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 Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:56 am
It was always the same: when you got no time there were thousand things to do and when there was plenty of leisure you had to fight against boredom.
After pacing up and down in her room - with sometimes bumping against her desk or bed - Lucind spontaneously decided to go through her CD collection, to see if there was something she could give away or maybe forgotten treasures.
It didn't last long, though, until she lay on the floor and simply listened to the music, various CD cases strewn around.
Later on she asked one of her employees to lead her to the pond in the garden. With entering the lhor'aven she wanted to support the healing process of her soul. So she sat there, meditating for a while before she got back in. It was then that Uny called for her, giving Lucind the phone. It was Larhien. He apologized again for what he had said and done the previous day and asked if they could spend some time before he had to leave in the late afternoon.
Half an hour later Lucind's brother fetched her from Feimurgan and the siblings walked into the town to have an ice somewhere near the gardens.
He brought her back about two hours later and only then they came back to the subject of her fight - very wisely they had been avoiding it.
"I guess you don't want to come in a bit?" Lucind smiled and felt her hand being taken in his.
"No, not a good idea. I might get stupid ideas again when I see him," he said, dropping his eyes, still ashamed of himself.
"Larhien, please believe when I say that he -"
"I know, I know. I'll try to calm down, okay? I mean, I trust you, but I'm..."
"An idiot?"
"Ah well, yes." He grinned slightly and rubbed his nape. "But also -"
"A jerk?
"Mahh, yeah maybe. But -"
"And a short-sighted, stupid little brother. ^____^"
"Oy, I get it! Okay?! gonk BUT: I'm also a loving and caring brother. Right? Right." Larhien pointed at her, his other hand placed on his hip. He grinned when his sister started to chuckle.
Finally, he hugged her tightly and guided Lucind back into the store before he left and made his way to Latent's dragon station.
Whereas the woman directly took the lift up onto roof.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:10 pm
Surprisingly, or rather not, the monk was already on the roof by the time Lucind would get there. He himself had spent the day in the quiet solitude of the rooftop as the cafe ran its usual business and customers, sitting about with his rosary in hand in quiet meditation.
And when Lucind arrived, he would neither move or make a sound as he simply remained sitting quietly in the same spot around the center of the rooftop.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:30 am
Carefully, the woman made her way over to the little platform on the roof, even using Kraun's presence as a guide as well as the wind which almost never stopped blowing at this place.
When her foot nudged again the first step she searched sidewards for the railing and walked up and along the platform's side. Lucind sat down, leaned against the railing and put her hands in her lap. The silence was a welcome change.
"Smells like rain,"she quietly stated after a while.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:36 am
"Perhaps it would be wise to return indoors." the monk said softly in his still posture with his eyes closed as he continued to sit on the rooftop. If Lucind could see, it may not have been expected of him to speak as he appeared the way he did, but as she couldnt at the time, it did not matter. Though the suggestion would have been a sensible one, Kraun himself however did not move at all, he continued to sit on the rooftops as he took a small inhaled of air slowly, rather collecting a smell than because he needed to breathe.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:51 am
"Ah..."
She didn't move either, just kept on collecting information of her surrounding with her senses left.
The soft clicking of the monk's rosary had become something of a familiar sound and Lucind noticed it also had a relaxing effect on her.
The woman stood up and sniffled.
"If I'm not mistaken there're some heavy rainclouds hanging over the other end of the town. With this wind they might be here within half an hour," she mumbled.
"Maybe it's really better to go in. - Unless you like being in the rain." A soft smile spread over her lips.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:58 am
Truth be told, he really didnt care what the weather was, having completely no concern over it himself. But, for others, that may not be the case, as a drenching usually results in a cold.
"I do not mind what the weather no matter what it is." he answered, but what did it matter where he was? He was perplexed by her question, not prone to sickness or illness in health himself, which of course was the cause of his passive attitude towards the weather, he wondered what seeking shelter had to do with him.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:21 am
"I see."
The woman kept on smiling but otherwise didn't move.
Lucind stood there and waited for the rain to come. It was heat, extreme heat or fire which made her feel uneasy or even repulsed, whereas rain was nothing but pleasure, no matter if it was cold.
She sighed when the first raindrops splashed on her face.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:26 am
As the rain began to fall around him, the monk did not have any kind of response to it. He simply sat in the same spot as the rain came down, plastering the long strands of silver hair against his head and body as water began to collect and drip off of his chin and the spines on his arms.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:25 pm
With her eyes halway shut she stood there, hands in her coat's pocket and let the rain wash over her body. But although the drops wet face and hair, they didn't soak her clothes.
The shower was heavy but only lasted about twenty minutes and with the sound of splashing water a song mingled, the same song Lucind had sung back in the Tundra forest.
When stopped to rain the woman shook her head to remove the last bit of water out of her blue strands.
"On the day the stadium was destroyed I wanted to leave it, to leave this town and finally completely move to the valley where I was born. I had only came back to remove the last personal things from the old Feimurgan.
And now I'm here, with a new store. And you."
Lucind smiled absently. Funny how things went their own way sometimes.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:43 pm
Even when the rain ceased to fall from the sky, the monk remained in his sitting position, not bothering to get up as droplets of water slowly dripped off of him. He did not see a point for him to get up and go inside the building, since it would leave a watery mess wherever he went.
"Why did you want to leave?" he asked softly. He knew she was still on the rooftop with him even though his eyes were closed, his vision extending further than his physical surroundings. And he would have asked her why she did not return indoors, since unlike him, she was not drenched, had she not spoken.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:05 pm
"Hmm...too much trouble there." She chuckled. "Too much drama and destruction. Too many emotions. - I wanted to evade that atmosphere after I'd worked for my clan for half a year and enjoyed the solitude during my missions.
So, that I'm here now seems to be somehow paradoxical."
Lucind shrugged.
In fact, everything after the day of the arena's end had just followed as if being planned or naturally and the Half-Siren hadn't had any time to really think about what she was doing.
Fortunately, she couldn't find any trace of regret. Right now, she just felt pretty calm and good, despite the accident with her eyes.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:09 pm
"Then why do you stay?" The monk asked his second question after the first, just the opposite of what he had asked a moment earlier. He stood up and brushed beads of water from the various articles of black clothing he wore, the liquid never absorbing into the material.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:18 pm
She was silent and didn't move until she finally frowned and tilted her head.
"To be honest, I don't know. - Guess I can blame my human side for doing such unlogical things."
Lucind took a band out of her coat and loosely tied her hair.
"Somehow it feels right."
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:21 pm
"Hmm." he made a small sound of understanding. Flisking the robes to clear off the rest of the collected water, Kraun walked over to the railing next to Lucind to look over it to the streets below. 'Humans are such odd creatures' he thought to himself.
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:47 am
The Half-Siren stretched a little and sighed which sounded almost like a purr.
"I go back in. - What about you? Wanna stay outside a little longer?"
Lucind made some steps along the railing towards the steps.
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