From being an Abandoned who had rarely left the Hollowed Grounds, to embracing the call of adventure, to dying and being reborn first as an Ascended and then as an Ancient, Maea has gone through quite the amount of changes in her life. One thing remains common, though, in her attempts to find out just where she belongs; she’s always had a craving for knowledge which has brought her to so many places and to meet so many people here in Caido. We can’t wait to see what else is in store for her!
Congratulations, Maea!
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Sah adjusted the bundle in his arm as he walked. The hunter had spent the morning preparing for Longnight at the market. Trading meat and skins from his recent hunt, he'd managed to barter for some finished goods. A few new blankets made of ursur fur form Halo and fabric from Torchline were the start. He also traded meat for new gloves and jackets for his pups to keep them warm. The last thing on his list were candles for when the sun vanished. He'd spent the early part of the season ensuring that his pups had enough food, but now they'd be warm too.
Turning a corner, Sah froze as a snowball hit him in the chest. Glancing over he raised a brow questioningly in the direction of the culprit.
Freya usually hated to travel. Too much of a drag to walk the full distance. Too much uncertainty where she could sleep. Too many things needed to make sure she didnt find herself in a dessert with no water or an icy wasteland without freezing. Too much stress in general. But other times, it obviousy was different. Other times she just wanted to be somewhere else entirely. The last few weeks had been like this and as such, Freya was enjoying her travels through the icy cold enviroment. She somehow felt free like this.
Obviously she needed to restock on supplies from time to time as well, and as such, she would seek the local markets where she would usually try to sell her services or just try to sell medicine or make some according to specific wishes. Other days she would just linger around teh markets, preferrably having something warm in her fingers while she watched others. Other days she was out for more, seeing how she took up about two fists of snow, compromised them in her hands and then finally, after picking a target, threw it at them, chuckling happily as it landed.
Spotting Freya and her clear amusement, Sah raised a brow. "Really?" Despite the annoyance in his tone, the smirk on his face betrayed his amusement. He glanced at his supplies and gave a slight shrug; he was done shopping. Might as well indulge himself. Placing his stuff on a nearby bench, he turned back to Freya.
"Hope you're willing to pay the price?" He reached down and made his own snowball. Sah then threw his ammo without further prompting, aiming for Freya's chest. At the same time, a snowball directed by the hunter formed behind the woman and threw itself at her back. He didn't recognize her, but if she wanted to play, he was more than willing to do so.
Freya would be watching the stranger as he gave off quite contradicting signals to her, his voice being filled with annoyance, while his face was happy. Weird and strange. Continuing to watch him as he placed his goods at a nearby bench, Freya realised that he was going to engage in her banter as well. Bursting out in laughter, Freya would turn around as she saw Sah form a snowball with his ands and gave out in a happy voice: "Oh no no no no no", shortly before the snowball hit her at the back and chest at the same time and nearly made her fall forward by surprise. The second snowball was certainly a neat trick to have. But Freya came with her own.
Catching her fall with one of her hands, she managed to grab a fistfull of the snow and formed into a rather weak-ish and small snowball, retaliating against the stranger, before making a propper one with both hands, as she was standing propperly again. Throwing this one as well, Freya already knew that this one wouldnt miss, seeing how it was guided by telekinesis, towards its ultimate target, that being sah's neck. After all, snow or coldth wasnt a problem. Having it on ones direct body however, was almost certain to induce some interesting reactions.
Sah let out a laugh as his plan worked and the woman caught herself. "I told you." He teased, gathering another snowball in his hands, just as Freya sent hers telekinetically. It hit him in the neck, but this was where Freya's plan fell apart. Sah simply smirked, and brushed the snow off his skin, having given only a minuscule flinch when it touched him. And that was mostly at having anything touch his neck in the first place.
"That won't work on me." He called and threw the snowball in his hands. As soon as it left him, his smirk durned mischievous. The snow around Sah rose, forming a total of three snowballs that floated in the air in front of him. "Ready?" Was it excessive? Very. But the Wild Thunder was known for his competitive and mischievous nature.
"Haaaaaaa!?!" Freya would give out in a surprised voice, which made sure to tell how confused she was, as she saw that the stranger not only wasnt bothered at all by the frozen water at his neck, but instead even still seemed comfortable with the slow on his skin. Watching him for a few seconds and barely managing to avoid the single snowball he had been throwing after her before she saw that he had gathered more snowballs, floating ones at that. Starig at them for a few seconds, Freya's eyes would wandered around to find some cover or anything, before she finally brought her hands up to her face to shield it and cry out to sah in a somewhat distressed voice:
"Nononono, not ready! You know that cheating, right? Thats gotta be cheating!" Continuing to shield her face from the snowballs in the sky, she prepared herself for getting hit by them, however it would be up to the stranger whether he would fight her fairly or did something else entirely.
Freya's confusion pulled a wide grin from Sah as he gave a noncommittal shrug, "I like the cold." Hardly an explanation, but there really wasn't much else to it. Even before he'd joined the Academy and gained it's boosted tolerance, he'd already had his own. Sah suspected it was an echo of his previous life or some other remnant that gave him such a tolerance for cold.
Then the woman panicked and Sah softened, letting two of his snowballs before the last lazily made its way over and gently plopped itself onto Freya's head. "Is magic really cheating?" Sah teased as he waited to see if the woman wanted to continue their battle. This was for fun after all.
His explaination, if anyone could really call it like that, was sub par at best and her reaction showed this as she gave out with a confused chuckle which carried more then just surprise: "You like the cold!? Thats like... below freezing and you dont care at all!" Asking herself against who exactly she had started the snowball fight and hpw ot would end. He had wanted a quick bit of fun and not to go home entirely drenched in water or freezing. As such, she somewhat was at the mercy of the stranger who seemingly had immediately taken control of the situation from the moment on, her snowball hat hit him.
Seeing how he then dropped 2 of the snowballs and let the last one fly over to plant itself on her head, her shoulders went up to her neck, while her hand wiped it away telekineticly with a swift motion, showing clearly how much the woman didnt like the coldth which was present in the north or the idea of getting a snowball onto her head. Only when the immediate threat was dealt with, Freya would give out as an answer: "Hell yeah it is! All its going to do is make me wet and take me from all sides at the same time and afterwards ill be left exhasuted and then i need to go home freezing and unsatisfied!" Picking up another snowball from the ground, Freya would suddenly realise what she actually had said and would stutter out: "I-... my clothes i mean of course ill be cold but my clothes will be wet, y-you know...?", before throwing the snowball at her enemy once more.
02-08-2023, 03:27 PM (This post was last modified: 02-08-2023, 03:28 PM by Sah.)
Sah
What is knowledge without wisdom?
Sah shrugged, grinning as the woman grew more and more confused at his cold tolerance, "Nope." He'd never seen someone react in the same manner. Granted, most in Halo were used to the cold to some degree, even those without magic or shifts to warm them. "I mean... you did challenge a Halovian to a snowball fight."As if that answered her internal questions.
The older Abandoned noted the telekinesis but made no comment, instead focused on the stranger's words. He was about to reassure her that he wouldn't have left her frozen in the street and instead had been planning to make sure she got some warm clothes and a warm drink before sending her on her way, but she kept talking. And by that, he meant talking herself into a slight panic over her word choice.
Brow raised and a smirk twitching at his lips, Sah finally broke into a snicker, even if his ears were a little red from her words. "It's ok. I know what you meant." In his distraction, the snowball hit him in the shoulder but he simply grinned. "And I'd never leave someone cold and wet in the snow."
His voice grew a tad serious. "It's too dangerous. Unless you have some kind of other means of staying warm, it's a one-way track to hypothermia." No one in Halo would simply let that happen. Not unless the individual was an actual enemy. Snowball fight enemies didn't fall under that.
Nodding toward a tavern Sah continued, "How about we get you inside for a change of clothes and a warm meal?"
Seeing how she scored another point and hit Sah in the shoulder, part of her wanted to smile but the shame which made her face grow bright red now simply was too much and instead, she would stare at him, somewhat frozen as she waited for an answer. Luckily he didnt take her words for full and knew what she had been talking about. As such, she was even somewhat happy when he proposed that they interrupted their ame and went somewhere better, where she would be able to warm up and get her mind to a place somewhere else.
Nodding swiftly, she would answer him, almost in a rush: "S-sure! That sounds good. You uhm... you would have lost anyways...!", not eager to continue the match between them as it had played out so far. After all, she would have lost big time, if it did, even if her teasing told another story. "Would you mind to uhm... lead the way?"
02-18-2023, 04:32 PM (This post was last modified: 02-18-2023, 04:32 PM by Sah.)
Sah
What is knowledge without wisdom?
Sah snickered but gestured for her to follow him. "Come on." He led her to a small tailor, who's eyes widened in horror upon seeing the cold and shivering woman. Leaping into action, Freya was soon decked out in fresh, and warmer, fur-lined clothing. As Freya changed, Sah hashed out the trade with the tailor, promising a fresh luxere fur in the morning. In a place like Halo, food and fur were prized. As was anything else that aided in arctic survival.
Once Freya was set, Sah led her to a tavern and gestured for her to sit. "I'll go grab our food. It's more of a 'what they made today' thing then an actual menu. Do you want a drink or tea?" The food was always good her, homemade and filling. No one with common survival sense would dare complain. A hot meal was a hot meal.
