Woman Talk Over Archery [Izzy x Eldar]

When she was told her love wasn't at either place, she'd received a hint that he wasn't in the city. That left only one place he could be: the field. She left the box with his mother, knowing she wasn't much a fan of cinnamon rolls, and ran away from the house as fast as she could go. Getting back to that road wasn't too tough, but like the first time she tumbled down the hill and landed on her rear. "I've got to learn to stop falling down this hill or he'll never let me live it down." she muttered. She stood back up and scanned the area before starting off into the grass and subsequently, thanks to her graceful nature, she tripped over the man she was trying to find. "I think it's safe to say I've "fallen" for you by now, Stefan."

She moved and turned to him with a smile. "You asked me to think and I couldn't possibly make a career in the army, since I'm really just a replacement and I might just end up being temporary until someone else fills my place. I'll have to stop pursuing my dream of being Bowmaster, but there are other ways of achieving greatness." She was sad that she'd have to abandon that dream, but she had decided to go after her dream of baking for royalty instead. "Siofra will still come around probably, and I will 'not' abandon Sinyaya; none of that will change. The only thing that will change is I will make a thriving career out of that bakery and be equally as good as an archer, but only when called upon for such things." She moved to lay next to him and looked worried. "I knew I'd be giving up something one way or the other, but just this morning I caught myself daydreaming about that wedding cake I designed. I cannot go an entire day without thinking of you, so giving you up in favor of a promising military career is not going to happen. I'd go mad if I didn't have you."

"Please don't ever leave me alone again like you did last night. Going through most of today was painful without you." She was more than willing to put yesterday night out of her mind and pretend it had never happened, but there was also the matter of his present. "I dropped off a case of cinnamon buns at your mother's home, apparently they didn't sell well today." She ran a hand through his hair and looked at the sky. "Maybe we can stay out tonight and watch the stars like we tried the other day? It feels a good deal warmer now than it was then." She watched clouds roll by and flopped back to get a better viewpoint.

"This time I think I'll bring Sinyaya, poor thing needs fresh air now and then." She let her eyes drift shut to bask in the sunlight without troubling herself with the brightness. "I missed you last night." The gentle breeze cooled her face for a brief moment before becoming warm again and she cracked a smile. "She's no longer finding rats a challenge and she needs something bigger to hold her attention. Would you mind if I let her roam around a little while you educate me in astronomy?"

Lourna heard the yelp and jumped out of her skin before looking at Stefan and freezing solid. She wanted to call for Sinyaya, but figured that alerting this dragon was not a smart idea. Instead she inched her hand over and tapped the side of the basket, thus alerting her precious darling that it was safe to get out of the basket. The little glowing dragon pushed the basket lid up, put her small paws on the edge of the container, and observed the scene with wide curious eyes. She'd gotten the hang of speaking a bit of the common language from talking to Siofra and was now quite excited to see another dragon. "Oh wow!" Her baby-like excitement was just too much to contain, she was in the presence of a really big, really amazing looking dragon! Truthfully there weren't too many creatures that could ignore the cuteness of of a small purring Night dragon, and Sinyaya was going to use that to make a new friend!

Lourna could only watch her companion sneak over to try and talk to the rather large dragon that was inspecting Stefan. Guess their fate was in Sinyaya's tiny little paws. "Hey! You up there! Will you be my friend?" Willow Mother be merciful, if this fully grown behemoth left them alone thanks to this baby then a true celebration was in order! The only thing to do was pray things went over smoothly.

Lourna froze in place and nodded quietly. "I-I wouldn't call her a pet really. She can come and go as she pleases, but she has chosen to stay thus far." Sinyaya looked a little perturbed at the large dragon whose voice was far deeper than any she'd heard and began shaking. "We just wanted to watch the stars." came her small, squeaky voice. Scared well beyond measure Sinyaya ran back to Lourna and curled up in her lap. 'Poor thing's terrified of this big dragon. Guess I'll need to handle this.' She didn't get up, instead projected her voice and tried not to sound as scared as Yaya did. "We do not have any intention of staying out here forever, but if you wish us to leave then by all means we can."

The last thing she wanted was a ticked off male dragon coming after them. She wanted to scold him for scaring her little friend, but didn't want her head bitten off and thus refrained. "Stefan perhaps we should go back up the hill or put this off until another day. This will certainly not be the only day we can come out here. We can spend the evening inside since we are apparently trespassing." The blue dragon did not hesitate to jump back into her basket and wait for Lori to pick her up. She folded up two of the blankets and put everything away before waiting for him to move.

"A bit rattled, and in a good bit of awe but otherwise fine." Sinyaya hopped back out and ran up into the sky a little way after the big dragon and said her goodbyes before running back to Lori and nibbling on one of the pastries she found in the basket. "Don't be too tempted to sit around with us Yaya, go explore a little, it's part of why we brought you here." With that the little one took off into the grass chasing some kind of bug, leaving the humans to their own devices. Lori looked up at her partner and smiled, beckoning him to sit as she unfolded the blanket. "Come, sit back down. I don't think we'll get anymore unwanted visitors."

After pouring herself a drink and taking a gulp, she flopped back and covered up with one of the blankets to get a better view of the constellations. "Which one is this over here...?" She'd been pointing to the archer, but really was not versed in the names of star formations. The night was calm, somewhat warm, and the lightest breeze ruffled the grass around them. "This is perfect, absolutely perfect." She was starting to catch glimpses of fireflies coming out and dancing on the wind, and really tried to enjoy the night while she could.

She handed him the bottle and one of the cinnamon buns before getting comfy and snuggling up to her bookish companion. "Wow, what's that Stefan?" she asked pointing to a shooting star. "It's so beautiful..." She'd never seen a shooting star before, and it was mesmerizing. "You must feel like this a good deal, always seeing and learning about new things." The moon was bright and illuminated the entire surrounding area, but what she was fixated on was how brightly Stefan's eyes shone. "Your eyes shine with a sun-like brilliance when you look at the stars. They make His Majesty's fine gold look like unpolished lead." She nibbled on a bit of dried meat and stifled a yawn as the late hours of the night started to work its way into her mind.

"Perhaps we should soon return to the city, or make ready to sleep out here under the stars. I fear I cannot stay awake for too much longer." Her stargazer was more comfortable to rest on than even her bed was on her sleepiest of nights, despite his slender build and lack of prominent muscle. Sinyaya was still off chasing fireflies when she'd started to yawn, so while her smaller friend wasn't looking she leaned over and kissed the young astronomer's cheek. "We should be getting home, we cannot wait until dawn to return with a dragon in a basket my darling."

"It's always more fun for me to actually apply the recipe than to sit about reading it. More fun for the people who buy things from me everyday to get an actual pastry than a recipe card." As soon as the door was shut her dragon was out of the basket and up in the rafters to hunt the bugs. 'Silly little baby.' she thought to herself as she put away the basket. "I know I said I wanted to sleep under the stars, and I'm sorry, but next time we should take a tent and make it a proper camping trip, so we don't get rained on when the dew falls in the morning." She reached over and ruffled up his hair, sporting a cheeky grin as she went over some last minute paper-related things. "Do you think I might be able to accompany you at the library sometime?"

While waiting for his answer, she got the counter re-organized and looked back at him expectantly. "If your superiors and colleagues would be displeased with my presence then I suppose I'll visit on my own, but I should like to have a tour one day with you when you aren't too terribly busy." After a quick dash to fix her bed and get a fire going, it was easy to tell that she wanted sleep, and badly. "If you'd like to sit up and read, you're more than welcome to browse my limited cook books, but I'm going to pass out at this rate. I bid you goodnight, love."

It wasn't exactly a big deal to go see Siofra, for Lori at least. She brought a box, in which sat a hot apple pie, since she hadn't really seen her superior in some time it was nice to go check on her. "Siofra! How goes the training? They giving you trouble?" New soldiers could be quite tough to work with, as she well knew because her first mission was a total disaster, but at least her superior and her lover didn't mention it. Though it was easily just as likely that Stefan had no idea what kind of idiot she'd made of herself. "I won't be here for too long, there's been some sort of upset at the library and the scholars are getting stressed about it. I haven't found out exactly what's going on but it's never easy to tell if those people have actually found something to be stressed about or if they're going stir crazy from lack of proper sunlight."

Her thoughts strayed back to Stefan and she grew worried for him concerning what kept him so busy. She wanted to mention it, but she'd come here to hear about Siofra and how she was doing, she could go to the source and complain to him about how worried she was when he wasn't too busy. Well maybe complain wasn't the correct word but the sentiment was the same.

"Wouldn't do to get rusty, I suppose. Would it be alright for me to stay around and practice with your group, maybe accompany you tomorrow?" To blame Siofra for her harsh words when she had days like this was like blaming the sun for shining. It just wasn't done, it was silly. "Gives you less to worry about if you have one of your pupils around to do some of the yelling for you. Also gives you some time to eat that pie I brought you." Thank the Mother she'd had the forethought to go ahead and bring her bow with her, or she'd be rather embarrassed. "Time to embarrass some horrendous archers." Siofra's teachings weren't impossible, they were rather easy if they were listened to. "You're all truly idiots if you can't grasp what she's saying. You should be so lucky to have the Second in Command as your instructor." With that she loosed a series of arrows, about 5, with only one not hitting the bulls-eye.

"Every one of you should be able to do this with no trouble. Learn or be disgraced, she does not have time to waste in dealing with your ignorance!" Hopefully hearing it from a fellow archer who had learned from the fire-haired elf would make it easier. "Should you be disgraced the ramifications will be most painful." It was always bad news to hear that you were a laughing stock because you couldn't do your job right, archer or otherwise. It wouldn't do for her friend to get a bad reputation because her recruits refused to learn.

"Excuse me for trying to help. Good day then, Siofra." Friends didn't shoot each other over things like this either but if she said any more it was likely enough she'd get shot. "I should leave you to your torturous training session." 'So you can simmer down and keep from killing me just because some idiots pissed you off.' she thought sourly. It wasn't the first time she'd thought to simply abandon her people in favor of a life free of such strict ideals, but each time she thought about it she felt worse for it. Every now and then things like this would just get to her and she'd spend the entire afternoon pounding out bread dough, then everything would blow over and be just fine. Lately everyone was just on edge about goings-on and it was just a matter of time before it got quiet again. Maybe it was best she leave everyone alone for a few days and just focus on spending time with Sinyaya. Perhaps things would get sorted on their own if she just quit trying to help.