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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.]
theseuschip: (aAbxNREMAIN_ug Z Wa7)

[personal profile] theseuschip 2018-09-21 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ legs crossed, Simon leans forward warily when her head disappears beneath the surface because UMMMMM ] ...Konoha?

[ Oh.

There she is.

She looks... younger like this, and vulnerable, feverish and wading in the water with her hair undone. Maybe Hayame really is older than her. At least it looks like being submerged was on purpose, so she’s steadier now.

Anyway, it makes sense enough, with context clues. ]
Is Sha-go a human?
purrtagonist: (I play Twister with the pressure plates)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-09-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[. . . RIGHT. . .]

Vegetables and meat cooked in a sauce made out of spices over rice. Sorry, I used the more colloquial term for the dish.

[that isn't. okay, Akira. sure]
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[personal profile] theseuschip 2018-09-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus Christ.

[ it’s under his breath. Put down? Really? Being saved from it sounds like a happy ending, but... if that’s the malicious side of human and jinba interactions, then Simon can kind of imagine the princess treating this Sha-go like a talking pony.

Hayame probably never would have divulged any of this. Or maybe she would have, had Simon not shouted her down more than once under the impression that he was doing her a favor. It’s no wonder she lumped him in with the humanity he feels so estranged from, held grudges, thought she knew everything she needed to know about him.

And Konoha is from the same place, and can’t be that far off from her in age, but she couldn’t be more different. It’s confusing. Feels like he’s missing something, still. ]


You live with your parents- on... a farm, right? Do humans still treat jinba like that? Doesn’t sound like this stuff was all that long ago.

[ How did you escape all of this, or did you? is what he wants to know, but he can’t very well ask that. Not that a tale of somebody as sweet as Konoha being treated like an animal by humanity and still retaining her kindness and belief in people would be a fun story to listen to. ]
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[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-23 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a little bit, tilting her head in some curiosity as she watches Konoha's thought process work itself out right in front of her eyes.]

I have some small talent with that, and with sewing in general. [Gently:] And if you'll forgive me for saying so, it might not be a bad idea to prepare some extra changes of clothes in general, aside from the possible change in season.
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do you want to wrap this up?

[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-23 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that would depend on your world. I can think of a few places back home that would dub what you do a miracle...but then they might start to take advantage of a gift like that and it'd would start to feel like a curse anyway.

[Disregarding the fact that she was half horse...that was a whole other set of reactions in Amestris.]
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[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-23 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head immediately.] I couldn't ask for payment! We all need to help each other out, don't we? And this is something that I know how to do.

I have cloth saved up that I bought from previous trips, and sometimes Lady Astoria's attendants in the Temple can provide additional materials, if you know how to ask for them. So it would be a matter of making alterations rather than weaving from nothing. That's much more doable, at least for now, since we don't know when or if winter will come.
undeserved: (bon appetit)

[personal profile] undeserved 2018-09-23 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't be.

[ she'd probably be kind of heavy, sure, but she shouldn't be all that hard to pick up. 2B doesn't let go of Konoha as she eases back down. ]

There's something wrong with my body.
tranquilforest: (pic#12238903)

[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-23 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She miiiight have been planning on doing something like this for a little while anyway, but she duly takes note of Konoha's clothing preference, as fascinated by the smooth way her two apparently disparate forms move in perfect synchronicity, as by the actual design of the clothing itself.]

That's true, I wonder if that's something worth asking Lady Astoria about. I would think that the temperature and circumstance of your immediate surroundings would be the cause of a change if one is needed...
undeserved: (an odor still lingered)

[personal profile] undeserved 2018-09-23 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that gets her attention; her head perks up to look Konoha in the face. ]

A2 said that?

[ so it's affecting both of them... but they can't get sick, so what is it?! ]
dadandgone: (Tired Out)

[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-24 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Maes smiles, bobbing his head in both thanks and as a sign of goodbye.]

Thanks again for bringing me this and adding the apple. I look forward to chatting with you again at dinner.

[Maes settles into his bed to tuck in. It smells great and he knows the apple is going to add an excellent addition to the already delicious porridge.]
undeserved: (it was you who was dying there)

[personal profile] undeserved 2018-09-24 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if it's any consolation to Konoha, the chances of A2 caring that 2B knows are extremely low.

On the other hand, 2B cares about this information quite a lot. At last, she lets go of Konoha's arms, standing up straight again. ]


... So there's something affecting our systems. [ she sighs, sounding frustrated. That's just great. But there's nothing she can do about it for now; she needs to concentrate on helping Konoha. ] I'm sorry. Can you stand up on your own?
undeserved: (and laughing quite a lot)

[personal profile] undeserved 2018-09-24 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It actually really sucks to watch her struggle to her feet while 2B can do nothing but look on helplessly. But what else is new? Her empathy had always been a useless trait that did little more than hurt her. The emotions don't quite make it to her face, but her fingers clench at her sides just slightly. ]

Don't apologize.

[ when Hayame was sick, she'd been able to find a root for her to chew on that supposedly helped... maybe she could do something like that again. ]

What do you need? I'll get it for you.
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[personal profile] tranquilforest 2018-09-26 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[She considers the offer with all due gravity, but shakes her head.] I may not be able to replicate it exactly, but I don't think the style of it is very different from what I'm used to making myself already, compared to what most people here wear.

Besides, if the temperature does get colder or something else happens, it would be better for you to be warm.

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