Say What? (Mini-plot)|Autus

[Darastrix]

[spoiler=((Plot Under Spoiler))]13) Misunderstands Taxus
CHARACTER receives an injury that leaves their ears ringing! For the whole day they have a hard time understanding anything anyone says.

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Taxus was glad that he hadn’t been born among the Belegites. Though a Beast himself, he didn’t care for the opinion that Beasts were superior to the other Elements (or that any Element was better than any other, for that matter). And at the moment, he imagined his pride would be sore indeed had he held such a belief.

“Good,” he said to the trainee who had just bested him. “Good. You played to your strength and took advantage of a Beast weakness. Our sharper senses can be a disadvantage in some cases—like sensitive hearing against a Wind’s sound boosting.” And how. His ears were still ringing from his student’s Wind-enhanced shriek; even a non-Beast’s would have been. “That’s enough for today. Dismissed.”

While the trainee jogged off to her quarters, Taxus headed off into the temple proper. He didn’t think there was much a healer could do for his ears, so the thought of stopping in to see one didn’t even cross his mind. It would be fine, he was sure. He’d just get some willowbark tea later if his head started hurting too badly.

[Skittlebug]

He doesn't make it far before a young acolyte trots up to him. "Brother Taxus?" she asks. "I was sent to find you, for training."

[Darastrix]

Taxus frowned at the girl, tilting his head slightly to one side as though that would somehow open his ears up to hear her better. "I don't believe so," he answered.

[Skittlebug]

Jya blinks, thrown off by his odd answer, she was pretty sure she had the right person. "You...don't believe so?"

[Darastrix]

"You heard me," he said, tone gruff. "Go out and look for yourself if you don't believe me." Honestly, why the girl hadn't done that to begin with was beyond him. It wasn't raining, and he doubted it would for the next day or so at least.

[Skittlebug]

Jya frowns and gives her head a little shake, clearly confused. She speaks a little bit slower, and louder. "You're brother Taxus? I was sent, for you to teach me." She's starting to have some serious doubts about how good an idea it is though.

[Darastrix]

Oh. Oh. Well, damn. The kid had probably not been asking about rain. His student must have gotten him better than he'd thought. Ah well, no sense worrying about it He had a fair idea of what Jya wanted now.

"Teach you what, girl?" he asked. "I don't know you, so I don't know where you stand with things."

[Skittlebug]

Jya feels a little bit of relief that she's gotten the message across at last. "I've been learning from Sister Winn, she wants me to go around a learn a bit of different styles from whoever can teach me."