songerein | This Flame That Burns Inside of Me

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This Flame That Burns Inside of Me | OTA

Who: Soldier: 76 & Anyone
Which: Open Log | March Catch-All
Where: Farmlands, Wildlands, room attached to The Wild Harvest
What: Helping clean up the farm lands for the farmers, falling back in to old habits of spending a lot of time out in the wildlands and visiting bees, and a flower surprise that 76 has brought back to his room that's attached to The Wild Harvest pub.
Warnings: N/A, will add as any come up

Days in the Sun
A.
[76 was no stranger to farm work, far from it; he was born and raised helping out on the arm his family owned on the outskirts of Bloomington. Wasn't a big one, but enough so that he always had farm chores to do every day growing up before and after school. Weekends, too. Always had free time with that, too.

Reason that he was more than eager to get out there, burn some of the anxious energy out of himself in cleaning up the planting fields and mend broken fences to make sure none of the cows or other grazing animals kept could get in to them that easily. Also mean shoring and patching up fencing for the fields those animals would be let out in to as well.

There was a yetox close by where he was currently working on clearing a field. Grazing on a pile of weeds he'd gathered and gave to it. Still wearing a harness, but the topless wagon it was hitched to was closer to 76, filled with other debris he'd been collecting already.]

Hope you've got multiple empty stomachs, big guy. You're goin to be eating well and burning it off today.

B.
[The yetox that was out with him was currently resting in the sun, while 76 himself had spread out some fabric to sit in the shade of the wagon itself, checking over the amount of nails he had and the condition of the hammer. Just beside him was a covered basket.]

Hey.

[Passing by? There was that gruff voice-]

If you feel like it, should sit down and relax a bit. Even if not working it's quite the walk to get out here. Got a bit of food and drink. Rest up for a minute, won't kill ya.

Shade of a Forest
[Was keeping himself far more bus than usual, more so after- well, felt like a good two months or more where he just couldn't get out here like he wanted. Given the work he was doing out by the farms? He was taking it a little more easy. Not camping out in the Wildlands as he had been, but it wasn't stopping him from re-visiting some places.

Been a while since he'd gotten a good eye on the dreamhoney bees after all.

Still would be a bit of a walk, stopping by other areas in the Wildlands between each hive he knew of.]

Should probably see what I can hunt-up to bring back to the Harvest with me.

[On occasion? A rather large dreamotion made wolf would be walking either alongside or a little ahead of 76. Blue eyes scanning the area and ears on the swivel. Sometimes there'd be two more to make it three total. Moving together as a unit and sometimes one scouting ahead if something caught attention.

Rather peaceful looking should they approach someone, at least.]

Thorns & All For A Blazing Dawn
[Once the second half of the month hits, and when not working in and around the Wild Harvest itself, 76 could be found in a room connected to the pub itself and the garden as well. The walls of windows that could be easily looked in to from either passing by or from the garden itself was blocked off by various plants in pots and some rows of very colorful jaws that acted almost like stained glass by how they were arranged; a rainbow of colors and patterns. Both the plants and filled jars gave him enough privacy, so he felt.

But he was sitting on one of the cushioned benched with a pot on the table, what almost looked like a golden rose bush with glass-like blooms and buds sat before him. A gloved hand cradling one of the blooms carefully, blue eyes narrowing as he'd taken off the tactical visor part of his mask once he'd gotten it in and sat down.]

How the hell did these come from me?

[He'd gone back out, looking for the area he'd finally been pulled free and, well. 76 had found a single rose bush, just a bit below his knee in height. Looked like it had actually grown on the trip back.]

What does this even mean.

(OOC: Feel free to hit me up/PM me if nothing here catches interest. I'll also be putting some planned threads in here throughout the month.)

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Meet me at the firepit- the one that's in the clearing by the residential district. Can discuss things further there.

[A nice neutral ground of a sorts, because it was a gathering place he had helped build and knew it was easy enough to find. Not hidden anywhere.

He'd already assured Yujin that he was fine and, well, best way to start something like this was to discuss things, wasn't it? Even better in person to help better gauge things, because it wasn't as if this was just some quick to and from sort of thing. Take some hours to walk as far out as the cave was, and he could always pull in Blue if someone needed a rest or ride on the way.

More so if the man was possibly bringing someone else along. Better to know and plan accordingly what he needed to carry along with them. Been a while since he'd gotten close to the cave, but the trips he'd made in the area had seemed calm. Something had changed though. He could feel it.

So, as 76 waited he say on one of the logs around the fire pit, a low flame lift just so it was clear someone was there.]

[Toge doesn't mind getting a little down and dirty with helping out, and helping at the farms is actually kind of rewarding. Not to mention, the last time he helped out he was able to take some seeds home, so getting first pick of the crops is a nice trade-off. And it's nice to kind of just focus on the tasks at hand and get lost in the quiet work.]

[He's just hauling out a basket of dried-out mulch to toss to the side when he hears the offer. Looking over, he's surprised to see a familiar (albeit masked) face calling out to him. He pauses, before nodding.]

Salmon.

[Well, he has been working for a while, and if he's being invited to sit down, he might as well accept the offer. He sets down the basket and nods to 76 as he sits down, lifting a hand in greeting.]

Kombu.

[It's been a while, huh?]

Edited 2022-03-08 21:09 (UTC)

...... [ Susato was happy to see Jack back at work. She can only imagine that it helps him more than it would hurt, to get back to routine and resume some sense of normalcy, though when she suddenly can't find him in the kitchen, she does start to wonder.

Far be it from her to bother him during his break, but she figures it can't hurt just to make sure, so she starts checking all of the places where she'd been able to find him in the past.

She watches him, talking to no one in particular, holding that very familiar looking bush of flowers, its petals reflective, glasslike and mesmerizing. ]

...Am, Am I interrupting?

Had become something of a routine without any real notice; once he had been allowed out of the safehouse and more in to town after resting... he returned. More so after the fact that the first few times that he hadn't there were questions, if not outright appearance, from Reaper. Figured it was the man not wanting the effort he'd put in to patching him up after the entire incident to go to waste, let him have the time to push himself past temporarily limited lines.

After that? Well, he did the same if Reaper thought he had any reason to then so did 76. Went so far as to even shoot a message by if he was going to be a bit later returning to the safehouse than initially planned.

This evening was no different, a little later than intended but 76 was coming to the safehouse. Made sure no one had seen him come out in the direction, went a little round about and doubled back a bit before taking the path out in to the Wildlands, making his way to the abandoned treehouse that the both of them had put work in to looking uninhabitable from the outside and fixing the insides a bit. Warmer inside, spring still bringing a chill; seemed colder without the moon still.

He stepped in from one of the walls through shadow, pack tucked over a shoulder as he glanced around, hand moving to turn on one of the low lights that couldn't be visible from the inside- "You here?" Just in case.

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