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Set outside of the mansion, midday. She's got her loom set up, attached to the archway -- she uses a back-strap loom, for reference. Optime form. Please note: Though she's feeling better, Sa'adat is still sick, and contagious. Also, she still doesn't speak English well. But w/e.

Four days had passed, blurred together by medicine and sickness and sleep. Four days stuck in the confines of her temporary home. Four days in stifling air, in feverish conditions, in pain. Four days. She knew she was still sick, she could feel the illness heating her blood — the healer had called it malaria, something she hadn't understood at the time. She still didn't, not really, but at least it had a name. Malaria. Well, Malaria wasn't going to stop her from getting the fresh air she so desired — even at the risk of infecting others. Her head clearer than it had been, the fever waning even if only for the time being, she'd quietly taken her possessions out of the building she'd been housed in. Though the border had been unsettling, so similar to her personal beliefs of what duat would look like when she died, the area she'd found herself in was much more comforting. Surrounded by forest, the garden and pathways of the mansion brought a smile to the features of the jackayote woman.

A sigh escaped her as she tumbled into the grass, relieved to be in the sunlight again. It wasn't that she didn't appreciate the healer's attention — she doubted she would have found anyone skilled back home to tend to her — but buildings were just so drab. Anyways, she wanted to be away from prying eyes as she worked in the moments while the fever was at bay. After a moment of relaxation, she returned to her feet and searched for something suitable to hook the bundled fabric-and-sticks to. Green eyes settled on the honeysuckle-wrapped archway — it would do. Her fingers carefully attached the lighter side of the loom to the arch, kneeling on the ground before it and spreading what she'd been working on out before her. It was plain, she didn't have much in the way of color left, but the simple swatch of blues and oranges and browns would eventually become a blanket, albeit a small one. Fingers worked with ease to throw the shuttle through the warps, skillful eyes continuing to craft a simple pattern in the fabric. The wedjat eye, a symbol she had seen many times during her life in Cairo. For all he was doing for her, she was determined to give something back to the healer.


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OOC: sorry for the wait on this >.< +3

She yawned out of slight boredom. She had been awake most of the night, hunting with her friend, Hextor, and learning to ride her horse. She noticed that there were only a few horses in Inferni, and she really didn't know anyone whom had the horses. It was quite sad to her, but she made it a duty since she had gotten the steed to meet the other members whom would have the steeds. Well, technically she knew one person whom had a horse, but she didn't know it, since she had never seen the optio with her horse. Neither did she see Ezekiel with his. The most she's seen the new Aquila with was his little birds. Speaking of the ravens, she tried to remember the last time she had spoken with them, and it was a long time apparently since she had struck up a conversation with the birds whom had learned some luperci words, but mostly spoke low speech.


She had been riding her stout tan horse toward the mansion, for it had been that part of the day where she wanted to visit the library and try to read some of the books that were there. She'd been able to learn the bare basics of reading, so she was still not a champ at it, but she figured that she would be able to read sooner or later. She wouldn't give up on it. Her mare had come to the entrance of the Mansion, and she snorted and looked at the woman whom was on the porch. The slender woman dismounted the horse carefully and she looked at the strange looking woman. Valkyrie had never seen her around before so she had to wonder if the woman was new to the clan. Chances are that she was. The orche and coal woman approached the silver ticked woman and she held a smile on her face. Hello there, miss! Who're you? she assumed the woman spoke English but wouldn't she be in for a surprise?



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She's actually not on the porch -- she's set up near the archway, which is out back of the mansion.

Moments drew on without the feverish haze that the malaria had brought in the first few days, and she almost forgot about the condition all together until the joints in her fingers started to ache. Still, they plucked at the warps and threw the wefts and worked so carefully on the gift for the healer who had been doing so much for her. She couldn't allow a little disease to slow her down, what sort of woman would she be if that were the case? A hacking cough rattled her lungs, angular face turning sideways to spit phlegm to the ground before returning to watch her work. It was easy to ignore it, wasn't it? So easy until the fever started.

The back of one tanned hand rubbed against the forehead of the jackayote as she took a momentary break from the loom set in front of her. She didn't hear the hooves, or the steps of another, or anything that might have otherwise told her she was not alone until the foreign voice reached her ears. Muscles tensed and she shoot a look over her shoulder at the young woman who approached, smiling. Who. Who was the only word she could make out from the jumble of English that seemed to be the common language. Only the jackal healer had spoken a language she knew. There was no reason not to pretend, though — a new chance to make friends was in the future, and it was with trembling confidence that she sat straight and tucked salt-and-pepper hair behind her ears. "Sa'adat." A name was the same in any language.


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OOC: well let it be known that i'm an idiot then lol. / +3!


She approached the smaller woman, and smelt something that she had never smelt before on another. It was nothing that she could identify, so she shrugged the scent off, and she had looked at the activity that the woman was partaking in. Valkyrie also had never seen anyone doing what the woman was doing. It was strange and foreign to the de le Poer, and she immediately grew curious. She was a curious being at heart, so it was not like she could help herself really. She would ask questions to the woman about her things once the woman would answer her about her name, whom she was. The word came accented off of the woman's tongue when it was spoken, and it took Valkyrie a moment to comprehend the accent and it's word. Valkyrie looked at the beautiful woman and her hair, taking in the sight of the accented woman, and committing it to memory so that she would not forget such a beautiful face. She truly was a sight to behold, her bi-colored hair and her peppered appearance. Valkyrie would be jealous if she was not so beautiful herself.

Your name is'sa beaut-iful. As arr you, Miss Sa'adat. Valkyrie commented lightly before she had looked back at her horse shyly for a moment. She was not used to calling women beautiful, so it made her slightly shy about it. Her gamboge eyes moved back onto the woman and then they moved to her interesting objects that she possessed and was in front of. A smile still was on her lips as she looked at the things that she did not know the name of. What arr' those? An'uh, what arr ya' doing thur? her own accent slipped from her maw, and she held no regard for the fact that this woman would not understand most of what she was speaking about. Regardless, Valkyrie pointed at the objects to emphasize her point without really even thinking about it.



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OOC here!

Word Count → 000

She was showered with compliments that she could barely understand, the word beautiful making a stand to her but little else. A faint heat rose beneath the fur on her face, a gentle and innocent smile crossing the petite muzzle she possessed. She couldn't understand why the golden female was suddenly so shy, why she turned away to the horse behind her, but it wasn't important -- what was important, apart from the woven work that stretched between the archway and her small lap, was making a friend. Or trying to. Briefly, she worried she'd lose the chance were the other to find out about her lack of English communication skills.

More questions, watered down with an accent that made them harder to understand than they had been originally, but Sa'adat was able to ferrett out words to get the meaning. She wanted to know what she was doing. Well, that was easy enough to explain. "النسيج." She motioned to the contraption with a slender hand, shaking loose the locks of salt-and-pepper hair that was tied so carefully at the base of her neck before trying to continue the task. It was easiest to simply show what was there.

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OOC: I'm the white rabbit, I'm always late. / +3!


Valk had taken a seat close to the woman, but not in the way of her large contraption she set up in front of her. She tilted her inquisitive head towards the large object and wondered what exactly it was. She had never come across anything like this in her travels even though she had seen many different things pertaining to many different cultures. Valk still held a smile on her face as she watched the woman and looked at her dully hued blanket type thing she was making. Her large ears tilted towards the girl's hands and when the girl spoke again, she did not speak the same language that Valkyrie was used to. The woman cocked her head to the opposite side, her large ears giving her the look of innocence and of youth. Truth was, Valkyrie was already edging adulthood in the canid world and she soon would be considered breed-able and finally be on the market if she wasn't already there. With the way the males in Inferni acted towards her, you'd think that she was a nun or something of the sort. Valkyrie's eyes grew slightly big and she looked into the green eyes of the woman to the side of her. Uhm...I'm sorry, I din't understand ya'. she spoke, her hand going to her hair to untangle whatever pieces were tangled from her ride.

Ya' don't speak tha' same language as me, eh? she girl asked, even though this was a stupid question. It was obvious that the girl did not speak the same language as she, because she would have answered her in the common language if she did know it, wouldn't she? Or maybe she was just playing games with Valkyrie, trying to throw the woman off-guard. Valkyrie was nervous all of a sudden because she had never had to deal with someone who didn't speak the same language as she did in Inferni, and she really wanted to make friends with this girl. Valkyrie thought about it for a moment, and hoped that the girl had understood her words. Do..You..speak...any...English? she spoke slower, and she clearly pronounced her words like she often times did not do. The tone of her voice even changed to something that had not been used in some time now. He regular, Canadian voice.



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