[Scavenging PRP] Supervisory Scavenging (Mengyao & Yuzhi)

[Pales]

Yuzhi had covered her face with her hands as if to try and hide herself in her sobbing shame even though it was much too late for that she was crying within his presence whether she wanted to or not. Though she had not been physically there for the crash of the islands that didn't mean she didn't feel the loss any less acutely than those that had been there. It was home, her family was within that home, family that mostly didn't survive except for her Brother and Mengyao. Mengyao who was now visibly changed and even mentally though she couldn't quite put her finger on how or even how much.

Suddenly her form was being lifted to her feet and then she was being held her head rested for the time being on his shoulder her eyes clenching shut. Maybe if she did this for long enough everything would go back to normal and ... No that was a foolish way of thinking. At his voice her eyes opened and she stared at him as he spoke it was enough that he promised these things to her.

Her sobs quieting after a few moments to a couple of quiet hiccups and sniffles before a hand reached up as if to lightly smack him but instead she placed it on the cheek facing toward her, "Of course that is what I want, Idiot. Wh-Who else will I argue with if it isn't with you?" Despite all the disappointments he'd given her and despite how they treated each other she still held him in high regard.

Curtains flopped over onto the door that was collecting quite a few things for her on this little trip. She'd go through and organize her findings later.

Items Gathered

x 2 Thick Cable Wire (Scholar Bonus)
x 6 Large Pebble (Scholar Bonus)
x 2 Wooden Doors (Scholar Bonus)
x 2 Pliable Adhesive (Scholar Bonus)
x 2 Gnome Cement (Scholar Bonus)
x 1 Ripped curtains
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Total: 15 Found

 

[kuropeco]

He knew very well that he could not step into the roll of "big brother" to Yuzhi. That was reserved for Tseng, and for Tseng only, and there was no replacing someone who was already alive - nor did Mengyao have any desire to do so. He knew how much Yuzhi adored Tseng, had watched them grow up together, after all; and Mengyao had had his own little sister to look after.

But Sen was gone and Tseng was not.

You are horrible.

Pathetic.

Weak.

He did not want to remember, but he did. Mengyao closed his eyes briefly, and a hand smoothed its way down Yuzhi's back, reassuring and gentle. It was so rare that he showed this side of himself to anyone that it was unfamiliar to him; unfamiliar and almost confusing.

Her hand touched his face. Mengyao turned to look at her. Yuzhi's eyes were damp, her dark lashes wet with tears, and he felt a part of his heart - a part deep down inside of him, tucked away - constrict.

I miss you. Where are you?

Leaning forward, Mengyao pressed his lips to Yuzhi's cheek gently, lingering for only a moment. Then he carefully set her back down on the ground, tucking his hands back into his sleeves, smoothing out the feathers of his fan. Beside him, his foot knocked against a stack of what looked to be metal desks, the whole lot of them collapsing noisily to the ground.

"I look forward to many more arguments with you, then," he said, and there was a lightly teasing tone to his voice.

Mengyao's Pathetic Inventory

x1 slightly used garbage bin
x2 pliable adhesive
x2 shatter-proof glass
x3 reinforced Metal desks
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8 total

 

[Pales]

Lightly she leaned into the contact of her Cousin kissing her cheek. It was a chaste affection that she allowed him simply because there was no one around to gape or make a huge deal over it or even tease either of them about it. It was contact she would likely never speak of but one that touched her deeply. As her feet found the ground she quietly moved to dust herself off a bit and then she turned toward her little gathering of findings before she glanced over at Mengyao with a small smile amongst the tear stains on her face.

Yes. He would be alright. She would make sure of it. Him and Lifen both.

She didn't understand their afflictions but she recognized the marks it left on them. Recognized it and hated it. It threatened to tear those she loved apart.

Her fingertips curled into a fist for a brief moment before she went about sorting through her things discarding things that seemed entirely too useless for her to cart back in one piece.

"As you should, Idiot Cousin, I do not argue with just anyone. Very few have the ability to be toe-to-toe with the likes of me and survive with their facilities still in place," Yuzhi quipped back her own tone going back to a bit of a more cheerful one, a teasing one.  

[kuropeco]

He would not speak of this incident again, most likely. The idea of exposing a side of him that was neither the calm, collected facade he put on most of the time, nor the side he showed only to Lifen, was rather an outlandish idea in and of itself. Mengyao was not the type of person to show his emotions so easily; in fact, it was usually reserved for times when he was alone, when there was no one around to judge him on what he felt and how he felt it.

It was no one's business but his own, after all.

Stepping away from Yuzhi, Mengyao picked up a thick, heavy wire, idly twisting it around his greying hands and trying to regain some of the composure he had lost. He had not intended to let his feelings - so black and selfish - be known so quickly, but it seemed as though he had no say in the matter. It was out there, now, and he could not take it back.

He turned his head, looking at Yuzhi over his shoulder.

"I am sure you are more than capable of removing some of the facilities of those that dare to come into contact with you," he said, with a coy smile.

Mengyao's Pathetic Inventory

x1 slightly used garbage bin
x2 pliable adhesive
x2 shatter-proof glass
x3 reinforced Metal desks
x1 thick cable wire
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9 total