[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]

It had all started out as just another day. Taiki had gotten up and washed, then eaten breakfast, then he'd done some reading until his eyes hurt and the sages had nudged him outside. Then it just hadn't been a good day. First he'd tripped in the maze and somehow fell into a cave, then he'd slid through a bunch of mud and into an underground river while trying to find his way back. And now he'd been washed up in some forest with no idea where he was. The river's spirit had been very contrite when it had finally taken a good look at him to realize he wasn't some thief after it's source, but it had no way of taking him back up the mountain either. And so Taiki had decided to just start walking back upstream until he could find something he recognized.
That was when he heard the man and Taiki froze. Should he hide until the man was gone? Should he ask for directions? The sages had always told him to run away if any strangers came to the mountain without permission, but he wasn't at the temple right then. The sopping boy glanced around frantically for a hiding place and spotted... absolutely nothing except for large tree, and he darted towards it.