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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:44 pm
 "Momma...? Yesterday you said you won't teach me how to swim today, which means that you will, riight?" The young kitten hesitated, one paw raised mid-step, head cocked slightly to the side. "Or does that mean that you still won't... you said it wasn't really, reallly important. Learning how to swim. Which means that it is. So are you gonna? Huh huhhh? Mom?"
Tengu continued forward to where his mother lay on her back, all four paws pointed at the sky, his little wings flared and his long tail swished impatiently as he waited for her answer. "I'm swimming in the clouds, lay down with me and learn." Pooka stated in her ever childish way, rolling to her feet soon after and nuzzling her kit vigorously. Licking his face and his ears until he whined and wiggled away. His mother was so silly, playing like a kit all the time but she was loving too... even if she never said it.
Tengu used a paw to smooth his hair down and turned to trot towards a near by river.
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The lesson had gone swimmingly, for the most part. There were a few hitches when Tengu listened to Pooka's instruction without first translating the lie and ended up sputtering and coughing.
Don't try breathing underwater, mom. Is that so hard to say? Tengu was quickly learning that it was.
The next day found him at the river again. Sitting on the bank and not swimming, because he'd been instructed very firmly that swimming alone all the time was the best idea and so he figured he really ought not do it, even if he wanted too, and it was hot today... and she had said... despite knowing what it really meant.
Tengu inched into the river, the cool water quickly up to his knees and elbows, lapping at his belly. He told himself just this once, what harm could come of it?
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:20 am
 He kept going... Walking along the bank. He loved to. Do that.. He could feel his peg leg sink but not entirely. Sand leveled unevenness. It leveled not only physically but mentally and for his nearly finished raising his children. They finally all left him and it had been a while since he had seen a child. Even his adopted children had left. They now had their own spouses like he had .... he thought of a distant love he once had. But that was a thought he had yet to let go. He still waited for her.
Ears back... The sound of the waves.... Then he heard it. The interruption. He knew the constant sound of the waves. He could predict the tides. Everything.
That sound. He could predict it. But now that sound. Turning his head. That fear. "Beautiful aye!?" He called out, and calmly walked in to his ocean behind the boy, then completely stood there. Silent after, waiting for the child to make contact with him. In some way. But he didn't want to completely stop him, in case that the child did something rash. He found that with Jeiyana. Her depression was almost irrational with direct demands, and often times he would have to trick her in to coming out of the deep end... Knowing that.
He didn't want a similar mistakes to happen. "Nice day out..eh?" His accent from the mountains were apparent. The thick accent still remained. "Heyyy we're gonna have a good day~~~~~"
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 4:42 am
Tengu had made it only as far as the water lapping at his stomach before he was caught, except not by his mother. He startled violently all the same, his little wings flaring and his tail bushing out, he spun around to face the stranger and found Tsu standing there.
Not exactly a stranger then, but not someone he knew very well either. Knowing of Tsu didn't mean that Tengu knew how he was going to react. Except well, there was no reason to be guilty, it wasn't as if Tsu knew that Pooka had told him to swim alone. (Which meant, of course, that he shouldn't.)
"Oh wow, Tsukouru... You nearly scared my spots off... Sneaking up on me like that. Then where would I be? Spotless and well..." Tengu trailed off, his tail was still puffed out and twitching behind him but he pulled his wings in, made for the shore as nonchalantly as possible while looking like a multi-colored cotton fluff. "Nice day, good day, yeah... it is. It's hot though, don't you think so too? I was just wetting my feet to cool off, that's all. Yep, cool water feels terrible, I mean nice, nice and cool."
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:23 pm
"Aye- I see.. Cooling off eh? I'm sure- but I bet yea may not want to be dinner for any bigger fish than you coming around~" He chimed happily, as he slowly made his way over. "Yea I'm sure spotless is just how they like them." He laughed and came up to where the waves touched his feet, and engulfed them only, nothing above.
"Aye." He gave a nod in confirmation of the climate. "It's nicer when you take a day off- and dunk right in- I'm sure someone taught you how to swim~ no?" Lowering his head to nudge him. "I know a place where you could see a little ocean, and learn how to swim~ and not get eaten but I'm sure you already know about it~" Giving him a nod, although he probably knew that he was never taught at all. It was all about getting THEM to fall for the bait.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:38 am
That stopped Tengu in his tracks, eyes wide. "Fish... that are bigger than me?" Tsu couldn't be serious... but then again, Tsu wasn't like his mother and her lying. He skittered out of the water, splashing as he went and stared into the deeper areas, scanning to see if there was anything like that down there... only fish darted here and there.
"Um, yes?" He hedged, feeling as if he was lying. "Just yesterday, mother taught me the basics, breathing underwater and, I mean, not breathing underwater. It's hard to do, I wasn't that good at it. That is, I was great at it! I just, didn't get in a lot of practice..." Tengu turned away from the river then and, tail swishing, smiled up at Tsu with bright eyes. "Will you show me this place, Tsu?"
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