Touya Khan
Sharye looked apprehensive as April answered him in kind. Then his face brightened and his lips pulled into a smile as she told him that if he started by telling her what Touya had said to Bordal earlier, that she would return the kindness by teaching him some scouting tricks. The youth beamed as he whirled around and began walking backwards, facing her with his hands behind his back. His gaze flicked over to Touya before he answered her request to which Touya turned away to hid his faint blush that had appeared on his face.
"Touya said 'size doesn't matter, and she's perfect for me'," Sharye grinned, then laughed as he went right back to his place next to April's side. By this time they'd reached Grashath's hut and Touya opened up the door.
Reaching out he took hold of Sharye's arm and pushed the youth inside, "Alright, that's enough of that," he said trying to get his embarrassment under control.
"There's still plenty to do, more so with you tagging along now too," he mumbled the last part. With a sigh, he shook his head slightly as Sharye ran off into the back of the hut to call for the elder Therian. The boy seemed to have an abundance of energy, something that Touya wished he had at the moment. His gaze shifted down to look at April with a bit of a shrug and a smile, "He feels like a child to me. To answer your question earlier, we're planning to leave at the end of this week. There are still many clans that are supposed to be coming, so they are waiting for those clans to get here before we make our move. This gives us plenty of time to train you as much as possible and also to have word reach Reginald and Damea."
"Injured already?" Grashath announced as he entered the room, the words were in Therian, but Touya was sure April got the gist of the comment due to how he was scrutinizing her with his gaze. The elder motioned for her to seat herself upon the operating chair once again and dug around for his tools. The injuries weren't much, small scratches at most upon the metal, but Touya had a feeling he understood what Grashath was sighing about.
"You'll be seeing her more throughout the week I'm sure," Touya commented in return. The elder exhaled his breath through his nose in a short huff, almost like a half laugh.
"Keep it to scratches, will ya?"
"He said to try to keep it to scratches only," Touya interpreted for her, "He'll be done with this very shortly than we can head over and get you some new weapons. I'll see if I can explain how to draw out your blades too. It's a natural process, much like how you just tell your body to move forward. If you want it to happen, it'll happen."
Damea Reese
“Looks like I’m not the only one who can’t sleep."
Damea whirled around, his weapons held tightly in his hand as he'd been startled by Abigail's entrance. He watched her for a few seconds with his swords up before he lowered them and breathed out a sigh of relief that it was only her.
"Though from the looks of it, you’ve been getting a lot less than I have. How about we spar? You can tell me what’s on troubling you in the process,” she said as she crossed the room and set down a large sack of... stuff.
He raised an eyebrow at her, curious as to what it was she was carrying. The fire mage didn't spend time wondering what it was though as he rested his gaze on her lithe form. She was dressed in a simple tank top and pants, but the look was... more than complimenting. Damea shook his head, as beautiful as she was, he wasn't about to like her. After all, she was the one who coldly suggested that they dissect April.
“Why don’t you try use your fire against me? I promise I won't hurt you too much. I have a few questions myself about you also if you don't mind me asking."
Damea's lips twisted into a grin, "Oh ho, really? That should be my line," the mercenary returned softly, though with a bit of uncovered malice, "I'll be happy to answer any questions you have, though. As to what's bothering me..." he took a deep breath and struck his swords together to create the needed spark. Flames outstretched across his blades and flickered brightly. The room was like a dance of shadows as the firelight illuminated everything.
"A lot bothers me. Most importantly, the lack of confrontation from the hybrids," he started and shifted his body into a fighting stance as well, "And also the fact that we haven't heard a word from Touya and April yet. Something's going to happen soon, I can feel it. It's too damned quiet," Damea moved then coming at her with his swords first. He figured she would extinguish the flames as that was what she seemed really good at. Of course the sword attack was just a front to keep her attention up on his upper body and not his legs.