The white cloud of Hiroto
[04:40:01] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) walked up to the camp and noted the bond. A brief “Tal Kedja.” was offered before he went to collect the offering bowls and then refill them.
[04:41:43] KeDjA (lilli.breda) sets down the clean dishes and looks up when she hears footsteps. “Tal Jarl,” she says, smiling at Vesper and wiping her hands on her tunic as she watches him.
[04:43:17] Crow (melchior.wardell) slammed his brief-opener in the squealing fish so it would stop. It was more of a moment of reflection, to see how hard it was to pierce a dagger into the wood. To feel if there was truly that effect of danger and being the scariest in the room. The fish seemed not to be bothered and continued. He would withdraw the tool and clean it before he would put back to his belt. He would look from one to the other. “Greetings you both. I have good news … Bertram is missing.”
[04:44:42] Crow (melchior.wardell) continued “There is bad news too …. since Klauw is too. So I wonder what might have happened. I doubt they eloped.”
[04:47:55] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) filled up the bowls with water, rice, and a few petals before he noted the older Killer returning to the camp. “Good morning Killer.” He offered with a customary nod and then watched him slam the blade into the table. He smirked, seeing the effect it had on the fish was about the same it had on him….which was negligible. If it had stopped with just the display, he might have chalked it up only to Harry’s effect but the mentioning of Bertram and Klauw missing made an eyebrow raise. “If that damn tharlarion has started a war….again…..I will not be pleased.”
[04:49:15] KeDjA (lilli.breda) flinches slightly when she hears the sound of blades scraping against wood and fish. She shakes her head slightly as she watches the knife and the fish, before Crow pulls the blade away again. When she hears the good news, a cheerful chuckle escapes her for a moment. She clears her throat hastily to cover it up. Especially when he continues speaking. Her head tilts slightly. “Has anyone checked the inn’s kitchen yet?” Both Tharlarions were considered gluttonous, and it stood to reason that they would be enjoying themselves there while their owners attended to other matters. Then she remembers something she’d almost forgotten: “Would you like something to drink, Jarl?” That sentence will haunt either her or him in their dreams at some point. Her eyes sparkle with amusement as she keeps her gaze fixed on Crow.
[04:53:16] Crow (melchior.wardell) arched a brow at the ; I will not be pleased. It was something similar as saying ‘foei’ when men were in a bar-fight. As if that would stop any of them. “Let us hope your beast has no bad influence on mine. Since there is little dissapointment but just murder.” he replied. When Kedja offered a drink he shook his head, but seemed to be taken the offer for something quite normal. “No I am fine for now. I need to find that beast.” he stated. “The Inn might be a good spot to start.” he remembered the sausages the Innkeeper made and the effect they had on Klauw.
[04:58:05] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) looks at the offering bowls and picked them up, “Just a moment and I’ll join the search with you.” His time in Sendai had given him one thing…if anything at all…more of an understanding of what needed to be dealt with right away and what could be taken care of after tending to things that grounded him and provided him structure. He felt the magma flowing in his internal self but did not allow the steam to escape. He moved inside, made his offerings to those he had set space aside for and then moved back out once more.
[05:00:11] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) wiped his hands on the cloth and set it down and then let his teasing begin in earnest, “Well since the bond won’t offer me a drink, let’s head to the inn to see what might be on offer…..perhaps a tharlarion or two.”
[05:02:05] KeDjA (lilli.breda) shrugs when Crow declines a drink. All that mattered to her was the offer itself, not whether he accepted it. She glances back and forth between the two men until Vesper walks toward his tent with the filled bowls. She turns her head to keep an eye on him until he returns. A brief smile plays on her lips. “Oh, forgive me, Jarl. A drink?” she offered. He seemed so busy filling the bowls that it didn’t even occur to her he might be interested in anything else. Until Bertram comes into play.
[05:06:01] Crow (melchior.wardell) spied the girl taking V under observation. A brow arched in curiosity. It meant something was up. He wouldn’t speak of it but waited. Wondering what would come to surface. The shrug was noted too, something that made his jaw set just a bit. As if the mere motion wasn’t in his book when it came to exquisite beauty of a slave. But for once he held his tongue for now. “Let us hope we will find those beasts before the Innkeeper does. She seems to take her time to accept me in her good graces.” he admitted. “Not that it matters. When I am in need of anything more warm and cozy there is someone else that can provide such.” his eyes roam over Kedja in that moment. “But alright when ever you are ready, Killer.”
[05:11:05] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) felt Hiroto move to the surface as he returned from the tent. A signal that he was not fully aware of something but that forces were at work. He had paused slightly at the door before leaving his tent and noted the new artwork but he made no mention of it, but Hiroto eyed Kedja as perhaps one of those cuts of meat, wondering how to torture her best. He did not speak, that would give him away. He just nodded and gestured to the Killer to move on.
[05:14:34] KeDjA (lilli.breda) Crow’s remark about the innkeeper elicits an amused smile from her, but it fades as he continues speaking and she feels his gaze. That tingling sensation spreads through her stomach again—that mixture of darkness and joy. Her eyes flicker slightly as she meets his gaze for a moment before looking away. Her muscles tense slightly. Whatever this man stirred in her, it was something she both hated and missed when he ignored her. It was paradoxical. She turned her head and now met Vesper’s gaze as well. Irritation flashed in her eyes, for his gaze suddenly no longer seemed like the one she was used to seeing from him. What was going on here?
[05:21:26] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) watched the girl carefully, noted the way her eyes changed. He didn’t speak while the other Killer held his own silence. Instead, he moved to the table with the open bags of flour….looked her in the eye directly….and then batted the bag of flour onto the ground almost with the same energy as a gianni tapping objects off a shelf. He would see how the bond danced.
[05:24:45] KeDjA (lilli.breda) watches Vesper and already senses that something is about to happen that she probably won’t like. And sure enough, the next moment she’s standing in a cloud of flour. She squints her eyes and covers her mouth and nose with one hand, though she coughs anyway because, of course, she reacted too late. She spins around on her heels as if that would help and waves her other hand pointlessly through the air to disperse the cloud.
[05:28:54] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) simply tilted his head to the side and watched what happened and then as quickly as Hiroto was here, he was gone, the Record Keeper providing no information from one personality to the next as Vesper heard the coughing and rose to the surface to see what was the matter. He rose his eyebrow slightly and said, “Kedja, you really do need to be more careful.”
[05:33:10] Crow (melchior.wardell) had been in deep thoughts and when he paid attention had no clue as to what happened, but of course would blame the bond. She was the one in layers of flour. “That is a waste of coin. Do you have any idea how that coin was made ? What had to be done before we were able to acquire this bag of flour?” he was teasing of course. “Can you imagine the relatives that are calling out your name in dispair as we need to find a new target to get paid for”
[05:39:47] KeDjA (lilli.breda) mutters under her breath as the men act as if it’s her fault. She turns back around as the fog lifts, and there she stands before them, covered in white powder. Luckily, she isn’t wearing black today. Her eyes sparkle with anger.
[05:43:57] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) seemed concerned for the bond now, as if what she had experienced, while he definitely thought was her fault as he had no understanding of what Hiroto had been up to, was somehow requiring action on his part. He grabbed the rep cloth from the side of the table and threw it her way. “I always seem to have the worst luck with clumsy camp slaves…but this one is owned by Arsus…and yet still clumsy.” He shook his head.
[05:45:46] Crow (melchior.wardell) didn’t know Kedja to be clumsy. Hot headed, fierce, amazingly wonderful in the furs, brazen and sassy but clumsy ? No that was not a fit for her. “I think she did it on purpose. What did you say ?” he asks Vesper .”Surely she lost control. Perhaps we should teach her as we teach our lads the control their emotions.”
[05:49:48] KeDjA (lilli.breda) caught the cloth with the reflexes she’d been trained to have—reflexes even the resurgence of her Nordic nature couldn’t suppress. She snorts lightly and mutters, “I didn’t knock over the sack of flour,” then wipes the flour dust from her face with the cloth. Not particularly thoroughly, but at least from her eyes, nose, and mouth. Her head snapped toward Crow, and she stared at him as if he were crazy. He had seen exactly what had happened. And Vesper… he had done it. Once again, she found herself in a situation that—at least in her mind—felt threatening. And once again, Crow was involved. And once again, he was the one pushing things forward. Her body begins to tremble slightly with rage, while she is now truly speechless for the moment.
[05:54:22] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) raised his eyebrow slightly higher noting the temper sending the body of the bond to tremble. “Indeed, the neurochemicals in her body are fiercely raging, Killer. Do you see how she trembles…adrenaline coursing through her veins. Do you think she needs a physician?” Razius now moved to the surface to make the assessment along with Vesper.
[05:55:27] Crow (melchior.wardell) had seen nothing. Too deep in thoughts and in the compound – the only place he dared to let his guard down – that meant he truly hadn;t registered. “You didn’t?”he asks with a challenge. “Who else would it have been ? The ghost of the forest … The spirit of the underworld .. The ancestor of the bonds of hte north?” he teased her further. When V spoke he shook his head ‘Nah … it is her temper nothing more … something she really need to control, before I whip it out of her.” he stated, more firm than he might have meant it.
[06:00:57] KeDjA (lilli.breda) tosses the cloth onto the table in front of her and pants slightly before beating the fur draped over her shoulders much harder than necessary. “I don’t need a physician, I’m fine, Jarl,” she forces out through clenched teeth, as if removing the flour required far more strength than it actually did. As Crow speaks, making a mockery of the whole situation in her eyes, the beating grows even more intense. To the point of whipping. This brief remark makes her pause and now she just glares at him angrily. Her fingers dig into the fur before she tenses her shoulders and wraps the fur back around them. She thinks. Of course. Admitting a mistake actually goes against her sense of justice. But at the same time, she fears the whip far more. She was not someone who enjoyed pain. Especially not this kind. Her lips press tightly together before she bends down to right the overturned sack. It wasn’t completely empty, thankfully. In fact, most of the flour was still inside and could thus be saved. The
[06:00:57] KeDjA (lilli.breda): rest… well, that was scattered in the grass
[06:05:50] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) noted the flour on his hands and figured it had come from when he tossed the cloth to the bond, his personalities not always keeping track of time and action from one alter to the next. He dusted off his hands and said, “Well, it seems as if Arsus has his hands full with this one.” Vesper clearly had no idea why the bond would be upset at all.
[06:09:15] Crow (melchior.wardell) noted that she didn’t speak who had done it. Something about that made him look at V. For a moment considering the odds. He knew the bond had a sense of understanding when it came to justice. But he wouldn’t dare to accuse anyone else if not given any indication. He would shrug “Arsus likes troublemakers. You should see him on his tarn.” he stated as an example. “It is how these two met. I guess it keeps him entertained.” the fact he too was entertained he left for anyones guess. “So the Inn as in search for the two beasts. With all of this we might have waited to long and the Innkeeper already knows who took her famous sausages.”
[06:12:51] Hosokawa Kinsei – Vesper™ 細川金星 (razius) shrugged, “Yes, two troublesome beasts…the tarn and the bond….surely the problem is with Arsus after all.” he mused and then would follow the Killer.
[06:13:50] KeDjA (lilli.breda) lets out a soft hum. The whole thing with Arsus and his Tarn would normally prompt her to say something. But there was that threat, which is keeping her from wanting to get herself into further trouble. She uses the shoes she’s wearing today—for once—to push the flour across the grass to spread it out. Her eyes flicker slightly, and she shakes her head ever so slightly. After Crow steers the conversation back to the Tharlarions and the landlady, her shoulders relax slightly and she mutters, “You’d better go look for the animals before the innkeeper skewers them.”
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