Naja chores post. OTA

[najaran]

Who: Najaran, Goligan, her Cards, and whoever wants to join them.
Where: All over the train except kitchen and stores...
When: Platform till the end of the month
What: Najaran usually does every chore on the train on a semi-regular basis, but this month has been... odd.
Warnings: Angst. So much angst. Possible violence mentions. Also, she's now known two people that this month's ingredient resembles...


Najaran was a common and familiar sight around the train; the girl in the chiton over shorts, short cape, and weird companions was often found cleaning, getting lost, and... um... cooking and doing laundry in the Garden Car. Yeah, that's a thing.

But this month she has been avoiding the kitchen and dining cars. Also for those who know her well they may have noticed that she's been eating less. Or maybe they just noticed that oddly there has been more raw food around than usual, but far fewer preprepped meals in the fridge.

Najaran can generally be found carrying dirty laundry to the Garden Car, or clean things away from it. Expect her to be carrying so much she can't see well and also, you know, getting lost. Yes, she will wander into the games car with a stack of linen despite the signs up in every car giving directions. Signs her friend put up because of her, ages back.

Or more often, she's in the Garden Car itself. She washed laundry over a small tended fire in a po from the kitchen using Goligan to stir. Spending a lot of time watching the Adult Woodfolk in the small plot of dirt she'd moved in as they played with its babies. She also spent a fair amount of time laying out in there, up against Knight, chewing on random non-food things, like a wooden spoon, trying not to think about how hungry she was.

She hadn't said much about the void storm where she'd been turned into a child again for while. But those who had seen her during it might recognize the habit of chewing on things that she had then. It was unclear if she'd even made the connection herself.

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[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin entered the Garden Car and spotted Najaran tending to the laundry in a pot.

"Najaran? How's it going? I meant to look for you during the Void Storm, but somehow that didn't happen."

Orchestra Day 19

[motherofresistance]

Leia hadn't seen Naja when she'd been turned back into a child. But she did recall Naja mentioning something about having discovered Gooligan by chewing on him when she was little. Thus the sight of the young woman chewing on a wooden spoon was mildly amusing more than anything else, or at least would have been, if it weren't for her expression while doing it. "Getting back into old habits, Naja?", she asked. "You're going to hurt your teeth if you keep doing that, you know."