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Kadaj (mothersbestson) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-09-15 16:51:00

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ayla, complete, day 15, kadaj

Day 15
Who: Kadaj and Ayla
When: Day 15 evening
What: Seeing A Familiar Face
Where: A bench looking toward the vineyard
Rating: G
Status: In progress

He sat on the bench, his chin resting on his right gloved hand while the left loosely held the sword hilt that stuck out of the scabbard. Shifting his elbow off the belt buckle around his thigh without raising his head, Kadaj stared at the orderly lines of the vineyard fields. He didn't have any real answers regarding the planet but all he wondered about was the footprints to be seen here and there in the dirt.

Perhaps he needed to go eat something in the restaurant or maybe just sleeping would be good. Sighing, he put his face into both his hands. His white hair hung down over the black fingers. He thought about the fact that there were dreams during sleep now. His mind jumped from subject to subject in a random fashion because he didn't want to dream just then. What good was it when he had to wake up after seeming to be alive again on Gaia, or after being back in the Lifestream? Like all the stolen people he'd met to date, he didn't want to be here.

Someone approached, his senses warned. Had he been where he belonged, he would have looked up... No, he wouldn't have even been sitting amongst green, growing things so it didn't matter.

Kadaj just continued sitting there holding his head in his hands.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-19 07:20 pm UTC (link)

"I don't mind," he agreed and popped another grape into his mouth. Like before, he savoured biting into it and the combination of sweet yet slightly tart flavours that rushed over his taste buds.

"My world is called Gaia," he began by way of introduction. "I guess it's like a lot of planets that support life. Though this is the only other planet I've been on to date." He ate another grape and looked at the young woman, who didn't appear taller than him. With the exception of children and Claire Bennet, Kadaj was used to most people being taller, even his own brothers. It was nice to gaze at Ayla at eye level. He didn't even consider her being barefoot and his thick-soled boots which made them about equal in height.

He started walking between the neat rows slowly, looking to see if she accompanied him. Something about the vinyard and the weather actually made him feel relaxed. He almost considered removing his gloves as he plucked another grape from the bunch in his hand.

"The Lifestream... it's like the blood of the planet. It's not red, not even really physical in the same way. Some consider it the soul of Gaia. Others used it to power our cities," he explained. He wasn't sure what she might understand as surely as he realised they were from very different environments. But she would surely ask what she wanted to know.

"The Lifestream is where we go when we die and I was there before Mirage stole me."

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_ayla_
2008-09-22 11:10 am UTC (link)

As she ate her grapes, she listened to Kadaj tell her about his world. She found it hard to comprehend some things because she couldn't relate them to anything in her own world, but she loved stories and still found it fascinating.

In all reality, Ayla was nearly five inches taller than Kadaj, but out of habit, she stooped. She had been taller than the men of the Clan, and they didn't like having to look up to a woman, so she stooped to be closer to their height and so that she could look up to them. Kadaj's tall boots, though, helped the situation so she didn't have to stoop too far.

As he walked, she turned to walk with him, continually plucking the juicy globes from the cluster in her hand. She listened, nodding her head from time to time. She was very attentive and would probably be able to repeat back to him everything he was telling her verbatim because of the habit she had picked up as a child. Memorization had been a huge key to her survival in the Clan.

"By power, you mean the same way Mirage is powered? With e-lec-tricity?" Ayla had been one of the first people on Mirage and as such had had plenty of time to research things she didn't understand in the library. Along with stealing her from her own world, the Planet apparently gave her the ability to read modern text. It was a miracle, considering she came from a time where there was no written word.

So she had read up on electricity, and comprehended as much as she could, though there was still so much she didn't grasp. "Creb said that the people who died in our world went up to sit around the hearth fires in the sky." She pointed upward with a finger stained slightly purple from the grapes she was eating. "Death confuses me. To the Clan I am dead, but my body never stopped working the way Iza's did." She frowned, wishing that she understood better. She hated not understanding.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-22 06:06 pm UTC (link)

Kadaj nodded, feeling more than a bit of curiosity about Ayla now that they had started talking in a meaningful manner. Really, she reminded him a little of himself when he'd been in the Lifestream and using the experience to answer his own questions.

"Yes we had electricity. Who told you about it here?"

He listened to her talk about her past, trying to learn from her inflections as well as her words. "Hearth fires in the sky... is that what you thought of when you saw stars on your world?" he wondered while they wandered the peaceful vineyard setting. Popping the grapes in his mouth and eating seemed to improve the way he felt. He could go for longer than most without food but whenever he boasted he didn't need to eat, that was major exaggeration.

"You leave your body when you die." He vaguely knew from others' thoughts that their bodies went into the Lifestream too yet they weren't physical in the same way as they had been. "Do you mean the Clan shunned you?"

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_ayla_
2008-09-23 11:42 am UTC (link)

"No one told me. I wanted to know what they were, and when I went into the big room with all the books, I started looking through them. After a long time, I found out that encyclopedias have a lot of information in them. I read about electricity and light bulbs in the encyclopedias." She had to learn a lot of things on her own, but it was nothing different from the way she'd lived in the Valley.

"That's what Creb said they were, hearth fires for the people who had gone from this life. But I met a star, and she is not a hearth fire." Ayla was sometimes more confused than educated on certain things. Those encyclopedias had also said that stars were balls of gas. But Yvaine didn't look like a ball of gas to her.

"What do you mean we "leave" our bodies when we die? Isa looked the same, her body just stopped working. We buried her in the ground and piled rocks on top of her. But when I died, my body did not stop working. But no one could see me, they thought I was an evil spirit. They wanted me to go away."

It always made her stomach thrum with hurt when she thought about being cast out by the Clan. Having to leave her child behind, and everyone that she knew and loved. She pushed the memories away, though. She was trying to figure things out, and talking with Kadaj was helping.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-23 08:09 pm UTC (link)

He had never had to use a library nor a database, at least not in the consciousness who called himself Kadaj. But like with a lot else, he had memories of doing so, mostly from Sephiroth's time of schooling as a youth in this instance. Considering how wherever Ayla came from existed without electricity, she had done absolutely brilliantly for herself so far.

"You have to be very smart to learn all that," Kadaj complimented. Interesting that she had spent time educating herself rather than hiding or desperately seeking to leave.

"You met a star who's a person? Really? I think I'd like to meet an actual star." Kadaj believed her but he had other comments to make: "At least I think we leave our bodies. The spark of life, the soul, the Lifestream is inside our bodies. Ah..." He stopped and turned to look at her, looking into her eyes. "It's something like a light bulb. You can see the light of life in someone's eyes and then it goes out when they die. But the bulb is still there when the light is off." He didn't go into how on his world the bodies usually vanished too since it would just confuse his point right then.

"And was it your people declaring you had died but you knew you were still alive?" he wondered.

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