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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:59 pm
 An arrogant face looks Dusty right in the face. "The blue on my face really does match with this pond, I should do this more often." the vain buck sighs nonchalantly to himself, probably making the choice to admire himself in the bluer pond water rather than the shallow water near the mangrove roots, "I should've known that the mud at the bottom of those puddles did my reflection no favor,"
He stepped deeper into the water and let the cool ripple of the pond consume his knees, getting lost in his own dark purple eyes. turning every once in awhile to see which angle captures his butterfly pattern the best. To Dusty, there was nothing better than spending me-time looking at his reflection in the water.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 5:24 pm
 Dawn picked through the reeds, looking for the water lilies that were her favorite treat. Every tiny sound made the doe look up in alert, checking all around her before slowly resuming her search. She was sure she was being watched but that wasn't anything new. Dawn was always being watched.
Finally finding one of her prizes, she pulls a delicate petal from the flower and begins to eat it, enjoying its clean, dew flavor and she slowly started to relax.
Her ears twitch to the sound of splashing and she stops mid-chew. Looking down she checks her feet and her tail. No, she wasn't causing that noise, maybe it was a bull frog or a fish. She stood still, listening again for the noise. This time, she swore she heard a voice, followed by more splashing. This wasn't new to Dawn either, she often heard voices that always turned out not to be real.
As quietly as possible, Dawn slinks back to the shore and using the line of trees, vines and moss, steps almost silently and in cover. She walks the shore of the pond looking for the source of the splashing.
She blinks, and blinks again. Was that...a buck? She stared at long moment at the handsomely patterned male in the water. He spoke again, that same voice she heard moments before. The voice had a source! Dawn had never been so excited! The voice was real!
But then she noticed that the buck was wandering very close to a sink hole in the pond's floor. If that buck stepped on it and his leg was caught, he might sink low enough to drown or hurt his leg pulling it out. Dawn had done the same a season ago and had been laid up for quiet awhile.
"Ah...ah....e..excuse me...." She calls out in her whisper quiet voice. "You need to be..careful..."
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 7:33 pm
Dusty walked further and further into the pond, as if following his reflection blindly. Right as he was getting dangerously close to the sinkhole, Dusty heard a voice. It was merely a whisper, but because the air was only filled with that one sound, it was audible.
Dusty looked around for the source of the whisper. He could swear he also heard the sound of hoof-steps, but it was so faint it was possible that he was just hearing things. "Hello?" he raised his head and surveyed his surroundings, but no one seemed to be there. He backed up a little bit to get a higher elevation by standing closer to the shoreline. After looking around for another few moments, he shrugged and turned his attention back to his reflection. "Stupid breeze, rippling the water and making me hear things," Dusty shook his head and smiled back at his reflection.
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:30 pm
Dawn breathed a sigh of relief as the buck walked away from the sink hole, but when he called out, she found she couldn't call back. She stayed hidden in her spot, legs quivering, observing him.
There was a very loud creaking noise. Dawn looked up, eyes wide, looking around for the source of the noise. The creaking continued, getting slightly more high pitched. Starting to hyperventilate, she struggled to make her hooves work.
CRACK
A large branch from the top of a nearby tree, long dead, fell right behind the quivering doe. It's bare branches slapped at her back legs and hindquarters.
KYYYHAAAAA!!!!!
Dawn screeched and charged forward wildly into the pond, running headlong into the buck she'd been watching. Falling and flailing, she half darts, half crawls behind him.
It's going to get me! Ah! Ah! Oh mother swamp protect me! she whimpers, shaking like a leaf.
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:43 pm
The next few moments happened very quickly. One second Dusty was admiring his reflection and the next he hears a branch break and a loud yelp. He flicked his eyes towards the source of the noise and sees a panicked doe stumbling and tumbling towards him. "Oh my goodness, you uncoordinated fool! You're ruining my looking surface!" Dusty backs up a bit and shakes his head as the ripples distort his face and clouds up the colors of the image in the water.
"It's just a branch, silly doe..." he then looks at her back and kind legs, "Although you did get some flecks of bark on your fur." He looks disgustedly at the bark-powder, "I guess I cannot blame you for running away from such a beauty hazard." Dusty gave her a curt nod.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:39 am
"B...beauty hazard..?" she repeated, suddenly turning to look at her back and hind quarters where dust and flicks of bark were embedded into her coat. These things were a hazard? She leaned over and grabbed the bark pieces with her teeth delicately, spitting them into the water.
"I..I didn't know these kind of things were a hazard.." she said after pulling out the last large chunk. Now that she was closer to him, she could more closely admire the buck. The attractive patterning on his coat, its' shine and how clean it was made her think that if there were hazards to beauty, he would be a buck who would know them.
She felt a little self conscious now standing this close to him and feeling filthy by comparison.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:08 pm
"Oh the poor clueless doe!" Dusty thought to himself. He smirked at the femme who was pulling the pieces of bark from her flank. "Why of course those disgusting flecks are beauty hazards! Random dark flecks of various shades placed in irregular intervals are not the most pleasant things to look at." He looked over his shoulder to see the slightly glimmering surface of the water, reflecting the design of his coat. This was definitely not a good looking-surface anymore.
When his eyes glanced at the doe again he caught her looking at him. "If I didn't know better I would've thought I had something on my coat!" he chucked at his own joke and looked back once again at the quivering water, "Well now that you've ruined the stillness, I'll have to wait another eternity till I can use it again." As Dusty said this he notices that the colour of the doe's back was almost identical to his. "You may have my colour, but you are still nowhere as gorgeous as me, miss." He snorted to himself.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:16 am
Dawn turned bright red with embarrassment. She'd messed up without knowing it and now the buck was angry at her. Her head bowed.
"Oh, oh..I'm so sorry I didn't...mean to..."
She shuffled in the pond awkwardly, the water starting to wash off the dirt and the debris on her coat.
"C..can I do s..something to make it up?" she asked timidly, smiling at him. She really didn't want this buck to be angry at her. She'd never met any Kimeti so handsome and she desperately didn't want to loose his attention.
Ah! She had a idea!
"W..wait here..!" She dashed off across the pond, swimming directly across it instead of circling the edge. Diving back behind the reeds where she had started from, she shook the excess water from her coat and carefully gathered up all the water lilies she could find. Surely these sweet treats would lighten his mood.
Pulling the last few of the flowers from the water, a few of the fallen pedals wash onto her back and sides, decorating her coat with the white, pink, and yellows.
With a mouthful of her prize, she trots around the edge of the pond and presents them to him.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:22 pm
"Oh well," Dusty looked again into the rippling water to check for any dark spots, "I guess--" His face fell a bit when the doe trotted straight through the water and into the reeds. It was going to take even longer for the water to settle now. "Oh my goodness when will she ever learn," He murmured to himself as she disappeared behind the reeds. Dusty was sincerely considering to just leave the doe behind, since he thought that she was obviously making no effort to "make it up" to him. But then she emerged with a bunch of waterlilies and lovely flower petals resting delicately on her sides and back.
Dusty raised an eyebrow, "If you wanted me to help you accessorize you should have told me earlier," he plucked a waterlily from her mouth and tucked it behind her horn, "Now it's balanced, rather than having random flower petals on your fur." Dusty then took another one and ate it. "A beautiful snack for a beautiful buck," he thought to himself. He glanced over the doe's shoulder, there was now a faint breeze causing the the water's surface to be uneven, "Well there's no hope for this looking-surface now..." Dusty sighed.
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