Work with a Slight Injury

[darkblossom]

Glowering, Camille entered the mine, bundled up in a black winter coat and a brandeis colored scarf. It was obvious that she didn't exactly enjoy winter. The woman was usually happy, but it was as if the freezing temperatures chilled all her warm feelings so that she was unnaturally irritated and depressed. Although her mood wasn't the best, as soon as she stepped foot in the mine, her spirits seemed to lift a bit.

The thought of her mining companion nipped at the back of her mind, causing her heart to beat a bit harder for just a second, and her hopes to rise. She really wanted to see him. It was always nice to have someone else around while in the mine because she didn't feel lonely like she often times did.

Without wasting any time, the woman set her backpack down for a moment and unwound her scarf from around her neck, placing it neatly on the floor against the wall. After that, she slid her first layer of gloves off and tossed them onto the item, now only having her mining gloves on. Keeping her coat on, the woman grabbed a flashlight and a bottle of water, heading down to the floor that she and Eli had left off making a ladder on.

The woman was in such a hurry to get down there that she slipped halfway down one ladder and landed on the hard ground in a position that caused her hip to pop loudly. Cringing, she knew she hadn't done too much damage--the hip was just out popped out of it's socket. She was glad Eli hadn't been there because she would have completely embarrassed herself in front of him. Managing to stand, she walked over to the next ladder, taking her time. The hip didn't hurt too badly, it just ached slightly, making her limp a bit. It just needed to be put back in place and she would be fine, but she was afraid she would mess it up even more if she tried to do so herself, so she merely left it and continued on her trek.

When she reached the level they had left off on, she set the flashlight on it's side, facing the outline of the ladder, and started to work on it herself, wondering if Eli would arrive. After working on the ladder for a little while, she got sleepy. It was darker in the room than it was lighter, making her very tired. The night before had been so windy that it had kept her up until the early hours of the morning.

With her aching hip and all, the brunette scooted over to a rock and turned off her flashlight, curling up on the floor with her back against the rock. It wouldn't hurt to take a little nap...

[loveless]

((lol I don't know if you left the backpack on the first floor or not... XD))

Eli made his way through the snow. Brown hair dusted with snowflakes as he tucked his mouth into a fold of the black scarf that he had wrapped loosely around his neck. His thoughts were mainly on the adventures in the mine, thinking about how him and Camille hadn't really discovered much of anything yet. They hadn't yet gone mining. But that would come in due time after the work of setting up the ladders was done, or if they became truly bored with their work. He didn't really mind the cool weather, but he liked the current cloudy skies at the moment so he couldn't really complain dispite the fact that he had to wear a second pair of gloves to keep his fingers warm. The grip on such objects like his hammer not so easily to kept a firm grip on.

When he arrived at the mine, he glanced around inside of it. No other presence was there, and he decided that he would wait a few moments upper floor, but that was when his eyes caught the sight of a scarf and gloves in the corner of the room. "Camille?" He asked himself, as he raised an eyebrow, questioning if she was the one who owned the items. He set down his hammer, taking off his own gloves and tucking them into his bag, deciding to keep the scarf on. He then grabbed the gloves and scarf in the corner of the room, also putting them in his bag before slinging the hammer over his shoulder. If they were Camille's he thought that such items shouldn't just be left around to be forgotten. He shrugged to himself before heading down the ladders, soon pulling out his lantern. Once he approached the last one where they had left the supplies he jumped down, looking around the room holding up his lantern.

He was confused when he found a ladder having been started out on the floor. Eyes trailing away from it he found the little lump on the floor he had been looking for. He chuckled, walking over to the sleeping figure and kneeling down next to it. "Pst, Camille?" He whispered, before a smile spread on his lips. "Hey sleepyhead, did I really take that long?" He said at full volume, poking her head lightly with a pointer finger.

[darkblossom]

||I don't know if she took it either. I'll say she did. XD Let's say it's laying by the ladder.||


Something was poking her head, drawing her out of her sleep. Somehow, she had caught the words, "Hey sleepyhead, did I really take that long?" Eli. She could recognized the voice instantly, possibly because he was one of the few people she had met in Charoite Village. Or was it because he was her friend coupled with that fact that she liked him?

"Huh?" she managed, still half asleep. Sluggishly, she sat up. Her mind snapped to attention a bit, she wiped at the corners of her mouth to make sure she hadn't drooled while she had napped. She hadn't, thank goodness. That would have been embarassing. After a second, her sleep-filled eyes moved to greet his, a pearly smile flashing in her direction. She gave a chuckle. "Hey, Eli. Glad you could finally join me. I wanted to get the ladder finished before you got here, but..." With a heavy sigh, she glanced at the object. "I was tired."

Having forgotten about her hip, the woman put pressure on that leg first to try and stand up. She bit back a yelp, the sudden pain reminding her of the injury. She managed to stand, drawing herself up and masking the struggle with a smile of ease.

Batting her eyes to focus her vision better, she casted a bright smile in her friend's direction. "Ready to get started for the day?" Taking a step toward the ladder, she lost her balance and stumbled to the side a bit, from both the sleep and her hip.

[loveless]

Eli's eyebrows raised as the woman stood she smiled, and made it seem not to out of the ordinary. Yet it seemed like something in her eyes told otherwise. He wasn't about to pluck at the matter, thinking that it in fact could have been his imagination. But even as she took a step and stumbled he didn't know how long he could keep his thoughts away from him. He caught her arm as she stumbled. "I would be ready to go, but seeming as how you aren't yet I am not." he chuckled under his breath with a sigh in the mix. Sure, mining was important to him, but not as much as his friendships and such.

"If you are tired we can wait here a few moments. I wouldn't mind." He said, offering a small smile. "That or you can have an apple and see if that would help." He was silently hoping that she really was as okay and not leading him on to believe that she was when she really wasn't.

[darkblossom]

She was glad that Eli had caught her arm to stop her from falling; she didn't want to hurt anything else. There was a flash of guilt on her face for not telling the man in the first place about her injury. Eli was her friend, why couldn't she tell him? No matter how much she thought it would embarass her, she knew he deserved to know. He would be with her for the majority of the day.

"I'll wake up more, I'm just still a little sleepy," she murmured, leaning against him for support. "And I..." She ducked her head a bit, a few strands of hair falling into her face. "I think I hurt my hip earlier..."

Biting her bottom lip, she refused to look up at her friend. Would he be disappointed that she hadn't said something to him right away? She really hoped not because she didn't want Eli to be disappointed with her...she really liked him.