OTA

[can_fight_ugly]

WHO: Anne and OTA
WHERE: Around the South Village
WHEN: End of April/beginning of May
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: N/A - will add as necessary

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After returning from the caves and rescuing the kidnapped villagers, and soon thereafter finding themselves besieged, Anne is putting her animal transformation powers to use; you may very well see, or be aided by, a large tawny tiger.

She does expend a lot of energy, however, so when she's not fighting or trying to secure the village, she's resting at home or trying to be excited about rationed meals at the Inn. Or, just catching a quick nap at the Inn.

As the month wears on and the ghosts visits become more frequent, Anne spends more and more time at and defending the Inn, but if you need to get to one of the other buildings, she will offer to run escort.

She's used to pushing herself under normal circumstances, doing so as a tiger isn't much different.

Private to Foggy - post-rescue

Anne was ready to be home. While the rescue missions had been a success, they had been stressful, full of fighting and biting the familiar ghost-like enemies, and not everyone had made it out alive. She finally finally - makes it through her front door and closes it behind her, dropping her pack on the floor.

"Foggy? I'm back!"

And she could really use a hug.


Private to Eddie - backdated to mid-April

She'd gotten a crash course in tigering in the caves, but now that she's back and still in possession of the ability, she's eager to see what else she can accomplish with it, and how else she can make it useful to the village as a whole. It's not exactly like her time with Venom, but she figures he more than anyone else has the kind of experience that might be useful in helping her push her skills further.

Still, it'd be polite to ask Eddie first, and so she makes a point to arrive early enough to catch him first, knocking on the door as a warmly-dressed human to start.

Seifer's House, shortly post-rescue

Anne had returned to find the attacks from the ghost-residents increased, and the actual residents ... waning. She was lucky that the two most important people in her life were still here, but not everyone was so lucky.

She makes a point to gather up a small skein of yarn she'd worked up before heading off to the caves, and heads out to see Seifer. Making her way across the village, she's alert and ready to transform into a tiger at the first sign of trouble, but fortunately it's a quick, quiet trek from her house to his.

She knocks onn the door, looking over her shoulder as she waits for him to answer.

Comments

[firacrux]

Things had been on a steady decline for some time now. People disappearing left and right, the attacks, the whole situation feeling more and more futile. This place had begun as an opportunity for a second chance, now it was feeling increasingly like a prison cell. Many of the people he'd grown close to were gone now. And he spent much of his time wondering what it was all for.

Like most days he was home, not doing a whole lot. When he answered the door, sword in hand though lowered, he looked genuinely surprised to see Anne there. Quickly he stepped aside to invite her in, no sense in being out in the open for too long. It wasn't safe. "Hey, somethin' wrong?" Other than Seifer looking like he'd either not been sleeping enough, or sleeping way too much. Hard to tell.

[can_fight_ugly]

Things are tense right now, Anne understands that, still she's unprepared to be greeted with the tip of a sword and there's a moment where she takes a step back before he collects himself.

She steps in with his invitation, though, and gives him a small smile. "Nothing wrong, besides the obvious. It's been getting a little sparse around here lately." She unwraps her own scarf and removes her gloves to tuck into her pockets, then retrieves the bag of yarn and hands it over.

"I come bearing gifts."

[firacrux]

Seifer was a little quicker to jump into a state of heightened alertness and hostility than the average person. Being raised as a child soldier and already being through his first extremely violent war at 17 will do that to you. Still upon realizing it was Anne he was quick to drop the hostility.

"Yeah," He rumbled gloomily, checking out the window in case there was anyone trying to tail her and locking the door. Couldn't trust anything anymore, it had him more paranoid than ever. "This whole thing's a damn mess. You want some tea?" He had plenty of tea. Eos was of course delighted to come dancing up to her and hopping around on little reptilian paws for attention. Julia, Rinoa's peakitten, was in her usual spot on the couch. More forlorn now that her master had been missing for some time.

Anne's words caught his attention and he perked up. "What'd you bring?" Any distraction is welcome right now.

[can_fight_ugly]

"I would love some tea, thank you." She hands over the bag and takes her coat off, intending to stay a while unless he says otherwise.

"Some yarn I've spun; it's a combination of my cats and the the zalpacas fibers. It's good for fine work, and thought maybe you'd appreciate a challenge; you've been working at it for a while now, I thought you're due for a step up."