And So It Begins...

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:36 pm

She laughed slightly then nodded.

"Very well, though, I thought you said that you wern't paying me to eat coconuts, love." She smirked then turned around and stepped from his house and back onto the sands, the warm ocean breeze catching her hair and soft white dress once more, tossing them softly through the air.

She placed the coconut down and spun her scimitar once in her hand, facing the waves, then started to move into formations, ignoring that he was there. Every movement she made had a silken flow to it, her dress chorusing its grace and her blade seeming to sing into the air.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:09 am

San comes back from the town and throws an empty sack at Iekka

"If I have to sell to Eliza for more outragously low prices, I'm going to boycott the shop!" He mutters and goes into his room

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:12 am

Iekka looks down at the sac in her hands, then followed him into the house, tossing the sac down on the chair and frowning.

"Okay... " She mutters leaning against the wall looking into his room.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:24 am

"Why arent you very talkative today?"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:26 am

Iekka raised a brow then stepped into the room, now leaning against his door frame.

"Talkitive... what's there to talk about?" She asked as she crossed her arms under her breasts, her face a look of bordum.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:33 am

"Dunno...what did you do today?"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:36 am

"Euh..." Iekka was not use to people asking her about things she did, she usually got a command or the irritated wave of a hand, that or a knife to her throat and she was caught for words.

"Um..." She blinked straightening up, looking at San with a confused expression.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:16 am

"You "euh..ummed"?"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:52 am

Iekka was caught by his mockery and frowned.

"I did what I do everyday." She leaned herself back against the door frame.

'I could kill him, might make for Some entertainment...' She thought bitterly.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:54 am

"Well.....tommorow clean this place up....and I might have something for you to slice." He mutters

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:59 am

"Clean...this...pl...." She looked at him, darkly questioning his words. "You want me to clean up your mess?" She spat.

'Okay, that killing him idea is looking better every second...' She let her thoughts trail on. 'I come here to get a bloody job, and am asked to clean a bloody house...what do I look like? Some maid, a servent... this is why I avoid people... ignorance...bloody ignorance....' She tilted her head, gazing at him.

She caught herself then sighed and turned from his room, picking up her scimitar she had rested on the side of the chair and walking from the house.

"Im going for a walk." She muttered as she stepped down onto the sands and started to head along the shore, occarionaly spinning her blade.

'I dont know why I came back here, I could have found a job else where...and I would have been fine, there are plenty of desent jobs I could have tried to get, but no, I had to go for this one, then return to it.... as for Sean-san.... with a reputation like his, I might have thought better. But he is male, what am I to expect from him?' She laughed slightly to herself.

'Manipulable...if I can find out where his weak spot is...I hope... it would make all of this so much easier.' She looked up into the skies. 'Why did I return...?' She questioned.

Iekka continues along the beach.

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:46 pm

Iekka awaks on a rock and looks over the darkened sea, its waves calmly breaking up against the shore in a rythmic pounding. She yawns and streches, sitting up on the rock and running her hands through her hair, causing it to fall back in waves behind her back.

'How long have I been here?' She wondered sliding from the rock and back into the sands, picking up her scimitar that had fallen point down into a patch of grass. She straightened up and looked over the sands, unable to see Sean's house from where she was.

"I wonder how far I wandered..." She muttered to herself as she started to walk back along the beach from the direction she had come, her bare feet sinking softly into the white sands that now shawn blue in the moonlight and her white dress also seeming to glow a light shade of blue as well.

A gentle nights breeze blew across the shore, catching her hair and dress in a graceful dance and causing her scimitar to sing softly. She walked on untill the familliar shape of the beach house came into view.

"Ugh...do I really want to go back in there..." She said as she stopped a good twenty or so meters away, her blade hung limp in her hand and its tip grazing a mound of sand by her feet.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:26 am

San throws tailoring needles at the wall

*whunk*

"She'll be back..."

*whunk*

".....she needs the money...."

*whunk*

".....and if she doesent stop whining about house work..."

*whunk*

"....she'll never kill anything again..."

*whunk*

"I busted my ass cleaning malachin knows what off ships decks.....she can clean up my house!"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:43 am

Iekka looks at the door from where she stands and sighs.

"Damn money..." She hissed as she walked up to the door and was just about to knock, just before she changed her mind and turned and walked away.

'I dont need him!' She thought, then turned back to the door. 'But I do need him...' She looked away and started to walk off. 'No, I dont, but I could...' She turned back to the door. '...manipulate this situation if I play my cards right...'

Iekka opened the door and stepped in to see a needle peirce through the wall.

"Ugh..." She muttered.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:46 am

"Your late" San mutters

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:56 am

Iekka looked at him, picking up her sheath and sheathing her scimitar.

"Late?" She asked with curiosity. "Do I have a curfew now?"

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:05 am

"Do you need one? or perhaps I should make a basement, chain you in it, and only let you out to kill things when I feel like it?"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:16 am

"Please try and remember that you do not own me." She said darkly.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:21 am

"Who pays you?.....me.....who gives you a roof....me....who has to worry when your out late?....thats me too....I think owning is an understatement"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:24 am

'Rip out his throat, then hang him by his treachea...' She thought bitterly as she raised her head.

"I can leave, I do not need you for money or a place to stay, I've survived for years on my own without the help of you sir." Iekka didnt move, her eyes shimmering silver.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:44 am

"Then go. Otherwise, you can start with the main room"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:04 am

Iekka looked at him.

'Think fast, stratigical... what to do...manipulate him, use him, then kill him...then I would have to...' She sighed. 'Damn him, oh damn him well...'

She glared at him then walked out the door, leaving her stuff in his house and wandering out onto the beach.

'Clean his house... CLEAN HIS HOUSE!' She leaned herself against his house with a thud. 'Bloody men...'

Withe her arms crossed her her head down looking at the ground with a bitter glare she called back to him.

"Why is it that I have to clean your mess? Im not here to be your bloody servent!."

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:29 am

"Oh my dear dear girl, thats exactly what your here for." He calls back

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:38 am

"You have to be kidding me..." She hissed under her breath, leaning herself so that she looking in through his door into the house.

"Clean you bloody house... " She took in a deep breath, she had her elvish calm to an extent, but the rashness of a human still ran through her veins. She pushed herself off the wall, her arms still crossed and waked back up into his house, letting herself tip sideways to lean on his door frame.

"Better be getting paid bloody well for this..." She mumbled under her breath before speaking up. "Very well... Sean ... stay out of this room, and it will, along with the rest of your... sty ... be cleaned within the bloody hour. Now scram." She looked at him with slanted eyes.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:46 am

"Fine, I'll go for a walk." He gets up "I expect you'll be done when I return."

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:54 am

Iekka held back the sudden urge to do something, she didnt want to dig too deep into what it was and nodded reluctantly.

'For the money, and to make him trust... why am I doing this.' Her gut clenched up. 'Damnit this is embarasing... damn him to hell and beyond...'

"Good, go." She tried to say taking away some of her bitterness, not moving from where she stood.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:33 am

San walks by her and out the door closing it behind him, he puts on his grey cloak and walks into the woods

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:51 am

Iekka looks around San's house and her eyes widen when she soon sees what she is up against.

The main room, with peices of clothing occationaly on the ground, flowing out from the bed room, looked relitivly clean compared to the bed room and kitchen. She picked up a few dishes from the table and walked into the kitchen, tossing the dishes on the counter and looking around.

The kitchen had dishes everywhere and the cupboards were almost all opened. Peices of food not eaten sat a few days old in old plates and the occational spice out of place sat alone behind a bottle or something else.

"This...isnt... " She looked around discusted. "Oh... euh... this is horrible and...wrong....and.... ugh...." Iekka opened her sac and changed from her white dress into a pair black leather pants with ties up the sides and a loose fitting white peasants blouse, pulling her hair back with a leather tie then got to work with a few bitter elvish words.

She picked up all of the dishes that she could find then took them out side and washed them off in the ocean, then brought them back in, rinsing them off with some fresh water she could find, then leaving them to dry as she went around the kitchen and orginized everything, washing the counters and putting the plates and spices and anything else that needed to be put away back to where they were suppost to be. She found an old tattered broom and swept the floors out into the main room where she was heading to clean next. She looked back over to the kitchen and nodded with satizfaction, it was perfect. She shook her head.

"Thank goodness this place is small..." She muttered as she started to pick things up that wernt supost to be in the room and putting them away, then sweeping that floor and dusting things off.

"Kept this room relitivly well, as for his... bedroom..." She finished the last thing in his main room, pushing the chairs up to the table and cleaning off the larger chair by the door, then wandered into his room and sighed.

She started taking all the weapons out, from the floor and off the walls, and placing them in the main room for now, then took all the clothing and tossing anything that was dirty into the main room as well. Once she found the floor she swept it out and made the bed nicely, dusting off counters and patching up the few odd holes from the celing. She brought the weaponry back in and placed it neatly on its starts and hangings before taking the rest of his clothing and folding them up and putting it away, and taking all of his dirty stuff and placing it into a barrel for him to clean.

Within an hour the house was perfectly clean, not a thing out of place nor a bit of dirt to be sceen. She walked outside and picked a few flowers and brought them in and placed them into an empty bottle and placed them on the center of the table in the main room to add colour and gain some of his favor.

She looked around one last time before going back out side and gathering coconuts and some fresh shellfish to make something to eat, if she was going to get him to trust her and keep it that way, make him happy would be a start.

She took out a bowl and drew one of her daggers, cutting the coconut in half and pouring the milk into the bowl, then cutting out all of t he meat and placing it into another bowl, then did the same to another coconut before tossing the nut's shell out into the sea below. Then she turned her attention to the shellfish and started to remove their meat into a pot.

The Returner · Post by **The Returner** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:31 am

San comes back, and looks around, he prods the flowers with a finger

"Trying to get on my good side now? You are a mood swinger arent you?" he mumbles and walks to the kitchen door "Whaccha makin?"

Iekka · Post by **Iekka** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:34 am

Iekka doesnt look up, and inside an urge to smack his builds but she holds it back and continues to prepare the shellfish.

"Food." She said as if not in the mood to speak, she pushed the bowl filled with chunks of coconut towards him and then slid a knife beside the bowl. "Chop."