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 Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:35 pm
"No." she said. She was getting flustered. "I..I just wanted a drink. Its-"
"She's stealing the water our warren needs to live! The nerve! She's elil in a rabbit's fur, she is." He bristled his own fur. "Next thing you know she'll have drank it all. And then we'll have to steal from the farm. And then they'll kill us, like you forced them to do to your warren. Is that what you want?!"
"No! It wasn't like that! I didn't mean...Please...please let me by." She backed up, eyes on pitchweed. Her rump collided with Wildwood and she gasped.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:44 pm
That was enough to set the doe over edge. She pushed her forelegs out and caught the doe squarely in the back, forcing her to the earth below. Her claws had not been raised to do damage, fortunately, but she was thinking about bringing them into play.
"There'll be nothing left of us once she's been here a season or so! We'll all starve or thirst to death! And to think, the horror of dying at the paws of man!" Her pelt bristled as she spewed out venomous words towards the newcomer. Her ears flattened in indignant rage at, not only the doe's existence, but being knocked into. She did not like it one bit.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:54 pm
She gave a kitten like squeal and trembled, ears back as the brother put his paws on her head. "How dare you touch my sister with you mangy pelt, hlessi!" he snarled, teeth showing.
"But, you made...and you're touch-"
"SILENCE, HLESSI!" He demanded. A cruel sneer filled his face.
"Since she's so dirty, sister, perhaps we should give her a nice cleaning in the water. With any luck, she'll drown." he said coldly.
"Please! I just want to go back to my burrow! I'm sorry!" She bristled her fur.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:04 pm
Wildwood scowled cheerily and a chill traced down her spine as she loomed over the doe with her brother. Oh yes, she would pay. She braced herself in anticipation of assisting his brother in the horrible act she and he both knew they were about to perform.
"Well, she might contaminate our supply with her filth, but we can't have her wandering around the warren, spreading her disgusting scent everywhere." She shrugged and grinned down at Sandbur.
She shot her paws out roughly, gnashing her teeth in a display of aggression as she tried to force the doe to fall into the hlao.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:11 pm
She looked up at both of them, horrified as the aggressive nature started. A pair of hind legs kicked her in the back, spurring her. She lost her footing, slipped and rolled down the hill, landing in the water. It was over her neck, but under her nose. She landed face-first, struggling as the mud sealed her face down. She kicked wildly, then burst up, gulping breath in. She was angry now. Angry and soaking wet. Not stopping to watch her breath, she squelched from the water and began to lope towards them.
"Look sister, she's dirty again, perhaps we should give her another wash?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:21 pm
"Be my guest, brother. Show her what it means to be really clean!" She crooned as she plopped down on all fours, grinning broadly as she studied her handiwork. Nothing better than seeing such a dirty, wretched creature where they truly belonged, right?
"Maybe she will decide to return to where she belongs. Maybe she will get the hint. She is not welcome here, as far as I am concerned. Ever."
Long ears twitched at the sounds of a distant disturbance and usually the buck would of left them all alone. He had been siflaying by himself, as he had often been since the acceptance of he and his companions into the warren.
The hefty, crimson buck stood tall on his hind legs and peered around him with his pale, pink eyes. Nothing seemed too out of place, save for the three figures further on down the side of his new home. Sounds of distress were obvious, though he doubted they would drift all the way back to the warren, especially with the direction of the wind. He loped slowly towards the small group, after deciding there was no threat of elil.
It seemed his dreams and visions were slowing, as of now, and for that he was thankful. It was much easier to function without them.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:25 pm
He smirked and reared onto his back legs as she came at him. She lunged and he lowered, headbutting her. She rolled back into the muddy water. He smirked down at her. "that's where she belongs, sister, in the mud." He chuckled. He paused and turned, ears flicking. He sensed the other before he saw him and when he did, he cringed.
"Look, sister. Another sick hlessi who doesn't belong here."
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:33 pm
"Exactly where she belongs, brother." She replied in earnest, that glare returning to her features as she gazed down on the hapless doe. There was no pity there, only scorn. This rabbit should not of come to their warren, amidst such turmoil.
And the one approaching was part of the reason for said turmoil. She cringed inwardly at the sight of the strange, red furred, op eared buck that was shifting his way towards them. "Maybe if we pretend he doesn't exist, he'll crawl in a burrow and die, like the other diseased that came with him." She stage whispered loudly to her brother, completely in the mood to do some damage to the unwanted newcomers.
"What is this, then? Two of one brood? Bringers of harm and dwellers of darkness?"
Ninebark paused shortly away from the pair, his eyes narrowed as he looked them over, then glanced towards the muddied doe. He truly had little confidence to stand up to them, but he had size and he had something else. Fear. Others often feared him due to his past, his color, and his ravings.
He thumped a paw against the earth as he shifted forward slightly.
"Scum of the runs, these two. Scum of the runs and bringers of misfortune. Begone!"
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:46 pm
She lay in the mud, her head sore and her body heavy, mud coating her. She gave a small hiccup, nothing but the foul brown taste in her mouth. She looked up at the pair, prepared for both to come leaping on her and holding her in the mud until she stopped breathing.
But they were intent on something else. She followed their multicoloured gaze up the rise, to where the red-brown rabbit was perched. She stayed where she was, but the tension in the air seemed to raise.
"What's this? two useless rabbits no-one wants? Bringers of disease and killers of warrens?" Pitchweed mimicked cooly. "Scum of the world, you two. Scum of the world and bringers of Inle`. We were here first."
He seemed nervous around the odd coloured buck. "Hurry, sister. Back to the burrow. Oh, wise and might plague-bringer. Please, have mercy! Please don't touch us with your elil paws! Spare us, I beg you!" he spoke in a vicious mocking tone. "Please, take the doe! She is of no use to anyone! Let her be your sacrifice." he loped from them, glaring over his shoulder. "Hurry, Wildwood. Before we catch their uselessness."
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:35 am
"Oh no!" She cried out in dismay as she followed her brother's lead, springing sideways away from the newly arrived pair. It was clear from her worried expression that she really was bothered by the lop's sudden appearance, but she fought to maintain face as she joined Pitchweed in mocking the duo.
"Please! Mercy! Let us live another day! Take the filthy doe! Take her, instead! I can't stand the thought of being quite as useless as! Run on, brother! To the runs! Aiiiieeeee!"
She ran, banked right playfully, then banked left once again, acting as if the entire situation was a game for outskirters.
Ninebark thumped his foot softly again in warning, afraid to stir up too much of an alarm as he tried to scare the horrible pair of siblings away. He advanced slightly, only because the looks he had seen them both wear spoke of some sort of fear. If he were to actually give chase, would they run?
Instead, he slipped into the small indention in the earth, the water and mud covering his paws, as he tried to aid the doe.
"Nevermind. Nevermind. Ignore those harbingers of Inle' for they are naught but a thorn in the paw." He whispered quietly as he nudged her with his crimson hued head, attempting to move her along, out of the hlao. Given another day or so without rains, and it would probably be dry once more, unfortunately.
"Two like them, two like them. They will... Never. They will never be any use to anyone."
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:38 pm
He ran across the small rise towards their burrow in the main section of the down. He slid into a small entrance and loped down to their shared burrow. He settled into it once he was in, nestling down on a soft bed of shed fur and leaves. "Let us sleep, sister." he said, flicking his ears. "And hope the illness doesn't get us when we do."
She looked towards him. He was big..and scary looking, but he had scared the other two off. She shivered, cold from the mud and water and sore from behind pushed around like that.
She let him push her along, shaking as she came from the hlao. She turned to him. "...t..thank you." she said. "for helping an embleer hlessi." she put her ears down.
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:25 pm
Wildwood slid through the runs, into the burrow that her brother had disappeared down through. She came to a halt beside him, her heart thudding with all the excitement and slight fear that she had been feeling while taunting the pair of former hlessi.
"Lets hope..."
"Do not worry, pretty light one." He replied uneasily, backing away slightly. She did not seem to turn on him, which put his mind slightly at ease, but there was always... A word or two against him.
"You hardly seem to be an embleer hlessi."
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:16 pm
Sandbur was cleaning the mud off herself, only because it was instinct. They were right. She did deserve the mud. She was an unwanted embleer hlessi. She didn't belong here. She should have died with her warren. She closed her eyes as she ran her paws over her mud-laiden ears, which had stopped their ceaseless twitching. All she could see behind her eyelids were those burning amber orbs, glaring down at her, plagued with hate.
She turned to him. "They spoke true, stranger...they couldn't have spoken truer words to Frith himself. I will burden you no more..." She turned and slowly began to lope away, half hoping he would stop her, but not expecting it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:26 pm
"Little tan one, wait!" He called after her, his soft voice straining hoarsely as he rarely ever spoke above a whisper during regular conversation. That is, unless he was raving. In that case his throat would burn raw for days.
He stood on his haunches and glanced about himself quickly. No elil. He dropped to all fours and loped quietly after her.
"Hlessi, that you are not. Pay no heed to brother and sister of violence, for they know not of what they speak. You have better chance of thriving here than most. Even more so than I. Come back with me, please?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:18 am
She slowed at the painful rasp of his words and turned, her back still slick with brown sludge. She should have been thankful neither of them used their teeth or claws, else she'd be ripe with blood and easy prey.
She looked rather sad as a question formed on her lips. It was a common question for her. "Why?" she wanted to know. "Why do they hate me? Why should i stay in a place where all seem to hate me?Why do you care? Why should I come back?" they spilled from her like a torrent.
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