Heavenfall

"Do not do it for me, but for those who would look to you for guidance. If you do not know them yet, I am certain they will yet come," she said, another smile as she brought her hand back to her side.

"I wouldn't discount them so totally. They have yet not forced any upon their mission, so as I have determined from the proceedings. Yet, many have joined to the cause for their own purposes and reasons. It was.." she held her word for a moment bit through it and continued, "it is only by my decisio...

"If.." she takes a moment, exhales. "If that is what you feel is best," she says, taking a firm hold of the rope and slowly, carefully, making her way up the rope. Aided, surely, by Satone's guidance. Once at the top she reaches a hand out, seeking greater assistance from one of those yet above that...

"Perhaps," she smiled briefly. "Yet, we must always be wondering for our place. What it is that we alone can do that no other can in our place. It is the power of humanity but also our burden to do with it all that we can. " A pause, a moments reflection, "I believe, especially after today, that you...

"I will be fine," she said to Satone, a hand to the other woman's shoulder and a brief smile. Shifting her weight on Satones shoulder, moving to be more appropriately toward the rest of the group. Haruyo listened for positioning and then directing her voice toward Reo said, "A grand display such as ...

Haruyo reached out and placed a hand on the other woman's thigh, near her knee. Patting it gently she said, "That is quite alright, you do not need to have the answers just yet I suppose. You will have the whole course of your life to decide but.. I believe it is the thought to which women in your p...

"Then I would not think you need worry for the time that you wished you had to prepare," she said with a light smile. "As what is already needed done is done."

"Curious," she replied. "Much like the reason for why we are here. Sating this curiosity will come at another time, I think. You.. handled yourself well. Best to be cautious, so far from home already."

Haruyo stood nearby, holding her walking stick firmly into the ground and feeling the air around them. How sturdy the ground was, she thought and wondered to a thought but held from it for now. Standing here she broke from her thought and listened into the conversation occasionally but didn't intrud...

"You wish to help," she repeated. Taking a breath of a moment to sit with it on a thought. Deciding, she continued with the same stone-confidence as before, "that is a good start. Yet, I would ask more to wonder after who you are Togashi Saruko? Beyond what you do. You are a woman in a position that...

"Five years is such a time as to lose all the purpose of a mission this large altogether," she remarks in her turn. "Though, I would wonder. Would you feel so comfortable as to arm all the others that yet come here? Each and every in kind? Certainly many those of our tribe have your craft well in ha...

"I believe this will be the type of outing that will change any such plans," she said, preparing something of a place of eating before she gathered the foods and then served them. With the break from conversation to focus on her task she took a moment. "There is much being packed for the journey, I ...

"Ah," she said softly, "but even one without eyes can 'stop and enjoy the view', in their own sense. Such as stopping to feel the breeze, feel the earth beneath our feet, or listen to a sound. But perhaps there is something in what you say that it is not nescessarily a gift." Saruko cleared her thr...

Haruyo smiled and held out her hand, palm down toward Satone to grab so she might give Satone's a squeeze. Then without much of a wait she shifted her focus back to the fire and checked the temperature again. Making a note of how long it had been, "Nearly there.. I believe."

"Foresight?" she wondered, tilting her head forward in the thought. "No, I am afraid I have been as gift-less with foresight as I have sight itself. Merely, I am a woman born without the use of my eyes and thus have had to learn of the worlds details with a different focus. I have heard that many wi...

"I know this," she said with a smile. "It is why I never asked you so directly to follow, but that I merely accepted you would. Your devotion to me over the years.." she let the thought drift to her mind for a moment. All the time they had spent together. From when they were but younger girls explor...

"I would say that it is that you know your place in the world, firmly and truly. Perhaps you do not need to become one among gods to find this place, but when you spoke so calmly, I listened closely and what I heard in the words.. I knew you were yet a woman comfortable with who and where you are. H...

"You can only carry them for so long," she adds with a smile. Having searched for the bottle when she sensed the movement, aided by Sakuro, she took it back and attached it where it originally hung. "Instead, as you could show me the hints of your own path of which I might derive from your telling o...

"Now is a time of change for many people, and for those who ask of me what I think I would not do them such an unkindness as to not think it through to completion. With that said.." she pauses, ponders, her face contorts naturally in this way. "It is true that there is a lot that I would be able to ...

Haruyo faces her cheek toward the ever-rising sun, letting it's warmth within as she thought and then spoke, "Even the earth beneath our feet must move at times, but when it does it moves in a manner as to be decisive and with impact. Never does the earth move that is not felt by all. Now, our tribe...