Jake talks to Orchid
Jake found him not far off, leaning against a wall. He might have been in deep thought as he didn't seem to notice his arrival. He didn't want to disturb him, and after contemplating whether he should make himself known he settled with just waiting on him.
'Maybe I should say something' he thought getting restless. Anyone who knew Jake, in and out of his class would know that he would never wait on anyone. He doesn't wait on people who he considers less of him, such things are just not wired in his brain. This sudden change of character would shock everyone if they were to become known of it.
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Orchid zoned out, coming back from his deep thought state. As he does from the corner of his eye he catches a figure standing to the right of him. He was stunned when he looked to his right to notice Jake just standing there looking at him. He didn't think he would catch up to him this soon. He totally forgot the whole ordeal that made him run. A playback of the events happening in the arena made its way into his mind, he had forgotten all of it worrying about his friends and this random feeling that has suddenly made its way into him. The whole time he was trying to figure out the source that made him like this, he was so immersed that he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings at all.
"Wha..." Orchid voices. The shock causes sweat to drip from his forehead as well as constricts his pupils. These were just two of the many sympathetic reactions his body instinctive made as panic seeped into him.
'What do I say to him?' he worries as nothing comes to mind.
'He looks tired is he okay?' Jake worries as he finally got a good look at Orchid's face.
'Why is he sweating so much? Does he have a fever?' Jake moves closer to get a closer look.
'Fuck, fuck, fuck' Orchid worries as the blonde moves closer.
"There was this woman" Jake vocalizes. Jake got right to it, the reason for his coming changed entirely after his minor showdown with the flute lady. The matter had involved the both of them, so it was only right that he knew about her too.
'Is he trying to tell me that he has a woman?' Orchid thought causing his whole body to slightly shudder.
"You don't have to explain anything, I..I..I..get it, I'll forget everything that happened," he says quickly making sure that Jake knows that he wouldn't cause problems with his women.
"No...that's not what I am trying to say," he says softly wondering how to get the info across.
He gets down to a knee levelling himself with Orchid.
"I met this lady and, I think, she's got something to do with what we both are facing with right now," Jake says faintly
Just as he says that his heart started to beat faster, to the fact that he knows how he feels but even more so to the fact that he feels the same really tugged at his heartstrings.
"What women?" Orchid's face went all red when he asks.
"She came into the showers and said something about us feeling a weird way about each other." as he says it his face started to get a light shade of red making him look like he started to catch a fever.
"She came into the showers?" he blurted
"What why?" Orchid asks, not sure if he was worried about what she said or about her looking at him naked.
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"I think she did something to us but I don't know-how," he started spacing out trying to figure it out,
"How would she have done such a thing and when?" Orchid responds
"She plays the flute, maybe through that, but I don't remember encountering such an ugly woman before," he says forgetting Orchid's presence
The comment slightly made him happy, he didn't consider her beautiful and that put a tiny smile on his face.
"Why is he so different from before?" Orchid notices realising, he would never have been able to have such a calm conversation with him before.
"What else did she say?" Orchid questions
"Did she tell you how to turn this thing off?"
"No, she escaped before I could torture her for it," Jake said regretting
"I guess some parts are the same." Orchid chuckled
"How do we find her then?"
"Her magic was similar to yours, she might be a healer but I have never seen healers other than yourself creating such clones from water..."
"She might be a priest then, I heard they could do magic like that." Orchid explained
"Maybe...but how did women get to do magic if she were in that class, they usually do menial non-combat based tasks..." he explained this time
"Their women can't learn magic?" he was shocked at how backwards they were
"I thought we healers had it bad but I guess..." Orchid mutters
"What are you thinking about," Jake asks seeing as Orchid went silent for a while
"Ow nothing" he looks back up at him
"How do we find her then? We would have to go to the capital city, to find her if she's a part of the priests and even then, it's only a hunch she might not even be a part of that class." Orchid adds,
Jake went blank too, he didn't know what else to say since he didn't how to deal with the matter yet. Finding this lady would be hard, as nothing is known about her, not even her class. It seemed impossible.
"Maybe she'll come back, there has to be something she wants if she came after you in the showers right?" Orchid asks
"I am not sure, but...I will try to find something, by the way, are you alright?" he tried to lend him a hand, looking worried. The sudden change in topic startled Orchid.
"Jake, let's try to go back to how we were..." he says coldly. Jake pulls his hand back saddened by his sudden hostility towards him.
"Thank you for telling me what all this crap is about"
"But let's try not to be nice to each other because after this stupid whatever is lifted I am coming for your head," Orchid says with his eyes not looking at his anymore.
"Damn you, stupid flute playing bitch," he remarks as he gets to his feet, walking away from Jake.
Jake reaches out to him, hoping to get him to take back what he said, but he held back knowing that this wasn't gonna do anything, but only agitate Orchid even more.
"Why does it seem that I am more affected here?" he sighs looking at Orchid walking away.