The Day of Thunder

"As for fishing, no," she said with a frown. "I've tried, believe me, but there's something about it that I couldn't get a handle on and I'm not talking about the slimy scales. It does look very easy to just leave out a net and take them as they swim towards them. I know I've tried too hard on my f...

Akutou blows out a breath. "That's a relief," he says. "I mean, I'd be open t' it in 'nother time an' place, t' be sure, but, like I said, now ain't th' time'r th' place." As I said t' th' Princess afore I realized she's th' Princess , he reminds himself. A grin touches his face. Wouldn't that just ...

"Miss?"

Now it is certain that Akutou blushes.

"I just ain't accustomed t'--don't matter none. Got work t' do here; much as I do love some comp'ny, an' much as it'd be good t' have somebody t' ride th' river with, ain't got th' luxury of th' distraction at th' moment."

He stops the sentence midway, looks at the man's face for a moment before his eyes go back to switching between the fish and the headwoman. "Has Otomo-nim heard of the cave, or been there?" Akutou nods. "Been a lot o' places recently," he says. "Strange f'r a place as don't seem t' wanna let anybod...

Shang shook her head and let out a sigh. "At some points during the stay, I almost wonder if we kept the camp separate from the village, it would have been best for both of us. Maybe not but it's too late to conjure some scenario that will never come to be. The fish has already been skinned, hard t...

Gettin' t' be that time...

Maybe because some of his attention was suddenly drawn to the exchange between Chuchu and the village head. He wondered about going and greeting the small rodentkin he'd met the previous day, but somehow it didn't seem like the best time to do that. "You speak Nezumi?" Akutou asks. "I catch a few w...

"I suppose that sort of answers that suspicion..." she murmured from behind her fan. "We could have had that without the scene but then again...Some of us are very tired. It shouldn't be surprising that there are some foul moods and snapping going around here." Akutou shrugs slightly. "Still more g...

That's even worse.

Now he'll be smiling.

"My dreams ain't been so sanguine," Akutou says. "Somethin's screwy."

The bow remains up.

"Still ain't sure this ain't some kinda trick."

Great, Akutou thinks. Likely two fights, an' pluggin' th' hole on both sides.

Gonna be a helluva fight.

Dammit, what is that smell?

Akutou scratches the back of his head.

It's possible he blushes slightly.

Eminently understandably so.

That'll have no effect, Chuchu.

"Well, that is impressive but I still don't know what to make of it. They promised healing and we got to see healing. So, I find it hard to complain there," she would reply with her gaze flickering to the scene between the Shiba and Yukara. "Hm, some disagreements too. I would want to get myself ch...

"Uhm...So, Bat-san over there had her hand already, right? Then again, I think I've seen something like this before at a tribal settlement. Some sort of tree sap extract that could heal wounds," she half-whispered to Akutou. "Weren't no hand there yesterday," Akutou says. "An' given what th' wolves...

Saru Shang wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:51 pm

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Haka Tae-soo wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:38 pm

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Akutou gives up on hiding.

"'Pologies," he says, grinning. "An' things get better wi' good comp'ny."

Haka Tae-soo wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:18 pm

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Akutou raises an eyebrow.

"Ain't f'miliar wi' that word, 'geuereochi,' shit, 'gurochi,' dammit, 'geureochi.' What's it mean?"

It's not only Nezumi words that run athwart Akutou's accent.

Akutou's jaw drops open.

This has been a day of marvels for him.

What he learns in earlier threads might change the thoughts underlying, but the dropping jaw, that is likely to remain.

Akutou cannot help but see the marvel worked by the Princess, and so his hat remains off of him, held in his hand. He does, however, notice a strange smell and an unpleasant one, not quite like that of rotting meat but something like it, maybe an infected wound just beginning to seep into the blood....