[Enzo and Nasira are on a boat. Inna cabin. In a damaged boat. With other people. But those other people aren't in the cabin. They're on the boat. And since Enzo's looking for Nasira, she's the one that can describe.] [They're heading for Rohdan, port town in Zaxon. And while it's not easy going, they're trying their best to keep the ship a-steady. Well, not them personally obviously, since they're goofing off and talking, but that's what other people are for!] [Mini session start!] * Nasira is describing? Sure! She's in her cabin, bloody vest off and pulling off her Maltanese shirt. The door's unlocked, for whatever that's worth. * Enzo clomps down the hall and looks around. He taps on Nasira's door. Nasira? * Nasira glances over her shoulder, then goes about folding her bloody and ripped shirt. "Come on in, Kid." * Enzo comes on in! And leans against the doorframe. "Didn't you just get that shirt?" * Nasira shrugs and turns to look at Enzo; her torso's scarred pretty well, though said scars are partly healed. She's still bleeding pretty badly. "That's *why* I got the shirt," she says with a little grin. Her breasts are loosely bound with some strips of thin, beige material (which is part soaked through with blood itself), so Enzo doesn't get away with a total peep show. * Enzo tilts his head. "Good point." * Enzo frowns at the wounds. He doesn't seem too concerned about what Nasira's showing, but he also doesn't seem too concerned about wanting to get more. "You need any help with those?" He gestures to them. What, this? Yeah, the blood an' stuff. * Nasira fingers the material over her chest, inspecting it with her one good eye. "Not really. ... I always bleed more than I think I do." ( Do you need help bleeding more? I can help!) Yeah, but if we run into anything between here and Zaxon...I am kinda worried about the extra time that'll take. Plus, considering our luck, we probably *will* run into something huge and snarly and bitey. That we can't ride. * Nasira makes a little psh sound. "We can handle anything the big, bad world throws at it." If it gets really bad, maybe it'll choke on Naiya. That's true. I just want a ship to watch from. Or a sea serpent of my very own to ride. I can't believe I didn't think to bring a rope when I jumped. * Nasira sits on the edge of her bunk and kicks off her slippers, then starts undoing her hair - which is a tangled, bloody mess. "Ropes are overrated." The one time I brought one, I didn't really need it. Which was that? Uh... when the whatsit was frozen. * Nasira blinks. "Oh yeah, you were out." * Nasira waves. Anyway, don't worry about it, Kid. There wasn't enough time to get rope. Yeah, that's true. You didn't seem to have too much fun though. You okay? I'm fine. Little bleeding never killed me. Oh, I know. I didn't mean that. * Nasira gets annoyed by one of her ties and yanks on it, pulling it out along with a small knot of bloody hair. She eyes it and then tosses the thing aside. * Enzo tilts his head the other way and narrows his eyes a bit. "You're not pissed about that blood captain guy, are you?" * Nasira snerks. "Really quick, Kid. Right in one." * Enzo snorts back. "You know him, or just angry that he got away?" * Nasira shrugs. He's a blood guy. I don't like 'em. Oh. Why? Aside from the obvious? I heard a lot about them, but never worked with or against any of 'em until now. * Nasira looks at Enzo for a moment, then says, "Why don't you close the door. Have a seat." * Enzo pushes off the wall, shuts the door, and sits down cross-legged. He flicks some hair from his eyes, and looks up questioningly at Nasira. * Nasira leans forward, propping herself by her elbows on her knees. She looks at Enzo - maybe past him - as she tries to figure out how to explain. What does your culture say about blood magic, Enzo? Well... ( Hold on while I quick check the source rules on that!) (Rock on!) We don't really have any strictures against blood magic, but we're not really into it...besides, we don't really do much of stuff that isn't just tech or adept stuff. * Nasira nods slowly. "I thought so." Spirits are everywhere. Did you know that, Kid? That's why all magic works. I've...heard about stuff like that. * Nasira nods and looks at Enzo very intently. "They're even in your blood. Spirits that give you life." * Enzo nods slowly. And blood magic... that takes it away. Twists it. You understand? Ohhhh. * Nasira reaches down to pull her knife out to inspect it, finds it isn't there, and frowns. She pulls the sheath from her sash and sets it on her bed instead. * Enzo watches. So, that captain. I'm going to kill him. * Enzo nodnods. Then pauses. "But how are you going to do it if he can do things like the thing he did when he didn't get his head chopped off when you slit his throat?" * Nasira shrugs. "I figure I just kill him until he stays dead." Oh. That makes sense. Maybe you could...drown him or crush him or something? * Nasira laughs. I'm not very good at drowning or crushing people. Guess I could try, though. Well, every day is a new lesson! * Nasira shakes her head. * Enzo winces. "For example, I get to learn how to get the ship not to fall apart before we get to Rohdan in Zaxon." Anything I can do to help? Ummm...I dunno. I honestly don't know exactly how much we can fix on our own. * Enzo rubs his chin. "...I guess we could leave off on the broken deck for now, there's not a lot there that's support structure...we could salvage the wood from there to move to somewhere else or something. If we had managed to train those sea serpents, they coulda towed us! That would be fun. I dunno... I don't think sea serpents like me very much. * Nasira grins. Well, you managed to ride one too! I'm sure you could persuade it. I dunno. I just think it'd be really cool to have a sea serpent team. We could do all kinds of neat things! Things that don't include eating them, right? Because I kinda want to find out what sea serpent tastes like. Oh, you too? I thought about that. I think they'd be kinda tough. The one I stabbed was pretty tough to get into, I know that. Maybe if we steamed 'em though. ( We fail the cooking roll! The sea serpent meat stays tough. And the ship catches on fire.) (Nooooo!) * Nasira nods. Too bad we can't try. We'll get another chance, though. Serpents *really* like us. Yeah, they really kinda do. * Nasira hms. "Maybe it's Naiya." They tried to eat her first. Yeah, but that's not very surprising. Although...last time, she was underwater trying to get the thing, wasn't she? Huh? ... Oh. Oh yeah. * Nasira rubs at her chin. "I guess she was." * Rowyn has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) Well, we can see if they still go after her next time. I wonder what that Istinese boat was doing here. I didn't see it come up. That thing that called the serpents? Yeah, that was weird. Yeah. Do you think he sic'ed 'em on us, or just saw 'em around and decided to call them away? Probably the second. I think the serpents showed up because of all the blood. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. Maybe when they attack again, he'll show up, and then he can teach us how to make a sea serpent team. * Nasira laughs. "Yeah, that'd be pretty fun." I wonder if Istin just has a huge sea serpent problem... * Nasira looks down. "And I'm still bleeding. Huh." ...huh. Are you sure you don't want me to give it a shot? Or Shan, or Virgil? * Nasira holds her hands out and grins. "Go ahead. I'm gonna have to get dressed sometime, though." Okay. I'll be quick. (Although I'll have to wait for Ro to get back so's I know if he's gonna make me roll. <.<) (Eh, just auto make. It's not like you can't try OVER AND OVER again, anyway.) (XD) * Enzo flips out his crazy knife and approaches Nasira. He holds one blade of it over her injuries and concentrates, which makes him look a little older, or at least more his age. A thin mist comes out of the blade of his knife and wraps around the injuries. It glows a little brighter for a split second, then seems to sink into her body with a weird sensation that's half cool and tingly and half warm and...okay, tingly. * Nasira looks down and grins, feeling where the blood used to leak out. "Now there's magic I can get behind. Thanks, Kid." * Enzo grins brightly back at Nasira. "No problem!" * Enzo gets up. "I should start figuring out what parts of the boat can be moved where. And let you get dressed." Sure. I'll be out once I'm done, so I'll help you out with whatever. Moving things. Okay! * Enzo heads out to inspect the damage, closing the door behind him. * Nasira nods to Enzo as he leaves, then goes about cleaning up and getting dressed. [End!]