Seven

[pendantry]

[Raven is late for work this morning.

She's hard on herself about it all morning long, working on her projects with hardly a word to anyone else, because things like that are unacceptable. Especially when she's in this kind of mood. When it comes around to lunch time she stalks out of the smithy, bag in hand, sore on top of being frustrated with herself.

Usually she sits on the bench outside the building if it's a nice day; this time her feet take her all the way to the plaza, to sit by the fountain and break the bread of her sandwich bun into little pieces for the local birds. She's just not hungry. They are, so why not share? A small cluster of them shares her bench with her until or unless someone walks by to disturb them.

For a while, she sits there and stares at nothing. Lately everyone is whispering about that going-home stuff. And while she misses home...is Luceti really so terrible? It's like a bigger, weirder Sharance sometimes. Thinking about this too much is giving her a headache, though, so she rubs her temples with a low irate sound and gets up to go back to work.

Then lightheadedness kicks in, she overbalances too much to one side, and into the fountain she goes, cut off before she can finish shouting.

Thus, she is wet and disheveled and heavy-eyed by the time she does get back to work. Late. Again. And at last, obviously not feeling well after all.]

[[ooc: I do not mind timeline-breaking this or that in here! There are lots of places to cook up shenanigans or have a chat.]]

Comments

[fellpool]

[Today is one of those days where Leon actually comes into the smithy to study what's come in and look for inspiration. He's a common enough sight, seeing as he sometimes contributes in the smithy and spends time looking at what weapons have been made or have come in.

So when Raven comes in late, he doesn't think too much of it; he mostly acknowledges that she's there at some point in the day, kinda like Sokka and the others. But, as he's leaving, he really takes a look at her and tilts his head in confusion.]

Raven? Something wrong?

[He can be unobservant once in awhile.]

[pendantry]

[Will Leon receive a straighter answer?]

No. Why?

[fellpool]

You're frowning pretty intensely at your project. [He gestures at what she's working on.]

[pendantry]

The pattern is really detailed.

[She even holds it out for him, look! It's a blue metal band, mostly oblong, set with a few blue stones that have a water-ripple motif growing away from them.]

[fellpool]

[His ears perk curiously as she holds out the band, and he leans in a little to look at the detail.]

I see. I thought something was wrong because of the way you were looking at it. [But it didn't look like her work was affected or anything, so maybe it was just in his head.]

[pendantry]

Nothing is wrong with it.

[It's her. Her vision keeps doing a quick spin and she already burned her hand once.]

[fellpool]

I didn't-- I meant, I thought something was wrong with you. [Dammit, he sucked at this.] Sorry, that came out wrong.

[pendantry]

[Even after he apologizes, she's glaring at him pretty hard.]

Did you come to buy something?

[If she didn't feel like this, she might have cut him a little slack for that comment. It's obvious what he meant.]

[fellpool]

[He sighs, scratching at the back of his neck awkwardly.]

No. I was just leaving.

[He steps back from Raven's workstation, waving apologetically once more before he turns away.]

[pendantry]

[Great. Now Leon probably hates her too. Raven drops her tools with a clunk and folds her arms on her countertop, laying her head down on top of them. This day keeps getting worse.]