Carving [Open]

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir Aeser and you
Setting: Workshop floor
Format: I'll follow you
Summary: Nesir recovers from December and spends some time in the workshop
Warnings: none so far

Nesir went to the workshop for quite a practical reason, since recieving her poison kit as some kind of twisted reward she had a job to do. The cloak she had been given by Chidori, which she had to admit had probably saved her in the coldest days of December, needed modified, nothing big just a few hidden pockets like what she had in the sleeves of her uniform. It only took about an hour and then her cloak was back on, because even though the heating was back on it was still Winter and Nesir liked being warm.

She was about to leave when she was drawn to the wood and the tools, not the strange looking tools that worked on their own, just the basic tools that Ral had taught her to use. It had been a long time since she had carved, since before she lost her fingers at least but she had nothing better to do and it had always been something that helped calm her.

And in this place she needed all the calm she could get. She sat back down after gathering what she needed and started work on the lump of wood.

Anyone who knew Nesir well would not be blamed for assuming she was making something practical, a weapon of some kind. But as it started to take shape it looked more like a flower, rough work, it was hard when her dominant hand was damaged and she had never been good at carving in the first place despite Ral's teaching.

She was lost in work and for a moment, if you really didn't know her, she looked almost innocent.

Comments

[terreifying]

She leans over the table and props her chin up with her hands.

"Usually, you do it only after you've said your name first. And it doesn't matter who sticks their hand out first. As for when it's not okay to do it...I guess during emergencies when you can't stop to shake someone's hand?"

[culbutiri]

Nesir went back to carving as she listened, taking in the information. "Well that do be being straight forward. Thank you for showing me that Rei."

[terreifying]

"It was no problem at all. If you wanna hear more about my world's customs, then just ask me, okay?"

[culbutiri]

Nesir nodded and went back to carving, she was very almost finished, "Do blue hair be common in your world Rei?" She had seen others with unusual hair colours about and it was something she had been wondering for a while.

[terreifying]

"Me and all my sisters have it! But...it's not really that common, I guess. Nobody else has it."

Likely, it was the result of being an Angel hybrid.

[culbutiri]

"Just you and your sisters?" Nesir blinked, "In the whole world?"

[terreifying]

"Hm...the world is a really big world and Earth isn't the only planet, so I don't know. But for all the people I've seen, we're the only ones with this hair."

[culbutiri]

"There did be more than one planet in your world?" Nesir studied her, it sounded like she came from somewhere very interesting.

[terreifying]

"Yep. Even if humanity hasn't gone to most of them yet, they're definitely out there. What? Is there only one planet in your world?"

sob what is science

[culbutiri]

"I do be thinking so. I do no be hearing of any others. There do be stars but they do be small so." She shrugged, "Do people be living on them?"

it is sorcery of the vilest kind

[terreifying]

"Oh, that's because they're far away. They look tiny, but they're really really big. Some are even bigger than the sun. But those aren't the ones that people or aliens live on. Usually, you can't see the stars that people live on because they're too far away and don't shine brightly."

the worst kind

[culbutiri]

Bigger than the sun? What do an alien be? [She hated not knowing things, and it happened far too much here.]

Re: the worst kind

[terreifying]

"Yep! And an alien is like a person, only from a different planet. They might look really, really different, but sometimes, they think just like humans."

[culbutiri]

So technically since we do be from different worlds we do all be aliens to each other? [Is this what she meant, though most people in the tower did look like Nesir there were some like her roommate Kanaya who did not.]

[terreifying]

"You could definitely say that!"

Though, there might be technicalities with everyone being from Earth and all.

[culbutiri]

Nesir nodded and filed that away. "That do be very interesting, I did no be knowing such things."

[terreifying]

"Let me guess. They don't teach that in school in your world."

A pause.

"And they don't teach carving in school in my world. At least, not as something required."

[culbutiri]

"We do no be having these schools in my world." Tohko had told her about them though, places you went and learned all sorts of things and then afterwards decided what you wanted to do with your life. It seemed like a lot of a waste of time to Nesir.

"I did be being taught in a temple though and they did no be teaching anything about different planets or these aliens there."

[terreifying]

"A temple? To a god or some sort? I guess they don't want you learning science there since you can use science to disprove gods."

[culbutiri]

"There do be six gods, though only five do be followed in the temple. The other do be an evil god and must be opposed."

Science to disprove gods? Why would you disprove gods? How would you disprove gods? "What do you be meaning by that?"

[terreifying]

"Wow, that sounds interesting. And you know how stories say gods made humans and the world? Well, it turns out that Earth formed out of space dust over a long, long time and humans evolved from other animals. That means God didn't directly 'make' us."

[culbutiri]

"Of course they did no be." Nesir blinked at her, "The gods did not make the world, they did be finding it. Why would they be making a world when they could just be finding one and ruling it?"

They wouldn't have been able to work together long enough to create anything.

[terreifying]

Rei blinks in surprise.

"So is that how your religion works? Well, I guess that's a bit more like what happened in my world than what our current religions say."

[culbutiri]

"That is how it do be, I have no been meeting the gods but those with magic can sometimes be conversing with them. Or at least with the god that did be granting them their power."

She blinked, "Why what do people be saying? That the world did be made by the gods?"

[terreifying]

"Oh, so you're from a world with more magic than science."

She nods.

"Yep. People say gods made the world. It's more like they gave everything a small nudge along the way, though. Mostly, everything still came about naturally."