Where is it?! (Gilgahaar)

by **Miu Lonewolf** on January 27th, 2014, 3:27 am

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

Winter 513 AV 22th - Night fall.

Miu growled digging through her pack once more looking through the items much more quickly than before, she was shivering and Rowans whines were growing more frequent as it got colder and darker. She had put her flint and steel somewhere she just couldn't remember where it was. She had checked the bed roll, her pack several times along with the saddle bags and even around the site without much luck. "WHERE IS IT?!" she shouted to the heavens in anger as she stomped out of the tent tightening her belt before sitting down on the rock she had pulled there a night before to cook her fish, she had caught yet another but was full on rabbit meat. She had the furs ready to sell, The skin cleaned, softened and cut to perfection after the tenth time of trying to perfect this process on her first which held her fishing rod up on a stick waiting to fish with it's hook wrapped in raw rabbit meat hanging there to be dropped into the water. not many fish were awake in that season and none dared to jump up and steal the chunk of meat.

She tugged on Rowans reins trying to get her attention, "Have you seen it?" she petted the mare and combed her fingers through her long mane trying to calm herself as the sunset. Are we going to die tonight... The thought was weak but still hung on her shoulders like a obnoxious child weighing her down. "It's ok..." she whispered to her as she leaned against her side wrapping her arms around the snorting mares neck.

by **Gilgahaar** on January 27th, 2014, 5:57 am

The late evening had been a bust for Gil, what with the cold becoming too sharp to play and the lack of anything better to do. There had been no requests for the Cerulean, or at least none that had been passed down to him. The walk back from the outpost was annoyingly quiet. He could almost feel his mind wandering in all the wrong directions....

A hand rose to rub the bald half of his head over the tattooed scalp, a lame attempt to warm the exposed skin. His piercings felt like ice, the jabbing pain they caused now and again was a welcome reminder of the here and now. It helped him focus, a feature he sometimes seemed to lack when there was nothing physical to keep it.

His wandering mind came with wandering eyes. Along the path up ahead he caught sight of a tent, a horse and someone outside. His gaze narrowed to clarify what he was seeing. Tent. Horse. Woman. No, a girl? She seemed very young or just very small... As he came closer, he saw her embrace the steed almost emotionally, as if for support.

As he grew closer, he slowed his stride to a stop. with his mantle covering his shoulders, he was a wall of dark cloth from the neck down. His face was still bared, the bright white swirls and decor marking him as Cerulean with piercings to add a personal flair. It seems though, that it was all on one side. The other portion had a slightly disfigured coloring as if from an old scar. Half his head was bald, half held long, braided white hair that hung behind his shoulder. His height allowed him to tower above her at over seven foot.

"I may be stating the obvious," he started in a nonchalant manner, "but you appear to be disgruntled." He seemed distant in the face, as if he were keeping any who looked his way at arms length. He was distant and blank. Not secretive, just indifferent. "Is something the matter?" In truth, he expected to be cast aside, but perhaps that was why he bothered offering in the first place?

by **Miu Lonewolf** on January 27th, 2014, 6:13 am

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

Miu didn't jump or tense as she heard him speak, she had rather good hearing and had heard him coming towards her spot moments before his voice caused her to ponder if he was friend or foe, would he rob her? kill her? He's tall.. I smell food on him, dirt, soap... why would a robber approach and not attack, he's obviously not a robber, Miu shut up you're thinking ahead. She seemed even more conflicted as she turned to face him raising a brow, "I've misplaced my flint and steel and now my fire is blown out. It is bitterly cold and not everyone around here has a home." she added the remark about being homeless bluntly as she looked the male up and down, he was strange looking and her nose smelled weird scents from his clothing. Her eyes were a harsh thunderous gray tinted with blue and her hair was a pure white like the snow around them, she had kept the small site clear from it but it was falling again and the wind had picked up making the tarp annoyingly whip around tied to the tree's, her hair swayed then, it was a strange hair cut for one to have, it being short in the back and long in the front starting at behind her ears only to hide her eyes in the front due to once being in a long braid only to be hacked off by a enemy from the past.

Miu was a skinny girl and was growing lighter by the day as she fought against the season, her mare just calming when she spoke again. "well that's a weird hair cut you got there." it was rather rude but not being around people most of your life will do that to you.

by **Gilgahaar** on January 27th, 2014, 8:06 am

"I could say the same about yours. It looks like someone took an an ax to it." Though he returned the rude comment, he offered no body language to indicate if it was as a joke or retaliation. It was the latter, in his mind, but he did not care to make the effort to distinguish.

The smells that came from him did indicate of food, he had only just shared a meal with one of his cerulean brethren. The smell of fire would be present too, along with his cheep soap and the stench of pipeweed. It was a homey smell in the frozen tundra that the open road resembled.

"If you need a place to stay for the night, I could spare a bed and a meal for a traveler." She did not look too dangerous at all. Without his help, she would probably freeze to death in this blistering cold. Though he could care less, he had selfish intent in mind. Some dark, some not so bad; it would all depend on how the night turned out.

With the offer, Gil walks closer and slides his right arm from his mantle to undo the binds across his chest under the shorter second layer. As he pulls the long draping cloth from his body, it reveals his entire left side shared the markings upon his head. It was precise too, with almost a hard line dividing the two halves of his body. "Here," he offered. "Take my coat and walk with me. I give you my word no harm will come to you." Trusting his word was like trusting a fire not to burn; but she was a stranger to him. She would not know. Yet.

by **Miu Lonewolf** on January 27th, 2014, 8:32 am

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She watched him offer the coat and shook her head, "I've got my own... It wasn't an axe, it was a knife." With that she was shoving things into her brown leather pack watching him out of the corner of her eye, "You know... Offering shelter is rather kind of you, I can't say I'm not surprised." She was mumbling as she tightened the ropes on the tarp and kicked her bedroll back into the tent before shutting it, she worked quietly as she collect her furs and stuffed them in her pack, it smelled of raw meat and it did have raw meat and cooked meat along with smoked fish and berries wrapped in deer skin that she had been softening and cleaning the night before, her long bow was plucked up with her arrows before she was mounted on the horse with it awkwardly between her legs, she obviously didn't want to loose any of it and he also noticed how well her tent was hidden, having only seen it once approaching. "You lead." She smirked atop the cream and white patched mare. "unless you're scared of Rowan trambling you."

by **Gilgahaar** on January 27th, 2014, 8:50 am

He did not respond to either of her comments. Instead he draped the mantle back over his shoulders and tied the string to keep it in place. With the woman on horseback, he picked up a swift pace. The Akalak's long, powerful legs would allow him to speed walk at the rate most humans would jog. His sandals crunched with each step into the snow, kicking up fine white powder to cling to the underside of his cloak.

For a while he walked in silence. After entering the city and following the road to an intersection, he turns left. IT was not long before he veered off the road to cut past Vulrav's tower, bringing them to a frozen area which would morph into a beautiful garden come spring.

The man glanced back at the woman with a blank expression. "What's your name?" His request for it could have just as easily doubled as a demand with so little emotion. He sounded almost as cold and blank as the snow around them.

by **Miu Lonewolf** on January 27th, 2014, 8:58 am

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She followed him quietly as they entered the city, the moon just reaching the center of the sky as he turned to her, speaking finally to fill the cold silence between them. She had been chewing a bit of cooked rabbit when he had spoken, swallowing she took a look around. "Miu, Don't ask for a last name 'cause you won't get one." She combed her fingers through the mares mane watching him as she chewed on another piece, her rather sharp canines showing a bit as she put it on her tongue before closing her mouth with a bored expression, Rowan was digging at the ground shaking her head every once in a while to get the snow off her whining a bit, "And yours?" She raised an eyebrow wondering why she had trusted him, his race normally treated hers as slaves but the people here didn't seem all that bad... So far. She pulled out ad apple and offered it to the made waiting for his response as Rowan chomped down on it happily.

by **Gilgahaar** on January 27th, 2014, 9:06 am

"Gilgahaar," he responded. The man had only paused for a short moment to peer around. There were times when he found himself lost, even in Riverfall. After he thought on it for a moment, he sought out that strange zoo...

It was not something very easy to miss, he had come to recognize it over the last few months. With a renewed speed in his step, he continued towards the landmark. He had a number of questions to ask, but he started simple. "Why are you living in a tent? That kind of stupid life style will get you killed." He could care less about the insult, she had not been very polite to him and so he spared no kindness for her. He was, after all, saving her life. Why should he offer anything else?

OOCI'm kind of mirroring your post length. If you want to post more, I'll post more in response. Just saying, in case you were mirroring mine. XD

by **Miu Lonewolf** on January 27th, 2014, 2:30 pm

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She followed him closely, Rowan growing more and more nervous the farther they went into the city trying to turn and back away from the tall stranger before her but Miu wasn't scared, she was curious about the stranger. She pressed her heels into the horses sides and followed slowly as they made their way towards the zoo which was new to her and carried a lot of strange smells with it, he spoke of his name then as they were getting closer with a quicker step, "that's a mouth full, how about I call you Gill? Haha... Like a fish Gill." She smiled a bit at her joke pulling out a piece of smoked fish she had wrapped in her precious deer skin, she had used it in many ways and even had lined her boots with what was left. Softening and cleaning the hide was a long process of cutting, pounding, washing and even salting with the salt water near the gates that had taken her a day of walking to find when she had first come to riverfall. "I'll let you have a bit and if you like it you can have a whole smoked fish for eight mazias." She tried to sound as nice and inviting as possible, "I caught it earlier today and smoked it before you showed up, sir." She was making chit chat when he asked about her tent, "Oh, well I've survived for about four weeks now... I'm sure I'll survive but thank you for offering shelter." She was softening around him and couldn't help it, she hated company yet still craved it. Out of characterhaha not really just writing as much as I can on my tablet.

by **Magpie** on March 1st, 2014, 9:27 pm

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