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 Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:37 pm
Ayo nodded sympathetically, listening as the man admitted to his fear of bugs, and to another fear that seemed even greater – this one that he might, perhaps, be holding people back. The woman was attentive, genuinely interested. She was a wonderful listener, finding other peoples’ stories to be absolutely fascinating. It was a bit surprising to her, how easily this man had opened up, but she would be lying if she said she was disappointed. He was different. Interesting. She wanted to know everything she could.
Plus, his openness made her feel as though she could talk back. It gave her permission to pick his brain.
”Yeah, you don’t have to worry much about bugs here.” Ayo said, hoping to reassure Takoda. She climbed up onto a boulder and rolled onto her stomach, chin resting in the palms of her hands. ”I doubt you’re much of a burden to anyone…” She continued after a few moments of contemplation. “If anyone felt as if you were holding them back, they surely wouldn’t keep being around you. The fact that you have someone to hold back is a good sign.”
Ayo smiled bright at Takoda before rolling onto her back, staring up at the sky. ”Hmm…” She mused to herself, before turning her attention back to the Shifter, now looking at him upside-down. ”Why are you so frightened of insects? There must be a way to get over it…”
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:07 pm
Takoda was quite enjoying his talk with the woman, though he had found it a bit surprising that he was getting less and less nervous about being around her. Ayo seemed quite a lovely woman, she was bright and very considerate and her concern about his fear of insects was..touching. A blush crept across his face as she stated he could hardly be keeping anyone back. And even if she felt that way he couldn't shake the feeling off himself.
Looking up and noting how the sun was slowly moving through the sky though steadily heading down he gave a soft smile, his skin was gradually lightning but it was hard to tell at the moment.
"Ah...my fear...I don't know if I can over come it..." He murmured not really wanting to go over the nightmares with the girl, "I've always been sacred if them...even before my parents died." Takoda mentioned as tried to wave it off as if it wasn't worth discussing.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:28 am
Ayo watched Takoda intently. The Wind girl was nothing if not perceptive. She prided herself in being a good judge of character, capable of reading others’ emotions with relative ease. And so, it became quite clear to her, as the man spoke about his unshakeable fears and his parents’ deaths, that he wasn’t completely comfortable with discussing.
The woman nodded briefly, her brow furrowing in thought. ”My parents have passed on, too.” She shared, but did not press him further about his own situation. Ayo merely added, ”May Bergchi guide them…” In a hushed voice.
The Prentice’s eyes were turned towards the sky. She watched as the sun began its downward trip. She looked back at Takoda, still upside-down, squinting slightly, as if that would help her see any minute signs of color-changing. Unable to spot any change, the woman turned her attention back to the sky.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:00 am
Takoda blinked and looked from the sky to the ground, learning he was not the only one without their parents to help him and comfort him made him only more sad. No one should have to live their lives like that, it was cruel for fate to do such things. Yet... Though he knew he should offer a word of sympathy he merely remained silent after all there were no true words to express the sorrow he felt.
"It is the second time someone from your people has mentioned Bergchi...can you tell me more about her? She is a goddess? Or so..I had heard...of the cold winds....I am curious about knowing more." He felt perhaps this would be a good conversation change, "Do you guys have any other's you worship?" Came his second question.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:48 am
The woman stared curiously at Takoda as he questioned her, as though what he was asking, perhaps, didn’t quite register. After a few moments, a small smile found its way back to her lips.
”That’s interesting, isn’t it?” She mused, laughing gently. He was the first person that she had met from another region. Obviously, the Ice Tribe lived in Zena, but they worshipped Bergchi as well. She had never met someone before who didn’t at least know who the goddess was.
”Yes...” She nodded in response to the vague description he had obtained. ”Bergchi is the goddess of the mountains, our mother.” Still smiling, she rolled back to her stomach, once again intrigued with the man and his strange culture. ”What about you? Who do your people worship?” The woman paused, realizing that, while she knew that he came from Jauhar and that his skin magically changed colors, she didn’t even know the name of his strange tribe. ”What are your people called, anyway?”
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:58 am
Takoda looked to Ayo tilting his head as he admired her spirit, her curiosity was refreshing and her thirst for knowledge reminded him of his own. At the expansion of the goddess Bergchi he thought long on it trying to think of stories he had heard from his own child hood. Most of them were not clear and he would hate to give her the wrong information so for now he would be vague.
"We worship the moon," He pointed to the setting sun his skin still getting lighter and lighter as the minutes passed. "We are called shifters because of the way our skin 'shifts' from dark to light with the rise and fall of the moon." He couldn't really get into great details about WHY they worshiped the moon, he would have to ask one of the elders to go over he stories he had floating around in his head.
"You know..I have to wonder...all the races...besides the Alkidikes anyway...have stone in the skin...they are all different colors...I have to wonder..if that means we are all related in some way."
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:01 pm
Ayo’s eyes widened slightly as he explained that they worshipped the moon. It made sense, that their skin would change with the movements of the thing that they worshipped. Slowly but surely, she was beginning to notice a change in Takoda’s skin. It had definitely become lighter than it was before. She couldn’t help but smile. The connections were fascinating. ”What about nights when the moon doesn’t come out?” She knew new moon nights far too well. Up in the mountains, when a snow storm was rolling in, moonless nights could be quite terrifying.
”Hmm…” The woman murmured as Takoda voiced questions very similar to the ones rolling around in her own head. She couldn’t help but smile at him, so pleased at having found someone that was so easy to talk to about things that interested her so deeply. Most people seemed not to want to work their brains so hard… it was quite disappointing to the ever perceptive Ayo. Takoda was certainly a breathe of fresh air.
”Well, we believe that Bergchi is our mother… and she is of the mountains, a part of the earth… so I suppose it would make sense that she would want to adorn her children with a part of herself. We believe that, when someone passes on, they return to her, in the earth.” The woman’s eyes flicked to the moon, a faint outline slowly appearing in the sky as the sun fell. ”Maybe… maybe it’s that we all come from Tendaji, just from different parts of it.”
She shrugged gently to indicate the fact that she really didn’t know for sure, but his mention of the green-skinned women had piqued her interest. ”The Alkidikes… I haven’t met one of them before. Where do they come from?”
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:03 am
Takoda gave a small chuckle as if the idea of the moon not being around meant they wouldn't change either. "No...even if we cannot see the moon our skin will change regardless, it is... a comfort to remind us that the goddess is always with us." He murmured giving another laugh, wondering if she would want to drag in him into a cave to make sure he was telling the truth.
Listening to her speak about her own goddess he had to wonder if their goddess's had ever met. He searched his brains for any stories of a connection but he couldn't think of any. Yet another question to ask the elders later.
When the question came to the alkidikes he thought hard on what little information he knew about them. "From what I know...they were born from a tree...I don't know the details about it..but they are all women...and believe that the earth belongs to them...I am ..not really sure why." Takoda explained as well as he could.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:23 pm
"Hmmm..."Ayo murmured gently as Takoda explained their relationship to the moon... their goddess. So very fascinating... the different people, their different beliefs. Yet, so far, from what she could tell, these beliefs were not contradictory. She couldn't help but to wonder where exactly they all originated from. Takoda was not so differet from herself. Even the Alkidikes, though certainly the most different of any people she had seen, possessed characteristics undeniably similar to her own.
She couldn't help but wonder... what were the links connecting them? Would they ever be able to find them out?
"A...a tree?" The woman repeated, as though unsure if she had heard correctly. A gentle laugh rolled from her lips, simply from how fanciful the concept seemed. How was that possible? No... parents? How did that work. Fascinated. She was absolutely fascinated.
"I think we could all make a good argument for 'owning the earth' Ayo mused, gently touching the several, pink jewels lining her right collarbone. "We carry pieces of the earth with us." She smiled gently, with certainty and wonder. "I wonder why they think they're so special."
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:40 pm
The shifter only chuckled into his hand and shook his head, it was beyond him to know what made the alkidikes think they were better than everyone else.
"Perhaps they think because they are born from a tree, that they are closer to the earth than all of us." The healer commented as he looked to the stones in Ayo's skin and then went to run a finger across his own. It was true..they all had a piece of the earth embedded in themselves.
Part of Takoda suddenly wondered ...what would happened if someone was born without these. It had never happened before...but would it ever happen? It was a troublesome thought, what would be the significance of it?
"I am not sure..some part of me wonders...the stones..do they mean something more than just a feature on each race? Everyone I've met besides the alkidikes have them....though different colors that could be attributed to the different climates. Everyone looks different so...its just interesting. "
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:00 am
Ayo’s brow furrowed as Takoda raised yet another question. The meaning of the stones… could they be more significant than they thought?
The woman continued to run her fingers thoughtfully across the gems along her collarbone.”I don’t know…” She murmured honestly, still pondering the thought. What more could they mean? Something more mystical… or spiritual? Something more closely associated with their beings than they were truly capable of understanding?
Ayo laughed gently. ”It’s hard to think about… we could probably hypothesize in circles for days, but there’s no way of really proving anything.” She shook her head, still smiling. “It’s quite frustrating, don’t you think?”
The woman grinned at her new friend. Never before had she met someone that she felt she could talk to so honestly, without feeling silly for thinking about things that could not be proven, things that were not entirely practical to think about.
She ventured to reach forward, laying her fingers near his face, trying to judge, by using her own skin as a reference point, if his skin had gotten any lighter. It was hard to tell if anything had changed, since she had been watching him while they spoke. ”I enjoy you.” She admitted happily. ”Thank you for talking with me.”
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:56 pm
Takoda had been caught off guard as the fingers came to rest against his cheek, he almost leaned back but soon realized she was just comparing skin tones. Right she was wanting to see his skin lighten...well it was doing it. Just slowly. He gave a chuckle and lightly took her hand in his removing it from his face.
"Patience, it will happen. Suddenly I will be the same color as the moon in the sky and you will wonder when you blinked." He was teasing her but only lightly.
Takoda enjoyed the girls company, even if she was a bit more forward than he was use to. "Thank you for talking to me as well..I found our conversation enlightening."
"But enough about things we can only speculate...tell me more about yourself. I am a healer...do you have a particular job in your village?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:50 pm
The woman's nose wrinkled and her face flushed gently in embarrassment. She retracted her hand as it was removed from Takoda's face, pulling her body up into a seated position. ”Well, you're distracting me so much with all of this talk, she teased back. ”I'll be very upset with you if I miss it.”
Ayo smiled as Takoda began to reveal more about himself. A healer... definitely a valuable sort of occupation to choose... a valuable friend to keep in touch with.
”The Wind Tribe doesn't work quite the same way...” She murmured in response, as he mentioned a village. ”I don't have a village. Most of us live alone, traveling. Sauti doesn't have too many places with enough food and water to sustain a group.” She shrugged, finding herself blushing again. She hated talking about the things she had so far failed to accomplish. ”Either way, I'm not anything, really... yet. One day I'll be an archer.”
”Maybe, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, you could teach me some of what you know about healing, sometime.” She smiled, eager. “I'm sure you know plenty of things that would help a nomad.”
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:44 pm
Takoda found himself blushing slightly, and it was more apparant the lighter his skin tone got. He felt sheepish as if he was deliberately trying to distract the young woman so that she would miss his color change. Watching as she adjusted her position he shifted slightly himself. After all one could only sit on a rock so long before your butt became rather numb.
The idea that there was no village...caused the shifter to frown. How could there be no community? What did everyone do for food? Were they all so self reliant that they didn't need each other? Part of this knowledge caused the Shifter to want to envelope the woman in a hug. He supposed he understood how it must feel...since his parents death he hadn't wanted to be a burden to anyone and thus he lived as a nomad may, though he stuck to his tree home rather than traveling abroad. Well... until this adventure anyway.
"I would be pleased to pass my knowledge to someone else...though I fear your home land doesn't yield the same amount of medicinal plants as my home in Jahaur. But I could teach you how to stick wounds...tend to broken bones. Perhaps you know of any rare plants that are on the mountain side that...are used for other things besides eating?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:43 pm
The woman pondered the idea of community. Although the idea of many people living together and helping one another seemed nice, she wondered how well she would do... Sure, she very much enjoyed the company of people... this evening with Takoda was proof of that, but it was a temporary meeting and she was well aware of that. Ayo was so used to being on her own... the idea of others around constantly... it was a bit disconcerting.
The woman wrinkled her nose at Takoda's response, feeling, once again, a bit lacking. ”Not really... I know a few things... basic things to reduce fever, swelling, indigestion...” The woman laughed. "If I were in real trouble, I'd have to find my way to one of the settlements... Sauti has a few very small ones... most of them have a healer, or Zena, but that can be a trek if you're in trouble."
"...Knowing more about wounds and broken bones... could be a real help." She smiled at the thought. Being more self-sufficient... more capable of assisting herself, should something more serious befall her. "I would appreciate your teaching me whatever you could, though... and if I'm ever in your land, maybe you can teach me more." She smiled, delighted with the idea.
of course, exactly how he would teach her about wound and bones, she wasn't quite sure. Unless they went out and found an injured person... or hurt an animal themselves, just so she could see how to heal them again.
Ayo's nose wrinkled at the thought.
The woman shifted, her own bottom having become quite numb. Although eager to keep her eyes on the Shifter, she was beginning to feel restless. "Maybe we should find something to eat while I watch you..." Ayo said with a smirk. "It's getting late and I'm hungry."
The woman slid from the rock, barely catching herself as her legs hit the ground, not having realized how numb they too had become. She laughed, shaking her head, feeling like nonsense.
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