Jan 01 15:36:46 106 PA
From Chronicles
Kid is having a wander moment, wherein she wanders aimlessly about without a real focus for her path. The park isn't bad for it, lots of space and with the cold winds and approaching evening, the place is starting to empty out steadily. That fog, man. But if Kid is concerned, she doesn't show it. With her hands sunk deep into her jacket pockets, hood drawn up and an added knit hat in rainbow colors put on over that, she drags her feet about slowly, her attention vaguely focused on the path before her.
Tirzah steps into the park, any near by giving her a wide berth with the dark ember being smoldering in the cold at her side. Things have been tense with the fog continuing to linger. between work and other issues, she's found it prudent to keep her more visible aide near. That and its a great way to beat the chill. Not that its exceedingly cold, but it makes her vicinity cozy at least.
Kid wanders near to the front of the place slowly, though as she comes within visual range of Tirzah, she doesn't immediately place the other young woman. She comes around one of the larger trees, a hand coming out of her pocket to lay along it. Matching mittens cover the hand, the knit fabric catching with a soft rasp on the bark as she circles it slowly, half way around before she lets go and turns her back towards the tree, letting it fall lightly against the trunk. Leaning slightly, she sinks the hand back into her pocket, eyes downcast in thought.
Her aide's steps making a steaming hiss with each step on the cold ground are a bit distracting but Tirzah is content with it. She often likes to stroll through the park after work and contemplate her day. With the fog Jelani's lesser clients are staying home and their larger clients whan that much more assurance. So she's been out actually more, her fiery talents a desired commodity. Which lead her to thoughts on how she might improve, and make herself that much safer out there. Kid does start to notice the sound after a moment, looking up slowly. Of course, seeing a flaming.. something does little to ease her. Her right hand shifts back, slipping up under her jacket just a bit, though without yet drawing anything. Tirzah.. figures. She frowns, remaining tense as she observes the other woman and her 'friend' mutely for a few moments. Tense.. yes indeed. But her expression is schooled down into neutrality.
Tirzah gives a light smile to Kid when she notices her in her walk, simply being open. she takes a moment to consider the emptying park in soon to be dim twilight. Kneeling down she takes some snow and forms it into a ball. Then she stands up with it in hand, testing its weight. Then after looking around to make sure everyone is clear she lobs it into the air. And the drawing on her link a ball of fire is released after it's path.
The fireball does indeed catch up to the snowball, just barely, Tirzah frowns feeling a little foolish.
Open is nice, but another display of power doesn't seem to soften Kid's mood, despite the playful nature of it. Her posture remains tense, still for the moment as she remains leaned back slightly against the tree. But she keeps her expression neutral despite the other discreet clues to her present state. And words come slowly. Her instinctive response bitten back, lips pursing into a thin line as if to hold it back for a moment. And after.. something to say doesn't come quick or easy to her past that instinctive reaction. She settles on, "Better watch it, don't want to set the trees on fire." Her tone bland.
Tirzah nods in reluctant agreement to the bland comment. "Indeed, I should do this at the range, but with the fog, well it wouldn't be wise to be there alone." She notes as she kneels to make another snowball. "The trees have nothing to fear though, just vertical shots, considering the setting and all." She states as she stands and considers taking another go at it.
Kid shrugs her shoulders in reply to that. "Do what you want then." The words low spoken. The standoffish quality of them a bit tired. "Dunno why you'd only go shooting at night anyway." She pushes off from the tree with a shift of her back, but pauses then, the way forward currently with Tirzah and her friend occupying it. An annoyed edge comes to her expression and turns, starting to walk around the two with a good gap kept between them.
Tirzah looks to Kid the answer being quite obvious. "Because I usually work during the day. Should I bend time or something?" She asks the snowball's ascent postponed for a moment. Inside she panged, noticing they were falling into the usual antagonistic set up for them. Then she sighs shrugging it off. "Don't know why you look at me like that, whenever I'm just being myself."
Kid pauses and glances towards Tirzah, a third through her slow circling. Though before her words start, her eyes flick for a moment towards the elemental then return. "Like what?" She snorts. "Besides, who says you should get a free pass for just being you? People bitch at me all the time for just being me. So why shouldn't I return the favor?"
Tirzah snickers and tosses the snowball up into the air. "Well that depends on what they say. But if for example they call you a bitch, well it kinda makes them right. But hey don't feel obligated to listen to me." She says with a smirk as she releases another ball of fire up into the air.
Or not, the link fails from something grabbing her attenting and the would be fireball sputter uselessly.
"I don't," Kid states. "Cause you ain't told me nothing yet worth listening to." She frowns as Tirzah goes for another fireball and ends up flubbing it. A soft snort comes from the young woman as she starts to walk again. "I know who and what I am. More than half the assholes who think they can judge me after a glance. Like everything I do don't have a reason. Does anyone care about that? No. So why should I care about them?"
Tirzah shrugs helplessly. "Who am I to answer that? I cant tell you how to live. Heck I just do what I think is right, and accept the consequences, and that's enough for me. I'm not about to go tackling what other people think is right." But if you want my observation, as worthless as you state it to be. You're asking yourself why should you care, not me. because you do care and resent your weakness for doing so."
Kid pauses again, turning to eye Tirzah. "Gunna analyze me again, huh?" She snorts and crosses her arms over her chest, hands extracted from her pockets. "Go for it, cause you know I love to hear that shit from people that don't know a thing about me. That don't even care to try and know a thing about me. Or maybe I should just tell you to shut it now before you start digging deeper on my last nerve. Again."
Tirzah glares at Kid, annoyed at the way she reacts to the answers. "Well Kid, you know that's how I am now, so if you didn't want that, why are you asking? Do you expect me to change for you or something? Because others expect that of you? I don't, and I don't change for anyone, as Sebastien found out." She notes firmly. "You just be you, and expect me to be me, and deal with that. Alright?"
"I thought maybe you'd wise up and ask me rather than tell me for once, but it seems like you just don't want to. Or maybe you don't care enough to do that." She shrugs faintly. "Either way I guess maybe I should just stay the hell away from you like my instinct tells me cause all you're ever going to do is piss me off with your constant face value judgement," Kid states, her eyes narrowing. "Me, I am changing. Or trying to, for Cali cause she's worth trying to be better. But it ain't easy when even when you try and do it, all you get is the same thing outta people. Makes me wonder why I should even bother sometimes. You be whatever you want.. I don't have to deal with it." She turns.
Tirzah quirks a brow at Kid as she turns away. "Ask you what? Who you are, what you do, how your day was? Most of those a pretty clear and from what I've seen, pretty negative. Which I like to avoid because I'm usually a bright energetic person. So maybe if you have something that meshes with that you should just volunteer it instead of expecting me to want to hope for it. And then just maybe my negative impression of you will change too." She advises, firmly annoyed at how Kid interacts with her. At least the feeling is mutual, there is balance.
"Ask me anything besides telling me how I feel like you know my thoughts better than me. Show one hint that you might wonder why I am like I am," Kid responds simply. She doesn't yet step away, but keeps her back turned towards Tirzah. "Cause, you know, that's what people who care do. From the moment I've run into you, I don't recall you showing one iota of curiosity about me, short of what you see on the surface. Why should I respond to that total lack of care with my biography? Right now, all it feels like is I'll give you yet more reasons to proclaim judgement over me like you're better than I am." She snorts faintly and turns her head, a darkly amused lean to her expression when her profile is revealed. "Hell, you seemed to like my music, but you don't ask shit about that either. And now you pretty much tell me you're so bubbly and bright and pretty much hint that if I have anything dark to say, you're going to avoid it so you don't lose your high. Yeah, that shit's going to make me open right up."
Tirzah ponders that, she did like Kid's music, when it was ambient. But.. "I don't like to impose Kid. I'm an independent person. Most warlocks are, we don't ask for things. We usually do whatever we can to get them for ourselves first. So its not that I don't care, or that i think I'm better than you. I've just always lived with the view that needing to ask for something is weak.."
Kid shrugs her shoulders. "Then maybe you need to change too. But then, I already got too many people I'm changing for. I don't got no more room for people I can't count on." She lifts a hand in a casual gesture. Of parting perhaps before she walks off. Tags: kid, tirzah
