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Akashi Kaoru || 明石 薫 ([personal profile] queenofminiskirts) wrote in [community profile] awashlogs2018-12-05 10:26 pm

December Catch All

Who: Kaoru and others!
Where: All over Chroma
When: December
What: Quests and stuff
Warnings: probably none

Catch all for December stuff.
good_ideas: (geez | squish his face)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-07 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[There was only one choice to make and so this is what Shiho had chosen. She wouldn't leave Kaoru by herself, no matter what.

It's with that in mind that she's walking hand in hand with Kaoru right now, tense and always sneaking looks at her best friend just so she could have a visual confirmation that everything was still fine. They should have taken more medicine....

The cave receives a glare and Shiho reaches out to set her hand against the rocks beside it.]


It's empty. Maybe the dragon decided it would be better to give it up to us.

[She tries for a light tone but only manages to sound worried. And then? She narrows her eyes. Someone is following them.




.....that weird guy who blushed when talking about two heads but goes around pretending to be asleep to get kisses? What'she doing here?]
Edited 2018-12-07 18:41 (UTC)
espritdecorpse: (where's the party)

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-07 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd had a terrible feeling ever since seeing that message on the network about Kaoru being sick. Demonic cultivation takes its toll on the body and the soul: how many times had he heard that warning, and how many times had he discounted it? His energy, at the peak of its strength had leapt to her body and coursed through it. What was the cost?

So he had asked around and lurked about, and when he'd caught sight of the two of them, he had followed silently, just out of sight, and just at the distance where the trees closed in. His feet are light and his movements silent, as if he were hunting pheasants back in Yunmeng. He's able to stay hidden until they get to the cave.

At that point, it makes little sense to keep hiding, so he steps out from the shadows. ]


Aiiiyaah! What a coincidence! To meet the two of you here, so deep in the forest, who would have guessed it?
good_ideas: (evil | it's a promise not a threat)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
He probably is a stalker. [Which is why Shiho moves to stand in front of Kaoru, pushing her best friend back behind her and crossing her arms as she regards the newest addition to their party.]

...so you’re just “coincidentally” wandering where we are, Mr. Stalker?
espritdecorpse: (REALLY good looking)

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-09 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ He hears the branch snap too, but assumes it's just ice. ]

Hey! Is that any way to address me?

[ Hands on his hips, he bends over until he's eye-to-eye with Shiho; then he looks up, over her shoulder at Kaoru. ]

I thought we agreed you were going to call me "old man stalker"!
good_ideas: (geez || Just plain wrong)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-10 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Mister Old Man Stalker, then. [But she's not moving, attempting to stare him down.]

Why are you here?
interlucere: (2466877 (43))

So late that the Starbucks is cold

[personal profile] interlucere 2018-12-11 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Clearly Lux senses no ulterior motives. She looks in much better shape than they were in the castle, smiling cheerfully as she walks beside Kaoru. ]

It seems pretty unlikely. But considering what we've been through in the last few weeks, I guess the possibility exists.

[ Which is her roundabout way of saying that Chroma better give them this. ]

Still, it seems a little random, don't you think?
espritdecorpse: (time 2b cool)

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-11 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Thaaaat's better!

[ He beams at them for a few moments. Then his expression gives way to something more genuine... and more serious. ]

I'm here to help.

[ His eyes shift from Shiho, to Kaoru, and back to Shiho again. ]

Let's go inside and talk. It's cold out here.

[ He brushes past them and heads into the cave, flicking fire talismans as he goes. They stick to the walls and light the way. ]
interlucere: (oo1.)

This made the former barista in me cry a little

[personal profile] interlucere 2018-12-12 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you have a point there.

[ Lux just assumed she means the sphinx being random in general, not the time of year or location.

She huffs a bit, crossing her arms as she tries to keep a smile from breaking through. ]


Well, if Mister F is listening [ She knows he is!! ] then he should give us more requests like this! This place is bleak enough as it is.
good_ideas: (angry || death will be a mercy to you)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-14 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
To help by doing what?

[Shiho glares but wherever Kaoru goes, she goes too.

Going back does occur to her, but... the path has closed behind them. UGH. Pressing her lips together in annoyance, she hurries along, eyes briefly glancing at the glowing talismans, reaching out to rest her hand on the wall to examine both those weird, glowing things to the cave itself.]
espritdecorpse: (take care of my donkey)

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-14 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He keeps walking and tossing talismans, as if he hasn't noticed he's picked up a teenage girl-shaped barnacle. ]

What a nice cave! I like a good cave. I used to live in one. I could leave rubbish all over the place and there was no one to scold me!

[ Eventually he finds an open area where the cave floor is relatively flat and the ceiling high. A multitude of stalactites hang from the ceiling, which sparkle like diamonds in the flickering talisman flames. The temperature is noticeably warmer inside than out. That's how it is with caves: cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter.

He looks down at Kaoru. He'd wanted her to come inside with him anyway, so dragging her in is perfectly acceptable from his point of view. Gently he says: ]


I want to help, because I think your illness might have something to do with me.

[ Shiho's investigation of the talismans might reveal their magical nature, woven together from the life energy of blood, of the paper, and complex spellcraft. ]
good_ideas: (angry || death will be a mercy to you)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-16 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
What are you, a bear? [Shiho dislikes seeing Kaoru get dragged.

But the guy doing the dragging always seemed like a good person? So she settles with trying to split her attention between brushing her fingers over the talismans and glaring at Wei Wuxian some more. Interesting... so it's magic. She understands the blood (kind of) and the paper (more so) but the rest flies right over her head.

It is much warmer and if she were in a better mood she'd actually have thought it was beautiful. (Though a tiny part of her does think about snapping off a stalactite for Minato. Until she notices that she'd gotten distracted.)]


And what do you mean it has something to do with you? What did you do? [The last part is said in a low, dangerous voice that promises retribution.]
espritdecorpse: (jin ling why)

more wuxia blather

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-16 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't answer immediately, instead feeling for Kaoru's pulse once more. A few moments and he looks up. ]

I didn't understand how Maiden Kaoru's "boost" worked. I thought it was similar to a magical tool.

[ Shiho sounds angry. She looks angry, too. He doesn't blame her. He's angry with himself. He'll accept any punishment. ]

My powers might have interfered with hers. If so, that's why she's ill right now. That's why—

[ He turns to Kaoru. ]

—I think I'd better not leave, even if you ask me to.
good_ideas: (geez || kinda worried. maybe. sorta.)

[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-12-17 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru is successful in pulling Shiho's attention away from Wei Wuxian. Her hand comes up to cover Kaoru's, both as her way of showing her best friend that she was here and was going nowhere, as well as to check the status of Kaoru's health for the millionth time today.]

It's a cold. I mean, it's good that you're trying to take responsibility [because Shiho could still blame him if she wanted] but unless your power is giving people colds then I doubt this is because of you.

[But... she isn't sure. She also doesn't like the thought of blaming him entirely though now that she's figured out he just doesn't understand the concept of a cold.]
espritdecorpse: (well hello there)

[personal profile] espritdecorpse 2018-12-17 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Maiden Kaoru, if you were going to throw me out, you would have done it already.

[ In other words, you're stuck with this guy, no matter what. There's a convenient rock formation in the cave, like a little elevated platform. He settles himself on top of it and folds his legs into the lotus position. ]

My power....

[ It's complicated to explain the nature of his power, and why he's convinced his demonic qi might have weakened Kaoru's strong constitution, enough for her to get sick. Rather than focus on what he's done, he'll try to shift the conversation to what he can do to right things. ]

One of my powers has to do with life energy. It has a lot of uses, including restoring health. Give me a minute....

[ He closes his eyes and hopes that this will be enough to get them to quiet down (and let him work on soul cultivating, it's been a while), but as soon as the thought enters his mind, he realizes that it probably won't.

...

He opens his eyes again. ]


Actually. This is something that's difficult to do. Could you help me, Maiden Shiho?

[ Kids, particularly good kids like these girls won't turn down an earnest request for help. And if he can get Shiho meditating, that's one less voice arguing with him. Not only that, but...who knows, perhaps she'll have some talent at it. ]

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