Tai bowed to Hao. "I will prove myself,but for now I will leave you two to talk." He stepped back from the two veteran hunters and walked away. He went to look for the others that were on the back of the flying beast. He couldn't findthe others, so he went back to the landing of the zephyer. He looked over at Kenji and decided to talk to him. "Did you know Katsu?"

Coer nervously cleared his throat. "Um... 'Taed' ... I hate to interrupt this, but I need to talk to Hokori alone. It's kind of important."

Taed in the body of the monk eyed both Coer and Hokori closely. Something was up... and whatever it was, it had to do with Anei as well. "Very well, hopefully I will be able to speak with the two of you later. I will be in the antechamber until Anei gets out; it's rather important that I talk to her, coincidentally." Part of his mission here was clear but it was imperative that he speak with Anei as soon as she got done with her treatment. He walked away, leaving Coer and Hokori to sort things out.

Coer looked cautiously at Hokori, hoping beyond hope that she would let him speak, or even that she would start yelling at him. Anything.

Kenji listen to what was going on. As the guy asked Master Hao if he could join. At first he didn't get why Hao was so cold to him at first, but after giving it some thought it made sence. He stood quite saying nothing. His eye then looked up at Tai as he spoke to him. "Yeah I knew him," Kenji replied, "But I only meet him recently, so I wasn't all that close to him as you are."

(Yes, important as in Juraia poisoning your tea should you fail get Hokori to approve of Coer... Oh, and here's your cue, Taed.)

Hokori's glare superficially faded, muted a little by his manner. Well, if he wanted to talk, she'd give him something to talk about. Being a member of her Hunt meant he was as much a conversational target as he wanted to be. "What do you want to talk about, Coer?" she whispered venomously, nose to nose with the Bender, "About how you think you can just come in and take my sister? About how you're risking getting us all in very serious trouble? Is that it?"

Juraia bowed once to the Master, "After the funeral then. I look forward to it." She turned and returned to the village, a reaction shared by much of the crowd.

Anei hobbled out of a side room at this time, favoring her burned foot. The monks had wrapped in in salve soaked bandages, promising that it should heal without scarring in a day or two. Still hurt though. Seeing Coer aparently cornered by her twin, she began to make her way over, making to pass a strangely... off monk on her way.

Coer risked everything on a single word. "Yes." He breathed deeply and made himself look her in the eye... vaguely... since she was a little younger and shorter. "I want you to tell me everything that's wrong with Anei and me being together, including your laws and customs, and what you yourself think. Sincerely."

"I wouldn't approach them if I was you, Anei," the monk said as Hokori's twin began to pass by him. "You have to let them work out their issues, which, I strongly suspect, concern you." He smiled as calmly as possible and added, "You obviously won't recognize me in this body, but I'm Taed Xoa Luinnar, from Mothhaudh. How are your wounds feeling?"

Tai listened to Kenji as he spoke. "Well at least you knew him. So how exactlyh did he die? I just want to make sure what happened. By the way, what happened to his body." Tai figured that if they didn't take his body, he was burned to death. Tai felt a sort of rage bubble up inside him, but it was abolished by a sense of happiness. Katsu is in a better place now and he did not die a shameful warrior.

The monk shrugged nonchalantly. "Still no clue. Not entirely anyway," Taed answered. "And you're lucky — when I first saw Hokori and Coer I kind of went crazy for not having seen you all in so long. All I know is that there are spirits involved. At the very least, my patron spirit is, and I'm willing to bet Coer's and possibly even yours as well." He suddenly took on a very serious look. "Now... do you want to tell me exactly what's going on with you and Coer?"

Coer stood very still and very quiet, letting Hokori rant and stab at him. When she finished he was still silent for a moment, thinking deeply and taking it all in. Then he quietly asked, "What can you tell me about Katsu? He once said, back when we were deciding who would pretend to be Fire Nation guards, that his brother was a firebender." He cocked an eyebrow at Hokori as he said this, indicating that he was not actually changing the subject like it seemed he was.

"Okay. Fine," Coer said coolly, starting to get frustrated with Hokori himself but determined not to show it until he absolutely had to. "What about Izuma and Keir Sae? And you can't give me the crap about Keir being a spirit, because that's not why Lady Izuma loved him. I read an entire book on the matter."

Taed caused the monk to smile. "That's nothing to be ashamed of, Anei. I mean, I don't pretend to understand the nuances of Galgori culture. And don't think of me as being old and wise; I'm only a few months older than Coer. Speak to me like an equal." He sat down on the ground, probably risking a few dirty stares from the real monks but at the moment he was a little preoccupied. "Hokori said Coer managed to convince your Elders to continue the alliance. I managed to ally with another pair of Galgori myself. Tell me how the Trial went."

*Fuegan*

"Mothguaith," Taed said absent-mindedly, gazing around at the Galgori camp and thinking deeply.

"Hit me," Coer said simply. "I don't care. If that's what it takes for you to accept me. I don't want to take Anei away from you, ever. I never planned on that. We're all in a Hunt right now anyway, right? And we're kind of young." He stood, raised his chin a bit, and clenched his fists at his side. "Hit me," he repeated, standing motion-less.

Taed glanced over at Coer and Hokori. "What exactly are they doing?"

(About time someone remembered that little tag...)

"I don't know," whispered Anei, "If I didn't know better, I'd say she was about to knee Coer in the..."

The invitation was too much temptation for the younger twin, her knee blurring in a picture perfect arch straight for the Bender's family jewels with enough force to send Coer tumbling to the ground. Try to take her sister and smooth talk his way out of it? Ha. She'd pay for this latter, but it felt so right.

*Aridesir*

Vora remained seated on the ground within her confined. She knew she was loved but she also desired a better life a life in which her father, no her family could be proud of her. Then she would no longer be kept like a slave or a bastard child. Still she made the best of life and she had been preparing to leave the island in hopes of learning to firebend.

“I have everything,” Vora said to herself as she finished stuffing her firebending scrolls in her pack, the food on the table was able to last for months and were thus shoved in as well.

Goodbye damn place, Vora thought as she put her pack on and crawled under the whole she had been using for many years to escape her room. When she reached the outside she was quickly greeted by a cold wind and the smell of her small island. It would be her last day their she would leave.

But Vora was a smart girl and she knew that she had to go and things taken care of before she left the island and she knew where to go see a woman by the name of Lotelin.

((okay Taed I do not know if I should go to the temple or wherever is Lotelin, so please post a post for her so I know where to go))

OOC: Laughing crazy. Oh, and in the second portion of this, there's a minor timeshift to introduce Shio's new Mothguaith character! (which has actually been introduced previous to this)

*Fuegan*
Yeah. There was no chance for Coer.

He fell to the ground, in great pain and trying to soothe his poor fresh injury, but at the same time the vengeance with which Hokori had taken his offer up was refreshing and amusing to him. He started to laugh at the same time that his body was crying. "That's not where I intended you to aim," he managed to squeak out amidst his pain and involuntarily-stifled laughter.

Taed grimaced and almost reflexively covered his own vulnerable area in empathy. "Ow. Glad to see they're working through their issues like grown men and women."

*Pyrazure, island of Mothhaudh*
It was night. After Cale and Lotelin had served Tianli and Master Kalari the meal, and encouraged the rest of Pyrazure's inhabitants to dine on their own feast in celebration, Tianli had excused himself for another year after saying a heartfelt farewell to his old friend Lotelin. Cale went home, Kalari returned to the newly constructed building for the Galgori emissary... and Lotelin was at home preparing for sleep.

But something was not right. She felt that she needed to remain awake. "Good heavens, is there no peace to be found around here anymore?" she jokingly complained to the totem of the xolab Taed Xoa. The statuette chose not to reply.

OOC: Shio I just checked the map of the island... from Aridesir to Pyrazure, you're looking at a 27-mile-hike, with a stop in the middle at Annonduin (temple of the water xolab) and a skinny mountain to cross.

*Aridesir to Pyrazure*

((yay))
Okay I have to go to that place called Pyrasure, or was it Pyrazure, Vora thought as she pulled out a small scroll and quickly scanned for the location that she was supposed to head to. Even though it was dark Vora could navigate after all she always left home at night.
With that the young woman set out running to the location. With each step her small feet were continually battered by the scarce puddles of cold water and if it wasn’t water the air was merely cold on her skin. It would take her quite some time before she made it there, but it didn’t matter so long as she made it there.
Voar Tiu please don’t let her sleep, Vora thought as she continued running to the location. The night sky seemed to be guiding her, the stars were aligned in such a way that she seemed to believe that the spirits were guiding her.

((lets watch Lotelin try to sleep))

OOC: Cutting this short. You're gonna collapse if you run all that way in a single night. We'll try to meet you in Annonduin.

*Pyrazure*

Pacing around nervously for a while, Lotelin finally thought of Tianli again. "Tianli is the brother of the priest at Aridesir..." she mused. "Perhaps his presence here was a forerunner to this. Do I need to go there?" Intrigued by the notion, she called out, "Goen, I need to travel t-—" After a moment she slapped her forehead. Goen wasn't here anymore, he was out adventuring with his brother.

Grabbing a thick hooded cloak as she ran out the door, she went to the very next person she thought of... Master Kalari. Reaching the Galgori complex and trusting that some of the Monks of Ko will still be up at this hour, praying or something, she knocked on the door. "I need to speak with Master Kalari. It's urgent," she whispered fiercely at the door.

*Aridesir to Pyrazure*

((Yeah I kinda saw that on the map I will make her pass out a bit outside of Annonduin))

Each huff and puff out of Vora’s mouth strained the poor girl’s body. She just couldn’t keep up with all that running although she had often ran to the woods in one night she could never make it to Pyrazure in one day.
Voar please…don’t make m…pass out, Vora tried her best to get help, even though she doubted that any spirit listened to her. Each step was also a strain on her poor miserable feet, each step added pain to each foot little by little she was beginning to looses her consciousness. Her vision was somewhat blurring and her breathing was straining.
Eventually she began to take horrible jumping type steps as she tried her best to continue running.