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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 10:19:07 GMT -6
The worst part was, she was running out of ideas on what to do in the mines this time. It was dig, dig, dig, all the time, and she didn't know if she could handle it. They'd not come across a very big pocket of stones in quite some time, maybe once Goran came back with her it would make more sense for them to find more stuff. Finding stuff with Zhalo just wasn't as easy, and she had to remember that when the time came to do things like this. Sighing a bit, she shook her head and continued to dig next to the little Drake, who wasn't quite so little anymore. At least he wasn't full size yet, that had to help out a little bit she figured with a smile. Jack pushed her hair back and shook her head a little, letting it fall back into her eyes.
[56 Jack: 6/20 Zhalo: 11 1/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 10:21:35 GMT -6
Jack vowed to get herself a haircut soon, but she didn't know if it was going to work out well or not, she had a lot of stuff to do lately and she wasn't sure if things were going to work out or not. At least she thought she had a lot of stuff to do, she could be entirely too wrong about it at the moment. Giving a little sigh, she reached out for Zhalo and then stopped digging for a bit, putting the shovel and the pickax into the cart and then laid down next to it, closing her eyes. She was tired, she needed a small nap if she was going to be of any use to the Sarane when he was fully grown. She wasn't sure when they were going to do things, but that was alright at the same time, at least she had a plan to go with.
[57 Jack: 7/20 Zhalo: 11 2/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 10:24:03 GMT -6
As she slowly drifted off, she knew that Zhalo would protect her from anything that was down here, though she was sure she would wake up at some point if any animal was coming her way. She just hoped that faint thrumming feeling she had would yield a good result soon, and she peered at the Sarane for a moment before closing her eyes again. Settling in, she wondered what to do with herself for a little while, and she smiled a little as she rested, her head on her arm so it wasn't directly in the dirt. Sure she had brown hair, but that didn't mean it couldn't get dirty just like the rest of her, right? Jack sighed a little and finally drifted off to sleep as Zhalo kept digging, he wasn't too worried about her sleeping, though he twitched every now and then as she laid there, which wasn't good.
[58 Jack: 8/20 Zhalo: 11 3/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 10:26:18 GMT -6
All the while as Jack slept, Zhalo dug until he finally got too tired to go anymore. Curling up around his human, he slowly fell asleep himself, pleased with the blue rock he'd managed to dig up a little while before. He kept one claw on it as he slept, deep breaths churning in his lungs as the woman slept next to him. He was curled up around her for the moment at least, and she snuggled into him a little, craving the warmth of him. Jack knew it was him, there was no one else it could be, but there was nothing against snoozing with your animals as long as nothing... unsavory... happened, she figured. Smiling in her sleep, she briefly wondered if he'd found anything else, but realized it didn't quite matter at the moment as they both slept. All Jack could do at the moment was sleep, anything else was arbitrary she figured.
[59 Jack: 9/20 Zhalo: 11 4/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 10:28:57 GMT -6
Ever so slowly, Jack opened her eyes and let out a yawn. She was super comfortable next to the Sarane, and she closed her eyes again, trying to doze off again, but nothing happened this time. Still, she didn't want to get up just yet, and so she laid there for a little while, at least until the Drake began to stir a little, and she finally got up. That had been comfortable, she wished she had a smaller Drake or Hen at some point to curl up with at home, but she had plenty of things to cuddle with at home at the same time she thought, there were plenty of stuffed animals and pillows to curl up with. Maybe someday... No, she didn't want to think like that, at least not yet, she figured with a grin on her face for what she almost thought about. At least she'd stopped herself.
[60 Jack: 10/20 Zhalo: 11 5/5 +1]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 12:44:41 GMT -6
Jack was awake and ready to go again after a little while, Zhalo was still asleep which was fine, he would probably wake up pretty soon after she started. She grabbed the shovel and started to dig again in another area, just to see if there was anything else in the area not where they had been digging for awhile. It only made sense for her to try a different area she figured as she dug and Zhalo slept, she didn't know what to do for things at the moment. At least she was doing something, she thought with a sigh, and she shook her head a little as she tried to think of things. Perhaps she was just running out of ideas, maybe she should train Zhalo a little bit, she didn't know what to think right now. It wasn't as though she had infinite time in her life, there were plenty of things to do.
[61 Jack: 11/20 Zhalo: 12 1/5]
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Post by Renathan on Oct 17, 2019 12:55:19 GMT -6
Another nice couple of gems, one is a milky pale lime, and the other a slice of sky.
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 13:19:35 GMT -6
With Zhalo still sleeping, it took her longer to dig through the ground. It was slow going, but that didn't matter right now. She didn't care how fast it went, and she wondered what to do whenever things were fine at the same time. Things would be fine, they would find some stuff, hopefully something that would thrum and make her tingle a little in her head, and she smiled again as she wondered what to do. Nothing was coming up so far, but that was fine as well at the same time. Jack shoved her hair back and then kept on digging through the dirt, slowly waking up Zhalo, though he was a little grumpy when he woke up. That didn't surprise her at all though, considering how big he was getting. Soon she would have to break him so she could continue working with him, that would be the fun part.
[62 Jack: 12/20 Zhalo: 12 2/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 14:15:03 GMT -6
Everything would be fine, she just didn't know what to do with Zhalo at the moment with him being quite unhappy with her. She managed to talk him down a little, but that wasn't all of it. This was going to be rough breaking him and all that, and she sighed a little at the same time. Getting him to the Pit was going to be rough, and she knew it at the moment. Jack just shook her head again and then started digging again, unsure of what to do about anything, but at least she could figure it out eventually. Pushing a hand through her hair, she frowned a little bit and peered into the hole she had dug. Something was there, she just wasn't sure what it was at the moment. Getting onto her hands and knees, startling the Sarane who had begun to dig again, she reached in and hauled it out.
[63 Jack: 13/20 Zhalo: 12 3/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 14:27:12 GMT -6
All she could do was think of times that he was little now it seemed as she looked the stone over. It was going to be great, it was a diamond, one of the hardest stones in the mines to cut in the Workshop. Tossing it into the cart, she smiled a little as she started to dig again. Things would be fine in the end, but that was fine as well. She shoved her hair back as she shoveled the dirt away next to Zhalo. He was doing well no matter what, but whatever happened when she knew he was going to grow was going to be rough. She knew the breaking was going to be rough, but that was fine at the same time, she just hoped that she would go through with it and be successful. Jack shrugged a little and sighed, whatever happened would happen, no matter what she tried.
[64 Jack: 14/20 Zhalo: 12 4/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 14:34:10 GMT -6
Zhalo snorted a little as some dirt hit him on the nose. It was fine, but... that was rough. He glowered at the woman and then started to dig again, wondering what to do with things. What would he find next, he wondered? At least the woman had found something and all that, no matter what. Jack pushed her hair back again and then tied it back, it had finally gotten long enough to do that, though barely. Some of it finally sprang free again, but that was fine at the same time. Jack didn't know what to do at the moment, but that was fine at the same time. Nothing was going to be fine whenever Zhalo was grown until she broke him, but she didn't have to worry about that just yet. There was still some time and all that, but she didn't know what to do at the moment anymore.
[65 Jack: 15/20 Zhalo: 12 5/5 +1]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 20:08:06 GMT -6
Jack had a few questions for Zhalo, but knew they wouldn't be answered before he grew up. For one, just how long were those horns going to get anyway? They just kept getting bigger and bigger it seemed, which was surprising to her at the moment. Jack frowned a little and patted him on the flank before she turned and started to dig again, sure there was something down there she could take home with her, though what it was she really didn't know. That was the hard part of things when it came to the mines, you never knew what you were going to get. It was possible that was the pain of it as well though, because she liked knowing what was going to happen, but she'd had no premonitions about anything it seemed. Sometimes she did, but that didn't matter right now, not when stones were involved, she supposed.
[66 Jack: 16/20 Zhalo: 13 1/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 20:12:59 GMT -6
Zhalo wasn't sure what was going to happen after awhile, and that was fine at the same time. Jack knew that he was growing bigger and bigger, she was going to have to dart him soon she figured, maybe a little sooner than most and then try to get out of the mines and to the Pit before it wore off, that was the only hope she really had. She wasn't going to dart him just yet, though, she figured, it was going to be a little while longer which worked well for her. Letting a chill run down her spine, she glanced over at him as he twitched and then dug into the ground a little more at the same time. She was used to being in danger, it seemed, and that was alright for her, she liked the adrenaline, she supposed. There was something primal about it, she thought, and that was fine.
[67 Jack: 17/20 Zhalo: 13 2/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 20:16:35 GMT -6
Whatever happened, at least she had a few stones to make up for the situation, she figured with a little smile as she found something else in the hole she was digging. It was going to go well she figured, and she reached out for it, but found it to be pretty stuck in there. Jack scowled a little as Zhalo smirked at her, and she reached for her pickax and started to chip away at it a little bit. At least she had some idea of what was going on, she had a hold of the stone, she just couldn't bring it out just yet, which was the issue. She sighed a little and then nodded, pulling a little harder, using all of her strength to yank it from the floor of the mines. This... might not have been the best idea, since she was going to have to carry Zhalo to the cart and then pull him to the entrance of the mines.
[68 Jack: 18/20 Zhalo: 13 3/5]
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Post by Jack on Oct 17, 2019 20:19:53 GMT -6
Yeah, that wasn't the best of her ideas at the moment, but it had the desired effect, and even Zhalo seemed a little concerned about her good strength when she had hauled it out of the ground. She looked it over and gave a little sigh, it was a moss agate, not bad, but not great at the same time, though she did enjoy them in single setting bases it seemed. They looked well enough, but some of the multiple setting bases made it lose it's look a little bit. Jack forced a bit of a smile and then put it and the pickax into her cart and then started to dig through the dirt again next to Zhalo, wondering when the time to dart him was going to come. It was fine, she figured, and that was all she had to do, figure it out and then things would be fine no matter what.
[69 Jack: 19/20 Zhalo: 13 4/5]
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