eswareinmal | Monestary Raid

Characters: Eagle Vision
Open? Yes’m!
Where: Monastery or the countryside around the Monastery if you want to run into Eagle leaving the scene
When: 17th of Rebirth's Height // Evening
What: Eagle has decided to liberate a few books from the heavily Monk guarded Monastery.
Warnings: There will be just a small fire.

[ The monks ran from their monastery grabbing any free bucket or pail they could find as they hurried to the nearest well. The fire that raged in the courtyard was contained to a single hay-filled cart but it still needed to be put out very quickly. The chance of it spreading was low but it was still a chance the diligent monks did not want to take. They swiftly formed a bucket brigade with one monk filling the buckets full of water and passing them down the line to the monks closet to the fire in order to douse the flames.

Just as planned, this little distraction had left the monastery itself unguarded.

Eagle had been by earlier just to see if he couldn’t get a look at some of the many books he had heard they kept here. At that time he was given some kind of nonsense answer about knowledge being too dangerous and only for the privileged few. Not the exact phrasing but to Eagle that is what it sounded like. It was an idea he rejected entirely.

That was why he had staged this distraction. While the monks had been busy outside putting out the minor fire he had been inside borrowing a few books he had seen some one intensely studying earlier. They were written in a strange script he didn’t understand but at least it was a step closer to learning more about this world. He had no doubt that in time he would be able to read these books.

From the safety of the nearby bushes Eagle watched the rest of the scene in the courtyard of the monastery play out just to make certain they would be able to contain the fire. Then he stored his stolen books in a satchel and turned to leave the scene. ]

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"But if you can't read them, can't find out. Should just ask."

"Didn't I already say I had asked? I just didn't feel as if I was getting reliable answers."

While it was true the book might also be unreliable that only way to find that out would be to read it.

"Anyway, it should be fun trying to figure out how to read it."

"How figure it out?" Faolan showed no sign of moving away from Eagle any time soon.

Inquisitive kid. Did all children ask this many questions? Eagle really hadn't had much experience with children.

"I will find some one who knows how to read this, or a language book on this kind of writing, or find a magic spell that will make it all make sense... I don't know which yet."

"Can trust someone else reading? Don't trust answers to questions. If they don't want you to know, won't read right either. Right? Have to read it yourself, or get someone else like us to read it."

"That does pretty much sum up the situation."

Learning to read it for himself would be the best option also one of the more difficult ones really. Luckily Eagle did enjoy a challenge.

"What about you? We have talked about my plans for some time now, I am curious what you intend to do here. Do you have any plans?"

"Faolan wants to play with friends," the boy answered matter-of-factly. "Run and chase and pounce." He dashed a circle around Eagle to show.

"You should have no trouble doing something as easy as that."

Such cute answer really.

"Are there very many village children that you can play with?"

"Don't like to play with most of them. Faolan is different."

This makes him a little sad, but it's hard to make new friends with small children in the first place. He'd much rather play with Hawk and Loki.

"Being different shouldn't mean you can't play with them."

Eagle always found differences interesting. This is a bit of a strange concept for the outgoing guy.

"What makes it so difficult?"

Faolan considered a moment, trying to figure out the words. "Talk too much," he said finally. And they did! Everything they did was words and yelling, and it was so fast and so much and so loud that it made the boy want to cower with his tail between his legs.

"They talk too much?"

Children did have a tendency to run, shout and laugh a lot, but Eagle had never really found that annoying.

"Couldn't you just talk a lot too?"

"No," he answered emphatically.

"Why not?"

Maybe the... well, he certainly didn't seem shy with all of the questions he had asked earlier.

This required a much longer silence as Faolan struggled to find the correct words to give.

"Can't," he said finally, and that seemed to sum up the situation quite nicely.

"I'm sorry but you didn't seem to have any trouble speaking to me. Is talking to other children really so different?"

They walked along in silence for a while as Faolan tried to figure it out.

"Know words slowly," he said finally. "You one person, Faolan one person. Can have a conversation and wait. Kids don't wait."

"I see, they just talk too fast and you can't keep up?"

Eagle smiled, "Then maybe all I would need to do is talk to them, explain the situation, and they would slow down for you."

You can tell he hasn't had much experience with children but at least he was trying to improve the situation.

Faolan slowly shook his head as he considered. "Too many," he said. "And loud."

"And fast," he conceded after a moment.

"Alright, if you say so. Maybe you could just find one off by themselves some time and speak with them."

Faolan smiled at him. "Like you," he decided.

How cute. Faolan certainly gained a friend today if he wants one.

"That is very nice of you. I'm sure you will end up making a lot of friends if you just talk to them one on one like this."

"Really think so?" That made Faolan happy. He wanted to have friends. Impulsively, he hugged Eagle.

Eagle reached down to pet the boy's head. It was difficult to imagine this sweet kid would ever have trouble making friends.

"Of course. All you need to do is be yourself and be friendly."

Faolan cocked his head. "Have to be self. Who else to be?"

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