On The Move Again

Characters: Fira, Aikuen, Kentar, Will, Mayuel, Odilo

Location: Broadstream

Broadstream

Fira is sat on a big rock by the edge of the river employing the less commonly used method of fishing for an otter. She's got her little line and hook out, bobbing out in the middle of the broadstream while she just watches the water go by. Enjoy that bit of quiet before everyone wakes up.

Aikuen is sleeping on his bedroll, slightly twitching. He wakes suddenly and breathes deeply. He rubs his eyes, and looks around. The only beast up is Fira. He slightly winces. He tried to smooth it over with her yesterday, and then she ask what was going on. And since this otter has a hard time lying, specially to her, he told her the truth. After a good bit of talking she agreed to come back to camp grudgingly. He knew she didn't forgive him, but he had to make this work...he has too. He slowly gets up and makes his way over to Fira. He sits a good distance, but enough for her not too see him.

Fira just catches movement in the corner of her eye and a quick glance round shows Aik there. There's a tiny pause but just because she doesn't approve doesn't mean she's stopped loving him, it's just...all so complicated. Still she offers a small nod and bit of a smile "Morning"

Aikuen watches the line in the water. He just stares at it, then turns to Fira when she said morning, a good sign in his book. He smiles weakly, "Mornin'... Fira..." He picks up a stone and runs it though his paws, and blabs out "Listen... About yesterday... I know i cant change what's been done..." He stops and shakes his head, "I know ive said i was sorry for what happened... but..." He loses his train of thought, and drops the stone back on the ground.

Fira holds up her free paw to stop him there "I know" she sighs faintly and lets the paw drop back down to her knee "Look. You allowed, encouraged even, Kentar to do this and the guy's clearly got his problems, whatever they might be. All this so that kitten might leave us alone? Yeah she's clearly a pain in the neck but there's no good reason for torturing someone who annoys you. Doesn't solve anything, just makes it worse..." she stretches the paw back out towards him, mumbling "Now come over here. Don't like lecturing"

Aikuen smiles, and scoots over to her. He says, "Just something me and Kentar both need to work on, i guess..." He chuckles at her last statement, "Like im a little dibbun... Begin naughty..." But he doesn't laugh at it much as he think more about it, "I should know better..."

Fira goes to grab hold of his arm and pull him down onto her rock, give her his side to flop against "Given you're the older one here you probably should" does offer a slight bit more of a smile "Apparently age doesn't count for much" she looks back to the little hook in the water and gives the string a couple of twitches, no bites so far. Well it's not like she ever fishes with a line to actually catch anything "Do worry though. That cat didn't look all that afraid most of the time...Take a small cat's eye and who knows what might come of it one day.../Not/ an excuse to do anything more to her...just a concern"

Aikuen wraps his arm around her, as she rests against him, giving her a squeeze, "Well if we do meet that cat again...I just need to ignore her... and Hopefully she wont attack me for ruining her eye..." His eyes widened as he thinks a full grown cat, hunting him down, "That's a Scary thought..." He shakes it from his mind, and thinks about the age thing, "Hey, You are as young as you feel... And i fell like im younger then ive ever been, when im around you!" He Winks and gives her a small kiss on the cheek, which is awkwardly performed, giving their current position.

Fira does smirk a little at that. He's not forgiven, she's just making an effort to push it all to one side "This is why no good comes from torture...You're going to start making me sound old, maybe we'll meet somewhere in the middle"

Aikuen scratches his head for a moment, "Okay, were both old!" He chuckles a little bit, "Nah, im still the old one... and as the old one i have thought up a little bit of a change for me...Im going to start easing off the Fighting... Im not going to join Camp Willow to teach Fighting to others. Never wanted to become a fighter, just sorta happened, and i was good at it... And despite what others may think of me for this... I may go back to being a farmer" He sighs, "I think this will be good for me..."

Fira tilts her head faintly seems to just be watching him for a moment, trying to work out the answer before he even says it, still, important question "...But would you enjoy it?"

Aikuen breathes deeply, and shrugs, "Not really...I would like to teach others on how to be a better warrior... But do i really want to teach others on how to kill each other..." He takes another deep breath and sighs.

Fira shakes her head "Then don't. Teach them how to keep themselves and those they care about from getting killed. Teach them honor and to fight for the right reasons...There's always going to be reasons to fight, it's not always good but sometimes it's still right...and really if you're not going to be happy doing something then I don't think either of us want you to force yourself to"

Aikuen looks to Fira and raises a brow, "Are you sure your not Martin from back in the day... I swear that answer came directly from him..." He laughs, "Alright, Ill teach them... Have to take out almost half the things i know in my teaching... they were on how to get information from others, by any means necessary. And how to murder..." He shakes the thought from his mind and smiles, "Just the good stuff! Protect and defend others... sounds good" He kisses the top her head, "I love you..." He more or less blurted that out, but he doesn't mind.

Kentar has been listening to their conversation for a while now. "Oohh...I love ya too! Mmmhmmh" He pretends he's kissing someone, making fun of the two, laughing away. "Sorry, I'll shut up now"

Fira snerks, actually chuckling a little too "Cause Martin /would/ come back as a deaf female otter who has probably hasn't even been in enough fights to reach double figures yet...Love you...too..." she slows down to frown slightly "What are you doing?" could only just see the stoat out of the corner of her eye, question seems to be for him.

Aikuen laughs at Firas logic of Martin, but the stoat makes him turn his head quickly around, he glares and looks around for a rock. None in the immediate vicinity, so he chuckles "That's right... You shut up...Kenny!"

Kentar grins and laughs. "Haha. I aint doin' nutthin" he smirks. "You can Kenny me all you want, won't work no more, hah!" he grins.

Fira smirks again at the Kenny thing, though she finally starts pulling her fishing line back in, even if it still doesn't have a fish on it "Ohh, so we have to come up with something worse? I'd say that's doable"

Kentar grins. "Good luck with that. You won't find any names to annoy me. Go on, try!" he grins

Aikuen rubs his chin, "How about...hmmm" He cant think of many at the moment, so he says, "How about, Kenty... Garnets Stoaty Woaty!" He grins back at him.

Fira chuckles "Definitely worse. Kenny you could have at least passed for just being your name"

Kentar Grins. "Don't work on me...Sorry!" he laughs, sitting back down somewhere.

Fira gestures her head towards the stoat though she looks at Aikuen "He's clearly got used to the idea of being Kenny the stoaty woaty, Garnet's probably worn him down at last"

Kentar shrugs. "Obviously. Or maybe I'm just in a good mood today" he says. Then he takes the flask from last night and chucks it at Aikuen. "Heads up!" and its still half full.

Aikuen nods, "I told him she would eventually!" He laughs and looks up in the sky. He catches the flask, and shakes it, "You didn't pour it all out... That's good, cause i don't feel like paying another 15 gold to get another... Why didn't you though?"

Fira neatly packs up her fishing line again and just leans away to drop it back into her pack "I'm guessing for that 'good mood' thing...Either that or he's just filled it up with something else and wants to see if you'll drink it" little smirk

Kentar yawns and shrugs a bit. "Because there wasn't enough to drink and pour out" he says. "I don't get how you like that stuff" the stoat mumbles.

Aikuen looks at the flask, opens it and smells inside, "Looks and smells the same... but im not gonna drink... even if he didn't tamper with it..." He looks to Kentar with a brow raised, "You mean you drank some... Well good!" He chuckles, "I don't like it... Its taste horrible... but it does help!" He places the flask behind him.

Fira eyes the mystery flask but just shrugs lightly and rests back against Aikuen's side again. Makes a nice back rest.

Kentar nods a bit and smiles. "I can see why you don't like it." he nods. "So...How are you two love birds doing today?"

Aikuen frowns, "None of your business... Thats how we're doing..." He turns back to the stream.

Fira is in a better mood, more of her usual smiley self "Apparently he's moody, I'm good though. Lacking in fish caught but I'll take a swim and do it the easy way later"

Kentar frowns too. "Stupid otter, was just wondering how my friends were, for crying out loud"

Aikuen looks back to Kentar, "Im fine... and stop calling me stupid! I know i am... don't have to rub it in..." He smiles at the stoat and sticks out his tongue, "Im doing great, at least... After talking to Fira, I feel a lot better then yesterday!" He looks to the stream, and says, "Never angled before... Is it hard to learn?"

Fira rolls her eyes "Guys, please, one day without fighting?" she glances back to Aik and shrugs a shoulder "Bit of food on a hook, put it on a line, maybe wiggle it a bit. If there's anything more to it I don't know it"

Kentar points to Aikuen. "He started it" the stoat says rather loudly.

Aikuen now stick his tongue out at Fira, "Were not fighting, we're just arguing with our fists... Or maybe i can be a Guosim... So we're not arguing, were debatin'..." He chuckles at his lame joke, then back to the fishing part, "That's an odd way to catch fish..." He is more a spear kinda otter.

Fira smirks again "Like a bunch of kids you lot, this is what makes me feel old" she shakes her head "Never catch much, just an excuse to sit about and watch the world go by"

Kentar laughs. "Sure sure" he smirks. "Well. I'm younger then Aikuen, and older then you, so...your not old" he laughs

Aikuen smiles, "Watch the world go by... don't think i have done that in seasons..." He sighs, and tries not to get up and look for pebbles to toss in the stream.

Fira continues to smirk and nods to Kentar "My point exactly. You two are the older ones, why am I the one who has to stop the fighting?" another glance to Aik "Relaxing if you've got the right things to think about"

Kentar Grins. "Because your the odd one out." he says. "You don't fight. Therefore, you have to stop the fighting." he nods.

Aikuen snorts, "He got yah there!" He chuckles a little bit, and looks to the stream trying to think and relax.

Fira snorts, amused, laughing quietly "Oh that's just my luck"

Kentar grins. "yeah." he grins some more. "So. When will we be hearing wedding bells, hrm?"

Aikuen turns his head slowly and glares and evil glare at the stoat. Then he chuckles and smiles, "Don't know mate..." He gives a squeeze to Fira, "Depends if she'll have me!

Fira chuckles, tries not to make it sound too nervous or uncomfortable "Well it's been a couple of weeks since we got together, how long do you usually wait before proposing marriage?"

Kentar Grins. "Usually a few days! He skipped out cause he got nervous!" he shouts, laughing his head off.

Aikuen stiffens up a little bit, and tries not to speak so nervously, "A few days! that's... That's... Not right... Maybe soon for us... but not that soon..." He clears his throat, "Yah..." Nope, done talking for now...

Fira hehs, raises a brow and is just glad that seems to make Aikuen as nervous as it does her "Well, how do you even know you can live with someone after just a few days?"

Kentar Grins. "Well. You just...do" he nods. "haha!" the stoat smiles some more. "I'd say your ready" he nods, grinning.

William had been very quite since the stoat had faked dumping out the contents of the flask. He'd returned to camp on his own after walking off but he's been ignoring the stoat all day. He sits and listens to the others as usual tilting his head at Fira's question, hadn't they all been 'living together' for weeks now while they were traveling? True once they got home things would be different but not /that/ different. The rat chews on his lip thinking.

Totally different if you're Fira. She lives alone, no where near them. She might just have to move. She smirks faintly at Kentar "Let's just not get ahead of ourselves. Not even home yet and we all fight" the small rat gets a small nod too "Hey Wil.l"

Kentar laughs and grins. "We're just one big happy family." the stoat laughs and smiles some more, looking to Will. "Hey Will!"

Will says, "Hi, Fira." He's still ignoring the stoat.

Kentar tilts his head to one side. "No hi Kentar?" he asks.

Fira tilts her head faintly. Ahhh the next fight "I'll give you big, maybe family but happy is far to simple to describe the ups and downs we get on a daily basis" she glances back to Will again "Had a nice walk?"

The rat continues to ignore Kentar, not even his ears move toward the stoat's question. He shrugs in answer to Fira's question.

Kentar frowns. "Come on Will, why are you ignoring me?" he frowns, sitting up properly, not liking being ignored.

Fira sighs quietly "Alright, lets not let this get too far today. Will, do you want to tell us what's wrong?"

"If he doesn't eat he'll die," Will says looking at the ground.

Aikuen coughs a little bit, and is able to speak again, "He did drink some of it..."

Kentar was about to start yelling but then he realizes, this time, he actually did something. 'Oh. Er. That..."

Fira looks faintly puzzled, mostly at Kentar's reaction "Ok...Kentar do you want to die?"

Will looks over at the stoat, waiting for his answer.

Kentar frowns and looks around to see if Garnet is up. Nope, still sleeping. "Well." He pauses then takes a deep breath. "Yes. Yes I do." he says before turning away and sighing quietly.

Aikuen frowns and looks back to the stream, chunking a heavy rock into it. This is getting old and tiring...

Fira stares for a moment...alright, nothing that can't be dealt with "...Can I ask why?"

Will closes his eye trying very hard not to cry or show how much Kentar's decision hurts him.

Kentar frowns himself. "I don't want to talk about it." he says, still not looking over. "So lets not."

Fira runs a paw over her head, alright, doesn't help "Sorry, just...when a friend says they want to die, well, you understand the concern."

Aikuen lightly shakes his head, and tosses another rock forcefully into the stream.

Will tucks his knees up to his chest no longer looking at the stoat.

Kentar slowly stands and starts for the forest. "I'm sorry guys..." he grabs his pack on the way. "I'll just leave I guess. Gives you one less beast to worry about."

Fira quickly gets up, going to cross over and lightly place a paw on Kentar's shoulder "No, stay. We'd worry more if just disappeared."

"I wouldn't," Will mutters.

Aikuen nods and looks to Kentar, "She's right... If you leave now... or die later... We will miss you either way..." He doesn't hear what Will said.

Kentar pauses. He was passing Will when he spoke so he's probably the only one who catches the ratlings words. "Then fine. Don't worry anymore, Will." he says before continuing to walk off.

Fira sighs faintly as Kentar keeps moving, running a paw over her head. Growing tiresome "/Kentar/. Stop this, please. Can we not at least try to help you? And what about Garnet? Is she just going wake up and find this out from us?"

Aikuen says, "Can you at least stay, for her sake?"

Will blinks back tears, "Can't you just let him leave?! Wasn't once enough?!"

Kentar pauses and looks back over his shoulder. "And why can't you just leave me alone?" he asks, but he looks to Will before sighing and tossing his pack aside. "I'll be back soon then" he sighs then continues on.

Aikuen slips into the river to swim and keep himself from doing anything to the stoat.

Fira stops and lets Kentar go, if just cause he said he'd be back. Shaking her head after a moment she just walks back to flop back down on the rock by the river, trying to think.

Will sits hugging his knees to his chest. "If he goes away we won't have to see him die," he says softly.

Fira keeps an eye on Will, properly glancing at him when she sees talking "If he doesn't we might be able to convince him he doesn't want to die in the first place."

Will sighs, "He doesn't listen very well .... I told you that already."

Fira shakes her head "Maybe not but apparently I can't stop trying to get him to...I just can't sit around and let him do this to himself. If there's any chance of helping then I'll take it."

"Hmm. What are ya gonna do then?" Will asks slightly curious.

Fira shrugs lightly "I don't know yet...Need to think of something but I don't even really know what the problem is"

Will rests his head on his knees and sighs, "Maybe he wants to be with his mate and son that died long time ago, I dunno." The trip back home is turning out worse then the trip to the beach was.

Fira hmms quietly, thinking "Well, that could make sense...not a very good way about it but if that's happened to him then guess it explains the timing."

Will shrugs, "I guess."

Fira sighs quietly again "Still difficult to sort it out when he won't talk about it himself. I mean it's not like he couldn't have those things again if he was just willing to wait and realise there's more to life."

Will says, "He said he misses her too much still. But that's not a good reason. I miss my ma and cousins and brother and even Rose but I don't want to die. .... sometimes Kentar's not very smart."

Fira shakes her head again "Apparently not though of course if we said that he'd just go and do it anyway...perhaps if we can just get him to stay and come along still then it'll sort itself out, he'll have a good day or something."

Will chews on his lip some, "Maybe," the lip chewing continues for a while longer. "But I don't want him dying in my tunnel or anywhere near me if he doesn't change his mind."

Fira nods slowly, she can live with that compromise "Yes, I can understand that...just don't want to give up on him yet. Have to try."

Will nods a little, "Yeah."

Fira thinks for another minute or two before she sighs again "Not the most peaceful of trips, lot of drama."

"It wasn't supposed to be like this ....." the rat agrees, "but we'll be home by next week, maybe sooner."

Fira nods slowly "If we can keep everyone together that long it'll be an accomplishment."

Will nods, "Wonder if anything's happened since we left."

Fira shrugs a shoulder "Knowing Mossflower probably nothing out of the ordinary. Well, not in my neck of the woods anyway."

Will leans back, unwrapping his arms from around his legs to do so. "Probably th same ol stuff goin on at th Abbey," he says.

After having been gone for a little while, Kentar finally returns to the group. He wordlessly sits down near the fire and pokes at the fire with a stick.

Will looks up at the stoat's return. "I don't hate you and you can still go back with us if you want to," he says quietly.

Kentar mutters something under his breath at Will's words. "Yeah yeah, I'm goin' back," he mutters.

The rat picks up a stray pebble and tosses it into the fire pit.

Kentar sighs and closes his eye for a moment. "I'm sorry Will."

Will looks around for another pebble to toss, "Sorry for what?" he asks.

Kentar sighs. "For being as stupid as Aikuen." he chuckles slightly. "Er. Stupider I guess."

Will shrugs, "It's ok. I do stupid stuff too sometimes. ..... You still want to live with us at my tunnel?"

Kentar stays quiet at the offer, thinking for a few minutes before shrugging. "If I decide to even eat again, sure, I guess. If you don't mind with putting up with two idiots."

Will nods with a smile, "Well maybe Racky'll be awake when we get there and I won't be so out numbered .... except he'll want to know who you are and what he did to end up with the three of us."

Fira smirks faintly "What's one more really? Can be happy and foolish together, all nicely contained"

Kentar looks over and shrugs. "No idea..." he smiles a bit and looks back to the fire, thinking quietly. "What would I do there? Lounge about and be bored, or...work all the time or something?"

Will had forgotten about Fira having directed his attention to the stoat. "Did we tell you about Racky yet?" he asks Fira not remembering if she'd been told or not. In answer to Kentar's question he says, "Well it needs a lot of work and will need to be worked on a lot for it to be more useable and once it is we'll need to work on it so it doesn't go back to being overgrown and stuff again .... so yes you will have to work though probably not all the time. And maybe you can figure what to do with the old smithy shop or something so you won't be bored when you're not working."

Fira tilts her head faintly at Will before shaking her head again "No, don't think so" she slowly looks back to Kentar "Enough work to do to keep a beast busy while they try to work out what to do for the rest of their life."

Aikuen emerges from the stream, carrying a sharpened reed, with a small live fish wiggling on the stick. He left because he couldn't handle all this talk of Kentar wanting to die. He swam upstream a good distance and took one of the reeds growing and made a small harpoon. He slowly swam downstream trying to catch a few fish, but he was out a luck most of the time, and only managed to catch one. He shakes the water from him, and looks around. Seeing as Kentar was still here, he nods at the stoat, "Welcome back matey..." He smiles and kneels near the stream, and using his knife begins to clean the single fish.

"Racky's a little fox and he's sort of my little brother. He didn't say he would be but he lives at Moledeep with Pa an me and has for a long time now so I say he is. But you won't really know he was there cause he's asleep nearly all the time. I thought he slept all the time because when ever I check on him he's sleeping but if he really slept all the time he'd be much dirtier by now and he woun't move around so much and we'd have more food then we do .... I know he's just sleeping and not dead cause he's still breathing," the rat explains.

Kentar nods slowly and hrms. "I think I could work the smithy, yeah." he nods slowly but doesn't look up to Aikuen when he comes back.

Fira nods slowly to Will "Well, good to know...anyone else I should know about?" may as well check.

"I don't think so. That's the only other beast living at Moledeep. .... but if you visit us you should be careful in th woods expecally between Camp Willow and Moledeep ....... bad things happened there cause I didn't think and was stupid ..... don't know if it's better now or worse ...." the last half is said for to himself than to the others.

Aikuen has cleaned the fish and goes over to the fire, and using the reed a spit is begins to cook the fish. He slowly turns the reed, and mumbles, "Stupid fox..."

Will watches the fish cook over the fire. "Fira's probably the smartest of us," he muses.

Kentar just sits quietly at the fire, saying nothing, just letting the others talk.

Fira continues to slowly nod along to the rat "Alright then, noted about the woods and thanks, I think" tiny smirk appearing as she shift again, settle herself down and get comfy while waiting for food.

Aikuen nods, "Easily... Smarter than all of us put together i bet..." He chuckles, and pokes the fish and nods. He takes four of the dock leaves and separates into equal parts. Handing one To will, and placing one near Kentar. He stands up and walks over to the rock where Fira is sitting and hands her one, while nibbling on his own.

Will munches happily on his fish but as always keeps his ears to the conversation, what there is of one anyway.

Kentar Looks over and yet again ignores what was given to him, poking at the fire tiredly.

Fira still smirks slightly, though she does note Kentar not eating again "Well, lets not go on about it. Don't think I really need to grow an ego now...be home again soon. Make a change from being on the road."

Will says, "We'll be on th North Path again before too long."

Aikuen eats some of his fish, and nudges Fira lightly, "Come on ole' smarty pants, you know you like it!" He looks to Will, "I think its time to start moving again... The food here is getting scarce..." He tosses a hunk of fish in the air, to catch.

Kentar yawns to himself then eyes the fish he has near him. He sighs and takes it, nibbling a bit absently as he thinks.

Will finishes his share of the fish and was going to ask Kentar for his share if he wasn't eating it but when he looks over at the stoat he /is/ eating his part of the fish.

Kentar is more or less just nibbling rather then eating but whatever he's doing to it, its being eaten.

Aikuen just missed the fish with his mouth and the hunk of fish bounces of his nose, and lands in the dirt. Fira smirks and chuckles at this. Aikuen gives her a frown, but chuckles after a bit. He gives Fira a kiss on the cheek before going over to the tent, and begining to dismantle it. He saw the stoat nibbling the fish, and he smiles to him, but doesn't say anything.

Kentar continues to just nibble and poke at the flames, thinking quietly. "I'm sorry for wasting half of that vile stuff in the flask last night"

Aikuen waves in the air to dismiss the idea, "As long there is a gulp left in it, ill be fine. I've gotten used to it, happens when you replace 2 meals a day with it..." He haphazardly folds the tarp and stuffs it in his pack, and begins to roll the beds.

Kentar nods slowly. "Heh. Apparently" he replies quietly, finishing the fish. "Good fish" he says.

Will asks, "Need any help, Pa?" Will asks watching the otter packing up camp."

Aikuen shurgs, it was okay fish, not great...but okay. He gets to the last bedroll with Garnet still on it and points at it, "Gonna wake her? Or do i roll her up too?" He chuckles and looks to Will, "Smother the fire, and stuff the rolls in the pack please."

Will nods and starts to put out the fire. Afterward he takes the already rolled up bedrolls and put one in each pack except for his own since he doesn't use his much and Garnet is laying on the remaining roll still.

Aikuen bobs his head lightly, yah its true... he would. While he waits for Garnet to wake, he wraps the rest of the food in leaves and places them on top of his bedroll that Will put in his. He nods to Will, "Alright, lastly... check camp see if we forgot anything...And thats about it, i think..."

Garnet wakes up slowly and rolls off the bedroll, yawning and looking around a few times before just sitting next to Kentar, neither of them saying anything.

Fira is ready to go as is Will they wait by the path for the others.

Aikuen, once he rolled up the last bed, straps his pack together and set it on his pack. He gives a one last look around, before sighing, "...Im ready" He walks over and stands next to Fira, waiting on the last two.

Kentar and Garnet stand up. "We're ready as well." they both grab their packs and follow Aikuen and Will.