#Hyphen Haji

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Prompt #29: Fuse

All the Hyphens

"When nine and nine meet nine, the depths of reason shall stir. When the seal of creation is broken, a voice like thunder shall sound, and thou shalt know—We have arrived" one of the Hyphens said out loud

"That's cool, where do you get it from?"

"It just... came to my mind. I feel like I should know where it is from, but I don't know, like if it came from inside me"

"What could it be?"

"Do you think that maybe is another reincarnation of their soul and it just remembered it?"

"That's heavy"

"But sounds possible"

"Forget that! It sounds so cool!"

"Do you think it will happen for us as well?"

And then silence.

"When everyone returns... do you think our minds, our souls can merge at times?"

"We could gossip that way"

"We can keep in touch"

"If we know how it works..."

"Then, we can try?"

"To the books!"

"To investigate!"

"Let's try it our right now, can you read my mind right now?"

"Wait, let me see"...

And that's how they set up to get their already deep bond to get stronger.

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Prompt #24: Vicissitudes

Hyphen Haji (F)

Witty can be a bit harsh some times...

She will scold you if you have taken the wrong path on a expedition after she told you the correct was the one she was pointing at.

She won't stop to tell you what the safest option is until you have mede your choice, and poor you if you don't pick that one

She might give off a cruel aura from time to time, but if anyone tries to mess up with you or give ou any trouble at all, she will be by your side and in your court no questions asked.

Maybe there is something good about having her be harsh at time, specially if it is on your side.

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Prompt #19: Turn a Blind Eye

All the Hyphens

Not everyone is 100% righteous. We all have one or two things that do not really move us.

Like, when you pretend you did not see your sibling taking that snack from the pantry, when someone almost tripped and their face turned bright red...

But there are things that are a no no for the group, but they are not that uncommon, or so one would think.

Never turn a blind eye from a child in danger, for people in distress, for your loved ones....and don't look away from your fellow Hyphen if you could ask for repayment in cake form.

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Prompt #17: Novel

Hyphen Haji (M)

Out of the group, is not a surprise that Book would write a Novel.

But not even him would had foreseen the predicament he’s in.

What would be the theme? The genre? About what?! Fiction? Historical? Something experimental?

Oh no… guess he’ll have to postpone it just a bit while he does some more research

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Prompt #8: Tepid

Hyphen Haji (M)

When Book does shows little enthusiasm in the things he cares about, specially something investigation related, is something to be worry about.

Generally is because he is worried, that something has not gone his way.

We recommend you to hug him for a while and to offer a hot meal for the best recovery method for your local shard’s warrior of light

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Prompt #7: Speculate

All the Hyphens

It's easy to think about how things will end up or how they came to be, specially if seen from an outsider's perspective... and do not get us started with how gossip can be made

*Do you think she'll get rid of them soon? - 1k gil that she will

*I bet it get's trippy when they see each other - I bet they had to closed their eyes at first, I mean, I could never.

*How many hair bands does she has in her bag?

*I'm almost sure man, he has to have written such a dark book with all that content he has read.

*She never gets tipsy...I haven't seen her but don't you think that's weird?

*You aren't feeling so good? Go to him, I bet he will cure you of your illness with just some juice, I mean, isn't that what he alwas does?

*She gives me the impression of being a sleepyhead. - How so? - We could have another calamity and she won't even flinch - Seems right

*Based on my calculations, he only needs to dance with 40 more women and he will have danced with every lady in the city!

*I believe she punches the fishers to get her information - I think she just asks for it.

*Bet that between them and a chocobo he will pick the feather pal - Would love to see that tho.

*My guess is that she hides the spare money - Why not use it herself - I don't know, maybe she thinks they are useless?

*He always puts his hand on his side, maybe he is injured? - All this time?!

*I'm starting to think she can't talk - How so? the rest can - Yeah but have you heard her?

*I don't like him, heis hair is always a mess - But you've only seen him twice! - and both a complete mess, what do you think he was doing?!

*She is always happy, but I've heard the sounds at night, those terrify me, could she be a witch?

*I once said hello to him and he turned back, do you think he is that shy?

If only making them see the truth could be as easy as making gossips

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Prompt #4: Baleful

Hyphen Haji (F)

You just need to push the button, but unfortunately to a lot of people, there was more than one.

She is the kind of people you never wanna cross when on a bad mood, and the signs were starting to appear.

Irritated face Hands rubbing her templates Stress on her jaw And an unusual silence.

Anyone brave enough, or fool enough who woud even tell her "Hi" would get a baleful look shot from her eyes at maximum speed....

And that's only if they were lucky

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Prompt # 6: Sleep (free day)

All the Hyphens

When the day has come to an end, and the stars shine so bright in the sky, the body asks to relax.

But sleeping, as many things, is sometimes unique and changes from person to person, and what could one say about a certain blue haired adventurers group during a camp day?

Foundation is one of the last to go to sleep because of her diary writting habit or  because she had so send/ return some letters. taking off any armor and loosen up her clothes with the posibility to change into pajamas, she sleeps on weird positions but facing the entry of the tent, just in case...

Mirror gets to sleep when he feels like there is nothing more to be said in the group for the day, as he always wants to be there if someone needs to let something out. He will change into a set of confortable pijamas and sleep face down on the pillow, feet facing the entrance.

Witty almost always tells Rhel to go to sleep first. She will brush her hair a couple of times before getting into confy clothes before going to sleep. She... sleeps parallel to the tent entrance.

Book has to be reminded of changing into something confortable when he is already in his tent. He will grab some “light lecture“ as he puts it and get confortable. 90% of the time, he will wake up with the book in his face; good thing he does not drool much.

If she had a choice, Star would bring her sleeping bag outside so she can look at the stars everynight, but that was something that could not be done everyday. She falls asleep arm over her eyes. Beware of what arm is covering her face, as you don’t want to be slapped in the middle of the night

Swift, oh sweet Swift; there are times when he sleeps all night and times where he sleeps in 1 hour increments. Lately it seems he is getting more sleep by being surrounded by his fellow Hyphens. A change he appreciates and shows as the bags under his eyes are much less vissible now than on the first days he arrived.

Rhel tries to stay awake and not be the first one to rest every night, and so far she has not succed. As soon as her head touches the pillow, she won’t get up until her body has its batteries recharged.

Tia is part of the club “weird sleeping positions“, almost ending with him waking up and his body all in a twist and rambling a bit everynight, no one really understands what he is saying in his sleep but it seems its funny by the way he smiles while doing so.

Beacon has made a habit of having some space on her side in case someone has a bad dream or can’t sleep and needs someone to confrt them. She doesn’t mind, they are there to support each other.

Tender sleeps with his face looking up, has a bottle of water in his reach just in case and always makes sure twice the tent he is sleeping in is well secured, it had fell down in the middle on the night one day and he does not want it to repeat.

Soul prepares everything she will need in the morning and places it right next to her, she clips on her bangs and sleeps looking up because getting her bangs to be in place properly the next morning is always time consuming for her. She is the one who will sleep with fluffy and warm socks.

Cavalier makes sure everything is safe before calling it a night and on nights when he can’t sleep he will walk around camp making sure it stays that way. He lets down his hair and has a coat he likes to sleep in. He is the one who would have something extra do defent himself at reach aside from his fists.

Bold is an antithesis of Soul and Sunshine in the socks department, as she will sleep without them 90% of the time unless its really cold for her. She would change into a super baggy pijama and curl into a ball as much as possible to sleep.

Although Shadow enjoys sleeping on trees on ocasion, the would not say no to a soft sleeping bag or similar. Most of the time he will expand himslef like a starfish before sleeping, so he wears a warm set of pants and a longsleeve shirt so he does not have cold.

Sunshine joins club warm socks to sleep, they dont have to be fuzzy but just warm enough for her. She sleeps on her side and says goodnight to everyone she passes by on her way to the tent. She has a second pair of covers somewhere in her belongings, just in case.

Local Engineer, or Engi for short, does a quick check on the tents after the incident with Tender, not because he does not trust him, but because he himslef can really be sure if he did a propper check before. All he needs most of the time is just something soft to lay down. Covers? not really, thank you. But he will have some light ones if the night gets too cold, but he rarely uses them

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Prompt #4: Clinch

Hyphen Haji (F)

She has been at it for a long time, throwing objects and letting out sounds of frustation.

“Do you want us to help you Witty?“ one of the members of the group said.

“No! this is my battle! I have to win, for her!“

Her eyes, fixed on the prize, a cute accessory she could put on her chocobo to make her look even cuter, if that was possible.

She was down to her last shots. Aiming to the prize, preparing her launch and letting it go...

3 shots left

She could do it, maybe if she used all her body to impulse the projectile...

2 shots left

“Keep your cool Hyphen, you can bring it down“ she thought to helself

1 shot left Her final chance

She let out a deep breath, cleared her mind and

“Achoo!!!“

Her sneeze, out of nowhere had made her throw the last ball.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh hells!“ she let out as a scream “Let’s go guys“ moving her nose a bit as to stop a second sneeze or maybe as to stop her upcoming tears, she began to walk towards other stands of the Kugane festival.

“Miss! Miss!“

She stoped and looked back. The man running the stand she was moments ago came running towards her.

“Miss, that last shot was a great one! You took down not only the accessory but this second prize as well“

Still with her confused face, she looked at the man and thanked him, continuing walking with the group

“Did I really did that?“

“Uh? sure you did Witty, it bounced a bit but it knocked down the prize, we saw it!“

“You have great strenght and luck“

It might have not been what she had in mind, but after spending so much time there, she would take her win and wear it with pride.

“W-well yeah! it’s me who are we talking about! I’m great!“

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Prompt #30: Splinter

All the Hyphens

How did they ended up in this situation? Not that they are complaining, but they did not expect that the outcome of their actions left them to be building houses....

One moment they were fighting this big enemy, the next they were already in the building meeting geeting thier tasks... oh well.

Soul and Witty were in organizing tasks; making sure all the materials were available. Book, Gentle and Mind were delivering light supples like, water, meals, nails, paint and other items all across the construction site.

While Sunshine and Tender were on cooking duty.

On the construction taks, Engi was in the planning brigate, making sure the construction was made acording to the blueprints and correcting any errors; Bold and Shadow were the ones working on the roofs of the houses, being putting nails on the beams, or adding tiles. Cavalier and Beacon were carring wood and iron beams from one place to another and putting them in place for others to work on them. Mirror and Star were measuring and cutting materials left and right. And Swift and Foundation were working in the first floor of the houses; putting mails, sanding and paiting Good thing there were a lot of hands helping this task, so it was compleated in a week or so; such a refreshing task from all the battle they had done lately, and altough it was not the same, all of them ended up with cramped, burnt and splinterd hands. But they enjoyed the task and help the people in the area; so everything was cool!

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Prompt #5: Matter of Fact

Hyphen Haji (M)

“Have you ever wondered where this come from?“ One of the Hyphens asked

Without lifting his eyes from his book, the lalafell answered “Well, those usually came from mines, although rarely you can find them on the ground”

“And how about this one, book?“ the adventurer put the object right in front of his eyes and as fast as he identified the object, he answered back

“That? you get it from gathering around Mor Dhona“

“You know a lot of things book!“

The lalafell smiled at the compliment and turned the page of his book.

“But I dont think you know what this taste like!“

Turning his head, Hyphen looked at the picture his friend was holding.

“As a matter of fact, I do. It tastes like eating a worm with dirt and pinch of sun lemmon“ he proudly said clossing his book.

“And how exacly do you know what a dirty worm with lemmon tastes like?“ his face now closer with doubting eyes

A pink flush covering the lalafell face “L-ook Hyphen! we-we are late! We have to keep going!“ making his chocobo go faster than before, he left his friend behind.

Maybe is best not to answer to all trivial answers...

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Prompt #22: Argy-bargy

Hyphen Haji (F) & Hyphen Dotharl (M)

“No! why don’t you undertand?” The girl said a bit annoyed.

“Because you are wrong!“ Aparently he wasn’t getting behind on the noisy level.

“YOU ARE SUCH A FOOL”

“HELLS WITTY, ACCEPT YOU ARE IN THE WRONG!”

“Why are you fighting?!“ Sunshine interrupted the shouts

“Cavalier here does not want to accept I’m right”

“I would... IF YOU WERE RIGHT“

“You little.... COME HERE SO I CAN SMACK SOME SENSE INTO YOU“

“I WANNA SEE YOU TRYING“

“But why?!“ Sunshine repeated.

“MY CHOICE IN HAIR TIES IS BETTER“ both answered in unison.

“...ok...“ Sunshine said silently as she walked away from the explosing discussion

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Prompt #4: Shifting Blame

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Hyphen Haji (F)

“Where is my book?!” The male lalafell asked the group.

“Which one?” The female au ra inquired.

“The one I got yesterday, the rare one! I wanted to read it today!”

Everyone in the group looked at each other. With doubt.

“Well....” The female lalafell started talking “I just know I saw Tia eyeing it”

“But I didn’t took it, I just looked at it!” The boy answered. “It wasn’t me book”

“Well, it wasn’t me either, I spent all morning here at the campfire, I greet everyone when you got up” the female lalafell said crossing her arms.

“And what were the rest doing in the morning? I’m not mad. I just want to find my book” cried the boy. As the debate turn its volume up, the female lalafell returned to play with the fire to keep it alive for the breakfast to come.

“That’s it. It’s better if we look for it together” said the female hyur.

The female lalafell excused herself with the fire task. When she turn around, a smile appeared on her face.

She took the book and read it, being as rare as it was the boy would not let her touch it after 2 weeks had passed at least.

Finishing her read before everyone woke up, she went and put the book in the bag of his chocobo.

She was conscious that blaming his busy mind or the feather animal was not right, but she wasn’t going to be the one that took his lecture about how rare it was and that it wasn’t good and blah blah, even more when she gave the others a lecture about a similar topic the day before.

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Prompt #2: Bargain

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Hyphen Dotharl (F)

"483,500 gil" a vendor told to the couple of blue haired adventurers.

"Sure thi.."

"That's to high" The au ra interrupted the lalafell. "We won't be paying that much for something that has a lower value"

"That's the way it is young lady" the vendor told her.

But she didn't hesitate, paying that much was off the table. Combing her bangs with her fingers she took a moment before doing what she was known for in her group.

"We'll pay you 320,000 gil" She told the vendor while crossing her arms before her.

"What?! Are you crazy?! There is no way I'm letting go more than 160,000 gil just like that!" The vendor explode before the pair.

"Hey Soul don't start, we can..." The lalafell told in almost a whisper to her but was interrupted by the vendor's laugh.

"All right kids, I see what you want to play. I'm willing to accept 480,000 gil for it"

"350,000 gil and information you can use if you want to boost your sales "

"478,500"

"355,000"

"All right girl, I won't go lower than 475,000. Your choice"

"We'll give you 365,500, the information and we'll do your errands for the day, if they require eliminating monsters, you get parts of them that you can sell"

The vendor and the au ra maintained a battle of wills while looking at each other's eyes. The lalafell just kept looking at them feeling nervous.

"Ha! I like your style girl, you know what you are doing. It's been a while since someone challenged my prices. You have a deal." The vendor searched for a notebook, ripped a page and handle it to the girl. "This are my tasks for the day. If you want to take your item with you before it's time to eat I suggest you two start working now."

"We'll be back soon. Don't even think of selling it to anyone else" said the au ra.

"Don't worry, you have my word" said the vendor while he moved the item behind the counter.

The adventurers started walking and when they were far from the shop he asked the girl.

"Hey, why didn't you accepted the first time? We could have payed for it without a problem"

"True" said the girl starting to comb her bangs again. "But is also true that it's true value is less than what he was asking for, and with that saved money we can get the items we need for the others. If we finish fast we can even get a sweet treat before returning"

That was the magic word. The lalafell jumped and walked with purpose.

“Such a clever mind you have, quickly, if we divide the tasks we can get the candies faster"

The girl just laugh a little and showed him the list.

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Prompt #1: Voracious

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Hyphen Haji (M)

How many days has it been since he opened his eyes down here? Even him has lost the count.

Hes been here for a while after being separated from the group, but he does not seem to want to return to the surface. Was it the surface now? who cares? All he has been doing is turning page after page without control, only taking a break to sleep to rest his eyes and take a bite of the candy he always carries.

He is constantly rotating topics from races, clans, jobs, cities, crystals, primals... as long as the cover has not been opened by him yet, he will read the book.

Such a insatiable desire, demonstrated by the way he devours each and every page of those books and such deep dark circles under his eyes. He would be mad at himself if he does not devour the whole treasure, but he wouldn't mind dying here either.

A door opens letting some light and screams enter the room, his group has found him. In this moment he does not know if hes glad or not and only looks at them when he is closing one book and open another.

"Can't go now, I'm still busy"

The group looks at him with warmth and a bit of worry, there's even a little giggle in the background. They'll take him out of here when he falls asleep, and give him the coordinates to locate this place again. In the mean time, everyone grabs a book that picks their interest. Sure is strange to see him so fired up, they'll let him have this.

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Prompt #21: Crunch

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Haji duo

He had a horro like look on his face, and could not stop looking at her.

“Why?...”

“Why what, book?” She managed to say

“Why do you bite the lollipops and hard candy?! You might ruin your teeth!” The male Lalafell bursted.

“Oh, well, not all the time” She took a pause and a muffled sound came out from her mouth. “... I just enjoy the crunch” she said chewing

“I’m not sharing candy with you anymore” he told her with a deadpan face.