Hotaru
It helps that the workers who come to her call are locals who know her as well as she knows them (if they've earned it), so she rewards and encourages them throughout as she flits through, touching elbows and bestowing radiant smiles alongside gratitude and compliments tailored with their names and other such familiarity. A subtle sort of social engineering, but it gets the job done impressively quickly and with quality results - and gets Sunjata back at her side.
The shadow of his wings is a haven she lingers in between rounds of carrying buckets though she has less need for it - though her heart is hoarfrost, she's a creature of sunlight at the end of the day.
Food is a siren song greater than any magic in her veins, especially for laborers, and Hotaru readily cracks the concrete flecks off her scaled arms and washes up to indulge in it herself. Meeting Sunjata's kiss with a smile, Hotaru flicks her eyes to the ongoing efforts and chortles at the entangled references in his question. Between building their own home and the sandcastles on the riverbank, it seems this will be her third time charm. "Sand and clay are much cleaner to work with, so it hasn't impressed me." Reaching to take a plate that's offered to her she eats leisurely while leaning against the Flood, sharing shadows and blotting out the rest of the world. "Every new project makes clear that interior design is superior. This one will barely even have any," she despairs, like the entire installation is somehow a loss based on that one criteria. (For someone as fickle as the Valkyrie, it just might be.)
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Ru finishes out directing/encouraging and then takes lunch with Sunny!
The shadow of his wings is a haven she lingers in between rounds of carrying buckets though she has less need for it - though her heart is hoarfrost, she's a creature of sunlight at the end of the day.
Food is a siren song greater than any magic in her veins, especially for laborers, and Hotaru readily cracks the concrete flecks off her scaled arms and washes up to indulge in it herself. Meeting Sunjata's kiss with a smile, Hotaru flicks her eyes to the ongoing efforts and chortles at the entangled references in his question. Between building their own home and the sandcastles on the riverbank, it seems this will be her third time charm. "Sand and clay are much cleaner to work with, so it hasn't impressed me." Reaching to take a plate that's offered to her she eats leisurely while leaning against the Flood, sharing shadows and blotting out the rest of the world. "Every new project makes clear that interior design is superior. This one will barely even have any," she despairs, like the entire installation is somehow a loss based on that one criteria. (For someone as fickle as the Valkyrie, it just might be.)
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Ru finishes out directing/encouraging and then takes lunch with Sunny!
She doesn't care about your words
or how you'll try and save her
or how you'll try and save her
