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 Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:35 pm
Lin raised a brow, and then realized that Andarien had been gone for most of the day.
"You didn't have lunch?" she asked just in case.
It wouldn't surprise her, if Shiro could get sidetracked with his experiments, why not Andarien with archery? The two were sometimes very much alike.
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:43 pm
A dark look came over Andarien's face, and he sighed and looked at Lin through narrow eyes - as close to a glare as he would ever dare to get with his mother.
"You sound like Eon," he complained. "Of course I ate! I'm not stupid."
Earendil did not like the way his son was acting and sounding. "Andarien," he said firmly, a note of warning in his tone.
Andarien's eyes flickered towards his father, and he swallowed hard. His muscles relaxed, though it was also clear he had to force it. He looked back at Lin, the darkness gone from his face again. "Sorry, Nana," he murmured softly.
Still, it seemed to him that she was always jumping to conclusions. If he was tired, she assumed he had kept himself up late, working. If he was hungry, he must have missed a meal.
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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:17 pm
Lin nodded slowly, accepting the apology. Though it did nothing stop making her wonder, mainly because he wasn't normally that snippy. At least to Lin it seemed odd, though she admitted it wasn't like she got to see Andarien for most of the day. The children generally did their own thing these days.
"It's alright, I was just worried," she replied softly.
Miyuki didn't think there was anything extra bothering Andarien at all, she was use to Andarien not fully getting social cues, and figured he didn't see exactly how he was eating made their mother ask if he had eaten yet today. So she chalked it up to him not wanting to be questioned, and not getting that their mother had asked a simple question. It wasn't like she had out right accused him of not eating a meal today.
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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:40 pm
Andarien sighed and slouched down in his chair. He didn't like the look on his mother's face: it made him feel guilty; and he didn't like that because he felt he hadn't done anything wrong, except talk back to her (which, he reasoned, he had only done because she had been so unjust in what she'd said).
"You could've asked instead of said it like a fact," he muttered under his breath, picking at his food without eating it. He had lost his appetite now, despite how good the food was.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:06 am
"She was asking," Miyuki pointed out softly.
True the wording could have easily been made a statement, but Miyuki knew from the pitch, and the tone it was a question.
Lin shook her head at Miyuki, just because she didn't want to get into it.
"I should have worded that better," Lin conceded, "Sorry about that."
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:53 pm
Earendil felt it was Andarien who should be apologizing, not Lin, but he didn't want to make a bigger scene than had already been made. He would have to talk to Andarien about it later - this had happened before, after all, and Andarien had to learn how to behave better.
"I think we're going to have to take up Andarien's etiquette lessons again," he said to Lin in Common Elvish, a language that didn't exist here. He spoke in that language for a few reasons: first, so that he hopefully wouldn't seem to be making a bigger deal of it in front of their hosts; and second, because he knew Andarien would understand him, and he was hoping that it would remind the boy that he ought to know better than to act the way he was. And, of course, thirdly, because he meant it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:46 pm
Lin really couldn't disagree with that, even if she did think there was something else to it. She didn't know why she thought it, maybe she thought that Andarien sounded grumpy in a way that he forgot he was in the company of others.
So she nodded absently at Earendil's comment, "We'll talk later about time."
Since they would have to fit it in with everything else.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:52 pm
Earendil nodded at Lin. He would prefer they make it a priority, but it was true that he did need his archery lessons and his sword lessons, and they only had a few more days in town.
They finished the meal a bit quicker than they otherwise might have, and despite the awkwardness of the situation with Andarien, Elspeth was ever the gracious hostess, making friendly conversation with the rest of them. Duran and Alaric amused themselves with teaching Kaito and Shiro some of the Garnelian tongue, and, as usual, Kyrie more or less kept to herself.
Once the meal was over and the dishes had been washed, most of the guests retired to their rooms for the night.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:01 pm
That conversation did happen, it had to. Though Lin let Earendil do the explaining because she felt he was much better at explaining why Andarien's attitude was wrong.
Miyuki though, went about her day training (because one could only still for so long), and working on the new array. Sometimes she could be seen throwing small stones and Ai using her abilities to 'fetch' them.
It wasn't surprising to her that this concept was far more difficult, at least with the Pokeballs she was basing it off something she already knew.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:06 pm
It was another lovely spring-like day, though it was not yet spring, and the bright sunshine was what bought Lancaeriel out of doors with the intention of going for a long walk. With this thought in mind, she set out, but she got as far only as the yard of the house where they were staying, where she spotted Miyuki working with Ai, throwing stones away from the small basket on the ground next to her.
For a moment, she watched, and then she leaned against the house, intrigued, as always when Miyuki was experimenting with her magic.
Finally, her curiosity got the better of her.
"What are you trying to do?" she asked at length, tilting her head curiously. "Training Ai?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 6:13 pm
"Well actually training Ai is just an upside," Miyuki replied with a sheepish laugh.
She noted that Yasu tried to play fetch as well, the rocks weren't that big or heavy but he had to carry them back. Miyuki turned to her teacher holding out one of the rocks.
On it, in small, neat handwriting was a rune array.
"The idea is if I tossed this rock, the whatever energy leftover from when it hit would be used to send it back to this basket," she nudged the basket beside her with her foot, "Kind of like... an instant portal, only for small objects, as for the range, I have no clue. I haven't even managed the return aspect, I've been just tossing them, thinking about what I might be missing..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:03 pm
"Portal," Lancaeriel mused. "So you want the stones to return to the basket ..."
She ran her eyes over the rune array thoughtfully. Tiny though they were, they were not a problem for her sharp and practised eyes.
"I'm assuming of course that you've read through your runeology book," she murmured.
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:09 pm
"Yea," Miyuki murmured, "The main problem is, the array has to be useful by anyone, so it would probably be a one time activation like the array that makes the endless bags. Rocks and a basket is a proof of concept."
Miyuki gave Lancaeriel a wryly grin as she placed the stone back into the basket.
"The end result is supposed to be arrows that return to the quiver. Less waste and useful in case of attack, it's asking a lot, it's taking bits of pieces of different arrays that already exist, into something that doesn't quite exist already."
She had read up on portals, and the variety in portals were amazing. Portals to transfer objects, to transfer people, to travel, or to put up at a moments' notice (something she personally thought took way too much energy), but they all had to be activated before being used, and activated each time being used.
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:24 pm
"So what you really want is a return spell," Lancaeriel reasoned. "Perhaps the idea of a portal isn't the way to go."
She bit her lower lip thoughtfully, then asked, "Have you used spells before? I mean without runes. Incantations, so to speak."
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:31 pm
Miyuki opened her mouth to say illusions but then she realized that illusions had actually been a by product of her being a kitsune. So it had been a Gift that she practiced with and was still learning the limits of She blinked and thought about what else she had been taught, there was the light orb, but that never needed an incantation.
"Nnn.... no," she finally replied, "Nothing I've ever learned so far needed one."
Which was probably why the thought of it completely slipped her mind.
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