002 [OPEN TO BOTH COURTS | AUDIO]

[enjoymyatelier]

...right. So, I certainly still have this thing, so I suppose I can use it to ask for a bit of advice.

[Kayneth sounds really, really tired, more than a little haggard, and at least a little cold. At least having a fur coat is... kind of helping? Okay, maybe not. He has been eating deer for like five days and he has no idea where he is, and the fact that he is a small carnivore is probably keeping the taste from being a bit rank so there's that, at least...

But really.

The outdoors are awful, and even more so when you are a polecat. How do most mammals tolerate it?]

Let's presume that you were somewhere between Mair and Eaglais, and you began traveling north at a somewhat impaired speed because you were hoping to head for the Station's fairy ring and your horse... well, horses are absolutely terrible creatures, or at least this one was.

[Translation... it may have been spooked during a failed trapping attempt during the hunt for the White Hart. He doesn't want to talk about it, nor does he want to talk about the fact that he is now a polecat.

These two events may be related.]

It's been five days, and you've apparently hit a river bank and there is absolutely no bridge in sight. Are... there any ferries that traverse the River Astar? At all? ...Is anyone even traveling that way? I'd really rather make it the whole way myself, but this is getting positively Sisyphean and I'd really not want to run out of supplies before getting anywhere. I'd take a video, but absolutely everything looks the same here and I have no idea if any of this is remarkable at all.

...wait, is that ---

[...he goes silent for a moment or two.]

...ah, and it's started snowing.

[There's a long, heavy sigh.]

I'm beginning to suspect I'm not terribly fond of the great outdoors, really.

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[dyingisnotdead]

Where are you attempting to go?

[Not that he can help. He's currently a rabbit.]

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[enjoymyatelier]

The Station and then Caer Glaem from their Fairy Ring... if all goes well, anyway. Given my current luck, it seems as though it may not.

...perhaps if the river freezes over I can get to the road, at least.

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[dyingisnotdead]

There should be able to assist you in that, at least. I will need to make it back to a fairy ring myself, soon, I suppose.

[Though after he is a human again.]

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[enjoymyatelier]

Do you have a good idea of where you are? Honestly, if we're in... roughly the same area, I can't say I'd complain about more company.

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[dyingisnotdead]

Not--

--no.

And I'm not exactly at my best, at the moment, if I'll be honest.

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[sangilak]

[ you know, just because she's a chipmunk (why) doesn't mean she can't enjoy a little bit of schadenfreude ]

Desperate for the city, huh?

[ yeah no way is she using audio, not with her voice all high and squeaky ]

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[enjoymyatelier]

[better cut that out korra he is a VICIOUS PREDATOR that looks like some kind of stuffed animal or something]

Desperate for civilization in general, really. A city would be preferable, yes, but at this point I'd even take some backwater hovel.

[...well, maybe not like this, because they'd probably assume he was there to kill their chickens, but still.]

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[sangilak]

[ NEVER, deal with it. ]

If you're in that much of a hurry, I can send Appa to carry you to the Station.

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[enjoymyatelier]

...I suppose I ought to ask what Appa is to start out with, because I haven't been having the best luck with animals lately...

[not even fake ones. volumen hydragyrm would be in the doghouse, but it's a cat...]

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[sangilak]

He's a ten-ton flying bison. He should be able to get you to the station in a day, maybe a little longer.

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[steeledskin]

-- Are you lost, my lord?

[ and yet she makes the question sound somewhat sweet. ]

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[enjoymyatelier]

...A bit, yes.

[...it took a lot of dithering to admit that.]

It's not so much knowing where to go as it is knowing how long it's going to take to get where I'm going, though...

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[steeledskin]

I pray you have provisions enough to see you there, at least.

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[enjoymyatelier]

For the time being, at least. Granted, a little has been going a long way, which I can't complain about... but I'm not sure if it's going to last the whole way.

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[steeledskin]

Have you allies who might come to your side? Give you aid?

[ some in these lands, she knew, could make great leaps and bounds with their magic. notably, had she that power, she might have tried harder to help him -- eager as she is to tie anyone to the cothromach and its generosity. ]

[vrykolakas]

Go north. Follow the riverbank. You'll come to the Eastward Road where it hits the Astar; there's a bridge across, then you keep on the road and you'll get to the Station.

[Thoughtfully:] Provided you haven't massively fucked up and that's not the Astar at all.

[enjoymyatelier]

...I don't think I've done things that badly unless I somehow discovered a previously unknown Fairy Ring in the most absolutely ridiculous way possible.

I suppose my question is... well, how long is it going to take, exactly? I have a means of traveling even when asleep, but I have absolutely no idea how long that would last and it's... cat speed, I suppose I'd say.

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[aliased]

horses are not terrible.

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[enjoymyatelier]

If any exist that are neither murderous nor incredibly flighty then please, direct me to them, as it appears as though those are the only kind that exist.

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[aliased]

none of my horses are either of those. you just don't know how to ride properly.

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[enjoymyatelier]

The flighty one wasn't terrible to ride, but the fact that it ran off to parts unknown after one loud noise is really just unacceptable. How do these things survive?

[kayneth it wasn't just a loud noise you accidentally a deer's lungs and it had the common sense to get gone]

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[gandere]

[ There's no mistaking this level of snickering, Kayneth, is there??? ]

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[enjoymyatelier]

...

I'll remember this, Tohsaka.

[in the most asspained tone, too...]

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[gandere]

Ah crap, I've been busted...

[ The giggling stops long enough so she can address him at least in a semi-serious manner. ]

You could probably settle as a magician to some lord's castle and not have to go outdoors.

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[enjoymyatelier]

You really should work on your subtlety, you know...

And honestly, while that seems safer, I imagine it'd get dull when I've got a whole world at my disposal. I just need some better form of transport, that's all.