Technological Revenge, and It's Effect... (Saph and Neshimo)

[Neshimo]

"Alright, I'm following you then." He stands up, and waiting for her smell to drift off, he waits. It'd be fine if he could take the blind fold off now, and just say he did, though that most likely earn him a proper slap across the cheek, or a scolding from her. Neither of which he wants, so for now, she is in charge of his movements.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

She led him down several halls, stopping when she heard a lot of people going by, at least until they weren't going so fast, before continuing. It would have been better for him if there were less people in base, but he'd make quick progress like this anyway. She went through the level, down some stairs, past the execution room, and out a door... into what she knew was a small garden with a Sakura tree and some flowering plants... and a herb garden she could smell from the door. It was walled in, she knew, but there was plenty of sunlight and a soft breeze for them to enjoy.

 

[Neshimo]

Slowly but surely, he more or less follows her steps, hearing her, and those multiple who interrupted the smell trail he can barely get. Walking into the garden finally after some time, his nostrils are bombarded with smells of different plants, a new smell every second affecting his mind, and he gives most likely one of thee most depressing sighs he might give. "This is going too be annoying as all hell combined..." Taking a seat at the entrance, now regretting even bringing the training up, this torture of smelling at trying too find out when she's ticking him will begin again.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

Saphire laughed, ah yes... she'd thought much the same thing, hadn't she? "Try having twice the sensitivity of a normal human." She moved to sit next to him, letting the soft wind blow against her hair, the long strands floating slightly in it. Yes, it was nice to be here again, if nothing else this place had good memories... and when'd she become able to think that without trouble? "If you listen carefully you can hear the leaves rustle in the wind."

 

[Neshimo]

"I think I want too go sense dead for right now actually..." It's already making him feel depressed, the cloth not even helping in the slightest anymore, everything being blocked out by the wind and plants. "Actually, I think their already dead from this..." He can hear the wind rustle the branches and leaves yes, though the small sounds of horns and orders too soldiers invade his ears as well, not being able too focus on anything, he really is useless now.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

A frown... was it too much for him now? Her hand groped blindly for his, finally touching what she assumed was his arm. "I'm here, Jamil. It'll take time, but I promise you'll learn how to handle all of this." She didn't doubt for a second that he'd be able to. She'd been able to, after all... and she really did have at least twice the sensitivity of his. "If it helps... none of this is new. It's just like it was when you had your eyes opened... you're just paying more attention now."

 

[Neshimo]

"...My senses play tricks on me." Admitting it, he starts too go into his anxiety. "When we were in the room, I swear I felt a body on the couch where we sat a few moments ago, a dead body, of a child." His hands clench against his pants, "My eyes never lie too me, they always show me the truth. Though, without them, I hear thing, I feel things, I smell things, and they're never there." Looking up, wanting too see the sky, all he sees is darkness. "I fully re experience their deaths every time I fall asleep, close my eyes, I can re feel the pain in my legs, the confusion of what happened..."

 

[SaphireTsuki]

She, now knowing where he is, tugs him closer, "It's not your senses, then. It's your mind." A breath, then two, "I... know a method of meditation. It's not perfect, but it might help you calm down enough to think through these... hallucinations. If you want to know." Otherwise, well... "I... I can promise that as long as we work together, though, I'll not let you suffer these alone." She'd have his hand all the time, if possible.

 

[Neshimo]

"Even if so, the fact remains, when I'm in the dark, I'm lied too." He doesn't try to fight all all, just trying to let go of everything, though meditation..."That won't help much either. I've had too try and come too terms with whats happened for too long now, if any form of guidance, or meditation helped, I've probably done, and failed it by now. But never mind it...lets, just go on ahead too my training. I still have too practice my eyes as well, after they adjust too the light again..."

 

[SaphireTsuki]

She gently leaned into him, biting her tongue and letting her hand fall down to lay on top of his. "I guess there's not much I can do to help then." Aside from be there for him, that is. And she would always try to do that, whether he needed her or no. It almost made her want to cry... but she wouldn't. Not for a long time... if she could help it. She'd cried too much in the past... but he might need to cry, to let out all that pain. "I'll always be here to listen, Jamil."

 

[Neshimo]

"I know you will, that's why another reason I want too protect you." He tries to calm down, obviously now picking up on his own tone of voice, and her reaction too it, trying to get closer too me. A sigh, he places his arm around her, pulling her into a side hug. "It's fine, I'm sorry...just a little on edge. We'll go at your pace..." Taking deep breaths, trying too control his dormant emotion trying too burst it's way out in a fit of rage, it stops there, trapped again in his heart, as he begins too try and focus again on the silence of the garden.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

Another blush, he really was having a large affect on her... the simplest of offhand comments making her blush like that! A smile, though, "My pace was actually a lot slower. I couldn't leave my room for a week while I tried to get used to my heightened senses... with my eyes open." Before she'd even begun her training. "For the longest time I could only eat bland foods, my sense of taste improved as well.... I jumped if anyone so much as flipped a page." Laugh, chortle, snort in disbelief! ANYTHING but sound so sad!

 

[Neshimo]

"I think that's better though. You've been exposed too all of these scents before. I've only smelled pavement, rusting metal, the only nature I'd gotten was my hunting training, and those were only for the essentials. My nose isn't used too nature, and my ears aren't used too wind." Working on roads, fixing sinks, building and hammering, this is what his mind became too learn how too sense. "Like a few meters away from us, the roads rumbling, a truck is stopping at the loading bay to pick up more supplies. An engineer is working on the jeeps in the parking lot, though nature..." That is something foreign too him.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

A small, quiet sigh. She'd failed... ah well. At least he was thinking about something different. "Hmm... and you think I was used to the city?" A tiny smirk, a laugh in her tone, "Well. We both have things to get used to... but first, get to where it doesn't make your head swim to smell and hear all of this. Trust me... we'll have plenty of time to go over all of these." She'd noticed once her training had begun that she wasn't ignoring the world as much anymore. She'd begun to listen to the world, to smell it... and to feel it.

 

[Neshimo]

"Alright...." Absent minded, he just begins too stay there, ending conversation right then, and smells and listens. Trying to focus on one thing, and though it does swap frequently, he quickly gets used too trying too smell and hear one thing at a time. Not actually being able too hold it, though still focusing on that thing long enough for it too be the only thing he smells for that fraction of a second, eventually getting used too trying too identifying everything around him, while also trying too keep a memory bank of what he's smelled. Not knowing if it's right or wrong though, is what he hates that he can't use his eyes for this.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

Saphire smiled, smelling the slightly sweet scent of roses, and the bright and sunny one of daisies. The tingling scent of all the herbs melding together, the sound of music coming from the wind in the leaves, the rustling of grass and flowers... an exhale, her slightly relaxing just from being out there, with him... and something made her wonder what it would have been like to have a picnic with him. Not for training, but just to be next to Jamil, feeling the sun go down... she could actually tell that now? Her senses had improved, she figured, because she could feel as the sun fell, the air growing colder... and she decided to slip off her blindfold, check to see if it was the time yet. Her eyes opened, a small gasp... it was just like she had remembered... only better somehow. One hand fumbled up to his head, moving to silently remove his own blindfold... she wanted to share this with him.

 

[Neshimo]

"...Hmm?" He's in a serene state, and he feels the blindfold coming off, and accepting that she feels it's time for him. A pity, seeing as how he'd gotten used too it, though, still during his serene mind, nothing was ignored, not her breathing, not even his own. Not the wind, nor the hammering of wood planks. The Cement blocks being set it, everything that was natural or unnatural too him, he tried too give a name, and even if he might have been wrong, it was progress.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

She finally pulled it off completely, revealing the orange-bathed garden, the flowers gently swaying in the wind and the Sakura in full bloom. The cherry tree's flowers might have looked better at night, moonlight spreading on them, paling the soft pink, but still... it was beautiful. And she'd wanted to share this with him, to let him know that nature wasn't always the fight they'd had getting there... that even humans can enjoy it.

 

[Neshimo]

"...I'm sorry." Somehow, someway, this reminded him the days at the park they'd used to have, and finally he begins crying, his senses taking over, eyes wide open, and even his sight begins to betray him. The look of smiling children playing around, and the sound of their laughter, the smell of the old swings and grass, with plants around the scene. His whole body seems frozen, in a stand still, the only thing possibly a sign he's feeling are his tears.

 

[SaphireTsuki]

I... I failed. All she had wanted was to share with him a beautiful sight, and she'd made him cry. Gently she scooted over, sitting on her knees and sitting tall so she could hug him around his shoulders, so she could block out the scene and try to comfort him. She didn't say anything... there was nothing she could say, but she did begin to softly rub his back, the way he'd done the night before. A gentle hum of that same first song, slowly changing into her starting to sing it from the beginning. It was a song of healing, after all... even if he didn't understand the words maybe he'd feel better.

 

[Neshimo]

"I'm not crying, because I'm sad." He tells her and wraps his arms around her as well, still crying, though laughing as well. "I was so scared of bad memories, that those would be the ones my mind would trick me with, though the good memories are a nice change. I'm happy, I got too see them all happy again." The scene, though probably beautiful normally, set off a spark in him that'd been lost through fear, the one of acceptance that he'd lost once the nightmares came back. They are gone from this world, with me as their only parent who accepted them. "I'm a bad step father, trying too forget my children..."

 

[SaphireTsuki]

What could have been a laugh, if it hadn't had a hint of self-hatred, escaped from her. "I must be a worse sister, then. Didn't even remember my older sister, after all." She kept hugging him, letting him get out the pain, sorrow, and happiness. Sometimes you just had to let it all out... "I... I remember she used to say something. What was it? 'Tears are the blood of your heart. Sometimes you have to bleed a little to heal right.' Or something similar."

 

[Neshimo]

"Then let me bleed on you for a while." He doesn't let her out of his hug, and he can feel she probably doesn't wish too let go of him yet either, he decides to be the first to break it. "As much as I care about you, not sure having our moment together outside, and talking about our siblings, is the best idea while so many people could walk in, or peak in at us." A smile of joking and serious, they're technically supposed to be training, not coming in touch with their emotions, though it does help. "We'll talk about it in the room, too many wandering eyes."

 

[SaphireTsuki]

When he pulled away she nodded. He was the one who needed comforting, after all... She found it interesting that she was the one who had horrible memories in this place... and he was the one who had broken down first. "Shall we go then? I'm not going to train you at night, when you already made so much progress." In more ways than one, she knew. A step, her coming to stand, and then... "Besides. I'm sure you'll need some rest soon."

 

[Neshimo]

"I'm not tired at all actually, I've told you. I only rest, I rarely sleep." Truthfully, this hasn't changed his sleeping habits, he still doesn't sleep much, and his body and mind have now caught up after some work he doesn't wish too end that yet. He is still, after all, a sniper first, and a man later. He'd probably go out and train his eyes tonight, looking for shifts and movements, even the smallest ones. Listen for the grunts and snores of the soldiers in the base, too detail the entire camp in his mind, knowing the vantage points. That was training he was used too.