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Melita Najya
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#1
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Ever a busy bee, pardon the pun, the youth sprung along the streets and market square of Haulani, intending to snag at the perfect jar or jug for an impending mission. She’d already scoured the cabinets at home, and either they weren’t big enough, sturdy enough, or not down to the exact specifications she required. Especially since it would need to be resistant to her antics – which tended to be exuberant, wild, and chaotic at the best of times.

Fangorn trailed behind at her heels, and together they meandered, noses down, peering and perusing through the bazaar. More than once a few merchants, either tired of her previous antics (they had no way of knowing she and Azure had been the ones firing off the banner bombs), shooed her off, to which she laughed and bounded away. Rounding along another corner, already having snagged a favored pastry, her mouth was full when she spotted a familiar face. “Hey Raza!” was a shout above the calamity and chaos, and a wave with food adjoining.
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MELITA
Raza Ekambe
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#2
don't you know we're outlaws
givin' the finger to death itself
Words are flyin’ back an’ forth, hot n’ heavy and there are even some fingers pointed in faces before the stall owner slams his palm down on the counter and glares at Raza with thunderous, bushy eyebrows. Finally, he gives in, shakes his head, and reaches down under the counter to hand her somethin’. She tucks it away and when the proprietress turns from the exchange, she definitely looks like the cat that got the cream, the canary, and maybe a nice hunk ‘a tuna too.

Melita’s voice carries across the way an’ fueled by her recent victory, she’s in high spirits. Nothin’ like a good ol’ fashioned verbal spar t’get the blood flowin’ in the morning. She waves back, "Hey Mel!" and then starts to cross down to the redhead, shovin’ an elbow into a random ribcage just to get a slow, unobservant Halovian to move.
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#3
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Biting and swallowing down another portion of the pastry, she couldn’t help but notice the obvious glint of glee along Raza’s features. Even if she hadn’t seen the woman in some time, the Cheshire grin was enough to ponder over. “Must’ve had a good haul,” pinpointed by her nosey nature and the arch of her brow, the layers of curiosity stoked and refined.

Ensuring Fangorn was still by her ankles and not swept up by the crowd (he gave a hearty shake of his vines towards the bar owner), she finished up the last fledgling edges of the croissant, before dusting off her hands. “What have you been up to lately?” Hopefully not just tending to the Hanged Man – there were too many other adventures, and maybe some wearisome things on the horizon, to be had.
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#4
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Raza’ll take the opportunity to gloat now and then. “Aye,” she says, keepin’ that grin on her face. “I been chasin’ Chaz fer weeks now, slippery fucker always fuckin’ shifts and flies away cause he don’t wanna pay fer services. Finally caught ‘im in front’a others and went t’town on his ass. Threatened to cut ‘im off ‘a Halovian goods an’ the Halenani… he paid.”

And that’s why y’don’t fuck with Jack or Raza or any ‘a the old guard smugglers. They’ll cut yer habits and livelihood off at the knees an’ barely break a sweat. She waves at Fangorn and shakes off some of the adrenaline of the win. “Other ‘n that, y’know. Keepin’ Torchline’s anxiety wrapped up in my cups. Turns out the threat a’ war is good for business.” Will actual war be? Who knows.

“You?” she turns her rum-hued gaze on the younger redhead, curious what the young adventurer’s also been up to since their last foray on the flying Ark.
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#5
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She smirked for Raza’s achievements, not even remotely surprised that she’d garnered her mission. “Good for you! Too bad you didn’t get to gut him though.” As if that was perhaps the end all, be all, in fun and threats. Or maybe she had, and Melita would be able to enjoy the full and violent story.

The honeybee shrugged her shoulders at the mentions of war – mostly because it was all anyone talked about it lately and gods was she already tired of it of drowning in the weight of the incoming blows. “Working on getting a dragon,” came uttered on a wide, Cheshire grin; a warning, probably, for the other inhabitants of Torchline. “Did you hear about the seasonal deity in the desert? I’d wondered if anyone had gone over yet.” The only time she’d been in the desert recently had be in assisting with getting rid of the bone monster for the merchant – with mixed results.
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#6
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A dragon? Color Raza impressed. While the proprietress often feels like Melita can get ahead of herself, she’s never doubted the redhead’s ferocity. And, well, Fangorn is her signature companion, but she can imagine he isn’t terribly useful. Or bright?

No offense, of course, to the little gourd, though she does give the bouncin’ orange ball a knowin’ second glance as if to say, not gonna be an only child much longer, huh? “What made ya want a dragon?” she asks as the two of ‘em navigate their way through the market crowd, purely curious. “And no, I been too wrapped up in the Hanged Man an’ Fingers stuff… what’s a deity doin’ out in that godsforsaken place?” Crinkling her nose, the Torcher clearly has opinions on Hak Etme.

But then Raza always has opinions ‘bout everythin’.
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#7
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The question didn’t bother her, merely contorted and pervaded over the inspiration. Fangorn waved his arms around again, either excited about the prospects of a sibling (?), or content with their current travels. “My mother had one,” she noted, tone softening a little in memory; tended to by the dragon just as much as she was by her family.

She bent around a corner of the market, eyes momentarily lost on a few pretty trinkets (and then the smells of nearby bread), before rounding back to Raza. “Weird, right?” But Caido was Caido – sometimes these things seemed so bizarre that it became more par for the course than anything else. “Heard it was trying to grow plants out there.” And then, apparently, became stuck in its midst instead. The honeybee shrugged her shoulders once more, but eternally willing to wander out to the proportions anyway. “Have you been before?”
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#8
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Now that truly is a confusin’ statement, causin’ Raza to suddenly give Melita a little suspicious side-eye as she swerves her upper body away for a hot second. “But you’re ain’t from here. Are you tellin’ me you had dragons in your home world too?”

It’s somethin’ the proprietress has genuinely never considered before; in one fell swoop the red-head has kind of blown Raza’s mind and made a quiet chink in the self-made barrier between herself and the Outlanders. The smell of Polonia’s freshly baked bread is a momentary distraction for her too, and she follows her nose, asking Melita to stay with her a bit longer with a jerk ‘a her head. “More dumb ‘n weird, I think. Shouldn’t the Flowerbirth god know a thing’r two about where plants can and can’t grow?” She cocks a little brow, as if to imply, Men! and then lets it die.

“Nah, I don’t know how I’d get there. No wings, or nothin’, and no portals nearby there. ‘N I can’t really the bar for that kind’a trek. You gonna go?”
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#9
When you see something out of the corner of your eye, turn to look, and see nothing at all, what should you conclude? That you were having a hallucination? Or that your peripheral vision is perhaps not to be trusted. Ask yourself, are you tired? Drunk? Under the influence of something? Is the lighting good? Are there lots of moving shadows about? Are there reasons you have to think that your mind is playing tricks on you?

Because...well, because it would be absurd to think that out of the corner of your eye you had just seen a house. A house with a figure slamming its hands against one of the upper windows with enough force to shatter it, and then...

Well, then you looked and it was gone.

Nah, you're probably just tired.
Melita Najya
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#10
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“We did.” Nodding emphatically, even while being lured and distracted by the prospect of fresh bread, her eyes darted back to Raza. “I was born in a place called the Dragon’s Throat.” A wide grin encompassed her features, and then she was deterred again, as if this proclamation hadn’t up-ended Raza’s world views.

As for the aspects of the deity itself, she shrugged her shoulders, following down the lane of aromas and scents. “I don’t know. It’s a nice sentiment, even if a little futile.” And who hadn’t experienced that lately? Sometimes all their actions did was unfurl more consequences. “Hopefully it’ll get out of there and go back to where it needs to be anyway.” Surely, with so many of them wandering into its traces and folds.

Raza not even wanting to go sounded very Raza-like, and the honeybee permitted a small smile to linger there just on the hints of amusement. “That makes sense,” because it wasn’t often the owner would leave her bar. Even at those notions though, the youth was still bold and audacious enough to not give a shit – much like when she’d persisted and pursued the bone monster. “I’ll go.”

The bizarre circumstances that followed though gave her pause, wondering, very quietly, if something was going on in the market.
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MELITA
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#11
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Her only reference for where dragons live, really, is the Draig. And even that’s all from book-readin. “You mean like the Draig?” Raza questions again, tryin’ to pin down a little more about Melita. Whether or not she chooses to share more is her prerogative - but the topic has genuinely piqued the Torcher’s curiosity.

She finds the sweet, yeasty, heady aroma of bred strongest outside Polonia’s kitchen, and a dark-skinned, jolly woman pulling a couple of piping hot loaves out of her oven. “Gods, those smell divine,” Raza fairly sings with a flashing smile, bent on flattering the baker for a little discount on her wares, if at all possible. “A loaf for a pint?” she offers, before turning back to Melita.

“Aye, everything in its place, even deities.” Chuckling to herself, Raza nods, knowing that the Outlander’s wanderlust far exceeds her own. “Tell me what it’s like when you get back, then?”

Second-hand is close enough for her.
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#12
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From what she knew and understood about the Draig, it was nestled along Halo’s mountain range – and decidedly not like her childhood home. “No. All desert. We had some massive rocks,” and she raised her arms upward, as if that would indicate the sheer scale and monolithic demeanor of the world. “And an oasis, and our sand was red. Ooh, and a magical bridge!”

Content with the imagery, she hummed another tune of her mother’s, then lingered, stared, at the bread. Had there been a case or window, the youth would’ve been much like a juvenile, with her nose stuck against the glass; instead, she managed a hopeful, pleading look on her face towards the baker and Raza’s way with deals. “Sure.” And by then, she’d likely have multitudes of stories to share about other nuances and journeys.
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Raza Ekambe
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#13
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Unable to help herself at Melita’s exuberance and clear love for her homeland, Raza flashes a toothy grin. “Ah, so that’s why yer in Torchline now. More like the desert here’n the other parts, yeah?” There’s still sand, though it ain’t red. Rocks an’ cliffs at Aumakua, a magical lighthouse instead’a a bridge. She can draw enough parallels, and the understandin’ warms a little bit more’a her heart.

Luckily for them, Polonia has a hankerin’ for a pint later ‘n the day ‘n agrees, offerin’ up a still-warm loaf the size’a Raza’s head ‘n hair. She tears off a chunk and offers it t’Melita. “I’ll hold ya to it then. Come by some time, buy yer next glass with stories.”
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#14
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“Yeah,” she smiled – satisfied with the notions. And while there were notable differences, some of it was sheer love of the sea, of the wind, of the surf, and of the sand; keystones to her wild, ambitious heart. The bread was another lure, and she immediately snagged at the chunk, grateful and obliging all at once. “Thank you.” And a promise embedded in there too, as she hummed happy notes around the delicious morsels. “Of course. And maybe I’ll track down that weird house thing too.” Presuming Raza had seen it, after all; the images bizarre and clear as day in the corner of the youth’s mind.

And from there, they could trade other anecdotes and stories – a wonderful afternoon with the brethren of Torchline. Content, and familiar.

{FIN <3}
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