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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:47 pm
"Good!" Canance declared, seemingly oblivious to Calor's annoyance. He had, after all, verified her statement. "And it was too good help. You're up, right?"
She trotted around him again, all energy and excitement. "You have a thing on your head," she observed, peering at his horn. "What's it for?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:53 pm
Calor shook his head at the sister thing. She just didn't understand! And he was starting to think that she wasn't going to understand, in which case it wasn't going to be worth the effort to get her to understand.
"I'm up," the colt agreed reluctantly. He didn't like agreeing with her. He thought that if he could, he should avoid it. Because otherwise she'd do...something!...that he wouldn't like. But then she changed the subject.
"Thing? What thing?" the little uni demanded, panicking. What sort of thing was on his head? What was it doing there? As he frantically ran in circles trying to see his head, the wings rooted there flapped crazily, as if trying to feel for something else there, instead of simply reacting to Calor's panic.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:57 pm
Canace giggled. This was great entertainment. "The pointy thing," she said through her laughter. "Right in the middle. What's it for and what does it do? And why is your nose like that? I don't think mine is like that."
She attempted to look at the end of her own nose, with very little success, but she was fairly certain there was no beak there.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:04 pm
Calor stopped running in circles to glare at his sister thing. "How'm I supposed t'see it on my head? An' how should I know what it's for?" he demanded of her. They were logical questions. Neither foal had encountered a reflective surface, and as newborns they couldn't expect to understand everything about themselves and the world.
"An' you shut up about my nose," he pouted. "Or maybe you should tell me what the things on your back are. They're awfully big," the boy pointed out slyly, trying to make Canace as self-conscious as she was making him.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:09 pm
Canace looked at her wings, and gave them a reflective flex. "Dunno what they're for," she admitted. "I'm gonna find out. But I like them." This was said very decisively. They were hers and they were pretty and that was all that mattered to her. "And you have little ones on your head too." She came a little closer to try to see his headwings properly.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:17 pm
Calor grumbled to himself. Of course she'd like whatever he picked on. That just figured.
But at her comment about the things on his head, Calor remembered the pain of them being crushed against the basket lid. He knew what those were. Vaguely. He wiggled and flapped them a little at Canace, making a silly face. "'Course I have little ones. They're more fun than your big ones," he bragged.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:30 pm
Canace giggled again. She was really getting no sort of proper answer at all, but she hardly cared. "Why are they more fun?" she asked. "You don't know what they do either."
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:33 pm
Calor made a face at his sister-thing. Wasn't it obvious? "They're more fun," he informed Canace, "because they do this!" and he wiggled them even more vigorously.
Then he paused and smirked. "So there!" and the colt stuck his tongue out at his sister-thing.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:42 pm
Canace reflected upon this and decided that the best thing to do would be to imitate Calor's wing-wiggles; she gave her wings several beats. They were too large to move as fast as he could, to be sure, and it would probably take some time before she worked up the muscle to do much with them, but she managed to raise up a small breeze nonetheless.
And this, quite frankly, delighted her. "I think I found what they're for!" She fanned Calor triumphantly.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:57 pm
Calor's lips twisted. He could move his faster than she could her big ones, but Canace's things could do a lot more than his could. So, instead of trying to think of a good comeback, he trotted over to the adults.
Coming to a shaky halt in front of the big purple one, he announced, "I'm hungry."
Gemmae looked up in surprise from a quiet conversation with Moltres - Namid had long since gone out into the forest to hunt and eat her kill where the bloodscent wouldn't stink up the clearing - to see her brightly colored son standing before her, announcing his hunger to the world, or, more importantly, to her.
After pausing and blinking for a few moments, she managed to formulate a reply. "Of course sweetie, we can go graze right away," she told the boy, rising to her feet and looking over at the Angeni stallion to her side.
Moltres also rose to his feet. "I'll be back later, like I said," he told the mare, brown eyes serious, though dancing with amusement at their children's antics. After getting her sharp nod, the Angeni launched himself into the air, flaming wings seeming to shed tiny flamelets that dissipated before hitting the ground.
After the stallion left, Gemmae looked over to her daughter. "Come on Canace, don't you want to go graze?" she called. The girl surely had to be hungry by now, especially if her brother was.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:07 pm
Canace had been watching Moltres rise up into the air with nothing short of awe. Did the wings have something to with it? It seemed to. Could she learn to do that? Maybe it wasn't these things on her back at all.
And then she gave her mother a startled look. Food? "Yes!" she announced, and pranced over merrily. "Yes please!"
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:18 pm
Gemmae smiled at the two. Already so different, and so much alike they were. She headed for a particular trail leading out of the clearing, looking over her shoulder at the foals.
"Well children? Come on then," the mare said, encouraging them to follow her.
Rumbling stomach becoming insistent, Calor trotted up alongside his mother. "Are we going somewhere good? Will it be tasty? Will we be there soon?" he asked, one question after the other in a rapid-fire fashion.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:57 pm
Canace hurried to catch up, coming up along Gemmae's other side, discovering in the process that wings were rather awkward to run with when they were stretched out. She managed to half-fold them, which made things a bit easier.
She found herself a pace, thrilled at this first, brief run before settling down to a more reasonable speed. "Will it be fun?" she asked.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:03 pm
Gemmae hid a chuckle at the children's eagerness. "Yes and yes and yes and yes!" she answered all their questions with laughter touching her voice. So precocious they were!
"Now come along now and follow me," the mare told the foals, leading them directly into the forest.
"Yay!" Calor exclaimed as his mother answered all his questions in the positive and hurried to catch up and beat his sister in the little mini-race to the purple uni's side.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:15 pm
Managing to get her wings properly folded, Canace hurried along, quiet but incredibly happy.
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