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| Subject: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:07 am | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
I continue in my wandering around this strange new world. By this time I had come to the conclusion that I was no longer in the city and the city didn’t seem to be anywhere near where I actually was. I had been running around for some time, ducking strange creatures and such. There seemed to be something very wrong with this world and its want to kill me. By this time, I was tired, run ragged and with the night approaching, I needed a place to lay down for the night where I wouldn’t be eaten by a large plant creature or something to that nature.
Walking through the forests near the T10 region, I had crossed a lot of ground from my initial location. Looking up through the filtering leaves of the treetops, I notice the color of the sky warning that the sun would be setting soon. With a sigh, I shake my head stating, “man this blows.” I look over my clothing I had worn, casual attire that I hadn’t been able to wash yet, consisting of jeans, sneakers and a tee shirt. I pause for a moment as I hear something. “Is that… a river?” I wonder, as I look in the direction of the sound of water moving. It didn’t seem that far from me, so I begin to make my way towards it. If I remembered the concept of camping, I knew that rivers were good places to set up camps, or something.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:14 am | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
“I’m going to make a camp!” I say to myself in an excited manner trying to stay positive and keep my mind off of the fear that attempted to latch itself onto me. I come about a few trees that would deny my vision of the river. Once I am through the thicket, I look out and see the waters and a smirk comes to the side of my face. “Yes…” I murmur lightly to myself claiming success. I could finally clean up a bit, build a fire, and do all of that stuff I’ve seen on television that one would do in the wild. Still, I wondered if this place had some huge water creature waiting beneath the water’s surface to devour those who came to it? Either way, I didn’t care seeing as it had been some time since I had freshwater or a good meal. River meant fresh water and food, and that’s all I needed at the moment. Moving from my position, I walk towards the river with full intentions of taking advantage of its bounty, but I pause in my tracks as I notice something in the water. It wasn’t a sea monster, or what I would view as one; rather it seemed more like a nymph or water goddess. Before me washed a fully nude woman. My hand immediately comes to my nose, hoping that it wouldn’t start bleeding all of a sudden. Taking a step back, a twig snaps and my presence is revealed as I eep a, “oh shit!” under my breath frozen in place.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:25 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
So there is an awkward moment of silence on my end as I find myself looking at her and her looking at me. The water glistened off of her body, a tone that was unfamiliar to me with foreign markings. My gaze takes in her face, but inevitably lowers to the covered breast. Remembering my manners, I am quick to turn my back and bow several times, which was an awkward gesture seeing as she was behind me, so I would be presenting my rear to her several times as I speak in an embarrassed and flustered manner. Speaking out I apologize, “S… sorry! So sorry! I didn’t see anything… really… I just came to get some water and fish… I mean if that’s okay.” It’s around this time that I remember that I was lost in some far off land and that she may be a native here. In my rambling, I continue but in a more proactive direction, “actually… I’m really lost and I don’t know where my home is. You see, I live in the city, and I THINK that’s north or something but I’m not sure, so… where am I?” Hopefully she wouldn’t be too put off to answer me. If she was anything like Natsuki, she would be pulling out a gun right now to blow my brains out. Women were unpredictable, especially in compromised positions. I keep myself prepared to run if need be; I was about to fight back if a nude woman came at me; that would go against the doctrines of man.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:08 pm | |
| | OOC: Switching Views. Gonna try first person.
When he glanced from my face to my breasts, the blush crept a bit lower. Then his quick movement startled me into action. As he turned his back, I sank lower into the water covering myself to my shoulders. Then watching him bow and show off his rear end was a bit of a comical gesture. But to make matters worse he began to stammer. It was obvious that he was as embarrassed as I was if not more so. But I never got the chance as he continued to speak, the words spilling out of his mouth like a waterfall. His accent was a bit different and for a moment I thought he was speaking a different language. But If I concentrated I could make out what he was saying. But the end of his speech, I have figured out most of the differences in the dialect. This man was getting stranger by the moment. First he wanted fish from the river, then he admitted to being lost. Then he lived somewhere called a 'city'. That must be a word for a village. And it was to the north of here. When he finally stopped, I took a moment to think about it. "Please, excuse me. I will return." was all I could say I turned and swam back to my side. This seemed to be a conversation that would need to be conducted with clothing.
When I reached my side of the river, I glanced to see if he was still there. Then quickly, dried myself and pulled on the white and silver robe. This should be interesting. Motioning for him to stay put, I walked down the shoreline to a rocky spot covered in vines. Removing the vines, I revealed a small boat. Using this, I crossed the river and got out on his side of the river not far from him. "To answer your question, you are at the river. If you follow the river you will come to the largest village in these parts. Is that where you are from?" A hand reached up as I stood watching him. It went into my wet hair and combed it out. Using a bit of my ties with fyre, I dried it as I combed it through. Using the simple incantation of "dry"
Now that I was so close to the stranger I could see he was a bit dirty and rather different in appearance. I glanced at his clothing and realized i had never seen such fabric and cut before. In all of the clans, this was the strangest person I had ever met. Looking up to his face, my head tilted to the side studying him. By now the blush had been long since gone, leaving my skin its normal color, with a slight tan.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:40 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
With my back to her, the tilt of my head rises as I look up and ponder at her words. “Return what?...” rummages through my head until I realized that she was naked and probably wanted to get some clothes on. There was a bit of relief that she stayed calm during this, but then I started to worry that perhaps she was one of those bashful types and I embarrassed her by looking. I frown slightly, scolding both myself and my luck. Well, I thought the luck of seeing a hot naked chick was awesome, but like this was pretty bad. I am able to hear the sounds of the waters behind me as I figured she must be swimming to the shores. I suppose that answered the question about there being a large lake creature in the water; it would have eaten her by now. She seemed more delicious than I would be. I nod at my own sense of enlightenment as I rub my chin and gaze out into the forests. After a moment of more sounds of water coming across the river, a voice breaks me out of the random assortment of nuts known as my thoughts. Turning, I now see a fully clothed hot forest chick. She answers that I was at the river. Well, that much was obvious. More information is given as I’m told there was a large village up stream. The city was way larger than a village; I must have been further away than I thought. I do witness her ability to use magic, taking her to be either a monk type or a really nice spirit. The jitters of seeing her nude had calmed down a bit and as she looks to me for an answer I speak, “no… I’m not from a village. The city is way larger than what I would call a village... I’m sorry, when you said I’m at the river, that’s pretty vague… what I meant was…” I pause not knowing how to put this in words. The forest people probably didn’t have things like district names or maps. Wait! Maybe they did! “Or rather… do you have a map or something?” After the question is posed, there comes a fierce growl from my midsection reminding me that information was not as important as food.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:03 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
My stomach betrays my manliness, but its desire to vocalize itself presents a beneficial opportunity to me. I perk up a bit as she offers dinner certain that it would probably be better than anything I attempted to make here in the wilderness. With a nod, I answer, “that would be great… if it’s not too much trouble for you. I’ll pay for whatever I eat so I’m not mooching off of you.” Man rule number 45 was to never beg or accept handouts. I had already broken the rule to not ask for directions, so I didn’t want to break too many more this day. I assume that I’m right about her being a religious spiritual type since she mentions the temple. I had been to church a few days in my life, so I didn’t think that being in a temple could be horribly worst than being out here. I was certain that someone there may know how to get to the city as well; this could turn out to be a very good thing! She steps back into the boat, and becoming alert, I am quick to follow her stepping into the vessel and sitting within it. I hadn’t been on too many boat rides being from the city and all, so it was kind of a fun experience like the rides at a theme park. Looking back to her, I ask,” how far is your village? You like it out here?”
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:57 pm | |
| | As he climbs into the boat I pondering the word 'mooching' with the context clues I might guess he was meaning any number of things. I held the boat steady until he take his seat, then began paddling to the other side. What a strange word 'mooching', I was so deep in thought with that one, I almost did not hear his questions. Glancing at him as we made it to the other bank, I smile sweetly and replied, "Yes. It is pleasant out here. I enjoy nature. My temple is not far from the banks." I purposefully ignored the questioning about the village. He was an outsider. I should not even take to the temple, but I was soft. I could not turn down a hungry, hurt, or helpless person. So far this one only fell into one of those categories. "What does this 'mooching' mean?"
I stepped out of the boat and motioned for him to do the same as I took a small game trail into the dense forest. Assuming he would follow. It was about a ten minute walk as I followed the unmarked trail. Soon the temple came into view. It rose up touching the upper branches of the tallest trees. The peak just barely breaking through the top. A set of idols ringed the outer perimeter. They were small stone statues that could be easily picked up if needed and moved. There were about ten of them placed atop ten different five foot tall stone altars. Five on each side of the now stone walkway. A well kept stone garden lay to the left of the pathway and more natural garden to right side. As I passed the first duet of altars, I placed a hand the base of the one to the left. A symbol for the element of light. I pressed and the icons a top the others began to light up all the way to the front doors of the temple. It was now almost night and the light would be enough to see perfectly by. Other idols around the temple began to light up. They wouldn't be seen that far into the forest since it was so dense around the temple. "Welcome to my home. I am Kazakura." I look over my shoulder as I say this to the stranger. "Be welcome and at peace while you are here." The last was said almost as if a trigger to some magical effect. And if he was of good heart he might begin to really feel a welcoming warmth.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:09 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
With a nod I take in the casual conversation with her. I did think to myself that she spoke a bit funny. It would probably be the equivalent to a country bumpkin speaking to a city slicker; still it was authentic and a bit enduring. I’m glad to hear that it is not far, but the question comes in to what mooching meant. A grin cracks upon my face as I find it kind of funny and cute that she didn’t know what that meant. “Well,” I enlighten, “a mooch is someone who lives off of others, so the act of mooching is close to accepting handouts.” Hopefully that would be a clear meaning of it, but I wondered if I could have broken it down better. As the boat comes to the shore, I step out with her as I was motioned to, a bit wobbly at first, but overall getting the job done. I would follow behind her as we made our way through the trail, looking about the evening atmosphere of a place much nicer than the scary forest from which I had just come. As we get closer I notice with a chuckle and a smile, “hey, they have lawn gnomes out here too! That’s cool.” Remembering my surroundings, I’m quick to remember that they might be sacred lawn gnomes or something to that matter. Looking around, I see this home and nod answering, “ah, cool.” The most important thing on my mind at the moment was basically “where’s the food!”
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:42 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
The question comes out of left field and catches me off guard, but then I have to kind of agree with a nod that children were mooches. “Well…” I murmur lightly under my breath, “mooches are normally adults.” But I felt that she was getting the basic idea of what I meant, or what the word meant. I continue following as we move past an older guy who seemed pretty nice. As he bows, I return a slight awkward inclination of my upper body; not really a bow, but not really not a bow, since it felt odd passing him without doing so. I gained the thought that out here, customs might be a large thing in showing respect much like we were taught traditionally. I watch as the other chick leaves to go send someone for the clothing and then my attention is gathered once more as I was beckoned to keep moving. Coming into a room, I am told to sit. My body lowers as my rear comes to the floor with my legs crossing Indian style before me. I lean up to the table and watch her sit with me. I notice as the food is brought. The service here was indeed swift. A soft smile comes to my face, the food confirming the notion that it would be better than I would be able to prepare without an instant package and instructions. My hand comes to the chopsticks and lifts them up looking over the food hungrily before I start to dig into it, forgetting my manners for the moment or checking to see if she would be eating with me. After she speaks about my liking, I look up, swallow and nod assuring her, “it tastes like the best ramen I’ve ever had!” I notice the tea and sip from it before returning my attention back to the food. Pausing for a moment, I remember, “ah, and thank you so much… I’m not sure what to call you? My name’s Seiki.”
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:24 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
The first bowl is handled with ease. Any real man should have the appetite of five lesser men who should in turn have the appetite of five even lesser men. Either way, I am happily encouraged to have my fill by the extra portions brought. I stack up four ramen bowls before leaning back in my chair, my hunger admitting defeat. “Man, that was good…” I give a sigh of relief. I notice as the map is brought across the table. It was a bit old and made of paper… I suppose I had grown used to holographs to replace paper, but it was still good. “All right,” I say as she starts pointing to things. Understanding her words, I lean over the map, with my arms on the table repeating, “so I’m here… so let’s see. Wait…” I notice something extremely off. In school, they taught a such thing as geography… or something like that. Regardless of what class it was, I remembered the map of the lands around the city… actually anyone would. I notice that this map looks almost like the maps I’ve seen before, only without the city. “There’s the Great Sea…” I confirm, looking over it, “and there’s the desert region…” I pause for a moment and show concern, “the city should be right here where this thing is…” There was a village there, but it didn’t seem like the city. Looking up, I ask, “is this map ancient? How often do you guys update your maps? There's supposed to be a huge city right here.” My finger presses down on the Sai Village.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:13 pm | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
She seems to look confused when I asked about the map. I wondered for a moment if I offended her and if map was the best they could do with their technology of twigs and squirrels. I remind myself to be a bit more understanding of other cultures. I’m a bit surprised when she states that the map was created so recently. I look back at the map and wonder how that could possibly be. When she poses the question of when, it seems like things start to make a little bit of sense. But that would be impossible. I look at my surroundings and think about where I had been during this time, and everything floods into my brain to put me under the realization that she may have a point. “Oh shit…” I murmur in that moment. I pause for a moment attempting to think how to describe the city. “Oh yeah,” I say as I reach into my pocket, fishing out my phone. I had turned it off due to not having a signal, but I had pictures stored within it. I turn the phone on and it illuminates, buzzes, then speaks, “welcome to El Goog… no service.” I place it on the table and press the button for my photo album. A holographic display lifts from the phone about the size of a normal computer monitor and displays my pictures horizontally with the one in the center the largest and the others smaller thumbnails until they are pulled into the main frame. I browse through my pictures, mostly displaying me and various friends, at places around the city including the academic district, East City and the City Metro. There were cars, tall buildings and others like me in the photos. “This is where I came from,” I explain as I rotate through the pictures.
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| Subject: Re: Past Wanderings (Kaza) Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:41 am | |
| | Past Wanderings Location: Among trees… and a river! Or lake.
Her positive words make he feel a bit better. I feel as if I could trust her and look to her for a way out of here. These forest people must have had ways about doing stuff; I wondered if they had already traveled to my future before. When the question is posed, however, I’m not quite sure how to answer it and it shows that I am puzzled on my face. Shaking my head slowly, I answer, “I’m not sure. I haven’t seen anyone this whole time, but I have seen bits and pieces from my home city laying around randomly in the forest. It was like parts of my city were broken off and scattered in the forest. I should have known something was up at that moment.” Now that I had the ticker going, the brain was humming in overdrive and some things I was able to notice. With a nod, I confirm my thoughts and then look up to the necklace she was wearing. For some reason it seemed… special, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Either way, I was glad I at least had someone friendly here in this time in my corner.
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