[Log] Carpe Diem
Who: Lo Hak, Sieg
What: Acting on impulse as usual, Sieg literally runs into the bath house guy and proposes a quick trip to Vinay del Zexay since the guy looks like he could do to get his mind off things.
Where: Budehuc and beyond!
Lo Hak had been walking in a sort of daze for the past few days. He went through the mechanics of up keeping the baths on autopilot, and he spent more time that usual down at the beach, just sort of staring at the water - and usually near the spot Wyatt had... disappeared. Yes, disappeared. Because to say he had 'died' was making it final, somehow, in a way Lo Hak was now ready to accept. So today he wandered about the grounds, just trying to distract himself, pausing at the fountain to rub cool water on the back of his neck, hands brushing shaggy hair blonde hair that he kept forgetting to get cut.
He found it hard to keep up with everything that was going on around the castle and with its residents, but then with his attention so easily drawn away from one thing to another, it would probably be of no surprise for those that new the boy. It didn't mean that he cared any less, but those that were scattered about Budehuc were many, and even though Sieg had just as many people around at the castle back home, he knew he still hadn't met everyone here.
Currently what occupied his time was trying to find out where Brass Castle and Vinay del Zexay was so that he could some people out with him when he finally decided to visit. The boy had just come down from the castle master's room, a map in hand, unfurled and effectively blocking most of his view- not that he was paying much attention to everything else around him as he briskly made way across the grounds. "Oh, it isn't that far at all..!" he said to himself.
Lost in the numbness that had filled his body, Lo Hak neither heard nor saw Seig, so of course didn't move out of the way as the accident prone boy approached and the collision was enough to momentarily jar him back into the world of the here and now. He groaned and rubbed the back of his head, blinking at the boy. "You're Sieg right?" he blinked eyes bluer than the sky.
Sieg yelped once he found himself colliding with something- er, make that some/one/, and he stumbled and landed on his backside, the map fluttering lazily to the ground beside him. "Gah! Sorry about that!" he sputtered, scrambling to his feet, thrusting a hand out to help the guy up. Blinking back, he nodded. Oh that's right, he talked to this person before. Now what was his name again...? "Huh? yeah, that's right," he said, grinning lopsidedly.
Lo Hak took the hand, rising up and dusting himself off and disregarding the scrapes on his elbows. He'd received worse after all. His eyes drifted to the map and he bent, picking it up and glancing over it before handing it back to Seig, understand only about two-thirds of the words on it. He did recognize the big ones though - Brass Castle and Vinay del Zexay. "Trying to find your way to Vinay?" he inquired.
With a piped thanks, Sieg took back the map, hoping it didn't get torn or anything- after all, it wasn't his! He smiled, nodding his head at the question. "Yeah, I figure it'd be good to start getting to know what all's around here," he said. "Been there?"
"A few times. I have to go there now and then to get bath supplies," Lo Hak shrugged. "It's pretty much like any other big city you go to - except, it's Zexen style rather than Islands or Kooluk or something."
"You say that like I'm familiar with either name," he laughed. "I guess I'll just have to see once I get there." Sieg looked down at the map again, then rolled it up as he peered back at Lo Hak. "...haven't run into you since I first came, huh? -er, well, didn't mean to, literally."
Lo Hak chuckled a bit, though it was weak and somehow distant. "I've been busy running the baths," he explained. "What about you? Other than running around with maps, obviously."
It was something Sieg seemed to pick up on instantly. He arched a brow at the other. "Oh, me? Just trying to keep myself busy around here, aside from seeing who all else shows up from my world. Went fishing with Subala some time ago!" The boy smiled, shrugging as he absently bounced the rolled map over a shoulder. "Um...so...everything okay with you?"
No, no it wasn't. He had just seen his lover disappear, probably forever. How did he deal with that? "I think I've just been working to much. Trying to do some renovations," he assured the silver haired boy with a smile that didn't reach his sky blue eyes. "If you need someone to take you to Vinay, I could use the break." And maybe being away from Budehuc for a small bit would do him some good.
Folding his free arm across his chest, Sieg tilted his head at Lo Hak, apparently not that convinced by the other's response. Overwork never left anyone looking like that so far as Sieg was aware of anyways, especially if it was to do with something a person really had interests in. He frowned a moment, a grin immediately chasing it away with Lo Hak's offer.
"Really? Great! Let's go right now!"
Lo Hak blinked. "Well, it's a full day's journey if we ride hard and we'd need potch or camping supplies. Do you know how to ride?" he asked as an afterthought.
A day didn't seem all that long to him. Sieg was used to going just about everywhere on foot, and even the closest towns had been at least a day or two's worth of travel, back home. "Um..." Ride? It was probably obvious from his reaction that he didn't.
"Ride a horse?" Lo Hak pressed. The Islander wasn't a master equestrian himself, but he had leaned enough from Wyatt to manage a ride to Vinay and back.
"...n..o?" the boy admitted, scratching the back of his neck as he grinned sheepishly. "Never had to- we just walked everywhere, and the Gateways didn't link up everywhere."
Lo Hak smiled again a bit, a sympathetic one. "Same here," he agreed. "I sailed a boat or walked in the islands." He paused, doing the math. "Well, on foot it will take two days or three depending on our rate of travel," he amended. "So we need to get camping supplies ready at the very least."
Two to three days didn't sound all that much trouble. But it wouldn't have been as quick a trip as Sieg had hoped it to be. Still, it would be nice to familiarize himself with the route for when he actually managed to grab the ones that would be interested to go along. "Okay then!" he said, decidedly unperturbed by whatever complications had been brought up.
The cheerfulness of the other was comforting, much like himself - or at least as he usually was. "Sooo... I guess we can can go to the trade post and buy some of the items for camping," he said for lack of anything else.
"Sure, that sounds good." Sieg was pretty sure he had a decent amount of potch on him- he'd never really considered how convenient it was that this world used the same currency as their's. "...um, you're okay with this, right? I know it's kinda sudden..." It just took him a moment to catch himself.
"No, it's fine," Lo Hak assured him with a smile that was partially reflected now in his eyes. "It will give me something to do besides breathing in the moist air of the baths."
Well at least that was a little better. The boy nodded, smiling back. "Okay! Let's do this, then!"
"All right then. Let me get my potch and I'll meet you at the trade center," he nodded in its general direction.
Sieg beamed, saluting him before he turned to head off. He figured he might as well drop the map off in his room while he was at it, and he was fairly sure of where the trading post was.
Lo Hak went back to the baths and snatched his potch quickly from his room, for a moment pausing to stroke the covers of the bed, now only used by one. He shook his head and went over to the trade post, already picking out what he'd need for the short trip.
"Hope you didn't wait long!" came the boy's shout as Sieg ran up the way. His sandaled feet skidded to a stop by the trade post that one might wonder that the kid ran everywhere he went.
"Nope!" Lo Hak tried to smile as brightly as he could, though of course it was muted. "I have most of our stuff." He pointed to the single pile and then two more of smaller items in duplicate.
The boy blinked and looked over at the things that had already been gathered. "Wow, you work fast!" he laughed.
"Grew up learning to move quick," Lo Hak shrugged, looking over the piles again and slapping down the potch necessary cover his half.
Sieg followed suit after asking how much was owed for his share, digging his potch out from his belt pouch and sliding it over. "Heh, I guess getting stuff together fast is the thing my friends do better at than I do." Considering how often it was that Marica or someone else would have to get him up in the mornings, but otherwise Sieg was all over the place when it came to other things.
Lo Hak laughed a bit at that. "And there we differ. I'm usually the errand runner, but then again I'm the youngest." And had the quickest fingers, which made it easy to pick pockets and small spaces, and thus of course he had to be quick. Spending nights in jail wasn't fun.
"I'd usually still be in bed," Sieg admitted, grinning that lopsided grin of his. He had no idea of Lo Hak's background to know what could have been implied by errand running.
Lo Hak chuckled, watching the trade post master put their items in packs.
The boy rocked back and forth on his heels, folding his arms behind his head. "So what was it like where you came from? You mentioned boats and islands?"
Lo Hak took the packs and handed one to Seig, heading back towards the main courtyard. "It's like it sounds. Islands, with miles of ocean between. You have to take a boat to get anywhere and most of the islands have their own unique look because they're all so isolated from one another."
Hefting the pack over his shoulders, Sieg trailed after Lo Hak. "Wow. That sounds like the place Hina comes from, 'cept I can't remember what the place was called. Never been there either. Actually, going fishing with Subala was the first time I ever went on a boat, and that was just a little one."
Lo Hak laughed a bit louder. "When I said boat I sort of meant ship. I served on one during the way - a huge four or five decker. Gigantic really."
Sieg wasn't sure he could picture that when he wasn't even exactly sure what Lo Hak meant. "'bout how gigantic are we talking, here?" he asked, eyes wide with curiosity. He'd never had a chance to go sailing with the Lonomakua Pirates, but their ship had been pretty big.
"You know that beached ship some of us live in?" Lo Hak asked him. "Think of three of those together, and that's the ship I was on, probably bigger."
Just when you couldn't think it possible for Sieg's eyes to get any larger, they practically bugged out once Lo Hak gave him the estimate of the ship-size he was talking about. "Whoa! No way! And it can still float?!"
"Well, it'd rather have to," he laughed, somewhat less strained than before. "You'll find wood is a very floatable thing."
Sieg blinked, head tilting. "W-well yeah, but...wow." He scratched his head, that grin that was never too far from his face finding a foothold once again.
"Yeah, well, we were all surprised when we saw it too," he tried to make him feel a bit better. "I guess after serving on it, it just doesn't seem AS big."
The boy laughed, nodding his head. "Guess that makes sense. It's like with the castle back home- at first I thought it was huge! But before that, all I was used to was what we had in Citro village. But then the castle got bigger- a lotta work getting around it, but I guess I got used to it too." He smiled. "Think I'll be able to see that giant ship for myself, sometime?"
"I doubt that," Lo Hak apologized. "It's back in my time - about 100 years in the past from now. It's gone in this era - more legend than anything as I understand."
"Aw, that's too bad..." Sieg sighed, looking disappointed- for all of three seconds. "Well, still- sounds like it was really somethin'! ....so...that far back, huh? Was it really hard for you to adjust to things around here?"
"In ways," Lo Hak admitted. "I mean, you have to get used to the fact that what happened for you only a few years ago isn't even recent history here, and a lot of the countries and politics have changed."
He couldn't even begin to fathom how that could even possibly feel. "I hadn't considered that," Sieg said stroking his chin thoughtfully. "-up until I got here, I didn't even know to think that things people coming from other times was even possible..." Well no, he realized that wasn't completely the case, but even back home he hadn't quite understood how the differences occurred in their timelines with the newly merged worlds, but even then it had been on such a smaller span.
"Trust me, we didn't think it was either," Lo Hak again helped the boy feel less like he'd miss a large part of something, which would have made Lo Hak feel like an idiot in Seig's place. "But then when Viki's around, I suppose there's a lot that can happen. Including me getting dumped here." He paused, stopping a bench in the courtyard and opening the sack to paw through the contents once more. "But, with my upbringing, I just learned to adapt. I sort of look at it like going to a new and very big island."
Sieg nodded. No point in freaking out about something that you couldn't do anything about- at least not immediately. The boy himself hadn't given up on finding a Gateway that actually remained open, and so far it only seemed like more from his world were slowly being filtered through to this one. "So is this Viki person actually around the castle? I've heard her mentioned a lot as the cause for someone's being here, but..."
"I don't think so," Lo Hak shook his head and reassured himself he had all he would need for a two day trip - four if you counted the trip back. "I have not seen her, but she never stayed in one place long, not really. Well, in the wars she was around, but after that?" He shook his head.
Shifting from one foot to the other as he waited for Lo Hak to check inventory, Sieg tried not to appear overly anxious to get a move on. He wondered if he should check his own stuff, but he'd seen that the gathered items had been identical so if one was sufficient, the other should too, right? "Hm. Well that ain't good," he frowned. "And she's the only one that does that thing with the...aah, what was it called- some kinda rune?"
"Yup," Lo Hak nodded. "As far as we know. But it's not so bad being stuck here, like I said." He sealed the bag and looped it over his shoulder. "Let me stop in my rooms to get some money and a change of clothes. You should do the same too, if you haven't already."
It wasn't bad here at all. It could have been much worse, Sieg thought, although that too was something he really hadn't taken the time to consider until now. "Oh, good idea," the boy said, turning to dash back to where he was staying. He only had one more set of clothes to change into- a phenomena he still couldn't figure out other than his armor set had magically decided to follow after him and ended up somehow in Sarah's laundry piles. The armor itself would be a little cumbersome to carry, so Sieg opted to leave the bulk of it behind, stuffing it into his bag after folding it as compactly as he could manage. He ran back down and outside to wait for Lo Hak.
Lo Hak did not seem to have changed beyond his pack seeming a bit bulkier. "You ready?" he grinned, running a hand through his shaggy blonde hair.
"Yup!" Sieg piped, a bounce accenting his response as he came to a stop by the other. As if there were any doubts of that! "Let's get going!"
Lo Hak nodded and set out, hoping that some time away would be what he needed to start moving on, even a little bit.
Still uncertain as to what had been on Lo Hak's mind that might have been bothering him, Sieg felt that there had been a definite improvement to the man's demeanor from when he'd first run into him earlier. He followed eagerly, falling into step beside the other. Hopefully he wouldn't tire out Lo Hak with his general perkiness.
What: Acting on impulse as usual, Sieg literally runs into the bath house guy and proposes a quick trip to Vinay del Zexay since the guy looks like he could do to get his mind off things.
Where: Budehuc and beyond!
Lo Hak had been walking in a sort of daze for the past few days. He went through the mechanics of up keeping the baths on autopilot, and he spent more time that usual down at the beach, just sort of staring at the water - and usually near the spot Wyatt had... disappeared. Yes, disappeared. Because to say he had 'died' was making it final, somehow, in a way Lo Hak was now ready to accept. So today he wandered about the grounds, just trying to distract himself, pausing at the fountain to rub cool water on the back of his neck, hands brushing shaggy hair blonde hair that he kept forgetting to get cut.
He found it hard to keep up with everything that was going on around the castle and with its residents, but then with his attention so easily drawn away from one thing to another, it would probably be of no surprise for those that new the boy. It didn't mean that he cared any less, but those that were scattered about Budehuc were many, and even though Sieg had just as many people around at the castle back home, he knew he still hadn't met everyone here.
Currently what occupied his time was trying to find out where Brass Castle and Vinay del Zexay was so that he could some people out with him when he finally decided to visit. The boy had just come down from the castle master's room, a map in hand, unfurled and effectively blocking most of his view- not that he was paying much attention to everything else around him as he briskly made way across the grounds. "Oh, it isn't that far at all..!" he said to himself.
Lost in the numbness that had filled his body, Lo Hak neither heard nor saw Seig, so of course didn't move out of the way as the accident prone boy approached and the collision was enough to momentarily jar him back into the world of the here and now. He groaned and rubbed the back of his head, blinking at the boy. "You're Sieg right?" he blinked eyes bluer than the sky.
Sieg yelped once he found himself colliding with something- er, make that some/one/, and he stumbled and landed on his backside, the map fluttering lazily to the ground beside him. "Gah! Sorry about that!" he sputtered, scrambling to his feet, thrusting a hand out to help the guy up. Blinking back, he nodded. Oh that's right, he talked to this person before. Now what was his name again...? "Huh? yeah, that's right," he said, grinning lopsidedly.
Lo Hak took the hand, rising up and dusting himself off and disregarding the scrapes on his elbows. He'd received worse after all. His eyes drifted to the map and he bent, picking it up and glancing over it before handing it back to Seig, understand only about two-thirds of the words on it. He did recognize the big ones though - Brass Castle and Vinay del Zexay. "Trying to find your way to Vinay?" he inquired.
With a piped thanks, Sieg took back the map, hoping it didn't get torn or anything- after all, it wasn't his! He smiled, nodding his head at the question. "Yeah, I figure it'd be good to start getting to know what all's around here," he said. "Been there?"
"A few times. I have to go there now and then to get bath supplies," Lo Hak shrugged. "It's pretty much like any other big city you go to - except, it's Zexen style rather than Islands or Kooluk or something."
"You say that like I'm familiar with either name," he laughed. "I guess I'll just have to see once I get there." Sieg looked down at the map again, then rolled it up as he peered back at Lo Hak. "...haven't run into you since I first came, huh? -er, well, didn't mean to, literally."
Lo Hak chuckled a bit, though it was weak and somehow distant. "I've been busy running the baths," he explained. "What about you? Other than running around with maps, obviously."
It was something Sieg seemed to pick up on instantly. He arched a brow at the other. "Oh, me? Just trying to keep myself busy around here, aside from seeing who all else shows up from my world. Went fishing with Subala some time ago!" The boy smiled, shrugging as he absently bounced the rolled map over a shoulder. "Um...so...everything okay with you?"
No, no it wasn't. He had just seen his lover disappear, probably forever. How did he deal with that? "I think I've just been working to much. Trying to do some renovations," he assured the silver haired boy with a smile that didn't reach his sky blue eyes. "If you need someone to take you to Vinay, I could use the break." And maybe being away from Budehuc for a small bit would do him some good.
Folding his free arm across his chest, Sieg tilted his head at Lo Hak, apparently not that convinced by the other's response. Overwork never left anyone looking like that so far as Sieg was aware of anyways, especially if it was to do with something a person really had interests in. He frowned a moment, a grin immediately chasing it away with Lo Hak's offer.
"Really? Great! Let's go right now!"
Lo Hak blinked. "Well, it's a full day's journey if we ride hard and we'd need potch or camping supplies. Do you know how to ride?" he asked as an afterthought.
A day didn't seem all that long to him. Sieg was used to going just about everywhere on foot, and even the closest towns had been at least a day or two's worth of travel, back home. "Um..." Ride? It was probably obvious from his reaction that he didn't.
"Ride a horse?" Lo Hak pressed. The Islander wasn't a master equestrian himself, but he had leaned enough from Wyatt to manage a ride to Vinay and back.
"...n..o?" the boy admitted, scratching the back of his neck as he grinned sheepishly. "Never had to- we just walked everywhere, and the Gateways didn't link up everywhere."
Lo Hak smiled again a bit, a sympathetic one. "Same here," he agreed. "I sailed a boat or walked in the islands." He paused, doing the math. "Well, on foot it will take two days or three depending on our rate of travel," he amended. "So we need to get camping supplies ready at the very least."
Two to three days didn't sound all that much trouble. But it wouldn't have been as quick a trip as Sieg had hoped it to be. Still, it would be nice to familiarize himself with the route for when he actually managed to grab the ones that would be interested to go along. "Okay then!" he said, decidedly unperturbed by whatever complications had been brought up.
The cheerfulness of the other was comforting, much like himself - or at least as he usually was. "Sooo... I guess we can can go to the trade post and buy some of the items for camping," he said for lack of anything else.
"Sure, that sounds good." Sieg was pretty sure he had a decent amount of potch on him- he'd never really considered how convenient it was that this world used the same currency as their's. "...um, you're okay with this, right? I know it's kinda sudden..." It just took him a moment to catch himself.
"No, it's fine," Lo Hak assured him with a smile that was partially reflected now in his eyes. "It will give me something to do besides breathing in the moist air of the baths."
Well at least that was a little better. The boy nodded, smiling back. "Okay! Let's do this, then!"
"All right then. Let me get my potch and I'll meet you at the trade center," he nodded in its general direction.
Sieg beamed, saluting him before he turned to head off. He figured he might as well drop the map off in his room while he was at it, and he was fairly sure of where the trading post was.
Lo Hak went back to the baths and snatched his potch quickly from his room, for a moment pausing to stroke the covers of the bed, now only used by one. He shook his head and went over to the trade post, already picking out what he'd need for the short trip.
"Hope you didn't wait long!" came the boy's shout as Sieg ran up the way. His sandaled feet skidded to a stop by the trade post that one might wonder that the kid ran everywhere he went.
"Nope!" Lo Hak tried to smile as brightly as he could, though of course it was muted. "I have most of our stuff." He pointed to the single pile and then two more of smaller items in duplicate.
The boy blinked and looked over at the things that had already been gathered. "Wow, you work fast!" he laughed.
"Grew up learning to move quick," Lo Hak shrugged, looking over the piles again and slapping down the potch necessary cover his half.
Sieg followed suit after asking how much was owed for his share, digging his potch out from his belt pouch and sliding it over. "Heh, I guess getting stuff together fast is the thing my friends do better at than I do." Considering how often it was that Marica or someone else would have to get him up in the mornings, but otherwise Sieg was all over the place when it came to other things.
Lo Hak laughed a bit at that. "And there we differ. I'm usually the errand runner, but then again I'm the youngest." And had the quickest fingers, which made it easy to pick pockets and small spaces, and thus of course he had to be quick. Spending nights in jail wasn't fun.
"I'd usually still be in bed," Sieg admitted, grinning that lopsided grin of his. He had no idea of Lo Hak's background to know what could have been implied by errand running.
Lo Hak chuckled, watching the trade post master put their items in packs.
The boy rocked back and forth on his heels, folding his arms behind his head. "So what was it like where you came from? You mentioned boats and islands?"
Lo Hak took the packs and handed one to Seig, heading back towards the main courtyard. "It's like it sounds. Islands, with miles of ocean between. You have to take a boat to get anywhere and most of the islands have their own unique look because they're all so isolated from one another."
Hefting the pack over his shoulders, Sieg trailed after Lo Hak. "Wow. That sounds like the place Hina comes from, 'cept I can't remember what the place was called. Never been there either. Actually, going fishing with Subala was the first time I ever went on a boat, and that was just a little one."
Lo Hak laughed a bit louder. "When I said boat I sort of meant ship. I served on one during the way - a huge four or five decker. Gigantic really."
Sieg wasn't sure he could picture that when he wasn't even exactly sure what Lo Hak meant. "'bout how gigantic are we talking, here?" he asked, eyes wide with curiosity. He'd never had a chance to go sailing with the Lonomakua Pirates, but their ship had been pretty big.
"You know that beached ship some of us live in?" Lo Hak asked him. "Think of three of those together, and that's the ship I was on, probably bigger."
Just when you couldn't think it possible for Sieg's eyes to get any larger, they practically bugged out once Lo Hak gave him the estimate of the ship-size he was talking about. "Whoa! No way! And it can still float?!"
"Well, it'd rather have to," he laughed, somewhat less strained than before. "You'll find wood is a very floatable thing."
Sieg blinked, head tilting. "W-well yeah, but...wow." He scratched his head, that grin that was never too far from his face finding a foothold once again.
"Yeah, well, we were all surprised when we saw it too," he tried to make him feel a bit better. "I guess after serving on it, it just doesn't seem AS big."
The boy laughed, nodding his head. "Guess that makes sense. It's like with the castle back home- at first I thought it was huge! But before that, all I was used to was what we had in Citro village. But then the castle got bigger- a lotta work getting around it, but I guess I got used to it too." He smiled. "Think I'll be able to see that giant ship for myself, sometime?"
"I doubt that," Lo Hak apologized. "It's back in my time - about 100 years in the past from now. It's gone in this era - more legend than anything as I understand."
"Aw, that's too bad..." Sieg sighed, looking disappointed- for all of three seconds. "Well, still- sounds like it was really somethin'! ....so...that far back, huh? Was it really hard for you to adjust to things around here?"
"In ways," Lo Hak admitted. "I mean, you have to get used to the fact that what happened for you only a few years ago isn't even recent history here, and a lot of the countries and politics have changed."
He couldn't even begin to fathom how that could even possibly feel. "I hadn't considered that," Sieg said stroking his chin thoughtfully. "-up until I got here, I didn't even know to think that things people coming from other times was even possible..." Well no, he realized that wasn't completely the case, but even back home he hadn't quite understood how the differences occurred in their timelines with the newly merged worlds, but even then it had been on such a smaller span.
"Trust me, we didn't think it was either," Lo Hak again helped the boy feel less like he'd miss a large part of something, which would have made Lo Hak feel like an idiot in Seig's place. "But then when Viki's around, I suppose there's a lot that can happen. Including me getting dumped here." He paused, stopping a bench in the courtyard and opening the sack to paw through the contents once more. "But, with my upbringing, I just learned to adapt. I sort of look at it like going to a new and very big island."
Sieg nodded. No point in freaking out about something that you couldn't do anything about- at least not immediately. The boy himself hadn't given up on finding a Gateway that actually remained open, and so far it only seemed like more from his world were slowly being filtered through to this one. "So is this Viki person actually around the castle? I've heard her mentioned a lot as the cause for someone's being here, but..."
"I don't think so," Lo Hak shook his head and reassured himself he had all he would need for a two day trip - four if you counted the trip back. "I have not seen her, but she never stayed in one place long, not really. Well, in the wars she was around, but after that?" He shook his head.
Shifting from one foot to the other as he waited for Lo Hak to check inventory, Sieg tried not to appear overly anxious to get a move on. He wondered if he should check his own stuff, but he'd seen that the gathered items had been identical so if one was sufficient, the other should too, right? "Hm. Well that ain't good," he frowned. "And she's the only one that does that thing with the...aah, what was it called- some kinda rune?"
"Yup," Lo Hak nodded. "As far as we know. But it's not so bad being stuck here, like I said." He sealed the bag and looped it over his shoulder. "Let me stop in my rooms to get some money and a change of clothes. You should do the same too, if you haven't already."
It wasn't bad here at all. It could have been much worse, Sieg thought, although that too was something he really hadn't taken the time to consider until now. "Oh, good idea," the boy said, turning to dash back to where he was staying. He only had one more set of clothes to change into- a phenomena he still couldn't figure out other than his armor set had magically decided to follow after him and ended up somehow in Sarah's laundry piles. The armor itself would be a little cumbersome to carry, so Sieg opted to leave the bulk of it behind, stuffing it into his bag after folding it as compactly as he could manage. He ran back down and outside to wait for Lo Hak.
Lo Hak did not seem to have changed beyond his pack seeming a bit bulkier. "You ready?" he grinned, running a hand through his shaggy blonde hair.
"Yup!" Sieg piped, a bounce accenting his response as he came to a stop by the other. As if there were any doubts of that! "Let's get going!"
Lo Hak nodded and set out, hoping that some time away would be what he needed to start moving on, even a little bit.
Still uncertain as to what had been on Lo Hak's mind that might have been bothering him, Sieg felt that there had been a definite improvement to the man's demeanor from when he'd first run into him earlier. He followed eagerly, falling into step beside the other. Hopefully he wouldn't tire out Lo Hak with his general perkiness.