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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:11 am
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Faults hated crowds. Too many kin packed in too-small of a space, moving unpredictably, making her feel like the ground was unstable, even when she knew quite well that generations-old, waterlogged lowland like this hadn't a ghost of a chance of collapsing.
She'd tried to mince her way through– there were foals scantly higher than her knees walking around her, and she hadn't wanted to cause injuries, but sometimes, it was just better to give a decent shove and hope kin got the notion.
"I said move," she growled, pressing her way between a couple of Acha who'd been trying to distract her. Nearly-white pelt or no white pelt, she didn't care to be the subject of affections like these kin seemed to enjoy– and she certainly didn't want those affections aired on top of each other, in the form of flowers.
Flowers! As if anything could be more trite and ridiculous– they grew everywhere, and even though white blooms were one of the most uncommon sights around, there were still enough of them that the ground was festooned with their withering, trampled remains.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:16 am
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The smell in the air was thick and cloying thanks to all the flowers being gathered up by all the kin. The batches being thrust around to this buck, or doe, he'd had one or two shoved in his face and he'd shaken his head to get away from the ticke in his nose.
While spring was important, and the gathering good for everyone to make connections, and a new generation to be born, at this point he felt all funned out and it was only a week into it all.
Finally he found a break in the crowd, and took advantage of it, only to run smack into something rather solid. That seemed to be trying to get others out of the way.
"Oh...what? I'm sorry. Did I crash into someone?" sightless white eyes swept the area trying to figure out what he'd run into. "I swear this is a mess, who ever thought it was a good idea to have us out here and blinded like this without a safe way around!?" he groused a little, earning a few odd looks. He was definitely not the only one to think this way, just amongst the more vocal who thought that way.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:20 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:26 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:31 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:42 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:48 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:54 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 1:04 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:35 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:17 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 9:59 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:29 pm
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"More or less..." So, their names were stories, and the stories were told in a variety of ways. That made more sense than it didn't, really. The doe nodded, listening for a moment, and trying to imagine it, at least until the buck directed a question at her.
"A solid observation. I am Totoma, yes– I grew up in the mountains, and earned my name there, before I made the trip. I've... always been a little short of temper, and there used to be this boulder that was in the way of my track– the path I travelled at least twice a day. One day, instead going around it, I decided that I was going to break it... and I did. That, and the ground below me, right into a crevice. That, and the fact that I've always been critical of incompetence, got me my name. Finds-Faults, instead of something like Crevice-finder, or Breaks-the-Way, or whatever else might have caught on." She quieted, awaiting his reaction.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:49 pm
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