[OOM] Blood on on the Snow

[thesecondjade]

[ Punishment. (Mild gore warning.) ]

Stumbling out of the backwoods in the evening, Lan Zhan's energy flees him for a moment in a cool November evening. With the dangers of the wood behind him, he drops to the heather for a moment. He reaches out for one frond of the nearest shrub, curling his fingers into it, assuring himself of it's reality with the feel of it, the scent it gives up as he crushes it in his hand.

It is real. He is here.

He climbs to his feet and indeterminable time later, and begins to walk toward the bar, pale as a ghost and stinking of blood and herbs. Already, he's tearing open his scabbed up wounds, but it doesn't stop him. He walks, one foot in front of the other with graceless steps, toward the bar.

Lan Zhan must reach his son. Nothing else matters.

***

Some time later, after he knows A-Yuan is safe, and he has time to rest, he can be seen outside on the porch. What can be done for him has been done -- now it's just waiting for him to have the strength to get back and face what is waiting for him in Cloud Recesses.



[ Care has already been arranged for Lan Zhan, but people outside the A-Yuan plot are more than welcome to tag in while he rests at the bar! ]

Forge post -- Saturday morning

[ostro_goth]

For the 13th anniversary of his death and arrival in Milliways, Teja was gifted a manual for making a katana the traditional way.

It was a challenge and a vote of confidence at the same time, and he's been thinking about his connections to the far-away country of Japan that he has developed over the year. His first customer here had been a nine-tailed fox lady who needed her kaiken sharpened, and Ryû Hayabusa had taught him many of their traditions and even taken him to his village, where Teja learned to make mokumegane -- would-grained metal for jewelery and sword decorations.

Now, making a katana following a manual designed for a master smith who knows his craft already -- that shall be his masterpiece, not at blade-making, but in understanding what Japan is all about: - and that is what Abe no Seimei invited him to do, with that gift.

This morning, he is making a start at it.

Nevertheless, he has the forge open for business, and will welcome all and any that might wish to speak with him.

OOM: Istanbul

[manipulatestime]

Nobody's Business but the Turks