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 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:05 pm
Mokoyis slowed to a stop, her breath coming in short gasps. Her face was flushed from the exertion. Pushing a strand of sweaty hair behind her ear she leaned against the railing that surrounded the track and picked up a towel.
She didn't often come here, her specialties lay in a less physical area, but every so often she felt the need to run.
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:00 pm
Stretching lightly before making her way down to the training facility, Lokiari smiled at the thought of a nice, long work out. She'd been missing the expansive facilities Headquarters had since her last foray off into the world. Wearing simple khaki capris and an olive green tank top, she strode off quickly towards her destination. A nice run would do, she decided, and so turned towards the track that she hadn't visited in such a long time.
Catching sight of the girl named Mokoyis, she raised her hand in wave before raising her voice in greeting. "Hello there, Mokoyis! Fancy meeting you here!" Grinning, she turned her pace up to a jog and quickly reached Mokoyis' side. Noticing the sheen of sweat on the woman, she cocked an eyebrow, "Just finished a run?"
Pity it looked like she wouldn't have anyone to run with. But oh well, she'd been wanting to get Mokoyis alone since the meeting in the garden to chat with her anyway. The woman had sounded intriguing, and intriguing things didn't stay unknown for long when Lokiari could help it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:06 am
Mokoyis had put aside her hide clothing in favor of the "new" cotton material that was much easier to clean, not mention was much cooler indoors. She was not fond of the short sleeves and tight fitting shorts but the convience outweighed her discomfort.
She smiled at the approaching woman and nodded her head as a greeting, "Okki Lokairi. I am taking a break, I'm ashamed to say I am a little out of shape." She grimaced and looked down at her soft figure figure, still slim but definitely not toned, "To much talking and not enough moving. I miss home sometimes so I come here."
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:24 pm
Giving a small nod before leaning against the same rail as Mokoyis, Lokiari hopped on it and found her balance before grinning down at the other woman. Patting her on the head, she grinned, "You're not out of shape. Or at least, you're in better shape than most!" She hadn't meant that to sound like it might be an insult, and she hoped the other girl caught onto the teasing tone of her voice.
Glancing around the track, a small sigh escaped Lokiari's mouth, "Its so...quiet and dull right now." While she didn't mind the quiet, she did like for things to have some form of activity. Besides, it was of her opinion that all lotus members ought to be put through strict physical regimens. After all, if their job was to save the world, they ought to at least look the part! Tilting her head at the other girl's mention of her talking to much, she cocked an eyebrow before mentioning that, "You don't seem like you sit and talk too much. You were rather quiet at our last meeting, after all..."
Then again, Lokiari reflected, Mokoyis had been very interested in that rabbit. A fact that still had her quite curious in the girl before her. Someone more interested in conversing with an animal than a human - that was a rarity from what Lokiari had seen thus far.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:21 pm
Mokoyis blinked and looked up at the woman touching her head. How odd, Lokairi was very difficult to figure out. She shrugged off the thought and gave a dusty chuckle, "Well it could still be worse I guess. When I get to old to run I will get fat though, like my grandmother." She grinned and her tone left the comment open to interpretation. Was she teasing?
"It is quiet, I find it hard to get back into a routine here when I get come back from the outside world. There is still intriuge and plotting but it is all for the same side." She chuckled again and sat on the ground to stretch out her legs. "I talk little and listen much I suppose. I learn more that way." The woman blushed, "At least that is what I was always taught."
Though she had tried very hard during there last meeting, no amount of listening had given Mokoyis any clues about Lokairi. She was like a wolf, hiding and slow to give up her secrets.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:14 pm
Unable to resist a light, teasing grin at the confusion that seemed to brew on Mokoyis' face at the head pat, Lokiari tilted her head back and looked up at the ceiling. The track's area really was huge - though she still would have preferred a run in the open fields or the forest to an indoors complex. Glancing back down as Mokoyis chuckled, Lokiari found herself laughing right along. "Somehow, I doubt your grandmother was very fat at all."
Nodding along to the other girl's mention of a routine, Lokiari found that she had little trouble slipping right back into one. Then again, she tried to keep her skills sharp by cornering people to inquire after here at lotus. Much like she would in the field, except with less obvious cornering. "True, there is much plotting and intrigue here for the same side - but if you look into personal relationships, you find just as much plotting going on against someone as you would for them." Shrugging as if to say 'hey, its something to do', what she really felt was that if you wanted to focus on intel in the field, you had to hone your skills everywhere. While she didn't gossip, Lokiari did like to sniff things out and puzzle them out until there was nothing left to investigate.
"Yeah, talking little is a good way to learn a lot." With a mischievous grin she added, "Though, if you talk a lot and tell little, you might find that you convince some people to come out of their shells and tell you more than you'd thought they might." With a wink to show she was teasing, Lokiari's gaze wandered around the track, again wishing it were an outdoors one and not indoors.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:07 pm
Mokoyis nodded seriously, "Oh but she was, she could still pound buffalo meat into pemmican or toss us in the river though if she wanted to." She grinned at the old Blackfoot saying that meant to punish children. She enjoyed watching others reactions to it. The young woman pulled her hair out of the tight pony tail she had it in and shook out her black locks before begining to braid it.
Her eyebrow rose at Lokairi's comments about internal plotting, wondering what the girl had uncovered. She did not often get involved with the games here, she liked to take a break when the opportunity presented itself. "You are a hunter of thought i think Lokairi." She told her friend bluntly.
"Perhaps your way works better than mine," Mokoyis said with a slow smile, "At least faster. I think that is what you are trying to do with me" It was the second time she had seen the girls eyes dart around, like a fidgety child waiting for a new toy. "You seem anxious." Mokoyis was a bit forthright.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:43 pm
Raising an amused eyebrow at the girl sitting on the ground, Lokiari chuckled at the river and buffalo comment. It didn't take someone who was slender and athletic to do either of the things that Mokoyis had mentioned. A large grandmother would do, and the thought made her laugh. A memory of stories her parents had passed on to her flitted through her head, and the thought of dragons and trolls made her grin grow even wider. Winking down at Mokoyis, she responded, "When I was younger, we were told that trolls might steal us away and eat us if we weren't careful." Said with a straight face, she watched Mokoyis to see if she'd believe her on the seriousness of it, or catch that it was a joke. Sometimes if you deadpanned something just right - people couldn't be sure of it one way or another. It was amusing way to check people out, or at least judge their sense of humor.
Noting the eyebrow raise, she leaned down as if about to tell her some conspiracy or other, and lowered her voice to the point she was barely above a whisper, before saying, "Its a secret, can't tell you what I've found!" Grinning as she straightened back out on her perch, quite pleased at having managed to not fall on her new found friend, she tilted her head at the statement Mokoyis made. Head cocked, she glanced down at her, "And what makes you think that?" It was an interesting way to put it, to be certain. Lokiari did enjoy pondering things out and discovering the inner workings of just about everything, but had never heard it quite put that way.
Shaking her head at what Mokoyis said next, she gave a small shrug, turning to seriousness for a small moment. "It depends on the person using the tactic and the person they're using it on. For someone who is naturally very introverted...you might find that jabbering too much will scare them. Unless you find the topic that interests them the most - and quickly. Then you can crack them open. But pick the wrong one and you might find the clam up too tight to open again." Pausing for a moment, she frowned in thought before adding, "And the same is true for the overly talkative ones you meet. Get them excited and trusting you, and you'll find out a lot, though not always as much valuable information as the quiet ones. But again, pick the wrong topic...and they'll blab to everyone they know about your inquisitiveness!" The last line brought out a laugh, though it did sound a bit perturbed. Lokiari had tried to never pick the topic with any of her quarries, but on the rare occasions she had...it had always wound up...interesting, to say the least.
A sheepish smile touched her face as Mokoyis caught on to her repeated glances around the track. With a slight shake of her head, she denied the anxiety. "Its not anxiety. I just prefer the open air to an enclosed stadium, I'm afraid." With a shrug, she returned the question to its owner, in a different form, "How about you - do you prefer it indoors or out?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:24 am
Mokoyis laughed again as she finished stretching and crossed her legs 'Indian style' ((^-^)). She leaned back on her hands so she could look up at the girl perched on the railing above her. "Trolls?" The idea of monsters wasn't a foreign one to Mokoyis, her own mythology had their fair share but she was fairly certain that Lokairi was joking. "Are they like bears?" She played along trying to keep her face neutral and failing miserably.
As Lokairi leaned forward Mokoyis blinked, she hadn't actually thought that she had been able to ferret out anything this quickly. She frowned at the joke and wrinkled her nose playfully. "Tease." Her tone was no longer dry as she warmed up to this strange girl. "You do, you are a warrior or you would not be here and warriors hunt." She shrugged, it seemed rather obvious to her.
"Like Estrelas?" Mokoyis asked, seriously interested in the woman's technique. She had a feeling the Porteguese woman would tell her life story if you but offered an ear to listen, it was still up to the hunter to butcher the information into usable parts.
"I like to be outside, these mountains make me nervous at times. I feel small and closed in and that is when I come here to run. I never get anywhere though," she added with a sigh. "I miss the prairies, did you ocme from an open place too?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:14 pm
Watching as Mokoyis seemed to have difficulty deciding if she was to laugh at the 'joke' or not, Lokiari put on a serious face before responding. With eyes alight with mischief, Lokiari nonchalantly shrugged, "I suppose you could say that. Although, they're big and ugly, eat people, and turn to stone at the sun's first light if they don't retreat to a dark area by then." Grinning, she added with a wink, "So I guess they're not really similar to bears at all, are they?"
A small raise of her shoulders made itself apparent as Lokiari eyed Mokoyis curiously. It seemed almost as if the girl believed she'd discovered something in the few short days she'd been back. To be honest, all she'd done was spend time cleaning her room and training - she'd missed the facilities dearly. Sure, she'd caught whiffs of a few things, but hadn't yet chosen to follow up on any of them as of yet. Tapping her nose with one finger, she smiled down at the woman, "Another rule of subterfuge - if you pretend you have something they want, you can get more from them." Chuckling, she added, "Though you better run quick before they realize you've cheated them once you have what you want!" It was her way of hinting at the fact she'd been pretending, without saying a thing. She liked this Mokoyis, but worried she might be a bit naive concerning people.
When Mokoyis brought up Estrelas, she gave the girl a pleasant nod of agreement. "Exactly like Estrelas. If you let her, she'd likely tell you almost everything. Eponine would be harder to get to open up. She's quiet and mistrusting. Too nervous around many people, so you'd have to single her out, slowly gain her trust, before you found out much truth." Which was exactly what Lokiari intended to do sometime, and soon. The girl was much too nervous for her tastes, and it bothered her that she had seemed so scared of people. Something wasn't right, and she fully intended to find out why.
Tilting her head at the girl's admission, Lokiari thought over what she recalled of her own past. She'd grown up in a city, spent a lot of time in the forests with her grandparents, but had eventually given it all up for a life of excitement and daring. A choice that had gotten her into trouble no few times. Shaking her head slightly, she gave Mokoyis just a small detail of the truth, to keep her friend's newfound trust. "I grew up in the city, though I did spend a lot of time in the forests." And with a grin, Lokiari was off again, "I can't say I miss the city too much, and forests aren't exactly 'open', to begin with. So I'm afraid I don't run into too much homesickness, or anything like it. Though...if you feel small and closed in..." Pausing for a second as she gestured around to the indoors track, she continued, "...why run inside?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:04 pm
Mokoyis chuckled, "No, thing at all alike then." She paused, lost in thought for a moment. "I do not think I would like to meet a troll," she said finally.
The dark haired girl looked up Lokiari with an amused grin, "No wonder you need to practice running then."
Eponine was a mystery to Mokoyis as well. She would give a lot to watch a meeting between the shy french girl and Lokiari, no doubt Lokiari would be able to ferret out more than she herself ever could. "I'm sure you will be able to handle it."
Mokoyis noticed the girls expression grow distant for a moment, as though she was remembering something. Her confession was interesting. Surprisingly the two women had similar backgrounds. Mokoyis had been Minipoka, and therefore was raised by her grandparents as. In response to her question, "The outside is the problem." Her smile was wry.
((I have no muse today >.<))
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:34 am
With an amused grin, Lokiari managed an almost grave nod in agreement, "I think that's why they use them as stories to make children behave. No one really wants to meet a troll!" Laughing just a little, she thought over some of the other stories she'd been told as a child. There had been some strange ones, but some good ones to look into for models on how to behave. That is, if you ignored some of the less than appropriate behaviors that often accompanied the tales you were told as you grew older.
Shrugging at Mokoyis' joke, Lokiari gave her another small nod. It was good to practice running, but that wasn't why she liked to run. Grinning almost devilishly, she again leaned down towards the girl, before altogether hopping off the banister, "And is that why you practice running?" She remembered the girl said she ran because she liked it, but if she was going to be teased, then turn about was fair play. At least just a little.
Plopping down onto the ground near to Mokoyis and leaning her back against one of the metal columns that held the banister up, Lokiari listened to the confidence in the girl's words. It surprised her just a little that someone who barely knew her would have confidence in her, but she supposed with her over confident behavior...it only made sense in the end. Waving a hand to dismiss the confidence, she gave another shrug, "What happens, will happen. We won't know until we talk to the girl, and if we approach it like an interrogation or a questioning to find out what's wrong, she'll run."
Frowning just a little at the thoughts that Eponine brought up, the curiosity to find out why the girl was always wanting to run away, and the questions about if someone had hurt the girl in the past to make her how she was, Lokiari almost missed Mokoyis' next statement. Tilting her head slightly as she noticed the wry smile, she couldn't help but grin, "You're an odd one, Mokoyis. You get claustrophobic outdoors, but not indoors." Grinning, she added, "But that's all right, I like you anyway."
And so she did, Mokoyis was interesting, but easy to talk to. Lokiari figured she'd make a steadfast friend, and steadfast friends were always in short supply.
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:01 pm
Mokoyis nodded in agreement, she could recall a number of stories of her own that had the same cautionary theme, though she could not think of any that centered around frightening figures. Most were about being cast out of the tight knit Blackfoot society- in other words death.
For a moment she worried for her friend, she had already explained her desire for movement. Did she have a bad memory? It took her a moment to realize the jest in Lokiari's voice. She broke into a grin of her own, "Of course not- didn't you know us savages are masters of camaflouge?" She wrinkled her nose in a silent laugh.
Pondering the idea of understanding Eponine she shook her head, "No, but perhaps we are not meant to know? Not that something like that ever stopped me," she added remembering the endless scoldings it had earned her. "On second thought, that may be why I run."
Mokoyis knew she was odd, it didn't really bother her though. "It has taken me to some very interesting places I have to confess." She blushed at Lokiari's comment. She was pleased that she was considered a friend, she was glad that English had the words for expressing gratitude. "Thank you." She paused, "I count you as a friend too.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:55 am
A small smile touched the pondering Loki's lips as she noticed Mokoyis nodding in agreement, and briefly, Loki thought about asking her to share one of her people's tales, in exchange for one of the stories she had grown up with. Those could always be interesting ways to learn more about a person, and it was always fun to share knowledge. So long as that knowledge was kept light and simple, that is - unless it were necessary to share further details, then all knowledge was fair game.
Allowing her attention to return to the topic at hand when Mokoyis began to speak, Loki found herself grinning right along with the girl. "So you hide - and then run later when the coast is clear, eh?" With someone who was easy to talk to, it was difficult not to tease in response to teasing, or joke in response to a joke. Loki just hoped she didn't succeed in putting her foot into her mouth as she often did. It wouldn't do to upset a new friend so quickly, after all.
With a tilt of her head when the subject returned to Eponine, she gave a light shrug, "In the end, I think you are only meant to know as much as you strive to find out. If you don't look for knowledge, it won't come to you with ease." A light laugh escaped from her lips as Mokoyis added her after thought on running, responding to it with a sage, "Indeed." Loki let her short terse appearance return to something friendly and laughing, "Maybe that's a lesson I should have learned!"
Smiling as she tilted her head back against the railing once more, she gave a short nod, "You will have to tell me about these interesting places sometime - a story swap, or something, if you will." Returning her attention to Mokoyis just in time to catch what she thought may have been a blush, she gave her a friendly smile, "Thanks, I'm glad of that."
What a relief to at least have one person she could call friend in what had turned into a sea of strangers at Lotus.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:38 pm
Mokoyis gave another silent laugh, "run very quickly," she corrected glancing around for a clock. She enjoyed clocks- they were much easier to read than the sun, though they probablywould be difficult to hang on the inside of a teepee. The idea made her grin. In actuality Mokoyis did run when she felt threatened- inactivity made her nervous and it was what prompted her to travel after leaving her home.
"I would be happy to share my stories with you. Though once I start it can be hard to make me stop." Mokoyis smiled. Normally she was rather reserved, but she couldn't resist a good story. Information of any kind really- some would call her a gossip. Mokoyis prefered the term curious.
"Have you traveled much?" Most elite members had, though perhaps there were some like her who specialized in areas.
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