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Konoha ([personal profile] lumberlady) wrote in [community profile] acatalepsy_logs2018-08-28 09:27 am

[open] you can lead a sick horse to water

Who: Konoha and YOU
Where: around the Temple
When: 8/28 - 9/20
Rating PG???
What: catch all log for hanging with a centaur before or after the sick sets in

01 | GARDENING | 8/28

[What Konoha really wanted to do was to go home. But she knows... She has to make the most of her situation. Has to try and stay positive the best she can. So, like she'd talked about with Nier... a garden seemed like a good idea. With the plants withering like they were planting didn't actually seem like it would work, but at least she could get the field ready? It seemed like something to do, at least, and hard labor is what Konoha did best.

So she gets to work. In the first few days she can be found out near the woods, sleeves tied back and a cloth wrapped around her forehead to keep sweat out of her eyes as she starts prepping the dirt. Digging out stones, ripping up dead roots, cutting away weeds, dragging a makeshift plow behind her to till the soil...

At the sight of anyone from the Circle, however, she takes a moment to give a friendly wave.]


02 | BATHHOUSE | 8/30

[All the plowing she's been doing works up a sweat, and it wasn't often she had the luxury of a bath big enough for jinba that wasn't... wading into the river. Not that there's anything wrong with rivers, but. The bathhouse at the temple is more luxurious than she's ever really tried before, and it's so comfortably hot???

She could be mistaken for a human woman at first glance, with all the steam, but the dark shadow in the water reveals her more equine half. That and the long black tail floating towards the top of the water. Sighing happily and resisting the urge to try and roll, Konoha lets her hair down from it's usual bun and sets about running her fingers through it to try and untangle it as she sinks a bit deeper into the water.]


Ah... This is nice.

03 | HELPING THE SICK | 9/5

[Konoha has never gotten sick when her parents or the other humans in the village had. She didn't really hear a lot about jinba getting sick at all, really... So she thinks it will be fine. She doesn't have enough education to know that this might be because, as similar as her upper body looks, a jinba and a human are different species, and not all sickness can cross those differences... She just knows that she's probably fine.

So she tries to help.]


Morning... I brought breakfast.

[She pokes her head in the door of one of the bedrooms in the Temple, smiling through the concern on her features and a steaming bowl of what looks like porridge in her hands.]

Feeling up to eating?

04 | KITCHEN STUMBLE | 9/12

[Fun fact for anyone studying this outbreak... Species doesn't matter. Jinba get sick, too.

She's been feeling tired, but... She's also been working hard as more and more people got sick. Hasn't really been sleeping well. The low fever, that... had been more concerning, but what could she do about it? She did tell someone, she wasn't trying to hide anything-

But she also didn't expect it to take a turn so fast. To be so clumsy as to catch a hoof on a stone, to send the basket of apples she'd been carrying rolling across the floor and her sprawling right after with a crash as her attempt to catch herself failed and only managed to knock cutlery off the counter.

She'll get up... She will. In a minute. Meanwhile, a lone apple rolls out the kitchen door.]


05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY | 9/17

[It's so hot. She knows it has to be because of the fever, knows she's supposed to sweat it out... but she still can't help the urge, anxiously twisting where she lies on the ground in her temple room to try and undo the bear hide wrap she wears tied about her waist, try and loosen the fit of her shirt as sweat beads on her dark skin.

Sometime in the last night... She's lost the strength to stand. Had gradually collapsed to her knees, then to her belly, and then to her side. She forgets how long ago. Long enough for the pillow she'd taken with her to soak with sweat, for her throat to parch and her stomachs to twist in protest, both starving for food and roiling to reject it.

The sound of a visitor... doesn't even really register.]
tranquilforest: (Default)

[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-13 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure what I'm looking for. [She looks slightly pensive, considering the problem laid out for her.] I was wondering if the plants inside the Temple were the only ones that were wilting, but it seems that the ones in the forest have been affected as well.

[She trails off for a moment before refocusing on Konoha with a smile.] How about you? What are your plans for all this ground you're preparing?
bleps: (75)

[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-13 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rambling is fine. Rambling is more than okay, especially if she seems to enjoy it. Eventually, they step into the Temple corridors again, keeping the slow but steady pace.]

It sounds to me that you’ve already put a lot of thought into this.

[That does make a smile quirk at his lips.]

What about names?
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[personal profile] theseuschip 2018-09-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Is it? Working?? At the very least, she’s moving at a steady pace, albeit a slow one, and they’re just about there, the ground growing marshy under their feet. ]

Well, she hated humans. And... other two-legged people.

[ Suddenly he finds the idea of describing Hayame vaguely daunting. You couldn’t have called them friends by any stretch of the imagination, but everything about the way she was and lived- lives- is both utterly foreign and commanding of respect, even if Simon Does Not Get It. Maybe retroactive respect that he didn’t give her at the time. Maybe something like that.

Then: ]
Should I just, uh- I guess I’ll stay to make sure you don’t fall in there.

[ ...it sounds like a sacrifice of time, but ‘making sure one of the sick Circle members doesn’t drown’ wasn’t the actual most useful thing he can think of doing right now. ]
Edited 2018-09-14 02:14 (UTC)
purrtagonist: (Can I take a rain-check on Valhalla?)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-09-14 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Not through the watch anymore.

[shows her his own, which reflects that the call has ended]

I cut off the connection. That's why. You can hang up on people whenever you want during a call.
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2018-09-14 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ zuko doesn't really know what to say either, he doesn't have an immediate solution, so he's not gonna follow up on that. ]

Zuko.

[ a beat. ]

You should lie down. Do you have a room?
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[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-14 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a few plants still that would survive a planting at this time of year or later, but... [Yeah the timing is very non-ideal... She shakes her head slightly, and smiles again.]

But we can still hope that things will improve soon. Having this field will be a benefit, and even over the winter there are things we can do to prepare for planting in the new year.

[Watching Konoha work reminds her of a conversation she had recently with Princess Nihuang about her.]

Actually, we should probably also think about preparing ourselves for the winter as well.
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-14 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe so. I think that depends on their circumstances, don’t you?

[He sure wouldn’t know. Connor can’t even hope to speak from experience, only from conjecture at best.

He’s careful, as always, as they continue to walk. Will stop briefly when and if she stumbles, before guiding her down the long hallway.]


Names are generally meant to be imbued with meaning. As if it’s supposed to define personality, though I think that’s more… wishful thinking than anything else.

[After all, how far does a name go to define a person? If he were named something other than Connor, would he be any different?]

Not that this is a bad thing. I do like your reasoning.
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[personal profile] beyondthegreen 2018-09-15 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Tefé calls out, almost hesitantly as they approach the spot she pointed to:]

...Lady Jane? Is that... wait, come back! We... we have to catch up. After her!

[There's really nobody there. It's just forest. But Tefé is very insistent, a hint of urgency in her voice.]
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[personal profile] beyondthegreen 2018-09-15 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
But... she was right there...

Maybe you missed her in the trees.

[That has to be the explanation, right? She'd seen her die, but maybe, just maybe, some small part of Lady Jane had escaped and fled to, well, whatever this place was? In Tefé's feverish mind, this makes total sense.]

Over that way.
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[personal profile] sendinthecavalry 2018-09-15 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Definitely worrisome, especially after how sure on her feet she was back in Struxia. Cayde casually stands and leans against the counter, subtly trying to judge whether or not she's going to take another round with the floor. It's hard to tell.]

Nah, but it looks like you could use a drink and a sit. Take a leg off for a few, I can grab you something. There's always time to relax.
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[personal profile] theseuschip 2018-09-15 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he sits on the riverbank with his feet in the water... to supervise his sickly centaur friend... at least she seems to like it, though. This was a good idea after all. ] ...The wars?

[ It’s more out of distraction and interest that Simon doesn’t start off with an answer to her question than it is the equally-relevant fact, which he now realizes in passing, that he has no goddamn clue. Hayame could be 19 or she could be older than him, for all he knows. She definitely came across as older than Konoha. Older than she probably really was. Trauma isn’t a great indicator of age. ]

She never talked about that. Uh...

[ that’s him noticing she was/is about to take her clothes off?? Which is... he could turn around but that’s probably not a good idea overall, and ?? ]
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Konoha?

[He reaches out and up a little to grip firmly at her forearm, to recenter her. To keep her focus here in this moment.]

Stay with me. We’re almost there. Can you walk just a little farther?

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