Family Circle log, 11/25

[leticia]

Leti says "Last time we played, you all were having a nice civilized dinner with Nai Kan, the Fire-Aspected Dragon-blooded, and Rhan, the young man who is his servant. Rhan, one should note, definitely did not eat like he was starving, and would have been quite quiet."

Leti says "Anyone want to do anything special during or after dinner?"

Yasutora [to Leti]: Probably not much for me; pray over Shai a bit, I think, and little else before bed.

Green Cove [to Leti]: Is there time and light for a brief lesson on fly-fishing?

Yoru will take a watch of Shai too if allowed, other than that drink and be sleepy.

Leti says "Everyone going to let Yasutora near Shai after his comments about purifying her? ;p"

Yasutora [to Leti]: Yoru is watching me! *nods*

Yoru will likely be watching Yasu more than Shai.

Yasutora is unloved. ;_;

Leti says "I think it's mostly dark by the time dinner's over."

Green Cove will just have to teach people to fish another day, then.

Allen will make conversation with Rhan if possible and if not, just be smiley and polite during dinner, and also feed his cat at the table.

Leti ponders. Ten River Wind was NOT invited to dinner, I think.

Yasutora [to Leti]: In -that- case, before praying for Shai, Yasutora will bring his dinner down and have a lively conversation about comparative combat style and _not mention virtue or ethics at all_.

Yasutora [to Leti]: Innocent conversation of interest, nothing more.

Leti [to Yasutora]: Has Ten River Wind more or less been told to stay in your cabin because of Nai Kan?

Leti says "All right. Shai, as expected, is unchanged. Like the spiderwebs of her anima, the dark Essence (visible only to Allen) of the taint-disease continue to cling to her skin, enmeshed with her own Essence. Rhan doesn't say very much, and glances at Nai Kan frequently before saying something, though most of that seems shyness with the Dragon-blooded being the only person at the table he knows."

Yasutora [to Leti]: ... >_< Okay, apparently he has been requested to stay in the cabin, which means that Yasutora will have been feeling guilty and therefore only engaging TRW in debate/catcheism twice a day, rather than four.

Leti [to Yasutora]: Here I thought he was exempted because of his owies. :p

Yasutora [to Leti]: Oh-- I thought he'd recovered already. If not, then, yes.

Leti [to Yasutora]: It's only been 24 hours; he took three levels of lethal, and didn't get any magic healing, just bandaging. He won't be COMPLETELY healed for about a half a week, of which one day is gone. :p Unlike some people, that actually took him into wound penalties.

Yasutora [to Leti]: After I bring him his food and talk to him-- assuming that goes well-- I'll wander off to find Green Cove to find out about that magical healing thingie.

Leti notes that TRW is probably not going to be too enthusiastic about spending a day on bed rest (though if he's confined to the cabin anyhow, it's not much of a difference) with /Green Cove/ of all people hovering over him. :p

Leti is ready to fastforward to morning, though?

Yasutora [to Leti]: Well-- wait on fastforward. When Yasutora asks him if he wants Green Cove's magical healing, what will his response be?

Yoru is ready. And can I have Green Cove hovering over me in bed?

Leti [to Yasutora]: He'll decline the opportunity. :p

Green Cove [to Yoru]: Injure yourself, and sure!

Allen smacks Yoru with a rolled-up newspaper.

Leti [to Yasutora]: Without admitting that it's because he's afraid of her, which it is. :p

Yoru chuckles.

Yasutora [to Leti]: Alas! *nods* FF to tomorrow.

<<OOC>> Leti says "Okay... Morning comes. Rhan ventures on to the deck today, the second day of the voyage, a lot more than he did the day before. If people want to try to teach him how to fish, this would be a good time... also, the DB seems to be looking for Yoru and possibly Yasutora."

Yasutora [to Leti]: I'll have checked up on TRW again, and then headed out onto the deck for (quiet, non-Shiny) morning prayers.

<<OOC>> Yoru can likely be found by a railing. He'll be going easy on the booze today.

Green Cove has lures. Has acquired fishing line. Poles are easy to make. She is ready to teach people to fish, and judging by the way she holds those fishing poles, sufficiently determined to do so that if the appropriate people don't show up she just might start grabbing random sailors and dragging them to the back of the ship to show someone how this works.

<<OOC>> Yoru says "Oooo, prayers to the Unconquered Sun out in the open with a DB on the boat. This could be interesting."

Yoru lets himself be drafted into Green Cove's fishing class with only a smirk of protest.

<<OOC>> Yasutora is not being ostentatious about it!

Allen will wander onto the deck bright and early, cat sleeping on his shoulder, and one of the times Rhan appears on deck attempt to corral him into learning how to fish - before Green Cove has to resort to kidnapping sailors.

Leti [to Allen]: There's Rhan, just come on deck. He's sitting in the lee of the captain's cabin, staying out of the way of the sailors, and everyone else.

Allen wanders over to the captain's cabin, then, and squats down next to Rhan with a cheerful smile. "Good morning," he offers, shifting a now-grumbling Tim Campi into his arms.

"So, Green Cove, do you think we'll catch many fish with the boat moving so fast down the river?" asks Yoru as he is trying to figure out what to do with the pretty lure.

<<OOC>> Allen says "You wear it, Yoru."

<<OOC>> Allen says "Through the lip is traditional."

Nai Kan approaches where Yasutora sits, nodding and leaning against the rail nearby. "I hope you don't mind if I interrupt your meditation," he says. There's a certain surety to him - coming from being a Dragon-blooded, most likely - that either Yasutora won't mind or he won't protest, at any rate.

Yasutora finishes a few soft words under his breath and rises, bowing in greetings. "Good morning, Nai Kan," the tall boy replies. "How does the day find you?"

Green Cove tilts a hand in the air, studying the froth of the ship's wake. "On the ocean, plenty of sharks, and other fish. Come to eat the garbage tossed behind. I don't know the rivers as well. We might."

The boy peers up at Allen, and ventures a shy "Good morning. Am I in the way?"

Allen blinks, and shakes his head. "Not at all!" he says with a faint laugh. "Actually, my friend Green Cove was going to teach me how to fish today, and I was wondering if you'd like to learn too. Or just join in the fun, if you already know how."

Nai Kan inclines his head politely in response to Yasutora's bow. "I never sleep well on ships," he says, frankly. "But that's a minor inconvenience for the speed." He looks thoughtfully at Yasutora, as if trying to determine something. "Are all of you traveling together, then? That were at dinner last night?"

Yasutora considers Nai Kan for a moment. "Indeed, we are friends and companions," he says at last, searching Nai Kan's face for reasoning into the query.

Rhan looks interested, looking in Green Cove's direction. "Is that her name? She's really pretty," he says.

<<OOC>> Green Cove smugs. Still the prettiest! Anime green hair and all.

<<OOC>> Yasutora says "Prettiest princess of them all."

Yoru hrms softly and shrugs. Looking to Green Cove he asks, "Okay, what do I do with this thing? It's pretty alright. Will that help attract the fish or something?"

Yoru is referring to the lure of course.

Green Cove holds up a lure in front of Yoru. "Fish are stupid," she says. "They'll bite anything they believe might be food, and they believe anything they don't recognize as another fish, or a plant, is food. You put the lure on the hook, as so. Then you drop the line in the water, and let it trail along like a very small fish moving through the river in our path. Wait for a larger fish to attempt to eat it." She thinks about this for a moment. "Then you pull the fish in. That's easier to show than explain, for the bigger fish."

Yoru nods and tries it out for himself, casting the line into the river. Of course he does just sort of take the line in one hand and toss it into the river where it flops ungracefully. "And now we just wait?"

Allen nods. "It's all I can really remember of her name, actually," he confesses. "Three Pearl is involved in there somewhere . . . but Green Cove seems to fit her so well, I can't remember the entire thing." He tilts his head. "She is very beautiful. It's a privilege to be her friend."

Green Cove flicks her lure and hook expertly into the river with a swooping cast of her pole that sends the lure whipping about overhead, though it manages to not catch in the hair of anyone nearby. "Like that," she says. "And, yes, now we just wait. I prefer spear fishing. But you can't do that from a moving boat. I could do it from the water, but it would be hard to show anyone else how. Other people sink."

Leti should ask GC for a survival roll re fishing, but not yet. :p

The Dragon-blooded nods. "Most of you seem very young," he says thoughtfully. "Including you, but yet you seem to be the leader?" It's definitely said as a question.

Yoru chuckles softly. "Yes, we do tend to do that and our Fireblooded friend might not take kindly to such displays either."

Green Cove sniffs indignantly. "If he objects to me walking on water," she says, "he can come join me out there and address his complaints to me in person." She allows, after a moment, "But I see no reason to make trouble for Shai's ship, at this point."

Yasutora 's face flickers briefly and he considers this. "While we are young in some ways, our skill has been honed by much strife. It is not a quiet Age," the young Zenith says solemnly. "I would count none of us the leader, save Captain Shai in matters of her ship, though perhaps I," and here he looks embarrassed, "Am sometimes rather forthright and forceful in my views."

The boy nods and starts to scramble up to his feet. "Sure, I don't mind a fishing lesson." He looks a little sheepish.

Yoru chuckles again. "I agree with you there and I think if I could do it quietly, and without harm to the ship, I would act to rid ourselves of his annoying presence. Ah well." He jerks his rod a bit to watch the fishing line dance in the water behind the ship.

"Life is full of inconveniences," Green Cove says philosophically. "Some of them people. It's one reason to enjoy travel. Frequently, inconveniences may be so left behind."

"Great," Allen says with a large smile, and stands. "She's got the poles and everything, she's just waiting for her students." And if Rhan is amenable he will lead the kid over to Green Cove and Yoru.

"Tell me about it. I've tried leaving a few of my inconveniences behind," comments Yoru. "But it is hard to leave the ones in your head..." He trails off and looks towards Allen and Rhan when they approach, nodding at them.

"Ah, so our incapacitated captain is part of the group?" Nai Kan asks. "She struck me as a responsible party before this." He shakes his head slightly. "Do you have any idea what could have caused it? She didn't seem at all unwell before we left Nexus."

Rhan is so led; he gives Green Cove a slight, shy smile, but stays on the far side of Allen from Yoru.

Yasutora [to Leti]: Can I use Presence to project emotions of sincerity when I lie my ass off at him?

Green Cove ties her pole in position to the railing, then turns to Allen and Rhan, nodding briefly to the former. "These are yours," she says, holding out a pole to each of them (and promptly letting go once the pole is close enough, whether or not they've bothered to hold onto it). She then pulls open her cloak to examine the line of lures attached there. After a few looks back and forth between lures and the two new students, she presents Allen with a curiously twisted bit of wire and polished shell, golden-brown. "This lure is for you." Then to Rhan, she offers a lure of sharp, straight lines, nearly a hook itself, and shiny smoked glass so dark it nearly looks like obsidian. "And this one for you."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Presence + Manip, sure. :p"

<<OOC>> Yasutora ;_;

Yasutora [to Leti]: No chance I can channel Compassion here, is there? I'm -trying- not to have to start a fight with him again.

Leti [to Yasutora]: I'm not going to buy that at this point. :p

Leti [to Yasutora]: If you were trying to keep him from finding out that his best friend died horribly, you could channel compassion into a lie. :p

Yasutora [to Leti]: I'm guessing Conviction won't work here either.

Leti [to Yasutora]: =P

Yasutora says "Oh well, I can still buy an autosuccess."

Yasutora [to Leti]: Stunting.

Rhan admires the lure. "This is really pretty," he says. "Thanks."

Green Cove smiles slightly. "If we ever meet at a place that isn't moving, I can teach you to fish with a spear, and make you prettier than that in a proper spear handle tassle. But the lure will do for river fish from a boat. Now." She unbinds her pole from the railing. "Attach the lure by the hook, and I'll show you how to cast properly."

Yasutora tries very hard to seem merely distressed and worried for his friend, with some speculation while trying not to make an outright lie, "I am afraid, Nai Kan, that we are unable to discern the root cause of the affliction upon our good friend. It is my suspicion that some of the more distressing events of Nexus may have had something to do with it, but as we were out getting ice treats, I have no idea." He lets his true worry and near-truths cover over his rather large inexperience with lying.

Yasutora [to Leti]: And going to be buying the auto-success with Willpower regardless of stunt. :P

<<OOC>> Yoru says "Not a bad lie, Yasutora."

<<OOC>> Allen says "Ice treats, thus admitting we were near the tombs, thus~"

<<DICE>> Yasutora rolls 7 dice: <1 3 4 7 9 10 10> for 6 successes.

<<OOC>> Yasutora says "... Seven net successes."

<<OOC>> Yasutora says "Clearly, Shai's Eclipse spirit is helping me keeping her boat from lighting on fire. *nods*"

<<OOC>> Green Cove says "You're one convincing prevaricator."

<<OOC>> Yasutora says "not usually! But just this once. o.o"

Allen fumbles his rod and cat for a moment before finally giving up and setting Tim Campi down, and taking the lure from Green Cove, and following her directions, grinning at her exchange of words with Rhan.

Green Cove flicks out another neat cast. "Be careful when the hook's behind you," she says. "If you let it hit someone else, people might not take it well." She adds, thoughtfully, "I knew a man who lost an eye that way. He had a very pretty replacement made, from metal and glass and a good aquamarine. He used to take it out and let us hold it, and do tricks with it."

Yoru smiles warmly at Rhan but doesn't invite him closer. Yoru is used to people avoiding him.

"I don't know how to use a spear," Rhan says, sheepishly, as he carefully knots the lure on to the line.

"It's more difficult than pole fishing," Green Cove says. "Here, you only wait for the fish to bite, and then pull them in. With a spear, you have to watch for the fish, standing very quiet and still, and stab them before they catch sight of your shadow and dart away. But if you find a good spot, it can be much faster."

The Dragon-blooded blinks. "Events? The ...most unusual light show the night before we sailed? If you have reason to suspect some kind of influence from that..." he peers at Yasutora curiously, "I'd recommend the best thing for your friend might be turn around to Nexus and have the monks in the Immaculate mission look at her."

Yasutora watches Nai Kan and listens to his response. "We are bringing her home," he says softly. "There will be help for her there." His face settles into a granite mask and he stares directly into the Fire-Blood's eyes.

Yoru listens in as Green Cove explains the mysteries of fishing to the young boy. Too bad he isn't over with Yasutora to help him out with Nai Kan. Oh well.

The boy listens and nods - and doesn't cast like Green Cove shows him. He casts a lot like any rank amateur who's thrown a hook in the water a few times to kill an afternoon.

"Some people," Green Cove says, "put great stock in how the line hits the water." She demonstrates a fancy move overhead, dropping her hook down right near Yoru's in the end. "And in the casting. However, in my experience, what matters is that the lure is in the water near the fish, and that no one loses an eye in the process. So long as you can place the hook where you want it, the rest is preference and style."

Nai Kan's eyes flick across the ship to the door of the captain's cabin. "Home? I thought this was a ship out of the West. You are from Great Forks?" he asks. "Well, I suppose there are those known for medicine there... but..."

Nai Kan shrugs. "I would put ...slightly... more faith in the Immaculate monks, myself."

Yasutora shakes his head quietly but otherwise keeps his gaze fixed directly at Nai Kan, waiting for the flickering to cease. "Our Princess there comes of a long line of Healers, Scion of Hesiesh," he replies. "Healing will be made for the Captain, -away- from the fist of the Realm."

Allen drops his line in the water alongside the others, peering down at where they enter the water curiously, as though he hopes to see a fish swimming up to them.

"This," Green Cove says, "as Yoru put it, is the part where you wait."

Yoru says "So what do you do while you wait for the fish to bite?"

Green Cove thinks back to her youth. "Usually the very young and the very old fish this way," she says. "The young would play games that only required words, or tie the poles up and go running about to play, though they weren't supposed to. The old would drink, mostly, and gossip. Or fall asleep holding the pole, and wake if a fish tugged."

"Tell stories about the fish you caught last time!" says Rhan; he knows this bit. "Or that you say you did."

Nai Kan looks over at Green Cove. "She looks definitely Western too," he says dryly. "That's not Haltan green."

Yoru hrms softly. "I see. Well while I wouldn't mind having a drink I think I'll pass for the moment." And since there is nothing else to do his eyes wander and find Yasutora and Nai Kan having a little discussion. He nudges Allen and points that away.

<<OOC>> Green Cove says "But...we're talking about fish! You want us to keep the DB from discovering our terrible secret when there's fish to be talked about?"

Green Cove nods to Rhan. "I caught a talking fish, once," she said. "Not here, but out on the ocean. I'm not sure if the rivers have talking fish."

Rhan blinks at Green Cove - a common reaction. "Umm. How big was it?"

Green Cove holds up an arm. "From about here"--she touches her wrist--"to here." Her elbow. "You would think that a talking fish would have very impressive colors, but it was actually rather ordinary in appearance. The sort of gray-brown the fish that hide among shallow rocks look."

Rhan says, "Did you let it go?"

Green Cove flicks her lure over a bit. "I did. It promised me a wish if I would let it go, but I didn't think it likely that it was telling the truth. Any fish that can actually grant real wishes wouldn't be caught by a hook to begin with."

Yasutora nods gravely to Nai Kan. "It is distressing sometimes how far families can come from their ancestral homes. This one was the purpose of our voyage in the first place; now, it takes on extra import."

Allen blinks at Yoru and glances over at the Dragonblooded and the Zenith, and manages to restrain an audible sigh. He props his pole against the rail, and stretches. "I'll return shortly, I need something to eat while I wait," he says, before ambling off towards his younger brother and the DB.

Yoru nods and returns to listening to Green Cove and Rhan, though half his attention is on Yasutora to see if he'll need to wander over as well.

<<OOC>> Yasutora says "... say. Does Nai Kan look Realmy, Outcaste, or Lookshaian?"

<<OOC>> Leti says "Beyond the suspiciously reddish hair and skin?"

<<OOC>> Leti says "He definitely does not bear the stamp of the Realm's Dynast class, but then, his name doesn't bear that stamp, either. He has skin that was probably moderately fair before his Aspect markings grew prominent, and rather common facial features; the western edge of the Scavenger Lands, Realm peasants, possibly Lookshy's citizenry - though they tend to be insular enough that it seems unlikely. Also, he talked about 'their' tactics regarding Lookshy, so he's probably not from there. Unless he does not consider himself part of it. He has made a comment about having left the military and good riddance, so."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Of course, there are two major military forces using DBs, and ANY military force would be glad of Exalts, generally. :p"

Rhan wiggles his pole a little as he stands at the rail. "I've never tried to fish from a boat before," he says. "Isn't it supposed to work better in still water and here the boat's gone and churned it all up?"

Green Cove nods. "This limits the type of fish we can catch. The ones we'll get are the kind that follow boats for garbage and scraps that get tossed over the side. It concentrates those, and drives away the rest."

Nai Kan glances over at Green Cove again and nods thoughtfully. "I see." He shakes his head briefly. "She's the one the tiger belongs to, isn't she?"

Yasutora smiles slowly, getting onto significantly less shaky ground. "Or who belongs to the tiger," he agrees, nodding. "It is sometimes hard to tell, with cats of any size."

The Dragon-blooded leans against the railing and looks out over the water. "You are a very unusual group," he comments. "Western, Southern, Eastern, apparently. Child-warriors, a sea-captain taking to the rivers, a tiger. And you, my friend, look far younger than anyone your height has reason to be."

Nai Kan nods to Allen politely as he approaches. "Good morning to you as well."

<<DICE>> Leti rolls 10 dice: <2 2 2 2 6 7 7 7 10 10> for 7 successes.

<<OOC>> Leti ...has to check a log now.

<<OOC>> Allen says ". . . checking my successes on disguise, huh? |D"

Allen nods and smiles in return. "Good morning," he agrees quietly. "Am I interrupting. . .?" Words aside, he stands like he has no intention to leave, even if he is interrupting.

<<OOC>> Leti says "You quite probably overheard the last statement, BTW. :p"

<<OOC>> Allen says "Okay. XD"

"Northern," the Dragon-blooded appends, as he nods to Allen.

Yoru asks of Rhan, since Green Cove has gotten quiet again, "So how did you come to be a servant of Nai Kan over there?"

Yasutora gives Allen a grateful look as covertly as he can, and then turns back to Nai Kan. "Creation is undergoing a much unusual age," he says, ignoring the 'younger than he ought to be' comment >_>, "And sometimes folk of disparate origins find each other on the paths set for us by Fate."

"Unfortunately, troubled times make warriors even of the young," Allen says quietly, with a nod to acknowledge his heritage.

Rhan shrugs, a little uncomfortably. "It's a kinda long story, I guess, but he happened to be in the town I lived in and offered to hire me. It sounded better than digging in the ground all day."

Yoru ahs softly. "And traveling the world with a Dragonblood sounded more exciting than farming, yes? I hope it is at least somewhat like how you imagined it would be."

Nai Kan's lips twitch as he watches Allen's face deliberately, then, after a moment, turns back out towards the passing river, his back towards the two Solars again. "This is true," he says, in answer to Allen. "I myself started training as a stripling, but then, I had Exalted. Times were, perhaps, not quite so troubled, though."

Yasutora gives Nai Kan an honest look of curiosity. "Where are you from, Nai Kan? You can discern of our origins and latest homes, but I am unfamiliar with most Dragonblooded not of the Realm; and I hope you will not take it amiss, but you do not have the look of a Dynast."

Nai Kan laughs; it's a dry sort of sound, and accompanied by a wry smile. "No, I don't, do I? And the haughty buggers will be the quickest to remind you of that. Only one good Dynast, and that's the first of them." He shrugs. "I was born in the Realm. I imagine I came by my Exalted heritage in the usual fashion."

Rhan shrugs at Yoru. "It seemed like a good idea." He looks down at his line. "It's not as much work as farming."

Yoru peers at Rhan. "He's treating you okay so far I hope. If not, you shouldn't feel like you have to stay with him. You could always lose him in a big city and start running odd jobs or picking pockets or something." Ah, the fatherly advice of Yoru.

"I wouldn't like farming," Green Cove comments, studying the water and hooks lying there. "Stuck in one place while things grow. There's not much to be said for that."

<<OOC>> Leti says "BTW, GC, give me a survival roll. Survival plus, umm. Dex."

<<DICE>> Green Cove rolls 8 dice: <3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10> for 5 successes.

<<OOC>> Leti says "Yeah, you so totally have a bite. :p"

Yasutora looks briefly over at Allen, and then at the others and their fishing wistfully. He turns back to Nai Kan and smiles again. "You must have had an unusual life yourself then, Nai Kan," he comments. "What has brought you in this way?"

<<OOC>> Green Cove yays!

<<OOC>> Leti says "You can roll too, Yoru."

<<OOC>> Yasutora River Dragon: "PLS TO BE TAKIN UR HOOK OUT MY LIP."

Green Cove yanks abruptly on her pole. "Watch this," she tells Rhan and Yoru. "If you do it right, you can flip the fish right onto deck." The pole flexes in her hand. "Of course, if you do it wrong, you can take someone's eye out, so maybe you shouldn't try this move just yet."

<<OOC>> Yoru says "Same, dex + surv"

<<DICE>> Yoru rolls 6 dice: <1 1 6 7 7 10> for 4 successes.

<<OOC>> Green Cove says "Can I do a nice fancy flip-fish-to-deck? And if so, does that require another roll?"

<<OOC>> Green Cove says "The fish are lovin' us."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Okay, yeah, you have a bite too. :p"

<<OOC>> Yoru says "Yipee!"

<<DICE>> Leti rolls 3 dice: <4 6 8> for 1 success.

<<OOC>> Leti says "The kid, however does not. :p"

<<OOC>> Leti says "It sucks to be mortal. :p"

<<OOC>> Green Cove awws. Poor mortal.

The boy grimaces slightly. "He's not bad." He blinks at Green Cove and watches her with the fish.

Yoru starts to watch Green Cove and her fishing when his pole almost jerks out of his hand. "Woah! I think I got one too." He starts pulling on his pole and backing up, since he can't figure out what else to do.

<<OOC>> Leti says "No need for a roll, GC."

Green Cove leans over the railing, letting the fish play back the line. And then, with one foot braced against the rail and the other on the deck, she snaps the whole pole back in a single move. A fish sails up glittering overhead, and swings about on her twist of the line to land flopping on the deck beside her. (Its arc does not, in fact, take out anyone's eye, though it does swing remarkably close to a sailor's face on the way over.) "Like that," Green Cove says.

<<OOC>> Leti says "It is a large, long silver fish, perhaps a particularly oversized trout; it doesn't seem to have anything to say."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Actually, I should have given everyone bonus dice for the mad lurez."

<<OOC>> Green Cove has mad lurez, yo.

<<OOC>> Green Cove eyes. Wrong way around.

<<OOC>> Leti says "Nah. You made the survival roll. I'm not going to require another one. :p"

Yoru, not to be outdone, and because it might impress Green Cove says, "Like that you say." So he comes up to the railing, puts a foot against the rail and snaps the whole pole back in a single move, trying the same move that Green Cove just demonstrated. And what do you know, Yoru manages not to take out anyone's eye either as his fish comes sailing out of the water.

Nai Kan waves a hand dismissively. "It's not that unusual; a few years at Pasiap's Stair, some decades in the military, and taking your chance to get the hell out before they can drag you down any further."

Green Cove looks down at the fish. "Yes," she says. "Exactly like that." She looks rather pleased, though it is perhaps difficult to tell through her usual expression of vaguely expressed contempt for the world at large. "I should see if Floating Leaf wants any of this one," she says, hefting her fish by the tail. "She hasn't been fishing yet today."

"You weren't fond of the military?" Allen asks, and pats Yasutora's arm. "Would you mind checking my line, Sado? It looks like the fish are biting."

Yasutora nods to Nai Kan and smiles at Allen. "Yes, I think I will. Have a good day, Nai Kan; I suspect that the stories you have are more interesting than you know," he comments before heading over to _fish_. A primal call to all young boys.

"She is welcome to mine as well," adds Yoru with a smile. "Or maybe we could fry it up for dinner or something. Of course, we'd need more for the whole crew. Hrm, guess that means more fishing then." He looks back at the water and then realizes he still needs to get this fish off the line somehow.

Green Cove drops her fish on the deck as Yasutora approaches. "You need a lure," she informs him, and promptly begins searching through her cloak for one. What she comes up with is a gold-flecked glass marble wound tight in wire and little loops, which she presents to the young man with a hook and pole alongside. "Do you need instructions?"

Yasutora gives Green Cove a happy look and begins to swiftly tie and loop and prepare for fishing. "I have fished before, though you are clearly an expert beyond my ken, Green Cove," he says with a large smile. "I will observe you as I fish myself."

Nai Kan nods to Yasutora. "We'll talk again sometime, I'm sure," he says. He turns to Allen again, and shrugs. "It is not inherently bad, but the Dynastic houses are perfectly willing to shed the blood of the Realm's military, watering down its strength, to further their own wealth. Of all that which gives the Realm power, the military has the least power in the Realm. The Immaculates, the Great Houses; they all order the military to their own ends, and damned be the strength of the Realm or the honor of her soldiers." He grimaces.

Yoru glances up from trying to get the fish off his hook without destroying it too much and smiles at Yasutora. "Greetings. Have a nice chat with Nai Kan over there?"

The fish, alas, is uncooperative; it very much wanted that lure and even in death, doesn't want to give it up. It's pretty mangled by the time Yoru wrests the lure free.

Yasutora tries not to twitch TOO much in front of Rhan. "It is interesting speaking to one who is, and yet is not, of Dynasty's making," he comments, before carefully sitting down near the rail and preparing his own rod for casting, getting a feel for the waves.

"Well don't keep me guessing. What did you two talk of." Yoru grimaces and puts what remains of his fish on the deck and comments to Green Cove, "Floating Leaf might be the only one able to eat this after how I mangled it.

"As House Tepet, in the North, squandered their legions," Allen says, looking out over the railing, and not at Nai Kan at all.

"Removing fish without destroying them or losing a finger takes practice," Green Cove says. "You've managed the second, which isn't bad." She gathers up both fish, and trots off to find her tiger.

Yasutora casts his line out into the river, watching it fall beneath the waves. "Of Shai, and of our desire to see her healed," he tells his brother, shifting slightly to get comfortable on the deck.

Nai Kan's tone is very dry. "Yes, very much so, though Tepet isn't the worst of the Houses."

Yoru grins at Green Cove and then leans in towards Rhan. "I take good care of my fingers. They've served me so well after all."

Rhan's eyes flick towards Yoru and then he stares fixedly back down at his own un-fished line. "Oh," he says, quickly.

"Who would you say is worst?" Allen glances over at the Dragonblooded. "I'd lived in the North my entire life, until I began to travel. I don't know a lot about the Realm."

Yasutora sighs and, confident in the strength of just one hand, holds the pole with one hand before gently poking his somewhat distressing brother in the stomach while giving Rhan a smile. "My friend here, Yoru, has had a tough life in the cities." He gives the boy a grave nod-- and a friendly wink. "They do not, alas, have the fine manners that one such as I growing up in a village in the country would learn. Please do not be distressed; he means well."

Yoru looks at Rhan, then over at Yasutora and rolls his eyes. "What is it with kids these days. You are all too serious." At the mention of fine manners he hmphs softly and scoots away from the both of them. Ignoring them for the moment he casts again and watches the line for a bit.

Nai Kan asks, "Only about Tepet?" He doesn't linger on the question, though, and promptly jumps to answering Allen's. "Mnemon, most likely. Possibly Ledaal, but Mnemon is more ...overt on their own behalf, and Ledaal you might as well lump with the Immaculates."

Rhan shrugs a little. "He doesn't bother me," he says. He's obviously lying, but he says it.

Yasutora gives Rhan a gentle smile and continues to fish. "It is often important not to let the world disturb us. When we are far from our h..." He sighs a bit. "Excuse me; I miss my grandfather and am wandering some," he explains to Rhan as he fishes.

Yoru, feeling slighted, decides to turn to his one true friend: booze. Securing his pole to the railing he wanders off to find something to fill his flask with. "Feel free to bring it in if something is caught while I'm gone," he says before wandering off.

"I heard the most of them, of course," Allen shrugs, "after what happened, between them and the icewalkers." He nods gravely. "Interesting. Thank you."

Yasutora says "I will see you again soon, Brother. May th- may you be blessed."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Oh, sure. Leaf's not hard to find. :p She's probably keeping half an eye on Shai and otherwise lounging in the cabin."

<<OOC>> Leti says "Sorry."

Green Cove finds Leaf in Shai's cabin, and presents fish--scathed and un--to her. "The fishing's not bad," she says, sitting on the floor beside her tiger. "Tonight, we should go fishing together properly, when that man's not watching."