A Feathery New Friend (Nowa)

[Iliana]

Not sure if she understood corectly, Iliana took a step forward to look up at the Raven, "Do you wish for me to dance for you? Is that what it is you are asking?" Iliana smiled brightly and she spun back a few steps, bowing low at the end before raising her head back up to look at Nowa, [color=white]"For if that is your wish I would be happy to present you with a private show!" Her smile was genuine as she spun once more, and as she did her hair began to change to blue once more. When she came to a stop, her blue hair settling down over her shoulders, Iliana held her arms up in the air. She waited expectantly for the Raven's response. OOCOh no no your posts are just fine! Not much to be done for little clips of conversation haha. I hope I understood what Nowa was asking for

[Nowa]

It was a harder question then he thought. How did that man word it? He thought hard, letting her sit there for a while. "Yes, an' no, no' dance. Be soneone who is and is no' you! Ano-er 'ind, of, theater. Part, of, a, story! Be soneone new!" That man, Ifran, he had shown Nowa this art. He knew of it, but not how well it could be done. He was the first to show him that. Could this person do it, too? She had dance, though without music. She knew apart of theater, did she know this, too? OOCOh man, the post seams the correct length, but it feels so jumbled and random. Too bad Nowa's head is in about that state. Ironically, the word for what he is asking for was never added to his vocabulary.

[Iliana]

Enlightenment dawned on Iliana suddenly, "Oh, to be another person? Do you mean for me to act?" Iliana giggled and lowered her hands, [color=white]"I know some of dance and can sing a few tunes, but I do not think I have ever tried to act before... Iliana's face looked in thought, "Oh... but perhaps I should try sometime. To be someone else..." Iliana nodded slowly and tugged at her hair, looking up at the Raven, "So you wish for me to perform for you? To be another person and act?" OOChaha well he is a curious Raven so that just comes with the territory

[Nowa]

Act? Was that the title for what he was asking? Why didn't he hear that word before. Well, an easy way to test new words was to try them out. "Yes, I 'ink. Be angry, be afraid, be sad. Any order, an' 'ry hard." Nowa watched with great interest, mostly in her aura. If she could mask her aura as well, she would be the trickiest person he'd ever meet! Very few people could do it, he only met one. Would she be two? OOCVery demanding bird. XD He asks like it's easy or something, knowing full well how few people can do it.

[Iliana]

To act was... to become someone different... Iliana thought on this for a minute. How does one become someone different...? As she was thinking, the blue began to slip from her hair. Her body trembled slightly as she brush a single strand of blue/blond hair behind her ear. Blinking slowly, Iliana looked up at Nowa. Focusing inward, she adjusted the pitch of her voice to a slightly lower pitch. Then, a sudden idea striking her, she called on her hypnosis abilities. Covering her eyes with her hands Iliana summoned her hypnosis, directing the power on herself and eliciting an emotional response. She caused a feeling of despair to well up inside, and she felt her lip tremble. Expressing a sob tears began to spill from her eyes and run down her cheeks. "Oh why... Iliana sobbed, "W-why is it s-so hard... to go every day and... Her words caught in her throat as a shiver wracked her thin frame. Her legs seemed to give out, though it may not have completely been an act, and Iliana fell heavily to her hands and knees. "And to live... from one day to the next... In such uncertainty..." Sobs wracked her form as she rested her head on her hands, her breaths coming in gasps. Inwardly her emotions were in chaos, spilling over far more than Iliana had planned. Panicking slightly Iliana quickly released the hypnosis, but the feelings still swirled inside. Her sobs increased in intensity as she felt a true sense of fear. Had she gone too far? Did she mess up that badly? Her fear seemed to grow and Iliana felt as if she were losing herself in her own despair... but then the feelings seemed to ease slightly. Then, with a sense of profound relief Iliana felt the despair and sadness slowly fade from her mind. Looking up Iliana smiled at Nowa, "How was that? Was I convincing?" Tears streaks could be seen on her face, and her breaths still came in small gasps. Inside... Iliana was still a bit disturbed. The feeling had not completely gone from her yet, and she secretly feared she may have done something... wrong...

[Nowa]

Nowa's fascination with her bag of tricks grew very intense, as he had seen the strangest of all her tricks so far. Unlike Ifran, the man who showed Nowa that one can change their aura, she did something... else. She did something not unlike her calling the 'Res' and turned it on herself. As she did so, her aura twisted and turned really dark and fear broke out all over. Her words may have felt a touch shallow, but the emotion in her movements and feelings was quite real. Something was far different in her ability to act, and it was easy to spot. She started to go back, her aura began to return to it's former state. She could act well, but used a trick to do it. Nowa got his answer, her trick to change her aura could be seen and tracked, and if she did that to try something he'd know. "How was that? Was I convincing?" Convincing? Was it really an act? It was similar to Ifran in that she changed her emotions, but it was HOW she did it that was strange. She still shivered, her legs wouldn't hold her, and she called it an act? How very strange. "Were you really no' scared?" He thought about what to say next. "You look like, you 'id no' end." Even as he said it, however, the fear seamed to bury itself under the rest of the aura. Was she always hiding that? "I an 'ood, you did well. No need for 'ore." He felt somewhat silly now, all that dodging and questioning, and he could have seen her trick all along. She really didn't intend on caging Nowa... and that was something. Nowa wondered if she had anything to eat, or maybe was hungry herself. She had done a lot of dancing, that looked tiring. That, and those tricks seamed to be tiring, too. He considered finding her some food.

[Iliana]

Iliana had to force her smile somewhat. Her legs still would not obey her, and her body still trembled slightly from the exertion of her dance and the continued use of her Res. Shaking her head, Iliana tried to laugh, "Sorry I must not be very good. That is the first time I have tried acting before." Bitting her lip Iliana slowly stood, her legs shaking slightly as she used the wall to support herself. Looking up at Nowa she wiped away the tear stains with the heel of her hand, "I was... actually scared for a moment yes. I tried something new and it... well did not turn out exactly as I had thought ti would. Shaking her head to clear it, she then looked up curiously at Nowa, "But good Raven, why have you come to speak with me? Surely it was not simply to see my acting skills?" Iliana stifled a giggle, amused at the very thought that a bird would be interested in acting or theater at all.

[Nowa]

"I wan-ed 'o ask of your Res, an' I 'id! Your ans'er 'ade 'ore 'o ask, so I ask, again!" Yes, many questions to ask. Who, what, why, where, when, how, now, brown, cow. Lots of questions lead to lots of answers, except from the bad man or the fearful and confused. But, he was always fed after answering the bad man's questions, why not try the same now? "Are you hun'ry? Does usin' Res drain you? I could 'ind you sone 'ood. I can 'ind 'ood really well!" OOCShort and confusing.

[Iliana]

With a laugh Iliana removed her hand from the wall and stood shakily on her own two feet, "Yes it seems it does drain me a good deal. More so than I realized in fact. Biting her lip she tried to stop her own swaying. I... think I may have over done it... she thought to her self. Her smile once more on her lips she waved a hand to Nowa, "Oh I could not ask you to do something like that. It would be far too much trouble to ask you do to so much for me." OOCLol I had a vision when I read you last post of Nowa flying in with a whole turkey in his talons

[Nowa]

She seamed to notice she was having trouble, but she didn't want help? Nowa thought a bit more highly of the trickster, she knew the value of being able to help herself. All the same, she shouldn't deny help from those offering, either! A friendly food is as good as an earned one! Save your strength for when food is rare! "An' le' you 'all 'own on la road? Never 'o go where you were goin'? Could I hel' you ge' 'o your 'lace? I can, do you have 'ood 'ere? I ge' hun'ry when I hel' 'arry." OOCA talking bird was strange enough, eh? XD The offer is even stranger, if you can translate it.