kumar
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Post by kumar on Aug 26, 2006 1:36:55 GMT -4
Lenore crept around the edge of the females side of the hot-spring, to take the corner to herself. She had much to think about. The two new people she'd met that day. The seeming link between them. The troubles they each struggled with, alone, though they shared them. The obvious path that she saw, but neither of them seemed to. Was she worthy? Was she who the Seers had sent her to find? How was she to know? Perhaps this girl would hold some clue to something. To one of the many mysteries. The Past, The Present, or some path not yet hunted. The shadow following Lenore caught up with her, and nudged her in the back of the knee, momentarily putting her off balance and nearly plunging her into the water headfirst. Windmilling her arms, she twisted herself in midair, and latched onto a small outcropping of rock. Her pack swung wide of her shoulder, and dangled dangrously above the water. She quickly assesed her situation. Her clothes could be dried. The pack could be dried. What was inside could not. Making her decision, she rolled her shoulder to dislodge the pack from her shoulder and swing it towards her right leg. Her leg caught the pack, and shoved it onto the ledge that was beyond her boots' ability to grasp. In the nick of time, it seemed, as her boots lost what little purchase they had, and sent her backwards into the water, banging her shins and thighs, and smacking her arm off of the rock. As she raised her head out of the water, the sound of the splash reverbrating in decreasing echoes around her, she spit out water. "Damn you, Pishka! You had better hope no one heard that!" The shadow whimpered.
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Post by Kumori on Aug 26, 2006 3:40:17 GMT -4
Kumori had been relaxing in the water on the guys side of the spring. When he head a splash and then a voice that he recognised, he moved closer to the wall deviding the springs and asked, "Lenore is that you?"
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Post by kumar on Aug 26, 2006 4:02:12 GMT -4
Lenore looked daggers at the cat perched on the rocks, and then pushed off from the side, and swam over to the dividing wall, and spoke to it. "Yes, it's me. Can you be over here? It's okay, this area is empty."
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Post by Kumori on Aug 26, 2006 12:02:37 GMT -4
"Ok, I guess I can." he replied, and started climbing the fence to get to the girls side of the spring. Once he got over the fence, he looked at Lenore and then around at the rest of the hotspring. He then formed a hand seal and said, "Henge" there was a puff of smoke and it now looked like Kaliri was standing in front of Lenore. "It might be better if I look like this in case anyone comes along." he said to her.
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kumar
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Post by kumar on Aug 26, 2006 16:34:16 GMT -4
Lenore nodded, and dove back into the pool, leading Kumo-liri across the pool to where her pack was. She climbed out of the water, swatted the cat on the nose, and picked up her pack, turning back to see if Ka-Mori would follow.
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Post by Kumori on Aug 26, 2006 17:35:08 GMT -4
Ka-mori slipped into the pool, and moved towards Lenore. He looked over her shoulder to where her pack was then back to her, as he came to a stop about 5 feet away from her around the side of the spring.
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Kaliri
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Post by Kaliri on Aug 28, 2006 4:19:27 GMT -4
Kaliri neatly packed the rest of her things into the locker, and stepped into the shower for a few minutes to wash away the stresses of the day.
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Post by kumar on Aug 28, 2006 4:21:57 GMT -4
Lenore shouldered the pack, and led the way around the pool to where there were several large boulders all placed, not-so-coincidentally, so that there was a small clearing free of rocks, with a wall just high enough to hide behind. She set the pack on the ground and began to sift through the things it held.
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Post by Kumori on Aug 28, 2006 6:29:45 GMT -4
Ka-mori watched her as she sifted through her bag, not sure what she was looking for, but thought it better not to ask a woman about what she kept in her bag.
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Kaliri
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Post by Kaliri on Aug 29, 2006 0:09:52 GMT -4
Kaliri let the hot water rush over her shoulders, and leaned her forehead against the cool wall, her hand reaching out to the tap to turn the water cooler slowly. As the water cooled, she felt it approaching the same temperature her blood was running ever since that morning: Stone cold. What the hell was she going to do? How was she going to keep her life together now? She had two exceptionally difficult choices, and each a responsibility that she could not, and would not ignore. She reached out and took a small bottle from the floor, and poured some into her hand, the sweet mint-lavender smell permeating the shower stall. She ran her fingers through her hair, and rubbed her scalp till it tingled. She rinsed her hair, and stood under the tap for a few more minutes.
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Post by kumar on Aug 30, 2006 23:25:13 GMT -4
Lenore took a few things out of her bag: a mortar and pestle, a small pouch of some fragrant comodity, a pipe, some matches, and a bottle and a few small cups. She pulled the pouch towards her, and began to take out a few red flower petals. "I don't suppose you have a fire jutsu hidden away somewhere?" She asked, as she put the flower petals into the mortar and began to grind them up.
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Post by Kumori on Aug 31, 2006 16:29:33 GMT -4
Kumori looked at her and smiled, "No, that is one thing I do not have hidden away somewhere. What are you making over there anyway?"
Just as he finished saying this a large cloud of steam rose from behind the fence to another area of the hot spring. The cloud was tinted orange as if there was a large flame underneath it.
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Post by Rachi on Aug 31, 2006 16:38:19 GMT -4
Rachi was in a spring all by herself. She was training with her fire jutsu's. In an attempt to be able to use, the Katon Housenka, though she was still only able to create a single fireball. "Damn it," she cursed, "I have to try harder." Concentrating she started to preform her handseals again, "Katon Housenka." She again blew out try to through multiple fireballs. This time she was able to create two fireballs but they where extremely small, and vanished almost as soon as they hit the air.
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Kaliri
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Post by Kaliri on Sept 1, 2006 6:06:36 GMT -4
Kaliri finished her shower, and heaved a heavy sigh. She picked up her bottle off the floor, and walked out of the stall, grabbing a white towel on her way out. She entered the hot spring, intent on the silence that would await her, and hoping to get a few things cleared out of her mind during her few moment's respite available before she went back home, to where some of the problems lived.
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Post by kumar on Sept 1, 2006 6:18:07 GMT -4
Lenore looked up at the coloured cloud, dyed red, and her jaw dropped for an instant. The image of villages, people, animals, ... children, friends, parents, brothers and sisters, teachers, neighbours, family... all of them burning. After a moment, Lenore shoook it off. There was no way that Lauja could have found her this fast. It was something else. Had to be. Maybe someone was having a go at them? Someone heard what she'd said about fire Jutsu's, and was smoke-and-mirror'ing them, trying to make an entrance. She sniffed the air, and tilted her head to the side, catching Pishka's eye. The large cat seemed to be sniffing, but not entirely worried, so Lenore relaxed. "Oi!" she shouted. "Who's it over there?"
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