四 - sì

[getsomesleep]

[A deft and swift hand is sketching across the paper. The image takes form quickly, and when done, looks something like this.

Beneath the rather freakish vision, Huo's neat handwriting:]

Appearances do not necessarily reflect character.

True colors make one wonder.



[OOC: Mod word sez, can see thestrals even if don't remember having seen someone die. Thanks, mods!
Picture not mine, linked with permission. All credit to the original artist.]

Comments

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

People change who are willing to change, and there can be no atonement without awareness and acknowledgment of the fault.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Assuming it was ever your fault in the first place.

[hanakioku.livejournal.com]

Know. Is bear.

/cryptics on

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

It is the virtuous man's duty to find out.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

[A brief pause, taking in this new flavor of say what. Why must the Sphere be full of things he doesn't understand? But he surmises. Guesses.]

Always? Or only sometimes?

[hanakioku.livejournal.com]

Inside. Sometimes outside.

/not so cryptic

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

And when you find out it wasn't?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

May I see?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Then there is no need to change.

[hanakioku.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

And yet we change anyway.

[live_ringer]

I'm a fan of it myself, but then, I'm obviously biased.

Mind if I ask your name? I've seen your writing around, but with the influx of new people it can be a touch difficult to keep track.

[crimson-seeker.livejournal.com]

The stables on Melee Island might have something suitable to borrow. Whether the creatures will consent to bridles, we'll have to see, hm? You've at least read up on them.

[longnosedliar.livejournal.com]

You're really good at drawing, but those things look... pretty disturbing, actually. You met one?

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

I thought I saw some hurroks out there. They were always distant, though. That one looks [pause] dead.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

A thousand pardons for my ignorance, but what is a hurrok?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

At the castle, down in the wilderness.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They shall, I think. And seeing that if our plan works, we will be a good distance above the ground, I would much prefer at least some means of control.

If you would be so kind as to go through the butcher's, and I will pass by the stables - we can go down below within the hour.

[OOC: Must log this. Must. XD]

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Most certainly. I am called Huo - 火 [he draws the character clearly and neatly.]

And may I ask yours, in turn?

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

They're winged horses that eat meat. [She thinks twice about saying "of course."]

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Can any man foresee the full course of his life? To change is not bad; all growth is change.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

This is also a flying, meat-eating horse; but it's called a thestral, and it is very much alive.

Perhaps they are different breeds, as the guoxia and the yili are both breeds of the ordinary horse.

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

I suppose.

You're sure it doesn't have talons?

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

There's growth and then there's forced traumatization.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Quite sure, though it has impressive fangs.