shadepossessed: (tom morrow is a terrible name)
Kainé ([personal profile] shadepossessed) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-02-09 05:34 pm

I dreamed I was dying [closed]

Who: Kainé and Sharak Sanzo.
What: No Boys Allowed camping trip.
Where: Aditi's temple, and then nebulous camping spot.
Why: Kainé gets back a memory and the pair take a vacation to deal.
When: June 14.
Warnings: Language, talk of discrimination/bullying, suicidal ideation.

[Fuck. She's staring at a goddamn rooster and crying. It was hard not to, when she'd suddenly been struck with the thought of a weathervane spinning its bird-shaped head wildly with the breeze.

If the beak turns east, I go home. If it stays west, then I... I...

Kainé pushes herself to her feet, hastily wiping the trail that had already made its way to her chin, and then makes a silent retreat to the room they had set aside for her instead of the wide, open area of the temple she slept in. These kinds of feelings weren't necessarily what she'd had in mind when she made the request for somewhere private -- she hadn't known something like this was even possible then -- but like hell she wanted to deal with Sharak or Goten finding her first thing while she's still processing it.

East? ...Really?

She could hardly believe it now any more than she had back then, but she was stubborn that way. And now at least she could pinpoint where her stubbornness had come from.

Go home? Yeah, that's a funny joke for someone with dead parents and no home to go to.

...Well, she'd found a home. And she had a home now, too. She looks down, a little surprised to find a cigarette lit between her fingers, the smoke coiling around her, but it's with a small laugh that she accepts it. Of course she'd done something foolish like that to calm herself down. Of course the harshness of it was comforting, just as that old woman -- Grandma, she'd been her grandmother -- chastising her for being stupid had been.. When had it become so entwined with all that cozy shit like safety, home, and...?

Mmn. It probably didn't matter. What mattered was that the feeling was there, and real. That the memory was there, and real. Now that her eyes were dry and she could think enough to bring her hand away from her head where the memory of a wound had tried to convince her of pain, Kainé could take a breath. In. Out. In...]


...Hey Aditi, [she murmurs on the next exhale, relying on that bond rather than her voice, even if she's pleased to find it comes out as solid even as soft as it is. She rolls the cigarette between her fingertips and pushes aside the curtain that served as the feeble door. There was something more there than just the promise she'd made to tell Sharak if this ever happened, now. What a pain.] Your Hanaki needs you.
bussounoshima: (Sounds rough!)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. That's much more reasonable.]

Camping? For fun? [Well, it can be enjoyable, she's just used to it as more of a survival experience... She can give it a try.] ... We could go somewhere. I might know a few places.

[In the Tibetan mountains. Perfectly safe.]
bussounoshima: (That's how it is.)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-13 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Look... She's a mess, don't be like her.]

I thought that was what you meant. [She definitely isn't letting her shinki vanish to the Near Shore for over twenty-four hours unaccompanied.] Goten can stay the night with one of his other friends.

[Everyone loves Goten.]
bussounoshima: (Smoke break)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[A mystery. Anyway, Goten is the strongest and most emotionally stable person living at this temple, including the chickens. He's fine. ]

Careful, I'm not that old yet. [She's middle-aged, not elderly! Sharak steals the cigarette Kainé put aside earlier and works on relighting it.] You're the one with grey hairs.
Edited 2017-02-13 21:54 (UTC)
bussounoshima: (uuuuugh)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-14 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, smoking makes her young and hip?? When did smoking stop being cool?]

I'm thirty-four, but I'm young at heart. [Okay, that makes her sound old.] Well, if I'm too old for you, maybe I should stay here. It might be a little weird for an old woman like me to hang out in the woods with a kid like you.
bussounoshima: (Thinkin' and smokin')

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-15 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, she's done with the tea, she has a cigarette now.]

Thirty-four is too old for you to be so focused on my ass. [She's a priest, Kainé! Show some respect!] I said I'd go, didn't I?
bussounoshima: (why sanzo-sama)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-15 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sharak is completely unfazed because, unfortunately for everyone around her, she is terrible at telling when she's flirting with someone. Whoops.]

Years ago I spent some time traveling around the mountains out west. ["West" like it's such a specific description.] We ended up camping a lot between villages. It's rough enough to be a challenge but it's doable for two people, especially if we don't go too high up.

[... Hassan has been following Sharak around into trouble for a long time.]
bussounoshima: (What are you doing?)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-16 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, she has lots of friends! That "we" could be anyone! It could even be more than just her and- okay, yeah, it was just her and Hassan.] I didn't even mention him.

[A little annoyed that she's so obvious. Well, whatever. Sharak starts to stand up.] Fine, we'll go. You might want to wear pants for this.
bussounoshima: (Who's in charge here? Oh it's me.)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2017-02-24 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[She has friends! So many friends! She doesn't know why either but they still exist!]

It could get cold in the evening, but it is summer so something that breathes would be best. You'll also be off road, so bugs and stinging plants should be a concern. And we're doing this properly if we're doing it at all, so be ready to walk a lot.

[All three, Kainé. Sharak looks irritated, but in a way that somehow implies she's enjoying the journey ahead of them...]