#eliakeepsmyflasks

Bezzet awoke to the blurry sight of an unfamiliar ceiling, once getting her eyes to focus, saw she was in her apartments. She tried to lift her right arm to rub her eyes and a sharp pain went through her, “Oh…right the bullet wound.” She thought as she brought up her left hand to do the job her right could not. Once she had regained her vision she turned her head to see a black lump of hair next to her, as her eyes followed the hair she noticed a pair of fuzzy ears that would twitch every now and then. Bezzet realized who it was finally, “Elia?” She whispered and as the name was said one of the fuzzy ears shot up bringing the rest of head up with it. Bezzet was suddenly met with a pair blue eyes staring at her that were red from crying, “Bezzet, you idiot! Do you know how worried I was that you wouldn’t make it because you had lost so much blood?” Elia’s voice squeaked in frustration as her eyes began to water again. Bezzet frowned and looked back up at her ceiling, “I’m sorry I shouldn’t have made you worry.” She said weakly. “Worry?! What made you go off in the first place? I’ve tried to contact you so many times…so many times. Do you know how it feels to hear nothing, but silence when you are trying to reach out to someone?!” Elia’s cheeks were now a constant stream of tears that fell on top Bezzet and the bedding, “You are going to tell me where you went and what happened! I know Ideh’a and you separated.” 

Bezzet let out a slow sigh, “After Ideh’a and I went our separate ways I decided to take a trip, by myself. I left my pearl here and went to clear my head in a place where I wouldn’t be bugged, where I could see new sights and get my mind off things, so I went East. I wanted to know the race I had become and I heard they were from there.” Elia sat next to the bed and listened as her tail swished back and forth, tears still running down her cheeks. As Bezzet took another breath she continued, explaining to Elia of the race that she was and how there were different tribes. Bezzet also told Elia how she traveled to the Azim Steppe and how pretty it was before being mistaken as a member of a rival tribe to one and being ambushed, causing the injury to her eye. “Did you go to fight this tribe again? Is that how your shoulder got injured?!” Elia pinned her ears back to her head and pointed at Bezzet’s shoulder injury. “No, that…is something else. I haven’t been back to the Steppe since my eye injury.” Bezzet then began to explain how she challenged an old man while in a drunken rage in Kugane, only to be beaten without the old man even drawing his blade. She explained that she had challenged the man several times throughout her time in Kugane, losing every time. “I was fascinated by the way the man fought, everything was fluid and there wasn’t any excess movement…every step had a purpose.” Bezzet smiled as she thought about it, “So I asked him to train me in his ways and I spent a few months doing that. Getting to how I got injured, during my time there I had accidentally bumped into someone who was kind of a prick and wouldn’t accept my apology as a sufficient enough. He started a fight and I finished it. From there it got serious as he challenged me to a duel, which I accepted and I may have invoked the wrath of a Kugane gang when I bested him?” 

At this point Bezzet had sat up with the help of Elia, “He drew a gun during our duel and took a few shots at me, luckily he had horrible aim or it could have been much worse than this.” Elia looked at Bezzet with even more worry before speaking up, “You are such a handful, but I’m glad you are safe. You need to stop getting yourself into these situations. Do they know anything about you?” A bit of panic was in her tone as Bezzet glanced at Elia and shook her head from side to side softly, “I did not communicate a lot with the residence there, kept mostly to myself.” She thought about it for a bit, placing the pointing finger of her left hand against her chin, “Sensei, I did tell some stuff to him. He was curious about Eorzea, but I don’t think they will find out.”