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Post by Sera on Jul 24, 2007 7:58:13 GMT -5
"All Gryvern like water," Astafy paused in her drinking to respond, droplets of water gathering on the bottom of her purple chin before falling away to rejoin the liquid in the streaming water below her. She pulled her head up so she could angle her neck to get him into ther peripheral vision again. "Where we come from, there really isn't a lot of water and wot there is, well, it's difficult to access."
In fact, nearly impossible. The two large bodies of water in their Home Reality were heavily guarded by bands of Poisontails. It was difficult to know that there was water there,m but it was suicidal to attempt reaching. She gave a low, huffing sigh. At least here there was plenty of water.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 24, 2007 17:02:00 GMT -5
He liked water too, so long as it was shallow and not moving very fast... which meant he basically liked to splash around in puddles after a rain since everything else was a drowning hazard... since he wasn't really equipped to swim. "I like rain! but umm... I can't swim..." He said in a slightly wavering tone as he looked down at the water rushing by below him... It may be wading depth for Astafy, but it was probably way over his head.
As he looked up from the water again he had another thought... If astafy was an alien, then a lot of tsumes wouldn't like her, which made him pretty glad that this area seemed pretty deserted. "Maybe we should look for your friend near the river?" he suggested quietly before smiling up at her.
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Post by Sera on Jul 24, 2007 19:46:23 GMT -5
"Oh, dear," the Light replied immediately, and quickly, though carefully, headed back to shore. She smiled as she carefully stepped up on the bank and turned to watch the water from its safety. "Better?" she asked a bit rhetorically as her mind touched once more on the pleasantness of water.
She rolled green eyes to sort of glance at him again and gave a swift nod. "Yes, checking near water is a good plan. Let's go!" She headed upriver out of habit and continued the search again.
An hour or two later, the Light gave a sigh and sat down for a bit. "There's absolutely no sign of him," she mused worriedly, head still turning this way and that, subconsciously trying to catch a scent of the noctyier. "I think we need a Hunter," she murmured the thought aloud, not really paying attention to the words. She shook her head slightly and checked on Napolean again, "How are you doing?"
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Post by Thalron on Jul 24, 2007 20:24:42 GMT -5
He seemed a bit more relieved once they were no longer over the running water, then happily nuzzled astafy, repeatedly. Once the small show of affection was over he chirped up at her and began his somewhat vigilant watch as well... although, he wasn't as useful considering he couldn't look every where while clinging to her scarf. "Yesh." he said with another chirp.
He remained watching for maybe a half hour, then began simply nuzzling her or loafing around a bit... and after another half hour he had fallen asleep in her scarf, he didn't sleep for too long though, and woke up about the time she had slowed, then stopped. "Mreeh?" he gave a few small squeaks then wriggled and slipped from the scarf, sliding down along her leg slightly before plopping onto the ground... looking up at her as he stretched his legs. "Hunter?" he immediatly thought of Jaradka, and the time that she had chased him half way across chaos hills... just to coddle, and feed him afterwards, not seeming to care she had nearly given him a heart attack... but he quickly pushed those thoughts aside and chirped up at her. "I'm doing.. umm... Good!" He nodded then began meandering around her feet.
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Post by Sera on Jul 24, 2007 23:44:55 GMT -5
Astafy nodded, still a bit distracted, trying to think of who could help them. Really, though, the problem would be finding someone at home or around. Most of the Gryvern she knew often took off to go who knows where at all hours of the day and night. She couldn't say for sure that she'd be able to find anyone to help her.
"Yes, a Hunter," she replied. "I am a Gryvern, but apparently that's not enough. We need someone specialized in it as my skills lie in another arena entirely."
Of course, had Veselin -actually- been moving around rather than simply staying still, it would be have been easier for the pair to pick up his trail. At the current rate, they had a better chance of stumbling across someone else rather than the noctyier.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 25, 2007 0:09:00 GMT -5
Napoleon continued wandering around her feet aimlessly for a couple moments before running over to the edge of the river, drinking a little bit before sitting down at the shore and looking up and down the river. "Umm.. Most tsumes are hunters!" He chirped slightly then his tone cheerfulness lessened momentarily "except me I guess..." he mumbled this part out then went back to being his normal cute and cheery self.
He knew adonia could find him, but she'd prolly kill him or something, and Jaradka could probably find him too but she s cared him too much... And he didn't really know how to do mind speech so he couldn't contact her anyways. "Do you know any hunters?" He asked as he ran back over to her and snuggled up around one of her legs.
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Post by Sera on Jul 27, 2007 2:19:00 GMT -5
"Well, I'm not a Hunter either," the Gryvern replied easily, dropping her head down so she could nuzzle the tiny creature gently. "There's no shame in not being a Hunter, it just means you're not a Hunter."
Her ears flicked back as she thought through who else might be available, but really she just came up with more blanks. This was why she had been sent, after all. There wasn't really anyone else available.
"Well, ready to carry on?" Astafy asked lightly, forcing herself to not get down at the length of this search.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 27, 2007 3:21:26 GMT -5
He smiled up at her as she nuzzled him, nearly getting pushed over from her massive nose.. a few giggling noises coming from him as he rubbed his nose back against hers, his tiny little wings flapping happily. "I know... But I'm not anything yet." he said with a small wistful sigh then chirped at her.
"Ok!" He said in a almost too cheery tone, hopping up for her to let him back into the scarf, which he had really grown to like... since other than the colours, it was also very soft and warm... atleast to him.
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Post by Sera on Jul 27, 2007 3:47:02 GMT -5
Astafy carefully crouched down to make it easier for Napolean to get in. "You are a cheer-er upper," the Healer contradicted easily. "And those are just as important as Hunters. Unfortunately, our sort of skills won't find us Veselin. And that's all that means."
She hoped that helped take away some of the wistfulness as well as grant him a little more confidence. Gryvern society seemed to accept the less violent a little better than many other societies. She would nuzzle the tsume again, but she couldn't reach him now. Ah, well.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 27, 2007 4:05:08 GMT -5
He smiled widely up at her, well... He was pretty good at that wasn't he? He wasn't exactly sure how that was better than a hunter though, maybe if there were large groups of people... "Really?" He asked with a curious tone before giving a small chirp and jumping up onto the side of her paw, then onto her back before snuggling up under the scarf... He was kind of agile it seemed.
Once there he began to nuzzle her again and let out small happy chirps. "We'll find Vaseline... Even if it takes till night!" Ooh, that was right Angelus might come out here at night, and he was a good hunter... and really really scary but nice... Well, he kind of hoped they didn't run into any other tsumes once he thought about it, who knew how they'd react to an alien
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Post by Sera on Jul 27, 2007 4:20:53 GMT -5
"Yes, really," Astafy nodded. "We're the ones to keep spirits up, to help out in small ways to make everyone's lives better."
She grinned when Napolean referred to 'Vaseline', but didn't bother to correct him. He would find out whenever they found the noctyier or not, if it came to that. "I hope it doesn't take all night. I'd rather be able to get home before dark." She sighed slightly and kept on moving.
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Post by Sera on Jul 27, 2007 4:24:58 GMT -5
It took hours, but he was finally ready to move. The Trance carefully pushed himself up and began his easy-going stroll through the woods. Which involved only minuscule progress on his part since he couldn't be bothered to go over obstacles, like the fallen log before him, so he had to find a way to get around them that didn't involve too much effort. He sighed as he stared at the big tree, and his head winglings flattened as he surveyed the best way to go. Finally he began to move again, heading slowly towards the roots so he could go around that way.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 27, 2007 4:41:40 GMT -5
He smiled and chirped happily to her, hanging on a little tighter as she nodded. He knew that he wasn't really useful to astafy... but she seemed to like him, and still kept him around. She was probably one of his bestest friends ever.
"I don't like going around at night either, it gets creepy!" He squeaked out then nuzzled her again... looking up along the huge length of her neck and at the underside of her head. "Why'd Vasaline come out here alone if he has a friend like you?" he asked rather innocently.
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Post by Sera on Jul 27, 2007 5:02:59 GMT -5
There was the slightest hitch in the Light's stride, but she kept on fairly smoothly after that. "Well, Veselin doesn't really like me," she admitted sadly. "He doesn't really like -anyone- honestly." This seemed to sadden and annoy her all at the same time. "I wouldn't really call us friends." She gave a low sigh. "All we want to do is help him, but it's like he doesn't care. He just wants to starve to death or something."
She shook her head again, realizing abruptly wot she had just said and hoping that wasn't something that would scar the little tsume's mind. "But it's alright," she hastened to reassure him. "We're careful to not let him get into too much trouble." ... Usually, she appended mentally.
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Post by Thalron on Jul 27, 2007 5:15:46 GMT -5
He looked up at her as she spoke, nodding lightly as she went on about him... He sounded weird, he had heard about humans that starved themselves to look pretty but he hadn't heard about.. well... ok so he hadn't heard about the gryvern at all until today so... It still sounded weird. "I don't see why anyone wouldn't like you... He must be really crazy, especially since he starves himself." He nodded thoughtfully, then nuzzled Astafy's neck. "It's nice of you to take care of him."
It was kind of odd how he didn't seem fazed at all about the negative things she talked about, and even had somewhat sane replies to them. maybe not the most intelligent responses but he was just a kit after all.
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