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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:04 pm
"Of course you're not! I mean, you finally let me win! When does that ever happen?!" He grinned proudly and made his way toward her, shaking his wings free of excess water. "And the mountains are gorgeous! You've been as a foal, so you know that! Besides, the desert will always be my home, no matter how little I go there. The heat isn't so horrible once you get used to it." He chuckled. "Okay, yes it is. But the sand is pretty?" Cooper finally caught up to the mare, and nodded. "Well I found you this time, didn't I? And I've found you before! And I can do it again, no doubt!" He nodded confidently, nosing at his daughter.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:08 pm
She rolled her eyes at her hybrid father. It was always the same thing, 'the mountains are beautiful, the desert's my home.' "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heat and family and all that jazz. Not my kind of thing, Pops." She smirked at the facetious nickname and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, just because you've found me before doesn't mean you will again! I mean, those times I wasn't really hiding. But if I hid? Ooooh, I don't think you'd be able to figure out where I was if I didn't want to be found!" She taunted him, sticking her tongue out a bit. "In fact, I'd like to place a bet on it! If you dare, that is."
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:28 am
Cooper's ears twitched at the mare's bet. Although he was certain that he could find her again, he didn't particularly feel like taking any chances. She was his beloved daughter, after all. He feigned a chuckle and tried his best to change the subject. "Oh, but we're simple wanderers, you and I. We haven't got anything valuable to bet with in the first place! Now, we really do need to get going, and at least get to shelter before it gets horribly dark out. We both knows how your little friend there feels about the darkness." He nodded toward the snake, which was snugly curled on her back. "Wouldn't want to upset him now, would we?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:36 am
Gogol grinned at the alicorn. "Oh, so what you're trying to tell me is that you're afraid to lose?" She giggled a little and trotted her way forward, trying to initiate a bit of a game of chase. "Because if that's all it is, Father, you can just tell me. It's rather senseless to hide something so sweet from your dear little girl." The snake roused a bit at hearing the stallion talk about it, and it let out a bit of a hiss in reply before curling back up on its resting place. "Oh, Vir, he's just kidding. Don't be so sensitive." The snake allowed another sound of discontent and wriggled its head beneath its body, perhaps in an attempt to stop hearing the comments. Gogol looked back to her father, who was falling further behind. "Well if you're so ambitious and in need of shelter, you'd better at least catch up! I can't carry us both, you old coot!" She let out a short laugh and pulled forward again.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:43 am
His pale pink eyes rolled at the mare, but he was grateful that she didn't push the subject. It would break the stallion's heart to lose his family like that. He whipped his tail behind him as he scuttled to keep up with his daughter, and he laughed. "Oh you stop it right now." The stallion pretended to be out of breath as he continued to make his way after her. "I'm old, you know! Shelter is good, but I don't know that I can keep on like this! Your youth is an unfair advantage!" He smirked. "And you say that mountains are a problem." Coop rolled his eyes again and pushed forward in an attempt to catch up to his lively daughter.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:52 am
Her dainty hooves easily made it through the rocky terrain of the forest, and the path grew narrower as they moved forward. After a short time they made it to a fork in the trail and she halted before allowing a puzzled look to cross her face. She was certain that she'd been this way at least once before, but nothing seemed quite familiar. Gogol huffed a bit and begrudgingly turned to her father. "Okay. So I swear I've been this way before. But this is new. It is new right? I'm not just imagining things?" She snorted and kept her story, even though she wasn't quite sure how true it really was. After a while, all the woods look the same and all the trails seem to just run together. It's harder to tell what you have and haven't seen before.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:31 pm
Coop raised a brow at the mutant. To him, the path looked the same as always, with the left hand fork leading to the Kawani village and the right winding a path (and a rather tedious one, at that) to the river. He grinned for a moment. "You swear, huh? Well then, if you think this path just appeared overnight, you surely must be right!" The alicorn chuckled. "How about I just let you choose? I mean, what's the worst that can happen, right?" His tail swished and he laid his head in the crotch of a tree, yawning as he waited for the mare. "If you'd like I can just fly up and take a gander for you. Or you could admit that maybe going on a few more adventures with the old man wouldn't hurt your directional skills any." He was certain he had won this bout, and waited for the mare to admit defeat.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:45 pm
Gogol huffed and stomped a hoof at her father. "I have, and you know it!" She grew impatient with the stallion and huffed again before stomping forward, headed toward the path on the right. It seemed significantly less traveled the closer she got, and she knitted her brows together. "We're going to see the two leggeds, so that means they'd be travelling down here for hunting and trading and such... And even though their feet are horribly small, and they don't seem awfully heavy, I don't think that a path they've traveled on so much would look as grown in as this..." Her thinking cap was certainly on, as any other time she'd have simply run down the path and never looked back. "So I'm going to go ahead and say that I want the other one. Because even though I don't travel with the old man as much as he'd like, I have picked up a little bit of common sense along the way!" She grinned and grunted at him before heading down the pat to the left. "That's a good look on you. Maybe the two leggeds could make you up some jewelry that looks like that, hmm?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:53 pm
More than a little surprised, Cooper smiled. "Aww, Baby Girl, you're growing up!" He laughed, expecting a blow from the mare, but it didn't come. Instead she waltzed right past him. Coop rolled his eyes a little at the jewelry comment but retorted, "Well maybe when we get there we can see what they can muster up from our little show for them." With this, he stuck out his tongue and allowed his wings and tail to droop, playing dead among the trees. "Think they'd figure it out?" He could only tell she had been watching from the faint giggles he heard, and he quickly composed himself and hurried to catch up.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:03 pm
The mare rolled her eyes at being called 'Baby Girl.' It was always a nickname she had detested, and he continued to use it, if only to upset her. Her father's silliness was always just her brand, though, and he quickly had her laughing again with his hanging act. "Well, if that's how you want to play it, I'm sure they'd love to oblige! They could always use a free meal, I'm sure!" She grinned and slowed her pace to allow the stallion to catch up, even if she'd never admit it. "Come along, now, old man! I haven't got all day, you know! In fact, the day's nearly at an end, and I'm growing fairly tired." Being unfamiliar to the area was definitely a disadvantage to the mare. Along her travels she generally had several stop-off points along the way. She wasn't entirely sure if her father was familiar either, since he could just fly everywhere to avoid the foot traffic on hunting days.
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