Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24736819-20141208164428/@comment-5583506-20150111043351

Zoordovahsil wrote:

(Laz, tell me when you want to start writing that thing about those two characters.) (Eh? Which characters are you referring to? PM me next time in chat if it's something stampled "TOP SECRET, otherwise you can say it here.

Sappy post below, just so you know!)

The following days were days of joy. The villagers all showed great respect and kindness to her, something she appreciated dearly. She helped in the fields and practiced regular farmwork as if she had been born into this small society.

''Maybe I am just a farmgirl, after all? I seem to have a knack for this type of work, only... That doesn't explain the way I handled those bandits. Could a real farmgirl have done something like that? Not likely, but... maybe?''

She shook her head. It had all just been a matter of universal luck in that moment. One false step and she would have been dead just like any other would have been in the same situation. There was just no way a single woman could have defeated 20 men armed to the teeth with a broken shaft of a pitchfork. The whole idea was prepostorous and worthy of a laugh.

As she gathered herbs out in the forest for the day's dinner, she heard someone walking behind her.

She turned around and smiled when she saw Ra'Danji. "Ah, it's you", she said. "I have not finished here yet, so if you will just wait a moment I will be with you in a second."

Ra'Danji didn't smile however. He actually looked vexed. "Listen, Sunshine... I... uhm..." He scratched the back of his head nervously. "I remember that I never got to... thank you... for what you did three days ago... If you hadn't, Rahjin and probably half of this community as well, would be dead. We are in your debt."

She flexed her ears. "Eh? Oh, that was... nothing. I actually can't recall how I did it. But I did it, didn't I?" she shrugged. "Those bandits won't bother this village again for a couple of generations."

"Exactly", stated Ra'Danji. "Which is why I wanted to offer you... my... ehum... gratitude!"

He suddenly held out his arm which he had hidden behind his back all the time. In its clenched hand was a couple of flowers of various kinds and colours.

He blushed. "Heh, these are for you... Sunshine..."

She looked at him, then at the flowers, and then back at him. "Are those... some sort of herbs I missed to pick?"

He looked disheartened. "Uhm... no. These are for you, I mean, I picked these for you. I don't know. I just... They just reminded me of you, that's all."

She cocked her head. "How am I like herbs?"

He shoulders seemed to sink to the ground as she said those words. ''Is she really that blind? ''"No. You don't understand. I picked these for you, because their beauty reminded me of yours, Sunshine. I... I kind of have grow fond of you... Even though you only have been with us a few days. Maybe those are foolish emotions, I don't know, but I just want you to have them and know that I... think of you... and what you have done."

"Oh, I see", she said and smiled again as she accepted the flowers, much to his delight. "This is some form of symbolical gratitude, right?"

He nodded. "Right."

She smelled. "Well, they are lovely, Ra'Danji. Thank you."

"You are welcome, Sunshine. Also, I have this for you as well..."

She took a small step back as he suddenly approached her and stood tall in front of her. She wanted to say something clever when he felt his left arm encircle the back of her waist and press her closer to him, but the only words that came out were: "Erhm, what are you going to do?"

He looked down on her. "What do you think I am going to do?"

She swallowed when she felt his warm breath against her face. "I... I..."

She honestly had no idea what he was trying to say. Or what he wanted to prove. Whether she had lost all of her memory or not, she felt that this act was something that had been unfamiliar to her even before she received her amnesia. It was... strange...

As she stuttered and tried to say something, he slowly silenced her by pressing his lips to hers. She went numb all of a sudden. As their mouths were locked in an embrace, she felt it as if though she wanted to do something... anything... but couldn't. It wasn't an unpleasant feeling, but neither was it something that she would want to try again. It just felt too unnatural and awkward for her. This was something her former self wouldn't have done. But she savoured the moment and closed her eyes as his hand found its way up to the back of her head, lightly pushing her closer to his lips.

Please, just... let this awkwardness end, she speculated.

And then it was over. Ra'Danji released himself from her mouth and smiled as he stroke her over the cheek with his thumb.

"You are a good kisser, Sunshine. Judging by your expression however, I take it that you must have forgotten experiences of this from before. Right?"

She suddenly shook her head all of a sudden as if she was sure. "N-no", she said with her voice trembling. "I... I can't remember my life all that well... but I do remember that I... never did anything like this. What was that?"

He released her from his grip, still smiling. "That was me, showing how much I am glad that you are with us, Sunshine. And how much you have come to mean to me in these short days."

As he started to head back, he turned around for a small moment. "And hopefully I will get to do it again one of these days. With your verbal permission, of course."

She was alone again. Just what had happened? She could feel some kind of strange warmth filling her body, and it wasn't just the heat of the sun, which had stood high on the sky for the entire day. Even if what Ra'Danji and she had done was something she normally wouldn't have done as her former self, she wasn't entirely sure that this was something she never wanted to do again. If anything, this was something she would like to try again.

She finished picking the remaining herbs and smiled when she came to think of the flowers Ra'Danji hade given her in her other hand.