#ether chosen

"I AM THERE!! LET'S DO THIS!!"

"The national holiday, back where I come from. It's th' date our country officially declared independence from the country we had been a colony of. And here we are centuries later, still truckin' along."

@ether-chosen Said: "Mind your footing, rocks around here are sharp. Know you're tougher than you look, just saying."

"...Thank you?"

It felt bizarre, was he being told this because his feet were bare? Or maybe she thought he was going to trip. He could have made a snappy remark about how he'd traversed mountainous terrain that was far more rocky than this in his life, but... it wasn't right, was it? Doing that to someone who was trying to show concern. Instead, the man shrugged his shoulders, having paused only moments before falling in proper step again.

"I'll be fine. You don't gotta worry about me. Even if my feet get scraped up, it'll heal in less than an hour."

To a degree, they already were. Inuyasha was simply so accustomed to pain, he didn't notice. No blood, he'd have smelled that, but physical marks that wouldn't go away until he stopped walking, or the path smoothed out more. It was more a blessing than a curse, the abnormality of just how accelerated his natural healing was.

It meant his skin was always soft. It meant his skin couldn't scar, nor grow calloused, no matter how much it endured. It would heal, and become soft again, no matter how many times he walked on sharp stones. No matter how many times he swung his sword. That was the nature of Inuyasha's demonic heritage.

"There're better things t'worry about. A place to ride out the rain, for one. I can smell it. I can't tell how heavy or light it'll be, but the air has more water in it a few hours before it actually starts raining."

@ether-chosen

“……. You have them too???”

Why are they in Teufort? Why is she filling in for Sniper with a Huntsman? Why does the universe care?? Doesn't matter, Medic pinned to wall by full power headshot.

"Thank ya, ma'am," he replied automatically.

Wait.

@ether-chosen Said: [ 🔍 ] - sender finds the receiver trying to find something that has been lost in a body of water

SOPPING WET SCENARIOS

It had just been in his hand, too.

Guess that's that...

Maybe if he was fast enough, he could find the nice stone he'd just been examining before the river's current took it off. Water wasn't his thing, but the current looked pretty slow. The iridescence had piqued Inuyasha's curiosity. His nose wouldn't work here, it'd fallen beneath the surface, and water had a way of masking scents. While he'd memorized the minerals in terms of smell, what good would it do him? A big sniff to find it and he'd do nothing but suck in a nose full of river water.

Hardly dangerous given his circumstance right now, but what the hell would have been the point of that? He wouldn't have found any trace of the stone, and he'd spend at least a minute or two choking on water.

Setting himself on his knees, Inuyasha breathed as close to the surface as he could. Nothing. Not even the scent of the ordinary rocks beneath. Sucking in a deep breath, cheeks puffed out, the ringing of water closed over the man's ears. Uncomfortable, to say the least. Dog ears were already sensitive enough, but having water get in them was irritating.

Still...

He wanted to find that stone again, if just to look at it in the sunlight for a few minutes. Maybe see how far it would skip if he threw it.

It had to be nearby somewhere.

Having his head submerged meant another thing.

He couldn't smell that someone was behind him.