"I'll be easy to find, Akodo-san. Have fun out there. Enjoy yourself." Her smile was soft, quite pleasant even, especially in contrast to the anger she displayed earlier in the day. As Kawauso rises, she returns a warm smile. "Thank you," she says again, earnestly, and then steps away. [Fast forwar...

"No!" Kawauso cries, maybe finally seeming like an actual actor. She sinks to her knees, letting Princess Shu slide gently to the ground as the deflated looking Lions face turns from despair to rage. "My most loyal and powerful follower! I will avenge you -- with a curse! That in your moment of triu...

Kawauso thinks for a moment. "I didn't say I wanted to see another one that's out ..." she says quietly, not arguing so much as stating a fact. "So, there's some that you... don't want me to see..." With her eyes only half open it's hard to read an expression on Kawauso, but her tone carries a littl...

Kawauso was definitely drowsy, feeling a lot of tension released by Misaki's work. But she was also a curious otter, and the seemingly unflappable Crane had just flapped. Er. Metaphors are hard when you're really relaxed. "You, um..." Misaki can't see the curious-otter face scrunch that Kawauso is d...

Kawauso tenses slightly at Misaki moving her arms, but quickly settles, then she groans happily as her neck is m massaged.

"What's a... What? How's a, uh... marital aid? make people... noisy?" The Lion's eyes are closed and she's highly relaxed.

"Girl. I threw a chair at the stage of a play I hated." She kept her attention on Kawauso. "If there are layers of rules, it's even more gratifying to break them. It's up to people like us, as you say, to speak up for those who can't." Her smile brightened. "And with what we've seen today. I think ...

Kawauso tried to relax, even though her breath was coming a little more ragged than before.

Drowsy and distracted, after the Crane's comment she murmurs, "All the tea my body needs is Misaki-san... Er, wait..." Her next words disappear into a groan of releasing tension.

"In your art. How one plays. How poems are made." She nodded, then gave a wink to the smaller woman. "And say forget the rules when needed. Allow yourself to feel. I've... always struggled with keeping my passions in check, but, I never run or hide them. I allow myself to just exist in the moment, ...

"In another time, I might have found a home with your people. I know many of the tribe my father hailed from followed Lord Akodo." She replied back, beaming to Kawauso. "We have one life to live, and we must do so fully. With ones whole heart." The Lion nods. "One's whole heart," she repeats. "Um. ...

Sasori giggled. "For battle or for fishing?" The mischievous grin on the girl's face was covered by her fan. Sasori made a cat paw motion as she pawed Kawauso's hand. "Nya!" Kawauso tries to look serious for a moment. "For court, actually... When I need to talk about fishing," she barely gets the w...

At mention of Sasori and the bear, Kawauso gives a small snort and shakes her head. "Should have known Sasori-san would find out more," she mutters, though there's a hint of pride and smile on her face. Kotsume's look and voice strike Kawauso in just the right way that she grudgingly moves where the...

Kawauso's smile widens a bit. "Well, this armed fisherwoman, who believes in the same things, has confidence in you. So, how do you plan to go from, ah, dairy farming to ready for the empire's future?" She pauses. "I'm sorry, please don't answer if that's too personal of a question. I am no one you ...

"Misaki-san can clearly make one forget things," Kawauso sighed. "Perhaps many things..." At the Crane's request, there's no question or hesitation, simply a smooth slide of the Lion's long arms up to cross over the top of her head. Relaxed as she is, there's still a little flutter in her breathing ...

"Ah, Nozomi-san," Kawauso says with clear relief. "I am well, thank you. And, likewise, I hope," she says inelegantly, with a wave of her hand seemingly trying to put the words in the proper order. "Um, could I trouble Nozomi-san for some... advice? I, ah, understand that monks are good sources of w...

"More about my cousins, huh?" she mused. "I don't know how much I can tell you really, as many of them I haven't even met in person, or it's been a while since I met them - apart from those here, of course. Before coming here, Ryoshun Rei is the only one I would meet on occassion as our clans are v...

Kawauso moves closer, but takes up a porch on a large rock as she tends to do. She leans her long spear between a pair of other rocks, keeping it close but not immediately at hand. "I don't know anything about anything," she says without much emotion. As she takes a closer look at Kotsume, she reali...

"Auntie is... demanding in her own way," it was a bit hard to get a grasp on Satsuki's tone there, but it seemed... exasperated? Still, she moved on from that quickly enough, offering a smile. "I'm glad to hear that my cousins have impressed you though. It's a bit, uh, challenging sometimes, to liv...

Akodo Kawauso, her mind busy with thoughts unrelated to the falling snow, the duel, or other things much beyond herself, strode across the garden in search of someone she had great trust in: Nozomi the monk. While the Lion didn't know much of anything about monk things, she knew wisdom was an import...

"I would miss some people," the lioness mutters. "But... I suppose I would grow tired of this place. Not you," she adds, with emphasis, "but the capital. It's... Not my kind of place."

Doji Hikaru wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:06 pm

Failure is the best teacher, Akodo-san.

Even in Dawn-verse, so many good reasons to hate the Crane...