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 Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:28 pm
“Mmm…no,” Jana mumbled. “M’not mad at you, baby…baby…” He yawned. “We could sleep…together, again, sometime…that was fun. Or we could just…” His lashes fluttered. “Sleep…”
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:33 pm
Asi’wi’s lips thinned at the baby comment. “I’m not a baby.” He grunted at Jana’s next comment and felt a bit of his frustrations, from the night before, seep back. “I am not sleeping with you again. And it’s probably not a good idea if you sleep now,” Asi said as he chewed on his bottom lip, unsure if it was safe, or not, to sleep when so cold and drained. He reached down, fingers brushing over the feathers of the boy’s wings. “C’mon, no sleeping, yeah?”
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:43 pm
“Mm—you…are a baby…my baby baby...it's a word...people say it,” he mumbled groggily. “Doesn't mean you s**t yourself or such, means you’re like…wanna keep you safe and kiss you and stuff…you didn’ like sleeping with me? I’ll be lonely if…” He yawned again, shivering and feathers rippling with a soft hum of contentment, “…you didn’t…”
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:57 pm
It was official, in Asi’s mind — the cold had drove Janatheil crazy. “You were warm then…” He remembered the heat of Jana’s arm and wing around him and how comfortable it had felt when he was first waking up. He’d been an a*****e the night before — and that morning, if he was being honest with himself — but he had just bulked at the idea of being forced to entertain some snot nosed noble that didn’t even want to be there. Asi sighed and murmured, trying his best to keep Jana awake over the next hour or so. Before long, he too, was starting to feel the effects of his magic being drained and it was making him tired as well. So, when Asi heard his name being yelled, he passed it off as imaginings at first. It wasn’t until the sound grew louder and his gaze flit to the opening of the cave.
A light flickered past and Asi’s heart sped up and he was suddenly more awake than just a few second earlier. “Tylik…? Tylik!” He yelled his brother’s name, but with his leg the way it was — and with Jana still laying in his lap — Asi couldn’t get up to run out to see if it was really him. His gaze flit down to Jana and he shook his shoulder lightly. “Janatheil...c’mon, wake up. My brother...I think he’s…” Asi’s gaze jerked up at the sound of his hastar’s hoofs against the cave floor, prepared for something to be stalking towards him.
“Asi’wi…!” Tylik’s voice was a welcome balm — soothing and comforting — and Asi felt himself instantly relax. They would be alright. His brother was here and that likely meant that his father and others were near by as well. “Asi…what happened? Is he...alive?”
Asi shuddered as he glanced down to Jana and frowned. “Yes...he’s just really cold. I tried to keep him warm, I did...but there’s only so much a couple of cloaks and an extra tunic can do…” Asi bit the inside of his cheek, holding back the tears — relief, worry, frustration — threatening to bubble over at his brother’s presence. “I’m sorry Tylik...we never should have race.”
“Shhh, little brother. I’m just glad I found you both.” Tylik reached out, pressing a hand to Jana’s forehead and lightly pulsing his magic out. Not enough to cause any sort of damage, but just enough to send warmth spreading through the younger boy’s body.
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:18 pm
Janatheil stirred, groggy and half lost to the whims of chill as a foreign heat source began working its way through him. He leaned into it, murmuring beneath his breath and shifting towards it as his lashes fluttered.
“Mum…it’s cold here…”
When his lashes lifted, bringing gradually into focus a familiar face — fire red scales and eyes, tanned skin and dark hair — he made a mumbled sound in his throat, pressing closer.
“Y’so warm…we gonna eat—m’starving…”
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:25 pm
Asi tensed as Jana moved in closer to Tylik and mumbled something about him being warm. A small part of Asi was jealous — jealous that his brother could give Jana what he needed when all he was probably doing was adding to the chill of his body. He huffed, shoving at Jana a bit and wanting nothing more than to get out from underneath the orderite. He managed to scoot away some, slightly freeing himself from under Jana as Tylik helped him to sit up. Asi crossed his arms and looked away, not at all pleased with the situation or himself.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:07 pm
Janatheil made a disgruntled sound as Asi’wi shoved him away, frowning because what had he done…? But then, with the warmth came rationality and he already felt significantly better, Tylik’s presence and magic as rejuvenating and welcome as water after a drought. After shaking his head to clear his senses, he moved to stand, leaning subtly closer to the firani without even thinking about — and, for once, not an overt come on: the young man was simply warm and all of Janatheil’s instincts wanted that at present. Once he made it to solid footing, however, and his mind felt clearer, he stretched and then offered a hand down to Asi’wi.
“Wait so…” He blinked as the full meaning behind the circumstances fell into place. Tylik’s presence meant someone had found them, likely more than one someone alongside Tylik, and they likely would make it to shelter — and food — soon, now. When he spoke, he directed his questions towards Asi’wi’s brother, eyes moving from him out down the tunnel in search of evidence of more company. “You’re here. Are there others here? Who all found us? Is my aunt alright? Is the storm letting up? Asi’wi’s leg is broken and he needs a healer…”
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:27 pm
Asi’wi frowned, eyes narrowing at the outstretched hand in front of him. He grunted and took it, pulling himself up to a stand and doing his best not to sway or rely on Jana to keep him upright. His gaze flicked to his brother at Jana’s questions and he wondered the same things.
“Yes, there are others.” Tylik glanced towards Asi, gaze flicking down to his leg and frowning. “Your aunt’s fine, Jana. She’s part of the search party.” He looked back up to the younger brother. “When you two disappeared and the storm came, we had no choice but to head back. Once the storm let up a bit, father and I gathered a bunch of other dovaa — firani and aiskala — and headed off to look for you two.” Tylik patted Jana on the shoulder and moved over to Asi. “Do you think you can ride a hastar back?” Asi nodded and with the help of his brother he was up on the back of his hastar in no time, doing his best to hide any of the pain he felt from his leg.
Tylik moved back past Jana and paused. “His leg will be fine. Our mother’s a healer.” He raised an eyebrow. “Though you might want to give my brother his cloak back. Mother won’t be very happy if he comes home half naked — even if he doesn’t actually need it to keep warm.”
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Tangled Puppet Vice Captain
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Miss Chief aka Uke rolled 6 100-sided dice:
76, 91, 60, 49, 50, 40
Total: 366 (6-600)
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:36 pm
Janatheil blinked, almost having forgotten about Asi’wi’s cloak. He glanced down to it as he shifted his shoulders, holding it in closer about himself for a moment before looking up to watch Asi’wi as he, too, moved to mount. “I don’t know…” he said aloud, “I am still a bit, uh…” His gaze flicked down Asi’wi’s chest, but then paused and took on a note of seriousness at the dark, mottled bruise on his side, “…chilly…but yeah.” He shrugged out of the cloak, moving up close to his previous companion, enough to hold out the cloth. “Wouldn’t want an upset mother on our hands.”
The trip back was not uneventful. With the storm still in fairly full swing, aiskala dragons — as well as resident peisio, it seemed — were taking full advantage of the conditions to bombard unsuspecting prey. Their rescue team was not so helpless as the beasts they encountered might have hoped, however, and between the full range of practiced and Aisko-hardened hunters in their midst, Janatheil and Asi’wi were kept safe on their full trip back and made it within the walls of Targallah again without further injury.
Next time — at least for so long as he didn’t know the territory well himself — Janatheil promised his aunt he would at least make an effort not to lose himself in any future storms.
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Tangled Puppet rolled 6 100-sided dice:
17, 48, 52, 64, 38, 92
Total: 311 (6-600)
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:37 pm
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