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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:52 pm
 Cinis flicked her tiny tail back and fourth as she drew intricate patterns in the dirt with her sharp cloven hooves and a stick. Her drawings were Mostly of birds beautiful long tailed birds like the one emblazoned on her pitch black coat. She was told the creature was a mythological and legend was it never truly died but was rather reborn from its own ashes stronger and more beautiful than ever.
It wasn't long before she dashed off to go do something else leaving her drawings for someone else to find.She had done this numerous times the area around surrounding where she lived was covered with her work. it was just an idle hobby something she did when her brothers, parents, or Regalia was to busy to play with her.
lifting her nose she took a deep inhale. There it was again . . . that smell. it was spicy sometimes floral and sometimes it smelled of smoke but even though the over all scent changed it remained somewhat familiar.
" . . .weird." she said to herself bending to eat some clover blossoms.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:58 pm
She raised her head and looked satisfied. Baba looked around, and turned her head slowly to see her surroundings.
Baba's red bird hoped to her, and sprayed red wax on the surrounding grass.
"Ah, my Red Dawn, what have you found?" she asked the bird in her low rough voice.
The bird wiggled and motioned for her to follow. She followed its drippy red trail to a break in the grass. The bird scratched at the ground where an image had been made.
Baba looked at the image curiously, and tilted her head. She recognized it as a bird, with unusually long tail feathers.
"Hmm," she furrowed her brows, "This is interesting isn't it? Good work Red Dawn."
The drawing of the bird looked familiar, like she had seen the image before, but she could not remember its name. Instead she took a moment to try and recreate the image next to it with her claw.
Her white and black birds had finally caught up with her and danced around the image.
Baba looked to her birds and they stopped and stood before her in attention.
"Find me this muse, I would like to meet this artist."
The birds scampered off in different directions, and left trails of wax after them
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:10 pm
Cinis was in the middle of munching more clover while lying in the center of more of her doodles when she spotted a bird . . .well at least she thought it was a bird. it had the feet of a bird . . and the suggestion of birds wings however it couldn't have been a bird at all as it dripped and . . .appeared to be on fire? surely her parents would have been sure to tell her such a bird existed. For a moment she stood stark still looking at the white drippy, flamey, birdy creature and it seemed to look at at her. Swallowing the large mouthful of clover apprehensively she tilted her head to one side. The creature did the same . . .well the same more or less spilling some white stuff onto the ground.
"what are you?" she said mostly to herself as she assumed it couldn't speak. Then leaning closer and scrunching up her face to look at it.
suddenly as if struck by a rock or something the creature flapped it wings gave a little jump and took off through he grass moving rather quickly. it little flame seeming to almost go out. however it stooped every few feet and jumped up again. it seemed that it wanted her to fallow it.
Cinis looked back over her shoulder toward home. fallowing strangers and even worse fallowing strange creatures around in the woods alone was probably a very bad idea.
B-But what if it was leading her to someone who was hurt or maybe some kind of treasure? she thought biteing her lower lip.
"ill only stay a moment if i feel afraid ill run back home . . .very fast." she whispered and moved forward slowly following the creature.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:15 am
Baba continued to scribble in the dirt as she waited for her little birds to find her muse.
She waited, and she waited, and began to dig her talons into the dirt impatiently.
The birds began to trickle back, first the black one, then the red.
"Let's hope my Bright Dawn returns soon. Baba is getting hungry." she said to her mute little birds.
It would be getting dark soon but it was still bight outside and Baba had been laying down under the shade of a lone tree. Her head perked up, she could see a flame flickering in the grass. She walked over to the dirt drawing and waited for the bird to approach. She watched anxiously to see if it was being followed. To her relief it was. She could see a tiny black head, bobbing through the tall grass.
"hrm.. shorter than I expected." she said to herself as she waited ever patiently.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:18 pm
Cinis was working so hard at following the fast moveing bird like creature through the tall grass and underbrush that she scarcely noticed when the smell she had been smelling all week suddenly became more pronounced.
Eventually however they seemed to have come to an end to their unusual chase and the small bird jumped up once more flapping its wings before going to hide behind the most unusual creature Cinis had ever even imagined.
Her glowing red eyes grew wide for a moment and she kind of leaned back a little in place out of sheer surprise maybe a little fear. This new very large creature had a pointed jagged edged beak,long sharp talons, wore skulls as adornments and what's more is more of the strange small bird creatures in different colors flocked around it. Spilling some kind of liquid as they ran and danced about.
Cinis examined the ground it seemed some of her drawings had been added to by this new creature. Apparently claws worked much better than sticks for detail and the doodles were so distractingly good or just generally unusual that cinis became more interested in them than in her current possibly dangerous predicament.
"what's that?" she asked pointing to one in particular.
Elf Princess Flannery tagsies! Omg Cinis Grew and she's so purdy!
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:33 pm
Baba could see the young Cerynei was either very brave or terribly oblivious. She realizes her appearance isn't the most inviting. If she could keep up the kindness act, she might be able to examine the child more closely.
She took notice to Cinis's coat and glowing eyes that were now fixated on the drawings.
"Oh, your drawing inspired Baba! I recognize your drawing as a legendary bird, but I couldn't remember its name. So I drew a few others that I remembered." Baba crept closer to point out the different drawn creatures.
"That one your looking at, is called the Thunderbird. It looks much like your everyday eagle or predatory raptor, but is enormous. Its wings are so large, that the sound of them beating make the sound of thunder, and he can shoot bolts of lightning when he blinks."
She grinned to herself, and watched Cinis closely to examine any reaction. Baba enjoyed storytelling and was happy to have a listening audience.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:48 am
Cinis looked at the drawings the thunder bird sounded awesome! She couldn't wait to hear more about the other ones.
However being a excitable and studious foal she was Eager to show off her own knowledge she turned about in a circle to show off her glittering fire bird.
"Every time it blinked? Boyo i bet that would have been super annoying!" she said then blinked a few times and made a explosion sound. " yep no that would prolly drive me absolutely bonkers! Anyway the one that I draw is the one thats on me! It's called a Phoenix! A fiery bird that never really dies but it is reborn from its own ashes to be stronger and more beautiful. Ma ma has one on her too but look I can make mine move kinda!" she turned and moved her muscles (clearly something she had pain stakingly practiced) under her coat making the bird appear to move its wing or bob it's head slightly.
"ba ba?-" she scrunched her face a little and looked at the seemingly friendly mare inquisitively "Is that a what you are or a who you are? Because I am Cerynei and my name is Cinis but I've never heard of or seen anyone quite like you. . .or for that matter like those either." she said pointing a hoof at the candle birds.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:15 pm
Baba burst into a laugh, it was loud and rough, and a little frightening. The way Cinis was twitching and flexing her muscles to "move" her phoenix amused Baba. She could see that the child was outgoing and energetic, almost annoyingly so, but she appreciated her enthusiasm.
"No, others call me Baba Yaga, I am just an old hag." she told Cinis, but it was clear she was more than just an old hag, and she was downplaying something she didn't wan't Cinis to know yet.
"But I have many names. I will also refer to myself as the Arch-Crone, the Goddess of Wisdom and Death, the Bone Mother, but for your sake, you only have to remember Baba."
She turned to the birds to address them. "These are my knights. My Bright Dawn, my Red Sun and my Dark Midnight. They mostly help out old Baba, they did lead you to me, did they not?"
She watched Cinis's eyes, and was slightly entranced by their mystical glow. She began to wonder if the spirit of the bird may very well live inside of Cinis. It this were true, the firebird may very well be trapped there, and decided that for the moment, it was best it be that way. (and Baba's crazy plotting gears begins to turn!)
The birds chimed in and bounced merrily around them, dripping and flicking their wax.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:26 pm
"they really are super neat. I'm gonna get a familiar one day but it wont anything half as cool as these little guys are. " she looked at the birds quizzically now "Why do they leak? Are they hurt?" she asked leaning really closely to one."also i dont think you should call yourself Hag . . .isn't that a mean name? Mom and Dad say dont ever call yourself mean names or anyone else for that matter."
She blinked a few times and noticed that Baba was looking at her eyes. that wasn't unusual by any standard.
Elf Princess Flannery Tagsies sorry for the wait was super busy in other shops
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:09 pm
Baba shook her head slightly, "No child, "Hag" is only a mean name if you use it in such a way that would be demeaning. But because I hold little value in names for myself, I dont find Hag to be a mean name, it simply is what I am."
She glanced at the birds and was reminded of Cinis's question. "No, they are in no pain, but they drip because they are wax. It becomes rather irritating at times. I can never keep the shack clean." she said, and wiggled her tail to make reference to her broom.
"No one comes to Baba without questions. So tell me child, what is it you seek?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:04 pm
Wax? That was certainly mind boggling. Very mind boggling indeed. A million questions about how they lived and moved went through her mind but she guessed that those weren't the kind of questions baba yaga meant. hell they might not even be things yaga knew. She considered asking a silly question but thankfully she let it go.
"I just fallowed the strange bird because it looked like it was leading me. I thought someone might be hurt. not the smartest thing I've ever done. Mom will scold me up and down the pasture when she finds out. So truthfully i found you by accident but I don't suppose your one to believe in accidents." she replied a little embarrassed biting her lower lip.
Elf Princess Flannery Bam! I should have more time for RP now.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:37 pm
"In that my child you are correct, Baba does not believe in accidents. Everything that happens, happens for a specific reason. reading and understanding those reasons is the greatest mystery. I plan to solve that mystery, or at least parts of it."
Baba realized she may have given the girl to much to think about. But then again, you can never be to young for enlightenment.
"You came to Baba because you are full of curiosity and seek to satisfy it. Curiosity is a wonderful thing, and it promotes growth and learning. But it also gets you in trouble doesn't it?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 12:38 am
"i thought as much" Cinis replied more to her self than to baba but she had to admit that line of thinking did make sense. "It gets me in a lot of trouble actually. My parents say its because they do not want me to get hurt after all curiosity can be very dangerous as well." she added as she remembered that one time with her friend regalia.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:08 am
"Yes it can be very dangerous.." Baba watched Cinis carefully with her milky eyes, and licked her beak with hunger. She wondered for a moment what might happen to the phoenix if she were to devour the girl, but quickly reminded herself of the rarity of such a coat. Baba restrained her thoughts to eat her.
"You're parents sound very caring, why do you run away from them? Is it solely your curiosity that drives you apart or is it something else? "
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:51 am
It seemed baba had the wrong idea "I wouldn't call what I do running away it's just my family never seems to be near anything interesting so I wander off to find the interesting stuff. True sometimes I get a little caught up and stay away longer than I intend but well - its just who knows i could discover like the meaning of life or something else that would change my my whole purpose whatever it is right around the next corner and if i go back right then I might not ever know what it was or could be . . ." she had a very odd moment of clarity for one so young "so I suppose it looks like running away doesn't it." she looked back in the direction of home.
"It just I know I could do great things! be great things! I just have to find them is all. I don't mean to make them mad or worried it just happens. "
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