Warming Up (Open) <TAG: FN, Lun Yang>

[gijoespouse]

It was quiet in the South Courtyard of the Yubi estate. The sun had barely risen over the horizon, casting long shadows and a warm light over the Flame Dancer's caravan. Very few were up and about just yet. A female figure stepped down from one of the tents, dressed in a simple puce shaded tunic and trousers. She looked out over the encampment as she cinched a falu red cloth belt about her waist, her warm brown eyes taking in the scene around her. After the long boat ride, Auina Kym was glad to be on dry land again. She felt...a mix of emotions, however. She was excited to be visiting the Fire Nation, though she was of Earth Kingdom descent. Such distinctions didn't matter much in the tightly knit group of gypsies...and as such she didn't hold much of the same prejudices her own people did. Not everyone from the Fire Nation was some evil, flame wielding maniac bent on conquering the world...Juning, Huang, Bai, Li...they were proof of that. Yet...the fact still remained that there was indeed a war going on. Knowing that she would be considered an enemy here in this land, despite the fact she had no direct involvement in the fighting itself, had her feeling more than a bit of anxiety. She had made it a point to simply stay in the background since the troupe had stepped off the ship, doing what she could to make sure she didn't draw attention to herself. The stress (certainly self-induced, as so far the group hadn't been harassed all that much just yet...well...with exception to having to have Hilang's swords inspected by their homeguard escort) was starting to wear on her a bit though. She tucked a mahogany braid back as she quietly stepped away, smiling at the sensation of her barefeet being in touch with solid terra firma. She'd never really realized how much she took that sensation for granted until she'd been forced to spend so much time trapped on a boat.

Auina couldn't practice her earthbending...but she could at least warm up a bit...and perhaps that would ease some of the tension she felt now. She didn't stray far from the wagons before coming to a stop. She raised her arms above her head, hands clasped together as she breathed in the still morning air. She held the pose a moment closing her eyes, before bringing one leg up behind her. She wasn't an acrobat for nothing, as evident by her flexibility as she reached back to clasp her foot, drawing it up higher, to the point she could almost touch the back of her head. She shifted through a number of twisted, rather uncomfortable looking poses. She kept her breathing even, and eventually she managed to clear her mind and rid herself of some of her worries. How long that would last was anyone's guess though. By nature, Auina was a worry wart...

Which meant she'd be worked up and tense yet again before mid-day approached.

[whitecrow]

The two twins had both crawled out of their shared tent begrundingly at their Mother's orders. Juning had banged her wooden spoon against the cast iron of her skillet right next to their ears as the sun had risen. They needed to be up and putting on a good face before noon. This was the Fire Nation after all and they could not afford a bad image. They sat outside their tent legs crossed in a variety of positions as they let the morning sun warm their skin. Backs and chests bare, the two young men wore their hair long hair swept back into matching loose ponytails today, bound by leather strips.
Golden eyes were half closed, dark circles under their eyes that even the fragrant steam from their tea weren't helping.

Bai-Wu, younger of the two was sitting cross-legged. His large and dirty hands kept the steaming cup right under his nose, chunks of hair hanging into his face. They stood on end before falling over, having been trained over the years to be smoothed back by his bandanna and now they were loose and unsure of what to do. He inhaled the sharp mint, letting it work it's magic on his clouded mind as he was hunched over. His elbows dug into his thighs, his torso coiled over. There was that medium-sized scar on his stomach, a gash that extended upward at a 45 degree angle towards his left. A gift from an Ostrich Horse and one of the only ways of telling the twins apart if you didn't know about their mirrored moles.

Li-Wu sat next to him, one leg drawn up, the other tucked under, as he leaned back against the small trunk the twins had brought. It contained their performance clothes, some shoes (Barefoot wouldn't be proper indoors would it?), and the mineral powders Li-Wu ignited during his parts of the shows. He stared out across the courtyard, tents pitched in the wagon circle like configuration (After all, they had left the wagons all behind and only brought tents), all surrounding a central, PROPER fire pit. Juning circled the pit like a curious cat, unsure of what to do. Some food was being provided by the Yubi's.. with large elaborate and traditional Fire Nation dinners every night but.. for breakfast, it was the standard hybrid fare they had all grown used to. Except sea prunes. Pretty much everyone refused to eat those.

Li-Wu kept his tea on his knee, the thick canvas material of the knee-length trousers keeping the cup from burning him. Hair fell from his temples to his collar bone, to the pale skin that crossed his chest. Both twins were lean, with strong arms, and flat stomachs but six-packs were lacking. Not that they seemed to care much. After all, they were the Wu Twins. Everyone in the caravan knew that. He raised his ceramic teacup to his lips to drink as he watched the various people out and about. Auina had emerged from her tent, one of the few Earth Kingdom Nationals that had come with her. Dressed in the somber reds of the Fire Nation, Li-Wu thought she looked washed out. Not earth at all. Her dark skin, warmed by the sun, just looked odd with the rusty scarlet. Yet, it was for their own safety that the Flame Dancers as a whole maintain an attitude of .. complacency. That the members act as if they were happy, pleased and overall okay with the Military occupation.

Truth was, many were not.. but many had also been born into the caravan without a choice. They had learned both sides of the story.. and amazingly there had not been any major issues in the group.. especially now as the war pushed on 100 years.. and the Fire Nation was again the closest to Ba Seng Sei that they had ever been..

Li-Wu quirked an eyebrow as he watched Auina from the distance, arching her back as she lifted her foot up behind her head. He watched as her weight shifted all to her one foot, the other pressing into the back of her head. 'A swan' was what came to his mind as he watched. After a minute she switched legs, and then poses.. running through her morning stretches with so much ease. The budding young acrobats in the caravan always looked up to Auina.. she was naturally gifted, some of them weren't.

[gijoespouse]

Auina bent over backwards, arching her back and holding the pose for a moment. Any other morning she would've gone on to practice her routine, employing earth bending with graceful acrobatics. If Li were up and about (and wasn't causing trouble with his twin), they might've practiced their faux bender fight. Despite the fact they were guests of the Yubi family, she wasn't sure if it would even be safe to do much earthbending outside of performances. With a sigh, she brought her feet up over her head, remained still in a handstand for a few seconds, and then brought her feet back down on solid earth as she righted herself. By now the camp was beginning to stir, and at some point during her exercise she'd heard the telltale sound of Juning beating her spoon against her skillet. As she made her way back to the circle of tents, she could see the lively matron of the Fire Dancers circling the fire pit. She smiled as she ducked into her tent, emerging a few moments later with a small cloth bag, a handful of clothes, and a simple little sewing kit.

She'd meant to work on mending some of her costumes while making their trip across the ocean. Between helping various members of the group with sea sickness, dealing with the rolling waves herself and finding someway to make sea prunes not taste like crap day in and day out, she simply hadn't found the time to do it. She settled down outside her tent, near to where the twins sat now with their tea.

She offered the two a smile as she said, "Morning Li, Bai...sleep well?"

She set the small bag she had carried with her beside her, but not before slipping out a piece of dried fruit and popping it in her mouth. Generally she would've preferred making some oatmeal, grits, or something warm. She'd make do with dried fruit though, and while it wasn't exactly exotic fair...it was ten times better than what they'd had to eat on the trip to the Fire Nation. She deftly threaded her needle and set to work with her sewing.

[whitecrow]

Both twins looked over to her as she approached, their golden eyes tired and strained. Li-Wu, the twin with the mole under his left eye scoffed his breath and looked away, his eye lids dropping half closed. He lifted his tea to his lips, breathing in the fragrant tea.
Bai-Wu, naturally the sweeter of the two gave Auina a weak, morning smile. "A good sleep? Nah.. ground's too hard." He admitted. The two brothers always had shared their own wagon with straw and feather mattresses. They weren't used to sleeping in the tents on the ground.

Nor were they early risers.
The quiet of the morning was vanishing, leaving Li-Wu grumpy and angry. A lot of things made him grumpy and angry. Loud noises when he wasn't ready for it, mornings not having a good breeze when he slept, the humidity of the Fire Nation. It all played against him.
He grumbled in his head, keeping his face neutral and quiet. He rested his arm across his raised knee, turning his face back out to the center. Li-Wu glanced past his brother, raising a untamed eyebrow at Auina's sewing. Pfft..

Bai-Wu meanwhile seemed a bit more awaken, though as sleepy eyed as his brother. He sat up straighter, his eyes seemed brighter and his lips were actually curled into the hint of a smile. Breakfast was being prepared, Finally, though it seems like Auina already was eating some of the dried and prepared fruit. Not Bai... they had sausage and gravy and warm rolls coming to them. All Fire Nation made. Juning had her fire pit.. and full access to a small staff kitchen.

[nim]

Having slept in her own tent for the last few years Nim was used to the hard ground and she slept well through the night and into the morning until the loud sound of wooden sppon meeting metal skillet sounded through the courtyard. The change in the peaceful silence woke her abruptly, her heart pounding furiously and her muscles tensing at the din. It took her a moment to realize it was just junings way for saying good morning and though she tried to roll over and go back to sleep she simply layed on her mat for a few minutes before she found sleep lost and resigned herself to start the day.

In a lazy, sluggish manner she gathered her clothes, well the washed out red tinted clothes she ahd been given and dressed, though it took her a bit longer as she wasn't used to the loose fitting tunic and knee length pants; at one point she had her head through one ot the wide arm holes and completely confused about where to go next, but in the end everything was on properly and it was all cinched at her waist by a deep orange length of clothe that wrapped about her tiny hips twice before she could tie it off to her left side.

With her walking stick in hand and her whip coiled and tied to the back of her sash she exited her tent. Though she could hear a few voices and the shuffling of people going about their morning business she couldn't be sure how many people were really up. Either nearly everyone was awake and they were all just groggy and quiet or only a few of the members had actually risen from thei beds.

"Good morning," she said to the general area hoping to get some response so as to gather an idea of who was up and who wasn't. Slowly she moved forward as she combed her fingers through her curly and tangled hair with one hand and felt out the path before her with the waling stick in the other.

[shanghuang]

Shang had not slept long. It wasn’t the hard ground that had done the trick, though. After all, he had no problem sleeping on the ship. It was concern. This whole thing still hadn’t settled with him. The escort yesterday had not helped his fears, as with the rather cold welcome the host family had given them. Well, perhaps cold wasn’t the right word, but it certainly wasn’t one of wide smiles and cheerful hellos. He was glad that he had no talent for performance. He would have been unable to do anything in front of this crowd anyway.

By the time the others started waking up, he had been lounging on a pair of crates with a book for a good while now. He was a bit removed from the fire pit, something he was glad of when the Wu twins showed up, though he could hear what was going on around it fairly well, not that it really drew his attention at the moment. The book of poetry he was reading occupied most of his attention. It was an old anthology called “Songs of the North,” and it had been the first book of poetry he’d ever read completely through. Since first reading, he’d read it countless times, but he always managed to find something new every time he read it. It had been written at the outbreak of the war, almost a hundred years ago, and among its many messages it told the story of what it was like to know only peace between all and have that torn apart.

‘Time is not a circle, but a line that never spares to look behind.’

Even when peace returned and friends reunited, things would never be the same. Shang thought about this and glanced over towards the fire pit where his old comrades gathered, then at the mansion not too far away. He wondered what it meant if the poem were right.

[gijoespouse]

Auina gave an amused smile at Bai's response, resisting the urge to chuckle a little. She wasn't exactly used to sleeping on the ground either, but she'd slept well enough considering. And anything beat sleeping on that damn boat. She noticed Li's...well...less than cheerful attitude and simply took it in stride. He'd never been much of a morning person to begin with, and generally when forced to wake up earlier than normal he had the cheerful demeanor of a mother moose lion. It was best just to let him be until he perked up a bit. The scent of the cooking sausage and rolls wasn't lost on her, but she would make do with the fruit for the time being. She popped another piece into her mouth as she set about her mending. Others were beginning to rise as well it seemed. From where she sat, she couldn't see Shang or his book. She heard Nimuta greet the morning and those that had risen within it thus far, and glanced up from her sewing to look the blind woman's way.

"Good morning, Nimuta," she replied, tucking back one of her mahogany shaded braids before going back to her sewing.

[whitecrow]

The boys usually had eyes for only the women of the caravan, but today they had eyes only for one lady and her name was Sleep.

Even the smell of cooking sausage and eggs did little to rouse the two of them and they would be near comatose for at least two more hours until the sun warmed the air a bit and the tea kicked in.

Li-Wu lifted his sleepy eyes, strands of dark hair hanging in his face as his golden eyes followed Auina to the side where she sat in front of her own tent feet away, now doing some mending. He sighed heavily, closing his eyes as he blew away the steam that rose from his cup of tea in the cool and crisp morning air. With his knees creaking and his hip cracking, Li stretched out his legs and then folded them under himself as he rose himself up. He was unsteady as his spine stretched out, his muscles suddenly being forced to work after a night of dead sleep.

His rough and dirty fingers clung to the small, handeless cup of tea as he walked stretched his arms out and began to move forward in a gait that screamed zombie. He gave Nimuta a nod and a grunt of greeting as she approached. Usually, he was much more willing to be pleasant to the girl with the long, luxurious hair but he wasn't too kind to anyone in the mornings. He wanted sausage. Now. And was not above playfully bullying his Mother to get some.

Bai-Wu had to grin amusedly, keeping his lips shut as he nursed his tea, watching his brother rise. At age 25 both of them were starting to feel it though they acted as if they were 16 anymore. He seemed more pleased with the morning than Li, there was more sparkle to his eyes. He put down his tea beside him and threw both arms into the air above his head as he interlocked his fingers and stretched. He pushed his chest fore ward, dark hair draped across the pale skin of his chest, that off-colored three toed claw scar on his stomach shoved off to the side. He made a chirping sound in the back of his throat before giving off a squeaky greeting to Nimuta.

This morning was quiet and calm.. the afternoon would not be. They had a summons to give a taste of what they would offer at the birthday celebration to the Lord and Master of the Estate. It would be small, informal and they would not be dressing up in their fabulous performing costumes for that but they would need to impress. Show the Lord that it was worth his while that he had paid for them to come over and was now sheltering them and providing meals. They had better be fabulous.

"Hey Nim. Doing alright finding your way around?" Bai asked from the ground as she walked by, smiling much like a puppy at her. The camp had been set up in a similiar manner to what they usually did in the woods.. but it was different enough to give him and Li some trouble last night.

[gijoespouse]

Auina looked up from her sewing, her warm brown eyes watching Li as he rose and started shuffling off. As he started pestering his mother, a soft smile touched her lips. She shook her head a moment, then went back to her work. She half listened to the conversations around her, drifting into her own thoughts.

Despite her efforts earlier in the morning to calm her nerves, it wasn't long before she started worrying again. The group was supposed to be giving a preview of the performances today. She had no idea if the faux bender battle would be part of the show they would be putting on, but she knew for sure she would be doing her acrobatic earthbending. Though it was a rather absurd thought, she felt she was rusty with her earthbending. She hadn't done any bending since leaving the Earth Kingdom. For this reason, she sincerely hoped the faux fight would be called off. While she felt fine doing her own routine with the lack of bending practice, she wasn't so confident about her ability to make the "fight" with Li look realistic without hurting him.

The acrobat cursed under her breath as she pricked her finger with her sewing needle. Inwardly, she scolded herself, and made an effort to try and calm her mind again.

[gijoespouse]

The morning went on alright, and as the hours dragged on it grew more humid. Still, despite the heat and overall mugginess, the Flame Dancers went about business as normal. There was work to be done around the camp, and the adults set about their tasks while the children played around. Auina had eventually finished with her sewing and busied herself with helping watch the younger children. She made it a point not to give herself much idle time. It seemed like anytime she had a free moment to just stop and think, her natural tendency to worry about every little thing seemed to kick in. And the closer it got to the afternoon, the worse it got. What if the Yubi's didn't like what they saw? What if she messed up showing off the faux bender? If she did that, she could end up hurting Li or end up doing structural damage to the property. The acrobat opted to skip the midday meal, much too frazzled to even think about eating.

Her hair was frizzing, strands of it free from the braids she normally kept her mahogany tresses in as she sought out Li. It was getting pretty close to time for the exhibition, and she was seriously going to tell him she wasn't up to doing their choreagraphed fight. It was something she'd never done since she'd started performing for the troupe. Maybe she was being overly pessimistic, but she really didn't feel like she could give the kind of show needed today. They needed to impress the Yubi's and she simply didn't feel like she was up to par to do that. Her warm brown eyes searched the courtyard, trying to find either Bai or Li...since generally the two were together, or at least knew where the other was.

"Li?"

[blackcrow]

Some time had gone since their breakfast and after a warmup with Bai-Wu, Li-Wu had sat off to the side of camp. He had since dressed in his long washed out pale umber pants rolled up to his knees with his bare legs and bare feet visible. His scarlet vest was bound with chinese knots in gold on the left-hand side of his chest and the arm-openings were trimmed in new gold ribbon and the high collar was stiffened. The twins had brought their finer clothes with them, as many of the gypsies had and Li had dressed in it for their meeting later with the Yubi's for a brief show. Around his strong upper arms, he wore the two bands of dark carmine rolled fabric that was traditional of an Agni Kai. He was prepared for his and Auina's battle later, only having to remove his shoes and vest..

At his feet were tiny bags, really folded squares of parchment-like fabric that he was piling up gingerly. On a crate on the other side of him various bottles and ceramic jars held powdered minerals. The secret to his colored fire. Li-Wu's actual show involved him wearing a mock-up of a stylized Fire Nation traditional robe with the high collar. It was sleeveless, but the lenght reached his mid- thigh and the front was closed with ornamental knots of ribbon. The fabric was patterned and lost in this pattern was the pockets in which he kept the panels of powder. Slight of hand was behind his entire routine and it was only during his show that he got to show off to his fullest. During the Agni Kai with Li, both of them were bare chested and he was limited as to where he could stash packets of the powder, often resulting in a limited color palette.

His entire set required being put together and made up now because of custom rules that his powders had to be all seperated and what not for inspection. It was a tedious process and all the powders had to be handled with care. Some were flammable.. even in brief contact with the air or moisture. He was hunkered over when Auina approached, his golden eyes lifting to look through strands of dark hair hanging from his forehead. His bandanna was gone and his dark hair, pin straight and as long as his elbows was allowed to hang free. He pressed his lips together as he folded the paper carefully, setting it aside as he paused in his mindless work. "Hey Auina."

[gijoespouse]

Auina hesitated a minute as she saw Li meticulously preparing his flash powders. She didn't want to make him mess up and mishandle something. Maybe she could just suck it up and go through with the routine? No...no, she could muster up the courage to say what was on her mind. Afterall, wasn't that what she was doing anytime she nagged at either of the twins over something?

"Hey. Uh...listen I think that...I think that maybe we shouldn't do the bender battle." She ran a hand through her braided hair. "I haven't done any bending since we left the Earth Kingdom, and if I mess up, I could really do some damage. I could hurt you or I could damage the Yubi's estate by accident."

She looked down at the ground a minute, kicking at it with a dirty bare foot.

"Besides, I think some of the more fire oriented routines would go over better anyway," she added in a somewhat dismal tone. She didn't elaborate, mostly because it didn't take a genius to understand what she was hinting at. This was a noble family of the Fire Nation, and likely they would not be impressed with bending from nations that were considered inferior, right?

[blackcrow]

Li-wu paused in his working as he folded up a sheet of parchment into a packaged square, rubbing the edges closed tight on a smooth block of wood he held on his knee, using a flat rock to seal the edges with weight and pressure. He glanced up at her, his hands mechanically finishing the task and now just grasping the small package of mineral powder. Golden eyes watched as Auina spoke, dropping her head with her hand resting on her head and her dark hair which was pulled into braids. She seemed unsure of herself, such a contrast to the normally cocky Earth Bender he was used to. She wanted to pull out of their show? He arched an eyebrow at her, half smiling with a toothy exposure on one half of his face. He had to scoff a little bit, with a light chuckle as he turned his head down from her, dropping his package and starting another one by laying a small square of parchment on the wood.

“You’re pullin’ my leg, Auina.” His voice was teasing, playful as he started to work. He kept his head down, hands steadily pouring out the powder onto the paper and then folding it carefully and securely again. “Yeah we’re in the Fire Nation but.. they’ll be okay with it. After all, I’m set to win.” He folded it, pressed the stone along the edges and smoothed them, tightly compacting the powder. His golden eyes glanced up at her, through those loose strands of hair. “You don’t need to worry about hurting me. We did this all the time back in the Earth Kingdom. We’re actually gonna have a proper arena this time too. As long as you don’t.. I dunno..” He shrugged a bit as he lifted his head and gazed straight out, all most as if he was day dreaming. “Try to earth bend the court yard wall, we should be okay. Spirits.. they even put some boulders in just for you.” A shrug.

He finished that last packet. He had the process down, quickly finishing his stock in just a few minutes it seemed. Even though he was not done, he set aside the wooden board he used and the rock, placing it beside his bare feet. Li-Wu rose, long black hair that was as straight as a needle hanging over his shoulders and down his back. He stepped close to her, a foot between her bare feet as he bent in close. He was taller than the acrobatic earthbender and he had to bend his head down, tilting it at a side. They were so close, she could have felt the warmth of his breath as he held up the most recent packet in his closed fist. Much of the little square protruded from his fist, held in between them as he smiled at her with that cocky grin and those butter-cream colored eyes. “Don’t chicken out now, Auina.” He cooed.. teasing. “We haven’t had a good spar in a while..” It was then that the packet in his hand burst into flames, spectacularly white as it quickly ate up the package of powder before hurriedly fading to the more traditional orange and then.. disappearing as he opened his palm towards her to let the ash fall to the ground. “We have such chemistry..” …it was no surprised that back when they had been.. a couple.. such spars had ended.. well… ..well into the night. Li-Wu smirked, his hair shielding both sides of his face as he remained close to her.

[gijoespouse]

She finally looked up at Li-Wu, letting her hand drop to her side. Oh was he close now, Auina thought to herself. Too close. That rogue-ish smirk, those warm eyes, the scent of him...everything about him gave her butterflies in her stomach. He seemed to steal her reason in those few seconds, and she had to remind herself to breathe. Spirits alive, he had no idea the sway he still held over her, how much she still loved him. And if he did...well, that was just a situation to cruel to even think about. Speaking of thinking, what had they just been talking about? Their performance...right...he wanted to go ahead with it. Her warm brown eyes had been fixed Li's during that short span in which she seemed to utterly fail at saying anything. As she finally got her wits about her, she blinked, her voice faltering just slightly as she replied.

"Right...I'd uh...I"d forgotten that they had brought in boulders." She cleared her throat, and sounded a bit more like her normal self as she continued. "Would be rude to back out now, in light of that, I suppose."

She managed a bit of a smile, before reaching up to flick at the strands of his impossibly straight black hair. Oh, she had caught the inuendo he had tossed her way earlier...and while thinking about the times they had together was pleasant to dwell on, she couldn't do that. He'd moved on since then, as evident by his rather long list of 'conquests.' Hell, hadn't she even offered some of those said conquests a shoulder to cry on? No, it wasn't a good idea to think further on the past...it would just serve to further muddle her thoughts.

"Be careful with the flames," she said lightly as he let the ash fall from his palm. "Would be a shame if you caught your hair on fire. You should think about pulling it back, y'know."

Thus, she deflected the thoughts with a bit of gentle nagging.

[blackcrow]

“Good girl.” He commented, that twinkle in his eyes displaying his pleasure that she had decided not to back out. It would not do them any good to lose the rouge, rebellious Earth Bender who he was suppose to crush and then lord over in defeat. It certainly was the typical storyline. Classic. It was the same one they almost always put on for the Fire Nation Soldiers and now they had upped the ante and were putting it on for the Nobles. Nobility of the Fire Nation, in the Fire Nation itself. Truly, it was tiring. He was tired of always winning. Auina was a much better bender than he was and she was greatly skilled. She could put up a good fight and had beaten him often in their practice rounds. Yet she could rarely show her skill, instead having to play dumb and let the Fire Bender win.

He drew back, closing his half-moon shaped eyes with a light chuckle that escaped him. Keeping his head tilted down to look at her, he had to give her that ever so slight smile. “You really think I’d burn my hair?” It was not an outrageous idea. He was a fire bender. He had burned his hair plenty of times; Once so bad that Bai had to burn his own in a similar manner or lest they be told apart easier than simply their mirrored freckles and very slight difference in height. It happened all the time. He lifted up a hand, rough and clean (Had he cleaned under his fingernails?!) To grasp the split ends of his long, ebony locks that fell along his collar bone. He flipped the ends up as he looked at them. “I think the mere fact that my hair is this long is a testament to my abilities, Auina…” Li-Wu commented, jokingly teasing her again. He then lifted his eyes from his hair, as she reached up one of her narrow-fingered hands to flick away that same bit of hair he had been holding. He clicked his tongue at her, like he would an ostrich horse, almost a ‘tsk tsk’ towards her.

Oh he was fully aware of what had to be going through her head. Truth be told, their breakup had been mutual. They had both been younger back then, and Li-Wu and his twin had been much more the playboys then than they were now. Rumors swirled around the two still, but neither had really messed around lately. The past couple of years had been quiet. One or two relationships, kept quiet and private.. not paraded around like previous ones had been. Not like his last relationship with Auina. “If anything you’re the one who I need to watch out for. I am shooting fire at you after all…”