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Post by Ellie who has 0% on Mar 24, 2012 20:52:06 GMT -4
"That's good," she started, while noticing the heavy awkwardness. Even the air in the dojo felt stuffy and humid. The keyblade faded from her hand giving her some reprieve from holding it, since every muscle burned with additional weight and heaviness.
"I guess that'll be the end of today's 'light' lesson. I doubt we can stand over-exertion at this point, and I doubt the Muu would consider me...overwhelming you," or inflicting his heart and whatever that was, "trade's worthy."
"You should get some rest, and I'm sorry about that," she uttered and defined that little episode vagualy and lightly, while staring at his chest. She was still shakened by it and can barely make eye contact with him; to make it less obvious, she busied herself picking up the hook swords and placed them back where they belonged...or where she thought it belonged,"...that never happened before. Then again I never taught anyone before either."
It will be a while until her mind can wrap around it, and after all of the commotion, she may need fresh air and sleep to rejuvenate,"So I'll show myself out...if the Mu let's me to give you peace, and I'll lay off the light magic; don't want that happening again when you're alone. Kay?"
"I'lll," she tugged her hair behind her ear self-consciously,"be heading out then."
Turning on her toes, she shoved her hands in her pocket to resist from smacking herself in the face in embarrassment; she nearly felt like she was suffocating while trying to politely leave, and even with every step she was tempted to turn to inquire if he's sure. Would he really be okay? In any other circumstances that came to mind, she wouldn't put it past him, but now this was a different territory for him as well as a territory where one wouldn't, well shouldn't tamper with.
As Kairi occupied herself with an obvious and painfully uncharacteristic play at bustling about, Kuu was thinking of something to say. Anything, just something that would alleviate this new chasm between them - if he was proud of his intelligence, then he sure as hell felt like he was missing out on some now. Racking his brains wasn't coming up with anything to explain what had just happened, and anyway, whenever he tried to think of some words to articulate how he'd felt, what he thought and how to apologise for something he didn't even understand, he'd catch sight of Kairi's shaking fingers, uncertain steps, and her uncertain gaze that darted to anywhere but his own, before shooting fearful glances at his chest, within which he couldn't shake the feeling of something new, something unknown.
What had it been? Kairi talked of light and dark, as if they were two opposites that dictated the medium of the 'heart', which was used to channel the magic. Kuu knew of the light and dark affiliates from his magical studies, and how some spells were more closely attributed to one than the other. But it wasn't anything like that - it was as if something had been thrown out of balance, like a pair of scales that had been thrown off-pivot. It certainly felt like the opposite of the warm radiance of the light - the darkness moved with intrusive tendrils and shadowy wisps, and there was a distinctly different ambience to it, where the clear, bell-like freshness of the light was entirely mismatched with the all-encompassing, unfathomable depth of the darkness. It was an alien emptiness that had touched his consciousness, and it still made him shudder to recall the sensation.
And yet, despite all this, in the depth of his heart, he could not bring himself to confidently declaim it as frightening or evil. As far as he could see, it was merely the other end of the pole, a simple matter of opposites, similar to the yin yang philosophy he had learnt in the Land of Dragons. He couldn't simply deny that he was, as a scholar, drawn to it, as well as the idea that this balance of opposites existed within humans as a far more tangible, and even utilisable form than he had previously thought. If he were to think of it this way, however, it was no surprise that Kairi was shocked - not only did he have some sort of issue with the darkness somewhere that neither of them could fully comprehend, but he was actually fascinated by it.
Despite the soundness of his reasoning, the unusual situation where his usually detached emotions were tipping the scales slightly in their favour to cause him to feel not just a little hurt. As Kairi began to walk away, he spoke out in a quiet voice - 'Kairi - are you... afraid of me?'
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Mar 29, 2012 19:45:00 GMT -4
It wasn’t hard to not hear him through the dead silence. Everything was at a stand-still; even her thoughts halted at the question, because she didn’t have an answer, a clear one to share. She didn’t want to hold her tongue back out of fear that he wouldn’t believe it because she hesitated, but on the other end, she didn’t want to say just anything. What if she said the wrong thing the can easily be interpreted, since he sounded hurt enough as is? Still her behavior towards him wasn’t assisting the situation, while not being able to find it within herself to face him as if her eyes would lie and preached every running unorganized thoughts that had filled her head earlier.
“I…don’t know. I don’t know if I should,” her head turned a bit towards him for he can hear her clearer, “but I don’t want to be.”
Turning around slowly but surely, she stopped her last bad habit of fiddling with her hair and tucking it behind her ear by shoving her fidgeting fingers in her pockets. Her lids hooded her eyes as she gazed down on the floor, while trying to organize everything as she spoke her mind, since that’s all she could at the moment. Her face scrunched up from time to time at the struggle of finding the right words,“Some would say I’d have a reason to, because I barely know you and knew of you, but I do know you…in a way. I’ve seen you, touched it, and felt it."
"So no, I’m not,” she answered, while the tension in her face lightened bit by bit as she finally came to her own conclusion, a conclusion she was now weighing.
“But…,” she looked up at him, since she felt she owed him eye contact of all things, but there was doubt if she can tell him everything. How can she word this without alarming him…that she was afraid for him? How can she say ‘I’m afraid of what’s within you…what’s a part of you and what it may do to you?’ without saying those exact worlds. She told him that his light was his, so logically and naturally that darkness would be him as well. And she felt admitting that out loud would still indicate that she feared him to a degree. “Remember when I say darkness can be a dangerous element…well I guess I fear how much more…active it would get against your will; it hurt you just because you were using light.”
“Let’s just say I’ve seen enough people affected by it. I knew someone who fell so deep in it to the point he hated himself for it, then pretty much pushed himself away from all that cared for him. Since…in a way, I triggered whatever that was…your darkness I guess…I just don’t want to be the straw on the camel’s back and end up being that push that can send you into so many trials, turmoil, and struggle.” She shrugged with a sigh, while walking up towards him, “I never seen it react so…adamantly before; I panicked, and I don't want to be that starting point that inflicts more on you...compared to whatever baggage you can already be carrying.“
Her eyes drifted from his face towards his chest again where his heart would be. Her fingers shook free from her pocket to timidly touch him. Light didn’t pull at her fingertips thinking she’d done enough in that department on his heart. Instead they were listening and reaching out for his. She chuckled spotting a little glow, “I’m sorry…I shouldn’t have hesitated or even led you to think that…”
Darkness can never truly hurt her, so she shouldn’t fear darkness, and since she stopped darkness before within him surely she can do it again and again and again if necessary. Looking back up at him, while withdrawing her hand away, she gave him a reassuring small smile, “No I’m not afraid of you. I don’t think I ever truly can.”
She preferred to keep it that way. This was Kuu she was talking about, so what for the years apart. For the hours she was around him not much changed, and a total shift in demeanor in heart would be drastic change. She would see that…right? She would be able to feel it…right? She didn’t feel any cold bitter distance, or any bad ebbs of the worst darkness, and oh have she seen the worst of them all up to date. He was nowhere near like him, so there was nothing to worry about. All she felt right now was warmth and radiance. Even if that dark cloud showed its face again, she wouldn’t doubt he would tackle it to siege it. She didn’t see him as the person to let himself drown. Still it proved to be a strain, she would be the light to push it back. Although she secretly envied Riku for the mountains he climbed with his darkness, she found a perk of being a Princess of Heart; she can help those around her with her light.
As Kairi withdrew her palm from his chest, Kuu's hand reached out and stopped her, holding her fingers within his in a gentle but unyielding grip the reason for which he couldn't explain - the surprise at the action of his own hand was evident in his face as he looked at his hand as if wondering why it hadn't let go yet.
'Sorry,' he apologised, though he still didn't let go. He marveled again in the slenderness of her fingers, unblemished and delicate, like those of a pianist. He noticed how a girl's hands were a lot softer than a guy's, and somewhat more fragile. But underneath her skin, even then he could detect that same feeling of being bathed in light, and his calloused palm delighted in the feel of such radiance coursing through the sensation of another's skin on one's own. And through the light he sensed in her, he suddenly became aware of something within him subtly resonating with it, as if it was distantly trying to recall an old friend.
His face burst into a smile at the realisation. He couldn't help it. Somehow, he felt like a little of Kairi's light had fed into his own, and was strengthening it, binding it. More than that, he felt like through the contact of the fingertips, he was more connected with a single individual than he had felt ever before. How was it that throughout his years, he had not been able to feel such closeness, and how was it that it was felt now with someone from his past whom he hadn't really known properly until a few hours ago?
'Sorry,' he said again, letting go this time, his smile becoming sheepish. 'That was weird. I uhh... I'm glad you're not afraid of me. For some reason, I think that would kind of get me down.'
He glanced at his hand, where he could still feel the tingle of Kairi's light and the warmth of her skin where they had touched. 'This light... I don't really get why, but I feel like it's something... rather important. Thank you. I'll cherish it.'
Kuu placed his hand on his chest. 'Whatever this darkness is that's inside me... I'll get over it eventually. It's gonna take some time and some work, but like everything else, I'll work it out somehow. I don't know how, and I don't even really know what it is or why it messes with me the way it does - quite frankly the entire thing is a little unnerving and vaguely creepy - but I'll make it work. I've always got your light to count on, after all.'
He laughed - a warm sound that wasn't often made from Kuu's lips as sincerely as it did then. 'Strange, right?' he chuckled. 'You say your light made the darkness hurt me, but it was your light that got me back. In a way, I guess you were... sort of my wayfinder.'
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Mar 30, 2012 20:28:00 GMT -4
Feeling her hand ensnared in his caused her to exhale sharply in a low, “huh?”
Although surprised, she didn’t struggle to tear herself away; instead she felt trapped underneath his gaze rendering her still. It wasn’t until now did her mind registered the closeness; her face started to feel impeccable warm, while she stared at every fine details of his eyes. What was he thinking right now? Before she could say anything before her cheeks exploded, he apologized a second time, then set her hand free, which inherited a delaying warmth and imprint of his hand.
“N-no worries,” she tried to brush it off, while her fingers shifted against each other self-consciously noticing the new emptiness; violet-blue eyes crinkled with laughter at his statement, “well I wouldn’t want a friend scared of me…”
She shook her head smiling at the idea in how smart he was to find difficulty to make sense of his own feelings. To her, it was obvious that they were friends now whether he bridged that connection of losing a friend would sadden him. Regardless she wouldn’t judge him of it, since that was one of the innocent attributes about him. She then wondered how many friends he did had about the worlds. Now that she thought about it she found him alone with just a handful of book with a wet raincoat, and seeing how much he had within the Mu as well as tending to it, she wondered how much time did he spent alone.
Thinking the worst, it made her decision to ultimately leave Radiant Garden all the more difficult; she was too comfortable with the world and an even more familiar face, who she grew quickly fond of, was really putting a trial on her. Technically if she was to leave, she would be just as alone as well. People would more than likely know Sora than her, so she would be another face in the crowd, which was a bad idea on the account of what she was. She would prefer being out of the spotlight, but she doubt she can take being casted in the shadows.
Oooh that’s enough of the pity party
The present was far more precious than the future, especially when she was convinced even more that she didn’t have to fear Kuu’s shadow, “hehe I thought you’d say something like that. I never took you as one to just roll-over.”
If smiles were addicting, then so was laughter; she could bask in that sound for hours. He should truly laugh more; there was an uplifting and light note about it as if he was truly free of everything including doubt. Her eyes widened at a familiar term, “Oh wow you actually remember those things!”
Her face lit up again remembering something. With a zip, she dug into her pockets, both of them for a steady search. It wasn’t until she heard a jingle and felt the smoothness of a seashell did she find it.
“Tadaaa,” there in her hand was a traditional wayfinder. The smiley face it had was faded; the shell was losing its natural color from wearing out over time with a few chips, cracks, and scratches here and there. Even the crown centerpiece was going through some discoloration, but it didn’t faze Kairi in it as if she was still proud of the little trinket, “I made it years ago…I think the same year you left actually. It been through a lot for a luck charm, but it’s still lucky.”
“If there were any thalassa shells here I would make you one, because this one had seen it’s better days.”
Kuu gave a small laugh of recognition as Kairi took out the wayfinder. 'Yeah, I remember those!' he chuckled as he inspected her handiwork. 'Not a bad effort.'
A nostalgic sentimentality briefly touched his eyes as he traced the familiar unique shape of the thalassa shells that made up the charm with his gaze, the fine grain of yellow and pink washed together, remembering how he'd seen them scattered about the sand all those years ago amongst the beaches of Destiny Islands. The careful holes that were poked in an ever so slightly irregular symmetry, secured together with cross-stitches. He couldn't help but smile at the face drawn at the topmost shell, and with the combination of the crown-shaped gold token, it wasn't hard for someone with a memory like his to work out who it was.
He pointed at the features on the charm. 'Hey, that's Sora, right?'
Back when he was a student at the islands, he remembered that Kairi was rarely seen without two boys around her age - Riku, who was in the year below him, and Sora, in Kairi's year. Some of his peers used to make jokes about which of the two Kairi would go for later on, but Kuu had quietly made his guess as to who was closest to her heart.
He glanced at the wayfinder wistfully. 'Lucky guy,' he smiled.
Kuu blinked as something else popped into his head. 'Hey, I just remembered I've got a box of seashells in the shop - one of the services I do is a wayfinder exchange, though people often don't know what they are so I don't get a lot of requests. It's worth checking out, come on.'
He headed out of the dojo entrance (turning and bowing to the dojo before leaving as was proper) and made his way through the maze of shelves and dusty tomes, his fingers tracing the familiar stacks of artifacts and books to where he recalled to have left the box.
Must remember to install a location and summoning spell into this place when I've got a spare moment. I can't remember where exactly everything is when things appear, disappear and reappear whenever they feel like it.
Finally, he gave a small 'ha' of satisfaction as he succeeded in locating an old, chipped wooden casket and gently lowered it down from its position on the third shelf from the top. 'Here we go. Though if I remember, the hardest part is trying to find five shells that are all the same colour.'
He took a glance inside, blinking a little as in doing so he disturbed some of the residue dust. 'Bit dusty, but all the tools are here, I think - a needle to poke the holes through the shells and some leather cord to fasten them all together.'
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Mar 31, 2012 11:06:32 GMT -4
Her brows perked up hearing the question slightly confused about it until she observed her own wayfinder. Weird how she hadn’t noticed that before or maybe had forgotten that little detail, since it’s been out of her hands for a little over a year. Also she had that lovely grace period of forgetting everything about him with only that nagging feeling of recalling a name to a blurred out face in her memory, “Hm, wow I guess it is.”
Her face wrinkled with an embarrassing laugh and giggle snort, “Weird I hardly remember doing that. Well no wonder why I made him borrow it to bring it back with all of his world hopping, and No wonder why it looks so…aged too.”
Her eyes rolled jokingly; leave it to Sora to get it nicked with all the trouble he finds himself in. Still he kept up with it for so long, so she would give him brownie points for that. Perhaps she should give this too him permanently, since it pretty much had his face on it. Then she’d make more; Riku would surely need one, especially with all the hesitation that goes on in his noggin. Funny how her boys needed all the luck in the worlds compared her, yet she was the one at the bottom of the totem pole in regards to…everything including this keyblade business.
“Wow, what don’t you have in here,” Kairi asked jokingly, while following behind him well after she repeated a sentimental farewell to the dojo. She had an extra bounce in her step as he navigated her through the mass confusion of The Mu. Peering over his shoulders she looked in the box of trinkets feeling the nostalgia of the island, “Come on let’s get started unless you want to make them, while standing.”
Leaning back, she was reminded that she didn’t know this place well, so she couldn’t go bouncing around here. For a moment, she wondered how lost can she get in here, “lead the way Master Kuu.”
Kuu looked at her with a half-expectant, half-confused look before clicking and saying, 'Ah, right, sorry, I forgot that you don't exactly know your way around here. It's a lot bigger on the interior than it seems from outside. This way.'
He led the way through the winding corridors and worked his way about the bookshelves until they returned to the lobby area. He pulled a stool up to one side of the counter as he walked around to sit on the other side, placing the box down on the table top between them. 'Right, uhh... this is usually the part when I teach you how to make a wayfinder, but... well, considering that you already know, then I guess we can just get started.'
With an awkward smile, Kuu fished out a pair of thalassa shells from the box - luckily both a similar sky-blue shade. As he picked up his needle, he paused to roll the shells around in his fingers, and he was struck with the idea that there was no logical reason as to why he was doing this. Kairi didn't really need a wayfinder, and the trade had been sufficiently equal for it to be more or less complete. He should have simply shown her to the door. And yet here they were, fiddling about with memories of a distant world (and for him, a distant past) for a purpose for which he couldn't really see could be much more than simple sentimentality. Why did he suggest this? Wasn't the Mu in principle a place found in necessity rather than on whim?
Still his fingers carefully pierced the shell with the needle, taking care to place the holes exactly in line with each other so that the resulting star shape would be precisely symmetrical. From what he'd seen of a Kairi's wayfinder, she seemed to like using cross-stitches to secure them - he himself preferred to make two parallel stitches and cross them over at the back. He squinted at the holes he had made as he carefully began to thread the cord through them. He glanced up at the darkening sky outside, and fumbling a little with the chain at his waist, he found the luminescent blue crystal that hung off it and sending a spark of magic through his arm, used it to light the old lantern on the desk to bask the counter in a bright, pale-yellow radiance.
Now... what should I do for the token in the middle?
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Mar 31, 2012 16:57:14 GMT -4
Chuckling at his forgetfulness, she followed suit, then wiggled herself on the stool he set out for her. Her old wayfinder, which she would give to Sora when she runs into him, found it's way back in its sanctuary. Her fingers wiggled before she cracked her knuckles anxious to get her hands on another one. Once the box opened, she grabbed a leather cord along with a needle, and the pair was set aside for later.
"Hmmm," her hand began rummaging through the box for shells. She wasn't looking for any color in particular for one who was being picky in her selection. She already crafted a pink one, so that was crossed off her list. The red-head wasnt' satisfied until she found five green tipped shells. There was some dust on them...maybe even sand, which she blew away gently.
Next as if she needed to be precise, she lined up the shells on the table as they would be arranged for her wayfinder. Staring at them, her mind blue-printed where the holes needed to before she went to work with a shell in her left hand and the needle in the other, "Hmm since so many people here don't know anything about wayfinders maybe you should display them. Bring a little bit of the islands here, and vice versa. I love the gardens here; it's not quiiite like it used to be or so I remember."
She finished poking through her shells and brushed the debri into a miniscule pile. Her eyes flicked up once catching a shimmer of magic float through the air to bloom more light into the room. Starting to thread, she continued with her multi-tasking, "Sure there isn't all of those colorful fountains at home, buuut we do have those little waterfalls and what nots..."
Any other time she reminisced about the islands it always brought a bad after taste of missing it; it seemed sharing it with someone else who probably missed it just as much as she did brought a sense of comfort than home-sickness and despair.
"So what's next for you, just going to shack up here, just you and the Mu?" She asked with humor decorating her tone before eyeing her wayfinder in the making. She had nothing to unify them in the center.
Hmm maybe I have something in my pocket... digging through it she end up fishing out a card, 5 of hearts. She can vaguely remember who gave it too her, and there wasn't a lot of red-heads in her buddy list. Other than that, she hardly had anything on her person of her own. For a girl she truly packed light when she offed the Island.
Kuu gave a slight chuckle at her suggestion. 'You kidding? Have you seen how little space I've got around this place? Anyway, I can't just drop by at Destiny Islands to pick up little trinkets, I'm-'
Not normal. How else would you describe someone who was just ripped out of worlds and dropped off another at random intervals?
'... I'm busy with stuff here. As you might've guessed, the Mu's not a place you can just leave hanging around.'
He continued threading to put his mind off that brief dark thought. 'So yeah... I'll probably just be around here, waiting to see what comes my way. Radiant Garden's a big world, there's plenty to see and plenty to learn.'
Kuu finished threading the final shell together, and held it up slightly to inspect his handiwork so far. His meticulous care with the spacing of the holes had paid off and as far as he could see, there weren't any problems with the symmetry of the shells. They were neatly joined together with two inch-long parallel stitches on either side of each seashell, the result being a star-shaped charm predominantly a pale yellow with sky-coloured tips - the way the blue washed over the yellow grain reminded him of the sea washing over the sand of the beaches back on Kairi's home world. He thought it was poignantly suitable for someone like her.
Now for the token - this was usually the most important part of the charm, as it was the component that really made it that person's wayfinder, so it was vital that he picked something relevant. It wasn't just for aesthetic or sentimental value, but the better the token reflected the wish for the person, the stronger the spell he would cast on it would be. He looked at Kairi, trying to get some inspiration from observing her. That striking red hair, perhaps. Her weapon... had been something to do with flowers. A flower then, maybe?
He opened a side-drawer and fished out a few material shards and some other tools. He'd never been able to pull off the magic that Moogles used to create their amazing items, but living with one for two years or so made it impossible for him not to learn anything out of it. Taking a small gold nugget, he picked up two of his crafting tools and began channeling slivers of magic through them - he knew he had to take care not to overdo it as the tools were delicate and rather more sensitive with age. Chipping off the amount he needed, he flattened it out with a hammer on the other end of the instrument in his right hand with small methodical taps, and began etching the shape of a flower, trying to make sure each and every petal was the same length and size. Perhaps a twelve-petal blossom would do nicely. Once each petal had been adjusted, he took a Blaze Shard and carefully applied its colour to wash over the golden flower, making sure that the centre retained its yellow shine. He picked up the finished token and placed it on the centerpiece of the charm, and binding the whole thing together with his instruments. For the final touch, he scrabbled about his drawers until he found a red silken cord (he remembered that the strange charm dangling off her weapon was hung by a red ribbon of some sort) and looped it through the top of the charm, before holding it up to the light to admire the final result.
He turned it round to face Kairi. 'Hey, not bad for an old-timer, huh? Turned out looking sort of okay.'
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Apr 1, 2012 18:10:17 GMT -4
“Oh really, I hadn’t noticed, “ she smiled cheekily. The place already looked like he was a borderline hoarder; leave it too long then he would get new eight-legged neighbors and aged dust. Now her eyes looked back into the box wonder if there were any resourceful charm inside. She knew precisely what she wanted, “and I didn’t mean display it in here, but at least in the windows, so they can see it when passing by.”
Slumping back in her stool, she frowned at the box, since it only contained the little knick-knacks needed to construct the wayfinder rather than that final touch the put it all together. It truly dampened her spirit a bit, since she planned to make a wayfinder for Kuu, and now she couldn’t complete one. Large eyes flicked up at Kuu and watched him pull out another drawer. Her head tilted wondering what was up. With the warm light from the lamp bouncing off of it, the contents within gave of a spectrums of cut colors in crystalline shapes. She leaned a bit to look into once placed on the table. It was littered with shards and little nuggets of material; the illuminations of its colors made her smile as her hunt commenced.
Picking up a Twilight Gem, she noted it was one of the few silvery materials in there. She wasn’t all up to date with materials and synthesis, but its color rather than its function was what lured her to it. She rolled it around in her fingers to check its roundness, but it seemed fine for what she was about to do to it, jack it up. Laying the gem down, she pinned down with fingers that held the blade of the chisel down. With light taps, the blade started to embed in the gem before it cut through it. Tilting her head, she lifted up the gem to her face to observe the blemish she made. The indentation was deep enough to her liking, and while eye balling it with a precise oceanic eye, she pictured the slopes to carve out to complete the shape of a heart.
Tap tap
tap-tap tap
tap-tap tap tap
tappy tap-tap
The works of craftsmanship was the only conversation in the Mu until Kuu spoke up. Puffing a strand of hair from her face, she looked up to see a pointed blue starred sky that centered into a warm golden flower all within a shape of a start. She found herself gasping the artistry, while giggling at his humbleness, “Sort of okay? Look at it!”
Her fingers titled the wayfinder to watch the red shard in the middle shimmer, “Nooow tell me why you won’t display something like that for everyone to see? Hm? Oh and I’m almost done sooo no peaking kay.”
Her head hovered over the loose drawer on the table to grab little shiny stone, and with a final chink, she made a hole big enough to fit it in. It fitted snuggly, and tested it fit by juggling the heart in her hand. When in doubt, use glue. It didn’t look like it will pop out anytime to soon. With her wayfinder partially finished, she laid the roped shells on the table and placed the heart in the middle. With her final leather strapped she bound the shells on the end of the ‘shell-chain’ together to trap the heart within the five pointed star. Hopefully that was secured enough to not need a professional to mend and bind it…or resort to glue.
“Hey you have a blue cord in there?” her head gestured to one drawers he was diddling through.
'Alright, alright,' he said, holding up his hands. 'I won't look. Anyway, a wayfinder's meant to be for keeps, right - can't do a rush job on it.'
Although, it is quite good, if I say so myself, he thought as he watched the wayfinder spin around on its cord. The flower actually looks like a flower. It's been attached quite firmly to the shells, so it should be pretty stable. Anyway, once the spell's been cast on it and the connection's been made, there shouldn't be any problems.
His gaze dropped over to Kairi's work, and he couldn't help but smile. A green-tipped ring of shells that was adorned with a silver heart in the centre, with Kairi's characteristic neat stitches - he could see who it was for, but at the same time, he could see much of Kairi in it. In a way, it seemed a much better wayfinder than his - she had a talent for capturing truth about people in the simplest ways, which he with all his artistry and skill could not yet emulate. As he looked at her almost-complete charm, his line of thought was broken by Kairi's question.
'A blue one?' he said as he began rifling through the drawers of his counter. 'Uhh... no, I don't think so... I only had this red one because I use it to make bell charms for people who get haunted by bad luck. Wait a minute, let me... just... nope, nothing. Sorry, er... all I got is this.'
Kuu held out his hand, showing her a white woven cord that wound about in an intricate, looping knot before ending in a loose tassel. 'The knot is a good-luck knot they use in the Land of Dragons,' he explained. 'It's used for gifts or sword ornaments or just to hang up. I can try to dye it blue if you'd like. Or uhh... I think there are some beads here...'
He thrust his hand about the drawer again and scooped out a handful of small beads of onyx, jade and lapis - the ones he usually used in making charms. 'Not a great collection as I usually just hand out generic ones, but there are some nice colours there.'
Kuu flipped the knotted cord about his fingers, an awkwardly playful light emerging in his eyes. 'Hey, if you look at this tassel, don't you reckon it looks a bit like my hair?'
He laughed as he held it up against his side-locks, giving it a light flick.
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Apr 1, 2012 20:01:07 GMT -4
Her mind exploded with a world filled with flying dragons that held up the skies. So it seemed he had been to many places whether he would like to tell her details or not intentionally, since before he wouldn’t let on to what he’s been up to or where he had been during the gaps of years. Her fingers wiggled about the beads making them roll to a forth before she found a pale blue opalite bead. She marveled the spectrums of colors it bended before placing it next to the wayfinder.
Looking back up a Kuu, she softly bit her lip comically at his little antic; she hadn’t seen such extrema playful side of him, which made it all the more humorous, “hehe it does, buuuuut…”
She leaned forward across the table with a little melody in her tone , “IIIII think white is better than blue, so Iiii’ll be taking that.”
The white cord was plucked for his fingers stealthily with a mischievous grin, “Plus, don’t want to taint a genuine good luck charm.”
Flopping back down on her chair with a feign of being coy after deviously snatching away his cord, along with using up a handful of his materials, Kairi resumed back to work on the final touches. The white cord wiggled through the top of the wayfinder, and Kairi switched it over to one hand as she tossed up her chosen bead. Sticking it on, she bound it closer to the wayfinder with a simple fisherman’s non-slip five looped knot, “that should do it.”
“Tadaaaaaa,” she held out her wayfinder, while letting it dangled like a fish on a hook, “It’s been a while since I made one, but it seems like I still got it in the bag. It’s not as…boisterous as my last one, since I think the face kind of does it to it. But it does have simplicity meek quaintness about it, which I think makes it so cute in its own way.”
The star spun on its string as she gave a final look on it before pressing her final judgment on it, “ Hmmm I like it; it’s perfect.”
She couldn’t help, but poke the heart playfully to watch it shimmer as the star swayed to and fro. Then she held it out to him, while the trinket was pillowed beneath her small hands.
“Well…”
(I'm amused how I can understand it despite the smileys)
The wayfinders weren't a popular service, as people often didn't know the significance of them. It was treated more as a souvenir, a novelty, a keepsake of their travels from another world. Friends who were travelling together, or giggling couples who fancied a paired item. It was difficult to get across the full significance of the charm to people who weren't from Destiny Islands, who didn't know the depth in the stories and legends that surrounded them and merely enjoyed them as foreign myths and old wives' tales. So it wasn't often that Kuu got to see new ones made - especially having one made for him.
Kuu blinked quickly to stop his eyes from welling up before placing a hand over hers, encompassing the charm between their palms. He offered her a smile. 'It's perfect.'
He took his own wayfinder in his palm and took hold of her other hand, so that they were both clasping their fingers around each other with a charm in each hand. He closed his eyes and began the spell to intertwine the two charms together. It was admittedly, one of the most complex spells he knew (he was sure that must be a simpler and less crude way, but the problem with self-arranged spells was that it was all far more vague and a lot of it depended on your magical vocabulary, so to speak), but as long as he could stay still and concentrate, there shouldn't be a problem.
'This could feel a little weird, so try to relax a little,' he said.
He first allowed a conduit of magic to build in the circle formed by their hands and bodies, so that everything that occurred happened within that loop. Once he felt that the flow was smooth and even, he began allowing the magic to seep through the two charms, setting the template for the remainder of the enchantments he would need to place on them. He then started to create the connection that would bind the two charms together. From Kairi he took some of her magic, allowing traces of her power to enter the flow of energy and be transferred into the charms. He did the same with his own magic, and bound them together with a complex chain of connective spells.
Once the remnants of the spell had died down, he took his hands away, leaving Kairi's wayfinder in her hand and picking up the one she had made for him in his. He closed his fingers around it, reveling in the warmth left from her skin. Kuu turned to the redheaded girl opposite him with a heartfelt smile, not quite sure what to say - or how to say what he felt he should express. Would she understand the significance of this exchange?
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Apr 2, 2012 21:24:36 GMT -4
Kuu obtained Wayfinder
She couldn't help but beam like the sun with a bright smile; it's been a while that she crafted, gave, and shared sentiments with another. Seeing how happy he was to have a wayfinder of his own, only made her feel more delighted, since it looked like he truly needed a grasp, a grasp of his past and the life that came with it. For one who traveled so much, she suppossed it was a security of holding a memory of home with him. No matter where he ends up at whether it's staying in Radiant Garden with The Mu or on other worlds like Land of Dragons, he would always know that he would never be forgetten that there was at least one person he could link back to. And with whatever life he had, which was still a vague mystery to her, it must be worth a lot to siege his tongue to only utter very few words.
Her eyes drifted down to the union of their hands and back towards his face with a questioning look. Since she had concluded that she didn't fear him or hardly had reason to, the teen just relinquished everything to him with full trust of whatever he was doing. With an exhale, she nodded before feeling an revolving gyre of mana circulating through her before it centered towards the trinkets in their hands. She presumed he did some sort of protection spell on it, but it felt more locked and secured with unity of duality similar to how her light forged with his in the dojo earlier. In her mind, she vaguely understood, but wasn't able to articulate it just yet.
Stroking her wayfinder, she felt a cool calmness about it; the idea of it feeling so much like him made her chuckle. How absurb, wasn't it? Yet in a way, she felt even more connected. Then again how much more entertwined can they get since light resonated through them. Funny how the wayfinder was meant to resemble a papou fruit, so it would seem she was stuck with him, since a portion would always be with her in what many would see as a 'mere trinket', a mere charm, nothing more or less. She had a new lucky charm now, and for once someone else made it for her.
"Kai...Kairi."
Her brows lifted with a hum as large eyes stared at him.
Thank you.
Her chest slightly jumped with a supressed giggle, "No thank you. I really appreciate this...well everything, and you better take good care of that. I don't make these very often."
Her seriously tone was hardly anything to take harshly, since she was smiling the entire time, "Also would you mind if I take some shells with me. I think I need to make...one more if that's alright with you. Don't want to use up your resources..."