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Celestine's ear twitched when he heard the door open and he looked over to see Zale come inside. He could tell by the way that he stood that she was waiting for someone else to come inside. He didn't wait too long to see who it was before he lowed down to Zale as he ran over to him. He threw up his hand quickly, half afraid that he was going to tackle him into the fountain, but he relaxed a little when he came to a stop and then smiled slightly and rubbed the top of his head gently before he went to scratch him behind the ears. "Hey there, Zale, " he said softly. His ears twitched again and his fingers locked up on the back of Zale's head before he raised his eyes with a very irritated look on his face. He stared at Yoichi for a long moment and then looked away again without saying a word to him. Clearly he hadn't forgiven him for the kiss or for locking him in the drawer. His cheeks turned a light shade of pink and just turned his head away again, pretending he hadn't heard him say anything. He just started to stroke Zale's head again.
Kyiri hopped up when Zale came over to them and started sniffing at her. She tilted her head slightly and then put her paw on his nose and pushed it down before she moved again and hopped up on top of his head and licked Celestine's hand before trying to shove her own head under it. She hadn't seen Celestine in days, she didn't want him paying attention to anyone else right now. He was all hers. |
Zale continued to stand there and wag his tail after Celestine had reached over and started petting him and scratching behind his ears. His tail skipped a beat and started to slow down a little when he felt Celestine's hand lock up. He hadn't been paying attention to Yoichi at the moment so he hadn't really noticed that he was the reason Celestine stopped petting him. His ears laid back slightly after Kyiri had hopped up on his head. He couldn't help but tip his head back slightly while he was trying to see Kyiri and what she was doing. Had she not jumped up on his head he probably would've wound up wanting to play with her, well, chase her rather.
Yoichi stood there for a moment waiting for Celestine to answer him. He knew that Celestine had to have heard him, he did stare at him for a good lengthy moment. He sighed heavily and shook his head slightly since it looked like Celestine was likely ignoring him. "It wouldn't kill you to answer me." He told him as he stared over at him. "I know you can hear me..." He added and then sighed again quietly. "...Are you the only one here?" He asked, trying a different question. He thought about it again and thought he'd ask one he didn't think Celestine would avoid answering. "How're LaRae and Nanashi doing?" |
Celestine didn't even bother to look at Yoichi again when he continued speaking and just continued to glower across the courtyard, absently stroking Zale until Kyiri decided to force him to pet her. He looked back to the two of them and his face softened a little before he picked Kyiri up off of Zale's head. "Stop that..." he said softly as he set her back in his lap again. He placed one hand on her back and then reached over to stroke Zale's head again while simultaneously scratching Kyiri's back near her shoulders so that she wouldn't be too jealous. He refused to look at Yoichi again while he was sitting there, even though he heard home coming closer. He had absolutely no intention of taking to him, though he sighed softly when he asked about LaRae and Nanashi. Well, that he could at least answer. "...Hikari healed LaRae's arm. Nanashi's nose is broken and he probably has a mild concussion," he said simply. "They're both still resting. That's all I know." He never even once looked at him and he kept his voice rather sharp, making it painfully obvious that he had no cares to speak to him further.
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Zale continued to stand where he was without moving much else other than his tail up until Celestine had lifted Kyiri off of him. He relaxed his ears slightly after Kyiri had been moved and turned his head a little towards Yoichi. He almost immediately looked back towards Celestine after he felt him start pet his head again. He wasn't entirely sure what was wrong between the two of them but judging from the way Celestine was acting and then speaking to him he assumed whatever had happened must have really made Celestine mad. His tail started to slow even more until it finally came to a stop and rested still. The atmosphere wasn't exactly keeping him in his usual happy, bouncy, overly energetic self.
Yoichi paused and stood a good couple feet from Celestine, mostly because it was obvious the guy wasn't in a very good mood. Though for the life of him he wasn't entirely sure why. He really wasn't putting the events of the other day into account, he honestly hadn't been dwelling on that. He wasn't entirely surprised to see that Celestine hadn't answered his other question considering he hadn't answered the first. He was at least kind of glad to hear him answer the one about LaRae and Nanashi. He hadn't even been informed on whether or not LaRae had been gotten out of the prison or not so he really was curious to know how things were. He gave a heavy sigh after hearing the way Celestine answered the question. "C'mon now... you don't have to be so sour about answering questions." He said and then shook his head slightly. "...Well, at least Nanashi was able to help get her out." He commented quietly. Aamori was finally finished with her breakfast and had gathered up her dishes and starting out of her room. She hadn't bothered to look in the courtyard right away, at least not until after she had closed her bedroom door and turned to head back towards the kitchen to get the dishes cleaned up. She stared out into the courtyard for a moment once she had noticed her brother. So much for being in and out of here without being noticed. She sighed quietly and proceeded to head towards the kitchen so that she could lose the dishes before coming back to the courtyard. |
Celestine kept his hand moving on Zale's head even though he was well aware that the canine was picking up on the tension between himself and Yoichi. He had a feeling even Kyiri was feeling it as she'd stopped purring completely and was just laying there stone still. He finally did look at Yoichi, though his eyes were like a thousand daggers flying at him all at once when he met eyes with him. He was the very embodiment of anger and disgust. "If you don't like the way that I answer you then you should learn to take the hint the first time that I don't answer you!" he snapped at him angrily, practically snarling at him. "If you want to know how they are, go see them yourself and leave me alone! I can't even stand to look at you!" He honestly looked like he would love nothing more than to get up and claw Yoichi's face off, so it was probably a good thing that he was holding Kyiri and Zale was in front of him. He heard Aamori's door close and knew she must have come out but rather than look at her he looked off in the opposite direction. No need to make her think that he wanted to kill her, too. One thing was for certain. Celestine could definitely hold a grudge for more than a few days, and the two things that Yoichi had done weren't something he was going to forgive easily.
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Yoichi continued to stand where he was though he couldn't help looking a little astonished at how upset Celestine was getting. He shook his head lightly after listening to him prattle on. "It was honestly a lot easier to just ask you how those two were since you're here right now, rather than for me to travel all the way over to the other island." He paused. "Frankly, I'm not going to travel all that way when I could just ask you and if you'd have preferred you could've just not answered me." He told him. He wasn't one to really get riled up just because the other person he was talking to was and he saw no real point in getting upset over anything. He really had put the other day behind him so he wasn't too sure why Celestine was as upset as he was. He wasn't even sure he cared to find out, the guy just seemed way too upset to deal with. He turned his head slightly when he heard a door close and glanced through one of the arches when he noticed his sister walking past. Well, that answered one of his previous questions. "...You really could stand to loose the attitude." He commented before glancing back to Celestine briefly.
Aamori hurried along to the kitchen and slipped inside long enough to drop the dishes off to be cleaned. She stepped back out into the hall and started to head back towards the courtyard. She kind of wanted to see what was going on with Celestine and Yoichi, then at the same time she wanted to hurry up and disappear before Hisako saw her. At least with it being her brother out here she could get away. He wasn't nearly as bad as Hisako when it came to training and studies. She slipped a bit closer to the two of them once she had entered the courtyard and it wasn't hard to notice the tension in air. She glanced between them briefly, a little curiously. "...What's going on?" She asked quietly. |
Celestine continued to glare across the courtyard until Yoichi spoke again and then growled softly, absently balling his hand into a fist in Kyiri's fur. He was almost shaking with the effort of not getting up or screaming at Yoichi at the top of his lungs. He gritted his teeth a little, trying not to say anything until he told him to lose the attitude. "Lose the attitude!?" He finally snapped, raising his voice an octave, "What in Arienh makes you think that I ever want to so much as stand in your presence again after the other day!? First you kiss me, and then you hide my clothes and take the ones that you loaned me away, and to make it worse when I tried to get you to give me back my clothes you locked me in a sock drawer and LEFT ME THERE! I had to crawl back to the other island in that pathetic form because I had nothing to wear thanks to you! I had to ride on a dog just to get back to where someone with some sense would actually do something as simple as bring me some clothes like I asked them, and not you stand here like NONE OF THAT ever even happened!? And you want me to lose the attitude!?" By the time he had finished yelling he really was shaking and there was a rather chilly wind swirling about the area. "Are you that stupid or do you really just not dive a damn!? I don't want to be near YOU!" Honestly, Celestine sounded half on the verge of tears by the time he'd finished and his voice was rather shrill. Unfortunately, his little verbal explosion had left his already scratchy throat burning, which sent him into a fit of coughs that he had to duck and turn his head to try to cover. He hadn't gotten to lash out at Yoichi at all for any of the things that he'd done save the 'kiss' but after that he hadn't been able to understand a word that he had said obviously. Being locked up like that had really upset him far more than he had let one to anyone, at least until now. Honestly it was hard to tell if he was more upset about being locked up or just at the fact that he was treated more cruelly than he would ever even treat a real snake and completely humiliated on top of it. Celestine was a proud little dragon and everything that had happened to him that day was just completely degrading. He cast his glanced over to Aamori when he realized that she had come over and then looked away rather quickly, his cheeks burning red again, or turning a deeper shade as they were already pretty red. He wasn't sure when exactly she'd approached, and he wasn't sure what she'd heard, though he was seriously hoping that she hadn't heard a word that he'd said. He just unwound his fingers from Kyiri's fur and stood up quickly, bringing her up in his arms as he did so. "I'm going back," he said shortly. To hell with the pass, he didn't care if he had one or not right now, it was barely on his mind. He just wanted to get out of here and away from Yoichi. If he got caught well...that would just give him one more thing to be upset over.
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Yoichi absently took a step back once Celestine started to lose it. He just kind of stared over at him with a half blank look on his face. At least thanks to his little fit he was able to figure out why Celestine was being the way he was. He honestly hadn't focused on everything from that day and he certainly didn't think that it had bothered Celestine like it had, apparently. He sighed quietly and crossed his arms loosely over his chest while shifting all of his weight on one foot. "Honestly, I didn't remember some of those things and I didn't know at the time that the other things bothered you." He told him. He sighed a little heavier once Aamori had come over. He was at least a little glad that she hadn't been in the immediate area for Celestine's little blow up fit. Though, considering how Celestine was yelling he wouldn't be surprised if she had heard how loud he was being. He glanced over at Celestine a little. "I didn't know that stuff bothered you. You could've just talked to me about it, rather than make a fool of yourself by yelling about it." He paused. "...At any rate ...I'm sorry that those other things upset you." He said earnestly. He sighed again quietly since Celestine was going to leave. He hadn't meant to upset him but there was very little that he could do about it now.
Zale continued to stand there near Celestine up until he started yelling. Once he raised his voice he ducked his head and backed away from him a little. He knew that Celestine wasn't mad at him but just the fact that he had raised his voice was enough to make him want to move away. He lifted his head up slightly when he noticed that Aamori had come over and started to slink over towards her. At least she was the outside party so it was probably safer to stand near her. Aamori hadn't really heard exactly what Celestine had said but she had heard him yelling. It wasn't hard to hear that, especially once she had stepped out of the kitchen and moved closer to the courtyard. She just glanced between them again at least until she had heard Celestine say that he was going to go back. She stared at him for a moment and then eyed Yoichi briefly. "...Um ...alright..." She said as she looked back over at Celestine. She assumed that Yoichi had done something to make Celestine mad. That really wasn't that hard to believe either since Celestine didn't seem to really like Yoichi to begin with. "...Well, I'm done with breakfast..." She paused. "...So I'm ready to go." She said quietly. |
Celestine just gave Yoichi rather disbelieving dirty looks when he said that he didn't know that the other things bothered him. How in their right mind would not be bothered by being locked in someone's drawer while sick when all they wanted to do was leave? He honestly didn't believe that Yoichi couldn't have known that would bother him. "I still don't think you've grasped the concept... I do not want to talk to you. If you think I'm a fool for yelling then so be it, I don't give a damn what you think. Just leave me alone. ...Sorry doesn't even begin to cover it." He knew Yoichi didn't really understand the depth of his fear, but he also didn't think the guy honestly cared. They barely knew each other anyway, and frankly, Yoichi didn't strike him as the type to care about too much more than himself. He glanced over to Aamroi when she spoke, trying to soften his gaze, though he still looked agitated. "...Fine then...let's go..." he said simply, clearly trying to keep his voice calm at least when speaking to her. He glanced down to Zale for a moment and then sighed softly and just started around Yoichi, still cradling Kyiri in his arms as he tried to calm himself down.
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Yoichi sighed heavily once more and looked at Celestine for a moment. "You could just stop talking to me since I'm not getting it." He told him. He wasn't going to bother saying anything more to Celestine, nor did he really care that he was leaving. If Celestine wanted to hold a grudge against him and waste his energy being mad over something then he could if he really wanted. He shifted slightly and glanced over at his sister momentarily. "I guess I'll see you later, Aamori." He paused. "Oh, safe to assume I didn't see you... right?" He asked with a weak smile.
Aamori just kind of stared at Celestine for a moment as he spouted off at her brother again. She was kind of curious to know exactly what had happened to make Celestine so upset but she wasn't sure she really wanted to ask. She nodded her head slightly once Celestine had said 'lets go'. She glanced back to her brother when she heard him talking to her. She smiled slightly. "Yeah, thanks Yoichi." She told him quietly before she turned and started to follow after Celestine. She was glad that Yoichi understood that she didn't want Hisako to know she'd been here. Hisako would have wanted to make her stay and get some training in since she'd gone without for the past several days. Zale started to wag his tail slightly after it looked like Celestine and Aamori were going to leave. He didn't particularly want to stay here with Yoichi, he had already given him the run around and wasn't going to get much more play out of him. At least by following Celestine and Aamori there was at least a better chance of playing with someone, not to mention Celestine still had Kyiri with him. If all else failed he could always go a round chasing Kyiri. |
Celestine didn't bother to say anything more to Yoichi either, nor did he pause to wait for Aamori. He sighed heavily as he crossed the courtyard and returned to the door, eager to just get out of here. He really couldn't help getting upset all over again after he had to face Yoichi again. All he could think about every time the guy got near him now was the little 'kiss' that had led up to all of that other junk. He regretted going over to their house. He had already been drenched, he may as well have gone back to the other island and just avoided all of it. He would get over it eventually, but as if right now he wanted nothing at all to do with Yoichi so having him come up to him so entirely clueless that he was angry at him really just pissed him off to no end, and he didn't always take 'sorry' from someone, especially when he wasn't sure how much they meant it. He opened the door to the training center and stepped outside, leaving it open for Aamori before he slipped to the side and leaned against the wall to wait on her. He sighed heavily and then closed his eyes and started to stroke Kyiri's fur. His face was still cherry red, but he was trying to hide behind a curtain of hair and feathery earrings. Honestly, all he wanted to do was go crawl under a rock and stop picturing the night Yoichi put his lips on him.
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Yoichi watched for a moment once they all started to leave and noted that Zale was apparently going with them. He didn't particularly care that Celestine was mad at him and he didn't want to put any energy into trying to fix it. He really was kind of slack about everything. He didn't even focus on the short lived kiss that he'd taken from Celestine that one day. He continued to stand there rather quietly until after Aamori had reached the door. After she made it over there he turned and started to head towards the door to go downstairs. He did have work to be doing and he'd taken his free time to play with Zale.
Aamori glanced back to her brother only once after she started towards the door. She knew Yoichi could be handful sometimes but she didn't think that he was that bad but then again, she hadn't known what set Celestine off. She sighed quietly and then happened to notice that Zale had caught up with her. She smiled a little and reached down to pet the top of his head. Once she reached the door she placed her hand on it and held it open while she waited for Zale to slip outside ahead of her. She closed the door behind her after she had slipped outside as well. She looked at Zale again, noticing that he wasn't taking off back toward the docks, instead he was staying right there near her. She sighed softly assuming that he must be looking for more attention. She finally glanced around a little until she spotted Celestine and started over towards him. "...Are you okay?" She asked quietly. She had kind of noticed the color to his face, even though he was trying to hide it now. She wasn't sure what the cause for such a red face was but she was kind of leaning towards it being because he had been upset and yelling at her brother. |
Celestine still didn't raise his head, even when he heard the door to the training building close. He knew that Aamori had come out, but he would rather stick his head in the sand than look at her right now. After she spoke to him he just turned his head away a little more and then sighed quietly. "...Yeah, I'm fine," he said quietly. He finally pushed himself away from the wall a little and started to move forward, at least until he happened to notice Zale by Aamori's feet. He looked at him for a moment and then lowered one hand away from Kyiri and reached down to rub the top of his head again. He knew he'd probably scared him, or at least made him uncomfortable before, so he thought he could at least let him know that he wasn't upset with him or anything. He sighed softly and then pulled his hand back and laid it on Kyiri's back since she was still just sitting there in his arms stiffly. He sighed and raised her up a little to nuzzle against her. He smiled weakly when she finally raised her head and licked his cheek before he let her crawl back onto his shoulder and lay down again. Finally he glanced back to Aamori for just a moment, though as soon as his eyes met hers he glanced away again and ducked his head a little. "....Come on, let's go..." he said quietly before he started to walk back the way that they had come.
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Aamori sighed quietly after she noticed that Celestine wasn't really looking at her, especially when he answered the question she had asked. She just stood there quietly while keeping an eye on him. She really was even more curious now as to the details of what had happened between him and her brother. It must have been something big if it was making him yell at Yoichi and act like this. She glanced down briefly when Celestine reached down to rub the top of Zale's head. She looked back to him again once he was paying attention to Kyiri and smiled weakly. At least he didn't appear to be retaining the anger from before when he was dealing with the animals, but he was an animal lover so she doubted he could ever really be angry towards one. She sighed quietly and nodded her head a little once he had said 'let's go' again. After a moment she started after him and glanced down briefly to see if Zale was still following, which of course he was. She looked back to Celestine again briefly and almost dreaded what she was about to ask, mostly because she didn't want to upset him even more than he already had been. "...What happened ...between you ...and my brother?" She asked quietly and clearly sounding a little hesitant with asking.
Zale wagged his tail a little more energetically once Celestine had taken the time to rub the top of his head. He hadn't thought that he was mad at him or anything but the raised voice like that had made him a little uncomfortable. Yelling at him, or just in general for that matter was probably one of the only things that would calm him down for some period of time because he flat out just didn't like it. He continued to stand near Aamori at least until they both had started walking. After she got started he followed pace beside her with a rhythmically wagging tail. |
Celestine was silent once he started walking, or at least until Aamori decided to ask him what had happened between him and Yoichi. He just ducked his head a little more as the color flooded his face all over again and he looked away from her. "...I would rather not talk about it...." he said quietly, keeping his eyes averted, "i would rather just forget it...." He didn't even want to be thinking about it, and Aamori was the last person that he wanted to tell about what had happened. He was outraged by it the other day, which was the only reason that he had even told Marius what had happened, now he was just completely humiliated. He really didn't want to go into it, but he didn't want to keep getting reminded by her asking either, so if she kept on he would probably tell her just to have it over with. He had picked up on her hesitance to ask, so he really hoped that she wouldn't press him, but with her it was hard to tell what would make her drop it and what would make her more curious.
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Aamori continued to follow after Celestine, rather than walk beside him. She just kind of stared over at him for a moment after he had said that he would rather not talk about it and then that he would rather just forget it. She sighed quietly. She had kind of expected an answer like that or for him to completely lose it all over again while answering her question. "...Oh ...o-okay..." She uttered quietly. She was curious, very much so but seeing as he had blown up on her brother she wasn't sure that she really wanted to press him about it. Besides, if her curiosity really did get the better of her she figured she could always go and ask Yoichi what had happened. It wouldn't be Celestine's point of view but at least she would have some idea as to what had gone on. "...Is there anything you want to do before you wind up stuck in the house again?" She asked trying to at least change the subject a little. Not to mention if there had been something he wanted to do she thought it might take his mind off of what had upset him.
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Celestine sighed softly, glad that Aamori didn't press him on the matter of what had gone on and had just dropped it altogether. He didn't say anything more and just continued forward silently without looking at her anymore. He did finally raise his head a little and glance over to her again when she asked him if there was anything else that he wanted to do. "...I don't know...I haven't really thought about it...." he said quietly. "...There isn't much to do here..." He closed his eyes and sighed softly as he lowered his head again and then raised his eyes to look ahead at where he was going. "...Was there anything that you needed to do?" he asked simply without looking over at her. He wasn't sure what she would need to do unless he wanted to go replace everyone's ruined clothes, but whatever she wanted or needed to do he didn't really mind coming with her. At least he wasn't sitting in the house doing nothing but staring out the window.
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Aamori nodded her head weakly after hearing Celestine say that there wasn't much to do here. Unfortunately that could be the case unless you liked to shop or spend time on the beach, or even the water for that matter. "...All anyone ever really does here other than relax is shop, or enjoy the beach." She commented quietly. She was pretty sure that Celestine had enough of the water so hanging around the beach near the water probably wasn't appealing and she didn't think that he'd want to wander around and look at the shops. That was more a girlish thing to do anyway. She had to think about it for a moment after he had asked her if there was anything that she needed to do. She wasn't entirely sure, though she had happened to glance down and remembered that she wasn't wearing her own shoes. She was going to need to have some new ones made, or at least pick up something else to wear in the meantime so that she wasn't borrowing Celestine's for too long. "...I guess I could stand to go visit Sanura..." She said as she started to slow and come to a stop. "She lives a little off that way..." She said as she pointed towards the direction she meant. It really wasn't too far from where the road was that lead towards the other island they were staying on, thankfully. She turned slightly and started in the direction that she had pointed. "...She's getting to see a lot of me this little trip..." She commented as she shook her head a little.
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Celestine just shook his head when she said that all anyone ever did here was relax, shop, or go to the beach. Well, he had no money so he couldn't very well shop and he'd had more of the beach than he could stand and all the relaxation that he could handle. "...I really think it's time I left..." he said dully. He paused momentarily when she said that she could stand to visit someone and looked back to her and then off int he direction that she pointed. He tilted his head a little having no idea who that was and then sighed and nodded before he changed direction and started to follow after her again. He glanced at her again when she said that 'she,' he assumed that she meant Sanura, was getting to see a lot of her. "...She doesn't normally?" he asked simply, "Who is she?" He honestly couldn't remember if Aamori had ever mentioned her to him before or not, but if she had he had entirely forgotten about it by now, so he guessed he could stand a refresher course. He just hoped whoever it was liked animals or he would just be waiting outside with Kyiri because he wasn't about to turn her lose out here to get lost, she was so tiny he didn't even want to know what might carry her off and Zale didn't strike him as the most diligent watch dog.
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Aamori glanced over at Celestine briefly while she was walking. "...No, not usually." She answered to his first question. "A lot of people don't see me very much. I don't get to spend a whole lot of time out of the training building." She added quietly. "Oh, and Sanura is a seamstress." She paused. "She's made most of my clothes... for as long as I can really remember." She said with a slight nod. "She also made Nanashi's new outfit... and... I guess I need her to make him a new shirt..." She shook her head slightly. Sanura probably wasn't going to be thrilled to hear that the shirt she made before was already pretty much destroyed. Sanura was a really nice older woman but she was still bound to be a little annoyed that the shirt she just made not that long ago was already needing to be replaced. Once she got closer to the destination she started along the backside of the buildings at the merchant district like she had before when she brought Kanone with her. She kept walking until she reached the door she was looking for and then started to open it making sure to mind the locking device that could keep them out if she didn't open it properly. "This is where Sanura lives." She commented quietly. She opened the door and slipped into the smaller back room while holding the door open for Celestine and Zale. She didn't think Sanura minded animals but she knew Zale was going to be too big, Sanura wouldn't want him in the front room so he would likely have to sit in the smaller back room and wait for them.
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Celestine kept pace with Aamori rather easily as she walked, barely even glancing around as he went. He felt a little odd walking around with Aamori when she was wearing that dress, only because it seemed to draw so much attention to them when. No one really seemed to come near them but he couldn't help noticing when people looked. He also felt a little awkward that she was wearing his shoes where she could be seen and it was fairly obvious from the design and color that they were his, but then again it was fairly common for girls to share shoes and anyone looking at him probably thought he was a girl... Even still he didn't like thinking about it like that, really. He listened when she said that she didn't get to spend a whole lot of time out of the training building. "...One would think you could at least leave when you were finished training..." He was a little surprised to hear that this was the seamstress that she had gotten to make Nanashi's clothes. Apparently she'd had the same idea of where she might need to go that he had earlier. He sighed when she mentioned Nanashi's shirt and then nodded slightly, "...Kyran could probably use one as well..." he pointed out quietly, though he really had no idea what size he would need or anything like that. Then again he didn't know if Kyran was as opposed to going shirtless as he and Nanashi were. Once they reached Sanura's home he looked around a little after she said that this was where Sanura lived. He titled his head a little as he watched her open the door and then started inside slowly, glancing around almost warily as he came in. "...Isn't this the back door?" he asked after a moment. He glanced down to Zale and then blinked. He guessed if Zale was coming in maybe animals were only allowed in a certain part of the house.
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Aamori hadn't really been paying any attention to the people around them. It was fairly normal for people to stay away from her and just watch from a distance. Her brother and Hisako were almost always keeping the people at bay so it was kind of normal for them not to come too close to her. She just shrugged a little after Celestine had commented that one would think she could leave the training building once she was finished training. "...You would think that..." She started. "Most everything that I'll ever need can be found in the training building, which is why I'm rarely allowed out of the building." She paused. "Also... given the chance Hisako would train most of the day away so by the time we're done it's a little late to be leaving to go anywhere." She told him quietly. She glanced to Celestine briefly after he had mentioned Kyran could probably use a shirt as well. She had kind of forgotten about that. He had lost his shirt as well. She nodded her head slightly. "Sanura's met him before so she shouldn't have too much trouble making him a shirt." She started. "Sanura is pretty talented... if she's met you before she can come really close, if not dead on with size when she's making something." She paused. "Since she's already made Nanashi a shirt before she shouldn't have any trouble duplicating it." She added. She smiled slightly and nodded once he had brought up this being the back door. "Yeah... Sanura allows certain people to use the back door. It draws less attention to the shop then if I were to go in the front." She said quietly and then reached over to pat Zale on the head. "You've gotta sit in here Zale. You're a little big to bounce around in the front and we don't need to make Sanura mad." She told him quietly before she started to take her hand back and move towards the other door. She was glad that Zale didn't appear to have any gripes with sitting in this room for now as he had laid down where he was and tried to get comfortable. She started to open the door and slip into the front of the shop. She kept her hand on the door while she waited for Celestine to follow after her.
Sanura had been standing in the front room working on something for someone else when she heard the door open to the back room. She hadn't bothered to lift her eyes from what she was doing mostly because she knew it had to be one of a certain number of people since not everyone knew how to get in through the back door. She finished up the little part she was working on and then started to lift her eyes to look over at the door. She smiled seeing that it was Aamori who had come to see her. She had half expected it to be Hisako since she was usually the one who came to see her when something was needed. |
Celestine rolled his eyes a little when she said that everything she would ever need was in the training building. "God forbid you need to take a walk," he said simply. He still clearly didn't like the way that things tended to work around her. People treated her more like she was a terminally ill child than someone fit to be their leader and the way the common people avoided her one would think she was contagious. Still, he knew that nothing he said or did would make any different of it so he didn't bother saying much about it. After they got inside the building and she explained about the back door he glanced down to Zale and then looked over to Aamori again, tilting his head a little. "Oh, so you're the one not allowed up front. I thought it was Zale," he said in an almost teasing voice. He thought that was rather ridiculous as well, but then again who was he to say? He followed her other to the other door and stood there until he realized that she was holding it for him and then finally stepped through after a moment. Once on the other side of the door he looked over to the woman who was working and then stiffened up a little awkwardly when she turned back to look at them. He really wasn't that fond of meeting new people, especially not in their house of all places, so he wasn't quite sure what to do with himself.
Kyiri didn't seem to mind a bit, though she was rather bored with this already. She stood up on Celestine's shoulder since he wasn't petting her anymore and hopped down to the floor before she started to wander over toward the older woman and then mewed quietly as she looked up to her with those big amber eyes. Celestine looked like he was about to have a heart attack when Kyiri dove off of his shoulder and started toward the woman and he moved quickly to snag her again. He didn't know if the woman even wanted a cat in her shop, let alone coming over near her work space and almost certainly rubbing around her legs. He sighed once he had Kyiri safely in his arms again and then looked down at her. "Kyiri, no," he said quietly in his native tongue which he was almost certain she at least understood 'no' in. |
Sanura eyed the little cat-like creature once it had jumped down from the shoulder of the person Aamori had brought with her. She continued to watch it up until the cat had been picked up again. She didn't really mind animals and the smaller they were the better. She probably would have been more inclined to pet the animal had it made it's way up onto the counter. She wasn't all that willing to get that close to the floor just to pet a cat. She smiled a little at the person with the cat. "It's cute." She said quietly, referring to the cat of course. She then started to round the counter as she headed towards the big window at the front of her store. She reached for the cloth curtain and started to walk it across the length of the window until it was covered and then turned the sign on the door before walking back towards the counter. "What brings you out to visit me this time, dear?" She asked with a smile. She knew Aamori couldn't have come just to visit. She rarely did after all. It was usually always business when she showed up, well, at least to some extent anyway. "Oh, I'm curious... how many wind dragons do you know... this clearly isn't the same one as the last time you were here."
Aamori didn't even bother responding to Celestine's little teasing remark about who wasn't allowed up front. She just shook her head a little and then shut the door once he had stepped through and into the room. She knew Sanura better than Celestine, obviously so she didn't really even react when Kyiri jumped off his shoulder and headed over towards her. After Celestine had wrangled Kyiri she watched Sanura as she started to go close the curtain and turn the sign on the door. She smiled weakly. She knew why Sanura did that, it was her own personal preference after all. She liked only having a certain amount of business and if everyone in the town new that she made the clothes for Aamori then of course she'd have more work on her hands. She looked at Sanura, honestly a little embarrassed when she asked how many wind dragons she knew. The last time she had come here with a wind dragon it had been Kanone. "...Three." She answered. "They're all related, actually." She added quietly. "This is Celestine, he's cousins with the one I brought with me that once." She told her as she glanced over to Celestine briefly. "...Not to change the subject so abruptly but I was wondering if I could possibly get you to make a couple things?" |
Celestine blushed slightly when Sanura smiled at him and then nodded his head weakly. "...Thank you..." he said quietly, though he didn't sound entirely sure if he should say anything more. He at least relaxed a little that she didn't seem upset over her being in here. He tilted his head a little as he watched her go close up everything and then looked back to Aamori again for a moment before he looked back to Sanura again after she asked Aamori how many wind dragons she knew. He felt his cheeks burning again and then ducked his head a little when he heard Aamori's response to her. "...You let her meet Kanone?" he almost groaned though only loud enough for Aamori to hear. He looked back to Sanura for a moment after Aamori had told her his name and then gave her a graceful bow just to be respectful, though he still held on to Kyiri with one arm as the other swept out behind him. "...Pleased to meet you, ma'am," he said quietly before he straightened himself up again and wrapped his other arm back around Kyiri. After that he remained silent since Aamori had already asked if she could make some things.
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