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Its Ok To Cry-LP LOG

Who:

Zolomon- Corporal in the Long Patrol, Archer and Runner

Zeldove- Archer and Fighter, For now Recruit in the Long Patrol but soon will be a Private

LOG:

Salamandastron: Dining Chamber
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This is the dining chamber for the mountain of Salamandastron.  It is a
veritable cavern, the necessity of feeding so many hares making the room
so big.  Dominating the room is a huge banquet table made of solid oak. 
Nobeast knows how such a venerable object came to be here, but its
presence is undeniable.  Smaller tables skirt the outside of the room,
each sitting near a large torch burning brightly in its sconce.  The chair
at the head of the table is different from the plain maple chairs that
occupy the rest of the room - it belongs to the Badger Lord.  The massive
object is graced with a carving of the very mountain it is in, with the
sun setting over the sea.
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Zolomon is sitting at one of the smaller tables.In front of him is some sweet rolls, apple slices, oatmeal and some juice to drink, oddly he has a tray sit beside him, he has guarded, with Oatmeal and berries, some milk, some apple slices and some rice cakes,he also has water for him and whom ever that tray is for.He quietly sips hi own water and seems to wait.

Zeldove makes her way to the table and sits down, she grins "I see you have my breakfast, jolly good of you sur"She grins "Course, this is only day one I get a whole week of service.Its gonna be great"

Zolomon sips his water"When off duty, remember that lass.You still have normal training and I don't plan to go easy on that. I am sure thar is something we both need practice with"He stirs his own oatmeal quietly and then finishes what he has left.

Zeldove chuckles as she eats breakfast, "Training huh, so wot does this basic training have? I already know how ta fire a longbow, I can use a sling and I know some healing skills as well, I mean I need more but I know some skills"

Zolomon chuckles slightly at a memory of his, but also frowns a bit as it seems it brings up sadness also."Don't let the whole, basic training fool you Zeldove, trust me. It can be hard and tiring, course someone made of just been harder on me as I did...tell Lord Ciocan to..Bring it on."He sighs "Likely worse mistake of me life, then again I did become tougher, stronger at some things, I didn't know how to swim and now.."He hmms "Well I am not de best swimmer but I can swim now at least and not like..sink like a rock"

Zeldove listens, a nod as she eats her breakfast. He snorts and about snorts milk out her nose when he mentions what he said to the Badger Lord, a small frown at swimming as she clears her throat "Yeah important skill ta have, swimming...I could help you improve maybe? Ewan..didn't know how to swim, I was gonna try and teach him in Spring....guess won't ever...get the chance to..do that now"She takes a deep breath, control and no crying now she thinks to herself as a single tear goes down her cheek.

Zolomon watches her and gets a small cloth and if she allows, he will wipe away the tear and any others, "Tis...ok to cry, not good to hold in feelings and bottle them all up. I did it and..well it messed up my training for a couple weeks till I managed to talk to someone.I have friends I miss still to, close..friends."He frowns, remembering someone and closes his eyes, shakes his head to clear the memory."It helps to talk at times lass"

Zeldove lets him wipe away the tear and a couple others.She then snorts "Helps? How..it just would make it worse and make one look like a fool."

Zolomon nods "It..does.And hey we all have times we cry, we are happy, we are grumpy...even the Badger Lord gets moody and sad, he has cried too at times."

Zeldove sighs, great tears come now as she stands and then rushes off, tears streaming down her face like rain.

Zolomon frowns, he stands and goes to follow her and even though it might make him late to some training he decides finding Zeldove is more important right now.He looks mainly in the caverns, even the catacombs, though he is a lot more quiet there and quickly decides she isn't there and tries a couple other areas.

Salamandastron: Caverns - Boxing Chamber
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This room obviously has a rather singular purpose, and that purpose is not
hard to discern, if one was only to look around. There is only about ten
or fifteen feets worth of space in which to walk, around the perimeter, and
the reason for this is that the rest of the space in the room is taken up
by a slightly elevated fighting ring. The platform is about two feet above
the floor, and upon each corner of the square platform there is a wooden
post. Encircling the ring in are lengths of rope extending from each post.
The floor of the platform is somewhat giving, as it is in someway padded.
So far as the perimeter of the room, chin-up bars attached to the walls
are staggered with benches, from which creatures can watch the fights.
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Zeldove is not too far from the dining hall, she is in a corner of the room they use for boxing, way back in the back where that one dark corner is with some spider webs and oh look a spider is even there .The spider crawls away and leaves the hare maid all alone now.All alone with just her sobs, she hasn't really let herself cry much since Ewan died, his death just brings up other deaths she has had to go through.

Zolomon finds her, finally and walks over to kneel beside her. He reaches out a paw to place on her shoulder as he speaks " Hey..Zeldove..lass, tis ok.You cry ok. Tis not good to keep trying not to, your no fool to cry, no one is. I have lost friends as well and some really close friends." He will stay beside her while she cries, or if she pushes him away he will just back off, but stay close still.

Zeldove jumps slightly as she feels the touch on her shoulder, then calms as she finds it's only Zolomon and she just listens to him.She turns to look at him"You ever see someone die, in blooming front of you and not be able to do a thing about it? Knowing a healer couldn't do anything even if they had got to them in ...time..."She frowns." Should of helped pay attention to the fox, I figured it was too injured to get up so checked on the squirrels and then looked back and the fox put a blade in Ewan's back...it came out the front and then the fox pulled it back out and he....he just laughed so I put an arrow in the stiupid fox's chest and went to Ewan..and he died in my arms..and..."And just more crying and shivering a little, getting all those emotions out of anger and sadness and just the age old why did it happen.

Zolomon listens and speaks, "Sometimes things..happen and we wish we could change it, but we can't. I lost someone to vermin..her name was Tarsa and I still think oh if only I just went with her and not stayed, but she was a higher rank and told me to go to bed, she see me in the morning...."He lets his own tears fall "She died that night, an ambush on the beach, I found out in the morning, I knew something was..wrong when she missed breakfast cause she never missed breakfast and she did. I was depressed for weeks and it still hurts some today..even after some friends cheered me up, a pain like that might dull but never goes away, it's always thar to halt ya"

Zeldove wipes away some of her tears as she listens to Zolomon speak, she slowly looks at him when he starts crying and her ears droop."Guess we both lost...someone close to us cause of...vermin."She goes to hug him, she isn't sure why but she also hates to see others cry, "Like you told me, tis ok..to cry and yeah friends are good to have.Guess I need some friends here I suppose sur"

Zolomon is hugged and just is surprised and then hugs Zeldove slowly and lets himself cry for a short while.After a few moments he clears his throat and backs up to stand "Ye..yes..and ya have me as a friend Zeldove."He manages a smile "Now...come on, we need to get to the training room, we are a bit late, lucky not by too much, but tis best to go together as....well less chance of being grumbled at, I am A Corpial after all" He grins, yes let the rank help avoid a lecture.

Zeldove sniffs, a chuckle at being a little late,She gives him a playful punch to the shoulder"Your right...sur, we best get to the training area."She smiles slightly"Then maybe a walk around, you still owe me a full tour of the mountain after all, I just know where the dining hall is, and my room...well the training room and had to ask where the archery range was, this room I just sort of.....found."

Zolomon nods and leads her to the training room, then afterwards a nice tour of the mountain to learn where important things are and even a little bit of a make sure she can remember question and answer session afterwards. He is not sure why yet but he is starting to like spending time with Zeldove.

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Oz-  Badger-young adult-Wanderer