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acatalepsy_logs2018-08-28 09:27 am
lumberlady) wrote in 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.]
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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[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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[She definitely has met girls here who... were nothing like the women she knew in her own world, so. Even girls unlike Sha-go, who was the oddest women she had the pleasure of knowing!
A pause, she re-balances herself on Connor and the wall both, squeezing her eyes shut a moment. Was it getting worse? Surely not-]
Right... like...
[Her thoughts sort of unravel, leaving her a bit at a loss, brow furrowing.]
Like...
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[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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Yeah, of course- Sorry.
[One hoof in front of the other. Just a bit more... so she keeps walking, despite the slight wobble every now and then.]
What does Connor mean... ? "Konoha" means, like... the leaves on the trees in the forest. Vibrant, and earthy. It fits, right?
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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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[It would make sense to her normally, but it seems to make even more sense now in the beginning throes of her fever sickness.
Saint... Bernard, right? She remembered. Vaguely. Reaches her door, pausing to lean against the doorframe with an absent smile.]
It's a good thing your partner has a dog and not a cat...
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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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[Konoha doesn't know much about dogs, and this was a dog from another world, so maybe he was smart enough to be convinced to visit people??
Gullible as ever, she obediently wobbles into her room- not that there's much in there to signify that it's hers. Everything she owned was on her person, and there wasn't much.]
It must be good to have more from your own world here... that's great, Connor...
[She should be happy for him, right?]
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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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No, that's alright... I've made you watch me nap enough already.
[She pauses, smiling a bit weakly still.]
Thanks, Connor. I appreciate it.
[She really did.]
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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.