2017-09-04: Soup's On
- Log: Soup's On
- Cast: Riesenlied, Kaguya
- Where: Wayside
- Date: 4th September 2017
- Summary: Riesenlied makes some soup for Kaguya, and chats with her as they settle for the night.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
It's approaching sundown at Wayside, and Riesenlied is settling down for the night...
... by deciding to get Val to train her for once, so by the time she's done to check up on Kaguya, she's doing so with a tray with a lovely-smelling bowl of soup and some bread to go with it. "Kaguya? It's Riese... are you hungry? It's about time for dinner..." she calls gently as she proceeds to nudge herself towards one of the caravans they're probably using as bedrooms at present. It's better than the prefab buildings at this point in time, given how they haven't worked out all the kinks with the drafts and such.
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
It's approaching sundown at Wayside, and Kaguya hasn't been seen in the town all day. On the other hand, she hasn't been seen /leaving/, either.
The gentle call at first gets no response either, but there is a light on inside the caravan. Kaguya, at least, has definitely been using it as a bedroom, particularly because she can't entirely deal with the drafts of the other option.
"H-huh...?" A pause, and a complaint, "When did it get so late...?" She pauses, at that, cand calls back a little louder, "Um, just a minute..."
Then, "You can come in."
When Riese does, Kaguya is sitting up on a bed, wrapped in a blanket with a long, loose shirt visible draped over her shoulder. It's... pretty much too big for her. Her hair is down. And she looks about as good as usual, which is to say not terribly. "...Soething smells good..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied smiles bashfully as she tilts her head to say, "I had Val teach me some of her recipes. I can't say it's amazing food, but... would you like to have some vegetable soup?" Riese would so totally be a 'Secret Ingredient: Love' kind of chef, wouldn't she? She tilts her head down as she scoots in, and sets the tray on the table.
"Are you doing okay? Do you need a bit more water?" she asks, voice obviously full of concern. "The purifier is running now, so we can fetch more whenever we need..."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Oh really...?" Kaguya blinks in surprise, her strange green eyes widening as she looks at Riesenlied who apparently /made/ her food. "Um, yeah, I would..."
Kaguya starts to tilt out of her bedding to pick the tray up off of her little table, pausing after a moment to motion nearby to somewhere Riese can sit.
"Thanks, I--" Concern. She can spot the concern. Kaguya shakes her head. "I'm--" She coughs once, and then a second time, turning her head to the side to avoid getting it on the soup. "I mean..."
"I'm fine," she says instead. "I'm just a little tired. I only laid down a little while ago..." A pause. "I mean... You can stay a few, if you want. If you're not busy. I don't mind."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"I'm done for the day," Riesenlied smiles warmly, bobbing her head to one side. "I just want to make sure you're feeling better... being dehydrated out in the desert can do rough things, after all." It does look like Riese has done a pretty good job all up, perhaps in part because her hands are more precise and skilled than what some other Tainted are using for hands. It's not gourmet food, but there's a hearty kind of warming quality to all of it.
"I felt a bit weak myself earlier, so Noeline chided me to take it easy," she chuckles.
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Oh." A pause, from Kaguya, as she smiles back, hesitantly. "Oh, I..." Feeling better. "I guess it can, huh...? I don't really like the desert, I think..." She trails off, "Maybe I should get more water. But... later." For now, she digs into the soup a bit, sniffing the read before she nibbles a bite off and then dips it into the broth. She eats very... delicately, overall.
"Mm?" She looks softer, a little worried for a moment. "Oh... Are you feeling better?" She sneaks in another two bites, this time with the spoon. "Mm, this is--really good--"
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied nods as she smiles and watches her eat, perhaps not even quite realising how happy watching someone eat can make her until now. She sifts up against her own bed gently as she slacks the capelet off her shoulders, leaving her with the sleeveless shirt underneath. Several scales have appeared at her forearms, it seems.
"A-- little bit better, yes," Riesenlied nods, before-- blushing to say, "Oh, really? It's my first time..."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya, despite being delicate about it, eats with a certain amount of relish befitting someone who hasn't eaten today--and the soup is easier to keep down than some alternatives might have been. She glances over to blink at the scales she hadn't seen before though.
Kaguya's sleeves are long, and only the way her shirt hangs about her shoulders shows just how /thin/ she is, that doesn't usually come out in all her layers.
"Oh good," Kaguya says. But then she actually reddens back. "Really...? But it's good..." Pause. "Aah, not that that's... surprising, you're very good at..."
"Things...?"
Kaguya's shoulders slump a little as she looks away. "D-did you really make this for just me?"
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied doesn't appear to have noticed the scales before, judging by how she's moving -- she tilts her head to say, "Y-yes, I thought it would be nice, since you weren't feeling well before. Should I not have? I don't want to be too forward, but..."
She smiles herself as she starts unlacing her boots and sighing gently, her wings wiggling and spreading a little more freely now that they're free of the weight of the capelet.
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya looks foramomentlonger but she doesn't comment on them yet; instead she blinks up and shakes her head quickly, "N-No, it's fine. It was nice. I appreciate it." A pause. "I'm..." She glances down and takes anoter bite, bere she says more, glancing again thi time at Riesenlied's wings.
"I don't get a whole lot of nice, is all. It's... surprising. I don't know if I'm making sense. I sort of just woke up..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"Sorry," Riesenlied sounds bashful. "I know... there aren't a lot of people here who've received 'nice', so... I wanted to bring a bit more about it around the village," she speaks. "Back in Old Petra, people were still a bit conflicted... there were a lot more military types, a lot more shadow from my brethren's efforts... but it's a bit more free here."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"You don't have to apologize," Kaguya answers. "I mean... I'm in your village, right?" She speaks a little more conversationally than she sometimes does around Wayside, a little less naturally defensively, a ltitle freer. Butstill quiet.
"That makes sense, I guess. Since this isn't that kind of place. It's... nice, here, even if you don't have many buidings yet that work out right." A pause. "I mean, you do well. You're... a good leader, I think. Not that I'm an expert on leaders or anything. It's not like I'm one."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied giggles just a little and says, "I'm glad. Your feedback is appreciated, you know. It won't be perfect right away... but if we all chip in, just a little, here and there... I'm sure it'll be an amazing place at some point." She laces her hands together and says, "I want to see a garden grow as well... I'd be happy if you could take the lead and give me some pointers on it."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya smiles back, if only briefly, surreptitously starting to eat more soup as Riesenlied talks. She can't entirely stay away from it. ...She is pretty hungry. But she adds once her mouth isn' full, "Is it really...? THat's kinda nice too. I... you know, I didn't get to do much for... you know, back in Elru..."
Kaguya bites her lip, and nods. "I'd really like to help with that. Once I'm a little less tired... I can do a lot. I'm really good with gardens. I had one when I was little, on the ship. It helps to plan ahead what you want to plant..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied nods as she says, "We received those fruit seeds back in the Plant..." Apparently. She's still not sure. "That would be a good start. And of course, vegetables and other nutritious foods for you and the others... as well as Heal Berries and other restoratives, if we possibly can."
She tilts her head to say, "Is-- that a bit too ambitious? I'm really not an experienced gardener, just a herbalist, in the end. I have experience with finding and picking them, but less growing."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Fruit! There's a lot of Filgaian fruit I still haven't seen," Kaguya says, her eyes distant as she thinks pleasantly about the possibilities. "Vegetables same... If we want food crops we might need to devote more space..." Heal berries, and other restoratives. That's wise, but..
"It's not," Kaguya says. "This is more than a personal garden; it's for a village. So you can expect to get more out of it than otherwise. ...I think. I'm... you know, a gardener and a botanist, not a farmer. I'm used to growing what I can keep track of. But..."
She considers, leaning back a little; her food is mostly gone by now. "Well, Atida's really good with berries, I think... So maybe..." She trails off a moment and glances over at Riesenlied, looking sidelong at her, one eye mostly close. "How do you... like, Atida, anyway?"
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied perks up just a little as she nods and says, "We'll definitely allot space for it. I know its importance both in sustaining the village, and also in generating us revenue so that we can purchase the things we need."
The topic of the village garden does come up, and Riesenlied nods. "I want it to have the things everyone needs..."
A pause, as she tilts her head on the question of Matilda. "... mm... I certainly like and appreciate her, and we got along fine before... before Adlehyde. I feel like I did breach her sense of trust... which is my fault."
She tucks her head down. "... I can't expect her to forgive me, but... I feel like we're more able to work together since then."
She smiles. "She's special to you, isn't she...?"
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Oh, yeah," Kaguya answers, thinking about just selling others. She knows /she/ needs food at least, and that this sort of covers her, but...
"The roughest part will be the initial planting, trying to figure out the soil, all that. If I can get the right tools I can make that a lot faster though. Get some soil samples, stuff like that, check mineral levels..."
But she does ask about Matilda, and ontinues half-squinting at Riesenlied. "Oh, she... Well trust is a thing for her..." A pause. More able to work together...
"I mean, that's--" Pause. Suddenly Kaguya turns red, eyes going wide. "H-huh? She's--what? You--I--"
She shrinks. "...I-is it that obvious?" she half-squeaks, looking down into what remains of her soup. "I-I mean, ou know... I know, I know she's human and all, but... You know, she's..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"Um--" Riesenlied hesitates just a moment, before lowering her head. "I wouldn't say obvious, but... perhaps, some of your expressions, the way you look at her... it rather-- reminds me of how I used to feel about Noeline, but was... unable to express it?"
She tilts her head. "I-- ah, mm... it was just a feeling, perhaps?" Riese, you can literally sense emotions!
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"O-Oh. So only obvious if you're /looking/ at me." Kaguya sighs audibly, tilting her head back until she reaches wood. "Aaaah..." She pauses, looks furtively back and forth, and dips bread into soup to finish the bread and conveniently stop herself talking while she chews.
...It still doesn't take all that long.
"I don't knoooow," Kaguya complains a moment later, a very teenager moan of complaint. "No it's probably obvious, I stare at her like a idiot because she's so /pretty/ and I don't know what to do about it. I mean I've been thinking and thinking and I really /like/ her and..." Pause. "A-and I was just wondering what you thought of her, was all." A pause. "She's so..." The small Veruni sighs again. "I don't know, what do you think?" Riese can almost certainly sense all sorts of emotions from Kaguya at the moment, it's a little... riotous.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied leans forward and pats her on the hand gently, tilting her head. "H-hmm... well..." she thinks for a moment longer, before expressing, "It might be rich coming from me... but... I think it is important to be honest about your feelings. Take her somewhere nice and quiet..."
Like Makeout Point!
"And... express what's on your mind, what you've been feeling... honesty is a good policy, I feel."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya's hand is thin, a little chilly, but her eyes are bright enough as she finally looks back at Riesenlied. "Coming from you...?" Somewhere quiet.
Kaguya may or may not have heard the rumors about Makeout Point.
"H-honesty," Kaguya says back, looking terribly nervous. "I mean, I've never... You know..."
"I mean there are a lot of reasons it's a bad idea! I don't even like humans! They're... terrible, and smell bad, and there are so /many/ of them, and..." She trails off, almost pouting, "And I really like her. It was nice, riding in her Gear." A pause.
"...She's better at talking than I am anyway. She said this whole thing about my eyes..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"... I had a-- I had harbored... feelings for Noeline, a long time ago," Riesenlied admits. "But I was young, and confused, and didn't know what to say... and-- then she left."
She looks towards the ceiling for a moment. "I was convinced I'd never see her again... and I didn't, for more than two hundred years. ... I didn't know how to feel at the time..."
She tilts her head and scratches her cheek. "I understand it's scary, but... she is worth that, don't you think...?"
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"...T-two hundred years?" Kaguya asks in a small voice. "She just left...?" Kaguya, while she can be dense about some things, is not dense about Riesenlied and Noeline. She hesitates again. "That's, um..."
Scary. Riesenlied says it's scary, and Kaguya bites her lip, setting the tray back on the little table and wrapping her blanket a little urther around hersel as she thinks.
"...She can be kind of scary too," Kaguya admits. "And even if it worked out, I'm still... you know... It's not like..."
The younger of the two buries her face in her hands, "I've never even been on a /date/, I don't know any of this stuff!" It's a little of a wail. "Why can't she just do it? Or does she not want to? Or... Mmmmph!" This is the heel of her hand finding its way over her mouth.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied looks just a little bit sad as she says, "Noeline never got along with a lot of folks in the Photosphere... so she struck forth outside, venturing west." She sulks just for a moment. "We are... ah, a bit hard headed about some things sometimes, I suppose."
She bobs her head as she-- says, "I'm sure she thinks of you too... but-- perhaps, I'm also trying to say... we're all in dangerous vocations. It... is worth speaking of such things before it may be too late."
A pause. "I'm sorry -- I don't mean to make it sound scarier." A pause. "Hmm... I could give you some... advice to set up a date, perhaps? Noeline-- Noeline is usually the one to arrange them, but I have picked on a few things here and there..."
Namely, her accidentally gallant moments where Noeline winds up kicking embarrassedly.
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Oh." That fits with what she knows of them. Kaguya looks over Riesenlied, peeking between her fingers, and slowly nods. "Oh. Yeah, I guess I can see that. Since you're doing this at all, and all." Kaguya clearly thinks it's a little hard-headed. ...Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. But...
"Oh, um..." Her hands start to slide from her face as she crosses her arms, hesitating a little less. "You're sure...?"
Too late. Kaguya looks a little distant for a moment, because she knows what that means.
"It's... It's okay. That's a little of what I'm worried about anyway, I'm... not exactly a good prospect or anything..." Accidentally gallant moments are nie. "Maybe that's... I mean... It's easier when she sets things up. Like..."
"Oh like when she made me tell her I'm Veruni. She was all... scary, and imposing, and..." The small Veruni sighs, fondly. Somehow. At that description. "She's so cool."
"But I guess I should... try some hints...? I mean. Are you sure it's not a bad idea? I'm, you know... Different, from her. Really, really different."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied-- cups her cheek and chuckles in turn, giggling as she says, "I understand that. ... Noeline can-- be very imposing and pushy, and sometimes it frustrates me... but at the same time, when she brings that vivaciousness and colour into my life..."
There's a bit of a wistful sigh there. Aww, someone's taken in.
"Hm... I feel... I mean, you know how I feel. I want to break boundaries between everyone... and I think love is a great way to express that," Riesenlied speaks with earnestness.
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya smiles wider than before at Riesenlied's giggle, explanation. "She really seems it!" she says with a happy nod, "It's a little like that! She has so much going for her, and she's so..." Kaguya sighs again, like a lovestruck teenager. Is that a 'like'?
Riesenlied is now Kaguya's co-conspirator, after all this and after that sigh.
"Mm, yeah, you do. You're all... super nice like that, bring everybody together and all. And I dunno about all /that/, and... And I've never even kissed anyone so I don't know about love or anything, but..."
"...But she's really hot and I like just thinking about her. It makes everything better." A pause. "...It's not weird that I'm like a century older than her or anything? And I mean human smell isn't always /that/ bad..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied would... probably admit it bashfully, but it is nice to talk about... feelings, emotions, romance. ... they're not things that are available back home, and even now, it's a little new and scary to explore such a space... and to encourage others to do the same...
"I--I don't think so," Riesenlied answers. "You're an adult, by my reckoning... you're aware of your decisions and what they mean -- and she does too."
She bobs her head one way as she says, "Scent is... not a problem, is it? ... I'm sometimes afraid I'll smell acrid, or metallic, or something..."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya is enthusiastic about the subject herself, for all that she would be likely to be embarrassed if someone mentioned it to her. Right now though, she's animated, glancing here and there, expressive.
"R-right. I'm totally an adult," Kaguya agrees. "I'm a hundred and twenty six! It's fine! And she's... you know, fine. She totally does."
"Oh um... You don't smell bad to me? But Noeline's the one who matters there, right? I just, um... I've been around a lot of humans since I came to Ignas and... you know, they kind of..." She scrunches up her face. "I'm not used to it. I guess Veruni are just cleaner. Not as... sour? It's hard to put my finger on." Pause. "But she's not so bad, I was really close to her the whole way back..." Pause. "And-and you know it's..." Pause. "You said somewhere quiet? I like--" She coughs suddenly, and again, before shaking her head. "Aaah.."
"U-Um I.. I had wanted to... ask you about this stuff, anyway, I... You know, you know these things, and... And I don't want to do it wrong. Or..." he trails off, "...I mean I know some people might make fun of me for staring like an idiot at a human."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied places her hand gently to Kaguya's again. "... the same people would often treat you poorly and berate you, you've told me. Why should it matter if they make fun of you for being attracted to a human?"
She feels quite strongly about how poorly she's treated back home! She doesn't want to see that at all.
"But... y-you know, there's no such thing as 'doing it right' and 'wrong'. Noeline and I have... certainly clumsily bumbled our way through our feelings sometimes!" She smiles wanly. "... it wasn't... it wasn't until we realised how high the stakes were that we started to become very honest with each other. ... and even then, we still have more to work on."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
This time, Kaguya's fingers curl a little under Riesenlied's as the Veruni watches her face for a moment. "Oh, well..." She did say that. "Because..." She bites hr lip. "I-I mean I guess..."
She's not as sure about that, but then, she has mixed feelings about the issues she has. Besides... "I mean..."
Riesenlied talks about how there's no such thing, and Kaguya looks at her thoughtully. "I guess even you can be dumb abot something sometimes..." The idea obviously surprises her as she says it. "Um--not that I mean--" And she ealizes what she said, glancing away quickly. "R-right. I mean... I mean I'd make fun of me for it. Or maybe I wouldn't? Or..."
"...I could at least... Maybe... Try to go see her again. You know, maybe." Another bite of her lip. "I can be honest with her about some things..." Another pause. "You're sure she's not going to laugh at me?"
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied almost seems a little pumped up for Kaguya's sake at this point. "I don't know Matilda to be the type to. I'd probably have words if she truly made fun of you!" She grumps just a little, wings flickering up and down a little in consternation. "... just... remember, to take it at both of your paces. If you don't feel comfortable with something... say so. And if she doesn't seem inclined... then talk it out with her too."
A pause.
"Yes, definitely do that, and not like how Noeline likes to do it."
/Wow!/
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya is definitely getting a little pumped for Kaguya. "...She is a little more serious than that," Kaguya admits about Matilda. "But, you know!" Pause. "You would?" She appreciates that, though she doesn't want it to come up, smiling slightly at the grump. But the advice... Kaguya seems almost to be taking mental notes. "Talk... And.. U-um, paces..."
This is already a little beyond Kaguya's pace...!
"D-definitely do--" Kaguya blinks, and turns red. "N-not like Noeline? But you haven't told me how..." Kaguya shrinks a little more, "Aaah, I'm not ready to hear that!"
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied jolts just a little, before sighing to say, "O-okay, okay! ... just take it at your pace, is all I'm trying to say... it's easy to be swept up into something you're not ready yet. I just... don't want to see you regret anything."
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
Kaguya jolts back, even redder than she was before, but Riesenlied speaks up again and it... sounds... different than that, and she suints a moment before she lets out a slower breath. "R-right. No, that... That makes sense, I just... Wasn't sure what you... You know..."
"I um... I'll remember that, okay...? I um... I appreciate it, I..." She laughs nervousl, "It's a little intimidating..." At that, Kaguya reaches out herself, to put a hand on Riese's hand this time. "T-thanks. For... Um, thanks. I don't know who else I'd..."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied looks a bit embarrassed herself, breathing gently as she-- asks, "Eh? What-- do you mean, 'wasn't sure'...?" Uh oh, Kaguya herself might be a little bit ahead on some things than Riese is! ... poor Noeline.
"It is intimidating... but it is to me too," she smiles brightly. "... let's both do our best, okay?"
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
"Uh? Um. Um, nothing. I didn't think you were going to say--I mean--You know, nothing." ...Kaguya might be a little ahead of a few things after all. She coughs, and this time it's just an awkward cough instead of a sick cough. ...Mostly an awkward cough.
Poor Noeline.
"I..." She smiles back, at first slowly and them warmly too, brighter than she ever tens to look. "Yeah. We'll both do our best. I like that." If it's intimidating to Riesenlied too..
She dips her head, and then yawns, suddenly, one hand over her mouth. "Mm... I'm still tired..."
She hesitates and then smiles again, smaller. "...You said you were done for the day... Do you mind hanging out a little longer...? It's... You know, it's... Nice to see you."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied seems cutely oblivious sometimes! As such, when she makes an awkward cough, she gently pats Kaguya, concerned for her.
Poor Noeline.
"... yeah... Noeline's right. It is nice to spend time like this, and unwind sometimes. Thank you, Kaguya. It's nice to see you as well..." she smiles warmly. Aww, it means a lot to her!
<Pose Tracker> Kaguya has posed.
/Adorably/ oblivious, though Kaguya still has a high opinion of her--and a high opinion of her observational skills too. After all, she's... Well, it's a special relationship for her.
...Kaguya thus does not correct the concern.
"Yeah..." Kaguya closes her eyes, sighs. "I... I like it here." And it's nice, to hear all that. It means a lot to Kaguya, too. "S-so you're... welcome, you know."
She sounds a little sleepy because she is; she won't really be awake all that muh longer. But for a little bit...
"Yeah..."