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Post by kumar on Jun 9, 2007 11:03:28 GMT -4
Lenore slipped beneath the warm water. as a slight sigh passed her lips, she leaned back onto the fur behind her. lazily, she stretched up and stroked Pishka's tail, humming to herself.
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 9, 2007 11:06:08 GMT -4
Otomeken hadn't trained all that hard today, but hard enough to deserve a nice hot soak... and if she were lucky... Baoh might just show up again. She emerged from the changing stalls and headed towards her favorite pool. "Oh, I'm sorry," she said, starting to turn away to walk towards another open spot, hearing someone already in the one that she frequented... The strange thing was, as was usuall for her now, she was walking around with her eyes completely shut....
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Post by kumar on Jun 10, 2007 19:12:21 GMT -4
Lenore sat up a little straighter. and smacked her hand on one of the rocks, while trying to make a seriously difficult decision. Did she try to use her voice. She realized that the more people who knew, the more difficult it was to hid, but... this girl would obviously not be able to see her sign language, if this was who she thought it was. She would try a few signs, and if that didn't work, well... she'd just have to let it go...
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 11, 2007 1:02:13 GMT -4
As the girl signed, Otomeken took on a confused look... "I'm... I'm sorry... I don't know how to read sign language," she said as if she could see the signals perfectly well, though her eyes remained shut... "Are you mute? I... I can try to guess what you're trying to tell me... Or if you just write it in the air... I can understand it from that..."
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Post by kumar on Jun 11, 2007 22:54:53 GMT -4
Lenore chuckled, and decided that even if the person wasn't one of her own, she was certainly worth knowing, even if she wouldn't be around long.
In a thick, stuffy (Middle eastern, for anyone trying to place) accent, she drawled... "No, Westerner, I can speak. Leave it to the fire-haired ones to make life more difficult than it needs to be. Come sit. Pishka!" She snapped her fingers behind her, and the other large heartbeat growled a sort of inquiry in response. "Find my pouch, sister." She turned her attention back to Otomeken. " Please, sit, if you are who I think you are, then there's no reason for you to stand in my presense. And if you're not, then I would very much like to meet someone other than the troublesome two I hunt with."
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 12, 2007 6:28:45 GMT -4
Otomeken looked a little confused, but since this person wasn't trying to kill her yet, she figured that she must not be from back home seeking bounty on Otomeken's head. She slid into the water and sat adjacent from the other girl. "So, tell me, who do you think I am?"
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Post by kumar on Jun 12, 2007 11:18:55 GMT -4
"You are this "Blade Sister" Kaliri keeps on about." Lenore made a quick hand gesture and then bowed over it. At that exact moment, a hard leather case fell fromabove her, and landed just outside to pool.
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 12, 2007 16:39:45 GMT -4
"Daughter," Otomeken corrected. "Otomeken, Daughter of the Blade. Yes, that is me." Otomeken felt a little better to know that it was Kaliri who this person learned about her through, but still didn't like the idea of being known to someone without knowing anything of them...
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Post by kumar on Jun 12, 2007 19:25:58 GMT -4
Lenore Shrugged, and put her right fist beneath her left. "Our languages, they have only a shaky truce." She chuckled. She pulled out a pipe, and stuffed it full of a fragrant, floral smelling leaf. "Would you like some?"
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 12, 2007 19:40:58 GMT -4
"No. Thank you." Otomeken said passively. "My mother would kill me, were she still alive. But, now you know my name, but you have yet to introduce yourself, and I'm afraid that I'm at a loss as no one has ever given me hints towards your identity in any way..."
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Post by kumar on Jun 13, 2007 1:10:12 GMT -4
Lenore shrugged when the opium was turned down, and took a hit herself, letting her head fall back onto Pishka, again. The kitten was going through a growth spurt. Instead of just looking like an abnormally large black, short-haired sheltie with a cat's face, she looked like an abnormally large, black, short-haired sheltie with a cat's face and an inch or two wide spot beginning to show through her fur in many places, like a secret blanket. She also was adding inches to her dimensions every few weeks.
Lenore smiled when it was mentioned that she'd had yet to mention her name. She exhaled, and turned to face Otomeken.
"Oh, yes you have. You've gotten hints. Simply because you chose not to ask questions or take a care in the life of your friends, do not presume me to be rude." She held up a finger to forestall any forthcoming arguments. "However, simply because I think you will amuse me in time, I will thank you now for overlooking the obvious. My name is Kumar Lenore. And next time, I think, you will learn that the issue is not weather or not you need to ask questions, but know which questions to ask."
Lenore Bowed in her people's way, first touching her forehead with the tips of her fingers then making a circle, finally to sweep them away in a grand gesture, showing honour to an acquaintance's strength and leadership.
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 13, 2007 16:40:23 GMT -4
Otomeken gave a mild scowl, not liking the idea of being 'amusement,' but settled back against the rocks. "So how did you come to know Kaliri?" she asked, trying to spark conversation, and gain a little background information at the same time...
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Post by kumar on Jun 13, 2007 22:20:20 GMT -4
Lenore finnished yet another pull, and smiled. She sat up a little straighter. "Now, there is a question worth answering. I was on my way to answer the news about a house for sale in town, when I stumbled into her and a young boy in a field. Thinking that I was being attacked by a panther, the fool boy attacked poor Pishka, here." Lenore reached up and patted Pishka, who purled, and leaned into the girl's hand. "When he realized his mistake, it was only because this young girl had realized it first, and told him. She's a sharp one, she is, when it comes to figuring things out about people." Lenore muttered a little quieter, but not as if she were trying to hide it from Otomeken. "Even things they really don't want her to know..." She shook herself a bit, and resumed her story.
"Well, I was about ready to simply walk away from them, when something about her eyes caught mine. I decided to see if either of them knew how to sign. She did, and we talked. After that, there's pretty much been no separating the three of us... that's why I'm here tonight."
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Post by Otomeken on Jun 13, 2007 22:28:07 GMT -4
Otomeken looked a little startled. "You're here.... Because Kaliri is going to be here?" she asked rather concerned and almost ready to get up and leave. It wasn't that she minded Kaliri, but she remembered what happened in the hot springs the last time the two of them had met there... She had almost killed Kaliri...
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Post by kumar on Jun 14, 2007 13:34:01 GMT -4
Lenore laughed heartily at the look on Otomeken's face. "She must really put you off balance. No, she's not going to be here, she's at home. I'm here, because i've been spending a lot of time with the two of them, so I'm taking a few hours break. My question to you now, is, were you going to get up and greet her, or run away from her?" Lenore took a final pull fromthe pipe, and it burned down to ashes. She very quietly tapped out the pipe and set it back in the case.
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