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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:17 pm
Page One
01: Mule post
02 - 15: Sekhmet
Page Two
01: Table of Contents
02: More about me
03: People
04: Places
05: Reserved
06-11: Sekhmet
12: Beginnings
13: Talk
14: New Role
15: New Sisters
Page Three
01: Good and Bad
02: Mates and Responsibilities
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:21 pm
More about me
Me? Well, there's not much to say that you can't see for yourselves.
My gorgeous coat I inherited from both parents, and I do make frequent trips to the two-legs, usually every couple of days, to keep it shining and my tail tangle-free. You feel how you look, I always say, and it's true.
I think I take after my sire more than my dam; I've overheard others say I get my wit and intelligence from him. I can hold my own in a fight, using my brains or brawn depending on what's needed, and with my luck and adaptability I can usually come out on top of any situation. My reaction time is nothing to laugh at, either.
I don't like to fight, though (I don't want to muss up my coat!), I'd much rather try to talk it out if possible. If not, I can try (and probably won't succeed) to outrun them, but my skills in the air greatly make up for my lack of running speed. I've been trying to improve my speed on the ground but it isn't amounting to much, although my training in the air helps quite a bit, and I consider myself superior to many other Jala in the air because of this.
Training is dirty work, though, so I usually follow training sessions with a nice bath and a good grooming at the two-leg's. What can I say? I like to look good.
Name: Andre
Nickname: None
Color: Golden-striped
Age: Young stallion
Mate: Tania
Sire: Diego
Dam: Bastet
Siblings: Sekhmet, Saoirse, Sabina, Alejandra
Half-siblings: Aquila, Udi, Kordelia, three more
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:22 pm
People
Family
Diego - What can I say? My riruy, and one of the most important members of our herd. I've been told I take after him quite a bit, and I think that's just fine.
Bastet - Ute, and again, what can I say? I think the only thing I gained from her was a fairly dark coat, stripes, and my long tail; we don't have much in common really, but I love her all the same.
Sekhmet - My sister. I miss her dearly and wished she hadn't run away, but I kept my promise and now she's gone. I hope she comes back soon.
Saoirse - My other sister. I love her as much as Sekhmet, but we haven't talked in some time.
Riruy tells me I have some half-siblings, offspring of his that he had with another mare before ute. I haven't met any of them yet, though, and don't exactly consider them family.
I now have two more younger sisters, but I've been too busy with my own affairs to really spend time with them as yet.
Friends
Sad to say I don't have any yet.
Foes
Glad this is empty, too.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:24 pm
Places
A Quarter-Dozen - The day all of us were born. Ute and riruy told me that us foals all went around tail-tugging and the like before we all settled down to sleep. I don't remember any of it, though, but I guess that's normal.
Talk about problems - Sekhmet walked up on me making a fool of myself while trying to get some apples, and she told me some.. some sad news.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:04 pm
So, the land of the Katilenuck; Fyhi tel Oren. Could this place, this home of dumbarses, be the answer to my problem? If I join up here I certainly wouldn’t be a good playing piece anymore. It’s a shame. their views on other breeds, but I can’t change it and if I did live here I could see to it that any slaves I came into contact with saw at least a little bit of real kindness.
So far as I gathered from Yi, the heiress, joining up isn’t too hard a thing to do; just have to talk to the Queen, possibly having a friend or two to vouch for my good character. I bent the truth a shade to get into Yi’s good graces, but nothing hard to keep up and no actual lies either which pleases me for some reason.
Anyway, Yi went off with her slave before very long and that leaves me to explore alone! Great fun, or should be pretty soon I think. I’m guessing it’s going to be a bit weird, seeing my own kind being way at the top and anyone of another breed pretty much dirt but as I say, I can live with that and maybe I can make it easier for said other breeds to live with it too. So far this seems like a really, really good idea.
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:58 am
Telling somebody that their mother, who has gone missing, is crazy isn’t a very nice or bright thing to do especially when said person is important. I think I made up for it though by giving him news of her (Dahak of his mother Undine that is.) We seem to be... sort of friends. I think he’ll support my bid to join the herd in any case, and I’ve decided I do want to do that now he tells me I would be able to come and go in order to visit my family.
Just being a Katilenuck would probably be enough to get me labeled unsuitable for pairing off, but I want to be really sure. I think some children should sort that out. Riruy still had to take an arranged mate after that, but I don’t think I’m quite important enough for my good blood to balance out that level of bad behavior. So, I need a stallion then; if I can work him around to it Dahak should do nicely. I mean, I want foals for their own sake as well as for keeping my my liberty so I want them to have good blood; Dahak is intelligent, healthy and high placed. Only trouble is getting him interested in me... Still, I like a challenge.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:17 pm
A while after leaving Yi, I met a mare called Xerris. She was angry or upset about something, but she didn't want to say what and I didn't press her. I asked her some things about the herd, and she answered me willingly. Nicer than Yi, definitely. Apparently she's related to some pretty important people; the herd's Shaman - they have two magic users? Amazing - the Royal Advisor and... Humm... Undine, a tactician... Oh. Oh her.
That mare I saw at the base of the mountains. Wow. I see the similarity now I think of it... Should I go back and tell her I saw her mother leaving the herd? No. No I don't think I will. Undine was pretty helpful to me, and if she didn't tell people she was going it must have been secret for a reason. I'll keep it to myself, at least for now.
I've found myself a place to sleep for the night, and tomorrow I'm going to try to find out more about this place. If I'm going to get accepted, I need to find out as much as I can about the culture and customs of these people. I still think they're all nuts, but they'll serve my purposes.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:06 am
Second thoughts. I suppose they’re a good thing. I do want foals. I do. I just... I’m afraid of being trapped with Dahak if I have them with him. I don’t think he’d tolerate me leaving him, it wouldn’t look good. So, I’d be kicked out of the herd which would be okay, except the foals would stay with him and I’d be without them, and without all my nice improperness. I don’t know what to think now. He’s doing what I ask of him, and last night we were really getting on. I like him, quite a lot I think; he’s intelligent and handsome in a weird tall skinny way but... Well at most, I have a crush on him. It’s not enough... is it? Should I take a chance, risk later unhappiness?
I just don’t know right now to be honest. I think I shall join the herd, and then go to visit my family as soon as it’s decent to do so. I’ll claim I have a love interest back here, that might do, and then I needn’t rush into anything with anyone. Yes. That could work. I just need to make sure nobody else snaps Dahak up while I’m away. I’ll talk to him I guess, later on, one I’m part of the herd. I’ll tell him I’m interested, it’s sot of true, and hope that he’ll wait for me to return. He certainly didn’t seem to be about to settle into a relationship when I arrived.
Still, for now I’m off to see the queen. I hope this all goes well.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:00 am
So then, I made the cut. It was pretty easy really; a couple of simple questions and I was in. I went to see Dahak afterwards to gloat, and he was with his mother. She looks a lot better now than when I last saw her. She remembered me, and said she was glad that I’d heeded her advice and joined up. She then decided to embarrass both Dahak and myself by observing that we were sweet on each other. He protested, I laughed it off but... Yea I guess I am. He’s not nice, but who says nice is necessary? I’m definitely not jumping into things with him now but... well maybe we’ll have something in the future. We’ll see.
Undine left after a while, and so Dahak and I went back to insulting each other. I told him I was going to head off soon to see my family, and he seemed to approve. Family, he says, is important. I couldn’t agree more. I want to see my parents, my siblings, my half siblings if they’re around! I was on one edge of adolescence when I left, and now I’m on the other. It’s been too long. I’ll stay here a few more days and then set off. I can’t wait to see them all again. I hope they’re not too mad at me.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:13 am
So. I’m going home now. I left the Katilenuck’s lands mid afternoon, and I’m a way off now. It’s... kind of lonely. I’ve become so used to being surrounded by people all the time that it feels odd to be all by myself again. I haven’t been by myself since I met Spyke, and that was a little while ago now. Part of the problem is nervousness... I mean will my family even want to know about me now? I’ve been gone quite some time now; who’s to say they won’t reject me? I wouldn’t blame them, everyone else just dealt with what was expected of them but I left. I couldn’t handle it, the thought of being trapped trying to be someone I wasn’t, trying to love someone I didn’t...
Still, if they do hate me I can just go back to the mountains right away. I am accepted there, I am valued, I have a few friends there, and I have Dahak. I still don’t really know what to make of him - though I’d occasionally like to make paste out of him, annoying as he can be at times - I still don’t know my true feelings. It’s strange. He drives me mad somedays with his arrogance and his bigotry and his cowardice and yet... yet I like being around him, and I miss him already. Still, I’m looking forward to seeing my family and I’ll see him again fairly soon. I hope this all goes okay.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:07 pm
I don't remember much from my first few weeks of life; riruy and ute tell me we were all very active, with lots of whinnying and tail-tugging. I remember the tree very faintly, and our journey back to the herdlands, but only faintly. I guess that's normal though; you don't start remembering things when you're just a few suns old. At least, I haven't heard of anyone that could remember anything from that age. Oh well.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:09 pm
I was busy trying to get some elppas down from a tree, when Sekhmet came up and caught me in the act of making a fool of myself. I got her some elppas too, and we got to talking. She told me she wanted to leave the herd; something about arranged mates and the like that riruy and ute were talking about. It doesn't sound too bad to me, but it bothered her a lot. So much so that she planned on leaving the herd. I... it was upsetting, really, of course it was; I felt like she was abandoning me, abandoning all of us, but.. but there wasn't anything I could do to stop her, and I'm not a tattle-tail, so I just hope she comes back. We went to go tell Sao after that. I'm going to miss her.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:17 pm
Well, riruy and ute were gone for a while, looking for a mate for riruy's waru and they were successful, of course, but now they're gone again. Another tree, I think they said, and with us barely adults. Oh well; Estavan, riruy's riruy, said the herd might need me if anything happens to riruy, and so he's going to teach me a few things to help the herd while my parents are off with their second tree. I don't know how long they'll take, but that's alright. I regard this as a challenge; I feel confident that I can handle this, but that's not the same as knowing that I can handle it. Needless to say, I'm rather excited about the whole idea. I know Javier is a good sort, and the mate that my parents found is good too, but.. but he's not nearly as bright as riruy is, everyone knows that, so I guess the herd needs two rulers, not just one. I asked why riruy couldn't just be ruler instead, and it's because he was the second born. Herd politics are so odd, oh well.
Speaking of that, Estavan said that I'll probably have a mate chosen for me. I'm not sure if that will actually happen, with how against it riruy and ute are, but oh well. It doesn't bother me either way. In fact, it means I won't have to waste my time finding one, if someone finds one for me, right? Right. I'll be much too busy with other matters.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:56 pm
They're back now; that took ages but they're back now, and I have two new sisters. They're cute little things, and riruy and ute are very fond of them, which is good. I've learned a lot since they were gone, and I'm proud to say I've caught on very well; I've heard some say I'm a natural. But of course I am, it's in my blood.
But I suppose I'll have to step down now, let riruy take his spot back, but maybe he'll let me help out a bit. It was fun, I'll admit, although some things weren't so much. Oh well.
I should take this as an opportunity to spend more time with riruy and ute since they've been gone so long, and to get to know my two new sisters. Sabina and Alejandra. Seeing them reminds me so much of Sekhmet, especially how stripy one of them is. They don't look anything like her, of course. I'm starting to wonder if she'll ever come back.
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