuse the little ones by living on the ground," she smirked,
"Though, where are we going to keep them until a place is established for them?"
She nods in agreement.
"Yeah, it might mess them up a bit, and we don't want that."
She peers around at the trees around the clearing thoughtfully.
"As I said earlier, I was thinking of building a little temporary shelf in one of the trees over there, then we can keep them there until something more permanent becomes availible."
Tia nodded at where Nai pointed to. It seemed like a good plan.
"That sounds good, want to start moving them there? I hope you don't go numb again ..."
Nai nods.
"Sure, let's move them. I'll go get the blanket from my bag to move mine in."
With that, she jogs off to the inn, dissappearing inside.
Tia was able to turn the relic on its side, in hopes of either being able to push it, or hold it that way to the trees.
Nai comes jogging back from the inn with a blanket in hand, and stops next to Tia.
"So, how are we going to go about this?"
"Well, I figure we either roll them there, or we pick them up and take them there."
"I don't think we should roll them, it might damage them."
She walks around the relics, then looks over to the trees, and suddenly snaps her fingers.
"I've got it!"
She flicks the blanket out in front of the relics, laying it flat. Then she walks around to the side of Tia's relic.
"Here, help me lift it onto the blanket."
Tia looks curiously to Nai, but decides that if she's got a plan that doesn't involve carrying heavy relics, she's game.
She carefully helps load up her own Relic next to Nai's.
Once the two relics were firmly on the blanket, Nai grabs the two corners closest to the trees, and hands one to Tia.
"See? Now we just have to pull them to the trees. As long as we don't go too fast, they won't fall off."
She stretches her arms and yawns, "it's about time for me to hit the sack. See ya tomarrow," she turns calling Varen and heads off.
"Alright, sounds good," Tia replied getting the jist of what Nai was thinking.
Mili yawned softly sitting up in bed, comffy bed he missed oh so much. He shuffled out of it and blinked, he didn't sleep that much at all. He shruged and snatched up his MP3 player and headphones before hoping out his window to stroll around the inn, he noticed Tia and Nai still out headed that way to see them.
Nai nods and takes hold of her corner of the blanket.
"Okay, let's see if this is gonna work."
She starts pulling gently on the blanket, and grins when the relics stay put.
Mili slowly edged his way closer to Nai and Tia seeing there Relics now up close, he blinked and made a oooo ahhh face but kept quite not wanting to surprise them and cause them to risk droping the relics. He turned off his music and continued to move closer.
Mili peeked closer and closer, he edged up near Nai very quietly but enough she could hear him. He didn't exactly want to anouce him self while they seemed to be focuseing on the relics. Something about the ones feathers, Nai's one he thought made him want to pet it...
Other than one big fluffy ear flicking in Mili's direction, Nai stays completely focused on the relics. She glances over her shoulder once, to check how far they are from the trees.
"Well, this is working okay, eh?"
"I think it is," Tia smiled stepping carefully gripping the cloth tighter.
Mili edged out from behind the trees near the two waveing a bit smileing. Still not speaking though he continued to eye the once relic though. He then eyed the other, he couldn't decide which one he liked the most out of them. "Any way I could help?" he finally spoke up a bit and crossed his fingers no one would lose concontration and drop the two relics.
She doesn't bother to look at Mili as she replies, keeping her eyes trained on the relics.
"If you really wanted to help, then you could make sure that there's no rocks or anything in front of us."
She reaches out to steady Tia's relic a bit, letting go once it seems stable again.
"Yes Mili," Tia nodded taking her eyes away for a minute before balancing the weight of the cloth in her hands.
Mili nodded happily, "Alrighty then!" he moved off to clear a path, he moved most rocks and tree branches away and stoped frowning, "This rock is a bit...big..." he bent down carfully and tried to lift it. "Hmm looks like it's in the ground..." he grabed one of the discarded branches and started to dig it up.
She glances over her shoulder at Mili.
"Hey, don't worry about that one, we can just go around it."
She peeks around the relics quickly to make sure that they're not slipping off the blanket. Satisfied that they're firmly on the cloth still, she continues pulling at the same steady pace.
"Any good stables trees yet?" Tia asked trying to compare the size of the relics to the branches.
"They should fit,"
Mili nodded to Nai sitting on the rock, "It should be clear now..." he looked around again nodding sure of it. "As to you Tia a good tree... hmm..." he looked up and about and pondered this question, "I have no coment to that one since I don't know how heavy those things are.."
"Well, the trees around here seem pretty chunky, I'd bet that most of them would hold these up, on the lower branches, at least."
She shifts her grip slightly, pausing to wipe her hands on her pants one at a time.
"Yeah, they are just a tad heavy," she chuckled in a sarcastic way taking bigger steps still balancing out the cloth among two hands.
As they finally reach the trees, Nai sighs in relief and drops the blanket.
"Well, that was a bit of an effort."
She sits down, leaning against the non-feathered side of her relic.
Tia plopped down beside her own as well, placing her hands on her stomach.
"Can't wait till we get real places to keep them," she smiled.
Mili shuffled over smileing, "Congrats to you both about getting Relics, they both look wonderfull but I gota run..." he sighed, he litterly got home and had to go again.
He turned to leave but stoped, "Tia, next time you see Lelia tell her I have something for her. If she gripes about it let me know and ill let you give it to her." With that he finally ran off as fast as he could grumbling something about time never on his side.
"See you Mili," she smiled managing a small wave.
"Oh, um sure," she raised an eyebrow before agreeing then scratching her head and chuckled.
"He doesn't give up."
