<IS-ST> The moonbridge is simple and bright reflecting off the snow around the clearing.  Nahlial holds her hand on the stone, watching as Honey arrives back in Frozen Heart.  Her face neutral, her head slightly cocked to the side.
* @Honey stepped through the moon ridge with her small self, though entirely plainly dressed with a thick down coat, fur lining around the hood, hiding her face briefly before moving her small hands out of the sleeves, revealing gloved hands with mitten caps that she pushed back to free her fingers as well as push the hood of the coat back. Her golden eyes glance to Nahlial, bowing her head respectfully “Nahlial-Rhya...thank you for
* @Honey accepting.”
<IS-ST> She nods, taking her hand off the stone, keeping her posture.  "Of course, Honey-kin.  We are allies now, and your message seemed urgent.  For a kin to spend a spirit...Intruging."
* @Honey tilts her head softly as she took a small breath “I am unsure really of how else to get a hold of you. Last we spoke you seemed a bit interested in my ideas. We didn’t really get to finish...and I wanted to at least speak a bit more if I’m allowed...”
<IS-ST> She looks around and nods slowly, gesturing for Honey to follow her as she lightly walks over the snow, leading back to camp.  She keeps them away from the settled paths, keeping her from the general camp as she moves to her cabin.  Opening the door for her.  Heat blloms out of the small space, and Honey would be able to not the various charms and grigri hanging around the windows.
<IS-ST> Off in the next room is the sound of a shower.
* @Honey quietly follows Nahlial, putting her hood up to blend in as just a worker kin if spotted. She reached the cabin and was near hesitant to enter, though didn’t take too much time lallygagging. She enters and steps further in quickly shedding her coat. Her eyes looking to the charms and then towards the shower...”I didn’t mean to interrupt.”
<IS-ST> The Silent strider waves her hand and gestures for a her to sit on a couch by the fire before she moves to the kitchen nook and pours a glass of water and a mug of rich, aromatic coffee.  Coming back into the room, she offers Honey the water as the shower ends.  a few moments pass as Nahlia just looks at Honey, standing over her.  Out of the back room, comes walking her mate, the tall,
<IS-ST> lean strider kin.  Tattoos on his upper arms of scarabs pushing the sun rest on his stong arms, while he steams from the the heat of the shower.  "I thought I head you come...Oh, company, I see."  He nods to Honey, with only his towel for shelter.  He turns back around, giving her a glimpsh of his back tattoo of a phoenix rasing up one the prymids, as he moves back into the other room,
<IS-ST> closing the door behind him.  The Theurge never looks away from Honey until that click, and then she turns and sits on her other couch by the fire.  "You did not interrupt me."
* @Honey made her way to the couch as she sat, letting her small hands reach up to graciously accept the cup and out walked the kin. Honeys eyes wandered to him, he was pleasing to look at, her eyes admiring the tattoos before she realized he was just in a towel and goes pink to her ears. She drinks the water looking away and to Nahlial “o-oh...good.” She smiles before setting the cup down, taking out her journal with her
* @Honey drawings, offering them to Nahlial.
<IS-ST> Ths woman takes the journal and drawings, examing them closely as she sips her coffee.  "Do you think this will work, the first time?
<@Honey> “I don’t want to give you false hope, I’d rather be surprised if it does than disappointed if it doesn’t. You know?” She took a small, hesitant breath. I modeled it after ours in Iceland. The idea of the outer drawer is for hand collection or maintenance if needed on the outside, but I’d like to put in self tapped hives, where all you have to do is uncork and let the honey collect on a container. This would leave the bees
<@Honey> undisturbed, letting them stay in the warm environment. “
<IS-ST> She nods slowly, as the door to the bedroom opens again.  "I'm about to go on..."  "No."  she interrupts him.  "Come and keep me warm."  He nods, like this is not an unexpected demand and walks over to her, stripping off the flannel shirt he had put on, but leaving his jeans as he slides in behind her, wrapping his arms around her, looking down at the drawings.  Nahlia almost smiles
<IS-ST> and looks back at Honey.  "If it doesn't work the first time, I doubt you would be given a second chance.  We don't have much time or resources to waste here."
* @Honey quickly moves to stand as she gave a small nervous laugh at the two lovers affections before stifling it as she paces just a bit. “Oh I...I know. It will probably earn me a beating for wasting time if it doesn’t work...What do you suggest...you were a keeper before...”
<IS-ST> "I was a keeper in lands where the sun shone and we had seasons, not this frozen hell.  I wouldn't know how this is done, or how pratical this is.  As for a beating, are you worried about that?  We cannot let the threat of punishment stop us from acting.  Yes, you'll be wrong sometimes, but sometimes you will be right.  Please remember that a lot more clearly than being wrong."  She
<IS-ST> sets her coffee aside and nods, all of her speach flat and almost monotone.  With a careful consideration she takes up her mate's hand, and leans down slightly to nip at the inside of his wrist, before she puts it back around her.
* @Honey lets her eyes glance away briefly as she avoided watching the affections. She took another paced step as she carefully calculated her next words “I don’t mean for you to mistake my words. The fear of being punished does not put doubt into wanting to take a chance. I will endure what is brought from my failings. I am still committed to seeing this through. I won’t know what is possible unless I try.”
<IS-ST> "Then I will talk to the alpha and get his permission for you.
* @Honey gave a small nod “I wish you the best of luck...it would not be surprising if he says no....” she moves her hands to her bag, taking out a small jar of honey, moving closer to Nahlial “This is for you. I figured you’d appreciate a little piece of a memory I hope to make a reality for you.” She looks back and forth between the two “May I ask a question not related to this?”
<IS-ST> She eyes the honey, a small smile coming over her lips, the first the Hoeny has seen that wasn't directed at her mate.  She looks back at the Kin and nods.  "Of course."
* @Honey steps closer as she held the jar to her, letting her amber eyes wash over the woman before connecting with her own. “Your mate. You’re very....very protective. Besides the obvious, is there more reason as to why you keep him under lock and key?”
<IS-ST> She takes the Honey and sets it aside.  "You mistake my actions.  I do not keep a strider man under lock and Key, I give him his freedom.  The fact that he stays here with me, is not a sign of bondage, but of his love for me, which is just as deep as mine is for him."
* @Honey took a small breath with a sighed exhale, her shoulders slumping some “you’re both very fortunate to have found one another.”
<IS-ST> Why do you ask?
<@Honey> “The other morning you were quick to usher him back here to the cabin and just now, you stopped him from leaving, protecting him from outside...it would make many minds curious, or maybe just mine...I’ve always been a curious one.” She chews her bottom lip briefly.
<IS-ST> She nods and glances back at him.  "I am very demanding of his time.  The sight of him, his scent..." She inhales deeply.  "They are all I need to want his time.  He is my rock, the one who waited."
* @Honey the small kin glances down letting her hands fidget softly before she moves to smooth out her thermal “The one who waited...?” She peaks up with her hidden sad and envious eyes.
<IS-ST> She nods, her hand reaching up to careess his cheek and then dig into his thick, black hair.  "It is a long story, but suffice it to say, We were seperated for a time, and rather give me up for dead, and leave this Hell Hole, he stayed and worked and did what kin do here, except he refused to take another mate, or allow one to take him."  She leans up and bites his chin, almost purring
<IS-ST> at the thought.  "He was beaten more than once for his refusal, but he waited."
<@Honey> “I have strong aspirations for what you two have, but I’m not a good mate like he is. I believe I lost my faith in who I was with when he fed me to the wolves like a scape goat, loyal as I was, I took it. The other part of my heart, which was never mine to have will be mated off soon. So keeping myself busy has been a chore. I suppose I’m doing my best to run and escape the heartbroken and lonely tears.”
<IS-ST> She nods.  "You are going about this wrong, Kin.  Running only postpones pain.  You must give yourself over to it, let it flow through you and then ben gone.  What happens if you find the one you can give your heart to and it is this sad, woeful, broken thing?  Better to embrace your pain, heal from it and move on.  There is no guarentee this will bring you a mate, but it will make
<IS-ST> your life better."
<IS-ST> (I gotta pause here to walk dogs and run errands.)
* IS-ST is now known as Drake-afk
* @Honey motioned to say something as she just paused in her spot, closing her eyes for a moment, two single tears, one from each eye fall over each cheek before she gave a brief smile. “I had someone who wanted to be a mate...But wouldn’t until I took care of loose ends and now...he’s disappeared as well.” Moves her small hands to wipe her cheeks as she took a breath and recentered herself. “Healing and letting go helps
* @Honey only part, but it doesn’t fill the loneliness.” She lifts a small shoulder.
* Drake-afk is now known as IS-ST
<IS-ST> She shrugs.  "Speak not to a Silent Strider of lonelilness, child.  I do not mean to mock yours, but it is a part of life.  Will you heal and wait for this other one, or will you jump at the nearest chance to be warm and numb?"
<@Honey> “Wait for the one that disappeared on me?” She just glances to her for a long moment. “And I’ve had many chances to just and be warm and numb. I could have done as your alpha said and go spread my legs like the women from the spoke but I didn’t.”
<IS-ST> She nods.  "Then it seems you wish to heal, either for this other one who has dissapeared, or for yourself.  Either reason seems healthier than this."  She gestures to Honey.
<@Honey> “Nothing is ever done for someone else. Always do things for yourself. Someone wise spoke that to me.” She glances her over, studying her and then to her mate.
<IS-ST> Nahlia gives a short laugh, looking at her mate.  "Did you get beaten for yourself?"  She shakes his head and looks back at Honey, just a still and calm as the Theurge is, lowering his head to nip her ear.  The woman smiles and looks back at Honey.  "It is a selfish life, what you just said.
<@Honey> “No...not entirely....” she moves to take a seat on the couch as she looks toward Nahlial. “With what you’re saying from a moment ago. Take that context. If you aren’t being the best of yourself and doing things for yourself, how are you supposed to be the best for someone else?” She watches them carefully “I’d be lying if I said this project is simply for just you and this sept. It’s also for me. A test of sorts to
<@Honey> see if I can do it. If it’s something I’m capable of doing. Proving my own strengths. You also just happen to benefit from it...hopefully.”
<IS-ST> She nods.  "And if you fail?  Then what?"
<@Honey> (Oh Sorry! It didn’t blink.)
<@Honey> “Then I test where I have failed on my own terms. Take my punishment here and return home to improve the faults.” She glances her over briefly
<IS-ST> She nods.  "Well, that's a plan.  I hope it works for you."
<@Honey> “You don’t seem so sure of things...” she picked up her cup to drink a bit “Did you have any other questions you wished to ask of me or duties?”
<IS-ST> She shakes her head.  "I have nothing I need from you, Honey-kin  Do you wish to return home to the Legend's lands?"
* @Honey gave a small chuckle “in all honesty? No...but I need to. When can I hopefully hear back from you...?”
<IS-ST> When will you be ready to build this?
<@Honey> “Depends on how completely natural do you want this...the rubber water tubing for the heat in the floor...I’d have to get supplies if I need to make it by hand. The water barrels and pipe is not an issue, I work with metal and can weld...the premise of it is like a hat water radiator heater.” She took a small breath “The rest is carpentry. I have a sept mate that can help me with that. I will begin speaking with some local
<@Honey> beekeepers in Arizona and see what I can do about the Queens as well as look at my colonies and possibly pull from them to relocate for your. I’d like to start with two first and if this works I can expand...if I receive the ok to start, I can begin immediately.”
<@Honey> (Hat = Hot)
<IS-ST> She nods again.  "You don't have to make your tubing by hand, But that shoulds good.  I would say send me a message when you are prepared.  If I recieve word before then from the Alpha that he does not wish this, I will contact you."
* @Honey gave a small nod to her as she finishes her water and stands. She moves toward the sink, out of habit rinsing her cup and stowing it away. She then moves to pull on her thick coat, fastening it and pulling her hood up “I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully soon.”
<IS-ST> Naliah watches her and then looks at her mate, pushing him pack into the couch.  "Stay right there." She tells him, leaning in to nip at his bottom lip and pressing off him to stand and she walks to the door, opening it without bothering to put on cold weather gear.  Once Honey is outside, she closes the door and shifts down to her lupus form to lead her back to the Pathstone.