A Few Steps Forward

"Hm?" Letia hummed, glancing over to where a voice had come from. Ah... a person? Maybe the person who owned this place, or worked here... she wouldn't really know. Not that it mattered right now; not as well when her efforts were going, well... not gtreat. Maybe if the grass was taller or thicker, or maybe... well, there was one thing that would probably work well, at any rate. Something that her belt full of miscellaneous tools, along with a thin sword, didn't have, since it never really occurred to her to need it for such circumstances.

"W-well... yes, I suppose so, since it's... not coming off very well," she responded with an awkward little click of her beak, glancing down where she'd gotten some of it off, but certainly not all of it. "I'd fly off somewhere to grab some, but well... I'm not too good at taking off with just one foot -- even if the parents always said I should practice it -- and it feels a bit... well... mushy to actually step on," she added, somewhat dejectedly glancing off to the side. Well, alright, what it amounted to was her wimping out and not liking the feeling, in part because it reminded her just a little of the mushy sand and dirt just into the water... but she didn't have to admit that just yet.

"Oh, but you were probably busy with something, right? I may be able to help, at least a little, once this is dealt with. I don't know too much about... all this, yet, but I'm trying to figure things out anyway," she offered, putting on a friendly little grin.

Josh Dragelion

Alright... simple enough, then. And at least she was quite good at balance, when it came to it... even on her feet, if she needed to be. Or, well, foot, in this case. Either way, she had to be at least a little careful to take the basin before pouring it over her taloned foot to clean it off rather better than the short grass was.

With that done, then, the basin freely fell, just for Letia to push off with a quick, heavy flap of her wings now that she could get both feet freely on a clear patch of ground. Up a bit into the air, momentarily catching the basin in one foot before idly tossing it back up and a little over, just to set lightly down on a nice and clear, well-trodden patch of ground to catch the basin easily in one hand, hardly a movement wasted. At least, in spite of her occasional clumsiness -- or more so, lack of attention -- she could easily do that much.

"Alright, well... I guess that's one thing to learn, is to watch where I step, I suppose..." she hummed, picking that same foot up a little off the ground to at least check over as best she could that it was clean. At least, it seemed to be, and it felt fine to put back onto the ground... so that was settled.

"I may see about buying some of this... 'manure' from you anyway, since I'll apparently be needing it... but that's for a bit later! I did promise to help out a little, after all," she mused, offering another friendly little grin. "Ah, right, and I guess I should probably introduce myself as well? Letia Relicht, a... well... I guess I'm kind of a lot of things at the moment. Busy life and all."

Josh Dragelion

Problem solved, then -- at least for the moment -- to which end, Letia calmly wandered along after Josh, a slight, occasional hum escaping her as her eyes continued to wander. Over a type of place she'd never seen much of back home in the sky.

"Hundreds, hm? Well, I'm not certain about that; three, at the least. Probably more that I'm not thinking of," she idly shrugged, giving a little grin. The bow, then, in particular, caught her eye, once they got over to that. A weapon highly favored by her kin in general... but her? Well... fair to say she'd never managed to do much with it, which had led her instead to the lightweight sword she now had.

"Out here... wandering and looking around, I suppose. I've never really taken too much time to look around the world down here on ground level 'til recently, and well... it's not exactly farm land here, maybe, but I'll probably need animals of some sort up there as well... if that'd work. Well, the short version is, I'm working on a village up in the sky for anyone who wants to come along to, and I would at least need food and things, so that's about what I'm here to try and work a little toward," she explained... perhaps a bit more than she needed to, but it was a habit of hers that wasn't likely to break anytime soon.

"Though... I suppose I should be quiet for now, then? At least, I'm assuming you're doing some hunting, or something of that sort?"

Josh Dragelion

Winter... well, true, she supposed things didn't usually grow then, did they? But there'd be no harm holding onto some, surely. Holding on... well, no, later. When she had some sort of bag or something she could use for the task... and maybe a spade or something of the sort. One of her tools back home would probably work.

"Mhm! It is going to... take a little while longer, for now, but it's coming along! Just gotta fix up a few things, finalize the design... well, maybe just a bit later," she affirmed with a quick nod. Of course transport was the biggest issue in the end, but... she was still working on it, as much as she had been for a number of years yet. Just now with some help, and some added progress beyond what she'd been able to make previously.

First things first, though... and that was the present.

"Lemme know what you're tailing, and I'll try and look. Even if it is a forest -- and I'm, well, not any good at the bow like a lot of Rito are -- it still doesn't hurt to have an eye up above, right?" she suggested -- more quietly, just as requested.

Josh Dragelion

"Oh, Phoebe? Yes, that would be me. She'd found... well... found me with a skyship design and models and has been helping with it since," Letia easily affirmed with a grin and a little nod. Had that been supposed to be kept secret in some way? Well, maybe, maybe not; it didn't really matter anyway. The point was just getting the thing done, after all, not worrying over who might or might not know about it.

Though it similarly didn't occur to her that she didn't share such -- or really, any -- rules of formality.

"Ah, the 'standard' hunting targets, is it? Just gimme a few moments, then!" she offered. With that, and a push off from her legs and wings, the Rito was quickly off to the air, not far above the treeline. Anything smaller would be... difficult to find, but something like a deer would be easy enough to spot, and start to head back, quite unnoticed from above.

"Found one; a kinda big-looking one. That's the point, right? 'Bigger is better', or something like that?" she outwardly mused, before shrugging it off. "Well... anyway, it was right over that way," she added, tilting her head momentarily in that direction before starting to walk along that way, her talons making quite little noise even on the forest floor.

Josh Dragelion

Forward, then, it seemed. Particularly while that deer was still -- however long that might last, Letia wouldn't have known -- and there was a little time to spare. Quiet and careful, even if she had her own practically feather-light sword to draw, and perked just slightly at the next note. So she herself had found some support, and Phoebe meanwhile... well, it all certainly helped, no doubt about it!

She just... had to show results yet. Though, with luck, it wouldn't be long.

Still, the Rito had just to follow along for now, before starting to move shortly after the arrow itself. Off with a quick beat of her wings, just in case, to... a deer that ultimately made it a few steps before falling. No need for her blade after all, it appeared... perhaps just for the best.

"Well... it would seem that takes care of that," she hummed, slipping her thin blade back to its sheath. "The deer, that is. Not the skyship. Though more money for supplies is certainly helpful, and it is coming along well, even if it's not done just yet... well. Perhaps before the end of the year still. Probably not, but I might at least get one to fly relatively stably by then," she mused, before giving a little shrug of her shoulders. "Shall I take it you're something of an explorer type, then? Or just want others to be able to be rather more efficiently?"

Josh Dragelion