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MINI - PANCAKES
Finnre`Merayen kneels by the fire, freshly started. They had been on the path of Opal Blossom, having finally caught wind of her comings and goings. They had been traveling hard, but were waking up from a well-needed rest. The cakes were flipped in the pan. She looks to the waking Exalted.
{Skyla} yawns and rolls over, pulling her blanket over her head.
Finnre`Merayen starts to whistle a jaunty tune softly, but just loud enough to let it get caught in the minds of those who refuse to wake.
{Skyla} grumbles and throws an arm over her face
Miserati turns over sighs. 'I hate the woods' she mutters
Jackal gets up and gets ready for the day. He stops by Skyla's tent and says to her through the flap. "No rest for the wicked. Or for people wanting to catch a thief."
{Skyla} "Ugh, it's barely dawn, Dawn. Go 'way."
Jackal "What kind of hero of the sun are you then? Maybe we should go and see if the moon goddess has an opening?" Grins. "Besides, your breakfast will be cold." Heads for the campfire.
Finnre`Merayen nods, "And she was the one who wanted to get Opal Blossom the most, as she stole her valuable information and buried her. But, I suppose we might as well turn aside to go looking for Niloga."
{Skyla} "Did you say breakfast?" she peeks out from under the covers, sighs, and sets about dressing.
Finnre`Merayen "Mmm, these cakes certainly smell fine, it would be a sorry if the fresh blueberries I got to top them with went to waste... do you think you could finish them off Jackal?"
Miserati walks towards the fire, combing out her long black hair and quietly sits down
Jackal "Oh I think I can manage. Back in the field you didn't pass on food..."
{Skyla} drags herself out of the tent, her hair in amazing disarray.
{Skyla} "Fooooooood."
Finnre`Merayen laughs and starts to dish out some cakes with some mashed blueberries topping them.
Jackal "There she is! Nothing like a good breakfast in the morning to get you ready to dig ditches."
{Skyla} untangles her hair a bit, taming into some sort of ponytail twist thing. "Mrrrgh. I don't dig ditches." She accepts the pancakes and digs in undaintily.
Finnre`Merayen passes an improvised plate over to Miserati with another serving of the cakes.
Jackal "Ah! Latrines then?"
Finnre`Merayen "So, Miserati, you ready to give chase again today?"
Miserati takes the plate, "Thank you" she says quietly and starts eating a ladylike as possible while balancing a plate in her lap
{Skyla} gives Jackal a death glare.
Miserati thinks for a minute and shrugs. "What other options are there?"
Finnre`Merayen "Honestly, I'm not big on vengence, but I'm not sure the eye should be in anyone else's hands who would just buy it. So, I suggest we find her, find out who hired her, and do our best to recover it through negotiation."
Finnre`Merayen "But, we could always decide to travel and handle any number of other things really."
Miserati "Or we just find out buys and just steal it back"
{Skyla} "I'm big on vengeance."
{Skyla} "That bitch tricked us!"
Finnre`Merayen shakes her head slowly, "And what would vengence accomplish, other than making her bitter towards us?"
Miserati "So what you saying, is next time we see her, you want her dead?"
{Skyla} "She won't be bitter, she'll be dead." she scowls.
Jackal "No, although knocking her down a peg might do her some good."
Miserati nods her head thinking
Finnre`Merayen shakes her head. "Agreed on that, to a degree Jackal. She must learn that such acts are not acceptable, but only in the name of justice."
Jackal "Well it couldn't hurt to get a few of the other items she managed to get away with..."
Miserati "If you leave her alive she could cause problems later on.
Finnre`Merayen "Murder is not something that should be done, just because it'd be expedient.
Miserati looks a bit surprised "Why not?"
Finnre`Merayen seems equally suprised, "Because it would not be righteous, and it is not the way I've been lead to belive in."
Jackal "I don't see her as much of a threat. Just a bit of a nuisance. Certainly not worth killing."
{Skyla} "But you killed people all the time when you were a soldier, because it was what you were told to do."
Miserati shrugs and nods
Finnre`Merayen "Because I believed in those I was fighting. If I had not believed in it, I would not have done battle.
{Skyla} "But those leaders wanted you to kill because it was expedient. Because it gave them power."
Miserati takes a dainty bite of pancakes "it's simplier to just kill the leaders."
Finnre`Merayen "No, because there was no other choice... Sometimes, there are those who leave you no other choice."
Finnre`Merayen nods... "For the first time, I agree with you Miserati, but they hide behind armies and in guarded camps."
{Skyla} "How do you know there was no other choice? You weren't the one in charge, and even those who were might not have looked at every option."
Jackal shakes his head. "It was alot easier when you were dealing with peacekeeping and cleaning out beastmen and barbarians...getting down on the battlefield is different."
Finnre`Merayen "Because, the best example is a warlord, who invaded thrice... until he was killed, he kept invading Madaan, over and over."
{Skyla} "some barbarians are good people!" she interjects
Finnre`Merayen "Or when I did battle against the walking dead. They had no life, no animation, except as their master commanded. And so, I did battle for all life against them."
Jackal "There are alot of good people Sky. It doesn't seem to matter when they're screaming and swinging axes at your head..."
Miserati watches quietly while the others argue
{Skyla} so why are you so against killing Opal Blossom?
Jackal "Because she's just a thief, not a rampaging mad man like that Blade character..."
Finnre`Merayen "Because, why? What reason do we have? She made sure we would be trapped, but obviously knew we'd be able to get out. She's never attempted us harm, just to slow us."
{Skyla} she caved in the ceiling on us? she declares, waving a blueberry covered finger around
Finnre`Merayen "Yes, and it was done in such a way as to make sure we'd be trapped, but able to escape given time... she could have just destroyed the whole ruin."
{Skyla} "Yeah, so she could come back later and loot it more."
Jackal "I think we're a little beyond worrying about a little ceiling..." Smirks and takes a bite of pancakes. "These are good by the way Merayen. Atleast better than you usualy get."
Jackal "Wasn't that what we were there for though Sky?
Finnre`Merayen laughs, "Thank you... and wasn't the ruin mostly looted anyway?"
Miserati "What has that to do with anything?"
{Skyla} "But we were meant to find it. I had visions!"
Jackal "Any we'll probably find it again. Something that powerful just doesn't disappear..."
Finnre`Merayen "And Opal Blossom also had knowledge, perhaps visions. Was she any less able or deserving? Perhaps those things were hers once. Perhaps yours. I don't know."
{Skyla} sulks.
Finnre`Merayen holds out a bowl with some of the leftover blueberries in it for Skyla.
{Skyla} eyes them suspiciously for a moment, then takes them. "Thanks."
Miserati sets her plate aside and starts braiding her. "So are you going to argue about this more?"
Jackal pats Sky on the shoulder. "Anyway I think if we're going to find her it'll probably be in Nexus. Unless she sold it off to some dragon born in lookshy or the Realm..."
{Skyla} "Is this a bribe?" she scoops a few blueberries into her mouth.
{Skyla} "sold off the Wood Dragon's Eye?" she looks scandalized!
Finnre`Merayen "I'm just saying... I don't approve of what she did with the eye... but she likely had something of a right to it as did you. And no, it's not a bribe."
Finnre`Merayen "She did say she was hired to gather it for someone... in this case, I think Jackal is right. We hopefully need not go into the den of the dragon to find it."
Miserati "Actually it would be better if she sold it...then we could steal it"
Jackal "Even we need money. She did say it had a buyer..."
Finnre`Merayen "I don't know if I trust just anyone to hold the eye..."
{Skyla} "Sun forbid!
Jackal "We'll get it back Sky. But it might take awhile. And cracking her head with a hammer isn't going to get us to where she found it at any rate."
Miserati "You knew we could sell it, ourselves, then steal it back and sell it again in another town"
Finnre`Merayen "If you were meant to have it, Skyla, we shall have it once more."
{Skyla} "Oh no we can't, Miserati.. you don't treat something like that so casually."
Miserati shrugs "Ok it was just a thought"
Jackal gives Miserati a strange look then turns back to Sky and Merayen. "Well if we do get it back what are we going to do with it?"
Finnre`Merayen "I know nothing of it... I'll be honest, I'm not sure that sort of power belongs in anyone's hands. But, we'll figure that out when we come to that bridge."
{Skyla} "W're going to help heal this world, starting with its people."
Jackal "Well it's a nice thought Sky but do we even know how it works?"
Finnre`Merayen turns to look to Skyla, curious as to her answer.
{Skyla} "I'll know."
Finnre`Merayen "So, you don't know yet?"
{Skyla} "Well I remember using it, but not in this lifetime. But I'm good with things. I'll know."
Finnre`Merayen "Alright, I suppose we can't expect anything better... do you think the person who has it knows how to use it?"
Miserati watches Skyla looking a bit doubtful, but says nothing
{Skyla} "I...don't know. To be honest, I don't even remember all that it does."
Jackal "Hmm. Well if you can't figure it out we can atleast use it for decoration..."
Finnre`Merayen "That seems... so is it even worth the trouble?"
{Skyla} "Of course it is! How could you even ask that? Besides, she got other stuff too."
Miserati "Like what?"
Finnre`Merayen laughs. "I just wondered. I'll trust your assessment."
{Skyla} "Like...stuff. Geez."
Finnre`Merayen giggles, trying to stiffle it behind a hand.
{Skyla} "You guys are MEAN".
Miserati just shrugs again and shakes her head
{Skyla} "It's a powerful healing artifact. More powerful than anything we have in this age."
Finnre`Merayen stops giggling and nods... "See, now that I can understand and appreciate. Something like that may be able to become a weapon against the forces of the Deathlords."
Jackal "Well then maybe it has some sort of book on how to use it...isn't it hard to maintain that sort of thing these days? That might narrow down the search for our "buyer.."
{Skyla} "I'll figure it out. I'm good at making things," she insists. "Besides, some people just buy any artifact they can get their hands on, whether or not they can use them."
Finnre`Merayen "Yes, but if the owner does know how to use it... what can bring life, can just as easily call down death."
{Skyla} "I hope not... I hope it can only be used for good."
Finnre`Merayen "Unfortunately, I fear that such is not always true. The wicked mind is cunning at turning even the best of things to evil."
Jackal not exactly a savant, Jackal quietly eats his breakfast and lets them continue their discussion.
{Skyla} "Is your mind wicked, that you thought of it?"
Finnre`Merayen "Those who would fight evil must understand that wickedness puts few restrictions on itself
{Skyla} "I suppose."
Jackal "Well there are alot of sick people who would pay a hefty sum to be cured...maybe we should start looking for miracle workers?"
ST ((Damn Shame a certain Blossom sold the miracle cure-all!))
{Skyla} "That's a good idea... but we should keep following this trail until it's cold, first. She might still have it."
Finnre`Merayen "You know, that might not be a bad idea."
{Skyla} doesn't really believe that, but wants to catch up with the bitch!
Finnre`Merayen "Of course, they might be hoarding the power just for themselves as well."
{Skyla} "Maybe some warlord wanted to keep his army alive longer."
Miserati continues to watch a bit lost in the conversation
Jackal "Yes but who would need regular healing of illnesses if it's as powerful as you say?"
Finnre`Merayen "But, could it not prevent even death, if it's that powerful? Staving off death indefinately. What can heal a thousand turned to heal just one."
{Skyla} "It might be able to... it is legendary!"
{Skyla} "And that stupid Opal Blossom took it from us! To SELL! I can't even believe her! Ugh."
Jackal just chuckles to himself.
Finnre`Merayen "Unless she did what Miserati suggested before... and teamed up with someone to steal it back again later on."
{Skyla} sucks on her blue fingers, in a huff.
Finnre`Merayen shrugs and eats her own breakfast for the day.
{Skyla} "We should get going."
Finnre`Merayen "Agreed."
Jackal nods and gets up ready to break camp.
Finnre`Merayen puts away the food, keeping that which they can, and burying that which they can't take with them to help prevent others from following them.
Miserati helps tearing down the camp
{Skyla} retreats to her tent, taking time to fix her hair, and wash her face before breaking it down, and packing up to move on
Jackal starts taking down tents and packing them up.
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