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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 16:57:09 GMT -4
Otomeken smiled. "Sounds the same," she said. "I suppose it probably looks different, but... It sounds the same. I get up, I train, I teach... It's a fairly peaceful existance now I suppose... That's the biggest change for me..."
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 17:00:20 GMT -4
Kaliri grinned "What, peace?" She considered the thought a minute. Peace. Strange now that she should feel so far away from such an ideal, and the eternally tormented Otomeken should be languishing in it. Strange how the world moved them....
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 17:08:41 GMT -4
"Well... I don't have anyone chasing me down to kill be for being Innion Lann, I'm not haunted by memories I can't remember. My people are back under their proper king, and... Well... Things are just going right..." Otomeken said with a soft smile. She wasn't supposed to talk about her engagement to Baoh just yet, but that didn't mean she couldn't be happy about it...
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 17:40:42 GMT -4
"Well, I'm glad for that. Took long enough, it did." Kaliri glanced around on the streets, glancing left and right. "Erm... hey, you wouldn't happen to recall where my place was, in all of this? There's... a few things I'm hoping weren't just discarded, you know... if the house was sold... or if Rachi's still there.... I don't know, either way."
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 17:42:13 GMT -4
Otomeken had to think about that one... "Well... I don't know whatever happened to Rachi, or your place... But yeah... Your house was over this way," Otomeken said and started to walk by memory...
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 17:55:48 GMT -4
Kaliri fell awkwardly into step just behind Otomeken's shoulder, her step heavier and more shuffling than the old days, as though bounce were replaced with caution. She kept her mouth closed as they walked, keeping her eyes scanning the world around her as opposed to throwing herself into idle chatter, as she would have in years past. Though the sound of her movement would mark her as significantly taller than she had been, with more overall mass to her, her heartbeat still seemed to work at a pace faster even than it used to.
She scanned the buildings, looking for something that would jog a memory. A few facades looked slightly comforting, but weather this was because they were recognized, or because they were so unrecognized that they would be safe, she had no way to tell. She followed the Shamrock genin, trusting the blind girl to lead herself.
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 18:02:36 GMT -4
<Shamrock Chuunin now thank you > "Is this it?" Otomeken asked when they had arrived, pretty sure that she had the right place, but without the bennefit of vission, she couldn't exactly be sure. She didn't comment on much else though. She noticed the eerie caution, and the lack of bubbly chat, but most of her previous knowledge of the exact sounds of Kaliri had faded with time...
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 18:08:20 GMT -4
<Not that Kaliri knows that>
"It might be. Hrm... if it is, the curtains have changed. She wasn't living with anyone else after I was taken, was she?" Kaliri looked the house up and down. Something about the window drew her, but she couldn't figure out why..
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 18:13:03 GMT -4
Otomeken shrugged. "Last I heard, she and Yuki and..." she had to think... "Ku-mori?... Had some sort of falling out or fight or something, and up and disappeared... I don't know if Yuki was going to actually kill her, but it's certainly the way it sounded when it was retold a few times..."
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 18:24:57 GMT -4
Kaliri blinked, giving a little grunt as though she were physically struck by the information. She shook her head a bit, clearing the thought away, and noted again where she was standing.
"Stupid... why don't I remember how to.. lost everything..." She muttered under her breath. She scowled to herself and tried to remember the chase through the streets, the crashing... nothing was where it was supposed to be.
"Otomeken, do you remember how I used to perform my jutsu, at all?" She asked, on the random chance the other remembered anything about it.
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 18:29:19 GMT -4
"The stone thing?" Otomeken meditatively just breathed out a long stream of noiseless air...
"Have you gone to the hospital yet?" she ansered instead of going with what Kaliri had been hoping to hear... "Yuki had something wrong with his memory, Baoh was telling me, and he got some pills or something like that. He seems better now..."
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 4, 2010 18:47:47 GMT -4
Kaliri thought for a moment before answering. "I hadn't thought of that. Lenore told me that she had had to let me heal and rest for a few months, once she found me. I had just assumed that all the healing I had to do was already done." She rubbed at her arm for a moment, before forcing her hand back to her side.
She shook her head. "Well, I guess, then, before I do much else, I should head that way. I don't think I'm going to figure out where I was supposed to be sleeping before nightfall comes. I'll have to figure something out there." She turned to Otomeken, which was entirely unnecessary, and smiled. "Well, it was great to see you again. Maybe I'll run into you again tomorrow. Only... hopefully with more grace, next time."
She thought about holding her hand out to the other girl, but then realized the moot point of the gesture and just shrugged, turning to head in the direction of where the hospital should be, if this was indeed Rachi's old haunt.
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 4, 2010 19:06:46 GMT -4
Otomeken thought about it for a few moments. "Look me up if you want. My place isn't exactly spacious, but if you don't have anywhere else... You can sleep there..."
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Post by Kaliri on Jan 5, 2010 1:46:48 GMT -4
Kaliri stopped for a second, turning slightly towards Otomeken. She eyes the necklace around Otomeken's throat, and for a moment considered that it might not be a bad idea. But she knew she bothered Otomeken, that much at least she remembered. She reached inside and pulled up the old dusty mask sitting on the floor of her mind. She blew it off, set it in place, and was suddenly smiling.
"That's okay, Otome-chan. I'm sure something will come along! I can take it."
She gave a little grimace as she turned around. Her hand reached up to rub her other arm from shoulder to elbow, and she tossed a cheery "But I'll come and visit soon, I promise!" over her shoulder before walking off into the crowd, the noise of her passing covered over in the noise of the village streets like a dampening fog.
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Post by Otomeken on Jan 5, 2010 3:26:52 GMT -4
Otomeken stepped in front of her. "Who do you think you're fooling?" she asked. "All that 'you can hear a smile' bullshit that people talk about don't know how to hear the real emotion in peoples' voices... "If you need a place to stay, Kaliri, look me up..."
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