[3:34 PM] Star Guardian Mika: Vivianna sighs as she looks into the rooms. She found the kitchen but now she was still lost on where her friends where. She rubs her bandaged throat, spotting a guard. "Um..Excuse me sir? Where..are the patients?"
[3:37 PM] Kwakado: Orleans turns his ruddy helmeted face over towards the girl as he continues his patrol through he hall. "'Ya mean the wounded? ...Follow me." He swings a steel-capped shoulder towards a staircase and starts idly walking down it.
[3:37 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Oh ok." She follows him
[3:40 PM] Kwakado: After nearly a full minute of travel through the underground passageways, Orleans glances back to see if she's really keeping up. "You're looking for your family, or something?"
[3:40 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "My..My..My h..husband.."
[3:42 PM] Kwakado: "...Damn. I, uh, hope he's alright." Orleans was never really sure what to say, unless he was angry. "He work in the castle?"
[3:42 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "No..we were here for the party.."
[3:45 PM] Kwakado: "I see. Well, if you don't see him, maybe he made it out of the city. We started evacuating people when the earthquake hit, but...Agh..!" He got quiet, scowling as they went up another staircase.
[3:46 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "A-Are you alright!?"
[3:48 PM] Kwakado: "...Don't worry about it." Orleans wondered what had happened to his own family, but wasn't going to trouble a guest with it. "We're getting close now."
[3:49 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She tries to hide her coughing fit, but it rocks her making her sink down.
[3:52 PM] Kwakado: "Hey, if you need medicine or something, just ask one o' the curates. There's not much, but maybe they can do something for you."
[3:53 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "N-No I'll be fine." She wipes her hand off. "It's just a small cough sir."
[3:56 PM] Kwakado: "Right." He waved a gauntlet-clad hand toward the entrance to the medical wards. "Well, if he's hurt, he's here. If he's alright, check the rest of the East Ward. ...I've gotta get back to my post."
[3:57 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Thank you!" She walks in, looking around.
[3:59 PM] Kwakado: Many of the rooms here were full of wounded soldiers, recovering until they were able to return to duty, but there were a few outsiders too. The servants, clearly overworked, ran from room to room scrounging up bandages, rationing out Vulnerary, and maintaining their staves.
[4:01 PM] Kwakado: One such worker, a young lady in her early 20s, looks up at Vivianna, checking for any visible injuries. "H-hey, what is it?"(edited)
[4:01 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I-I'm looking for a man." Vivianna has bandages around her throat and stomach
[4:02 PM] Kwakado: "Oh, okay, uh, what's he look like?" No blood, still standing. Better than most of the patients she'd been working with in the past couple of days.
[4:06 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Ah..h-he's tan with grey eyes and short brown hair, he's dwabi."
[4:09 PM] Kwakado: "Oh! The Dwabi!" The curate almost hops up, her face visibly surprised that she has good news for a request such as this. "Yeah, he's---come on." She leads Vivianna to a doorway in the back of the ward.
[4:09 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Um..o-ok. I-Is he ok?"
[4:12 PM] Kwakado: "Uh...he had a bad fall. Reuben said a black pegasus was carrying him around or something, but I don't really know, sorry." She tiptoes in, leading Vivianna to a bed holding Sula. Next to it is Claire. Both are unconscious, but Sula seems to be having another nightmare.
[4:13 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "S-Sula..!" She lets out a cry but stops as the coughing starts.
[4:14 PM] Kwakado: "Sula-e is...Dwabi....a human!" He stirs, mumbling some kind of reply to her call. "I...never....ah...!"(edited)
[4:15 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She can't stop coughing, the blood slipping out of her hands.
[4:16 PM] Kwakado: The curate turns back at the sound of the commotion, noticing the visitor's condition. "H-hey, miss, you need to sit down..!" She rushes over to Vivianna, putting her hands behind the lady's back in case she falls.(edited)
[4:19 PM] Kwakado: That's a lot of blood...
[4:20 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I-I'm fine!"
[4:22 PM] Kwakado: "I know. Now sit." He voice hardened, used to the gruff warrior types who insisted on acting like they weren't hurt at all. She pulled a chair over, placing it next to the Dwabi's bed. "Please, just for a moment."
[4:23 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She nods and sits, watching Sula. "Oh Sula-e keibele.." She wipes the blood away from her mouth.
[4:26 PM] Kwakado: "....ibele....phhfgh.." His head rolls over towards her, looking a little lighter, a little older than usual. Meanwhile, the healer kneels down next to Vivianna, looking her over. "Was it here?" She points to Vivianna's bandaged stomach.(edited)
[4:27 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I..I think so..my mind seems to have blanked it out." She strokes his cheek. "He is..old isn't he.."
[4:30 PM] Kwakado: "Uh, w-when's the last time you had this treated? Have you had any medicine?" The muscles of Sula's face stir at her touch. He feels colder than usual.
[4:31 PM] Star Guardian Mika: ""I don't know..I..I don't know." She starts to cry
[4:32 PM] Kwakado: "Hey, h-hey...he's gonna be fine, okay?" The healer reaches for a baggy pouch. "Drink this.."
[4:34 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She does so, crying harder.
[4:36 PM] Kwakado: "Okay, okay, don't move...I'm going to get more. Stay there." She scampers out of the room, checking on the next room's set of beds. Sula's eyes start to open, widening quickly the moment he catches a glimpse of her. "V...Vivi-e..?"(edited)
[4:37 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "S-Sula-e?"
[4:40 PM] Kwakado: "...." The defeated Dwabi smiles, letting in a good breath of air, and reaches up out of the bed, placing a hand on her tear-stained cheek. "..do not worry. We're here, love."
[4:42 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She finally breaks down. "Ahhhh S-Sula ahhhh..I-I thought everyone is dead and and ahh." Her tears flow heavy.
[4:45 PM] Kwakado: "Mmm..." He remembers the feeling, but his eyes stay dry. "...So did I, I thought it was just me...but..." He sits up a little, with a weary grunt, as his thumb dries her tears. "...We're all here."(edited)
[4:50 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She gives him a weak smile. "I'm not doing so good."
[4:54 PM] Kwakado: Sula nods. "Yes, that demon...!" Sula remembered the charging cavalier, how he'd been too slow to stop it...Saving her only after she'd been wounded."Aa, forgive me....I couldn't...." Sula exhaled, letting out a parched sob.(edited)
[4:56 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Don't cry, without you there I would have died love.." She hugs him gently.
[4:59 PM] Kwakado: "Vivian-ne..." Sula wraps his arms around her, desperate for her warmth. "I'm..so glad."(edited)
[5:06 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She grows quiet. "W-Wil you still take..me with you..wherever you go?"
[5:08 PM] Kwakado: "I can't go anywhere...I'm...Nanyo, Vivi-e. You were right..Leo-e was right..."(edited)
[5:10 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "W-What are you saying?"
[5:11 PM] Kwakado: "The demons!" Sula quivered in her arms. "I saw them, in the future...but...nothing I did could stop them. G-gods, I was so wrong...."(edited)
[5:16 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I don't think any of us could have stopped then but at least you tried love."
[5:21 PM] Kwakado: "......no....you're right again, ha." The corner of his mouth turns, and a little life comes back into him. "Most fates...can't change, but sometimes we can choose." He gives her an expectant glance, smiling softly to her. "..so...Sula-e must choose Freyzenwald, ha ha ha. Will you...stay with me? Until we change this future?"(edited)
[5:27 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I will stay with forever Sula-e. I hope you know this."
[5:29 PM] Kwakado: His face flattens as he nods soberly. "...Tell me about the curse again. ...please, I...." He clutches his face, still feeling the fell miasma from the battle.(edited)
[5:34 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Why..why did you need to know..it's fake isn't it."
[5:37 PM] Kwakado: He pushes himself upright, looking distant. "I..don't know what is fake anymore. Something happened to me, in the basement. Something...rotten. I do not understand it, but...I think I gave a curse to one of those demons."(edited)
[5:40 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Gave a curse?" She grips the bed. "Are you saying..t-that's real..m-my curse.."
[5:42 PM] Kwakado: "Uhh....here'syourvulnerary!" The healer, realizing she'd been eavesdropping for a little too long, awkwardly set the vial on the edge of the bed and hurried out.
[5:44 PM] Kwakado: "....I don't know, Vivi-e...but I want to help you." Sula blinked. "I want you to be Kwemo."(edited)
[5:45 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Are you going to leave me again?"
[5:46 PM] Kwakado: "Of course not." He places his hands firmly on hers, as if to keep her from melting away. "My heart is yours...no matter what. So we must face this..." Sula blushed. "F-for our future."(edited)
[5:49 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Out future..t-together.." She smiles "Keibele"
[5:51 PM] Kwakado: He kisses her, frightened by how much he's missed it.
[5:52 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She kisses back, just as passionate. She had missed him so much.
[5:56 PM] Kwakado: The Nanshatu knew he had to stop, had to choose to betray her or betray himself...but he continued, betraying both, as he broke into a cold sweat.
[5:57 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She pulls away slowly before laying her head on his chest. "I love you so much..."(edited)
[5:59 PM] Kwakado: Sula traces along his poisonous lips with a single finger. "Y-yes...but...the curse, Vivi-e...you said that this could not happen."
[6:00 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "...Will you not fight it with me..will you leave me to die alone.."
[6:01 PM] Kwakado: "Never." Sula brings the blanket over her. "I will never let anything hurt me Vivian-ne...so tell me."
[6:03 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Tell you what?"
[6:05 PM] Kwakado: "About..." Sula stopped, as his thin muscles tightened like a vise. ".....No. I need to tell you..this truth."
[6:07 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Hmm? W-What are talking about Sula?"
[6:09 PM] Kwakado: The soothsayer stroked the back of her head, hoping to soothe her. "Uu, forgive me, but Shimi-e..."
[6:09 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Shimi?"
[6:09 PM] Kwakado: He sighed, shamefully.
[6:09 PM] Kwakado: "Shimi...is not a Pegasus."
[6:09 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "W-What..of course she is."
[6:12 PM] Kwakado: The exiled Dwabi shakes his head. "Only the white horses of Hoshido are...Pegasus." Sula's breathing became heavier. "The black ones are Falicorn, from Nohr. Like...Like Vivi-e, ha ha!"
[6:14 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Ok...so..Wait...Falicorn.." She laughs. "You mean like the evil pegasus."(edited)
[6:17 PM] Kwakado: He laughs nervously along with her. "Y-yes, they can be very...mean. Like Shimi-e. The Pegasus, too, will only truly attach to someone they accept as their master."
[6:18 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "But ok..but why did you tell everyone she was a pegasus then?"
[6:20 PM] Kwakado: "...because..." Sula looks away. "Because the Pegasus only lets someone with a Kwemo heart ride it."(edited)
[6:20 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "A..Kemo mean good..so..I..I'm not getting it."
[6:21 PM] Kwakado: He clears his throat nervously, reciting the ancient texts he had consulted back in Khlin.
"The Pegasus will only accept a master with a pure heart. The impure, the accursed, and the wicked, can never master a Pegasus."(edited)
[6:22 PM] Kwakado: "But Shimi-e is Falicorn...they look for a Nanyo heart."
[6:22 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "A..A bad heart."
[6:23 PM] Kwakado: "....or one that is..stained...with a curse."
[6:25 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She starts to cough. ".................."
[6:25 PM] Kwakado: Sula turns back to her, his expression tight and pained. "...I don't know why Shimi-e chose me. I do not know what darkness it is that lets me ride her...b-but..." His head turns downward. "...No one trusts a holy man with a heart of darkness."
[6:25 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "And..and here I..I thought..I was..special..she likes me.."
[6:27 PM] Kwakado: "I thought maybe it was just the song...or Shimi-e was wrong..! But then you spoke of a curse, and I thought..."
[6:27 PM] Kwakado: The Dwabi covers his grey eyes with a clenched palm. "...No. I was...just too afraid."
[6:28 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "And of course she doesn't like Leo..he's a good man.."
[6:29 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She starts to cry
[6:30 PM] Kwakado: "But you are not evil, Vivian-na!" He holds her in his weary arms. "...I have seen your heart. It is...beautiful, Vivi-e, it is pure...and Shimi-e sees that too, truly!"(edited)
[6:33 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Then I truly was curse.."
[6:33 PM] Kwakado: "...A bad woman would not make such Kwemo food. A bad woman would not look after everyone's horses, until she got sick. A bad woman......would have let me die for her in that cave..!" His face flushes in adoration.(edited)
[6:35 PM] Kwakado: "...Keibele, Vivi-e!"
[6:36 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She looks very shocked. "I..I..I..didn't realized..y-you felt that much for me..I thought..maybe you stayed with me because pity.."(edited)
[6:38 PM] Kwakado: Still overcome with passion, Sula shouts: "Y-you think Sula-e would break the Shatuko just for pity!?"
[6:39 PM] Kwakado: He coughs, covering his mouth. "N-no...forgive me, I..."
[6:40 PM] Kwakado: Tears stream freely from his eyes.
[6:40 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I-I did! I thought when we got together..y-you just stayed with me because you didn't want to hurt me! I..I didn't think you loved me, the way I loved you!"
[6:43 PM] Kwakado: "No, Vivi-a, no...I d-do....I am the evil one, here." His body draws closer as his head turns away. "...I can't stop loving you."
[6:44 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "H-How does that make you evil..is loving me really such a bad thing?"
[6:45 PM] Kwakado: "I...g-gods, I don't know anymore!" Sula's toes curl in, fighting back the nausea. "...My Nanyo heart sees nothing, but Vivi-e...."
[6:47 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She stand up. "Y..You don't want to love me..do you..if you could you would make it so you didn't.." She steps back falling a little. She looks up from the floor at him in shock.
[6:52 PM] Kwakado: Sula keeps ahold of her hand. "...No, Vivi-e, I want it more than anything." He stands with her. "I want to be by your side, day and night....to kiss you, and..c-consummate our love..." His eyes shine with hope, gazing into the forbidden future. ".....I-I want to be a father with you, Vivi-e!"(edited)
[6:55 PM] Star Guardian Mika: At his words, any doubt in her heart fled. A father..a family..s-something she always wanted..something she had dreamed about. "And I want so dearly to give you children Sula-e." She calmly walks back over and slips into the bed with him. For a moment she doesn't say anything, just grabbing his hand and laying it on her stomach.
[6:59 PM] Kwakado: He lays next to her, paralyzed with desire and dread combined. "...i want to see my children smile...running to their Vivi-o...and cook with you, and ride with you, a-a-nnn..." He stops to simply, breathe, with her, at an uneasy peace.(edited)
[7:01 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "And be rocked by their father, who kisses their bruises and picks them up when they are down. A father who speaks dwabi, who tells such good stories, who loves them all so dearly."(edited)
[7:01 PM] Kwakado: She can feel his nodding head agree. And his beating heart.
[7:03 PM] Kwakado: "...The Dwabi have no princes."(edited)
[7:04 PM] Kwakado: "...no child in our land, is ever given a fate they cannot bear, because of their blood."
[7:06 PM] Kwakado: "We do not give anyone the Nanyo birthright of Nobili-ti, trapped by their father's power...No child has to suffer like Leo-e, or Jean-ni...or Vivian-ne..."(edited)
[7:07 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She smiles and turns over to face him, eye soft and smile warm as a summer day. "Then they will be free to live how ever they like...though to me they will be my little princes and princesses."(edited)
[7:08 PM] Kwakado: His eyes squint at her smile, aching with joy. "...But for us to have our freedom...our food, and our one family, as Dwabi...."
[7:09 PM] Kwakado: "...Some must make sacrifices."
[7:10 PM] Kwakado: Sula laid his arm over her, showing the ash-black tattoos. "I am Shatu...the sacrifice. Our lives...belong to the Dwabi."(edited)
[7:11 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She touches them. "What..what does this mean Sula?"
[7:14 PM] Kwakado: His mouth glimmers with a dying spark of pride. "Aishatu. The Shatu of spirits, and spells, and secrets. I received these Falai marks when I was twenty years of age. For most, it takes longer to finish, and become Shatu..."
[7:15 PM] Kwakado: His face fades again. "Only the ones who are ready for power, can be given it. Only those who obey the Shatuko."
[7:15 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "What do you have to sacrifice?"
[7:18 PM] Kwakado: "..my life, Vivi-e." His eyes blink, completely exhausted. "Aishatu cannot wear shoes. We must respect the truths they are given...grant the gods' names to all our children, never use...poison..."(edited)
[7:19 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I couldn't have done it..I would have ran."
[7:20 PM] Kwakado: "...That is the first truth, of the Shatuko." Sula grips her tightly, recalling the past. "...when we are small, they teach us not to run...how to control our bodies, and our hearts."(edited)
[7:21 PM] Kwakado: He looks down at her, repeating the ritual she'd heard from his mouth. dozens of times. "Om." But his eyes are on her.
[7:21 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "T-That meant something didn't it..I just thought..oh my god..Sula.."
[7:23 PM] Kwakado: "...Without it, we run from our fate. We hurt people. We reject fate. We..." Terror fills his face. "...we fall in love."
[7:24 PM] Kwakado: Sula's eyes slide down like corpses. "...and Shatu may never have children. We are masters...not kings."(edited)
[7:25 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "Oh my god..oh...no..Sula..you didn't want that life did you.."
[7:27 PM] Kwakado: "...I do not know, it was...long ago. But now.." He pulls his hand back to his chest, clenching it. "I want to run away."(edited)
[7:28 PM] Kwakado: "...Betray my people again...my gods...my duty, to the world."
[7:29 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She looks guilty. "I..I'm sorry."
[7:30 PM] Kwakado: "No, Vivi-e...I am sorry. You do not deserve an evil man like this...an Aishatu Nanyu..."(edited)
[7:31 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I deserve a man willing to leave all he knew because he was in love..I deserve you Sula-e.."
[7:33 PM] Kwakado: His heart is racing, begging to be free from fear. "B-b-but I would just hurt you....or, the gods will bring us more curses...l-like Este-i..."(edited)
[7:34 PM] Kwakado: Sula's whole body shakes like the plaza ground. "...Like the festival."(edited)
[7:36 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She hits him. "None of that was your fault! None of it. Este was born a runt and a little too early ok..and the festival..not you either! That..I don't know what that was but it wasn't because of our love ok..our love it good and pure, true love can never be evil Sula-e!"(edited)
[7:37 PM] Kwakado: "...but your curse, Vivi-e...If this is true, the curse should have stopped it..."
[7:38 PM] Kwakado: His arm returns to her, clinging for dear life. "That is why I must find the truth."(edited)
[7:39 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "..F-Fuck the curse! I will not let it destroy this..because I love you so much and I want to look at you with a belly full of our children."
[7:41 PM] Kwakado: Sula's weary face can't help but try for a smile. "Oh, Vivi-e!" He gives his beloved the biggest kiss he can muster right now, desperately, defiantly.
[7:42 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She weakly kisses him back before breaking away to cough, long and hard, getting blood drops on the bed.
[7:43 PM] Kwakado: "Aa...Forgive me, I didn't--"
[7:44 PM] Kwakado: Sula silences himself.
[7:44 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "H..Huh..Sula..it's nothing."
[7:45 PM] Kwakado: He nods, putting his trust in her.
[7:45 PM] Kwakado: "...When we heal, Vivi-e...I will tell your fortune. I will find the truth, about the curse."
[7:47 PM] Star Guardian Mika: "I'd like that..I'd like that a l-.." She trails off, slipping off the bed in a faint. Seems she over worked herself today.
[7:48 PM] Kwakado: Sula dives down to catch her, but really only manages to collapse along with her in a mess of blankets and spilled vulnerary.
[7:49 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She blinks.."I t..t..hink..w-w..we both need sleep."
[7:52 PM] Kwakado: Sula nods in a daze, finding the floor a much more comfortable place to rest than the bed. "You're...right again...k-wemo..." He cuddles contentedly with his lady.(edited)
[7:57 PM] Star Guardian Mika: She lays soft butterfly kisses on his face. "keibele Sula-e keibele"
[7:59 PM] Kwakado: And he's already asleep, grinning bigger than he has all day.
[8:00 PM] Star Guardian Mika: ==RP END==
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