The Gig, Sunday

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

The regular shifts at the Gig had also been one of those things Firekeeper had missed during her time away. She and Blind Seer arrived with apples for each of the horses, and spent some time just chatting with them before moving out to the paddock like usual.

Firekeeper settled against the fence in her regular spot as she watched the horses. The Gig is open!

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[bitchprince]

It had been a week, and that was more than too much time Arthur had spent not checking up on Firekeeper. Lady Blysse. Whichever you chose to use.

So come the afternoon, he found himself at the Gig, studying the horses from the opposite end of the paddock, before putting in the effort to greet her with a light nod of his head.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

She might bristle a bit at the notion of needing to be checked up on, but it was a human quirk she'd come to know pretty well.

"Arthur, hello," she greeted with a nod, wandering over.

[bitchprince]

And he wasn't just the average human, either. Give a decent man a title, and it was +2 to all worrywarting.

At least Arthur was going to pretend like that wasn't what he was doing. "Firekeeper," he greeted, lightly. "Having a good time with the horses?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

The user of her wolf-given name got a pleased little smile out of her. "Yes," she informed him. "I miss them some, when I were gone."

[bitchprince]

"They look healthy enough," he said, surreptitiously casting a look at her to take in her bearing, cross-reference it, and see if she had any obvious injuries or disabilities left. "I was thinking about requesting some to send down to a friend of mine."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Just the claw-marks on her arms from some of Blind Seer's more violent fever dreams, which had faded from their initial angry red by now and besides, weren't that much different than what she'd earn wrestling him normally. "Send to who?" she asked.

[bitchprince]

"Reno," Arthur offered, settling once he'd made sure she was entirely all right. "He's rebuilding, and he can use any help he can get." Pause. "And not just because he's Reno."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"I not know him well, outside Reserve," Firekeeper admitted. "But Dani probably know where to get horses to send. These is mostly just riding kind." She didn't know much about rebuilding, but she knew a little of horses (mostly Derian's doing) and that there were breeds better suited to physical labor.

[bitchprince]

"I'm aware of that," Arthur said, lightly. "I still haven't spoken to her. I suppose I should." He pushed away from the fence. "Everything else has been treating you well?"

Okay, now the hovering might have become slightly more apparent.

[weetuskenraider]

The first time Tahiri decided to poke her head out of her room since Thursday night, it was today, and the trip took her straight down to the Gig, right out to the paddock and the spot she knew Firekeeper would be.

"Hey," she said, much more subdued than normal as she sat down in the grass.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Firekeeper replied, noting the lack of the usual energy in her friend's greeting. "You well?"

[weetuskenraider]

"It's been --" Tahiri brought one hand up to apparently smooth a lock of hair back, but gave Firekeeper a pointed look and tapped one fingertip against her temple. "Quiet the last couple of days at least."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"And before then?" she gave Tahiri a sharp look, because quiet should have been a cause for a good mood, right?

[weetuskenraider]

"Before then, one very loud explosion," Tahiri answered, flinching a little at the look.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"No good," Firekeeper shook her head. "I had thought- you not mention this trouble for a long time. I thinked maybe it- not solved, but less of one," she was disappointed, and concerned, to have her assumption proven wrong.

[weetuskenraider]

"More the opposite," Tahiri answered, just as sorry to let Firekeeper down that way. She reached out toward Blind Seer, half wondering if he'd think she was more dangerous now. "Anyway. I think it's all right for now. I hope. How are you two?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Well that was reassuring. Only in a way that completely wasn't. But Tahiri clearly wanted the subject to change, so she let it go. "Better," she said. "Blind Seer's coat fill out some," she added.

Blind Seer merely tilted his head in the direction of Tahiri's hand. If he thought she was more dangerous now, he wasn't showing it.

[thatsamilkshake]

Coming back out here was a little different now, Francine had to admit, but she wasn't about to let that chase her away from the horses, or from her friends.If anything, really, she was more determined now to prove that she could deal with strangeness without always being the one they had to protect.

Though she was never going riding again without a backpack stuffed full of just-in-case-we-end-up-in-a-medieval-world supplies, that was for sure. "Firekeeper!" she called, waving and smiling.

[SP from Helllll, I know, I know. We will survive.]

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

She hadn't seen much of Francine since class on Wednesday, so the visit was definitely welcome.

"Francine, hello! Come sit?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Sitting is good. I like sitting." She found herself a place beside Firekeeper, and waved to Blind Seer. "I went flying on Friday, though!"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Flying?" Firekeeper frowned. "In plane? Or ship?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"With wings!" Francine was far, far too giddy about that, yes. "Karla took me."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Well, now she was just gonna attempt to peer at Francine's back to look for wings. Which weren't there. *mods your lack of wings mwahaha*

"I would notice if you had wings," Firekeeper said with a slight frown.

[thatsamilkshake]

"This time they weren't real." Only in Fandom, people. "They strapped on, and they kinda of worked with magic."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Ah," Firekeeper nodded. "And this were... fun?"