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 Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:24 pm
Maya flinched inwardly as she heard the tone in her sisters voice, so even she seemed to take it as anything but a joyous thing. Sighing as they approached the massive cloth door of their Elder Alkidike Kishku Maya turned back to Dyakida as her name was called. Relaxing as she was reminded her secrets wouldn't be shared the Blade Alkidike apologized before patting her friends shoulder. "I'll see what I can do about keeping you informed."
"Informed of what?" The spry elder poked her head through the cloth her dark eyes settling on Maya and Dyakida. "Oh. Get in here." Reaching through the curtains Kishku pulled the young girls through into the illuminated room.
"You went and got yourself hurt again didn't you!." Pushing Maya down into the familiar pillows on the far end of the room before darting off to collect ingredients. "I'll have to see about getting Neibet to work with you closer on your fighting. Still as clumsy as ever."
Sending a piteous glance towards Dya Maya grunted. Sometimes she forgot Dyakida was blind and she wasn't able to share her silent words with her as much as Dya could with Maya.
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:38 pm
Dyakida stood back and at attention, out of the center of the room.
Her respect for elder Kishku, who's far-sighted guidance had helped her endure troubled times, straightened her back and stiffened her shoulders. It wasn't even conscious.
The conversation about the earthling and Maya's attraction to them was playing out in her head again. Which troubled Dyakida. It should have been over and forgotten when she had said her closing statement. But it kept coming back to bother her.
Still- and perhaps because or in spite of it- she managed to smile and make a comment.
“I went out to collect materials and ended up collecting Maya.” she said, by way of a joke, “Not a bad find.”
Though her tone was joking, her posture was still respectful, if somewhat stiff.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:39 pm
Kishku continued to prance around the room in her usual energetic manner gathering materials and dropping them before Maya. Once that had been completed the Elder Alkidike focused on mixing and crushing as she went through the items before setting her gaze on Maya. Inspecting her skin for every scratch and wound before she started spreading it over Maya. "You don't have to stand like that." The elder sang getting up to dance about the room again.
Maya looked at Dya before patting the pillow below her. "Come sit by me Dya" Wincing at the stinging on her skin Maya sniffed the ingredients. All they were good for was making sure she wasn't going to get an infection and making the wounds itchy. After all Kishku was like all the other warrior members who had dabbled into healing from time to time.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:44 pm
Dyakida smiled a bit, relaxing a little. She did need to be reminded that this person who she loved and respected did not need her respect in the form of stiffness. Some things still bothered her about her conversation, but it didn't matter so much. Maya was back. The other things and complications could wait. She had adapted to many things since her accident but Kishku's energy outpaced her diligent efforts. She didn't try to track the energetic elder.
There was still some residual stiffness to her posture, however. She couldn't shake the deep feelings of gratitude whenever Kishku was near.
The clatter of the utensils and containers melded with the noises of Jahuar's growing dusk, a chorus of rhythmic chirps and cries that signaled the approach of a dark night.
“Elder Kishku! You have to hear! Maya is a blade now!” she said, her smile wide, voice swelling with pride. Perhaps Maya should have been the one to tell her, but Dyakida was too eager to ask what, to her, was an important and pertinent question.
“What weapon did you choose?” An especially pertinent question, coming from Dyakida.
Of course, she couldn't see the weapon Maya used, and her cursory inspection of her friend had not reached the strung weapon or the quiver, so preoccupied was she with her friend's slight increase in height and her wounds.
She knew her sister had not become a swordswoman. Swords were not Maya's style. Maya was more of a spear or a bow person. The sword was for someone who liked to attack. The spear was for someone who wanted to keep an enemy at bay and her friends in safety. The bow... was for someone who kept their enemys at far and friends at close.
She wasn't sure which her friend was, but she could almost say... spear. She would guess that Maya was a spearwoman. It was close though. And she was very curious.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:31 pm
It was like Dyakida had struck a bell or bird. As soon as the elder's eyes snapped towards Maya. Maya's own eyes widened in complete shock. She wasn't sure what to expect from the old Alkidike glee, anger, disappointment, praise. Would she be scolded for reaching a rank higher than Niebet. Before Neibet? Maya's entire form seemed to take on a stiff posture of her own completely unaware of how the event would unfold now that she knew.
Silence seemed to stream through the room, creating a thick tension as both Alkidikes stared at each other. Then as if everything dissipated around them Kishku suddenly reached forward grabbing Maya by her shoulders forcing the younger Alkidike to burst out in a scream. Shifting in her seat in preparation to flee, she knew the old woman was strange and had bursts of random amounts of energy but her movements had come out of no where.
"Tell me more this instant I want to hear more. Oh this is great news you have surpassed Niebet. I don't think she will be to pleased with this information but this is still amazing none the less. what weapon did you choose what was Yansa like? Oh do tell."
Maya's face formed the largest blush even as she tried to suppress the emotions from inside. Relieved Kishku wasn't immediately leaping to destroy her. It didn't help that the words 'weapon you choose' seemed to time in perfect symmetry between the other Alkidikes in the room. Shifting uncomfortably Maya wasn't sure she wanted to answer strait away. Glancing back from Kishku to Dyakida Maya eventually volunteered her information.
"I chose the bow."
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:45 pm
The bow!
Well at least she had been right about the sword not being right for Maya.
She was surprised though!
Even thinking about it now, the spear seemed to... suit her better.
But perhaps Dyakida needed to reevaluate her impressions of the three weapons. This was important. Very important.
She did laugh, though. She wished she could have seen what had happened, but Maya's yelp and Kishku's interrogating were enough to tell her that whatever she was missing out on, it was probably hilarious.
She relaxed further. This was Elder Kishku. She didn't know why she felt she had to be so stiff in her presence. She relaxed her muscles and sank a bit deeper into the pillows.
"Oh no, elder..." Dyakida half-lidded her eyes mischeiviously and smiled, "She can't tell us more without the others to listen. It wouldn't be fair to them."
Still...
"Who is Yansa? What was she like?"
Yansa, Yansa... the name was vaguely familiar.
"Have I met her?"
She didn't recall meeting anybody named Yansa... though maybe she had been pointed out once, when she could still see?
Dyakida honestly couldn't place the name...
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:43 pm
"Yansa!? You forgot who Yansa is?" Kishku turned her head abruptly towards Dyakida. Maya shivered at the tone in the Elders voice. It was common for the younger Alkidikes to momentarily forget who the great Elder was, who the leader of their great tribe beside Aisha was. Though sometimes Kishku went to far when scolding younger Alkidikes on who Yansa was or her importance.
"You're right Dya, It wouldn't be fair to speak of my trial in private. That would only anger Neibet more, not that my return has been all that great either." Maya cringed as she tried to distract the Elder from her current topic.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:51 pm
Dyakida winced as Kishku scolded her. She even yelped a bit, and fell back on the cushions, startled, at the sudden sharpness in her elder's voice, very much unlike her.
"Ah..." Kishku was sometimes very difficult for Dyakida to deal with.
"Well, I..."
Oh. Now she was beginning to remember. Vaguely.
"I'm sorry, Elder, I've been busy... and I've mostly been thinking about my close sisters... and you... of late..."
She smiled sort of meekly,
"I'm sorry. I forgot."
Dyakida attempted to regain her composure.
"But I believe I have an excuse for my lapse." She felt a bit annoyed now. She was so close knit with Maya, Briella, Kisku, and the others (yes, including Niebet)... Why should she think on the extended sisters? Her tribe?
yes. Why think on that when they would only shun her? Best to keep only thoughts of family close... at least until they had to return to Chibale.
Already, thinking about Yansa- or at least the rumors she had heard since she had never actually met the woman, was making her gloomy. That wasn't a road she wanted to go down, not when it was such a happy occasion! Maya. Was. Back.
Time to change the subject. She directed a grateful expression to Maya... forgetting, as she sometimes did, that Kishku could see it as well.
"Your return?" she asked curiously, "Was it difficult travelling there and back, or worse on the return trip?
If Dyakida had to guess, the presence of relatively fresh wounds meant that the return had been more difficult...
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:31 am
Maya hadn't seen the look Dya had sent her and thankfully neither had Kishku, shifting in her seat Maya gave a squeaking noise as the first of the salves were spread on her arm. Followed directly by a bandage. Tuning out the words that flowed around her like water Maya tried to shy away as yet another chunk of salve and a bandage was applied to her body. Only gaining her a hand connecting with the top of her head.
"We asked about your return Maya." Kishku's voice rang in her head and to Maya's excitement the subject had successfully been changed. Smiling crookedly against the humming pain as she turned her head to the side so it would be easier for Dya to hear. Half forgetting the girl no longer saw body movement so would probably miss something if she didn't speak clear and concise there was always the chance she under estimated Dyakida but she wanted to be safe.
"The return was harder for me. Being covered in wounds and all." Pausing for a moment before she continued. "There was this strange earthling that gave me food when I reached the tree's again." No sooner had the words tumbled from her mouth before Maya was regretting she had said anything as Kishku made a rather unhappy grunting sound and offered Maya something to eat.
"Flush it out. poison is no good for your body."
"He didn't hurt me!" Maya insisted. "If he had meant to I would be dead by now!"
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:00 pm
"What, exactly, did he feed you, Maya? Did he eat some as well?" asked Dyakida, worried as well. she had never met an earthling, "It might not have been poison, Elder..." she frowned, "Please tell me you aren't giving her... that..." Dyakida had very... not fond... memories of medications that made you throw up. "Considering she ate it a while ago, and she isn't dying, So is... that... necessary."
Plus, she didn't want to have to hear her sister throw up. She wasn't sure if it was worse not being able to see it. When one of their sisters had eaten something bad, just a month ago, Dyakida had spent most of the time holding her sister's hair out of her face and hoping that everything was okay, fearing that maybe, just maybe, there was blood in her sister's vomit and she couldn't see it and so horrible things would happen...
Admittedly, it was better not seeing it if it was happening to you. She hadn't had any cause to since her blindness, nor did she want to, but she remembered often closing her eyes when she had eaten something that hadn't agreed with her.
In general, she really, really hated throwing up.
"How injured is she, Kishku?" she asked, trying not to think about throwing up and failing to. Ugh.....
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:25 am
Maya's head danced back and forth between her friend and her Elder. "Just fruit, my favorite kind I often eat when I leave home for a day or two. He had spent a long time gathering and said it would go bad before he and his father ate them all." Maya wasn't sure if it was the complete truth but it would help with her case a little with Kishku. Or so she hoped. "Not to mention! He ate with me until leaving to find wood for a spear.
She eyed the concoction before her with distaine, turning to look back at Dyakida as she asked about the injuries. "Not very Dya, they sure sting though."
"Oh stop with the act." Smacking one of Maya's wounds and watched her whimper and double over in pain. Reaching forward she plugged the newly promoted blades nose and tilting it back poured in the concoction.
Maya gagged as she struggled to swallow it down. Elder Kishku was a hard woman stubborn as any Alkidike and worse than most. She was a great person but sometimes her methods were terrible.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:07 pm
"Urgh..."
Dyakida grimaced, covering her nose and mouth as her sister choked down the concoction.
"Was that... urgh... really necessary?" coughed Dyakida, rubbing her eyes. They stung from... whatever... horrid fuming thing that the elder was using.
Didn't matter that she couldn't see out of them, they still hurt.
"They do sound like... ug... they are doing more than stinging.." she swallowed audibly, managing to get her nausea under control.
"Perhaps... tell us more about this earthling?"
Dyakida had mostly asked out of a need to distract her sister, her elder, and herself from the painful wounds and the awful medicine.
But a sudden thought occurred to her, and she shifted slightly, a tiny bit more on edge than she had been before.
Was this earthling... the reason for Maya's revelation on the stairs? Had she fallen for a nameless, suspicious earthling? Male?
She realized what she had asked, and hoped that Maya would be informative... but careful... with her answer.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:34 pm
Maya coughed for what seemed and eternity, her throat felt like it was ripping itself apart with the way the acid like potion stung on it's way down. Perhaps she should have left to find that shifter boy... Tadoka was that his name? He had done a better job healing her minor wounds in the past and with a much less painful outcome. Once her coughing had eased Maya shuddered outwardly pushing her tongue up against her upper teeth in hopes of pulling the foul taste from her mouth. It didn't seem to be helping her. Pacju moved silently to press her muzzle against Maya's arm affectionately with a whine to comfort her.
"Completely necessary Dyakida, you don't want to loose your sister now do you?" A soft tinkling sound and Kishku was pulling something else out of her pile. "Here Maya suck on this."
Maya quizzically took the offered item and pressed it against her cheek. Thankful for the sweet flavor coursing through her mouth erasing the previously foul taste.
"For you as well dear Dya. Even looking at you we can tell the medicine has done it's job for you too." For the moment both Maya and Kishku seemed content not to press matters about the earthling. Though Maya knew she would end up telling her friend and sister small details once they were back in her room and free from prying ears that could cause damage.
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:44 pm
Well of course she didn't want to lose her sister. But it still seemed like a bit much.
Dyakida held her hand out and took the sweet obediently and gratefully. It was bad enough smelling that horrible mixture. The scent went into her nose and stung her there, then into her lungs, where it made her choke, and along the backside of her tongue, which put the awful taste in her mouth where it didn't belong.
The sweet helped a lot, blocking the nastiness and clearing it away.
"Thank you. she said around the hard candy,
"Hello again, Pacju..." she had no way of knowing that Pacju hadn't left Maya's side. The Radaku was so quiet it was difficult sometimes for her to figure out where he was. "So. How did Pacju manage? Is he well?" it bothered Dyakida that she couldn't tell.
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:04 pm
"Just as hurt as I am Dya." Maya responded woefully, stroking her companions horns. "She handles pain a lot better than I do. Besides she's grown so much that at this point she has no trouble carrying me." The feeling of swelling pride welled up in Maya's chest, gathering up some of the healing salve into her arms. She knew better than to misguide anyone into touching her beast. Tame as Pacju was, she was very defensive and didn't take kindly to being touched by anyone other than Maya.
Maya thought back to the strange Radaku she had seen just before the fight with the great dragon creature had broken out. Though it seemed calm, Maya wondered if it was more friendly than Pacju. It did have a scar on it, or was that her own imagination. Maya shrugged with a yawn, she had grown tired and wanted to rest. Bowing her head quietly Maya rose to her feet.
"Please forgive me Elder Kishku, Dyakida sister. But I am exhausted and I require rest in my room I do hope you wont mind." With that, Maya politely excused herself from the room and headed down the hall.
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