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 Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:51 pm
 Ah, what a beautiful day in the city! The scavenging had been quite productive, the tribe's medicine shelves were stocked, and his elder had let him take off for the day. So where to go???
Out. Away. Out of the concrete jungle, away from the city. Tweak trotted through the streets, stopping once or twice at vendor's he had befriended to pick up some juicy morsels, some to eat as he walked, some to save for later. By the time he reached the suburbs he had a string of hot links around his neck and cotton candy stuck to his fur. Oh, it was going to be a glorious day alright! The sun was shining, he could now here the birds singing, and even the babble of stone fountains cheered him up. Even his muscles seemed relaxed, the twitching had all but stopped.
Still smiling broadly, the blue and white male jumped over the last hedge and headed out into the great beyond.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:02 pm
 Shyanne was hot on the trail of a rather peculiar scent. Now, she had never been to the city, so she had no way of knowing that the sugary scent was actually cotton candy! What did she think it was?
Definitely a fairy!
She had heard that fairies sparkled and smelled sweet, and cotton candy smelled so sweet that even she, the myth chaser, mistook it for the scent of a fairy. However, as she was flying, she really wasn't paying attention to what was around her, more focused on the ground. So, when he crashed into a tree and went spiraling into the ground she was fairly shocked.
"Omph!" Anddddd, she fell into the ground, hitting her side. Ouch! That was going to leave some nasty marks...
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:32 pm
Tweak let out a less-than-manly squeak when suddenly a colorful overgrown pigeon landed smack at his paws. A rather pretty pigeon, at that. Without even a word he quickly ran his paws over the 'Phims body, her ribs, her legs, her wings and tail, expertly mapping each and every bump, bruise and scrape and mentally tagging each place that seemed to be tender.
Oh. Oops. Maybe he should have spoke first? "I'm -ear- Tweak, a shaman in a -shoulder- city tribe. You're -ear- pretty." He sat in front of the vixen, grinning like an idiot. He'd be quite lucky if he didn't lose his tail in the following moment. Note-to-self, say something before openly touching a vixen.
Oh yeah.
"You may have -shoulder- cracked a rib."
((-facepalm- I'm so sorry, a few mins ago my muse for this guy became a rather flirty friend of mine. blame him! >.<))
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:39 pm
( Lol! I don't think she minds, luckily! )
"Eh?" Her head tilted backwards to spot a rather handsome male touching her. She didn't stop him, she was fairly naive in that way, she didn't think he'd hurt her or do something creepy. When he spoke she blinked green eyes at him, rolling onto her back and flipping hair out of her eyes, failing as it merely went back into them.
Ow! Her side stung sharply as she rolled, wincing. The male was right! "Owie." Oooh, that hurt. Her pink wings folded slowly as she managed to lay on the side that wasn't cracked, facing the male, Tweak, and smiling.
"You're a shaman? I knew you weren't a badie~ I'm Shyanne!" Oh! He had called her pretty! She blushed brightly, giggling softly. "Really? Thank you! You're really pretty, too!"
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:34 am
"Shyanne? Ooo-ear-ooo, pretty name, too!" Frowning, he gently brushed his paws over her ribs again, now that they were better exposed. Hm... He nodded a couple times to himself, then remembered to open his mouth and make noise come out of it. "Yeah... -shoulder- It's cracked, but -tailtail- just barely..." For good measure, he put his ear softly to her chest to check for wheezing or and erratic heart beat, and was quite happy to find it was all good. "No -ear- internal bleeding, lungs are -tail- clear, heart is -ear- ok..." Tweak grinned again. "Stick with -back- me for a few days -tail- and you should heal -eartail- right up!"
Yes, secretly he was pleased to have an excuse to get to know this vixen better. Why? Partly because he hadn't had a patient with wings, partly because she was just so darn cute!
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:42 am
Hm? She had to stick with him? Well, okay! He seemed nice, and if he could make that slight pain go away, she didn't mind. Though she was sad she probably couldn't find that fairy... speaking of which.. that thing around his neck smelled like....
"What's that?" She asked, pointing (and wincing) at his neck, where his cotton candy was. Her head tilted slightly. "It smells like the fairy I'm looking for." She was hoping he wouldn't give her that look that almost everyone gave her, as if she was crazy. Well, frankly, she didn't care! Looking for these things made her happy!
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:51 am
Uh... Huh? Tweak just stared at the vixen for a second. Blink. Blink. What's... what? Why was she pointing at the hot links? His paw went up to his neck, and much to his surprise he discovered he hadn't eaten all of the cotton candy after all! That must be the scent she was talking about! Tweak laughed. "It's called -ear- cotton candy! It's -tail- pure sugar with flavor, -shoulder- try some!" He pulled off a chuck of the sweet-smelling candy and held it out to Shyanne. The male wasn't eeeeeven gonna address the 'fairy' part just yet. Who knows, maybe they weren't just stories told to city kits.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:07 am
Oh. She was slightly disappointed, but it was okay. She never really caught anything. Well, she had caught fairies before, but never live ones. Anyway, she loved sweets, so this was just as good!
She didn't take the fluff, instead leaned forward and licked it off the males paw, tail wagging from her laying down position. "Mmm." She grinned up at the male, green eyes meeting blue, and lightly she touched his nose with the tip of a wing, laughing.
"It taste delicious! I've never seen any growing around here."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:19 am
Tweak couldn't help it. He sputtered for a second, then burst out laughing. What on earth was this girl doing so close to city limits? She knew nothing about the city! He was so glad he got to her before any other wandering city fox did, though. Pretty little thing like her... Oh boy.
"You've -ear- never seen the city, have -tail- you babe?" He asked when he got his laughing composed. Still smiling, he offered the rest of the cotton candy and started uncoiling the links. Hopefully she hadn't hunted yet~ "Cotton candy -ear- is made from a -eartailear- sugar cane plant, and -shoulder- no, it doesn't grow around here. -ear- The candy itself, though, is -shoulder- not grown, but made." He decided he'd have to show her, when her rib healed. For at least a week he didn't want her anywhere near the city. He'd already seen a good buddy of his and his girl get jumped in the suburbs, and they went into the fight without a scratch and came out busted up.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:54 am
When he laughed she tilted her head, did she say something funny? She wasn't offended, luckily, just curious. Finally, he explained his laughter and she blinked, smiling slightly.
"City? Oh! The metal forest! No. I haven't heard of anything special being there so I never had a reason to go before." He uncoiled his food, eyes scanning them briefly. Ooooo. What was this? She was highly interested.
"Do humans make these?" She quite liked human food, she was the kind of fox to not hate humans but find them fairly interesting. She smiled up at Tweak, winced as she managed to sit up, and flip hair out of her face.
(( Time skip soon. ))
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:14 pm
He snickered at the 'metal forest' comment, then tore off a link and set it at her paws. "It's a -ear- hot link! It's meat, humans -tail- take it and -tail- push it through a metal -ear- thingy that -ear- shapes it... -earear- Though, I have no -tail- idea how they string -ear- the links together..." Tweak frowned, munching into a link of his own. How did they string the links together? He was going to have to figure this out some time, so he could tell Shyanne~
Shyanne... "You were -tail- hunting a fairy?" His voice wasn't suspicious, like he thought her nutzo, or mean in any way. Simply inquisitive, curious. He'd heard of such things as a kit, but was taught they were only myths, not things of reality.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:22 pm
Nodding, she smiled as he handed her the meat, biting down on the link and wagging her tail. "Wow~" Her voice was muffled as she chewed, nodding as he spoke. How did he know these things? He was really smart! Probably smarter than any other man she knew! Nicer than Aurum, that was for sure!
"Ah yes, Fairies!" She squeaked, grinning at him. "I got some before, but they are in my den. I'd show you but my den is a walk away from here." Ah, how was she going to get home with a cracked rib? She didn't think she could do it alone, that was for sure.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:59 pm
"Hmm-ear-mmm..." Tweak mused to himself over another link, absent-mindedly nudging another to Shy. Depending on the location of the rib, the distance from the shoulder, walking could be easy or painful... add in the wings, which he knew nothing about other than to tell if a muscle was pulled... Oh dear. He was so out of his league on this one.
Once again being gentle, Tweak nudged Shy to her paws. "Slowly, I want -ear- you to stretch your leg -tail- forward on the hurt side. Front, -back- then back, then -ear- your wing, too." He placed one paw in the middle of her ribs, the other paw he'd use to brush over her moving muscles to see what muscle movement -if any- made her rib hurt.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:55 pm
When he nudged her up she let him, nodding as he spoke. She did as she was told, though when she raised her left wing to high a stab of pain went through her, wincing as she yelped and folded her ears against her head, wings fumbling back to her side. She looked at Tweak as if she had stepped on glass, tail curling around her side.
"I think flying is out of the question." She lightly grumbled, glaring at the ground. Did that mean she'd have to walk home? She didn't even know how to fix herself....
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:34 pm
Tweak growled to himself when Shy squeaked and recoiled her wing. Dang it! He felt responsible, he should have heard her fall and he should have caught her. If he hadn't been so wrapped up in his own thoughts... Dang it!!!
Mentally sighing, Tweak reasoned that since he couldn't go back and catch her, he'd just have to do the best he could to fix her. Wing... wing... He'd felt the exact moment the wing muscle strained the rib, which was good. What he really wanted to do was streak back to his tribe and get bandages to wrap her up, but after studying under Lin he learned compression hindered breathing and therefor recovery. And he didn't want to leave her here to go raid the medicine shelves, nor drag her to the tribe to heal her there because of how deep it was in the city.
Crap. Oh, wait. Not crap. "Shyanne, do you -ear- know if there is any -tailtail- comfrey in this -shoulder- area?"
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