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 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:04 am
The sky had opened up earlier in afternoon with a much needed thunderstorm. The air was finally cooling and the ground would hopefully begin to turn green, if only for a bit. He knew the wet wouldn't last, it wasn't the time of year for it, but this would be a nice respite. He could still smell the storm on the air so it hadn't passed yet.
Shaking himself out, water flying everywhere off his coat, he trotted out toward his favorite tree. Maybe there would be a not so wet spot there that he could plop his butt in the dirt and rest for a bit. Evening was coming on and eventually the desire for dinner would catch up to him. With all the rain finding something to eat wouldn't be too hard. His own scent would be covered up by the smell of the rain.
Giggling to himself he rounded the tree a few times before he found a patch of grass that wasn't too wet. "The rain comes and brings life .... and life means a fully stomach!"
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:11 pm
Alizeti loved the rain, and wasted no moment of the storm. She took advantage of the wet weather, wandering out in the midst of the rain. She was soaked by the time the rain stopped, and though she wasn't sure if it was completely finished or not she was certain she was done dancing around in it. Storms came and went in the blink of an eye. Not wanting to take her chances, she went looking for a tree to hide under. It needed to be a good one if it was going to protect her from any more rain.
There weren't too many trees where she was, where they were and once she picked one and shook off she caught sight of brown hyena circling the tree. Wrinkling her nose in amusement, she glanced up at the sky warily before darting towards the other tree just as the other was settling down.
"Hey!"
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:54 pm
He looked up, lopsided grin crossing his face, as he heard someone call out to what he assumed was him. "You're wet" Rather obvious statement to be making since not only was she wet but so was he and everything else. "Think it's gonna rain again?"
He was still sure it was but it was always good to get a second opinion on those sorts of things. You never knew if you were going to be wrong and caught by surprise.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:24 pm
She was not put off by the blunt and rather pointless comment, but instead she smiled and shook more of the water from her fur when she came to a stop a short distance from him. It helped her stop dripping, but otherwise she was still very wet looking and her bright fur was slightly dulled from it.
"Maybe," she said indecisively, looking back up at the clouds still looming in the sky, "I hope so, though. It's nice when it rains." Or perhaps she was just in a good mood, it really didn't matter. If you let the weather bother you, it would. If you put it out of your mind and enjoyed yourself whatever it was well, then you had a better chance of being happy.
"Alizeti," she introduced herself with a smile.
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:43 pm
Oh, right. Introducing yourself. He forgot about those sorts of things spending most of his time occupied with talking to things that didn't talk back. "Bajunja." His grin was slightly lopsided as he answered her introduction.
"I think it will. It still smells like rain and the clouds still look as if they have something to give." Maybe they were waiting for the right time. Letting what they'd already given soak into the earth before they gave it more.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:17 pm
Alizeti was not unaccustomed to just hopping into the midst of conversations, but she usually did remember to ask for a name- and she usually remembered names, too. She beamed back at him when he introduced himself, "Nice."
Her purple eyes went back to the sky as he offered his opinion on the rain and she smiled again. He was right, but then she didn't consciously pay attention to the smell before rain before then. There was a scent, but it was so closely associated with rain in her mind that it was almost like it could just be the fact it already had rained some.
But there was no denying the remaining clouds.
"You're right," she verbalized her agreement and looked back to him, "What are you doing out here in the rain? I thought I'd be the only one wandering around in such a storm."
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:35 am
"I .... wasn't doing anything really." Did you have to be doing something to be out in the rain? He'd never really though about the fact that being out in it could be bad. He'd always enjoyed getting to feel for himself the power that the rains had.
He'd always hoped that maybe somehow the rain would make him grow stronger like it did the grasses.
"The rains are life. They give strength to what needs it. It's an honor to be able to bask in what the rains have to give." He nodded after a moment.
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:00 pm
It was an unusual answer that she got, she would have happily accepted that he wasn't really doing anything. Just because she didn't find great packs of creatures out dancing in the rain didn't mean it never happened. But his very unique response made her pause- and smile.
"Yes," she said finally, easily accepting most of what he said, "It's hard not to notice the burst of life after the rain, especially if it's been a while. But calling it an honor.. it's something to be grateful for, but.. an honor.."
Hmmmm.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:54 am
He nodded firmly. "Without the rains there would be no life, everything would wither and die. The water is the blood of the earth ... what carries it's strength to every inch of the land."
He'd thought it was silly when he was a pup to honor something like rain so much but as he'd learned from his parents he'd come to respect it completely. Storms were his favorite part of the wet season.
"Why should we not honor something so powerful?" He grinned. "Without the rains to make the grass grow then the herds would have nothing to eat for their calf's to grow and then we would have nothing to eat to make us grow"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:19 pm
Alizeti took a seat as Bakunja explained why the rain deserved to be honored. His explanation wasn't so unique, it was the interpretation of it that was unique, that was interesting. He wasn't wrong.
"Oooh," she said, shaking her head a bit and watching the water drip from her wavy mane thoughtfully. Then she looked back to the other hyena with a smirk, "Are you part of a pack? Or a group, or something? Or did you come up with that by yourself?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:11 pm
He tipped his head to the side, water dripping off one of his ears, and grinned. "Nope. Parents taught it to me. Taught me about everything and how it all connects together and how we have to be respectful of what is around us or the spirits will see no reason not to take it from us"
He'd seen others die because they didn't respect the earth and believed they could overcome it. It wasn't ever a pretty picture.
"I dont know where they got it from .... but i guess they had to learn from someone. Or they were just reeealy smart"
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:16 pm
So it was a personal belief, but it seemed almost odd that it didn't originate in something more organized than a family. Her family had never been that smart, or interesting. But that didn't really matter anymore.
"Oh," she said, mimicking him and tilting her own head as well, "It just sounded like something that'd be easy to pick up in a group, but it has to start somewhere I guess. My parents never really had anything so smart or interesting to teach me."
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:43 pm
"I guess .... they could have gotten it from somewhere else." His parents had to have had parents and they had to have had parents so it could have been passed down. "It was just us when they were alive though. Maybe something happened to them."
Maybe his parents had escaped some sort of disaster that their group brought on themselves somehow. Romantic in a way but that's what imaginations were for right?
"So it's just me now ... well and i guess it's not too hard to think someone else out there thinks like i do, but no organization"
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:17 pm
Alizeti was smiling again, trying to imagine where this knowledge could have come from- letting her youthful imagination go, though she really knew it was as simple as someone being observant of nature and being grateful, assuming something bigger must be going on for it. Now that the concept had been planted in her mind, she could easily imagine some grand personification of the rain that brought or withheld life from the land.
"Hey," she said suddenly, "What about me? Now that you've mentioned it, and made such a convincing case, maybe I won't forget it."
Hey, true or not there was no harm in telling him that. If nothing else, it might make him feel good. She enjoyed the rain already, one more reason was hardly going to escape her mind too quickly or easily.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:40 pm
He blinked at her for a minuet, almost like the idea hadn't occurred to him at all, before he smiled brightly. "Oh yes! There is you now." He pulled himself up off the ground and shook the water on his fur off.
"You shouldn't forget. It's bad to not give blessings to what the world gives us." His ears flicked slightly to get a bit of water off. "If you don't thank it then the earth is likely to take it away from you ... after all if you can't be happy with it you don't deserve it."
IT seemed easier that the world would give water and blessing to those who were happy for it rather than those who took it for granted.
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