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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:45 pm
Zahara froze when Serino came forward, she wasn't sure if he was truly upset or he wanted attention as well. She watched him for a moment and then said softly, "I wasn't going to hurt them." Should she reach out to him, well maybe a little bit. If he intended to bite her, nothing she did was going to stop him anyway. She reached out with one palm, hovering just above his outstretched nose. "I don't have anymore sugar...gave the last piece to those two. Sorry." And she stood there quietly, frozen in place, afraid to move, afraid not to move. What was he going to do if this Zephyr was merely trying to hurt her for going near his foals?
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:53 pm
Oh I know you wouldn't...you'd have to face Nightmare first and then me, adn we bothknow how fun that wouldn't me. Sugar, nah he wasn't begging for sugar either. He preferred apples over even teh sweet stuff. THough he was a little amused at the fact that she was scared of him maybe, at least put off by him. Well that in part was good...meant she knew the boundries and how not to cross them. A snort at her again before he bumped his nose up into her palm. See, good Zephyr...I'm just messing with you because I like to test people.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:06 am
When she felt his nose bump against her palm, she relaxed quite a bit. No biting from him, at least not yet. So she gently stroked his nose. Might as well give him some attention since that seemed to be what he wanted more than anything. She glanced back at Nightmare and the tuckered out foals and shook her head, "Poor things. They wore themselves out with all that playing." Another gentle scratch to the Zephyr's nose. "So how come you choose to trust me? The big bad Drow...?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:57 pm
It was always nice to be pet. Big bad drow? He snorted. Please...you can't hurt me so what do I care of you being big and bad or not. Everyone thinks the horses are the skittish ones. I just like messing with your head...and attention of course. A twitch of his ears and a look at his foals and then one to Nightmare before looking to Nerian then back to Zahara. Besides, you're not numbered here.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:53 pm
"I really wish I could understand what you were saying. It would make things so much more interesting." She scratched at his nose gently and glanced around watching the sleepy foals and Nightmare. She should go back inside but she was loathe to leave, it was calming outside. And she had no real desire to go back inside and deal with that b*****d Malik D'Vinn. Whoever had allowed him to live for as long as he had should be gutted from their nose to their navel. Stupid b*****d, thinking he can just randomly treat people the way he does. The one thing that burned her up more than anything else was his insistence that she was trying to be Piper. She wasn't, she really wasn't. She respected the surface elf but she didn't want to be her. Another scratch to Serino's nose. "Don't tell anyone but I really hate that Drow. He doesn't even try...I just don't see what Piper sees in him." Talking to Serino? Sort of, more like thinking out loud.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:02 pm
If you could understand the wind you could hear me...you drow, you never know any really useful langagues. Underdark, Common, Undercommon...maybe a few others but nothing really useful. It's sad really. Serino nuzzle her hand lightly, flicking his ears again. Oh we all hate Malik on some level, he threatens me at least three times a week for something or other. Personally I hate how he sucks up all of Piper's attention...though that's not so much a bother now to me I guess. As for what Piper sees in him...well that's a long story, and I don't even really know. Crazy maybe?
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:28 am
Nightmare was laying down, nuzzlign at her foals a bit and letting Serino talk. that zephyr loved to talk. and wait a minute, useful languages? I don't see how a being born adn bred down here woudl think that your wind speech is a 'useful' language. you're probably the first of your breed that she's ever even heard of, much less talk to. shadowspeech is a more important language that wind speech for the underfoot.
Malik nodded lightly, and put his hand on Piper's shoudler, gently helping her to sit on the steps.
"Better dim than blind. this is why if you have the potential, you should at least get training, piper. Magic, esepecially when dealign with elemental infusion, is not something to idly tamper with."
A look over at Kieran.
"So who taught you, and what about teh first of your breed to learn this trait, I'm sure no one else taught them."
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:19 pm
They had moved to lying against mom, still both holding white color to thier hides...well any changable color. Whether they liked it or not was debateable but they were both too tuckered out to change thier colors even if they wanted to anyway right now. Though they did think it was funny how mom and dad picked at each other, even in their sleepy haze.
Serino snorted lightly, pricking his ears toward Nightmare. Mares...they always had to have the last word didn't they. It is useful, seeing as most don't know it and its speed is uncanny. And shadow speech only wins because it's dark down here...but still...a nicker and a slight shake of his head before nudging at Zahara's hand again. Hey he was kind of attention starved right now. Piper occupied with Malik and Nightmares motherly instincts kicking in and all...and well he was always one for fun. That's how Zephyrs jsut were.
She sat down, but one hand took to holding Malik's wrist. This wasn't really fun at all...her paranoia of her people was kicking in a little with her little state at the moment. Oh great dad, you gave him a reason to poke at me about training...which I don't do a lot of...and he loves to teach things of that nature. Though she was sure she could talk her way out of a few sessions. "I know...magic is never something to be played with by idle hands." No she wasn't going to argue with him about it...no point in it.
Kieran grinned. Hm, where had he heard that said to his daughter before? Oh right, he told her all the time. She listened about half of that time. Sure she indeed had the potietial...she just never seemed interested in it all too much. "Me? Well my parents taught me, them thiers, and so on and so forth like that." He clasped his hands behind his back. "Well, as the story goes, the trait was never learned. It was always there. It still needed to be triggered but it was a much much more sensitive trigger...in essence it was much like your own dark vision which changes on its own. Back then, there was much more gold in a moon elf's eyes than there are today. Some even had completely gold eyes. It all reads in the writings that they noticed the change rather than ignored it...learned how it worked on thier own. Saw how light and darkness affected and worked...experimented with elemental magics and the like. Even they didn't get away with it conseqence free, blinded in one eye and destroyed half the gold in the other, others who tried it early on without extreme caution learned the hardway too. All thereafter, are like us now. Just enough gold existing to make the trait triggerable and useful...though every now and then we get one with more than the average amount of gold."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:02 pm
"Interesting.reminds me of a triggerable affect in our surface brethren, the Koada'Dal. they have a triggerable infravision..heat sight. supposedly, when our breed was first brought into being, that was how we saw in teh dark. gradually through teh generations, it became darkvision. our sight simply evolved into something else. the onyl vision I find truly a danger is sonic vision, a vision the kerran possess. the eyes goes white, and they 'see' sound. the slightest movement exposes you to this vision. the movement of wind on you makes you easy to see. it was another adaptation, to a tribe being in existance on teh darkside of a moon, interbred into the others."
A small smirk.
"Cymarron's tribe, the Vah Shir, developed that trait."
Nightmare handled her foals, and kept them quiet up against her, letting Serino talk. her transfer of speech here was even faster than teh wind. as shadows were everywhere, adn required nothing more then knowing whom it was to go to, and being near one shadow and them by one, or using thier own shadow. at least in the short range. long range of coures required hopping between shadows so that was slower. but on the whole, shadow was better than wind in teh underfoot.
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:53 pm
Zahara chuckled softly and scratched Serino's nose lightly. He seemed to just want her to give him a bit of attention. "I'll bet you haven't had anyone out here to see you since those foals were born. Poor Daddy, feeling a bit left out are we? I just wish I had more sugar for you, Lloth knows I'm going to spoil your foals with it but you deserve some as well. Do you even eat sugar? I don't even know, goodness I really am a bit uncertain when it comes to these things. But never mind, I'll ask Piper. She'll tell me everything I need to know, as long as I can get her away from that idiot Malik." She chuckled again and continued to pet his soft nose. "Listen to me going on and on. You're a very good listener, did you know that?" She glanced at Nightmare and the foals for a moment then went back to giving all her attention to Serino. "I wonder if Piper named you..."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:16 am
Kieran nodded lightly, also reaching a hand out to grasp Piper's wrist and pull her hand away from her eyes. "Don't rub." Attention was on Malik though at the moment...he couldn't help himself now could he. "Senses are evolving all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if Pip her spawned some sort of her own...after all, no one has ever really seen how a surface elf living in the Underdark on a permanent basis changes."
"You turn me into one of your studies and I'll hurt you." Though she did drop her hadns to her lap, blinking some more. Well the dim was starting to go away a bit, she still wasn't liking it...and no doubt Malik would hound her on training the little trick..not really a bad thing, she was just difficult and a bit set in her ways.
"Oh come now, you should alreay know that you've become one of my studies, I just don't mention it because you get...claws." Yeah, that sounded about right.
Yes, yes we are...it' not so bad and Nerian is my company right now I guess. He nickered happily, nuzzling her hand. Of course I'm a good listener. One should listen as well as they talk...and I like to talk too. Though his look went to Nightmare and his foals...it was a rather endearing sight really. Okay, so she in fact was winning the argument...but that was nature's fault for making things dark...Serino twitched his ears at Zahara. Piper name me? No, we Zephyrs name ourselves. Most horses do...just not everyone can speak horse...or whatever breed. But yeah she can tell you other things. She'll tell you I adore apples, then I bet I can could be spoiled by you with those. You seem the type to spoil something you like. I like that in a person.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:56 am
Another soft scratch to his nose and she moved forward a bit so she could pet his neck. He was a very good horse, "You know what? I do believe I'll talk to Piper about you. You're quite a Zephyr but you already know that." She scratched again gently but continued in her musings. Malik was on her mind and since Serino could listen she started telling him things. "You know Malik has it in his mind that I'm trying to be like Piper, but he fails to realize that all I'm trying to do is find somewhere that I fit. After running away from home and coming here, I realized that my way of life isn't all it's cracked up to be. I never was all that good of a Llothian but Malik just can't see past that. Maybe it's because I still wear the pendant of the Queen. What do you think? Perhaps if I took it off he wouldn't be reminded so often where I came from." Her fingers moved absentmindedly up and touched the pendant hanging down between her breasts. Then they moved higher and touched the collar Broog had fashioned for her. "He used the leash on me too. First chance he got, which really didn't surprise me much but" she shrugged, "I don't know. I guess I thought that maybe if I gave him dominion over me he wouldn't be such a....p***k." She laughed, "How stupid of me. I actually thought he might be satisfied. He'll be an uncivilized b*****d from now until they lay him to rest, won't he?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:13 pm
If horses could laugh, Serino would be having a giggle fit right now. Malik is just Malik. You think he's bad now? She's actually tamed him a little...used to yell and hit a lot more. He hasn't killed him a man in cold in quite a while. Tournament and surface elf deaths aside, they deserved it. A poke at her collar with his nose, pushing her chin up to get a better sniff at it. Hey that was brand new now wasn't it? Like Piper because of this? You won't be like her unless you half an ear and dye your hair, then learn to flick gold in your eyes. He may not see it, but its not the big noticible things that attract him to her, its the little. A collar means nothing really in similarities. At least not to me. Then again he was a rather carefree creature and she was doing a good job of stroking his ego. He sees you more of a threat I think...not to him, but maybe more so to Piper...not the most...proficent one, that elf. He shook his head at her pendant mentioning. It's just like a collar, a fancy piece of jewelry, he'd probaby never notice. Believe me drow, he hasn't made your life hell just yet...he's just being pissy.
A little half sleepy nicker as her brother nipped at her ear. He was ready to play again, she was content to lounge againt mom and doze. Though he wasn't spunky enough to get up and run around either, he just wanted to annoy her. Stop it or I'll bite you back. You can't bite me, I'll tell dad. I'll tell mom you started it. n**, and? Little irritated snort, quit it. n**. Mom! Dad!
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:07 pm
A snap at both of them, and a shorting of flame. Behave. Or I'll put you in a place you don't want to be. then a glance at Serino and Zahara. yes, you are not even close to the dangerzone yet. When he starts being nice, then worry. he does have a tendency to follow the keep you rfriends close, and enemies closer rule.
Malik grinned lightly.
"Well. give her a few more decades. her skin will probably get lighter, she might develop darkvision. or maybe some hybrid vision. But I insist that we get her to work on mastering this little trait. it's important to control it, so that someone can't easily flashblind her."
A small mussing of Piper's hair.
"Fianna is faring alright, I assume? and what does she think of Piper's choices in the pantheon?"
A small chuckle.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:32 pm
Well that ended their bickering, little ears dropping as they looked up to mom, mumbling thier apologies...of course with last moment accusations before they settled down again. Didn't want to get mom mad at all at them. Colts. Fhillies.
Foals, aren't they adorable? A moment's look over to the little group, then one to Nerian, just to make sure everything was well in the immediate area. A snort from him. The day Malik is overly nice to me, I'm getting as far away as I can. You know...I don't think he's ever even pet me.
She propped her elbow on her knee and dropped her chin into her hand. "Oh great... as if I wan't the brightest thing in the Underdark as it is..." Piper rolled her eyes a little in her own sarcasm. Thought a look up at them after a few more blinks...he was insisting...that meant training for her, whether she liked it or not. Damn it. Piper gave a sigh. "I won't fight with you on it this time like I did witht the sword thing." Quick take a glance out the window, it may be sunny. The squint of one eye as he ruffled her hair, only making her have to fix it. Then a soft smile at Malik's joking. He still had his moments, didn't he?
That was the thing about Piper...she did indeed know when something was just in her best interest all around...not to mention after Kaden using her eyes against her, the whole experience gave her incentive. His attention fluttered back to Malik at his mentionings of Fianna and other activities. "She's alright, a little worn from being out of her depth, but that's alwats expected. Raziel is dozing with her right now." Yes for once in a long while it seemed, Kieran's shoulder was unoccupied. Though he couldn't help but chuckle with talk of pantheons. "She would of added in Rillifane and Labelas and excluded Fenmarel."
Piper shook her head...had she been younger or had her and Malik not been as comfortable lovers as they were she probably would of blushed and acted much the teenager. But she wasn't and she was taking this in quite good stride. "She'll be appauled if I say Innorruk...because I'm sure you've told her who that is by now." Oh why not get in on it as well.
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