Don't Ever Forget [Open/Mod]

[Jay]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/natashiishi.png);][atrb=width, 497][atrb=height, 297][atrb=style,border:0 black none,b,Table][scrolly:h(234),w(229),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:51px;margin-left:21px;color:#202122;)]Gavin was now being very careful to direct his own thoughts solely at Nero at least for the moment. However, though numerous explanations to what he had just said came to mind, they all faded as he stared at his beloved trainer. 'Sorry....' was finally all that passed along that psychic link. Nero closed her eyes trying to regain her full composure. However, one opened again at Ryan's words. She'd expected something like 'what was that about?' with possibly with more or less rhetoric involved. However, the command of sorts left her without words for a moment. Smile more? For as far back as she could remember, Nero had never known herself to be able to smile easily. The few times she'd ever remembered trying the muscle maneuver as a child were always rewarded with disdain or aggravation, and such memories had configured themselves, much like enzymes with different R-groups, into her personality after that. It's fine, Gavin... Nero's thoughts reassured the Gardevoir as best she could. The psychic hesitated a moment before mentally nodding and turning back to the flowers he had been gazing at. Bending down, he picked the ones he had found and went on searching for more. She'd been trying to come up with some sort of explanation as to why she didn't smile as often as she did when one of Ryan's pokemon, the Torchic, had come back carrying some sort of flowers. The questioning sound of the little bird prompted Nero to step forwards and bend down. Reaching forwards, she took the flowers carefully from the little fire chicken and looked at them with scrutinizing but gentle brown spheres. "Ah, thank you, but they're not exactly the same..." she explained before setting the flowers between her ring and index finger and fishing out one of the actual camomile flowers that began to crepitate in her basket as she took one out. "They do look close, though, don't they..." Nero asked bridging her fingers slightly to make the heads of the flowers come together before setting the example back in her basket and patting the Torchic on the head. Finally looking back at Ryan, Nero stood up again and reached an index finger to her cheek before shoving up one side of her face into an obscure partial smile. "I should," she answered back flatly before moving the finger away and allowing her face to fall flat again. "I find it hard most of the time, though...." she admitted before shaking her head slowly. "There are few things in the world that I can look on without any contempt." [/scrolly]

[Admiral Striker General]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/Heart-of-Thorns/VC/Ryantable.png);color:#990000;width:470;height:294;][atrb=style,border:3 darkred groove,bTable][scrolly:h(202),w(262),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:52px;margin-left:14px;margin-right:175px;)]Ryan and Amy both nodded as Natashi showed them the flowers. Ahhhkay, Ryan thought. So the middle yellow thingy is.. eh.. 'poofier', I guess. Duly noted. Amy gave a few little cheeps, then, and rushed off to make sure Zev and Kiowa both knew what they were looking for. Ryan watched Natashi's forced smile and listened as she explained, suddenly feeling pretty terrible. "..Ah. ...Sorry." He perhaps should have been glad to have seen her smile before if that was the case, but instead he just felt like he'd touched a nerve. "I didn' mean... Heh. ... 'sjust..." He gave a small, nervous laugh, rubbing the back of his head and staring firmly at a flower in front of him rather than back at her. "Yer... really pur--pretty.." He went back to rummaging through the vegetation, this time to one side- the side that turned him a bit further from Natashi. "Justuh.. Not ta try an' flatter 'r 'nything. Jus' sayin'.." He drew a deep breath, but fought the urge to sigh and exhaled slowly instead. He seemed to be making a fool of himself an awful lot of himself lately, heh. Maybe he really had come to rely a bit too much on being able to fall on that whole tough guy gangster impression with people. Ah well. [/scrolly]

[Jay]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/natashiishi.png);][atrb=width, 497][atrb=height, 297][atrb=style,border:0 black none,b,Table][scrolly:h(234),w(229),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:51px;margin-left:21px;color:#202122;)]At the apology from Ryan, Nero realized how the explanation had panned out. However, she had no words to lessen the effect without changing the meaning, and because of this, she simply accepted the apology with a quiet nod. A brief moment later, Nero began to search through the plants again. However, she froze at Ryan's words. Pretty? Nero bit her lip and fought back a blush that was threatening to hit her cheeks. When dressed in her normal gab, it was not common for anyone to refer to her as 'pretty' for obvious reasons. Thus, the compliment, though small in nature, had made more of an impact that one would have anticipated. As Ryan quickly clarified, Nero found herself suddenly very focused on a sky blue flower that she didn't recognize and didn't see much value in bit couldn't take her eyes off of. "I see," she answered back managing to suppress whatever emotions had come to her and keeping her voice calm and almost flat. "Thank you... You're... fairly handsome," she finished. It was more of a return compliment than anything, but she was honest in wording. He wasn't bad looking or anything. She'd seen people that were cut up and thrashed that looked worse--- but that's not exactly what she meant now that she thought on it. Brown eyes raised up from the flower they'd been so intent on finding some secret in and slid over towards Ryan for a brief moment before moving back in front of Nero again. Meanwhile, Gavin had picked a few more and projected these thoughts at Nero who looked up towards the shiny Gardevoir only to sweat drop a little as she caught sight of the sheer amount he now had with him. The flower mass almost resembled a bouquet there in his arms. It seemed that Gavin had had considerable luck, or possibly some obscure psychic advantage, in finding the particular plant. 'Is this enough?' Gavin asked smiling softly in hopes that he could somehow redeem himself for the mistake earlier. "Gavin..." Nero started before standing up fully and nodding. "Yes, that will be enough..." she finished before holding the basket forwards. The Gardevoir nodded and set the flowers in the basket before crossing his arms in front of himself and beaming rather pleased with himself. Looking back down at the basket now full, Nero looked back towards where Ryan was. "It seems... I have enough for tea...." she said aloud. "Would you like to join me for some?" [/scrolly]

[Admiral Striker General]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/Heart-of-Thorns/VC/Ryantable.png);color:#990000;width:470;height:294;][atrb=style,border:3 darkred groove,bTable][scrolly:h(202),w(262),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:52px;margin-left:14px;margin-right:175px;)]At the return of compliment, Ryan... just laughed. It wasn't even a nervous 'heh' or anything either, though it started off close to that. Slowly, though, it became a sincerely amused if somewhat quiet chuckle. It was just... too funny.. and maybe funnier still that he had no idea why. Fortunately, the Gardevoir- Gavin, he noted- brought some distraction, and-- did she say enough? Calming, he turned back to look and found his jaw dropping a bit. He made himself close it after a moment and gave an amused, "I'll say.." Her offer surprised him a bit even with her earlier mention of it, mostly given he didn't expect her to ask so soon. "Er... sure? ...Didn' ya need any other flowers though?" As if on cue, then, his Rufflet approached with some four or five flowers in his beak, prompting another small chuckle from Ryan. "A few more fer the tea, I guess.." he commented, taking them to hand to Natashi before patting Kiowa on the head. "Go tell the others they can stop lookin' for that kind, nnkay?" [/scrolly]

[Jay]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/natashiishi.png);][atrb=width, 497][atrb=height, 297][atrb=style,border:0 black none,b,Table][scrolly:h(234),w(229),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:51px;margin-left:21px;color:#202122;)]Gavin beamed even more than before, happy to see that he'd gotten enough. A red eye slid towards Ryan as the man spoke, and in one fluid step, the Gardevoir turned and started to saunter away waiting for the next flower image. He'd get a bunch of whatever came next just like he had done with the first. He would be useful. At Ryan's words, Nero remembered the other plants she had thought to look for. It seemed that having found such a large amount of chamomile had nearly caused her to forget that she was looking for others. Nodding slowly, Nero took the extra plants and put them carefully in her basket. "Right.......There's a plant the Daji...it's a Japanese thistle. The root of it is supposed to stop bleeding. I've looked in other areas but haven't found it, so I'm wondering if it is in Era at all..." she explained trying to draw the memory of what it looked like. "It has two leaves on either side of a thistle...it ... kind of looks like the burs that Est had on him but...it'd be more of an orange color..." she explained. If she could find it, it would be very useful in various medical situations. Gavin hummed softly to himself as he simply focused on the metal image that Nero had at the moment and locked it into his own thoughts. The thought of projecting Nero's thought at Ryan came to mind, but it was more fun to outdo the human even if it was with rude leverage. Est, who had been absent during this time, popped up from the grass for a brief moment. A devious smirk had come to his catty face as he disappeared into them once more. Slowly starting to follow the Rufflet, he'd just seen, the Espeon purred quietly. Mmmmm what would Rufflet taste like? [/scrolly]

[Admiral Striker General]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/Heart-of-Thorns/VC/Ryantable.png);color:#990000;width:470;height:294;][atrb=style,border:3 darkred groove,bTable][scrolly:h(202),w(262),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:52px;margin-left:14px;margin-right:175px;)]Ryan sweatdropped a bit at the description. "...Oh. Uh.. All right." He nodded less than confidently. A few moments later, Kiowa hurried back in the safe protection of along with the others, and Ryan did his best to relay the description, being sure to tell them to look extra hard since apparently it was really hard to find. Oh also to be sure to bring the whole plant, root and all, not just pick the flowers. That part was important wasn't it. Before they left, he went ahead and turned back to Natashi. "Was there uh.. anything else? Maybe somethin' less rare they- er, we- should be lookin' fer too?" He shrugged and gave a lopsided smile. "Dun see why we hafta stick ta one at a time anyway, ya know." It would just save a bit of time, he thought. Though he guessed he could see why looking for only a few at a time could be good, too, so they'd be more focused and not forget some on accident. Still, two or three shouldn't be hard to keep track of, right? [/scrolly]

[Jay]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/natashiishi.png);][atrb=width, 497][atrb=height, 297][atrb=style,border:0 black none,b,Table][scrolly:h(234),w(229),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:51px;margin-left:21px;color:#202122;)]'Speon' Est swore slightly when it seemed that the Rufflet was out of his reach for now. He honestly wasn't confident enough to go up against three pokemon... especially that giant blade-bug creature, not that anyone really needed to know. Hm, no matter... The little bird had to find himself alone some time. Then and only then Est would act, 'speon. "Yes," Nero stated after the question had been posed. I'm also looking for Mugwort leaves and Agrimony... The Mugwort is a stem plant with two leaves coming off each sides for anywhere from four to five notches. It's rather distinctive and grows in groups, and the leaves themselves are somewhat big..." She made a motion with her hand to show the size. "In small amounts, it can be used to stop pain..." she explained. What Nero failed to mention was that in too large amounts, it could cause the freezing of the nerves and the stopping of the heart. At one time, she had thought to lace her needles with it, yet the process was supposedly slow if not in sufficient amounts. Nero aimed to kill most often, not make people suffer slowly before they die. "Agrimony is yellow and has five-pinned flowers. They also grow in groups and have a number of uses." she explained. That was three... and the two she had just named, she was sure were actually in the area. Gavin continued to work smoothly taking up mental images of the plants from Nero before continuing his trek. [/scrolly]

[Admiral Striker General]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc64/Heart-of-Thorns/VC/Ryantable.png);color:#990000;width:470;height:294;][atrb=style,border:3 darkred groove,bTable][scrolly:h(202),w(242),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:52px;margin-left:14px;margin-right:175px;)]Amy and Zevran both nodded vigorously with little calls of their species before rushing off to search. Ryan sweatdropped a bit at this. Well.. at least they got it. Kiowa, meanwhile, jumped a bit at their speed and scooted closer to Ryan, looking a bit dejected for his lack of enthusiasm, though the trainer thought he had a fair idea why. He ruffled the Rufflet's feathers lightly and gave a slightly nervous laugh before returning his attention to Natashi. "I hope I don't sound too much like an idiot, but...." He tried to force a smile, the result a spectacular failure. "Five... 'pinned'?" [/scrolly]

[Jay]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/natashiishi.png);][atrb=width, 497][atrb=height, 297][atrb=style,border:0 black none,b,Table][scrolly:h(234),w(229),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:51px;margin-left:21px;color:#202122;)]Est purred softly as his ears set onto the back of his head. Aww come now... However, another thought came to mind, and he perked up again. Slowly approaching Ryan, the Espeon made a slight purring sound before brushing up on the man as though he were looking for pets. However, his eyes sparkled just a little at the sight of Kiowa. <Hello there...> he purred softly. For a brief moment, Nero didn't understand the question, yet after this short session of confusion had finished, she raised two hands using her index finger to point at each finger. "It extends out in five directions with a central point that then extends down..." she explained if a bit awkwardly. "I guess I could have just said petal..." she munbled more to herself than to Ryan. [/scrolly]