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 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:49 pm
 Nessie lounged beneath the water, in a rather dismal mood. She had been alone for quite awhile, and in that loneliness she had been left with nothing but her own tormenting mind. Flipping her fins in an irritated manner, her brow furrowed. Maybe I am a monster? No one wants anything to do with me. Was I a monster before, or did I become one because of being left alone like this?Hannibal laughed, low and gutturally. His face was chalky and lined with bones and his body etched with crazy symbols. He smiled, almost wickedly at his master. "Why don't you leave me alone?" Nessie sneered at him. "Because misery loves company," Hannibal responded before floating lazily away. Nessie watched as the turtle slide off in the murky depths, but then she heard something different. Her ears adjusted to the sound, it was a slight touch of the water. Someone was up above...
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:24 pm
 Such a nice autumn day it had turned out to be! Was this the day? She looked about her surroundings, tested the wind, and then came to the conclusion. Yes, this was it. This was the perfect day for a nice swim!
Bursting into an easy canter the mare makes her way down the beach and towards the water. She knew of the perfect inlet that trapped some deep water but wasn't as cold as the real ocean. By the time she makes it there, she's psyched herself up to the cool waters, but not quite convinced herself to jump in. Instead, she slows down to the edge and then wades her way in. 'Ahhhhhhh.....' Eyes fluttering shut, the mare happily begins to paddle about stirring up the water around her legs to keep herself afloat. Her head held high she even begins to hum to herself, an unknown tune that probably once had words to go with. Yes, this was the perfect day for a nice swim!
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:35 pm
Nessie could feel the pulsation of the ripples as if someone had touched her own skin. She could feel a foreign presence here, something completely alien was in the water.
Shutting her eyes, she breathed deeply. The water went into her body, like oxygen to a land dweller. She could smell the soft sent...It was a four legged one. It had been a long time, since any had visited her home.
Why was this Soquili here? Didn't it know that a monster lurked in the deep? That that monster could be stalking it at that very moment?
Moving silently, Nessies made her way to the surface. Just below the hooves of the mare, she watched. The kicks were graceful, and there certainly were four hooves there. How unusual to have one like this in her home!
Tenatively, she reached out and touched the hoof.
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:35 pm
Completely unaware of the possible danger lurking below, Dulce Periculum was swimming neat circles, tail trailing along behind her, and her back just barely being kept out of the water. She liked to swim, but it wasn't something she did very often, so this had been an excellent idea! If she did say so herself!
Being as oblivious as she most often was, the touch caught her entirely by surprise. The mare instantly turned around in the water, splashing water in all directions, to try and see behind her. Nothing. Her second thought was to actually look down into the water, but having stirred it up with her thrashing it proved to be immensely useless. She could see no further than the surface. So the only thing left to do was dive under the water and face this intrusion head-on. And instead of leaving the water like any sane or safety-seeking Soquili would, Dulce takes a deep breath and plunges her head under the water.
Cheeks puffed out, full of air, she slows her paddling to a bare minimum to clear the water as much as possible. After a moment she opens her eyes and blinks them a few times as they try to get used to the salt in the water. But what she sees is not the friendly kelp she was expecting... oh no. It was a grey monster, looking straight at her! And that just set her after it.
Something clicked in her brain and her blue eye seemed to shine brighter -if one could see in that much detail underwater- as she put all effort into pushing herself further under water, trying to dive straight at the monster that had poked her. Her expression changed into one that was somewhat crazed and all she could think about was getting close to that monster and nipping it real good. But that being said... she was a four-legger underwater...
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:58 pm
Nessie darted back into the reeds, it was rather alarming to see something chasing her. She was use to being the monster, to other's running from her...not toward her. This was a unique experience.
Easily, she leaned back and away from the mare and her streamlined body floated further down quickly. Those gnashing teeth, did not look friendly.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:37 pm
Eyesight blurry, but mostly passable, the mare kicks hard, and tries for another dive at the grey creature, but again she is easily dodged and this only makes the mare angry. Her scowl etches not only into her brow but into her nose too, scrunching it in disgruntlement. When she paused to consider how better to make her way towards her target she feels that unmistakable tug of her lungs. They wanted air, and if she didn't listen she would drown herself... and for a moment... it even seemed like a good idea to test this theory in an attempt to catch the water creature... but only for a moment. Crazy as she was, she didn't need to kill herself. She'd be robbing someone else of that pleasure!
With an angry snuff bubbles escaped her nostrils, and the agitated mare made her way back to the surface. Breaking for air she takes a few deep breaths as her legs stroke, propelling her towards the shore. Water dripping from every part, the mare's hair strewn wildly across her neck but once she was on solid ground with all four hooves she took a moment to shake, shedding most of the excess water. Quickly afterwards she turns back towards the water with a scowl and says, "I could bite you if I wanted! I... I... I just don't want to right now!" More quietly she mutters, "No one pokes me without my say!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:52 pm
Nessie followed the crazy mare. She was...plain crazy. Never before had Nessie went at anybody in the way that that mare had come after her...but that was okay, that mare was not a monster.
She watched the mare get onto the land safely, and she lurked just beneath the surface. Hesitating for a few moments, she surfaced. Her bald head protruded from the ocean, the wind making her head fins flap a little in the wind.
"Of course," she croaked out. She wasn't use to speaking above the surface.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:40 pm
Within the two seconds between Dulce's exclamation and the mer's response there was a sudden change in Dulce's demeanor. The scowl seemed to melt off her face into a straight line with a touch of confusion. Her blue eye less bright now, and her brown one full of caring and love.
She took a step closer to the water and asked calmly, "Do you live in the water?" As if nothing had happened mere moments before Dulce was very curious about this Soquili. She assumed it was a mer... a strange one if she had to guess, but then again, she had never actually met a mer before. Been told about them, surely, but no first-hoof experiences. She watched the wind affect the mer's head fins and noticed how smooth her skin looked. She was definitely nothing like anything she had ever seen before! Unless she counted any of the fish she's eaten in her life....
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:44 am
Nessie smiled crookedly. Her teeth made it difficult to smile, and she was well out of practice. She was very unused to smiling, she had never had much reason to. But any friendly advances, the first of their kind, were welcome. It was nice to have someone to smile at, and who would smile in return. Someone who wouldn't run screaming in terror from her. It was what she had vainly hoped for all her life, until now.
Now it was here, and she wasn't quite sure what to say or do. It wasn't something she just knew how to do. Interaction was learned, not natural. She had never had anyone to learn with or teach her, or anybody really?
"Yesss....I dooo." Her voice slurred a little, she had an almost lisp. Her voice was rough, and low--tenative. She wasn't quite sure what to say, how would she answer the question "What's your name?"
How did one introduce yourself, when your formal title had the word 'monster' in it?
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Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:32 pm
Her head cocked to one side when the mer responded. Her voice was... strange... as if it was hard for her to speak, as if it wasn't something she did very often and so came out sort of foreign. But she was smiling, so... onto the next question!
"Isn't it dark down there? With all that water and sunlight only up top?" Her head tilted to the other side as she asked her questions. She wanted to know what it was like to live in the water, because sure, she's been swimming, she had just been swimming a moment ago! But that was only for a short while. Wouldn't skin get all wrinkly if it stayed under the water all the time? 'That must be why her skin is looks so smooth. Must be thicker so that it doesn't wrinkle...' And there were many more questions milling about inside of her head, but she figured she should leave it at that for now, take it slowly so as not to overwhelm the mer and make her run away... or swim away for that matter.
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Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 9:52 pm
Nessie sighed lightly, "The dark isn't the same for me." Her gravelly, voice was low but evening out as she spoke. "Light doesn't affect me as much, the surface world. It looks...far brighter than I think it would...for you. Underwater is my daylight."
This girl didn't seem afraid of her. She wasn't running in terror, or laughing or...anything really. She was curious. It was odd to find someone curious about herself.
Wasn't the girl a bit foolish? Alone...with a monster...It was what Nessie had come to think of herself as, something she had accepted and both still fought.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:51 am
She nodded along as the mer spoke. What she was saying was interesting, nothing that Dulce had really thought about before, but now that she did, it really made sense. Of course underwater would be different for her than it was for the mer. They were different species, and made for their own type of lifestyle. It definitely made sense now that she thought about it.
"Oh!" Dulce exclaimed, "My name is Dulce Periculum! Everyone calls me Dulce. The full name is just soooo long." A small chuckle as she tried to fix her lack of manners earlier, but now that she looked at the mer once more she saw a fuzzy picture in her mind, a quick flash of swift movement and bubbles all around her. She shook her head, 'What was that? When did that happen?' The image didn't make much sense to her, though, and she left it alone. She was sure that if it had been something important then she would remember it. In truth, it was a flashback to mere minutes before, but whether Dulce would ever remember the bout of insanity, was rather a slim chance. It was almost like she was two separate soquili.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:06 pm
Nessie smiled. "It's...nice to meet you." The mare really was something else, a bit...uhm...different. She liked her despite her...oddness. She was a suprisingly unsual girl.
The word to describe her would have to be daft. But that wasn't exactly nice. But then...gnashing your teeth at someone and stuff wasn't exactly...nice either.
"Dulce, that's a unique name."
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:33 pm
Dulce nodded in thanks and quickly explained, "I've been told that it means...." she bit her lip and tried to recall the right wording a moment before it came back to her, "Oh! Yes. It means, "danger is sweet". Kind of a silly name I think. But hey, who doesn't enjoy the thrill of danger every so often?" Another small chuckle.
"What's your name?" She asked with a tilt of her head. She couldn't recall it being mentioned, so she figured now would be a good time as any to ask! Afterall, she had just told her own.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:41 pm
"Your name is...very fitting." Nessie laughed, it was something she was still not use to doing. The girl seemed sweet, but...unique.
"I'm Nessie. This is my home. Not many people come out this way nowadays."
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