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 Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:51 pm
 Iroia fidgeted awkwardly, nothing in her experience had prepared her for this but there was no other way to illustrate her feelings for the man, she had to tell him. So she waited in the clearing trying desperately to find calm among the silence and the plants and failed miserably. Pathetic, this was pathetic, maybe if she did something while she waited but the something she wanted to do was run and that would take her away from the meadow, if she didn't run away to blow off steam that would mean running around the meadow and that would flatten the grass and they he would be able to see just how nervous and awkward she really was so no. She would stand here and be that dirty word...patient. She hoped he had gotten her written request to join her, she had passed it off to Kaa with the request that she give it to him. This was her reaching out and she hoped he would come soon before her tiny brain exploded from fretting.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:53 pm
Allright, so Votzhem was a little nervous about meeting Iroia today. She and Kaalnia were friends, and it was none of his business what they talked about on fungus-lit days and nights that Kaalnia returned from with bruising and cuts. So, he'd been understandably surprised when Kaalnia had handed him a note, addressed to him, from Iroia.
It was an odd note, and it worried him. He was not particularly oblivious, honestly. In fact, he was usually pretty perceptive. That was how he had found all the needles in the haystack – all the Alkidike ladies that might be interested – and approached them. Between the refusals and the dumping and the general chaotic mess that was his every attempt to court one of them, he was pretty sure he had tried every single vaguely interested alkidike in the tribe. Clearly, he wasn't good enough for them.
So, obviously, this note would have nothing to do with that. Which meant Iroia was in trouble.
Now, she and that odd friend of hers – who was practically his double – looked like they could handle most things that came at them, so whatever it was she needed to see him about...
It had to be bad. Real bad.
Of course he'd help, whatever it was. He'd apparently killed a Menzuri before, by accident, so he probably could handle some trouble or other. That was just the chivalrous thing to do.
He stepped into the meadow, squinting in the sudden filtered sunlight. ”Iroia? You here?” he called, hands on his blades. Just because he could handle trouble didn't mean he wanted to face it unprepared. He took out the note – which didn't say very much, really – and held it up. ”I, uh, got your note. What's going on?”
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:26 pm
Iroia nearly jumped clean out of her skin when he arrived and spoke out, the words shattered the silence around her. She blinked, careful now, how to approach this. She hated this tricksy social dance that she had never done before. She called out and walked towards him, "I'm here Vosh," her voice lacked the harsh screech of battle and the guarded overtones used in unfamiliar company. It shocked her that it was still her voice but stripped down to something almost ..bell like. Interesting. "I wanted some time with you alone, without Ms. Flirtsalot around. I seem to have come down with an er.. an infatuation." She stood before him now. She had left her blades on a stump near the edge of the clearing. She was vulnerable on purpose. It was a sign of trust and somehow she didn't think they had a part in what was to come. She was exposing her gentle side which was her most vulnerable part, the part that had not armor no protection, she swallowed. "I can't seem to stop thinking about it, and I wanted to get to the bottom of it. I never do things halfway. And being stuck in the void is messing with my mind in ways I didn't think were capable." She stood in front of him now and looked down for this next part. "I am not like other girls, certainly not like those you are used to, and I never will be a full on girlie girl." She tilted her face up to his and looked him right in his eyes. "What I am is solid, dependable, and given half a chance, I would care deeply for a partner, perhaps more then even I know. My parents have this devotion, and I have never found someone who might click right what with my er tendancies to energetics and well scrapping."
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:09 am
Votzhem turned towards her voice and was relieved to see that she was all right. He relaxed, letting his hands slip from the hilts of his swords.
But if nothing was wrong, then what was he doing here?
He listened to her, his eyes widening in realization, and for a moment, he just stared at her, processing. He was completely floored. Of all the things he had thought she would say, this was so far off the mark that he just... wasn't sure what to do. He'd been expecting trouble, monsters, something like that, maybe even friendly complaining about 'ms Flirtsalot' or her freaky double-friend. But this... this...
He blinked. ”Are you...” he cleared his throat, suddenly nervous and uncertain, ”Are you...” he hesitated, swallowing again as his thoughts slowly began to crystallize. ”Iroia... are you saying you're... attracted... to me?”
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:07 pm
Iroia's face felt like it was quite on fire at the moment and for the first time ever she wished for some snow too sooth her blazing face. She dipped her head trying to shake off the horrible awkward pressure that seemed to concentrate right behind her eyes like a rabid bird tying to escape. Should this be so scary? Scarier then facing all those Obans? Definitly. And this wasn't even life threatening. Mentally she grabbed hold of that bird and pinned its wings. There. iroia raised her head again. "Yes that is exactly what I am saying, I'm not good with words when Im nervous, and well not alot actually makes me nervous." But his does she wanted to shout. She bit her lip before the last exploded out of her. Oddly despite her distress she didnt want to run. She had always wondered what made others run during battle and surely this must be it, she thought as her nerves made her legs shake. then she wondered what he thought about this nice little mess she had made for her silly self. He obviously hadn't seen it coming. Did that mean tyere was no attraction... maybe she should have talked to Kaalnia just a little bit more before this and discussed the outcomes which could be possible all of which she had known before hand but was to excited maybe even too scared to think about.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:22 pm
Votzhem took a deep breath and released, an inhale and an exhale, a change of gears. ”Well.” he said. A slow smile crossed his face, a little sheepish. ”I... I was just checking.”
He'd not thought that a non-alkidike would ever look at him, and he'd only been looking at Alkidikes, whether out of a desire to be loyal to his tribe or because he hadn't thought, again, that any earthling would look at him. It was hard to say.
Had he been looking in the wrong place? Apparently so. ”I... Never expected. I thought, with all the time you spent with our friend...” he laughed at his own stupidity. No, Iroia wasn't interested in women. He was usually better than that. She and Kaalnia were just friends – it was as obvious as his feelers.
His stomach hurt from repressed laughter, but he managed to speak regardless. ”All right,” he said. He'd been an idiot. Such an idiot. ”Kaa told you, didn't she? About all the Alkidikes that've left me in the dust?” he shook his head, unable to keep his own amusement at himself buried. It was too much. He was bitter, to be sure, but he wasn't ngry at Kaalnia – he knew her too well to be pissed. He knew that if she told, it was because she thought she had a reason to, and after knowing her for years, he knew to trust her instincts. ”Do you have any idea what they're like? Not girly. You... you don't have anything to worry about... there...” He passed a hand over his face, brushing his dredlocks out of the way.
”How long?” he asked, ”How long have you felt this way. About me.”
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:21 am
DraconicFeline I did make this last night, but gaia was mean when i tried to post it "I like Kaa but just not in that way, the same way I like Dya, as friends, not..something well more then that. Fine people, the best, but I well, I don't see other woman..in that way. I'm not attracted to them." "That and I have one really close friend and he is a guy and Kaa is not so it was nice to have a little girl time with someone who kinda got me. Someone I could talk to without having to try to explain things like crushes and the like, Rue just doesn't quite compute those things the same way. And I have like no experience so I needed help and Kaa was willing to talk and battle at the same time." Iroia shrugged. "My mother is too far away and I can't imagine the look of heartfelt fear in my father's eyes if I tried to talk to him about such mushy things. He partakes I know as he smooches mom when I'm not looking but to actually form words about it, no." She stifled a small giggle. "Kaa didn't go into detail about your past but I did sort of ask, and thus I know that you have had a more difficult time then I. " Kaa also showed her just how much Vosh's feelings meant to her, an extremely good trait in a friend. "I can't speak for other girls but I'm not a dallying sort, when I do something its with everything I've got. If we are incompatible that is one thing but I have never understood the speed dating thing. People happen to have hearts and souls and I don't think that quite comes through to everyone." "Well I only know Kaa and Dya.. who are not girly your right, but how was I to know that, there are some earthings that make me kind of shudder, I prefer to use makeup as warpaint," she giggled and gestured at her face. "Stripes the newest style in intimidating camoflague." Now she couldn't hold in the wail of mirth that escaped. Then his next words snapped her back to attention. "Well," She rubbed the back of her neck then brought her hand around to fiddle with the long tail of hair by her face, "I was first attracted to you the day we met, and digging up the root didn't help, when you touched my hand to help I felt a zing of energy down to my toes. I had never felt quite that electrified before. As inexperienced as I am I don't often get close to handsome men unless I'm chasing their butts down in battle cause they were fools to run, and at that point, attraction is the last thing on my mind." She fiddled with her hair braiding the strands before reaching the end all too soon and giving up. At least some of her tension eased, the laughter had helped greatly. "Do you think your family, would mind you, er hanging out with a Leafling all that much?" Leave it to her to find something else to worry about. It never even occured to her to think about her own parents, but they had never been overly strong feelinged with any of the hybrids around home, had even let her "play" with a few, she remembered in particular a leaf/wind youngling who had had pink hair, which she admired, he and his sisters had scurried from her and all the rest, not that she could really blame them back then, she had been a bit of a biter. In her defense she had grown out of it...mostly, cept the odd time in battle. The thought made her eyes sparkle and she couldn't help the grin.
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:34 pm
Okay, that made sense. Not all of Kaalnia's female friends were her lovers... not that it stopped him imagining it from time to time... he had to deal with, sometimes, the fact that his best friend was a very attractive woman. Heck, he'd fallen for Kaalnia a few years back once he'd stopped resenting her for being a softfoot. That had become friendship when he'd gotten it through his thick skull that, for some reason, Mother Aisha had made him so far from her type that he would never, ever have a chance with her.
”I can see that double of mine not getting things like that.” he said, his mind scurrying a little to keep up with her, ”He seems kinda... dense.” But he wasn't actually thinking about Ruelash. The wild ice man couldn't really, honestly be further from his mind.
I think I need to sit down. he said, trying to -gracefully – sit down on a nearby stump. She'd been into him from the moment they'd met? Well, that had been right after... another disappointment... so maybe he'd just been distracted. Yes. Being left alone like that is distracting
”I'm normally better...” he said sardonically, ”At noticing these things...”
He closed his dark eyes for a moment and counted to three before looking up at her again. In a new mental light this time.
She was attractive – he'd noticed it before, but now that he knew where she stood, he really noticed it. She was attractive, and into men – him specifically, though Aisha knew how long that would last. She was fun to talk to, energetic and... hmmm...
Finally he spoke. ”No.” he mused out loud, ”My mother, Lakshmi, she wouldn't care. Mama Vennan... Maybe a little, but she won't go against Laki...” he chuckled, ”And she's in Sauti besides.” His expression darkened slightly ”And Mother Aisha... well, she's a tree. She's got all her daughters to worry about.” Why's she gonna care about her son?
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:51 pm
"Well, if you don't think they would mind, they are after all your family and their acceptance would mean a lot to me. I'm not so worried about Aisha." Iroia knelt where she was not too far but also not crowding him. "And well in the beginning perhaps its not so odd that you didn't know about my feelings, I was hiding them." She plucked at a stalk of grass. Now that she had spoken her mind and babbled on for so long it seemed that she had run out of words. It was complicated this dance of words, body languages and feelings. She felt like she crested on emotional waves and fell as if on waves and she had never even seen the ocean. She smiled, "Lakshmi sounds like a force to reckon with. Is she your alkidike mother? Vennan the iceling?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:03 pm
”Why?' he asked before he could stop himself. ”No, nevermind. That's not the point. Well, uh. Now I know.”
Truth was, it was Aisha he was worried about. She was the reason he didn't just go YEP, GREAT, LETS GO PURSUE THIS THING WE HAVE, as he had done with any Alkidike girl who had shown an interest.
”Yeah.” he said, Mama Laki... she's a force of nature.” He had been born from her wishes, grown as a flower on a tree. He'd always thought that he should find a mate from in his own tribe. That hadn't worked out well so far, but surely that tree wouldn't have brought him into this world just to be alone.
Right?
”Vennan's ice, and shes a different kind of force... A constant wind, as opposed to a storm, you know?”
He was quiet for a moment, and then he looked at her seriously. Maybe he'd been looking in the wrong place for his lifemate. Maybe not. He knew this, though – he refused to believe that Aisha – or Laki – could have brought him to life just to be alone and despondent forever.
”All right.” he said, ”I like you too, but I... well... I don't know what we have...” he swallowed, wary, now, of how he had to sound, of how it could make her feel. But he had to be honest with her – his heart had been broken too often by lies. ”So we can try this, if you want. See if it works, if its what you... we...” well he did feel it a little, didn't he? That was not a lie. ”think it is... see if you can stand me...” he smiled, a wistful little half smile. ”Like... a test run. Or something.... How about that?”
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:34 pm
She nodded sagely, "Of course, we hardly know each other that well. And as I have said I well I have no experience right, so I basically have no clue." Besides those infernal floopy feelings that she dared anyone to try and figure out. "I'm not always the easiest person to get a long with either, besides you and a married shifter I hardly ever see, Rue is the only other male who puts up with me, and yet the people I get along with I get along with well." Maybe she should just keep her mouth closed for a bit before she found more truths about herself that hurt so bad. "Do you have an idea for a test run?" She tilted her head quizicaly. She really felt like she was lacking on the easy conversation front. But, wait, he said he liked her too. That made her smile, she didn't know what they had either, some kind of seed, very small but there. Not much of anything yet, just a possibility.
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:52 pm
Votzhem was relieved she agreed – seemed she had a similar problem. She was new to this, and he... just had to be sure this time. Really sure. Before they crossed the boundary of friend or whatever they already had.
”Heh. Experience...” he murmured. He had that. And that experience – copious and miserable as it was - told him that normal 'date' things would not go over well with Iroia. She was too spirited. Talking... well sure, they were doing that now. But right now, it was too open. He felt too exposed – he felt she was too exposed. It wasn't comfortable.
No, they could chat later, when they'd put up their natural guards again. Right now, they needed something non-strenuous, something they could both do. ”Um...” he thought for a moment.
And then he had an idea. ”Well, to start...” he grinned – he was brilliant, ”How about an actual run? To warm up a little?”
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:11 pm
Iroia perked up at that suggestion, a run? Fantastic! No thinking, no awkwardness just pitting her stride against his on a free, mad sweep through the Jauhar terrain. It sounded heavenly. "Oh gods yes, let me just grab my blades," she sprang up and retrieved them skipping back. Now that she was moving she felt so much better. She appraised his long legs, nope he didn't get a head start. She giggled and flew off down a trail. "Catch up to me~" She sang back at him. He was tall, he would catch up with no problem..unless his feelers got stuck in a tree or something but feeler management was his problem. She ran hard but not all out letting her legs warm up, taken care of properly they would let her go for forever..well close to it. She reached out in long strides, joy filling her heart as she leaped logs and was clawed at by branches. This was what abandon felt like. It helped there was someone here to run with too. She hoped it would help build up that friendship and make the pair of them less awkward with each other. She disliked that nervous feeling greatly, where words became even more potent as weapons.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:45 pm
Votzhem hadn't meant a race but, well, he'd take it.
”Oh I will!” he called out, standing up and springing after her. His long legs gave him an advantage, but he paced himself – it wouldn't do to get himself tired out on a first date. That was what this was.
No, you do that on the third he quipped to himself, then shook his head at his stupidity. Not the third. Not if he wanted things to turn out any differently. He had to find out if he was really into this. He was, after all, worried – she wasn't of his tribe. She wasn't an Alkidike. Did he like her more than just that? Could he be attracted to someone who wasn't? Should he be?
He focused on the run. Right now, he just had to see if they were compatable. He had to see what the friendship was like.
He also had to pay attention otherwise he'd trip and fall on a root.
He dodged amidst branches and brush, finally catching up to her. He looked to the side, keeping pace with her. ”Your fast.” he managed, saving his breath. Already, it came in gasps and pants, but his legs could handle more running still...
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