Watch Your Step! (Nosferious Kainetu)

[Joseph]

Joseph listened to this man and smiled. He seemed fond of the idea of pretending. Most humans hated it but this one liked it. It helped Joseph knowing there were individuals like him in the world. But his thoughts were soon intereupted because he was being shoved into a pocket. He looked around at the pocket. He had been stuffed in so many pockets it was hard to count. Why did people love stuffing him in pockets? He wondered this sometimes. He stayed silent, he didn't want to seem demanding. After all, this man just saved him from a mob of kids. So he stayed there.

Joseph was a little curious as to why Nosferious Kainetu wanted his spear. He watched and caught a few of the words he was saying. He watched as he tested it. "Stop! Don't break it!" He blurted out rather rudely but he didn't notice as he fiddled around with it. Joseph said this a few times. He didn't want to see it wrecked. It ment a while lot to him. This thing may seem like nothing to anybody else but to Joseph, this thing was huge to him.

Joseph was very curious being, like most pycon. So it was just his nature to wonder what was going on, what was he doing, and why was he in the pocket. He just waited there. Hopefully Nosferious Kainetu would tell him. All most every pycon was curious. His eyes usually complemented this. Joseph twiddled his tiny thumbs waiting to see what was going happen.

Joseph was also very curious as Nosferious Kainetu began to work. He was constructing something, he wanted to know what. One of the first things he noticed, it was pycon sized. He knew he wanted him to do something with it. He looked at it from different angles hoping to get an idea of what he was making. His eyes huge, looking at almost every detail. His mind was filled with questions, like usual.

Joseph looked at him as he asked him to hit the circle. He wanted to impress him, he wanted to look like he knew what he was doing. He took a few tiny steps back, held his spear so the blunt end was facing the target and took a deep breath. He charged at the target and struck it with the blunt end of his spear as best as he could.

[Nosferious_Kainetu]

He watched the circle get pushed back by the end of the pole. Nosferious couldn't help but smile at this as he spoke, "Okay then." He pointed towards the circle, "According to the book I looked over. The best strength of a spear is the thrust. In other words, poking it straight forward." he paused examining the thing he made, "If one were to practice their thrusts, they 'should' become better all around with the spear." He wasn't sure if the same rules applied to the Pycons and if it would truly be of any use but he tried, hoping it would. "Anyways. We know it works, so where would you like to have this set up?"

[Joseph]

Joseph looked at this man, he was smiling as he tried his best. That's great, he thought he was pathetic. He listened to him telling him how to fight with a spear. He kept wondering if these rules applied to pycons, but when he thought about it his true form was one of a human so, wouldn't the same rules apply for him in fighting? He wasn't really sure. He did his best to try and understand what he was trying to say. He held onto his grandfather's py-pole like a cane and thought about where he would like this put. "I'm not sure...I don't really have a home... or any place to call my own..." Then suddenly an idea popped in his head "I think I have an idea..."

Joseph quickly lept down, making sure to roll when landing so he didn't harm himself, and made a signal for Nosferious to follow him. He went down a quiet street and made sure to stop every once in a while so the human could catch his breath. After a few minutes of running he stopped at this one building. It was abandoned, it looked like a hell hole. The windows boarded up, the door had cracks all over it, furniture flipped over. Joseph went through a tiny hole in the door and waited for Nosferious Kainetu.

[Nosferious_Kainetu]

Nosferious watched the Pycon run, reaching down to grab the contraption constructed of wood and glue. He noticed then one of his hands, sealed into a fist by a large bit of glue to get on it, "you have to b-" he paused the whisper to himself before seeing the Pycon on the move. Quickly he was on the move too, holding the construct in one hand and gnawing at his fist mid run, hoping the glue to become undone. After a few minutes they came upon an old building, it's windows sealed tight, the door cracked from end to end. Surely it must have been condemned, but still Joseph went inside. Nosferious took a try at the door handle fumbling with it with his glued hand. After a second it finally opened, making a creaking noise as it revealed the inside. Old furniture flipped over and covered by times passing. Even in mid day, little light seeped into the room from the cracks in the sealed windows, and a dank smell drifted. Even the hearth on the wall looked to be falling apart, the stones seeming to degrade to the point to fall in on itself. This was a sign to him the same remained for the rest of the building. A look of horror came on his face as he remembered what it reminded him of. His first home, cramped, smelly, and poorly built, lacking any real comforts except a bed which was horribly lumpy because of poorly packed hay in the bedding. "This is..." he paused, about to say something rude but deciding against it, "Nice." There as dust everywhere, saying there was little traffic here, with exception of small animals to make their way inside. Finally Nosferious turned towards Joseph, kneeling into the dust and looking at him with what seemed a try at a smile and depiction of concern. "Joseph. Are you sure you want to stay here?" he asked, looking around again, "I mean. There isn't much other choice besides." he gave pause, smacking his glued fist into his knee, "Perhaps there is. I know this one place. It's well lit most of the day, it would have plenty of room for you, and there's only three downsides. It's in a slightly crowded place, it smells like candlewax, and you'de have to share the room with a man who gets a little crazy with his actions sometimes but I personally believe has a pretty fair attitude to carry for others. Of course, it's your choice."

[Joseph]

Joseph sat down on the floor, but as he did the other side of the floorboard he was sitting on went up. He loked like he was a little see-saw. He climbed up and looked at the house. It was a wreck, but it was a place he could go. He looked at Nosferious and then at the house. He looked around and was pretty sure he saw some blood stains. He looked and what came out of the floor. Bugs, there termites, beetles, ants, spiders and other ones he wasn't sure what they where. He jumped out of the little hole he created and looked Nosferious.

Joseph looked at Nosferious kneeled and made a smile. He asked if he wanted to stay here. "It's the only I can go..." He muttered. Nosferious then told him of a nice place, with candles that are lit, with plenty of room, that smells like candle wax and a man who does crazy things. Joseph looked around at that place and laughed. "You're actually asking me if I wanted to stay here? I'm a pycon, not an idiot. Let's go!" Joseph grabbed his spear, dusted everything that was on him and looked at Nosferious to hear his response.

[Nosferious_Kainetu]

Nosferious held out his fist and suddenly came to have a serious face. It looked strained, as though about to explode with power before finally the fist flew open, bits of glue around each of his fingers. He breathed out having gotten a workout from just that alone before placing the hand down on the floor for the Pycon, "Alright. Lets go then." he said with a smile, holding the device constructed in one hand, and awaiting to hold his new friend in the other.

[Joseph]

Joseph stared at this man oddly as he made a fist. He walked back slowly. He accidently fell down into the little pit he made. As he poked his head up, Nosferious seemed to be calmed down. His mind filled with questions he wanted to ask him. But he just got up and watched as the man put his hand out for Joseph. Joseph smiled and walked him, he took a seat in his palm and looked up at him smiling.

[Nosferious_Kainetu]

"Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you. My hand ended up getting glued." he said wiggling his fingers that still had bits of dried glue on them. After a second he placed Joseph on his shoulder and began walking back out, opening the door again only to accidently knock it off of it's rusted hinges, "Certainly could of made a lovely home," he said before adding as he turned towards Joseph, "About a hundred years ago." He walked through the crowded streets towards the stronger structures. Numerous turns were made, weaving through people, sometimes raising his hand to his shoulders to make sure Joseph kept balance. Finally after a while he made it to the door he was after, creaking it open. Inside was a nice room with stone walls, a window high upon said walls, a chest at the foot of a comfortable looking bed, a table and two chairs which were far too tall for a Pycon, and a bookcase next to the open door. The floors were much cleaner then the other house, and everything was well dusted. After the scene, the scent became apparent, drifting through with the smell of candle wax. Nosferious set Joseph down and then placed the contraption in front of the bookcse and walked towards his chest. As he creaked it open he pulled out a large white cotton shirt, worn down but well cleaned. Walking back with it he placed it on the bottom shelf of the bookcase, bundling it up into the back corner of it before placing the construct of his next to it on the opposite side of the shelf. "Sorry I'm placing these here. But I don't want to end up stepping on it accidently, or you when you're sleeping." he said as he flicked the target again, making sure it could move back it's full length. He then reached into his pocket again, grabbing something sticky and pulling it out, revealing his hand covered in glue again and the small container of it broken, "Crap..." Still he worked with it, wiping what glue did not dry underneath the device he constructed and pressing it firm against the bookcase's shelf. After a second he knew it would stick, and the sturdy foundation of the bookcase would easily help support it. He used his unglued hand to reach into another pocket, taking out another bit of wood from the scraps, and placed it into the corner of the bookshelf and actual floor. With a nod he wiped the wood across his hand for glue and placed it there making a step like stairs for Joseph. The last thing was made and he moved close to Joseph, patting him on the head with his unglued hand saying only two things before wandering off to wash off the glue, "Welcome Home."

[Joseph]

Joseph sighed as he heard Nosferious explain what was happening. He wasn't going crazy, it was just glue. Joseph let out a little laugh as he heard this. Again, he was on his shoulder wandering through the streets of Syliras, but hey, at least it wasn't another pocket. He closed his eyes and thought about what this day would be like if he hadn't been kicked by this man. Surely, it wouldn't be as good.

Joseph looked all around the house. it was nice and tidy, way better than the other horse. There were no animals, no ruined floors, no cracked windows and most of all no blood. He said a few compliments about various things and asked about various things. He nodded as Nosferious told him that he didn't want to step on him, this was surely a good thing. He watched as he put him down and went to wash his hands.

The next things he told him just made him smile. He kept thinking this over and over. This man, just gave him a place, he gave him a home. This ment a lot to him. If pycon could cry, he would be filled with water.

[Nosferious_Kainetu]

End Thread.