Deadlines (Ari, Asther & Hysteria)

[Kenna & Fenrir]

DATE & TIME : 4th of June, early afternoon.
WEATHER CONDITIONS : Cloudy
CHARACTERS INVOLVED : Fenrir, Ari, Luna, Sven, Asther (When she can)
PREVIOUS THREADS ? all treads that are and will be set before this time point in the war section.

Dragons had been watching the ships journey for not long after the grand meeting. They didn’t send out large dragons, large dragons would likely be seen. So instead they’d been sending out small tame dragons. One of them was Fenrir...well; his master was too busy with her work to have him around the place so he was sent off to do something important.
And it was a good thing he was. They were getting relatively near to berk when he saw a small boat split off of the main group and went in the direction needed to go to the village. Making sure the other dragon that was flying with him kept following the main group, Fenrir shot back to the village, he could tell that they needed to know.

He got to the village in record time and swooped down to his destination. He wasn’t going to his master, she didn’t need to be disturbed with this, and anyway she’d probably misunderstand his dragonesse implores, and this information couldn’t be given through their code. Instead he was flying to someone he knew would understand him.

Luna was the camp that had been build outside the village, it had been made for ease sake. While they still slept in their own houses, the space for the essentials and the medical moves was pitiful (Ari’s and Luna’s houses weren’t that big). He landed at one of the places and could see Luna, Ari and Sven with multiple other young members of the camp. They were the ones that were too young to fight, but still wanted to help.

He ran up to Luna and blurted, “There’s a boat coming round to the village, it only had about three people in it, and they weren’t very armed. They’re going to get here not long after dark.” He knew she would tell everyone that needed to be told so he imidiatly ran off after her thank you and flew back to his job.

(OOC: The idea of this thread is that an embassy of hysteria comes to do a bit of (pointless) talking (we know its pointless because, well...))

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

Earlier that day Luna had been assigned to field medic in the approaching war that seemed about to break loose with the nearing hysterians. It took her a good calming down after the slap of reality in the face- that the people of hysteria were coming. She was completly terrified, but she could not show it for risk of her identity be uncovered. She could not act unordinary scared. She had to remain as composed as possible. 

Snip and snatcher were being used as a sort of spies to them, as were most of the other terrible terrors. Luna was very scared for both of them. She had been told where she was to be stationed with a few other assistants for healing- people too old, young, or inexperienced to be in the battle that was bound to break out. She needed to transport all of her things out to the field, and without a dragon it would be slightly challenging but luna would handle it. 

   she started gathering tons of herbs. All the types and kinds for any variation of injury one could possibly receive on the battlefield. She took all of what she had for what would be needed, there were bound to be plenty of injuries in a battle, and she would have to tend to them. She got a big basket and put all of the herbs that she had Inside of it. She set the basket by the door. She took up her leather bag and threw it over her head and laid the strap across her chest and set the bag on her hip. She rushed over to her counter and seized a pair of scissors and thrust them into her bag. She grabbed everything off her counter she would need for gathering herbs and stuffed it in her bag. 

As fast as possible she grabbed all the stuff she used for healing in general that could be used for humans. Mortar and pestles, things to make braces, everything. She put it in a big bag. It was heavy, but she would have to manage. When she picked everything up to go She had her leather bag over her chest, the basket of herbs over her arm and the larger bag she heaved onto her shoulder and set out towards the place she had been instructed to go to. 

She trudged out of the house, her cumbersome cargos in tow. It took a bit, But Luna eventually made it there. She made her way over to the tent where she could see Ari busy at work, assuming this was where she would be needed. She also saw Sven there. After setting her burdens down she greeted Sven briefly before beginning to set things up, there were some others wandering around as well, doing this and that. She set everything out neatly on a table, organizing the herb bundles by medicinal use. 

Luna mulled things over in her mind as she did so. She wondered what was to become of this. A war certainly, hysterians didn't come like this for no reason- they had come for a battle. She wondered why exactly they were here, what their purpose was. Luna could barely handle the axiety. She thought about Curtis. She hadn't seen him lately, and that made Her a little sad. She assumed he was somewhere in town, assisting in some way for the battle. She wished she knew where he was and what he was doing. What she really wanted was to be there with him. Luna eventually pused other thoughts out of her mind, focusing on the task at hand. 

After she had finished sorting and organizing her things she looked up. She looked around her, just getting her bearings a little more and seeing who was there. Othe people had floated in and out, but Ari and Sven still remained. She knew Sven would be helping her, but for a moment she wondered what Ari would be doing. Luna assumed he would be tending to the more critical wounds after wards. 

Just then she heard a fluttering of wings beating. Quickly recognizing it as a terrible terror she turned around quickly, hoping to see one of her two. Her eyes were met with a bit of disappointment though when see saw one of the others that live in the village. She recognized him as Fenrir, the dragon of the blacksmith, Kenna. The little dragon rushed up to her and with a rushed, urgent tone reported to her in dragonese.  Luna's eyes stared in horror. Her eyes darted around and her mouth gaped as her heart rate increased- there were some coming- TONIGHT. she sent the little dragon off again. Luna made herself stop acting so- she didn't want to draw attention so she Clasped her hands to supress the shaking. In her scared state, the thought of telling someone in more authority the message completely slipped mind. She took deep breaths in attempt to calm herself. She hoped Sven and Ari didn't ask her what the dragon had said- it was all she had now to stay composed. Luna didn't know what she was going to do tonigt now. She didn't know where to go or what to do. She wouldn't feel safe in her own house by herself. 

Then she started to get a little upset over what she was going to do later. She had to hide! But where?! She made herself take another breath. Curtis had never objected to her presence at night, why would he now if she asked to stay with him? The thought of that calmed her a little. 

Luna bit her lip and tried not to think about it and just get back to work. She glanced up at Ari and Sven before drawing her eyes back to the task set before her and trying her hardest to focus on it, and failing terribly. She silently cursed her imagination, reprimanding herself for creating more stress and anxiety for herself. It was going to be harder for her now to keep it together. 

[Ari]

Ari was in the field tents, getting his things sorted out. He had the joyous job of teaching all the none fighters first aid abilities (Not what he would have called it, but we’ll go with anyway) and was in semi-despair as to their learning ability. The old were slow learners and the young weren’t listening. It was only people like Sven, the man that had told us about the attack. We’re assuming that they are attacking of course, Ari thought to himself, but then, a fleet of ships rarely come from hysteria for anything else.

Out of the corner of his eye, Ari saw Luna, lugging her heap of herbs and healing tools in, he couldn’t help but smile, There’s such a thing as two trips, he thought, as he could see she was finding it difficult. As she moved over to a table to get some work done, he concentrated to getting the people to understand what they were doing…with limited success.

Eventually it was time for the people to go, and most moved off quickly, they would be needed to help with other important preparations for the battle. Sven seemed less quick to move. While he was never keen on talking to outsiders, he felt sociable, and Sven did have something about him, “you alright?” he asked, “this is your first battle you’ll be a part of, right?” Sven replied and Ari smiled, “Don’t worry about it, they won’t be thinking that much about someone like you, they’ll be too busy worrying about people like Pickle Manface up front.”

Then we both heard a dragon fly in from behind us, they turned to see Fenrir flying in and then saying something to Luna before flying off. He looked at Luna, she seemed to have gone white and ran off. Ari could see she was worried by what she’d been told. Ari looked back at Sven, “What did Fenrir say? He knew that Kenna had been learning her dragonese from him, so Ari knew he would understand.

When Sven told him what the dragon had said, he looked at him confused, why would they send and advanced call? “I’ll talk to her,” I muttered, walking to her. “Luna,” Ari called, her head turned to him so fast made him jump, “Sven said want Fenrir told you, do you want me to tell someone.” She nodded strangely.

As Ari went towards where he knew Asther was (OOC: sorry for pulling you back in again, it’s just in world you’re the only we would go to) he started to think about that. Why had she gone like that? Gone white when she got that message, not told anyone. Was…was she a spy?

[Sven & Hermes]

Sven was feeling still a little shaken, but seemed to find that distractions were taking the worst of his problems off his mind. It was for this reason that he was tagging along at the medics bench, learning some basic first-aid, from the help of Ari, once again. Learning medical mumbo-jumbo from Luna was all well and good, but unfortunately Dragons and Humans aren't exactly the same.

He just kept practicing, not wanting to stop lest the darker part of his imagination comes to boil once more. He never realised that it was the end of the session, and that most of the younger and older Vikings had left. He only noticed when a somewhat familiar old voice spoke out from beside him. He jumped, having not noticed his presence. Sven had been really skittish recently.

Ari appeared to sympathise though, as he gave him more reassuring words. Though the episode on the beach had somewhat comforted him, it was brief consolation. He smirked a little at the mention of Pickle Manface - he hadn't met him personally yet, but the first time he had ever heard his full name mentioned, he had tried not to laugh.

Fenrir had arrived on the scene, distracting Sven from trying to wrap a bandage tightly. The little creature chittered away at Luna, before flying away. When Ari asked what the dragon had said, he steadily replied "Something about a boat coming to the village tonight." He replied. The little dragon was mainly speaking to Luna, so he hadn't caught everything Fenrir had said.

But when she turned around, her face had changed from whatever it was before (because Sven wasn't paying attention) to an almost petrified face. Something the dragon had said had bothered her. He came along with Ari to Luna.

Recently Sven hadn't been speaking much, but he was still concerned about what could shock Luna so much... "Are you okay?" He said quietly.

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

Luna heard someone hobble up behind her. The voice spoke and she whirled around, staring at them, face white, hands shaking. She forced herself to make her facial expression less alarmed and loosen up some. She managed to make herself slightly more lax, but not enough to make a significant difference to anyone other than herself. Her heart still raced as she answered the question of the approached, who happened to be Ari. She hadnt expected him to come up behind her so. Her answer was a simple nod, she couldn't muster much more. He grunted as he walked away and Luna turned back to her table.

The girl Cursed to herself under her breath. She needed to settle down or she was going to give herself away. She couldn't do this when people she didn't want suspecting around. Especially Ari, who typically seemed to know alot. She didn't want him to read into her or anything so she took a deep breath and tried her hardest to act natural.

But Luna jumped and whirled around again when. She heard another voice, quieter this time- and a different voice. Her eyes were wide as she faced the approacher. She bit her lip when she realized it saw Sven. She HAD to stop being so jumpy and excitable. She made a weak attempt to soften her face again as she looked up at Sven. She just stared for a moment before she realized he had asked her a question. Luna tried to sound casual "of course I'm okay, Sven. Why would I not be okay?" she said awkwardly. She hoped she wasn't being lucid. She couldn't let anyone know her secrets!

[[[ OOC::: hey guys, sorry this is a bit shorttt... I didn't have a whole lot to work with. I can't help feel bad for poor lunaaaaa ): me will try to make things longer next time!]]]

[Sven & Hermes]

Luna was acting all skittish along with her terrified attitude. Sven raised an eyebrow. He knew what being uneasy about the impeding war was like - he was going through it as this very moment, after all. But Luna seemed all jumpy like a dragon that had found a black and yellow eel.

She claimed to be feeling fine, but her body language was giving a lot away. Sven put a hand on her shoulder, in a sort of reassurance. Looking around to see if Curtis wasn't in the vicinity, briefly wondering where he was up to, he looked back at Luna with a serious stare.

"Look at you, after Fenrir had told you the news you're acting all scared... Are you worried they're going to make a surprise attack?" As the thought struck his mind, he shook his head a little. He didn't want to be overwhelmed now; especially if there was a risk of premature war.

Sven sighed, averting his gaze a little. This brawn Viking culture... He wondered how Luna would judge him if he admitted he was also scared of the coming war. "Egh... You know, I'm not like all these guys around here..." He confessed, waving his hand around, pointing generally towards the majority of beefy warriors that dotted the place. "I'm completely opposite to them, look at me; I'm some scrawny kid who's afraid of dying compared to them..." Sven now bore an expression that looked like longing... or envy...

Sven tried to keep a good attitude despite the self-demoralising words; he hoped no one else apart from Ari had found out about his little breakdown a few days back. He knew the only way to reassure someone was to act strong willed. Sven wondered where Hermes was. She always seemed to disappear when he needed a confidence boost, but alas, after the trauma session, she had become a little more cautious around Sven. After all, he was in a volatile emotional state.

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

She just about flinched back when Sven laid his hand on her. She didn't know why, but she did. She stopped herself from doing so though- it was only Sven and he wasn't going to Hurt her in any way or do anything to her. This was just his way of trying to comfort her. And she really did appreciate the gesture. Luna saw him glance around tensely, like he was looking for something. But then he looked back at her and spoke.

Luna listened to what Sven had to say. She tried to make her terror less apparent. It wasn't good that someone was concerned about it- she didn't want anyone to figure out the truth. But with the shock of the almost incomprehensible news, it was difficult to conceal her fear. He said something about the surprise attack and she looked at him. She bit her lip. That was pretty close to what she was thinking, but definately not as bad as what it could actually be for her. She didn't really know what to say in response. She tried a few times to form a sentace, but failed.

The girl was glad when he started to speak again, allowing her to avoid answering his previous question. She listened intently to his words. She nodded a little in response to him. She really did understand. She began to speak to him after he was finished. "well, Sven. I'm a scrawnier kid with alot more concerns that just death out of this!! You have NO idea! Luna wanted to kick herself after she said that to him. Why the hell had she gone and done that! She felt like her mark was burning a hole in her shirt- showing everyone. She couldn't believe she had said that. She furrowed her eyebrows and sighed as she hung her head and stared at the ground.

[Sven & Hermes]

At first, Sven had smirked at the first comment about being 'scrawni-er', but his eyebrows raised in Luna's sudden outburst. But Sven wasn't curious. With his own problems with the war, aside from death, he overlooked the last part of Luna's sentence. Sven frowned though; she had Curtis. It must be hard for her to allow her lover to step into the upcoming fray... He wouldn't have liked to be in that situation at all. As Luna hung her head, Sven couldn't help but feel sorry.

"I hope things should be okay." He heard himself say out loud subconsciously. He then hesitated, knowing the phrase was futile in his mind. "Besides, I am sure that not only Curtis, but also your friends will drop what they're doing to help you out... That's sort of why I'm taking my roost in the medical bay."

Oh. That came out wrong. Sven's mind was going into overdrive blurting random nonsense now. He blushed slightly, averting his gaze. "As a friend, of course... I apologise, I have a lot on my mind too."

With that, he looked up to the heavens. Hermes was overseeing the island, making sure there were no stealthy attacks en route. Recently the skies had grew busier with dragons on patrol. For now, it was the only sentiment of security that Sven could to cling on to. Even though a pacifist-evolved dragon was amongst its ranks.

Sven decided to change the subject, to try and ease Luna's worries, and his own. "So, uhh... How are your preparations going?" He asked. It was a very stupid and terrible question, but anything was better than the awkwardness the previous subject would have ensured. "I've been learning some human medical stuff from Ari..." He lifted up his hand to show a badly wrapped bandage on his wrist, which was slowly unravelling each time Sven moved his arm. He gave a short, nervous laugh at his failure. "I never realised how hard it was to bandage yourself; but I suppose it's got to be done when it's needed."

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

Luna heard Sven begin to talk again, and she listened. but at the mention of Curtis, Luna fell apart. Tears dripped down her face and her quiet sobs rang. She wanted him more than anything in the world right now. she was still staring at the ground- she stayed that way while he spoke. He blabbered on a bit more- but Luna wasn't really listening. All she could think about was that the hysterians were coming. She just couldn't let go of it. And she wanted Curtis- someone she could hold on to and tell him all of it. He knew the real her- he was the only one she had trusted it to.

She heard Sven stop talking. Bandaging? She glanced up- looking at his arm. Tears still trickled down her face constantly. She reached out to the man's arm and secured the cloth so it wouldn't come undone. "like that" she said when finished. She pursed her lips- trying not to make a scene over her distress. She dared to look up at his face. His emotions were unreadable. She looked down again. And again she found herself with the overwhelming desire for her lover. She just needed someone to hold on to. It made her feel grounded.

Luna looked up at Sven again, rather desperatly. She bit her lip and in a rather impulsive move, wrapped her shaking arms around him and held on to him firmly. The sorrowful salty drops still fell and her whimpers and moans continued. She really hoped he wouldn't mind this. It was better than nothing, but it was nothing like hugging Curtis. It wasn't the same kind of gesture- she didn't do it the same way she would have with Curtis, and Sven certainly wasn't going to react the same way he would have. Sven was like a brother to her though- they were good friends. She didn't move herself but she looked up at him- waiting to receive his reaction.

[Sven & Hermes]

Sven smiled warmly as Luna fixed his failed attempt at bandaging his own arm. He watched her analytically, drinking in the information that her pair of hands were imparting. "Thanks." He said, watching Luna's facial expression slowly grow more and more distressed.

Before he could make any other move to comfort her, she had hesitantly wrapped her arms around him. Eyes widening, scanned the area quick, not wanting any awkward situation again. He returned the favour, giving a comforting squeeze. He could feel her shaking arms, but the grip was strong.

As they stood there in each other's arms, a wave of emotions began to well up inside of him again. The hug was comforting, but it was also bringing back past memories... Terrible memories. He gulped, forcing his emotions down. He had to try and appear strong for Luna. What was the point of comforting someone if you were just as or even more disheveled and broken than they were?

As he rubbed her back comfortingly, Luna looked up at him with reddened eyes. He gave a weak smile, though his green eyes appeared to betray the pain that was tearing him up. But for once, it wasn't about the war. It had been so long since he had felt the warmth of another human being like this...

"You'll be ok. I'll make sure of that." He said after a gulp. He made a mental note to find Curtis later, and make sure he does all he can for Luna too. After all, he didn't want the same thing happening to Curtis as it happened to him, no matter the circumstance.

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

Luna felt Sven return her gesture after a moment- reaching out for Her with his arms in mch the same fashion as she had to him. Holding someone and being held herself made her feel a bit better, despite the fact he may not have been first on her list- it still helped her feel secure.

She could feel as Sven ran his hands over her back. Luna was a bit taken aback by it, she was so used to those hands caressing her being those of her lover. But the girl could tell it was simply the man attempting to comfort her and at the same time, not cross boundaries he knew where there from her and Curtis' relationship. She didn't think Sven was trying to challenge the couple, nor was he in a sense attempting to wedge himself in. Sven was just being a good friend- he always had been. 

As she looked up at him again she saw pain in his eyes. Not a hurting that seemed to be a small burden either. The girl wondered what was causing him such sorrow. He seemed to be walling it up internally too. She had been through some pretty terrible emotional situations as well- more than this young man could fathom. No one knew everything about her, Not even her Curtis. it hurt her immensely to have to withhold such things from him, yet in her case it was a bit different- having too much information about her could get people killed- especially with upcoming invasion that was forecast to befall in the days that marched their way closer and closer every second she stood there. She was even starting to regret telling Curtis what she had about herself, she only feared her lover's safety. 

But, generally in her experience, telling someone you could trust seemed to help remedy such fits of emotional battle Sven seemed to silently be fighting this very moment. She hesitated in inquiring though. Only because he didn't know what kinds of nightmares her history involved, so he might dismiss her as being naive to such pain and become frustrated with her, which she didn't want. And she couldn't very well just go and pour her heart out to him, sharing all her secrets- no - such a choice would be foolish, rash and dangerous. 

So Luna tried to compose herself a bit (but not accomplishing much) before looking up to meet his green eyes' gaze with the steady watch of her big silver ones. Both sets of the eyes betrayed pain and internal suffering- emotional battles of the heart; and both brimmed with tears, though only Luna's had given in and opened their floodgates allowing warm salty drops to pour down her face. But his as were almost there as well- Luna could tell he was simply attempting to stay composed, at least he was doing better than her at it.  

The girl asked meekly after a moment of looking at one another in the eye "what's wrong Sven? You can tell me"

[Sven & Hermes]

Sven snapped out of his little mental warfare for a moment, though the thoughts still pecked him. He listened to Luna's question, his expression turning serious and grave. He had no idea if Luna had lost anyone precious to her, nor how strong the relationship was between her and Curtis, but he knew the burden he had to bear was for no one else. Luna already seemed distressed enough as it was; he didn't really want her worrying about him just yet.

But it couldn't hurt to express the tip of the iceberg.

"You can't even begin to comprehend how I feel." He continued, his voice shaking a little. His hands withdrew from Luna's back, but held the sides of her arms firmly, more as a confidence booster than anything else. He stared into her grey eyes. "Honestly? If I was in your shoes..." An image of a forgotten face flashed through his mind, a small tear running down his cheek. "...If I was in your shoes, I would do all I could to protect the one I love. Knowing, that they would too would watch over me... Protect me." Sven frowned. That last part really connoted his problem. He bowed his head, removing one hand to brush the gathering water from his eyes. He thought he had gone past this stage. Perhaps it was the ever looming atmosphere of death on the horizon.

He turned away from Luna. "You can't even begin to understand." He repeated, shaking his head. His hand delved into his coat pocket, drawing out a small bracelet with all sorts of small colourful carved stones and gems around it, like a sort of charm bracelet. He ran it through his fingers. It was way too thin to slip around his own wrist, so he tended to keep it in his pocket. Running through the symbols, he paused as his thumb ran over a Jasper stone, carved into the shape of a heart. Flicking the stone over, the letter 'S' was carved into the stone's center.

Time seemed to stop for Sven as he stared at it, completely ignoring the world that was going on around him. He wanted to cry, but something held him back. No. He remembered some whispering cold words that came back to haunt him... be strong... for me...

With a deep breath, his fingers curled around the charms, closing his eyes with a sort of newfound hope. After all, she was always strong for him. Turning back around to Luna, he smiled, as if nothing had been ailing him in the first place, delicately stuffing the precious object back into his pocket.

"I'm fine."

[Luna Heiler & Ayer]

Luna saw Sven's distressed face as he let go of her. He seemed confused and highly upset about something, but he didn't say anything for a moment. She looked away for a couple seconds, surveying the area. But she felt two hands grab her on either side by her arms. Her eyes darted towards Sven once again as her gripped her firmly. His face seemed to hold traces of so many negative emotions- she couldn't even tell what all of the were. "w...what's wrong?! Luna said, slight alarmed at his behavior. He told her she couldn't comprehend it. She bit her lip.

Luna gaped at what Sven told her next. Her lover- that was Curtis... Protect them- from the war she guessed. Her mind flew all over the place. What did he know that she didn't?! Had Curtis told him something? She depraprately desired to have knowledge of what he refused to tell her. Her tears starts to fall faster again as her mind conjured up so many situations. She was about to ask what he meant by that- he was not going to retain information such as she supposed he had from her.

But then he seemed to spin out of control. He turned away from her and slipped his hand into his pocket. Nothing exept the tears flowing down her face moved as she observed him. His face turned downwards and his features were hidden behind his yellow mess of hair. It disenabled her to read his emotions as well, but she could see what he was staring at. It was a bracelet. It had little charms all around it. If it had been sunnier out, it probably would have shone in it's rays. Luna furrowed her eyebrows- it reminded her of something.

She raised her hand up from her side, resting her arm in her other hand. She looked at the little bracelet on her thin wrist. It was made of gold and had two charms hanging off of it. One white, one black. Curtis had given it to her. Luna never took this bracelet off- ever. it was too precious to her. She held the hand with the trinket on it on her chest, close to her rapidly beating heart. She let out a sigh And again bit her lip. The only way Sven would have something like that would be if he was separated from the one who used to own it.

Sh had to force herself to keep from bawling like a baby at the thought of separation from the one she loved. She saw Sven put the little thing back into his pocket and turn around. He smiled and told her that he was fine, but she could practically smell the false contentment. She realized his statement before had been advice from experience rather than a warning of something he knew was to befall her. "I don't know what happened to you, Sven. But I can tell your hurting, and I'm sorry....and I can't imagine what extent of pain separation would bring me.... she said to Him. She let out a shuddery sigh- just the mere thought of separation scared her and rattled her heart. She couldn't comprehend what Sven was going through, and honestly- she didn't ever want to.

[Sven & Hermes]

Sven's smile twitched a little as Luna saw through his facade. When she spoke about separation, he flinched a little; she had seen his... souvenir. Wondering how she knew, his eyes drifted to a bracelet of her own. Well, he was separated in a way.

Sven nodded in confirmation. She might not know the truth, but she was pretty close. ”Yeah. It's nothing like you would expect it to be...” His emerald eyes drifted off into the sky again... Maybe there was a good side to this war – the possibility of reuniting with his dear Kari.

He shoved the thoughts to one side now, suprisingly with certain ease. Maybe he was over her death after all... maybe. He knew he couldn't linger on the past for too long; that's what everyone in his homeland said to him. Right now was the present, and that time was used to prepare for the bleak future, no matter how hard it will be. He was going to be strong, for her sake.

Returning his gaze to Luna, he realised that Curtis was not at her side... He wasn't even in sight. With all this thoughts on separation and love, he was beginning to find Luna's solitude uncomfortable. 'No wonder she hugged me', he thought. Her main source of comfort and support was absent. He was about to ask where Curtis was, but he held back. Sven didn't know that he was an outsider, so he assumed he was training or preparing himself for the war. He'd only met the bloke once, so Sven didn't want to make too many assumptions either.

”Are you going to be okay?” Sven asked. Right now he had something inside him that wanted to hunt Curtis down, and tell him his duty as Luna's partner to protect her. He didn't know how strong the relationship was between them; but any relationship was important in Sven's eyes nowadays. ”I've got to pick up some... uh, armour for Hermes from Kenna. You saw what happened to her.” Sven lied, with a little logic to make it authentic. Well, it wasn't really a lie; Hermes had told him how she pestered Kenna for a little underbelly armour, but Sven wasn't going to go pick it up; that was Hermes' job.

Confirming that Luna would be alright, Sven nodded and started to make his leave. ”You take care ok? I'll see you sometime later.”

With that, Sven set out to hunt Curtis down; and give him a good reason why to protect Luna with his life.

[Ari]

Ari could get rid of that thought. Why had she not told anyone? Why did she just go back to work? His thoughts didn’t go anywhere near the truth, how could they? At this point he didn’t even know that about the missing Hysterian heir, so he had no way of putting anything together. His mind was coming up with multiple dark explinations for her actions, most had her as miline...none included fear, or they did and then removed it. Why would she be so afraid to forget to tell anyone?

He came up with many a hypostasis, and everyone was completely wrong. His mind however was relatively accepting of the possibilities, a part of him wanted his supitions of her to have some actual basis. Not his knew suspicion, the suspicions he’d always had of her.

He wouldn’t say anything yet. That wasn’t his style. He would say nothing for now, until he found proof one way or the other. But if it looked like she was suspious enough that it sould be brought to people’s attention, he was good at making people thinking of things without them realising he’d made them think it.

But soon his mind moved away from that and to what he was actually doing, he got to where he knew Asther was and got to her. Asther needed to know about all this. (OOC: Asther, in your post, just have Ari tell her that a hysterian boat’s coming tonight, and you can move him about as you like.)