[Catch-All] When in Doubt, Fish!

[sisterlyshield]

Who: Kisara, You
Where: Aldrip, Bodies of Water outside of Aldrip?
What: Just a casual catch-all for the month. Fishing! Geodes! More?
Warnings: Probably not? Probably not.


I. Tʜᴀᴛ ᴛʀᴏᴘʜʏ ɪs ᴍɪɴᴇ!

[Kisara hardly needs an excuse to go fishing. Even had there not been a tournament, she would be fishing with a great deal of gusto. The idea of being able to provide for others continues to be a worthy motivator. Kisara has always been best when she's taking care of others. To claim that it's fully altruistic, however, would also not necessarily be true. It's as much for her as it is for anyone else. Gives her time to think. Gives her time to piece things together. Gives her time to find an outlet for thoughts and feelings she otherwise would be holding protectively to herself.

But for now, between catching food for others and getting her hands on that rather modest sculpture, she has her most capable hands full. Although she's made some submissions here and there of fish she's caught, she's also paid visit to others taking part in the tournament, some of them just to watch, some of them with the interest to help them make some progress. It seems just like her to help those who might otherwise be considered competition. She understands, after all, that she might have an unfair advantage. Kisara appreciates a level playing field. There's no honour in it otherwise.

So maybe she's helping you out. Maybe she's the one with her line yet again in the water. Either way, Kisara's ready to make some quieter conversation. Can't go disturbing the fish overmuch, after all.]

How're you enjoying it so far? You have everything you need?

II. Wʜᴀᴛ's ɪɴ ᴀ ʀᴏᴄᴋ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ sᴍᴇʟʟ... ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ʀᴏᴄᴋ.

I'm not saying I want to give up fishing for working with rocks, but this is pretty cool.

[Kisara is a painstakingly careful woman, especially when it comes to something that requires a little more finesse. She'll be the first to admit that she isn't really elegant or graceful. Working with a small little hammer in an attempt to break open a rock without completely shattering it is a work of art in a way. If anything, she's probably been focusing a little too hard on this geode business.

With her little rock-hammer in hand, the furrow in her brow is deep. Tongue poking out from the corner of her mouth, she's tapping along the rock with care in an effort to break it open and get to the lustrous colour at its centre. What she'd like to do is give it to someone here, though maybe she can find a way to keep one for herself as well. Maybe someone will let her do a trade, because she has to admit that she's not eager to go spending money.

...She never really is.]

I feel like this is taking forever, though. I'm afraid I might grip it too hard and undo all of my hard work. Think you can help me out? Just a little tap.

[Just a little tap!]

III. Tʜᴇ ᴡɪʟᴅᴄᴀʀᴅ ᴏᴘᴛɪᴏɴ

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Comments

[baldrshand]

[No real reason to talk about them, true... but, Ethlyn is guessing that Kisara might be glad not to have a reason to be talking about it wherever she goes. That's become the way she feels about what happend to her before arriving here--if there's no need to talk about it, there's a freedom in avoiding it.

...Having reasoned through that, of course, Ethlyn isn't about to bring it up.]

Yes, that makes sense. And we've certainly found other things to take up our attention.

[She sits back in her chair a little, considering the Dahna of Jugdral. She feels a little bad that Kisara is expecting something a little better than what Dahna actually is, which rather humble still--and it is strange that it's all it is, given that the free life of modern Jugdral is owed to what happened there.]

You would think it would be the site of some grand monument, but I don't believe it is--to my knowledge, it's still an ordinary little desert town. But it was where a miracle happened, one that saved my homeland.

[sisterlyshield]

I guess any city or town could be mistaken for seeming like more than it is. Especially to people who aren't native to it. Or to people who just haven't done much travelling in general.

[As she's thinking about the other regions, Kisara can willingly admit that she only knows what she does because of the books she's looked at. She's spent her whole life in Menancia. She's never even really thought much about the other regions. Perhaps once or twice before Dohalim had come to power, but even then, she and Migal both were bound by the orphanage.

Willingly, rather. How cruel it would have been to leave them in the hands in tyranny.]

It sure seems like a commonality that the place others might least expect would be the one to act as a catalyst for a miracle.