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 Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:09 am
Prompt
Much had changed since the seeds were sown islands away. The sisters of Chibale kept communication with Chiume, excited to hear that Azehra was growing strong in Belrea. Many extremist sisters also communicated with Kiros, some even traveling to the new island to protect Esena. While strained, the relationship between the two had a common goal in protecting the seed of Elzira. Overall, it seemed that the new cousin trees continued to improve Aishan relations.
But still there was the big question on if the relationship between Chibale and the extremists could be mended. The sisters who held the strongest grunges from the war were growing older, and a new generation was forming with their own opinions. Curiosity outweighed anger and an interesting rumor was spreading around all four Aishan settlements.
It seemed that the young mystics were being encouraged to hold a summit somewhere in neutral grounds. No one knew exactly what the goal was, but many could speculate that a peace treaty might be in the works. The question is, would it happen considering their history?
[ Rumors are spreading that the leaders of Chibale and Zinris are considering peace. What are your thoughts on these rumors? Do you believe them? Do you think they can happen? Explore the past feelings and how your character feels about a future of Aishan peace. ]
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:36 am
[1/7]
The rumors had started long after Kanika had settled into her new life in Kahikina. While she hadn’t been so quick to mend fences with her mother and sister, things were better than they had been. Still, Kanika had become her own woman while her sister was gone and she wanted to continue this life away from family. She loved her family dearly, but she needed more time and she wanted to explore her thirst for adventure and travel. Kahikina was not Tendaji, but it was a new place and Kani spent several months exploring it.
Kanika built relationships with the fish races, making sure she could barter and trade with them for needed items. Her independence was growing and she didn’t want to give it up. Life was a lot less strict here and she had a lot more time to do as she pleased now. So, with her new found friends, Kani had found her own place and built her own home with the help of her mothers and the inhabitants. She’d even shed the colors of the Elaria in favor of the much more colorful ones of the inhabitants. It was like she was a new person and she loved it.
When the rumors rose around the Aishian camp, Kanika paid them no mind. She had no will to return to Yael or get involved. She wanted to be free and to the sky with the rest. Speaking of which, Kanika wanted to check on Pyrrha. She’d come along with Zandala and her, without family, and she wanted to make sure that she was doing okay. She didn’t want to feel like she was smothering her or anything, but she’d given her time and space.
Pyrrha didn’t live too far from the settlement but she did live out in the swamp. So Kanika headed out there after her usual morning routine.
“Pyrrha?” She called as she got closer to the home.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:02 am
[1/7]
The island had provided Pyrrha with more than ample opportunity to reconnect with her spiritual self. It was a veritable paradise compared to Yael. While she still had fond memories of her home land itself, the darkness that clouded her mind was beginning to fade into an after thought here. She'd been accepted for her she was and brought into a sisterhood so kind it often brought warmth to her heart. At first it had been hard going to sleep knowing Pruu was so far away, but eventually Pyrrha had come to peace with it. Every morning she said her prayers in the direction of Yael and hoped they reached her. It was all she could do, and if her sister chose to live among Elzira's graces then so be it.
Here, however, Pyrrha had flourished. She'd stayed with the others for a bit, but the call of the wild had been too strong to ignore. The riverlands were a sight to behold with their tall grasses and abundance of wildlife. She'd met so many locals on her travels and learned so much about 'socializing'. In all honesty she'd barely spoken to anyone who wasn't an Alkidike or Elarian, but it was fun! They were sweet and taught her much about her new home. They helped her to fashion clothing using what was around her, and had taught her the best ways to forage for food. It was all so wonderful!
Then she'd found swampier areas so much like her old home, but with so much more life that Pyrrha had disappeared for months.
After spending so much time on her own Pyrrha almost didn't recognize her own name. It took her a moment, but when it dawned on her she brightened. "Kanika? Is that you?" Her hut wasn't much; just a ramshackle little thing hastily put together and never repaired. She never really spent much time in it anyway except to store her newest plants and pretty stones so what was the point? She stuck her head outside to see the other Elarian approaching, and eagerly stepped out to greet her. "It is you! I thought the river was talking to me again; it's so chatty."
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:21 am
[2/7]
“No it’s only me,” Kanika said with a chuckle and she was quiet for a bit as she approached wondering if she too would be able to hear the river speaking. She’d have to ask some of her new fish friends later on.
“I came to see how you were, it’s been a while.” Kanika wouldn’t say that she had kidnapped Pyrrha away from her own necessarily, but she had certainly tried to urge and encourage her to leave. Her family situation had not seemed like best and she felt Pyrrha would have been better off without them. Zandala had fussed about it, unsure why they’d take someone else's child away from them, but she’d reluctantly agreed to it in the end. Kanika wouldn’t have left without her anyway.
While Kanika had chosen to pick up some of the colors from the Kahikians, Pyrrha seemed to have seamlessly integrated with them. It felt odd seeing so many plants on an Elaria, but somehow fitting for her. She was glad she was doing so well then, she hadn’t seen her around at all, understandably, so it was nice to catch up.
“You seem to be doing very well! How have you been?” Kanika didn’t want to baby her or anything, but she was out here alone and she did feel responsible for her since she’d taken her all the way out here.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:55 am
"It has?" She furrowed her brow and thought on it. "Yes....I guess you're right. I hadn't realized so much time had passed." Of course she knew it had been more than a few weeks, but time had never really meant much to Pyrrha to begin with. It wasn't as if she kept track of it back in Zinris.
Seeing Kanika now, though, she realized just how much she'd missed out on. "You look good. I like these colors a lot better on you." She motioned towards the other Elarian's new look. It was nice blend of something entirely personal to Kanika and also a mixture of what she'd been exposed to out here instead of the typical Zinris flair.
"At first it was a little challenging. I slept in trees for the first bit until I made my home, but now I'm much more secure." Pyrrha motioned back to her hut just in time to see part of the roof fall off. Not that it was much of a crash; just a few large leafed limbs crashing onto the ground. "....It's still improving, as we all are. It's just so wonderful here. I can't thank you enough for inviting me to come with you."
Turning her attention back to Kanika she asked, "What about you? And the seed? Has it taken root?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:25 am
[3/7]
“Thanks!” Kanika could not stop beaming, Zandala hadn’t exactly been very fond, and Lumikani was open to anything so she’d just gone with whatever she liked. “I love how colorful things are here, there’s a kind of vibrancy to it all. I met a Hapuna the other day. I love all of their clothing and colors.” She’d never seen anyone look so colorful in her life, granted she hadn’t met much of anyone outside the Alks, Elaria and occasional Yaeli. Here, she could meet who she wanted, when she wanted with no fear of getting in trouble for it.
“Do you need some help with it?” It really didn’t look like much of anything and Kanika worried it might fall on her. She wasn’t any kind of building genius but she was sure they could make little improvements to make it at least look a little safer than it did.
“I’m glad you came!” She really was, Kanika didn’t feel any connection to the other Elaria who had left and things with her sister were a bit shaky. She didn’t know if that rift would ever repair itself. So really, she felt only Zandala and perhaps Pyrrha might understand.
“I also got my own place, I’ve been trading and speaking with the Kahikians a lot. I love learning everything they have to offer, I go fishing with them sometimes. It’s really nice, the freedom is really,” She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before releasing it. “Nice.” She wasn’t slacking off either, she still trained, but wasn't under any pressure to do it and it felt more enjoyable this way.
“The seed has taken root, it’s growing really fast. A lot of people think it’ll be able to give blooms.” Of course, there were also other rumors that were going around, but not with great news.
“Have you heard of the rumors though? The leaders of Chibale and Zinris are considering peace.” Kani made a face.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:39 am
"The Hapuna? I don't think I've seem them yet. The few I've talked to are Menehune. They've got little tentacles like us, except theirs come out of their cheeks." Of course Pyrrha had asked them why that was, but then she'd been asked in return was why hers came out the way they did and it ended up in a mass of questions.
"Actually...I was thinking of letting this one just live out it's days and building a new one closer to the seed." She awkwardly smushed her toes in the pourous terrain with a little smile. "...Being on my own never really bothered me before because it was safer, but now I think I'd like to be closer to everyone else." Of course she could never really be directly involved, but maybe close enough so that she could see others every other day instead of once a year.
"Blooms? Isn't it still a little young?" Pyrrha had to admit the idea of blooms in this new land was exciting. She'd always loved younglings even if no one wanted her to influence them. Seeing infants growing up in a land this free and bright would be something spectacular, but she didn't want to push it. What if it was too much for such a young tree?
"Peace? Didn't they try that before? When the Dretch were upon us?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:55 am
[4/7]
“I travelled for a bit, we never got to before so it was nice to go about and meet all the new races. They like the reefs a lot more than the swamps.” As Kani had discovered, the Kahikians kept to their own territories a lot better than what she’d been taught about Tendaji. “But they’re really colorful, it’s amazing to see. I might travel back there soon to get some more supplies.” She sometimes got some of their items through trade, but it was always harder to find. “The Menehune are nice though, I kinda like their tentacles too.” She giggled.
“Ah that would be nice!” She wouldn’t mind seeing Pyrrha around more when she was home, plus if she knew she had a better place to stay, she ‘d feel better about it too. Perhaps on her next trip she could get her something nice for her new home from the Hapuna.
“It’s gotten really big so I’m not quite sure. Mystic is hopefully though.” She shrugged, she didn’t really involve herself too much in tree business.
“And they did yea, but I think Zinris is a bit more open to talking now.” She made another face. They’d lost quite a few people and two blooms, perhaps things weren’t going too well for them over there. “Maybe it’s just rumors, it’s hard enough getting any information back it seems. Not enough traveling.” She’d heard this mostly from Kahikians who had briefly returned home after going to Tendaji and then it had spread like wildfire back at the settlement. “Would be crazy don’t you think if there was peace?”
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:05 pm
"I think it would be nice, though, if it were true." Pyrrha reached up to take one of her dreads in hand and twirl it, letting the vine covered hair wrap around her muddy finger. Maybe even one day Zinris would see what they did here was a good thing, and she could talk to Pruu again, but maybe that was just a dream. "Don't you? Things are changing, and maybe after seeing what we've done the two can finally start to get along."
Pyrrha had hoped for years that some kind of understanding could be had. She'd prayed to both Aisha and Elzira since she was a little girl. Even if she didn't share the same core beliefs as her Alkidike cousins she thought that surely they must have a common enough thread that peace could be found.
"I just...I don't know how well some of the older Alkidike will handle it. Like my mother."
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:11 am
[5/7]
“I don’t know and, honestly,” she shrugged. “I don’t think I care. I don’t pln on ever going back there. Do you?” Her sister wanted to go back, but she never would again. Sister or not, she valued this freedom far too much, and she had always hated how they used to talk about Lumikani behind her back. No, there were no sad feelings between her and Zinris. She’d be surprised to hear if Pyrrha wanted to go back. She seemed so much happier here on her own without the restraints of their old home.
“I supposed it would be nice for some of the older ones,” Specifically, Kanika thought of her mothers. Though she didn’t know if they were on speaking terms with their families which had stayed on the mainland. “I guess this sort of gives them something in common doesn’t it?” Both stolen from, both hunting down those who had left... It was very familiar. “I think it would be interesting to see if I have any grandmothers alive I guess, learn from them a bit.” Though Kanika still held reservations about the whole thing.
“I guess time will tell.”
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:56 am
"...Maybe. Just for a visit." Pyrrha valued her freedom more than anything else, and yet..."I miss Pruu a lot, and if I thought I could see her without causing any trouble then I would very much like to. Until then, I'm happy to stay where I am." Her mothers would never change; one was too broken to embrace a new life, and the other was simply too cruel. Myrcella might, given the right circumstances, and Pruu....well, Pyrrha could never really stop hoping when it came to her twin.
"Now that would be nice, wouldn't it? Seeing if you had family in Chibale! Surely you must, and....well, I would too, wouldn't I? I wonder if the prayers I've been sending to Aisha reached any of them...." She wondered vaguely. Would the mystic be able to relay that kind of information? Or would she just dismiss them, since those prayers were coming from an elarian?
"I don't...think I've ever seen a grandmother, honestly." Most of the mothers in Zinris were just that; mothers. There hadn't been many children born before she'd left so the concept was a little foreign to Pyrrha.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:36 am
Kanika was surprised that Pyrrha would want to go back, even if it wasn’t a long term kind of thing. Her sister had also mentioned that she wanted to go back as well. Personally, she didn’t understand any of it. She had left and what was behind her stayed behind her, there was no going back ever. She wondered who else would want to go back. Would Zandala? Lumikani she knew would never return, not after everything that had transpired.
“I imagine so, but I haven’t asked my mothers.” And so much could have happened since then that it would be hard to find out at this point if Zandala or Lumikani had family still alive in Chibale. Kanika did wonder if Aisha even listened to any Elaria.
“I don’t think so either, but since it’s such well... peaceful times,” Kanika made some air quotes around the last part. “I was hoping maybe my children would be able to see and meet Zandala and Lumikani if they don’t go off wandering doing who knows what.” More so Lumi than Zan, but Zan would follow Lumikani so they’d both just poof at once.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:23 pm
[6/7]
"That sounds wonderful." Pyrrha genuinely smiled and felt a warmth in her chest. Such a time of peace should be celebrated with new life, and maybe one day there would be little Aishans scattered all over this new land. With any luck peace would also reach her more aggressive sisters and they could find happiness once again in tandem with their cousins.
Still, it was a wish, and wishes didn't often come true for Pyrrha.
"Lumikani and Zandala still seem too young for me to think of them as matronly, but I would think that if you gave them grand-daughters that they would stick around. At least for a while. Any child that's like you would be a marvel to behold, and I can't imagine anyone who would want to miss it." Of course she was pretty biased, considering how many times Kanika had stuck her neck out for Pyrrha. She'd always been so understanding of even her oddest quirks and honestly Pyrrha couldn't imagine anyone more deserving of a happy life.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:14 pm
Kanika offered Pyrrha a soft smile before chuckling at the thought of Lumi and Zan being old.
“I must admit, I don’t either.” She laughed again shaking her head. “Yes it will be nice once I can ask this new tree. I don’t think anyone here can put up with much with me.” Well, she wasn’t very close with any of the Elaria that had come across and that she’d seen so far. And with all the traveling she liked to do, she didn’t think she would make a good partner, and perhaps not even a great mother at that.
“In any case, it will be nice to see you around the village more often.” Kanika rubbed her arm awkwardly, there was at least one Elaria she got along with in the village and that was Pyrrha.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:25 pm
"You speak as if there's a hoard of us," Pyrrha couldn't help, but laugh. "Most of our numbers are your own family so give yourself some credit." And from what she'd seen Kanika's family was far more supportive than her own. Surely even in their most irritated state they could be a cohesive unit? At least, she hoped. One day she had hoped for such a thing with Pruu, but now that she'd left...Well, it was better to leave that alone for now.
Stepping a little closer to the other Elarian, Pyrrha leaned in and swift as a breeze placed a little chaste kiss on Kanika's cheek. She couldn't say what prompted her to do it, but the moment just felt right. Something about her stature, the little awkward way she rubbed her arm...it was just undeniably cute.
And only after doing it did Pyrrha contemplate the repercussions. Instead of hanging around to be told off or worse, she smiled with a little flush and started to back away. "I really should be going, I need to get my things ready for the move." And quick as a flash she ducked back into her hut.
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