[10:42 PM] Kwakado: The barrier closes behind a weary Shimi, following behind a squadron of cavaliers. Even less were rescued today, despite the team having gone out even further into dangerous territory.
Sula sings a silly Dwabi song to try to lighten the mood, but stops after some cold glances and hurries off to the stables. Checking Shimi as usual for any sign of injury or wear, he gives her a nice cold bath. Then, as the rest of the knights file off to the lottery, Sula stays, feeding Este a good portion of his own daily rations at the mess hall.
The exiled Dwabi felt...trapped, somehow, in this place, where before it had given him a sense of rest and rationale. Tesamaaru was beginning to resemble Stormblade Manor in his heart - hopelessly beseiged, walled off, stifling, with an ironclad routine that wrapped around him like prisoners' chains. But trying to make it out of the city was suicide - the neverending tide of demons made sure of that.
Sula pets Este, warming his wet, cold hands. He couldn't remember the last time he missed his homeland this much.(edited)
[10:51 PM] Spooky Mika: Vivianna frowns, dragging her feet…she had been so happy..what had happen. The talk with Versilla had made her think..was she expecting too much..wasn’t love supposed to change your whole world.
[10:51 PM] Spooky Mika: She sighs..deep down she knew somewhere in her heart she was still waiting like a silly girl for a prince to come and sweep her away, a beautiful princess found in the rough. She wishes to could stomp that part out of her…because it was starting to consume her thoughts at night. She walks into the stables and slumps down…not noticing anyone else there.”Do…I even love him..I need to break the engagement..it’s too soon..right..” She kicks some hay biting her lips(edited)
[10:51 PM] Spooky Mika: “I want a prince…still do..even though I know it’s silly…I know ok but I..I held out for so long…not even a prince just…not what I got..”
[11:06 PM] Kwakado: And then there was Vivianna, the girl who'd somehow managed to surpass the greatest of the Woushatu warriors, who made Sula feel so stramge, smaller and yet stronger. Against all reason, he had thrown away everything he was, everything he would be, just for a chance at being with her. He scratched at his arms, strangely warm, feeling both pain and pleasure from his selfishness and stupidity.
It had gotten to the point that he was even hearing her voice when she wasn't around....or was she? Sula turns around, only to see her right before his eyes.
"V-vivi-e!"
[11:08 PM] Spooky Mika: "S-Sula?!" She falls back surprised to see him here. "I had no clue anyone else was here." Ah she wasn't blushing anymore around him..but that didn't mean anything right..right. She smiles. "Are you alright?"
[11:11 PM] Kwakado: "Yes.." Sula takes a step forward into the hay, bending down to offer her a hand. "I just got back from a ride with Shimi-e."
[11:13 PM] Spooky Mika: She reaches out to take it before putting her hand down and standing on her own. "Did you? You seem a little more tired for such a simple ride."
[11:15 PM] Kwakado: Sula stays motionless, blinking momentarily, before reaching the hand back to his weary forehead. He stands up. "...well...we did go for a ride outside the barrier. Wild weather out there, ha. But no arrows hit us!"
[11:16 PM] Spooky Mika: "Oh it's a good thing you didn't get hurt..." She trails off. "We need to talk.."
[11:18 PM] Kwakado: Sula nods, yet revealing a fair deal of concern in his face as he raises up. His toes curl in. "You are right, but..what is it?"(edited)
[11:20 PM] Spooky Mika: "Ahh..hh.." She thinks back to Versailles words. "I need some time to think. I don't feel right and I need a b-break from us."
[11:22 PM] Kwakado: "Omm..." Sula's hand slid down from his forehead to his chin, pondering it all. "Forgive me, but...what do you mean?"
[11:24 PM] Spooky Mika: Oh no..oh..noo.."I love you know..I do but Sula..if you were to leave me right now..I wouldn't mind."
[11:27 PM] Kwakado: "...haa..." Sula's eyes met hers, searching for some nuance, some missing truth. "I don't understand. You, truly do not care if I leave you?" He kept his face hard as a rock.(edited)
[11:30 PM] Spooky Mika: Oh this is why she didn't want to talk to him.."I do..I would care but..I guess..my um heart wouldn't be scarred or anything.." This was going bad and she couldn't think of the words to say. "So..what I'm trying to say is..h-how about we..hold off on being engaged.."
[11:32 PM] Kwakado: "But you were so happy before, about it!" Sula held his voice back, closing his eyes silently. "Tell me what happened, Vivian-na. The whole truth. What has changed?"
[11:35 PM] Spooky Mika: "Ahh..I-I don't know..I just..I'm happy I think. I'm happy right..with you..we are happy..so why.." She looks at the ground. "But it's good to wait Sula..I mean we've only known each other for a short time..I'm not saying we won't wed..maybe.."
[11:38 PM] Kwakado: "You speak truth." The Dwabi gives an encouraging smile, despite the pain in his eyes. "...It has not even been two months. I should have waited, to tell you what the Sulai brought me..." His smile brightens a little, remembering it. "..But that isn't all that worries you, is it?"(edited)
[11:42 PM] Spooky Mika: "What no t-that's all really..haha..ha.." She looks around. "...My heart...the love I have for you is..cooling a little..it's there but ah..it doesn't warm me."
[11:46 PM] Kwakado: A weight lifts off of Sula's shoulders but finds him feeling empty. "Ah, Vivi-e..." He wanted to hug her, but kept his arms in place. "It must feel so strange. And...very hard to say." The stinging pain creeps up to his eyes.(edited)
[11:48 PM] Spooky Mika: "It very much is...oh Sula..Its so strange because while it's cooling..i know it will be there forever..this love.."
[11:52 PM] Kwakado: "Forever, yes...But I am not alone, in your heart, am I?" Sula inhaled sharply through his nose, letting out a brief hum. "..Elwyn-nu, and Versa-u..." A tear left his eye, but only one. "They will not leave either?"(edited)
[11:57 PM] Spooky Mika: "Versa? Oh nononono! No way..I hardly know that man but Elwyn...ah..his kindness is so wonderful. He is wonderful.." She nods. "I will forever love him with a small part of me...but Sula..what does that matter..Just because I love him doesn't mean I want to be with him...not at all."
[12:16 AM] Kwakado: "...Then, you know that want to be with Sula-u?" Sula keeps his distance. "...Are you sure this is true?"(edited)
[12:18 AM] Spooky Mika: She chews on her lips. "How about...we..be distant..just for a little."
[12:21 AM] Kwakado: "That sounds..." Sula stopped, unsure of what to think anymore. "What would change, then? You leave me, I leave you...and then one day you will care again?" Though his words were harsh, he spoke them softly, like a hot breeze. "But you are right. We need time...to think on this. Yes."
But he knew that she was as likely to return to him as he was to return to Dwabi. And that he would continue to miss both of them.(edited)
[12:38 AM] Spooky Mika: "I know it's silly...but maybe it's just me...it's also about me....how do you feel about this
[12:44 AM] Kwakado: "Truly...It hurts, more, now. " Sula looked out westward into the magic-wreathed sky. "But so much is the same. We are still trapped here. Khlin is still in danger. it is childish, I know...but it felt as if the whole world was about to change, that night."(edited)
[12:52 AM] Spooky Mika: "That night?"
[2:10 AM] Kwakado: "And the morning after." With heat filling his face, Sula gives her a knowing look, letting her come to the answer.(edited)
[6:24 PM] Spooky Mika: She slumps down…he was right..she had expected something to change..something magical to happen..Vivianna finally thinks…not just jump to conclusions but thought deeply. The love she had gone through in the past…it was hot burning…wonderful..like what she first had with Sula..but that love..as she starts to realize wasn’t…true…yes it was there but it was the kind of love that won’t last..it would burn out like a candle…which is what she thought was happening…but no..this love right here..it was different..sure it was cooling but it was there filling her heart with dreams of a future with him. Dreams of sleepy mornings, of raising babies, of waking up next to him and just smiling.
[6:24 PM] Spooky Mika: She blinks…she was being dumb…so dumb…of course this was the first time she had felt real love and because she had never felt it before..it felt boring and cold…to her infatuation was all she had ever known. “Sula-e…I’m sorry…so sorry. I…I” She quickly gets up and kisses him, making sure the kiss could tell him what she couldn’t..tell him of their wonderful future, of her deep love for him…of her childishness.
[6:31 PM] Kwakado: "Nnhh..!" Returning her affection for a moment, he soon pulls away, taking pained steps back. "W-what are you doing?! Is this what you call distance!?"
[6:38 PM] Spooky Mika: "I've been confusing infatuation with love...Infatuation Sula it burns hot and makes everything seem so wonderful! But it's not real...and I realize that. I realize that no what I'm feeling this boredom...it's what real love is like. Not..boredom but the feeling that..I won't have to fight to make you see me..to struggle to seem perfect in your eyes..what I'm feeling is calm...a calm happiness.."
[7:03 PM] Kwakado: "..." Sula plucks at his mouth, keeping just out of eye contact. He knew she was being as honest with this confession as with the one before that, and the one before that.
"Vivi-e...your words are wise. Love is not a princess, sitting safe in the heart...it is an great ocean, that flows between. Warm some days...calm some days...or a terrible storm." His stance widened, and his eyes finally locked with hers. "I am glad that you see this, but..." He let his face sink into a frown. "We must step back, and look closer at what is between us."(edited)
[7:10 PM] Spooky Mika: "I..I understand..I do.." She frowns. "I'm sorry...I don't want to be too separate.." She looks away..."It's at time our age difference really shows."
[7:24 PM] Kwakado: He nods to the back of her head. "I have guided, many lovers, through their future...but never my own. There is so much I did not understand..." His toes sink into the earth, failing to hold back his heart. "But you speak truth. I am too old, now, to be playing around with these thoughts, engaged one moment, then forgotten the next!"
[7:27 PM] Spooky Mika: She looks ashamed. "I didn't mean to play with your heart love..to confuse you.."
[7:28 PM] Kwakado: "I-i know..." Sula rotates his whole frame away from her, holding his icy left palm up to the light. He'd been confused for the past eight years. "I love you, Vivian-ne...and I have made my choice. But are you truly ready to make yours?"(edited)
[7:33 PM] Spooky Mika: She comes up behind him, pressing herself against him. "I wouldn't have gave myself to you if I wasn't ready. I was saving myself for the one I truly loved, you."
[7:39 PM] Kwakado: Sula's hand comes back to her soft shoulder, meaning to push her off....But his grip only brings her closer into him. "...You just said, you didn't care....Vivi-e, please..." Sula digs in his heels, wanting more than anything to turn back around to her.(edited)
[7:43 PM] Spooky Mika: "B-Because I didn't feel the hot rush of jealous and angry when I thought about you walking away..something that I thought meant I cared..in fact if you left me I would care...oh not on the outside but my heart would shatter..I would be a wreck."
[7:50 PM] Kwakado: "But...will you feel that way tomorrow? In ten years? If this is just because of my Sulai...do not force yourself, please."
He brings his right hand onto her other shoulder, seeking to bring them both comfort.
"Sula-u is not a true Aishatu. It may not be...a true future..."(edited)
[7:59 PM] Spooky Mika: "It was more then that Sula! I fell in love with before you told me that...and love isn't smooth..some days it will be difficult but...I know I will always love you."
[8:05 PM] Kwakado: "..."
Sula sighs, equal parts joy and pain. He brings his arms down, moving off of her, and turned around. Then wraps his arm around her in a deep embrace.(edited)
[8:11 PM] Spooky Mika: "I'm sorry..I said such cruel things...we can be so strange.."
[8:16 PM] Kwakado: "But you meant all of it. Love is cruel, some days..." He lets out a cool smile. "And I wonder if ours will always be strange."(edited)
[8:22 PM] Spooky Mika: She gives him a sad smile. "Don't do that Sula.."
[8:23 PM] Kwakado: "...Don't do what, sweetheart?"
[8:24 PM] Spooky Mika: "Retreat back into yourself."
[8:28 PM] Kwakado: Sula's eyes dim as his smile sharpens. "If I cannot stay in there, then where else will I go?"(edited)
[8:31 PM] Spooky Mika: "Don't..not to me.." She is starting to see why Leo could dislike him. "You could stay right here with me."
[8:34 PM] Kwakado: Sula leans in closer, gently massaging her back. "Yes, love....But what if I retreated self into your self?"(edited)
[8:40 PM] Spooky Mika: For a moment she looks confused before his words click and her whole face grew hot. "W-What d-does that even mean?!"
[8:44 PM] Kwakado: The Dwabi continued. "You asked for more, and Sula-e will obey... When we are done staying right here, of course."
[8:44 PM] Spooky Mika: "When I asked for more..I mean to tell me more about what you are feeling right now."
[8:49 PM] Kwakado: "..o-oh." Sula's arms settle, and he is silent for several long moments. "I am...happy that you are here. But...I..I can never go back home, now." His glassy eyes flit away for a moment, but he swiftly returns them to her. "..And I wish I could have both. It feels strange."(edited)
[8:56 PM] Spooky Mika: "I'm sorry..I wish you didn't have to choose.." She hugs him tighter. "I hurt you with my words didn't I...hear you are...giving up your home for me and I'm being so..weird about us."
[9:00 PM] Kwakado: "No, I--Y-yes." Sula weaves his fingers into her hair. "Vivi-i has a whole life left, a very big future, b-but...It is different, for me. You could say that Sula-o was, already married."(edited)
[9:06 PM] Spooky Mika: "What do you mean?"
[9:09 PM] Kwakado: "..To the gods, and the Dwabi. The life of an Aishatu can feel boring...exciting...There was even a great ceremony, ha ha." He shudders. "...But now I belong to Vivian-ne..and it is wonderful."
[9:12 PM] Spooky Mika: "...Is it really?"
[9:16 PM] Kwakado: "Yes. Life with you, feels like a new home. More than any castles or cities I have seen." Sula's embrace pulses, tightening momentarily. "And I am not leaving."(edited)
[9:21 PM] Spooky Mika: She blushes. "I love when you get passionate."
[9:24 PM] Kwakado: Sula's eyes reflect darkly off her blush, yet the rest of his face lights up. "Haa! I can still make my Vivi-e burn a little, after all."(edited)
[9:32 PM] Spooky Mika: She smiles. "Yes..and I love it...Sula do you forgive me for me words?"
[9:35 PM] Kwakado: "No." He smiles deeply. "I thank you for them. Your words made us stronger, than if you had hidden them from me."
[9:40 PM] Spooky Mika: "Really?" She looks shocked. "You..you mean talking about problems really does work.."
[9:42 PM] Kwakado: Puzzled, Sula pulls back for a moment, looking her over. ".....Did it not help you?"
[9:44 PM] Spooky Mika: "Well..I just always hid them away.."
[9:46 PM] Kwakado: "...That works too, ha ha."
[9:53 PM] Spooky Mika: "It doesn't...I feel so much better now talking to you." She holds his hand. "I remember when I first starting to fall for you..it was in a barn like this when Este was born...you acted like a new father."
[9:57 PM] Kwakado: He sits down along the stable wall, pulling her gently alongside him. "But I didn't do anything...you were the one being a mother to him."
[10:00 PM] Spooky Mika: She smiles. "You help him come into this world and was by my side when he was sick..being his father."
[10:03 PM] Kwakado: "And you were there for me, when I got sick that night, just like...Ha, That must be what Elwyn-no meant."(edited)
[10:07 PM] Spooky Mika: She looks at him tenderly. "Elwyn? Meant?"
[10:08 PM] Kwakado: "That was how he knew about us. He said that with Este-i, we looked like...a husband and wife. I thought he was mocking us, but..."
[10:13 PM] Spooky Mika: "He was always quicker to see things."
[10:14 PM] Kwakado: "I wonder if everyone saw before we did?"(edited)
[10:15 PM] Spooky Mika: "I..I think so.." She laughs.
[10:19 PM] Kwakado: He joins in with a quick, rolling chuckle, not like the floaty "Ha"s that Sula usually throws around. "We truly are strange, Vivi-e!"(edited)
[10:20 PM] Spooky Mika: "And a little blind.." She slips onto his lap
[10:24 PM] Kwakado: Sula reaches down, pulling her legs up onto him while he gets into a more comfortable sitting position. "Even now...I wonder if I will ever understand, how it is you love me..."
[10:28 PM] Spooky Mika: She looks up at him. "Because you are wonderful Sula-e..truly wonderful."
[10:31 PM] Kwakado: "Mm...maybe someday." Sula gives her a soft, gentle, calming kiss.
[10:34 PM] Spooky Mika: Ah so this is what love feels like..ah it isn't boring at all..calming and warm. "So much has changed around us since we first meet...it almost seems like a lifetime ago."
[10:36 PM] Kwakado: "We almost lost...three lifetimes, since then? Ha...But still, I feel safer with you."(edited)
[10:41 PM] Spooky Mika: "And we've changed so much..if you met yourself when you first came here with Leo..I'd bet you two wouldn't get along."(edited)
[10:46 PM] Kwakado: "He would be talking to a traitor and a Dwax. I would not blame him, ha ha ha."
[10:47 PM] Spooky Mika: "And he would very much not like me as I do remember you told me you didn't like me when we first met."
[10:48 PM] Spooky Mika: "Oh wow I had forgotten you didn't like me."
[10:49 PM] Kwakado: "What?! No, he thought you were the sweetest girl he had ever met! It made him so worried!"
[10:50 PM] Spooky Mika: "Worried? Sula didn't you think I was evil or something?"
[10:52 PM] Kwakado: Sula nods to her. "Loving an evil person...is a frightening feeling."
[10:53 PM] Spooky Mika: "But that doesn't make sense..I mean we had just met.."
[10:55 PM] Kwakado: "Sula-i trusted his Shimi-e, and Shimi-e trusted you...He did not know why, and when Leo-e--" Sula sighs. "Oh, gods..have you seen him?"
[10:56 PM] Spooky Mika: "Not in awhile? Why? Is something wrong?"
[10:59 PM] Kwakado: "I wonder. Did he get trapped outside? He is stronger than us, but...No, he will be safe. Leo-e bi Kwemo."
[11:01 PM] Spooky Mika: "Leo..he's fine..I just know it..he has to be..:
[11:04 PM] Kwakado: "Yes...this castle is big. He is probably just off with the princesses!"(edited)
[11:10 PM] Spooky Mika: She nods. "That makes sense. " Vivianna tilts her head. "Shimi is a great matchmaker. "
[11:15 PM] Kwakado: "All she did was step on my foot! The one who---" Sula blinks, realizing the couple she was really referring to. "...Y-yes, she is. Maybe she pretended you were evil, for me, ha ha."(edited)
[11:22 PM] Spooky Mika: She look at him before bursting into giggles. "Sula." His name is followed by laughs as she cuddles him.
[11:24 PM] Kwakado: Sula's brow furrows in mock distress over his nimbic eyes. "You think I am a joke?!"
[11:26 PM] Spooky Mika: She lays soft kisses on his mouth. "Mmm I do, the best joke ever told...a joke only meant for me....a..dirty joke as well."
[11:30 PM] Kwakado: "Vivi-a!" Sula holds an index finger to her lips, as if to scold her. "That is enough of your..infatuation!"
[11:32 PM] Spooky Mika: She lick his finger. "What are you talking about dear." She gives him a inocent look
[11:34 PM] Kwakado: "If you are not careful..." Sula wraps his arms tightly around her waist. "It will spread to other people!" He flattens his feet and starts to stand, picking her up as he rises.
[11:35 PM] Spooky Mika: "Oof! What are you doing Sula?"
[11:40 PM] Kwakado: Sula hoists her over his shoulder. "Do not worry, love...I know a way to cool you off..."
[11:42 PM] Spooky Mika: "Sula!" She kisses where she can reach.
[11:52 PM] Kwakado: "Nnot yet..!" He makes his way across the grounds, through the castle entrance, up to the foot of the stairs...and stops, starting to feel the fatigue of days of raiding and romance, and sets her down. "Huu...We can..walk the rest of the way, ha ha ha..."
[11:55 PM] Spooky Mika: "You are an old man." She laughs as she runs up, giving him tempting looks.
[11:56 PM] Kwakado: He runs nimbly alongside her, with a wicked grin. "And you are a little girl?"
[12:04 AM] Spooky Mika: "Mmm nope I'm very much a woman." She falls onto their bed.
[12:10 AM] Kwakado: Sula leans over her, with stormclouds over his irises. "My woman."
[12:11 AM] Spooky Mika: She let's out an involtary moan...those storm eyes always made her burn.(edited)
[12:12 AM] Spooky Mika: ==END RP==
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