✿ mallynap [Action/Accidental Voice]

[seiriald]

[All she had expected when she decided to come inside after yet another long day of gardening was to clean up and go straight to bed, especially after the wind had done much to hamper her progress with the small seedlings that were shooting up from the ground. While it had been bordering on nuisance, she had been otherwise cheered up to notice that the several more of the hardier plants had already started blooming.

But all happiness that had come with it was washed away while in the process of walking toward the door she finds herself picking up on a series of familiar noises behind her, ones she had never wanted to hear again and that she knew for a fact did not belong to anyone inside the safe household just beyond her reach. There's an unintentional, startled cry as she drops her coat and her journal to falls open in order for her reflexes to kick into gear to resist the droids, desperate to avoid capture while she silently hoped that someone inside would notice but not at the same time.

But her erratic behavior and moves made it that much easier to knock her out and take her away, so anyone who happened to hear her cry for help will find no trace of her anywhere outside the house other than her dropped possessions, tossed amidst several plants that had been trampled in the process.]

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[tsuntrader]

[The sound of Kaori crying out in addition to the all too familiar sounds of a kidnapping make Silver rush home, despite knowing how futile it is.

...And it definitely is. He at least has the courtesy to pick up her things and bring them inside before listlessly heading to her garden and trying to straighten up the plants that got caught amidst the chaos. Sorry, Kaori...]

sup bro

[imatreenow]

[Mithos doesn't even wait for the recording to finish playing, tossing his journal down as soon as he hears her startled cry and the unmistakable sounds of struggle. He's grabbing for his crutch and pulling himself up before his mind can even catch up with the terror gripping his heart, and then he's out the door.

It will take him a little while to make it to House 11. While his leg is slowly recovering strength, he still has plenty of trouble standing on it, much less walking on it. In his rush he loses his balance more than once, so by the time he arrives he's a little dirty, a little scraped up, and a little out of breath. Maybe there wasn't any point in coming here, but he's feeling more than thinking. Dammit...! First his sister, now Kaori... It isn't fair, making her suffer more, hurting her more, when already--

He begins to stalk along the edge of the garden, eyes darting wildly, desperately, as if hoping to find something to refute the damning evidence he heard over the journal. He hasn't noticed Silver yet.]

I'm not your bro, buddy

[tsuntrader]

[...He should have expected Mithos to show up. He picks himself up off the floor and brushes himself off, contemplating whether or not to say anything at all. Of course, he doesn't think on it for too long.]

She's gone.

I'm not your buddy, human 1/2

[imatreenow]

[He snaps his head in Silver's direction, heart still pounding loudly in his ears, but the other's words are even louder. Gone. Just like that.

He's still and silent, just breathing in and out and in and out.]

[imatreenow]

[He doesn't want him to see the panic written all over his face, so he ducks his head even though the same panic is evident in his entire body language. His whitened knuckles tremble in the frustration of knowing there's nothing he can do, just like weeks ago there was nothing he could do to help Martel.]

Damn them...!

[tsuntrader]

[...Seeing Mithos so upset... Makes it easier for him to keep himself together. Of course, that leaves the dilemma of what to actually say, if anything. Something tells him that nothing he says will be well received.]

1/2

[imatreenow]

[Silver is very right about that. Mithos will fill the silence with his own rattled thoughts and desperate words squeezed through clenched teeth.] She'll be back...she'll be back...

[imatreenow]

[...Wouldn't she? It was just a kidnapping, right? Like his sister...?] Her things...are her things still here? Where are her belongings?

[tsuntrader]

I brought her stuff inside. Nothing's disappeared.

1/2 god I swear I'll stop doing this skjdfyh

[imatreenow]

[His heart can stop plummeting at least. She would come back. Waiting...he can do waiting. He hates it, and he never knows what to do with himself in the meantime, and it only tears at him from the inside, but it's better than having nothing to wait for. But until she comes back...he has too many ideas of what she could be suffering through. He's already torn up his mind thinking about everything that could be happening to his sister at any moment, and it looks like he only has more nightmares to add to the pile festering in him.

He's silent for a few moments.]

[imatreenow]

[Then he finally looks at Silver again, directly.] If you're lying to me...

[tsuntrader]

[...Oh no. Don't even go there, Mithos.] If you want to come in and check her room for her stuff, go ahead. I wouldn't lie about something like that.

[imatreenow]

[He hesitates only briefly over the idea of setting foot the house. He needs to confirm it with his own eyes.]

...Show me.

[tsuntrader]

[This is a completely unexpected and surprising turn of events.]

Hurry up. [And with that, Silver is heading inside.]

the next morning - for Frey

[imatreenow]

[After another night of poor sleep - squeezed short by hours of staring at the wall across from his bed with his mind too full, and fragmented by glimpses of nightmares, all standard for the past two months - Mithos returns to House 11. It's for Kaori's garden, and nothing more. If she returned and the plants hadn't been cared for she would be upset, wouldn't she? That's all the motivation he needs to lug his own supplies across the village to a house full of people he does not like.

He sits in the dirt and works quietly, eyes regularly checking on the front door for any sign of activity while he waters and weeds.]

Re: the next morning - for Frey

[falenandawn]

[Freyjadour had taken off after her yesterday- rushing out of house, chasing the droids. But the damnable things were, sadly, too fast to catch up to. He had been beating himself up since then, and had gotten terrible sleep as well because of it.

But he remembered the trampled plants, and knew Kaori would be even more upset if they died. So he wanders out, early in the morning, to check on them and see if he could do something to help.

......He didn't expect a blond knelt in the dirt, pulling weeds. Something Mithos might notice is his hair is freshly cut, back to it's length from some months ago- before he had gone home. It had taken a knife to do it, though, so the edges were less then even. His eyes are tired, but the expression carries surprise.] Mithos.

[imatreenow]

[The skin on the back of his neck prickles and he lifts his head to glare up at Frey. He knew he would encounter someone eventually, being right in front of the house, but he was hoping he could prolong his solitude for as long as possible.]

...Leave me alone. [Now two of the people he cares about and trusts and needs are away...do you really think he's in any mood to put up with you?]

[falenandawn]

I live here. [His eyes narrow at the demand, but instead of leaving like he is sure Mithos wants, he walks towards the garden, eyeing the seedlings Kaori had put so much work into helping to sprout. Some were, indeed, damaged, their stems bent downward.

Kneeling nearby but not in close reach of Mithos, he examines them. He has some bamboo skewers more suited for cooking then anything in hand, remembering faintly something Goesch did back at Ceras Lake Castle but... not quite sure how to make it work. Not that he'll let Mithos see he knows nothing about how to do anything about it.]

If anything, I should be asking you to leave. Do not make silly demands of me today.

[imatreenow]

[...He should have known it wouldn't be so easy to get rid of him. As far as Mithos is concerned, he has every right to be here - he told Kaori he would help her with her garden, and her absence doesn't undo his promise. His eyes are sharp as he observes Frey.]

I can do that.

[falenandawn]

I can, too. [Really.

He sticks the skewer in the dirt, reaching for the sprout next to it up until he realizes he has no way of making it stand.

....Erk. What did they use again? Twine....?]

[imatreenow]

[He's watering the plants around him but regularly returning his piercing gaze to Frey to keep a watchful eye on him. He has a sneaking suspicion you don't really know what you're doing, Frey. Here, he'll offer some helpful advice.]

If you can't even figure out such a simple task, you're of no use.

[falenandawn]

Be quiet. [Sending a glare towards Mithos that clearly shows his annoyance, he pauses, then reaches down to his boots, tugging out the laces.

He can handle it just fine.]

[imatreenow]

Don't tell me what to do, human. [His tolerance level usually sits at zero, but today it's in the negatives. He'll need even less reason than usual to snap at him. Carefully, he uncovers a poor little seedling that had dirt kicked over it and tries not to think too hard about the sequence of events that led to the disarray the garden is in.]

[falenandawn]

[Frey gets to work gently tying up a seedling, not entirely sure of what he was doing, but it couldn't be too hard, right?]

As it stands, you are the one who is trespassing uninvited, are you not?

[imatreenow]

I told Kaori I would help her with her garden, and I intend to keep my word. [She would be happy that her plants were taken care of, and...maybe she would be happy to know that he'd thought of her, too.]