<b><span style="font-size: 15px">Round Primary</span></b><br/><br/><br/>Eleyna smiled at Susan, over all feeling better about the girl's forthcoming nature.<span style="color: blue">Ok, I will... thanks.</span>Eleyna answered with a polite bow as Susan departed. She stayed where she was for a moment on the outskirts of the preparation, feeling slightly awkward and out of place.<br/><br/>After a moment she approached Brollem, careful to avoid the various bags and stacks of things. He was stretching his arm after setting down the timber he had carried. Eleyna noted that wood was being arranged in a square, and the small sack of nails and metal mallets suggested they might start tacking it all together.<span style="color: blue">Uhm, excuse me.</span>She said to him. The large man turned and smiled beneath his bushy beard.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">Hello there girl, feeling better I hope?</span>He asked, withdrawing a cloth from the split in his shirt and wiping his face.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">I am, thank you. Its a very nice Onsen. I mean... well...</span>She flushed as she considered the naughty secrets it held.<br/><br/>Brollem laughed heartily.<span style="color: red">She told you did she, haha... well girl, they're getting older, but they're not dead. Sometimes you need to feel young again, whether ye' are or not.</span><br/><br/>Eleyna gave him a look. He continued,<span style="color: red">When we're all younger, 'bout as old as you lot, there's a life about us we have. Don't think for a moment that I'd believe you don't want to catch the eye of some good lookin' boy.</span>He chuckled when she blushed a little.<span style="color: red">There will come a time for you, as it did for me... as it does for all of us, when our bodies start to feel the weight of the world about them. Time makes us wiser and weaker, and its easy to lose that feeling of being alive. That's the secret, girl. You can't lose that sense of life. Even if it means leavin' a hole and lettin' them peek every now and then.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: blue">I uhm... hm.</span>Eleyna found herself without a word of response. As readily as she had always been to dismiss things like that, and as uncomfortable as she admittedly felt about them, when he put it all like that something seemed more ok about it. Like it was normal.<i>Goodness is it normal?</i><br/><br/><span style="color: red">Sorry, didn't mean to set your mind at it like that... you looked like you had wanted to say something earlier.</span>He set his hands on his hips.<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Hm? Oh! Yes, uhm, how is he? The trainer, the one we brought, I mean.</span>Eleyna shook her head, getting her attention back on track.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">Ah...</span>The large man's look became more serious.<span style="color: red">Well, bashed up as bad as he was, its half a miracle he made it at all. The boat to take him will be ready soon enough. Kaiyo is with him now, so there's no need to worry on it.</span>He watched as Eleyna looked down toward the village. He gave her arm a bit of a pat to get her attention again.<span style="color: red">Come on then, not something to dwell on. You look like you could use some nice easy work. We're about to start getting the stage all built. I could use your help.</span><br/><br/><br/>As Susan approached Anko, the older woman waved her over and gave her a nod.<span style="color: darkgreen">Right, its good you're here. We need to start getting things arranged. Once the pylons and poles goes up, we need to string these charms across them on a line.</span>She nudged one of a dozen sacks with paper charms near her feet.<span style="color: green">Take one of each - and there's two sorts... these, the folded ones, and... these the ones with the writing. One of each laid out there, see where the posts are being set? Once they're up, you're Phantump there can run the lines for us... save us the need to move about boxes to stand on.</span><br/><br/>She wasted no effort, grabbing several sacks and starting to move them with Susan.<br/><br/><br/>As Jake found himself out of the bamboo grove the path the Onsen ran through, he noted that the entirety of the village - or at least what looked to be its entirety - was setting up the festival. If he needed to find lodging he would need to do so there.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>