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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.]
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[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-16 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[He blinks, then smiles sheepishly. That's not what he'd meant to bring up]

Oh! No. I don't want to bothe---

[But he's distracted because apparently she's taken it upon herself already to begin creating an apple. He hadn't expected that! There really were all kinds of powers around here.]

Oh. Thank you. I didn't realize you had that ability.
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-16 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Right, one hoof in front of the other. One step in front of the other for him, slowly, steadingly, and her room is coming into view just down the hall.]

Yes. It does fit. You are very lively, and I think imagery aligning with nature is fitting for you.

[He had never questioned what his name meant, until one day he decided, out of curiosity, to look it up. For no reason other than he could, and he never gave it much more thought until this very moment.]

"Connor" means "lover of hounds". Basically, I was named to be a "dog person".
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[personal profile] beyondthegreen 2018-09-16 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
She's.. over there, with the green leafy hair! Lady Jane!

[She calls out, but once again... there's nobody there, and nothing except ferns and underbrush leading deeper into the forest around the Temple.

But in her feverish delusions, the trees are starting to look older, more familiar even as Lady Jane's slender barky form vanishes further into the forest.]


Why's she running away from us? Let me down. Maybe she just needs to see I'm fine.

[Tefé feels way too warm, and just a little dizzy. But she seems determined to just power through this sickness.]
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[personal profile] bestaround 2018-09-16 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yikes, she's looking awful. He'd almost find it funny that their roles are suddenly reversed if she wasn't appearing to be struggling so much. ]

—Huh? ... I mean, she did, but is that really what you should be thinking about right now?
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[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-09-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be. Depends on who you're talking to.

[annnd that concludes his lesson! he drops his hand back into his lap, turning away a bit to muffle a light cough]

They're extremely useful when you're separated from someone you want to talk with. It might take some getting used to, but I think you'll get it after using it a few times.
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[personal profile] undeserved 2018-09-16 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's a familiar jealousy to 2B, actually - Hayame had been the same way every once in a while. She knows that moose and other hooved mammals tended to live in herds; maybe jinba are the same, and Konoha is feeling nervous being separated from her group.

But it's not 2B's place to pry. Instead, she holds out her hands, getting to her feet again. ]


Let me help you.

[ guess who doesn't know she's not as strong as she usually is yet. ]
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-16 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is it why he likes dogs so much? Did CyberLife program this part of his personality into him, to correspond with a name? Or did it develop on its own, and his disbelief of a name's true hold over a person was hilariously wrong, given that he was walking proof of it?

Something to consider for another day, and at the mention of his partner, he keeps his face forward towards the door. He turns the knob, letting it swing open.]


...My partner is here now. His dog is with him. Maybe I can convince Sumo to pay you a visit, if you don't mind. He might make you feel better faster.

[Just because dogs are like that, clearly.]
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[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-17 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
So is it just apples or food or can you create anything?

[Maes returns to eating his porridge, deciding he should try to finish it before it gets cold. Though he doesn't want to rush it either, just because there is an apple coming as well. It's not Gracia's cooking, but the thought and care put into it is certainly equal to what she would attempt to do.]

I can teleport.
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[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-17 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. It's like you can make ingredients then. That's still pretty handy though. I wish I had known to look for you when we were on that last world. It was pretty bad with the food they were offering.

[Still, he's glad he's met her now. He wishes he could show her what he means, since he's not sure he can explain it. But he's supposed to be resting, right?]

Hmm. Well, usually if you want to get to the kitchen you would have to leave this room and walk there right? Teleporting means I can just think of the kitchen and I'm instantly in the kitchen, without having to step outside of this room at all.
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[personal profile] ebonyengine 2018-09-17 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I came alone, but as it turns out, my friends were already here waiting for me.

[He actually has no idea what he would do if it was just him. Surely he'd drive himself mad worrying about all of them.]

Are you alone?
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-17 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[There’s a strange moment that bypasses them, where Connor chooses not to remark on that. Odd for an android who is by his nature the talkative sort, who appears like he’d wish to go on and on about his newly arrived friend and his dog.

But something crosses his expression — it looks a bit like uncertainty — and he only nods. Ushers her into her room those last few steps to make sure she’ll not stumble before she reaches the figurative finish line, and says-]


Yes.

[That’s it.]

Do you think you’ll be able to rest on your own all right? Or do you want me to stay a little longer?
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-17 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He smiles back, and some of whatever was there before, that glimmer of doubt, washes away. It's an expression that's nothing but sincere.]

Of course. Anytime at all. And if you need anything in the future, don't hesitate to ask me; I'm always happy to help.

[That being said, he turns on his heel to leave her to rest, but not without leaving behind a-]

Rest well, Konoha.

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