[Action] 03 - Sopping wet

[souhi_no_arashi]

Growling Kurogane unbundled his cloak and headpiece, wringing one out and shaking the other a little drier, but it didn't do much good. He was still soaked from head to toe and pissed about it to boot.

That river spirit would regret its mischief if he could summon up a proper storm in his ire. He would flood it so completely that it would lose its banks and channel to teach it a lesson...

But given his situation, it really wasn't feasible. So instead all he'd managed was to blow a giant chunk of land out of the middle of the channel and now it was pooling in the new void before continuing on its merry way. Tch. He didn't hear or see sign of the spirit coming to laugh at them, so he figured he'd made his point at the very least. Maybe it would think twice before playing with the next crossers even after he'd been assured safe passage.

Not that he or Mokona had not crossed the narrow point of the river safely. They'd just managed to get soaked doing it due to a convenient surge in the flow of water and rocks along the bed sliding conveniently out from under foot.

Muttering unintelligibly, he tossed the still dripping cloak over a low branch and hung the head piece and his dripping wet bag (containing the lamp still thankfully, nothing had been lost in their little dip) and cask next to it and then proceeded to strip off his top to wring that out next.



(( OOC: Feel free to find them anyone who wants. And, Foxfire, feel free to have saved Mokona from the soaking too, of course. Mokona is resourceful at removing herself from harm's and mischief's way pretty often after all. XD ))

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[blackkirin.livejournal.com]

Taiki looked back at Kurogane in startlement at the question. He nodded politely and pointed, "I'm going towards the mountains. If I follow the river up again, maybe I'll find the big gates."

Taiki blinked and then looked at Kurogane curiously while the fact that his choice was pretty illogical for a kid sailed over his short stature. "Are you going to the mountains? Is there a town up there?"

[souhi-no-arashi.livejournal.com]

"I'm not. I'm heading west for now. Eventually we'll come to a town of some sort though...."

Kurogane knew he'd regret his next words and wasn't entirely certain why he even bothered, but maybe this was a test. A sacred temple with a lone important boy... maybe his sister was testing him somehow. If he could prove himself again quickly, maybe that would be the end of this nonsense.

"If you won't be a nuisance and stay out of my way, you could follow us to the next town. There will at least be a map there and you could find your mountain."

[soel-ofthe-lamp.livejournal.com]

Kurogane was actually a nice person under the growling and grumpiness, huh? And maybe if Taiki was with them, his sweet personality would bring out even more of Kurogane's inner niceness! Mokona sang out from the sidelines.

"With more people, we can all have more fun together, right~?"

[blackkirin.livejournal.com]

Taiki looked up at the man with wide, astonished eyes. He hadn't expected the stranger to offer to let them travel together. Then he turned in startlement as the bunny-thing spoke up cheerfully. Finally he nodded and broke out into a smile. "Thank you very much! I'll try not to be any trouble!"
Taiki made it two or three steps before starting to fall forward right on his face though. There was the smell of blood on him from some scratches, and after the long trip down the river and the excitement of finding himself in such an unknown place, there was only so long that a boy could keep himself awake.

((Yeah, couldn't help it! But yeah, Taiki's going to pass out for awhile from exhaustion!))

[souhi-no-arashi.livejournal.com]

Kurogane watched as the various emotions flit over the boy's face quite plainly before he answered him.

...hn. At least this way maybe the white thing would have someone else to babble at.

When the boy began to fall, red eyes turned skyward, rolling as he begrudgingly walked over to the fallen child. Frail little thing, wasn't he... "What happened to not being any trouble? Tch," he grumbled, leaning down and scooping the slight body up easily. He slung the boy over one shoulder and held him in place, glancing at his own clothing still hanging from the tree. It would have to do for now, he guessed. Snatching them down, he glanced sidelong to where the girl had appeared from before, curious if she'd run off or not.

(( OOC: SO, if Sakura likes she can come and say some stuff or we can leave it off assuming she'd skittered off at some point because Kuro's a grumpy-pants XD ))

[souhi-no-arashi.livejournal.com]

(( OOC: So, since Fay sent that letter conveniently enough, can I go on assuming that Kuro could have asked about it and the bird? If so, he's gonna figure he can dump Taiki at this tower-place then since the sages have contacted Fay there already and could find him there easily enough. Want to ask you first though since it's assuming that Taiki would offer up the information upon being asked. ))

[blackkirin.livejournal.com]

((OOC: Sure! That works really well for me, though I'd figured that it would take a day or three for the bird to find Taiki. Should we start a new action post for that, or use this one?))

[souhi-no-arashi.livejournal.com]

(( OOC: Yeah, it would have. And they'll have to follow the bird for a day or two back too, but don't worry about making an action post. Mari offered up Fay to start something and set it up for them to get there. Unless you wanted to RP some of them on their way there, which I'm fine with. If so, go ahead and do an action post and I'll jump in. XD ))

[blackkirin.livejournal.com]

((OOC: *sweatdrops* Sorry about the semi-disappearance, my parents are back in the country for the summer so they kidnap me for family time off and on. Eventually word would probably get around that Taiki's missing, so neer-do-wells are a possibility, but otherwise that sounds great to me!))

[souhi-no-arashi.livejournal.com]

(( OOC: Oooh, I see I see. Well that be fine with me and uh, I already started it, so here ya go. XD ))

[blackkirin.livejournal.com]

((OOC: YAY!!))