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 Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:35 pm
Hamal had gone out tonight alone, leaving her cousins and boyfriend, she didn’t always like to have someone out with her - she didn’t need protection. At least she didn’t need company all the time…just most of the time, because it did get boring. But tonight was a night for her and she was enjoying it, the rain earlier in the day had dealt a blow to the humidity of the day, there was a nice breeze that had the scent of rain still clinging to it. She was enjoying it as she walked down the sidewalk, glad no one else seemed to be out tonight, it was nearly midnight and the area she was in was devoid of people it seemed.
She’d come across a youma earlier, some twenty minutes earlier, and had dealt with that. Now there was nothing and Hamal was considering heading back for home and slipping into bed after a quick shower. She wouldn’t go to bed without a shower, however quick it might be, because she had never done that and had no intentions of doing so now.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:36 pm
Erinome had snuck out again, this time he’d done a good enough job to stay quiet and not wake Ian up. He felt a bit bad and worried that they would worry if he wasn’t there when they woke up but he really got a bit stir crazy when they were asleep at night. Apparently they were getting him something to help with that but it hadn’t arrived yet.
Luckily nothing had bothered him tonight, none of those youma and no other guardian cats to yell at him for nabbing plants and shoving them in his mouth or in subspace. He’d gotten a nice collection of Earth plants to try and only a few of them he had found to be gross tasting. As for what kind of salves and medicines he could make from them, that was something he was still trying to figure out.
Sitting on the brick half wall that stood around a group of climbing vines and tall yellow flowers, he nibbled on the black kernels that seemed to fall from the center of them. They were crunchy and he spit the shells out onto the ground but the inside was really good. He just couldn’t reach the big flower to get more so as he felt a familiar aura, the small moth senshi turned and looked at them for help.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:36 pm
Picking up on the aura of a senshi, like herself, they were a bit weaker than she was but that was all the more reason for her to quicken her pace and meet up with them. There was no telling if they were going to be out on a patrol alone or were heading home after a patrol. If they were planning to go out alone she’d be putting a stop to that, it was dangerous, she knew it was a terrible idea to be out on your own without potential back up. She thankfully had back up only a phone call away, two cousins and a cousin-in-law as well as their brother.
When she spied the senshi she at first stared, they didn’t look all that much like a senshi, and they also didn’t look human entirely. “I’ve seen you before….” She whispered slowly, looking them over. “Up in space, right?” She was certain she’d seen this senshi and rather recently, space was the only place she could think of, so she was certain it had been while helping that alien senshi. Oh!
“You’re one of the alien senshi.”
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:37 pm
Waving as they approached Erinome smiled. “Yes on Daedalus.” Nodding while speaking, he tilted his head and for a moment. “Yes.” Alien, that was the word people used for senshi like he was. It took some getting used to just like all the new words that sounded sort of similar but not quite to the version of the language that seemed to be spoken now.
Munching on some more seeds, he offered some of the others to the senshi. “Can’t reach more.” Frowning slightly, he looked back behind him at the towering yellow flower. He didn’t want to break it in his attempts to get the seeds so he figured the other might have a better idea since they were from this planet and probably knew what this tasty flower was.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:43 pm
“Sunflower seeds….” Fresh from the flower, she hadn’t known you could eat them right from the flower. She’d never had them before but she knew they were roasted, sometimes with spices or a bit of salt, but to see someone just eating them right from the flower…how strange.
“No thank you, I’ve never been much for seeds, and it does seem you’re enjoying them a lot.” But couldn’t get more either. Being that she was taller the dark haired senshi went to reach for more for the other, offering more seeds as she got them, so they could be enjoyed. “You know, they make these roasted and seasoned. You might like that as well, if you like them raw like this. Also, I’m Hamal, by the way.” A proper greeting, and introduction, if not a bit late. But she even gave a small bow as she spoke.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:43 pm
“Oh! Sun… flower?” Looking back at the plant, it did sort of remind him of how this planet’s sun looked. Going back to munching more of the seeds, he was happy to accept more as Hamal pulled them down for him. He was going to keep a few of them to bring home and maybe plant outside of Ian’s place. In time he would have his own sunflowers and could eat more seeds. He’d ask the other about roasting them because it sounded good but he was fine with them as they were now too.
Bowing his head in response he waited until he was done chewing to speak because he knew now that it was rude to speak with your mouth full. The two smaller humans that Xander had let him know that when they had caught him eating red berries off the vine and had tried explaining that he wasn’t stealing them because he had asked Ian.
“Erinome.” A simple response as he shifted and slid the rest of the gathered seeds into a pouch before sending them to his subspace. “Are you okay after Daedalus?” Because he had it a bit rough then but with his healing magic it kept things from getting much worse. He also had Ian to sort of help him after it all as well but he wasn’t sure if this senshi had people to help them as well. At least they were human so they could relate to them more, something he was slowly trying to figure out as he learned more about Ian and the others that lived nearby.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:47 pm
“I’m good after that, nothing a long shower couldn’t help.” Because she had felt so gross, and so dirty, that place had been horrendous and the pollution there she felt would put almost every country on this planet to shame. Though she really wasn’t sure how it would stack against the pollution of years past, when countries were industrializing. Some of them had caused a lot of harm to the environment at the time and caused a lot of pollution, but she didn’t know how much so couldn’t properly compare.
“I spent the night with a friend, another senshi, they weren’t there but spending the night with tham was a good idea.” Because it was far better than returning home to her cousins and telling them what had happened - they worried endlessly over her it seemed. She understood, especially Seung, but she didn’t like to worry them so had gone to her boyfriends home instead. Seung had worried so much over her, and still did, he’d been there for her through so much. She didn’t want to further worry him.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:48 pm
“Good good.” It was nice to hear they had someone around after things. Thinking for a moment, he fiddled with the sash around his waist as he looked up at the senshi. “Friends?” Offering his hand to them since they had sort of worked together. He was still pretty new to this human interaction thing and from what he could tell from Xander was that Ian was the same as he was when it came to being bad at things.
“Need help, call me?” Pulling his senshi phone out with his free hand, he took their picture to add them and smiled as it worked. So it was this one he could do the photo trick with and his other one he had to type things into. If anything he could always help heal them if something roughed her up. Assuming it worked and he didn’t take a nap right after.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:49 pm
“Us, friends?” She questioned before nodding her head. “Yes, I suppose we can be friends. I would like that.” It would be good to know more people and to have more help if ever she needed it, not to mention it would give this senshi more help as well.
Pulling out her own senshi phone she took a picture and stored the information as well. “If you need help, call. I can bring my boyfriend or my cousins and my cousin-in-law.” And his brother as well. She could bring several people to help the other senshi if they needed it - it would be easy.
“I can also bring you roasted sunflower seeds…I can find you some to try and meet you somewhere and give them to you. See if you like them.”
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:49 pm
“Yes, me too.” Nodding back, Erinome smiled softly and listened as they mentioned others though he wasn’t too sure what some of the words meant. Cousin sounded familiar, that was a type of family members but an in law was beyond him. Boyfriend he had an idea of, but it hadn’t been called that in the past.
“Oh… I have a boy friend too.” Taking a moment to tapp through his phone he pulled up a picture of Chaldene and showed her. “Well… half truth.” It was complicated and he was still figuring things out. The trip to Daedalus had triggered more of a push to try and differentiate Ian from Amel but it was hard and he knew it would take time. He was still coping with the fact that Amel had lived and died during the time he was stuck trapped on his planet.
“Yes yes, want to try. I can bring… dragon fruit?” Questioning the word as he said it, more because he wasn’t sure if that was right because he couldn’t understand why the pink and green pods were called that. They didn’t have scales nor were they guarded by dragons so why were they named like that? Getting distracted by his train of thought his mind wandered down the rabbit hole of how many weirdly named things he’d learned about so far on Earth. His eyes drifting as he considered how much language had changed.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:51 pm
“A…boyfriend as well. But it’s a half truth, could you explain that?” She was curious, because to have that be a half truth implied several different options. They could be teetering on the edge of dating, or on the edge of a break up. There could be one sided feelings as well. Those were just the three ideas to top her list really. She was curious how they meant things, especially since it might mean something different for herself, since they weren’t from here, and she assumed words and what things meant might be difficult for them to figure out.
“Dragon fruit, sure. I’ve had it once before and it wasn’t bad. I can arrange a time, and a place, to meet next. I’ll send the details and you can bring dragon fruit and I’ll bring sunflower seeds for you.” Roasted one and some roasted and seasoned. She was certain she could find a variety for the other to try, as it seemed they liked the seeds very much.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:52 pm
Scrunching his face up he shook his head. “Don’t know how to.” It had been hard with Xander and he had some sort of clue on things but he really didn’t know. It was more complicated than he could really figure out for himself as well. It was just better not to right now while getting used to things.
“Yes, sounds good.” Smiling slightly while nodding again, he hopped down from the brick half wall. “On the phone?” Holding up his senshi phone, he figured it would be better to specify if it was this one even though he hadn’t pulled the other one out.
“Need to head back, he’ll worry.” Erinome had already wandered farther than normal and if he didn’t make it back before they woke up he figured Ian would really worry more. It was one thing to just pop out into the yard or wander around the property but going this far was a bit more than that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:56 pm
“Perhaps if you describe things I could help you in defining it properly…” Because she didn’t understand it being a half truth, not really, and perhaps if by helping to define it she could help this alien senshi in figuring something out…in bettering the relationship if they wanted to? “Yes, on that phone and perhaps we can talk more and I can help you sort things out.” She offered with a gentle smile, all too willing to help the other with things. Anything she could do to help she would offer, so long as it wasn’t too over the top and unreasonable.
Nodding her head in understanding. “Of course, you get home safe and take good care of this person. I’ll help if I can…”
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