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014 Finding to many things [OPEN]
WHO: Moana.
WHERE: All Over.
WHEN: November 4th – 15th
OPEN TO: EVERYONE.
WARNINGS: None.
[ooc: Let me know the day and where you tag her. It is all open to run into her at any time or in between any action!]
Nov 4th – 10th | Letters Everywhere | 6i & 7i
Moana spent a great deal of time on her own.
She traveled between the two villages; checking on the boat, Itiiti and the ocean while also making an appearance at the inn to try to help everyone get ready for whatever winter horrors were about to befall them. Moana really hated the winter. She wore shoes, remembering Rory's threat of frostbite, but otherwise wore her island dress with a cloak pulled over her shoulders. Moana was against jackets because it restricted the moment of her arms.
When the first letter arrived, she was outside, collecting the milkweed stalks that she used to make fishing nets and rope. The envelop was red, almost missed among the collection of leaves that it had fallen into; what made it stand out was the familiar flame insignia that was sealed on the outside of the letter. Moana paused in her task to read it, her eyes narrowing at the block letters.
"What?" She looked around her to see if anyone was around to notice her outburst before continuing to read the letter. This was insane. She ripped it up, hiding the small pieces of paper among the red fall leaves. She thought it was over until she received a second letter the next day. This one was waiting for her when she went to get water for the inn. She frowned at the letter and then soaked it until it fell apart in her hands. The letter hadn't technically done anything wrong but it was receiving the brunt of Moana's frustrations. Two letters destroyed. Moana hoped that it was over.
The third day, Moana found the letter in the kitchen when no one else was around. She gapped at the red envelop, wondering how it had ended up in the kitchen. Someone must have seen who dropped it off. Moana pushed her way into the common area of the inn but didn't see anything that was out of place. With a frown, she threw the letter into the inn's fire, watching as the fames quickly engulfed the paper.
Three days in a row and Moana was now dreading tomorrow.
November 7th was uneventful. Moana spent the day weaving at the inn. People walked in and out of the common area at a steady rate from early morning to late evening. Nothing happened until Moana returned to her room; she found another letter resting on her bed. This was insane!
This time she didn't destroy the letter but took it with her. She shoved it into her pack and left for the other village: 7i. The path was familiar to Moana but it took her time to travel across the breach and then to her destination on the other side. Her goal was the peach trees though she wasn't sure what she was going to do once she got there.
Standing beneath the peach trees, she read the letter again, this time out load. "Steal an item of true value from another person." She looked up at the trees with a frown. "Another person." She echoed the sentiment as if it was somehow the key. She didn't want to keep finding these letters and she wasn't sure what else to do. She couldn't bring herself to steal something of true value from someone else but she had something that didn't belong to her, something that held true value to its owner.
Moana took the dormant Heart of Te Fiti and slipped it into the red envelop. She quickly scribbled a note with a pencil she had swiped from the inn weeks before and placed it at the base of the peach tree. The letter she left was short and to the point, she hoped that it was enough.
'This isn't mine and it is truly valuable. I don't know what game this is but please, let this be enough to leave the others alone. -Moana'
Nov 11th – 15th | Green House Glasses | 7i
Moana was hoping for some uninterrupted peace now that she had dealt with the fiasco with the letters. She felt a little lighter, breathed a little easier, and smiled a little brighter. She didn't think it had anything to do with the letters exactly but she felt less doom and gloom about the onset of winter. It probably wouldn't last but she would enjoy the feeling while it was here.
It was during her adventures around the 7i village that she stumbled upon the glass panes and frame for the green house. Of course, Moana had no idea what it was for but she was fairly sure that it hadn't been in this house the last time she had walked through. She tried to lift one of the panels of glass only to have it tip on top of her. She used her body to soften the fall and keep the glass from shattering but she wasn't sure how to get up without accidently breaking it.
"Help!" She called out, unsure if anyone was going to hear her.
After what felt like hours, Moana wiggled her way out from under the glass, cutting her palm in the process. It stung but she was too distracted to focus on it. Instead, she ran from the unassuming house, hoping to find someone to inform about her discovery.
WHERE: All Over.
WHEN: November 4th – 15th
OPEN TO: EVERYONE.
WARNINGS: None.
[ooc: Let me know the day and where you tag her. It is all open to run into her at any time or in between any action!]
She traveled between the two villages; checking on the boat, Itiiti and the ocean while also making an appearance at the inn to try to help everyone get ready for whatever winter horrors were about to befall them. Moana really hated the winter. She wore shoes, remembering Rory's threat of frostbite, but otherwise wore her island dress with a cloak pulled over her shoulders. Moana was against jackets because it restricted the moment of her arms.
When the first letter arrived, she was outside, collecting the milkweed stalks that she used to make fishing nets and rope. The envelop was red, almost missed among the collection of leaves that it had fallen into; what made it stand out was the familiar flame insignia that was sealed on the outside of the letter. Moana paused in her task to read it, her eyes narrowing at the block letters.
"What?" She looked around her to see if anyone was around to notice her outburst before continuing to read the letter. This was insane. She ripped it up, hiding the small pieces of paper among the red fall leaves. She thought it was over until she received a second letter the next day. This one was waiting for her when she went to get water for the inn. She frowned at the letter and then soaked it until it fell apart in her hands. The letter hadn't technically done anything wrong but it was receiving the brunt of Moana's frustrations. Two letters destroyed. Moana hoped that it was over.
The third day, Moana found the letter in the kitchen when no one else was around. She gapped at the red envelop, wondering how it had ended up in the kitchen. Someone must have seen who dropped it off. Moana pushed her way into the common area of the inn but didn't see anything that was out of place. With a frown, she threw the letter into the inn's fire, watching as the fames quickly engulfed the paper.
Three days in a row and Moana was now dreading tomorrow.
November 7th was uneventful. Moana spent the day weaving at the inn. People walked in and out of the common area at a steady rate from early morning to late evening. Nothing happened until Moana returned to her room; she found another letter resting on her bed. This was insane!
This time she didn't destroy the letter but took it with her. She shoved it into her pack and left for the other village: 7i. The path was familiar to Moana but it took her time to travel across the breach and then to her destination on the other side. Her goal was the peach trees though she wasn't sure what she was going to do once she got there.
Standing beneath the peach trees, she read the letter again, this time out load. "Steal an item of true value from another person." She looked up at the trees with a frown. "Another person." She echoed the sentiment as if it was somehow the key. She didn't want to keep finding these letters and she wasn't sure what else to do. She couldn't bring herself to steal something of true value from someone else but she had something that didn't belong to her, something that held true value to its owner.
Moana took the dormant Heart of Te Fiti and slipped it into the red envelop. She quickly scribbled a note with a pencil she had swiped from the inn weeks before and placed it at the base of the peach tree. The letter she left was short and to the point, she hoped that it was enough.
'This isn't mine and it is truly valuable. I don't know what game this is but please, let this be enough to leave the others alone. -Moana'
It was during her adventures around the 7i village that she stumbled upon the glass panes and frame for the green house. Of course, Moana had no idea what it was for but she was fairly sure that it hadn't been in this house the last time she had walked through. She tried to lift one of the panels of glass only to have it tip on top of her. She used her body to soften the fall and keep the glass from shattering but she wasn't sure how to get up without accidently breaking it.
"Help!" She called out, unsure if anyone was going to hear her.
After what felt like hours, Moana wiggled her way out from under the glass, cutting her palm in the process. It stung but she was too distracted to focus on it. Instead, she ran from the unassuming house, hoping to find someone to inform about her discovery.
.nov 10, at the peach trees.
Unfortunately for him, the rabbit he'd been tracking managed to hop itself over and, rather than accept defeat (and hunger), Ned decided to pursue it. With a borrowed blade in hand, he crept as silently as he could manage, utilizing his fur-lined cloak whenever he could as camouflage. He lost sight of it somewhere near the peach trees and, with a bit of a disgruntled sigh, he stands from where he's crouched and sees something he doesn't expect - Moana, kneeling by the base of one of the trees, placing a peculiar red envelope. Ned hasn't seen parchment or scrolls in all his time here, so the color mixed with the medium itself are eye-catching.
He approaches quietly, unsure if he's disturbing her when she'd rather be alone.
"Moana?" he calls quietly, voice as soft and unobtrusive as he can manage.
.nov 10, at the peach trees.
Of course, anyone who saw her during her war with the letters would have detected that something was up. Moana wasn't very skilled at hiding her frustrations.
"Ned." She didn't mean to sound that guilty but she'd been caught doing something that she was trying to keep a secret. "I haven't seen you in a while." She had seen him but they haven't talked for awhile. He was busy with his family and Moana was all over the place with boats and bad ideas fueling her actions.
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He had, of course, seen her about the village - but he or she were always otherwise preoccupied with other things. He had reminded himself to go and check on her, but something always seemed to interrupt his ability to do so.
"And I do take on the burden of responsibility myself; I should have come by to see you. I hope you can forgive me for failing to do so."
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"How is the tree doing?" She shifted a bit, trying to hide more of the letter behind her back. Ned was a lot like her own father, which meant that he probably knew that she was trying to hide something.
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Ned's features begin to lighten to something more amused than scolding, and he no longer tries to hide the fact that he's well aware of the envelope.
"It is thriving, despite my fear of it failing to take root," he says, gaze shifting to the letter. "Might I ask what it is you are so intent on keeping secret?"
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She was needed here, not out on the water heading in random directions.
"That's good." Moana commented on the tree before her expression fell. "It's a secret." She's pretty sure it's a secret. "I think..." Moana didn't sound that confident. "I got this letter and it told me to do something. I don't think anyone is supposed to know about it."
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"A letter? Do you know who sent it to you?"
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"Oh. No. I mean... It had that flame. You know, the same that was on the things we woke up with." She turned behind her and gently pulled the wax flame symbol off the envelop. "This." She paused the wax piece over to Ned in case he wanted to look.
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Though, from what he's learnt from his children, it's best if he never sees another Greyjoy in all his days to come.
"Aye, give it here." Ned reaches out for it, turning it over in his fingers to examine it. It's a familiar sight, one he hasn't seen since his arrival in the village, but it reminds him of the messages sent by raven back home. The intact seal of the house was a method to prove secrecy and authenticity, and he doubts that a flame sigil showing up here, embossed in wax, was any less important. "Where did you find it?"
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She really hoped that it was enough for Ned to understand. In their past conversations he could make those leaps easily though at the time Moana hadn't known what she was talking about. Now she knew and couldn't convey it the way she wanted too.
Her eyes dropped to the seal as Ned inspected it. She didn't want him to know that she had replied to the letter at all. "I kept finding it. First it was outside, then waiting for me in the kitchen and then another in my room. I kept destroying the letter and it kept coming back. I don't know how but no one saw anything."
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He believes, however, that he has some inkling - even if he cannot feel it in his bones the way he suspects she can.
"Were you alone each time? Could it have been left by someone who'd gone unseen? Before you could notice, perhaps?" he asks, continuing to turn it over in his hands, trying to ascertain its origins. It's unsettling to think that it had been delivered much in the way their gift boxes are, without a sender and without a courier. "Have you opened it?"
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Moana paused again, trying to organize her thoughts. "I tried to find out who left it but I couldn't." One of the letters had been left in the kitchen and Moana had searched for the person who might have left it there. She hadn't been able to find anything.
At his second question, she nodded her head. Moana had already answered this question when she told him that it said the same thing each time but she hadn't told him what the message had been about. "It was asking me to do something. I didn't want to do it. So I destroyed the letter. The next day, another one appeared." Her fingers reached behind her, curling protectively around the envelop that she had left beneath the peach tree. "I thought if I didn't do it. Then the letter might go to someone else. So I thought of a way that might stop it." She didn't know for sure but she loved the people here and she wanted to protect them.
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"Might you tell me what it asked of you? You needn't if you'd rather not, of course."
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After another thirty second pause she grabbed the envelop behind her and held it out for Ned. Inside he'll find the Heart, the note she had left and the note that the overseers had left for her. She waited in awkward silence, feeling the heavy weight of the air on her shoulders as she watched Ned read and sort through the envelop.
"It might not count." She muttered after a moment, talking about the stone.
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"I am humbled by your willingness to do what you can in order to help protect the others. There are not many in the world, this or the next, that would approach life with such selflessness. I'm sorry you've had this weight put upon you."
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She was so absorbed in her thoughts that Ned's reaction surprised her.
She stood stunned as he hugged her before returning the embrace with one of her own. "I don't..." The words stumbled awkwardly from her lips as a new feeling filled her chest. "Thank you." She would rather it be her than someone else but she found it difficult to say anything about the topic.
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"You've a good heart in you, Moana. One that is compassionate and kind. Whereas many would've lost it in circumstances such as these," he gestures to the village around them, their environment, "Where it's easy to curl in yourself, shield yourself from everything around you, you've kept onto it. And even now, you let it guide you to make a choice that is fairest and the least harmful for as many as possible." He offers a bit of a smile, handing out the envelope to her. "If you'd ever a worry about your ability to be a good chief, this should be enough to alleviate those fears."
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"You think so?" Her voice was light and curious.
She could feel the warmth in Ned's voice as if it was something tangible that she could touch. How did he do that? "Um... thank you." She wasn't sure what else to say.
14 November
He draws up closer, still jogging to keep his heart rate up, and that's when he hears a cry for help and sees someone pinned under the glass. Run forgotten, he puts his hands to it and lifts it to try and get it off her. It's not heavy, necessarily, but it is awkward.
"You all right down there?"
14 November
"Yeah. Thank you."
Her palm cut into the edge of the glass before she was able to assist in leaning the panel against the metal frame. "I shouldn't have tried to move it." She would have let anything else fall but she hadn't wanted the glass to break.
"Ah." Moana flexed her hand, noticing the pool of red in her palm.
Re: 14 November
"How deep is it?"
14 November
"I don't think it's too deep. It's not bleeding a lot." She opened her palm to show Oliver that it wasn't as bad as it seemed. She could still move her fingers.
Re: 14 November
"We'll wrap it with this until we can get to where there's a real bandage," he says. "Good with that?"
14 November
"Are you sure?" It was already ripped. "Ah. Thank you."
She was usually the one being nice. It was strange being on the other side.
Re: 14 November
He looks over at the panels of glass and the frame, assessing them. "It looks like it's supposed to be a greenhouse. Is that what you think it is?"
14 November
"I-" Her voice cut as she looked from Oliver to the panels of glass. "I've never seen a greenhouse before. I know about them. Someone told me that they can be used to grow food outside even when it's snowing." She took a step forward as if to inspect the wired frame. "I thought it would be more green than this."
Re: 14 November
He doesn't know where she's from that she wouldn't know the term but he's happy to explain it to her.
"Does that make a little more sense?"
14 November
"A little. It's just..." She looked over at the glass panels and then finally at Oliver. "Is the sun really able to keep them warm when its cold outside? Why don't we live in glass houses then? If it's warmer." There were so many reasons why that didn't work.
"Winter is confusing." Moana announced with a frown. Her island had two seasons: when it was sunny and hurricane season.
Re: 14 November
Oliver watches her for a moment. "Does that make a little more sense?"
14 November
"Like when all the leaves fall off the trees."
Re: 14 November
He taps lightly on the glass. "And the glass keeps the rain and the snow out, too, so you can control the temperature better."
14 November
"Unless being next to the ocean helps it?" That sounded silly and probably wasn't right.
Re: 14 November
"Hmm, don't think being near the water helps. It might be that they want us to move over here, though," Oliver says. "That they want us to spread out a little and not keep to the same village that everyone lives in now. I live on this side already."
Oliver knows he's one of the few who does, though.
14 November
She also really wanted to live by the ocean.
Her attention refocused on Oliver as if she had pulled herself from her thoughts. "Do you think that's a good thing? To want to try and do? The inn feels very full lately. I worry we might run out of room." Though right now there was a bunny in her room and nothing else. If she had found a second bunny then she might be able to bring them here to have eatable bunny babies.
Re: 14 November
Moana seems to be one of those and Oliver knows he can do what needs to be done in order to survive. He wonders how many others in the village think like them, though.
14 November
She was very idealistic.
Re: 14 November
He knows how to do a lot more than his background might suggest, yes, but he isn't an expert in carpentry or plumbing or anything like that. "Do you know anyone else who can help us?"
14 November
"I think I know a few people who might be willing to lend a hand. Killian knows a fair amount." And Moana was fairly sure that he was living alone at the moment, maybe he'd want to move into the inn over on this side.
"And Itiiti can sniff for mushrooms and others roots and this gives us a garden." She looked at the green house. "Eventually."
Re: 14 November
He's used to life in a city, for the most part, and while he'd been on an island for a while he's let the city make him soft. He has to hone himself sharp again. "We're lucky to have someone like you who knows what they're doing."
14 November
"Everyone's important. We all have a role and a way that we can help." There were a lot of things that Moana didn't know and she never pretended too. "If there is anything that I know that you want to learn, I can teach you." Like fishing, mostly.
Re: 14 November
14 November
"Maybe in the spring we can collect seeds to?" Since they might have a green house by then also.
Re: 14 November
That's a leg up on some people here, at least, but he's learned that cooperation goes a long way around here.
14 November
She smiled at him. "Thank you." He had saved her from a losing fight with a panel of glass, wrapped up her hand using his shirt and now he's offered to help her create a livable area for those in the village next to the ocean. It felt like a lot, more so since they had just met. "For offering to help me." She clarified, just so Oliver knew why she was thanking him.
"I don't see you around the inn in the other village." She was curious as to why when he seemed so helpful.
Re: 14 November
"You may have seen my girlfriend, though. Felicity? She has long blonde hair?"
Re: 14 November
"If I get the inn here together, will I see you and Felicity there?"
Re: 14 November
14 November
"I should wash this out and make sure it doesn't get infected but I'll see you around."