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 Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:18 pm
All hell was breaking loose before Winta and she was too in shock to process all of it. Hadn't they just had some fun spars going on? How had it come to the conclusion of war? Ruelash stood beside her and while she wasn't really afraid, at least not yet, she grabbed onto the boy's wrist as if doing so would comfort the growing sense of concern she had. If they were going to war that meant that Rue would be leaving right? Actually that meant she would be helping supply weapons, right? It was a lot to take in. This was going to affect all of them and Winta wasn't sure what to do or think at the moment. Winta took a deep breath.
"I guess I should go home and let my grandma know if she hasn't heard by the time I get there." A frown made it's way to her lip as she turned herself to Ruelash, letting go of his wrist. "We won't be seeing each other for a while once everyone goes off to fight?" That thought made her sad. Really sad in fact. What would she do without him around? Sure he lived in Zena and they didn't see each other every day but there was still the choice of walking there to visit him, as they had been doing up until this point, but with a war coming that wouldn't be happening. It wouldn't even be an option.
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:03 am
Ruelash was a little puzzled as to why she was holding his wrist, but didn't see any reason to stop her from doing it.
"Yah, you probably should." Yeah, because her grandmother was a seamstress or something and that meant she probably couldn't protect herself worth a dime, so she needed to know about the war and stuff so she could get protection. Hey, clothes were nice, and they saved lives, but just because you could sew didn't mean you could beat up a guy. He bet his ma could do both. She'd been awesome like that. Heck, he could. Sew. A little. Pretty badly, but it held things together. Her Grandma made little sense to him.
"Ain't letting you go back alone, 'course." he said, trying to figure out what she had just said. Why wouldn't they be seeing each other for a while...
Oh... OH!
She meant that he would be sent off to fight?! Oh man, that would be so great! He felt almost giddy.
"Yeah, guess so." Oh man, he hoped so! Chances were they would keep him doing stupid tasks in Zena away from the action, though. Jerks.
That would be great... So why was she frowning?
"What. Whats up?" he asked, raising an eyebrow inquisitively and looking at her with his intense yellow eyes. Surprise of surprises... he actually cared.
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:06 am
Winta was more than surprised with Ruelash said he'd be walking with her back to her house. Was he walking her home? Yes he was. Why? Not that she minded at all, in fact it made her incredibly happy to have more time to spend with him before he left. Or at least she thought he'd be leaving. Ruelash would probably sneak into the ranks if necessary. "You sure?" She asked with a smile. It was hard to hide her joy of him walking her home. Winta mentally smacked herself. What had gotten into her lately? It seemed like all she wanted to do was be around Ruelash and when he wasn't there she felt lonely. Her heart also seemed to speed up whenever he was around. She really needed to get herself checked out soon.
"I'm sure they'd appreciate having you there." Winta couldn't help but laugh a little at the thought. Ruelash was so into fighting that it wouldn't be a surprise if he was the first one rushing into a battle. "Huh?" In response to his eyebrow raise Winta shrugged and started walking in the direction that would eventually lead her home. It would probably take awhile to get there. "I'm just a little.... Sad?" Winta wasn't sure how to explain her feelings to Ruelash because she was once again so confused by them. Ruelash seemed to bring up feelings she hadn't felt before and had no idea what to do with. "I don't want you to go." She admitted, mumbling it so only he would hear.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:23 pm
"Yeah...?" why wouldn't he be sure? "It's dangerous out in th' desert!" he said, incredulous. "Don't want you to go alone." he repeated, "That'd just be stupid. You ain't stupid" he was almost grudging in admitting it. But it was true. Winta was really smart. Smarter than him.
(not that the bar was set awfully high, but still) "So yeah." he felt like he was talking in circles, "I'm goin' with you."
Appreciate? Him? Yeah right. But he'd show them all... wait, sad? He jogged a bit to catch up to her, keeping up easily once he reached her.
"Sad...?" he looked at her with honest and... possibly... vulnerable confusion. "Why?"
He wasn't even wondering why she wouldn't want him to go fight. He was just puzzled. They were odd words, and he didn't understand.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:13 pm
Dangerous in the desert? For whom? Winta was pretty sure that when it came to surviving in the desert, she was the better of the two for the job. However, she wasn't going to argue. She wanted to have as much time as she could with Ruelash before the war started and she was forced to wait until it was over to see him again. There seemed to be little possibility of meeting during it, at least in her mind. "You're right, well okay." She smiled a little but it was clearly not her usual one.
Once Ruelash had caught up and was keeping his pace matched with hers she frowned. "You're my best friend." She looked at him with a look of sad frustration. Not only were the things that happened to her when he was around confusing enough but why didn't he realize what she'd meant. She liked Ruelash but it was a moment like this where all she wanted to do was punch him. . . and then hug him. "What if you leave and don't come back? I don't think I could take that." The last part she mumbled again. To her the words she were saying were true but they didn't really fit how she felt. It was a little more then that. Winta just didn't understand what she was saying or what was going on and apparently Ruelash was just as clueless about that and more.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:22 pm
Ruelash watched her for a moment, bothered. He was about to comment when she interjected, taking him completely by surprise with what she said. His expression was an unaccustomed and almost vulnerable expression of shocked surprise.
"Friend...?!" he said, as if he didn't quite believe it. He didn't have friends. Not a one. He was keeping pace with her easily, but something about the world seemed to slow down and still as he tried to process it. It was a really novel concept.
"Friend. You're my friend." he murmured, blinking confusedly.
Not only that, but her best friend.
His mind was blown.
"I... don't got... friends...?" so what was she, when she had clearly said she was his friend. "Cept... I guess... You?"
He was still staring at her in confusion when he finally got to what else she had said.
"Wait. So... You'd be sad... if I didn't come back? From that war thingie? Ya'd care?!" He slowed. "s**t. Ya'd actually care." What a weird weird thing to do. He tried to wrap his mind around it for a while. Finally he gave up on it.
"I don't get it." he said finally, his expression frustrated, strained, and, oddly, thoughtful. "I don't get it at all."
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:46 pm
Winta was a little surprised by the expressions Ruelash was displaying and admittedly worried. Had she gone too far telling him about their friendship? Didn't he consider her one? Winta was a little angry at the thought that up until now he hadn't considered her his friend. Then as he continued she realized that maybe it wasn't the fact that he hadn't thought of her as a friend, instead it was he couldn't comprehend that someone else considered him one. That was certainly a lot easier for her to take. Otherwise Ruelash was probably going to get punched in face and knee to the stomach. "Yeah?" Her response hadn't meant to sound like a question. "You're the only one I go so far to visit, you enjoy the same things I do and we get along. Why wouldn't you be my friend?" She had made the mistake of asking him as if he would suddenly know the answer.
Then once more she was taken by surprise at the expression Ruelash made. Why would he not believe that she would care about his wellbeing? Winta felt her cheeks get red from anger and a bit of embarrassment. Once more she brought into question the fact that he might think so little of her. "Of course I'd care!" She nearly yelled at him as she kept herself moving, resisting the urge kick him in the shin. Winta wasn't usually violent, especially towards him, but for some reason all of the words coming out of his mouth seemed to make her heart feel like it was being stabbed with tiny daggers. "I visit you because I want to see you. Sure, I like seeing your expression when I give you a weapon but if I wasn't giving you something I'd still want to see you because I like being around you." That admittance made her intake a breath. What in the world was she saying? I mean, yeah, she enjoyed seeing him and if she couldn't do that anymore she would be really sad but. . . Something felt weird. Her heart had fluttered when she thought of visiting him and being alone with him. "What the hell is going on with me?" Winta muttered to herself, not intending to voice her inner thoughts--or realize she had done so--as she took her fist up to her heart and pounded it against her chest a couple times.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:01 pm
Ruelash might have preferred getting punched in the face and kneed in the stomach. It would have been less confusing than the words Winta was saying. It would have made sense. He wouldn't have to think and his head wouldn't have to hurt and he wouldn't be wondering what in chi's name he was feeling and what she was doing. His head didn't just hurt- it felt like it would explode.
She travelled far to see him? Yeah he supposed she did... and he her... he guessed? Why was she angry? He didn't understand. He didn't F***ing understand.
She did put words to a concept he had been wrestling with. "You like... being around me..." he said, almost to himself. Huh.
He had no answers to her question or to the barely formed concepts that lurked in his head, unable to become questions.
But- and it took him a good bit to puzzle it out- he thought he got something.
"I like you?" he said, almost unbelieving and definitely unsure.
Wait, she had done an odd thing. "What'd ya do that for?" he asked, looking at her hand, puzzled. Was she hurting herself? Why? He didn't understand a lot of things about Winta, but she was... different. Not like the other people. It was not understanding in a good way, almost. Like he actually wanted to figure out what was behind the inpenetrable curtain. for once.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:39 pm
Unknowingly Ruelash had stopped Winta's heart in it's angry thumping in her chest. His sudden realization that they were friends had nearly killed her. Why had it caused her heart to stop. Her chest ached. The sooner she got home the better because obviously the heat was getting to her. Yeah, that was it. Then Ruelash had taken notice of her pounding at her chest. Great. How was she going to explain that? Recently all she could think was that he was going to end up hating her or something and that possibility seemed really real just now. "My heart is acting weird." She groaned. Realizing that she would need to explain further she sighed. Things just never seemed to go her way anymore. "I'm fine I think but it does weird things when you're around." That was a good enough explanation, right?
"Did you not consider me your friend?" Winta asked, knowing she didn't want to know the answer but anything was better than talking about the weird things that had been going on with her lately. Anything that would keep Ruelash her friend and here was welcomed. "Why did you visit then?" There was an urge to either bury herself in the sand right then and there or kick herself. For some reason her mind went to a memory of him in her house, meeting her grandmother, and her wanting to touch his chest. It felt like she'd gotten worse since then. So much worse. Ruelash apparently wasn't going to be any help figuring it out either. Oh how she wanted to punch him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:13 am
"Oh" Ruelash didn't understand. Not at all. Why would her heart act weird around him? Well, why did his head act weird around her? Why did he need to think around her? Neither made sense.
"No, what?" he had no idea what or why he was denying not considering her his friend. "...Just... Never had a friend." he looked sullenly forward, "Thas' all." he muttered, his brow furrowed. So. He had... a friend. This was a friend. Friend. His mind poked at the concept. It was very strange to have. Family were one thing- he cared about Jawaad, and Veshki, and his nieces and nephew, and maybe that stupid wife of Veshki's to some extent, but he had never felt this way about them. He didn't LIKE them like this. He might be positive towards a few of them, and he certainly didn't hate them, but like...?
This was new. This was very new and confusing. And... not bad.
"I wanted 'ta give ya stuff and.... uh... talk to you." I think? "Because, ya know, uh..." he hated articulating his thoughts like this. It was so difficult. "Yer... Different. Than the others."
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:25 am
So it was true that Ruelash had never had a friend before her? Somehow she felt a little bit guilty about being mad at him when he hadn't really done anything to deserve it. She had assumed he didn't consider her a friend and thus upsetting her more. It was a bit of a relief to find out that her assumption had been wrong. Sort of anyways. Then the weight of his words hit her. "Wait, I'm your first friend?" She had stopped in her tracks for a moment, looking at him like he was a new species. "Ever?"
Winta picked back up her stride but the look on her face showed a mix of emotions. Her cheeks were also flushed red. Somehow that fact made her incredibly happy and sad at the same time. "Different? Oh." Winta's mood plummeted a little. So it was just because she was different. Well of course? But why was she upset because of it. It was like highs and lows with her emotions. With every word he said he either raised or lowered her spirits. "So is being different a good thing?" Winta further asked as if she needed some sort of approval for her thoughts.
Her heart hadn't stopped going crazy in her chest with her twisting emotions but she tried not to punch herself in the chest. "I wish it would stop though." Winta groaned a little, pointing to her heart. "Do you know how to stop it?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:10 am
"Yeh." he said, not sure if he should be sad, embarrassed, surly or what about that. "Ever."
She was being unpredictable. Ruelash wondered (!!!) if maybe this was just a Winta thing, being a lot of things at once.
"Yeah?" he said. Wasn't it obvious? "Yer not a snivlin' idiot like ev'rybody. Yer Winta." He added, as if it clarified things. But it should be obvious. Winta was not like the others. Winta was different. Winta was special. And Winta was his friend.
"No idea." Okay, that was a lie. He knew how to stop her heart, but he didn't want to kill her or anything. He bet she didn't know how to make his head stop doing things, either.
"Ya need to rest?" he offered. Hey, maybe it was that.
Uggggh, he was concerned. Was this a friend thing? He supposed that it was okay. For Winta.
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:52 am
It seemed that the answer Ruelash gave her was good enough for now since she only nodded in response. Her ego went soaring but so did her mood. "I guess you're right. I feel like lately though I'm weird though." Winta confided in him. It was true. Lately she had been acting weird, at least to herself, whenever he was around. Should she tell him that? Yes. Thus far he had listened to her and didn't seem to hate it? If he had he would have said so or showed her how much he had. That was who Ruelash was. "Just when you're around." Winta finally tacked on. "I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not?" Winta further admitted. It felt good to tell him these things instead of holding them in. Sharing her feelings with him didn't feel like such a bad thing.
Winta grimaced at his question. Did she want to rest? No, she wasn't tired and it would mean the time alone with him would be extended but still just as bad. "No." She said finally, shaking her head. "We should be arriving in Vers soon and then I'll just sit in my room or something." Then the thought occurred to her that he had been fighting all day and she once more wanted to hit someone. "Are you hungry?"DraconicFeline That post pretty much made my day a little better.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:23 pm
Yeah. Maybe it was just a Winta thing, cept it only happened in the desert? Maybe something like that. Was she really okay? She didn't sound so okay. She sounded worried, and that wasn't good. The thought recurred: was Winta sick with something?
He looked at her appraisingly. Was she pale? Nah, she was flushed. Was she too flushed? Hmmm. Maybe, but he wasn't going to try to feel her forehead and check, not when she was moving so briskly, and it would be better to get to town anyway. He didn't know much about the medicinal plants in the area.
"Uhhh..." what she had said threw him a little. Just when he was around? That was really weird. "I dunno either." he said, at a loss, "Maybe its a bit of both...?" he offered, then frowned, thinking about what he had just said. The hell was it, even. "... yeah." He couldn't figure it out.
"Uhhh... anyway, look. If ya don't want to rest, I get it, but if ya don't feel well, you shouldn't, uh, let that go. Could get bad..." he said, a little awkwardly. He had never given this kind of advice to anybody, "When we get to yer home, ya should have something hot to drink..." he grimaced threateningly at the harsh sun, "Or cool. Just in case." He tried to scan the blazing, mirage-strewn horizon for a sign of the settlement, but the heat haze was too much. Stupid desert. Beautifully dangerous desert.
"... Nah. I'm fine."
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:48 pm
Winta took a deep breath in and let it out. How could she explain what she was feeling? She wasn't even sure what it was she was feeling. "I guess that's possible?" She replied. Winta couldn't help but constantly look over at Ruelash. She couldn't stop. It was almost painful not to look at him. "Should I try both?" Winta asked no one in particular. Would it be a bad idea to have hot or cold water? If so, which one?
"You sure?" Winta asked with a little disbelief that he wasn't hungry. "I think we should probably take care of your wounds too." She said, lightly touching his cheek with her fingertips. Then once she realized what she had done she blushed more and pulled her hand away. "Uh, sorry about that. Not sure... what got into me." Winta looked down at her hand which felt like it had a tingling warmth spreading from her fingertips to the rest of her body. It felt like breathing took more of an effort too.
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