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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:29 pm
tick, tick, tick She warpped her beak lightly on a window. The curtains were pulled but she was pretty sure he was here. It was tournament time after all. She had caught the scent, and she (out of lack of better things to do) came to tell Master Malik so. And Mistress Piper...well for an ear scratch anyway. Another tap at the window, and she was hloding onto the window lege with her wings spread wide for balance...she was pretty obvious.
Moonstone bent down, peered into the little girls face. "She kind of looks like Mother. Gray hair, pale skin." He sniffed. "Smells like her too." He rolled his eyes and handed his brother the money pouch. "You don't even know if it's a good mount or not."
"And Maybe Malik's already had his hands on her. Who can say for sure who these "bad people" are?"
Bode reached out with one hand and tugged on one of those twitching ears. It made her giggle. She wasn't so sure she liked the white kitty. He wasn't so keen on helping her. "It's a good mount!" She said it, but she didn't know. "I've seen him." A lie. She looked at the gooey stuff. "Don't worry about that. It's just demon juice."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:34 pm
Wow Piper had to actually think about that, after all elven marriage wasn't the most common thing in the worked, now was it. But the knowledge was there and she dredged it up from the back of her mind. "We have them. It's more of a private thing though...mostly close family and friends, and horribly formal. Though of course it can be as informal as lovers like, after all it is their thing. Of course there's an elvish priest and the like...but they're their more of witnesses. Binding vows if the main point of it...tying spirits together, in a way. It's a type of elvish communion I believe between the two. They become fully aware of their partner's needs and emotions, allowing them to anticipate and fulfill these needs, but are not aware of the other's exact thoughts." She paused a moment and stopped walking the room as she had been doing. "Why? Planning on doing this my way or something?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:53 pm
Onyx shrugged lightly.
"See she says he's a good mount. now where is the guy selling him."
he glanced at the conduit leak, and shrugged at Moonstone's observation. Another reason to hurt Malik. and what do you mean smells like mom.
"Doesn't bother me. Mom has that stuff too."
And he wagged his tail for the girl to grab, he was going to keep his deal, and started to look for whomever was selling that lizard thing.
Malik chuckled.
"We got a visitor. and I was just curious, after all it's a far cry from Teir'Dal marriages. We mostly just agree not to kill, maim, or sacrifice eachother to Inny unless a priest says otherwise. That's teh way it is. god, house, guild, spouse, in that order of supposed loyalty. I think your way might have a tad bit more meaning. and at least be more pleasent to watch."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:58 pm
"Well your way seems a lot more simplistic than mine. Though I will say my way wouldn't be as grand and wondrous as I describe...I lack the friends part, most of the family part, and well...after my ear thing I kind of didn't take well to Gods anymore." Though she walked over to the window, pulling back the curtains with a small laugh. Ashlyn was obviously eager to get in. Unlocking the window, she pushed it open...at least the window was big enough for the griffin to get through. Then another laugh as she looked to Malik. "My mother would kill me for marrying you. Though I think my father would like you."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:02 pm
A short lad, maybe sixteen, noticed the crowd around his lizard. Though they looked shifty, and he had never seen their species before, he was eager to get the tempralmetal beast of his hands. "You look to bye?" He said in very poor common.
She grabbed the tail with a little squeal of delight. It was soft and warm and tickled her fingers. "You're a funny kitty," she said. She tugged it, but not too hard.
She squaked. Hey, do you want the info of not! She wanted to be let in already! When she was finally let in, she gave both Malik and Piper a snort, then sat on her haunches. Staring at the two of them. Well? She wanted an apology.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:22 pm
Onyx grinned lightly at teh girl's tugging, then back to the boy, looking down a bit before deciding not to completely terrify him and crouched, for once looking very much like a black version of his dad, to eye level.
"Yes indeed. Looking to buy, if yours is the steel grey lizard. How much does it cost?"
Malik chuckled.
"Of course she would. light and dark, and never the twain should meet. but we'll work something out, I'm sure."
Then a glance to Ashlyn..that was the look he'd gotten before when she expected some kind of apology last time.
"I think the griffin is upset with us."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:25 pm
No kidding. Cough it pal. You want answers? I want an apology.
"I be seller. 3000 gold. Cheap."
((be back later tonight...sorry))
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:30 pm
"She's always been rather uptight. That's what she got for raising a mixed blood elf in a pure blood village, and had to let her daughter go see her father as well." Piper shrugged before walking over to Ashlyn, running her fingers through her feathered head in a motion of scratching and petting all at the same time. "I'm sorry Ashlyn, I should of known better than to have the window closed." And she kept up that petting as she looked to Malik once more. "It's not like you'd be meeting her anyway. Personally I never cared for her restraints. If she proclaimed she hated you, I would just take your side. Mostly why I spent so much time with my father, he let me do my own thing without chastising me on follies."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:09 pm
Well, that was better! Certianly! And it felt good. Okay, she'd tell Piper. But if Malik didn't smarten up...she sneered at him, then leaned into Piper's hand.
Bode rocked on her heels, looking around in case the bad people showed up. She hummed a little tune and kept a tight hold on her kitty's tail.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:49 pm
Onyx looked at moon, and shrugged, depositing the money into the boys hands. He didn't much mind the price, for all he knew that was cheap. But now he had his lizard, and not a bad color either. wouldn't clash with his fur.
"Alright then. one lizard bought, and now to figure out how to ride it."
Looking back at Bode.
"And I have my own tutor and expert."
Malik rolled his eyes, and sat up, looking over at the girffin and Piper.
"Hey, this isn't my place, it's hers. you want to complain about being locked out you complain to her, not me. I don't owe you an apology. and why are you here anyway? shouldn't you be back home or looking for a child?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:52 pm
Piper shook her head at him and rolled her eyes with a slight smile. She turned her other hand's attention on Ashlyn as well then, scratching under her chin and around her collar. "He's right you know. But don't mind him, he's just edgy because he hasn't gotten to beat the snot out of anyone legally yet."
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:56 am
Hmmm? Oh, all right, fine. I'll dismiss it this one time. But she still wouldn't tell Master, only Mistress. Afteral, this was Mistress's place, wasn't it? She raised the feathers along the back of her head and neck when he asked about the child. She wasn't a stupid beast after all. She looked around, how to convey this one?
She went to the window and stuck her face out, where a slight breeze ruffled her feathers. Ugh, this one was going to be hard. She shook her head, as the wind was bothersome. She went back and forth between sticking her head out the window, letting the wind bring tears to her eyes, and going back and trotting around.
Trot. Wind. Do you get it? She was having a hard time with this one, there were no paintings or other familiar objects at her disposal. She stamped her paw like a hourse counting.
Moonstone sighed. There was nothing he could, beyond physicaly grabbing his brothe and tying him up, throwing him in a burlap sack, and tossing him into a mucking stall. "Look, if you come up against Malik, just be prepared to lose. Okay?"
She giggled. "I can ride!" she said with enthusiasm. She pointed to a jumble of tak that the lad threw at their feet. "Saddle's is tricky, cause they gots to wrap around his legs, not under his belly. If you strap it there, he'll get saddleses soars when he climes walls, cause his belly drags." She picked up a strap. "It loops over a leg, and this strap here runs over his shoulder." She scratched her nose and tugged at the bottom of her heavey shirt. "The saddle sits on his hump, like a carmel." She meant "camel" of course. "And these straps wrap around his tail and neck to keep you from sliding."
The bridel harness, much different from a hourse, didn't have a mouth bit. In fact, the thing looked like a pair of complicated headphones. "Lizards don't like to go where they can't see. So you steer left and right by clicking this thing here," she showed Onyx a little thumb button on the rein, "To cover one eye. Cover both to make him stop. You control his speed with either leg commands or word commands, depending on how he was trained." She frowned. "Which we don't knows just yet."
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:05 am
"I don't plan to lose, Moon. planning ot lose means your going to. I plan to win, and prove to Father, and you...nd all teh rest of them that I am just as good a warrior..better maybe. Despite getting the short end of the stick when it comes to thier Gifts."
He went to the stable, and listened, putting on the reins and bridles like she was saying to.
"They climb walls? well that's a bonus for a mount, woudln't you say Moon?"
Malik understood, and nodded lightly.
"Been looking, just no luck. well that's alright, just keep looking. this place is like a anthill that's been stepped on. damn humans swarming all over like so many locusts, a child is easy to lose in this mess. So what news did you bring us? Something good, I hope."
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:20 am
She knew this one would be hard. No, she had lots of luck. She shook her head. That wasn't it! She stuck her head out the window again. The wind, the wind! She snapped at it with her beak like a dog. She trotted around the room, stamped her paw like a horse counting.
She found one of their packs and dug out an apple, throwing it at Piper. Wind, apples. Get it? She was getting frustrated.
She was trying to tell them about Serino. He was a horse right? On a sudden note of clarity, she flew out the window, when she came back she had in her beak one of the complicated bridals. She held it out as if to say, "And WHERE did I get this from?"
"I didn't say plan, I said pre-pare. I don;'t want you to lash out when or if you lose. There is a big difference."
He rolled his eyes. "Oh yes, climbing walls is a great thing."
Bode was petting the lizard's nose to keep him calm while someone new strapped on the saddle. His eyes were a tad shifty, as if he wanted to reach around and snap at Onyx, but she didn;t think it would happen. "There is room for two in the saddle. Though you'll fit just fne yourself. To mount, stick your foot here," She patted a bony dent just below the things elbow. "It's just his under armor. So it won't hurt him none if you step on it."
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:28 am
"You have to plan to lose to be prepared for it. and don't roll your eyes about it. how many horses you seen that can climb walls? and I don't recall uncle Elias's cars being able to."
A glance at teh boney protrustion, and a look at Bode..adn shrugged and hopped himself up in the saddle, a little uncomfortable because of his tail....thing wasn't designed for riders with tails..then he leaned over and scooped up Bode, setting her on his lap.
"Okay..lets see how this works. what's the verbal command to get him to move forward?"
Bridle for Serino? and MAlik put his head in his hand.
"Just great. what has that damned horse gotten himself into this time."
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