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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:03 pm
 
This is a private RP between Shin-Mu [Beejoux] and Kotone [shyanimegrl].
Setting:
Evening in a clearing not so far from Cherry Tree Hill.
The stars are shining brightly and there's not a cloud in the sky.
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:10 pm
Kotone weaved her way between trees with skipping steps as she hummed one of the more upbeat koto tunes she knew.
If she had abided by her elders' admonitions, she should have been safely at home by this time. But this was not the case. And when this suddenly crossed her mind, her bubbly actions and humming lulled as a small pout briefly came to her features. While she carried on with her stroll, admiring the wooded beauty around her, she also proceeded to do a bit of thinking (a hefty portion consisting of thoughts in her attempt at defending her view) about the matter of curfew.
First off, there was much to be enjoyed that the evening consisted of and didn't share with the earlier times of the day. Thus, it would be a shame to miss out, she presented her argument within her mind. Second, she reasoned next, this was 'gaining some experience' and she thought it would help her be better prepared and equipped with knowledge for when she graduates from the Academy. Fighters, well.., fight, her thoughts went on, and when do battles for the war occur? At night. So, she thought it would be quite absurd for her to transition into the world of warriors with only having ventured Lunaria only in the light of day before then. Certainly, evenings were dangerous and the warnings were far from bluffs, but that's part of why she was on her chosen path. She wanted to aid in returning evenings without war battles to Lunaria.
Third and last but not least, she was too excited to pass on staying out for a while tonight. Tonight is positively perfect for stargazing and I have a spot in mind. I'm pretty sure that clearing is around here somewhere.
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:12 am
Chen, Shin-Mu's favorite attendant, knew she'd left the dafety of the Xia grounds. He hadn't much liked the idea, but he couldn't argue with her, it wasn't his place. As she strolled down path that lead towards the hill she suspected he wasn't far behind. It was a comforting thought really, knowing if anything happened he'd be there to ensure her safety. If the stars hadn't been so bright she wouldn't have bothered leaving home, but there were too many trees around the mountains, and her view had been obscured. She needed a clearer place to star gaze.
Something of a newer hobby. She'd recently found a book about astronomy, and she much delighted in trying to pick out the various constellations shown in the old pages. She had the book tucked under arm, a long candle in an holder held in the opposite hand. So far unlit, as she didn't want to waste the wax on a familiar path. She'd lit it when she found the perfect spot to settle.
The hill itself was clear, but too many people wandered around the area at night, and she didn't wish to encounter them. No telling who was friendly and who was not, and it was just easier to avoid confrontation all together.
There was a clearing not far from the base of the hill that would do perfectly. separated from the beaten path by a line of trees.
((Sorry for the delay! Shin muse took a break and then this weekend was very busy at work. <3))
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:23 pm
Kotone's first thoughts on a location when she was planning for stargazing was to possibly check Cherry Tree Hill. She felt sure admiring the stars from there would be as though she was amidst the stars herself. Originally, she had started her stroll having in mind to be on her way to said hill. However, along the way of walking to the renown location, she thought about the possibility that others would be stargazing at that spot as well and quite possibly it would be very crowded. This possibility prompted an inward, puppy-like whine from Kotone since she thought it may be impolite of her to add her attendance to an already overflowing pool of individuals there. Evidently, her imagination had run away with her again. And her mind also spun inconsistencies regarding the matter of politeness, but that was another story. Still, she set her mind to the hill being her first pick for a stargazing spot even when she began to consider an alternative place.
And then there was the turning point when she remembered the clearing. Kotone's memory couldn't really be trusted for real accuracy since it was always accompanied with a generous dose of her imagination. And in her memory, the clearing was glowing. At first when the clouds passed over the stars and moon the night she first encountered it, she stopped in the middle of it only due to how peculiar, and therefore interesting, it seemed to her that trees gave way to free the area. But when the clouds gave passage to the moonlight, she recalled that the space had lit up, grandly and gloriously. It was this memory that prompted her change in destination. Certainly the sight of the stars on this cloudless night would be just as spectacular in that clearing.
But, she was currently having difficulty locating said clearing. She paused in steps and let her hand touch upon a tree, looking up to it as though wordlessly asking it for directions. Where was the clearing, she wondered while trying to fight off impatience at herself. She turned and proceeded to walk back on the path which she had come from. However, Kotone wasn't the type to be easily disheartened at all. It may be that I've missed a turn, I'll go look. I can find it, she encouraged herself optimistically.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:12 pm
The clearing was just as she remembered it. A wide, open area surrounded by a line of younger trees with mature, ancient things beyond it. It was a beautiful place, and in the light of the moon it almost seemed to glow, ethereal in it's beauty. She had only recently found this little slice of heaven, and knew without a doubt it would be empty, quiet, and peaceful. Pausing by the tree line, she paused to admire it before moving onward towards the center of the clearing, and an old, worn and dry log.
It was long with a raising of gnarled roots, the entire thing weather beaten, clear of bark. She set her book on a flat stretch before settling herself beside it. Legs lifting up to rest along the length of the trunk as she rested her back against a bundle of twisting roots.
For a time she just sat there, chin up tilted, gaze on the stars. The candle and holder resting in her lap, delicate fingers wrapped loosely around it. The book was down by her feet, and she'd have to move to retrieve it, but now that she was there she was in no hurry.
The stars over head were brilliantly bright, and she mentally flipped though the constellations she was now familiar with. She spotted the hunter easily, the great bear, the whale. She connected the pin pricks of light, tracing the shapes. She knew where they were in the sky, knew the connecting lines and shape they formed, but she did not really understand how such abstract shapes came to be known as such specific things. They were all pretty, of that there was no denying, but she couldn't see them as what they were supposed to be.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:17 pm
Where was the clearing, the question crossed her mind again after having undergone more searching. Her steps paused again and she sighed, feeling very disappointed that she hadn't come across it. She then turned her head up, seeing a few stars against the clear night sky past numerous slits through the bunches of leaves of the tree she was currently beneath.
Feeling half-hearted due to failing at her search, she changed her course to head to Cherry Tree Hill for her want to stargaze still wasn't extinguished. Along the way, however, the sight of the moon lighting her way on the familiar and comfortable path did not take long to lift her spirits back up.
While admiring the night scenery, she also found herself glancing towards the trees, peeking hopefully that perhaps she will still be able to encounter the clearing in her memories.
She gasped lightly, delighted by the sight of a much lighter patch between the lining of trees. She dared to raise her hopes high that if she entered that space, it would be what she thought and wished it would be.
She entered the gap, chin raised. She was eager to see as soon as she could the reality behind her high hopes. And she got her wish.
She giggled softly yet ecstatically. "Waa, amazing!" her gentle voice exclaimed as she twirled a gradual 540 degrees. Slowly inching further into the area in her motions. Her arms traveled from her sides and up to shoulder-level, spinning with her as though the stars would rain down and she wanted to catch them.
Her chin returned parallel to the ground once again as she began to turn another 180 and so on degrees, this time to admire how the clearing lit up beneath the shine of the moon upon it. She did this as she placed one foot in front of the other, walking forward in a slightly curved trajectory.
When her gaze abruptly fell upon the beautiful, green-dressed Lunarian, a quick and light intake of breath was prompted from her and she took two small backward steps in slight surprise. "Oh, my apologies. I just suddenly appeared and started making noise," Kotone gave the young lady a bow with her words, feeling somewhat embarrassed as her hands fisted a tad against her thighs.
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:02 pm
Shin had drawn the heavy book into her lap and was flipping through the pages. The candle she'd brought remained unlit near her feet, unneeded in the brilliant glow of the stars over head and the full moon. She could make out the pictures within the tome with surprising ease. She paused on a constellation she hadn't identified yet and studied the diagram on the page. Fingers tracing the lines, lingering on the pinpricks of the stares themselves. Committing the image to memory before turning her gaze back up to the sky, searching the endless, speckled darkness for the shape.
A voice rang out in the silence before she could find it though, startling Shin as well as drawing her attention. She'd heard noise, the rustling of underbrush, but considering she'd never encountered another lunarian within this clearing save Huang she had certainly not expected that noise to be another young lady.
When the other finally noticed Shin she was met with a neutral, almost bored expression, and a twitch of brow rose curiously as she apologized. "Don't worry about it." Her voice was soft, but in the clearing it carried.
She couldn't say she was happy to see the other girl. Company hadn't been on her agenda for the evening, and if she was to share her time with anyone it would have been Huang or perhaps Yuudai. Her friends, not some unknown girl that happened upon her in the seclusion of a little known clearing.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:57 pm
"Don't worry about it."
At these words, a light smile came upon Kotone’s features with gratefulness as some embarrassment still lingered, “T-thank you..My name is Kotone, Wakahisa no Kotone. May ask what is your name? And also, may I please join you here in this clearing? I’ve come wishing to stargaze.” Kotone’s tone was its characteristic soft and just passing in being clearly audible, but it was also perky and friendly. Slowly, little by little, Kotone shooed away more of the nervousness left from her intrusion to minimize it and its troublesome effects on her behavior via fiddling lightly with the ends of her skirt.
Kotone could easily tell that the refined young lady before her carried herself in a manner Kotone’s mother would like Kotone’s demeanor to have more resemblance to. Thus, Kotone felt a great admiration to the young lady before her and some envy as well. Kotone’s gaze increased gradually in awe and praise toward the elegant Lunarian. The young lady was seated beautifully, Kotone couldn’t help but inwardly note such observations, her posture exemplary. The air about the young lady, Kotone thought in accordance to her mother's teachings, was suited for a young lady of noble descent. Kotone’s mind subconsciously registered the Lunarian dressed in soft green as a role model of how a noble young lady is to present herself.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:13 pm
The dark noble shifted her legs, drawing them from the length of the log to drape over it. Sitting upright, back straight , with her book laid open along the tops of her thighs. Holding her hands over the page she'd been looking at, she turned her chin to look up at the other young woman, face coolly neutral. She might not want company, but she was raised to be a lady, and she would polite until something forced her otherwise.
"Xia Shin-Mu." Her response was clipped, but her voice was soft and mostly pleasant. Not exactly inviting, but not bad, considering. Pale brows gave a minute pinch at the latter portion of the request, and Shin could feel a retort in the negative building on her tongue, but she swallowed it back. "You may, it is a big clearing, and I can claim no ownership of it."
Her words were polite, and if they came of slightly dismissive it hadn't been her intention. She didn't want company, but she wasn't about to be rude over something so trivial or petty. Kotone had offered her nothing but kindness and respect, and she could return no less.
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:24 pm
The more and more Kotone saw the young lady before her, the more amazed she was. Shin-Mu looked like she came right out of a painted portrait. Shin-Mu also looked like she came right out of a textbook on how to be a proper young lady with pictures, Kotone considered next.
"You may, it is a big clearing, and I can claim no ownership of it."
She almost didn’t catch when Shin-Mu had spoken these words since she had slowly been focusing more and more on absorbing and remembering how Shin-Mu was seated, almost as though she was silently engaged in an academy lecture on battle strategies.
“T-thank you, Lady Shin-Mu,” she replied somewhat hurriedly after a pause, stammering slightly in soft delight upon her mind registering Shin-Mu’s words. She used out of the blue Lady instead of Miss since Lady is what she would use when with her family and Kotone felt as if her family was with her meeting and addressing others. She felt fairly embarrassed that she had nearly forgotten about stargazing and her question to Shin-Mu, as well, as she was looking at her.
Kotone moved with quietly joyful steps to lightly take a seat on the log, too. Shin-Mu seemed to be reading and so, Kotone didn't want to cause further disturbance. However, as she was stargazing, Kotone's habit of wanting to watch and learn from others surfaced as she started to insert glances in the role model young lady's, Shin-Mu's, direction.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:52 pm
Polite though the dark noble may be, she remained judgmental, and she couldn't help but give the other girl a rushed once over. From the scuffed toes of her shoes to the looped and bond buns that graced either side of her head and the dark fall of hair that fell from them. She wasn't exactly.. neat, but she wasn't dirty. Her attire didn't speak of great wealth, but was well kept. The dark flesh along the bridge of Shin's nose pinched, twitching softly in mild distaste, though quickly controlled.
Kotone's lingering glance remained trained on the noble long after Shin had directed her gaze back down to the pages of her book. It was distracting, the feeling of eyes nearly boring into her. Why was she staring so? It was rude, not only that, but irritating. The flicker of a frown tugged at glossed lips, but the other girl finally spoke and took a seat, insistent stare finally breaking.
A temporary reprieve, it would seem. Once the dark haired youth had sat she once again turned her attention to Shin in quick, persistent glances. Not only irritating, but enough to raise the noble's nerves. She didn't like being examined so thoroughly, it was unnerving, and Shin could feel the flesh between shoulder blades starting to crawl from the weight of eyes continuously glancing her way.
She tried concentrating on her book, but she could see the legion within her peripheral, and every motion, every muted shine of those silvered eyes in the moonlight was another drop in the cup of Shin's limited patience. If she continued the study, the noble was sure to snap.
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:08 am
After continuing to shift back and forth between glancing at the stars and glancing at the proper lady beside her for a few more moments, it crossed her mind to consider that maybe such an approach wasn't as effective as concentrating on one task. But now the question was should she focus on stargazing or observing and learning how a lady is to carry herself while reading from the admirable Lady Shin-mu? Oh, but yet again, Kotone suddenly found another question aside from the previous: why was she attempting to observe and learn from Lady Shin-mu in this way? It was at this time that something she considered very important to remember, came into her awareness and that is staring is rude and certainly not something a proper lady should do. All the while as these thoughts ran through her mind, Kotone was silent in her place but her expression directed in a not-seeing gaze toward the trees in front of her had been changing to reflect her increasing absorption into pondering as a blank look was followed by gradually furrowing brows and now showed a surpised, horrified expression. I've been staring! So rude! Kotone mentally admonished herself and seemingly unaware to her, she also outwardly did so as her fists connected with the hair at the top sides of her head in firm but nearly inaudible taps as she punished and reminded herself to behave appropriately. Her display of eccentricity apparently didn't end there as she abruptly sat herself up straighter and focused her attention on the stars.
And for the next moments of silence that followed, Kotone managed to show no other signs of madness. Though through the course of the silence she spent gazing at the stars, the outward rigidity she'd placed upon herself relaxed and from a stiff seated posture turned back to her natural seated form as the stars kept her attention.
The silence of stargazing grew and Kotone's thoughts started to accomodate memories of what she's seen and heard. The expression she wore now meant the memories were bittersweet and it escaped her that she was not alone when she recited a haiku she had made up just now with her eyes not leaving the celestial expanse:
"Beneath the bright stars,
cherry blossom trees become
bare of blooms and bloom."
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:33 pm
The continual glances were enough to make the corner of pretty lips curl up in irritation, and she even turned to snap at the other girl before realize she'd finally looked away and out into the surrounding trees. Curiously, the noble too glanced in that direction, but there was nothing to be seen but dark trunks and thick shadows, and Shin rolled her eyes before happily turning her attention back down to the pages of her book.
She examined the constellation, memorizing the location of each tiny pin p***k of light before lifting her head to look for the shape amongst the vastness above them. A frown forming on the pout of dark lips as the shape continued to elude her. Where was it?
Kotone was so quiet beside her that the sudden soft murmur of her voice was enough to startle the dark lunarian, and she shot the other girl a cool look before blinking. Poetry? "Excuse me?"
The dark haired girl didn't even blink in response, but merely continued to stare off, lost in her own thoughts. This was just too weird.
Closing her book, rose to her feet, free hand slipping around to smooth the lines of her skirt before curling with it's mate around the old tome. she didn't have the patience for this. The staring, the mindless mumbling, none of it. So with a last soft tut the noble made her leave, sleeping off into the trees to follow the path home. What a wasted trip
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:06 am
Kotone’s mind has been alternating between memories of happy and difficult times in her past.
Right now, it’s hard to believe that under this starry sky, somewhere in Lunaria, it is very likely a Legion and Noble warrior are clashing on this night. At this thought, her brows furrowed in sudden anger and frustration. She then shook her head from side to side as it swayed down, her eyes having closed in the abrupt motions and remained closed a few moments after she stilled and sighed before opening and looking back up at the stars. It was not just her family that was affected by the war, certainly. Encountering clashes and experiencing the tension of this time of warfare and conflict was definitely not difficult to do and she had done so effortlessly a notable frequency of times in her life and not just on her strolls venturing where she has so far.
Yet, there are still precious, memorable times that have been and to be had. Life was a mix of good and bad times. But why? She looked at the celestial expanse like she wished desperately for it to give her an answer. Why was living filled with so much pain that her chest aches badly at times and other times she would feel so happy, she couldn’t help but wonder, feeling incredibly confused as she inwardly expressed her question.
Her gaze drifted back down and to her feet. This time her mind took on a blank as she moved her feet to brush the grass in random drawings with the tips of her shoes. She took a deep breath and then released it, both done breathing in and out slowly while her eyes closed and opened in time with them.
Suddenly remembering she wasn’t alone, she stiffened upon this recollection. She first checked at a peripheral and then turned her head. Lady Shin-mu had gone and she hadn’t noticed.
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