[15:47:01] Tahlos Darkfold sniffed once
[15:47:14] Tahlos Darkfold sniffed twice
[15:47:40] tamia Darkstone bit her lower lip and watched the Master sniff. Would he scratch too? She waited.
[15:49:46] Tahlos Darkfold did scratch, but at the ground before him. WIth the tip of a small blade... the fire's light not too far off enough for him to see black soot dirty it's tip. He rose it to his nose and sniffed, thrice. Grimacing and holding the dagger away as he covered his mouth with his arm. Eye looking at the blade held out. He then lowered it some and looked to tamia... Letting the dagger bounce a few times gently pointing it her way. "This...what i think.... it is....." He said looking to her from behind the wheel....
[15:53:14] tamia Darkstone watched the Master scratch the ground with the blade and she tilted her head as the smell soon engulfed him. Tamia was used to rotting flesh, burning flesh, raw flesh, all the smells possible and had learned to tolerate it. Throw up enough times and you could, eventually. She gave a glance to the blackened body and sighed softly, voice grave as she whispered, "aye Master i think so" Not sure though what he thought it was, she asked, "who do you think it is, Master?" She didn't know that he had been the one to place maka on the wheel.
[15:55:19] Tahlos Darkfold's eye shot to the wheel, and whatever else was there. Then to tamia again. "Go to wagon." Pointing behind her. "You find light hair girl with ball to chain. Make sure she no eat too much and bring her here. Also bring bucket, water. Things needed for clean..." He then stood and continued to inspect the scene.....
[15:56:18] tamia Darkstone nodded and glanced over her shoulder to where the Master pointed. "yes, Master" She quietly made her way down the hill in that direction, repeating everything she needed to bring back just in case she forgot.
[15:56:24] Tahlos Darkfold's voice then rose. "Yanpi!!!" To fall silent. "Do as girl say!" He let roar through the laager. knowing if she would soon understand what he meant.
[15:58:33] Charlize Caggles heard Tahlos bellow and then saw a girl run into the wagon, she smiled at her softly and thought for a moment to bellow back, but she knew her voice wouldn't carry like his and so she simply said "Greetings"
[15:58:51] tamia Darkstone had wandered around, looking for a light haired girl. She saw the girl in the kitchens and made her way up the ramp a nod given to her as she spoke, "tal, i'm called tamia and was told to fetch you" While tamia waited for the girl to respond, she collected a bucket and filled it with water. Rep clothes were added to her belt and a scrub brush was hooked to a loop that dangled from her belt as well. She thought that would be all that was needed.
[15:59:11] tamia Darkstone: cloths*
[16:00:10] Charlize Caggles turned and watched the girl as charlize ran the back of her hand over her mouth, running her tongue over her teeth and swallowing the remains of her food, she smiled "fetch me, yes yes" she smiled softly
[16:01:30] tamia Darkstone smiled and picked up the bucket, holding it with both hands. "good, follow me" she said to the girl and then turned to make her way out of the kitchen, fully expecting her to follow. While the girl was very beautiful, she seemed nice and dutiful as well.
[16:03:33] Tahlos Darkfold had walked around the wheel, in one way. Then the other. Looking at it from each angle....By the time the girls arrived he'd been looking away. Only to face them as they aproached. Eye shifting to their hands to see what was brought.
[16:04:01] Charlize Caggles dragged up the hill the clanking of the ball and chain as she moaned "this is heavy and it's pulling my ankle" she complained as she turned seeing the Master, her face once again etched in a displeased frown
[16:04:16] tamia Darkstone approached with the bucket, some rep cloths and a scrub brush. She placed the bucket on the ground and gave the girl a glance before she spoke, "she is brought, Master, along with the bucket of water and other things"
[16:05:47] Charlize Caggles sucked in her bottom lip as she looked at the girl wondering what was to be done with the bucket, she then turned her attention back to tahlos and she gazed at him, deep mysterious gray eyes, scanning his frame as if to study him and make out whats in his head
[16:07:47] Tahlos Darkfold looked them over silently. His hand pointed to the ground...around what was left of the darkened body. "Scrub black from stone..." His hand moved to rest on his belt. "Then fetch cloth... " Waving the other hand as if shooing a bug "Prepare body to be removed..." he would then turn to face the lake far off. His breathing even as he enjoyed the coolness darkness had brought to the lands. Three moons in plain sight...giving off enough light to see without fires or torches. His thoughts on the events of the past days, Makani..being one of them.....
[16:09:43] tamia Darkstone nodded and adjusted her kirtle skirt over her knees as she knelt on the non blackened part of the stone. Dipping the brush into the water she know dragged it over the stone, watching the liquid turn to gray and run down the hill like dark tears. She stayed quiet while she worked, not once gazing at the body, just keeping her focus on the cleaning.
[16:09:58] tamia Darkstone: now*
[16:11:49] Charlize Caggles looked down at the blackened charred remains of what charlize could now make out to be a body, she gasped a shapr intake of breath and stepped back stumbling on her ball and chain and falling flat on her ass, as she hit the floor with a thud, she heaved uncontrollably, trying to look away, the sight ringing over in her mind, she couldn't stop the wretching, her eyes glazed with tears as she gagged and they trickled from her eyes, she looked up at tahlos and shook her head
[16:14:00] tamia Darkstone stopped her movements, a pause in the cleaning. For a moment she looked like a statue, just listening to the girl freak out in understanding of what had occurred here. After what seemed like a long time, tamia turned and looked at the girl, whispering, "get a cloth from the kitchen, large enough to wrap the body and be glad it wasn't you that was burned" Her eyes were narrowed, hoping this girl wasn't as foolish as maka was.
[16:17:13] Charlize Caggles tried desperately to stop herself heaving, but the image played over in her mind like a movie, she tried to breath deeper breaths but it seemed the smell of burned meat was filling her airways and adding to her repulsion and then when the girl told charlize to go to the kitchen and get a large cloth, she looked down the steep hill, the journey down wouldn;'t be so bad but up again, twice in as many hours with this blasted ball and chain, charlize felt like she could scream for the whole of gor, but of course she didn't, she just nodded and replied "a large cloth? aye" and she moved towards the hill edge, working her way back down
[16:20:49] Charlize Caggles moves back quickly as she can, dragging the ball and chain and resting a large piece of rep cloth folded over her should, she knees beside tamia and looks at her, keeping her eyes away from the body
[16:22:16] tamia Darkstone glanced up as the girl returned and with a soft smile she asked, "do you want me to wrap the body?" She placed the brush on the ground and pushed the bucket towards the girl, her hand raising for the cloth. "you can scrub the ground, it will be easier" Tamia was once like the girl but exposure to a lot of horrific things had toughened her to a point where she almost didn't react much when seeing it.
[16:24:34] Charlize Caggles looked at Tamia, her eyes full of sorrow and tears and she nodded softly, charlize began to wonder who the body was, what tthe body had done, she had no idea whether it male or female, just that it was a life and this pained her, she reached for the bucket and the cloth, "thank you" she whispered to Tamia, before she dipped the brush and began scrubbing the stones
[16:29:41] tamia Darkstone took the cloth and swallowed down the emotion that bubbled up into her throat. She appeared very calm and serene but in truth tamia would cry when left alone tonight in her furs. she couldn't afford to show that kind of emotion here, she was still damaged from her previous home where emotions were better kept silent. "your welcome" was all tamia managed to say while she unfolded the cloth on the ground. She inhaled sharply as she looked at the blackened body, and her hands shook as she placed them onto the remains of maka. Her flesh touched the ash and it made her skin crawl, but she grabbed a firmer hold and rolled the body onto the cloth. It felt empty, no longer a person, no longer maka, just a blackened and charred body that would continue to decompose. Another breath was inhaled, not caring if the air contained the stench of the burning flesh and wood, and carefully she folded the cloth around the body, covering it in white, and no longer visible. A shroud.
[16:34:27] Nisaa Breen rises from her slumber and makes her way over to tamia, happy to see her looking none the worse for wear, her eyes scanning for Mistress Kanda, thankful she was not about, her glance slipping to Master Tahlos in meditation "tal" she whispers to tamia not wishing to wake him
[16:34:51] tamia Darkstone glanced up to see nisaa approaching but she didn't smile at her, she just nodded and whispered, "tal, nisaa" and continued to wrap the body so the cloth would not fall off of it. She supposed nisaa could smell the faint lingering smell of the burning wood and flesh in the air and understand why tamia seemed trance like.
[16:45:32] Tahlos Darkfold heard steps aproaching and looked to Nisaa, he gave her a slight nod. Distant in it's own way.... Eye shifting down then seeing tamia's stomach was tougher than what one would think he gave her a nod. And stepped around back of the wheel and to the other side of the small cliff edge.....
[16:46:50] Tahlos Darkfold's eye wandered, noting the other girl that aproached he payed her no mind really. His words then filled the air. "Fetch set of fibers." For whoever would be the first to do as he'd asked. His eye shifting to the body in the cloth now...
[16:48:16] Tahlos Darkfold looked over his shoulder hearing more steps...seeing a head move out from behind the hill and recognsiging the man of Ar....
[16:48:46] Tahlos Darkfold offered him a nod....but his attention was fixed back to the girls before him... and what lay on the ground...before them....
[16:49:51] tamia Darkstone smoothed the cloth out, making it neat over the body. She glanced up again as the Master moved off to the side and nodded to chewy as she approached. Still tamia did not react nor smile. She had been born into slavery through darkness and pain, her journey full of it, so another scene of such wouldn't phase her into tears - not yet. "yes, master i will fetch the fibers" She pressed up, and wiped her hands wearily over her face, smearing black soot across her cheeks. She noticed the other Masters approach and simply said, "tal, Master" before she walked towards the kitchen, it had everything that was needed.
[16:52:50] tamia Darkstone returned just as quietly as she had left, in her hand the fibers that were asked for. She made her way towards Master Tahlos and knelt on the ground nearby. Her hand was risen, offering the fibers to him with a low but audible whisper, "the fibers you requested, Master"
[16:55:22] Tahlos Darkfold looked left then hearing the thud. His eye taking in the sight of the slain beast. Another nod of apreciation given. Then a sly chuckle followed by "Surely, Chief will be impressed" He said looking to the man. But his face switched to no expression suddenly...as he returned to the matters at hand. He stepped towards the corpse and over it....eye on the hillside seeing tamia return in between the bosk'. When she had returned he took them from her and returned to the body. "Ashoge" Would be heard thanking her....Lifting up an end...unsure what part of it it was...and wrapping the fiber around, then trailing it up along...and winding it around the other side of the end of the cloth. So that it couldn't slip out...a knot firmly secured and a lead left with the extent... he stood straight...and looked around slowly...mostly in the direction of the wilderness...and not the people....
[17:00:58] Xocolatle Ditko felt her stomach turn as she looked upon the dead form upon the floor. In all of her life time she had seen many thing, mostly after her enslavement, but even her during the days of her training the Jarls had been kind enough to keep the dead form of another from her sight. Instantly she sucked in a deep breath and brought her hands to cover her lips, muffling a small cry that had found its way there. Her training, deeply burned in to her bones, told her to remain as silent and still as she could, but her knees gave and she heaved forward, nearly spilling the contents within her stomach.
[17:02:10] Adi Johin looks up and it is at this point that the smell of burnt flesh assaults his nostrils. But it is not the smell of an animal. It is the smell of a burnt body. Without a flicker of emotion his eyes settle on the badly burnt corpse stretched on the wagon well. He looks at it for a long moment, then glances slowly, carefully to the other arrayed around the fire. This was not his concern and he would not make mention of it or in any other way acknowlege its passing unless it was put to him to do so. He knelt, pulling his knife from his belt, and began to methodically skin the beast he had dropped, taking his time and being unusually thorough. There was no rush, and he was thankful to have something to occupy himself with as the denizens of the Laager went about what appeared to be their presentely somewhat unusual business.
[17:08:19] Nisaa Breen shakes her head, the stench was not as strong if she breathed in through her lips and not her nose. She could only imagine what had happened here for it was threatened to her... to be burned alive in oil.. the stench of burned flesh, the acrid lingering odor of thalarion oil. Shuddering in remembrance she had at least the common sense Odin blessed more than a gnat with to realize where she belonged. Perhaps it was for the best. "Greetings Masters" she mutters not wishing to disturb Master Tahlos in the nasty work of disposing the carcass, yes nothing more than a carcass now, something for scavengers to pick on should they find anything savory. Her gaze travels to Master Adi, a smile slipping to her lips, rather toothy in appearance given her desire to breath in through her mouth
[17:09:45] Tahlos Darkfold cracked his neck, no flicker of thought crossed his mind in regards to concern when it came to others surrounding. His head shifted right before he spoke. "Inahan..." Towards chewy. "Move from here... " he'd have told her to clean up but what was the point when Adi was gutting a beast on the other side of the fire. His eye shooting to the man with that thought... Then nodding once again as he gained a better glimpse of the felled animal soon to be skinned. "Well hunted." He exclaimed and began to pull the lead. "tamia... come with me." He called her obvious she was one who could deal with such things.....His eye slipped to flour though.... watching her briefly as she looked Adi over. This didn't halt him long though and he made off....to dispose of the remainders of a lady once called Makani...
[17:11:22] tamia Darkstone stood up and followed the Master, a faint murmuring of farwell given to the rest of the group gathered.
[17:12:14] Tahlos Darkfold dragged the cloth on... every so often stopping to make sure the knots hadn't come undone...
[17:13:32] Tahlos Darkfold stopped at the door giving dante a nod, then continued to drag the heavy contents through. Giving him a nod of thanks for allowing him to pass.....
[17:16:32] Tahlos Darkfold pulled the cloth along...maki9ng sure to go slow so it wouldnt slip off the side of the large tree... He heard padding to his left and watched as tamia aproached, making sure she wouldnt slip..not like there was much he could do from his position if she did anyway. He began to fasten the end of the lead to the branch off to the side, leaning on it with both hands.
[17:18:55] tamia Darkstone was glad she wore sandals on her feet, the soft leather useful when climbing over uneven ground. On the large trunk of the tree, used as a bridge of sorts, she walked, taking smaller, careful steps and only stopping when the Master stopped. She watched silently as he positioned the wrapped body, curious to see what would be done with it. In the mamba camp it would have been plundered for its bones, and used for clothes or anything useful. But she didn't live there anymore and she thanked Odin everyday, her Master as well.
[17:24:44] Tahlos Darkfold had pressed himself off and back up onto the main trunk. Slowly he stood and let his boot rest on the cloth. His eye closed briefly, knowing even she did not deserve a burial of sorts such as this. What hapeened could have been avoided and the lady had been given many chances. Therefore put her corpse to use...He pressed it off and watched it roll over the side of the trunk. A snap followed as the fiber reached it's end allowing the body to hang there...swaying as momentum died down. He took in a deep breath and looked to tamia. "In two moons. You return here.... tell me if corpse still hang." His eye narrowed on her, ephasizing the importance there was to what he'd asked of her. Kurii tracks had been found by him not too long ago... only passing through though. He wanted to konw how frequently this happened, and so would use makani's corpse as a test of sorts.... All these thoughts moving through his mind as he looked to tamia. Then he blinked, looked over his shoudler again to make sure the fibers seem
[17:24:44] Tahlos Darkfold: ed secure...and stepped around the girl careful as to not throw her off balance as he made his way up the trunk in the direction they'd come..to turn a bit further off from the girl as he awaited a reply....
[17:30:10] tamia Darkstone pressed her hands against her belly, the only motion that she felt anything or was moved by the scene at all. With eyes of a stranger she watched the body pushed over into the void, the rope going tight as it swung low through the air. Like a pendulum it waved, from side to side and then spinning into a circle until it stopped and moved very slowly from time to time, all by the effort of the wind. Mesmerized by the movement, she only glanced away when the Master spoke to her and she nodded in understanding. "yes, Master in two moons" She didn't know why and didn't think about it for once, just acknowledged the command. Carefully she turned, a soft whispering floating down to the body, "may odin have mercy on your soul and may you be less mouthy in the afterlife" A flower was taken from her hair and she blew it down towards the body, watching the pretty colour float through the air before landing on the white cloth. Again she glanced to the Master and spoke in a soft voice, "will she continue to bring tro
[17:30:10] tamia Darkstone: uble even in death?" She wondered what her body could attract, what demons it could call from the lands.
[17:35:46] Tahlos Darkfold's eye narrowed to the girls words. But it was the last one's that had truly caught his attention. "Wise man say to me once, those who fail in life. When reach death.... must make return to living. When ready.... and retry where they fail." He paused looking to the corpse as it hung there, now settled from its swaying. "Life in physical is lesson." He paused...and looked to tamia again. His head shook left and right sowly... "I think will be more than one lifetime...for her understand this." Then to somewhat add reassurance he added "Evil spirit no last here long. Evil spirit only live in heart of men allow fear take control. Fully."....
[17:39:49] tamia Darkstone made her way up the trunk, aqua eyes wide and soft, innocent almost as they were illuminated by the moons glow. She listened to every word the Master said, so very true, and another lesson learned, one not out of pain but out of wisdom. "yes, Master" she whispered, already feeling any apprehension of the swaying body, the malicious tongue that maka had, go away. She shook her head at the pity that she never learned the lesson and tamia was glad she, nisaa and pie were given a chance to learn theirs with their life intact. She smiled now, a soft movement of her lips as she took more steps up the trunk and moved closer to the Master. "If she does return to the living, lets hope if she visits she does so with less attitude"
[17:43:48] Tahlos Darkfold looked to tamia as she made her way up the trunk, a soft smil forming in the corner of his lips. He gave her a last nod to her words....and turned...to head back to the Laager. Ending another chapter in the lands of the Alar.....
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