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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.]
bleps: (28)

[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-07 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh gosh. Konoha. Is this really the conversation you want to have with this particular android?

But to Connor’s credit, he’ll stop if she’s embarrassed. She only need to say as much — though her declaration definitely constitutes “mixed signals”, and thus stalls out his decision-making process.]


You mean naked.

[Right?]
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[personal profile] theseuschip 2018-09-07 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It’s with a queasy pang of worry that it starts to sink in how serious this is. If she can’t keep herself upright - and she wants to go to the river - then again, maybe if he were sick with two separate uprights, he’d want to let one fall by the wayside too. But he’s never really been this sick or dealt with somebody this sick without modern medicine around. ]

That’s, uh-

[ -giving Simon pause while he’s doing the doofy, shuffling twirl required to turn his back to her without letting go of her arm. Is that safe? What if she falls over in there? No, it’s a pretty shallow river, right? ]

Yeah. Of course. You ready? Just... one big push, you only gotta get up once, and- [ at this angle her head is kind of slumped over his shoulder, which is fine. She’s not even standing up yet, so they’ll cross that bridge when they come to it, but his back’s stable enough, with all the, you know, stuff. ]

I’ll tell you about the jinba I used to know. We’ll be at the river before you know it.
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[personal profile] sendinthecavalry 2018-09-07 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[That still doesn't sit quite right with him, but for the moment Cayde doesn't press; he wants to, but he's at least cognicent enough to realize that he doesn't have all the details here.]

If you say so. [He's not going to believe that entirely. While he tosses the apple back into the basket, his attention is elsewhere. Namely making sure that she's actually getting up. Heavy or not, that sounded like a pretty rough fall.]

Right right. You need a hand?
purrtagonist: (So can I nonlethally decapitate him)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-09-08 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[and Akira gives Konoha a small, understanding smile, before he hits the "call" button on his watch. suddenly, her screen lights up again, this time not with a message but a phone call]

Hit "answer," and you'll see.
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[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-08 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
That makes sense. It's nice to have something tangible to show proof of what you've accomplished.

[It's okay, even without her elaborating on that part he gets it. He takes another bite of his porridge, but after he swallows he starts to cough. It isn't the sound of choking, but just another side effect of the flu he's apparently developing. After it settles he takes a sip of the tea to sooth his raw throat.]

Yes. It seems if it is one thing I can count on it is that a military and the job of soldier is pretty universal.

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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-08 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[He pauses, considers this for a moment. Androids and modesty are strange bedfellows, and his own thoughts on human (or jinba) opinions about nakedness are generally of the empirical nature.]

I see.

[He removes the towel, not quite slow enough to show over-consciousness of the gesture, but just trying to be considerate!!]

Is that what you want? I would think it would be an uncomfortable idea after growing up a certain way. You should be truthful if I'm making you uneasy. That's the last thing I want.
cuedoves: (We'll have you washed and dried)

[personal profile] cuedoves 2018-09-08 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yeah uh he's not looking forward to that prospect. he wipes some sweat off of his forehead with his free hand. ]

We can't wait around that long. We don't know how bad this is going to get.

[ and it's already bad. ]
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[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-09-09 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Bingo.

[and now his voice is coming through the watch! so Konoha can hear everything he says in stereo]

Hello~
dadandgone: (Come Again?)

[personal profile] dadandgone 2018-09-09 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He decides to avoid choking he'll take smaller bites and give himself time between each.]

Yes. Some are smaller and some bloodier...but I think things are starting to change for our country. I'm hoping it will be for the better, at least, that's what Roy reassures me is the plan.

Thankfully, I haven't been put on the front lines in years. We mostly only see skirmishes on the borders these days.
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[personal profile] abandonware 2018-09-09 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[A2 and Pod both watch Konoha descend into the water, then emerge like some deep-sea creature. If A2 was the sort to laugh, or have any sort of outward response to anything other than exhaustion and anger, she might at least crack a smile. She doesn't. But she does edge a little closer to the rim of the pool, curious.]

Don't drown in there.

[She says this as a matter of practicality, maybe. Or it's just an extremely dry joke! Who knows.]
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-09 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[omg konoha

All of a sudden she's very gung-ho about the idea, so... well. Connor blinks, but then nods, and continues drying her. At least the job's mostly done? If she wants to ignore her unease for the sake of self-improvement, who is he to deny her?]


Are you trying to prove yourself to this Gonta?

[He asks, utterly curious.]
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-10 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't take longer than a few moments for the realization to be put together by inferences alone. The flush of her face, now, is likely from embarrassment and not the fever, not with how she's speaking; even with the higher functions of his programming being defunct, Connor can still sense the wistfulness in her tone.]

But... you want him to?

[He urges her on, willing to listen, by finishing her statement for her.]
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[personal profile] bleps 2018-09-10 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[It isn't his goal to deflate her, and in fact, he's almost sorry to have with this line of conversation. But this is obviously important to her -- this Gonta is important to her -- and Connor doesn't think they should just abandon the subject in lieu of something easier to speak about.

Seemingly content with his task of drying, he stops, and folds the towel neatly over his arm. He looks up at her.]


Wouldn't the ideal course of action be that you didn't have to prove anything for him to stay? Does he regard you with friendliness, anyway?

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