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MoonRazor

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:15 pm


3. Dekko and Sheva meet Amyla and Aoidhan's family

MoonRazor
"Y'know, you said nobody'd be around at night." Sheva pointed out. She was sitting on Dekko's back as they took a stoll through the moonlit park.

"No I didn't." Dekko's ear flickered back to listen to his friend's voice. It was all calm tonight. They had left Karyon at home for the night. Despite knowing that the place would most likely be completely trashed by morning, it was still quiet relief from his constant snuffling and growling.

"Yes, you did. You said there'd be nobody in the park." Sheva looked up at the trees. Whitewashed moonlight flowed through the cracks between the leaves as they ambled along the packed dirt path.

"No, sweetie, what I said was 'people don't go to parks at night.'"

"And by that, you'd have meant nobody would be here."

"I said people, Sheva. Didn't say nothing about other creatures." Dekko sniggered. "Besides, I don't see anyone around."

"There's pe-... creatures right in front of us!" Sheva hissed.

Dekko stretched his neck forward at the tiny little creature, who sat frozen in fear at the sheer enormity of the pegasus in the middle of the path. "Honey, that's a rat."

"...Fine."

Amyla Edana
"And that's Taurus, the bull! It's one of the twelve zodiac signs too," Kayce said, pointing up at a grouping of stars in the sky. The fae girl's blue eyes were wide and wondering, her face lit up with a rare expression of interest at this nighttime stroll.

Aiodhan chuckled at her enthusiasm, shifting Caleb's weight on his hip. Well, at least the little brat was showing interest in something. "Yes, I see it. May?"

"I see it as well. Couldn't you have taken up cooking as a hobby instead of stargazing?" Amyla yawned sleepily as they meandered along the path. She was leaning against Aiodhan's warm side for support and was silently grateful when they began to walk amongst the trees. Now Kayce couldn't see the stars to-

"I hear something," Kayce stated quite abruptly, ceasing all forward movement and tilting her pointy-eared head to one side.

MoonRazor
"I hear something." Dekko snickered when he heard Sheva's echo. Both creatures had caught the sound of something up ahead at the same time, and now both's ears were strained forward for more information. "You relax, Sheev, you shouldn't be too strained." Dekko took a careful step cautious. This was a bad situation. If anything bad happened, he wouldn't be able to run or fly, with Sheva on his back.

"Listen, I'm having a baby, I'm not handicapped." Sheva snapped, ears pricked forward. "Go see what's going on. Come on, Dek, it's just a park, nothing bad's gonna happen."

Dekko took more steps forward. It was quite a lot of creatures, he could tell from the intermingling scents. His nostrils flared as he walked, head lowered cautiously toward the ground.

Amyla Edana
The group was reigned by silence for a moment after Kayce's proclamation. Then Caleb giggled, and the moment was ended.

"Ahhh, it's probably nothing, Kayce. Just the leaves rustling in the wind," Aiodhan said cheerfully before continuing along his merry way, trying to pry Caleb's jaws from his shirt collar with his free hand, the other hand occupied in keeping the infant on his hip.

Amyla beckoned at Kayce. "Come on, Kayce. Let's keep walking before Mum falls asleep," she said tiredly.

Reluctant to pass this off as leaves, Kayce continued on, looking far more alert than usual. Quickening her pace to a sort of trot, she sped ahead of her parents, investigating further along down the path. She had heard something, and it wasn't leaves. She was sure of it!

MoonRazor
Dekko blew softly at the path, blowing at the sand. What he heard was like a herd of elephants stampeding toward him. But then, his ears were unusually sensitive. And whatever was nearing, he was sure didn't know he and Sheva where there. They were definitely headed toward them, after all.

"Eh, here they come." Sheva said, flicking her tail idly against her friend's rump.

"Hey, could you not do that?" Dekko's ear flicked back irately. He hated when things smacked against his rump.

Amyla Edana
Kayce didn't even miss a beat as she rounded the corner, several paces ahead of her family, to find the two unfamiliar beings waiting there. With bravery that only the young (or perhaps the stupid) can possess, she strode forward, stopping a few paces away. "Hello," she said simply, no inflection in her voice at all.

"Kayce, please don't get too far... ahead..." Amyla trailed off as they came around the corner after the fae. She blinked. Well, maybe Kayce had heard something after all. Damn it, why did the fae have to be right so often?

Aiodhan just stared and continued trying to pry Caleb's jaws from his shirt, growling at his son as if he thought it would help. It didn't, of course. The boy just giggled.

MoonRazor
"Hey, kid, maybe next time, you could tell those people to walk-"

"Dekko, SHUT UP!" Sheva hissed, flicking her tail against his rump again. "Hello." Sheva responded calmly, ears flickering forward as a woman rounded the corner. "And so," She said to the fae in front of herself and Dekko. "I take it your name's Kayce?"

"Wh... You just cut me off from my punchline!" Dekko blinked, turning his head slightly to get a good look at Sheva. "Wow, pregnancy sure has made you crabby." He turned back to the fae standing before him. "Well, apologies for the wolf. I'm Dekko. She's Sheva." He looked past Kayce. "Who's with the posse?"

Amyla Edana
"My name is not 'kid.' It is Kayce," Kayce informed Dekko, giving Sheva a nod. Yes, at least the female one had a brain.

"Ahhh... hello. I didn't think anyone else would be out this late," Aiodhan chuckled, eyeing the wolf and the... was that a pegasus? "Nice to meet you, Dekko and Sheva. I'm Aiodhan, this little pair of jaws-"

He poked Caleb on the nose, making the infant giggle and chew more on his collar.

"-is our son, Caleb. This is Amyla, who looks like she's falling asleep on me..."

"I'm awake!"

"Okay, so she's not asleep. And you met Kayce," he finished, giving up trying to free his collar. Best to just let Caleb chew on it for now.

MoonRazor
"We sure did. Well met, y'all." Sheva said, hopping down from Dekko's back lightly.

"Yea, yea..." Dekko responded to Kayce with a roll of his eyes. "OMGSHEV-"

"God... I'm fine, Dek." Sheva smiled at Aoidhan. "Well, somebody here said that there'd be nobody around in a park so late at night, which was why I came. Turns out, he was lying."

"See, I didn't lie. I'm a pegasus. Pegasusses.. wait, pegasi, right? Yea... Pegasi don't lie. She misheard me!" Dekko said indignantly.

Amyla Edana
Kayce managed not to curl her lip at Dekko's minor exclamation. Honestly, couldn't he see that the she-wolf was perfectly fine? Her good mood at having seen a new constellation was entirely ruined.

Aiodhan gave the pegasus a mildly pitying glance. Poor guy. He just couldn't win that argument. "No matter how wrong the woman is, she is always right. Just stop arguing now and save the energy," he told Dekko with the wisdom of one who has learned the hard way.

Despite her weariness, Amyla had to grin. "I have him well-trained," she told Sheva with a grin. "Are you just out walking for fun or for the exercise?

MoonRazor
"Wise..." Dekko said with a smile, nodding at Aoidhan's words. "Short leash, eh? Well, I haven't got the worst of it." He added, thinking of Karyon, who despite being only Sheva's mate, was like the robot werewolf to both of them.

"Well, I'm just out for funsies, but I don't know about Dekko." Sheva said, answering Amyla's question and smiling at her previous comment. "I would've liked to walk, but Mr. Overprotective here didn't want be to get my paws dirty." Sheva rolled her eyes at her friend, who looked a little miffed.

MoonRazor
"Well, I'd normally be asleep, but somebody let the werewolf sleep near me, and god knows, that thing can snore." Dekko snorted, thinking back to what had seemed like a minor explosion at the time when Karyon had settled in to sleep next to him.

Sheva giggled. "You should've seen the way he jumped up and almost trampled Kar." She said. "But I mean, I don't mind. I sometimes sleep and sometiems I don't." She nodded. She'd never quite met a family quite like this one before.

Amyla Edana
"Werewolf?" Aiodhan queried with an even more wicked grin. He had always wanted to meet a werewolf. They sounded like such fascinating creatures, if a bit brutal.

Amyla had to smile at that thought, the pegasus trampling a werewolf. It would have been quite amusing to see, though not quite as amusing as the expressions Aiodhan wore when Amyla surprised him with something. Those were plain comical. "Mmm... wish I could be like that, only sleeping sometimes. These three are insomniacs, and I have to get at least five hours of sleep a night," she grumbled good-naturedly, keeping an idle eye on Kayce, who was now scaling a tree.

MoonRazor
"Yep. Big black one." Sheva said with a fleeting smile. At least he wasn't here. That, at least, was good.

"Well, I just don't see what's in that that's funny, lady!" Dekko asked Sheva in bewilderment. "If I'd really trampled him, he'd have bit me."

Amyla Edana
Aiodhan looked slightly disappointed that he had missed meeting said werewolf. He had a liking for big and vicious things, mostly because he was a big and vicious thing himself when given the occasion.

"So? When he bites you, you bite him back," Amyla yawned, trying hard to cover up her weariness. "I suppose that would be a bit difficult, but you could always kick him instead."

MoonRazor
Dekko grinned at Aiodhan's expression, shaking his head slightly. "You aren't missin' out on much, friend." He looked over at Amyla, shrugging. "Well, he's got giant teeth for one. I'm thinkin' if he bit me, it'd hurt a lot."

"Yea, it would..." Sheva said, nodding thoughtfully. "But then, you'll never get Dek to kick him. He 'doesn't kick friends.'" She rolled her eyes

"Huh, she wouldn't like it much if I kicked her." Dekko muttered to Aoidhan.

Amyla Edana
"Maybe not. But still... I'd like to meet something with a bit of ferocity. The most vicious things in my house are Erin and Kayce when they start fighting," Aiodhan said, glancing around to see if Kayce was still in the vicinity. She was... even though she was halfway up a nice tall oak tree. "Mmm... wouldn't recommend trying to kick her. Females get very unhappy when you harm them, and while they might not have much in the way of brawn, they can blow your eardrums out with screams," he muttered back to Dekko, nodding emphatically. Yes, he had learned that one the hard way too.

Amyla smirked a bit and took Caleb from Aiodhan's grasp, cradling the cooing, giggling boy against her chest. "Size has nothing to do with it. It's the force behind the action that counts," she replied, giving Sheva a wink. "He is worried about the friend biting and serious injuring him, but he wouldn't ever kick back in self-defense?"

MoonRazor
"I'm sure I share whatever experience you've had with women and screaming." Dekko said with a nod. Oh yes. If there were a contest for the shrillest and loudest screamer in the world, Sheva would top it with little effort.

"Oh, well he-" Sheva turned to Dekko, and blinked. "It rather seems as if they've started their own conversation." She said with a smile. "Well, you haven't seen Karyon's teeth. When he gets mad, he'll bite just about anything.

Amyla Edana
Aiodhan raised an eyebrow. "She can scream that loudly?" he queried in the quietest whisper possible, eyeing Sheva.

Nodding in agreement, Amyla gave a shrug. "Well, let them talk. I think poor Aiodhan feels overwhelmed by the estrogen levels in the house. He and Caleb are the only males. We have four other children, all females. And... well, one more in the making, I suppose you could say," she said with a rather abashed look. "That temperamental? I don't know if I could handle him, then. Aiodhan is cranky enough!"

MoonRazor
"Oh yes." Dekko said, dropping his voice down to a husky whisper. "You've not heard true screamin' until you've heard Sheva scream."

"Oh, I know the feeling. There's too much testosterone around where I live." Sheva agreed with Amyla with a smile. "And congratulations." She said, thinking back to the time when Karyon had been a normal wolf. She'd had one litter of puppies with him, a litter of four. Two, however, had been stillborn, and the other two had been taken by hunters. After that, she'd near swore off having children altogether. Until Dekko had tricked her into the clinic. "Well, yea. He can be a mighty scary beast, that he can be."

Amyla Edana
"Oh, I think Amyla could give her a run for her money," Aiodhan whispered back, occasionally glancing at the females to make sure they weren't listening in. "And when she gets really mad, she gives the silent treatment. I think I'd take screaming over the damned silent treatment. She won't acknowledge me or look at me or speak to me or refer to me at all, and it's scary. She only did it to me once, and I hope she doesn't do it ever again!"

Amyla had the good grace to cringe. "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Don't you ever want some female company?" She blushed a bit and managed to get out a thanks. "I don't think you'd care about him if he was nothing more than a vicious beast, though. He has to have some good in him too."

MoonRazor
"I don't suppose we'll be able to find out who's louder..." Dekko said disappointedly. He peered over at Sheva. "She gets mad at me all the time. Just not enough to give me the silent treatment. Hope she never will." He shuddered at the thought.

"Well, of course I do!" Sheva said with a chuckle. "It's the guys who aren't fond of females." She rolled her eyes. "Hm... well, I suppose so. He's good-looking, for one. And really, we were together before he was a werewolf. He was a good wolf... Curse the man who made him a lycan."

Amyla Edana
"Probably not. We could try to scare the living daylights out of them, but I'd like to keep all of my anatomical parts, thank you," Aiodhan said, giving his head an emphatic nod. He would not put it past Amyla to give him a swift kick for giving her a near-heart attack. "Yeah... silent treatment is to be avoided at all costs."

"Oh, I see. Well, if I were you, I'd just tell them to shove it and adopt a female child or two so that the numbers were a bit more even. But I'm just difficult that way," Amyla laughed, trying to imagine herself in a house full of males. Nope, that wouldn't be pretty. "Who made him into a lycan?" she asked, curious and a bit concerned.

MoonRazor
"I'm like you, man. I feel compelled to live the rest of my life with both my wings in the right place." He agreed, looking down at Sheva, who, despite being so much smaller than him, was actually probably a much fiercer fighter.

"If they'd listen, I would." Sheva answered with a grin. But really, it was her own self-confidence that had flagged when two of her pups had been taken by hunters. She'd not planned on having children again after that. "Oh, well... I don't know, really. I wasn't there. But I know for a fact it was this man who stuck him in a faulty machine. Now he's just a giant wolf who can walk and run on two."

Amyla Edana
"Wings and tail!" Aiodhan said emphatically, waving around his spade-tipped tail. He eyed Amyla, knowing full well how dangerous she could be.

"Ahhh. Well, you could just adopt a child and let them whine until they get over it. That's how I got Aiodhan to agree to Kayce," Amyla chuckled. She frowned a bit, then, wondering perhaps how and why a person would turn an animal into a lycan. "That doesn't sound like a very courteous thing for him to do, changing him into a lycan like that. I wonder if there might be some way to reverse it, or do you like him better the way he is?"

MoonRazor
"Oh, definitely, tail." He nodded. And perhaps that was the bad thing about his tail. The long hairs were easy to be pulled out.

"Well, let's just say the guys aren't the only problem." Sheva said with the smallest of smiles. She shook her head. "Oh, he was a much better wolf. You'd think his brain would've gotten bigger when his body grew, but I don't think it did. He's quite stupid as a werewolf." Sheva sighed.

Amyla Edana
Aiodhan nodded and then fell silent for a moment, glancing back and forth between Sheva and Dekko. "So... how did you meet her and the werewolf?" he asked curiously.

Amyla raised an eyebrow. "Oh?" she asked, wondering if the she-wolf wanted to elaborate. "Well, just because someone grows doesn't mean their intelligence grows with them," she said with a meaningful sidelong glance in Aiodhan's direction. "That is a shame, though, that it happened to him. Is there any way to reverse it, or maybe to help his brain catch up?"

MoonRazor
"Well, seeing as pegasi live much longer than the average wolf, I knew Sheva's mother as a youngling. Fine creature. Wonderful mother. She had two pups, Sheva and another female. The two were weaned and halfway to adulthood when their cave came under attack bya pack of rogue males. Sheva's mother managed to escape with her sister, and she didn't get the chance to go back for Sheva, so I took her in. It was just as well that she'd nearly learned how to hunt." Dekko said, nodding, thinking back to that fateful day when he'd flown to the cave to visit Sheva and her family, and the place was overwhelming with the scent of male wolves. Then he'd found the white pup in the hollow of an old oak, and had brought her home with him. "Who knew she'd grow up to be so sassy..." He chuckled. "Anyway, she met Karyon (the werewolf) when she'd grown, and he was still a wolf back then. They had a litter of four a few years back, but two were stillborn and the others were taken by hunters at barely a month of age. After that, she almost swore off having pups anymore."

"Well, there was this thing with a litter of puppies I had a few years back..." She said vaguely. "I guess I see what you mean, but you'd think that brain would grow just to fill the empty space up there." She said with a short laugh. "If there was a way to do either, we'd need the help of whoever turned him into a werewolf. That man wouldn't do that for us. And besides, I don't think we'd be able to get the information anyway."

Amyla Edana
"But sassy is good!" Aiodhan had to interject. It was true. He liked Amyla's sassiness. Not always, of course, but it was usually quite... refreshing. He did have the good grace to cringe as he heard of Sheva's lost pups, his wings and shoulders drooping noticeably. "Oiiii... Amyla and I know that feeling. She must have had upward of a dozen miscarraiges before we finally managed to have Caleb. Still, to have them liveborn and taken... can't say that I blame her for not wanting to risk it again." He eyed Caleb where the infant boy was resting on Amyla's hip, chewing on the ends of her hair. "But it is worth the risk, I think."

Amyla was no mind-reader, but from what she read in Sheva's tone and the vague bits she picked up from Aiodhan and Dekko's conversation, she came to the logical deduction that the litter of puppies did not survive. She sympathized. Deeply. But if Sheva would rather not talk about it, then she would leave it for now. No sense poking into raw wounds; not at a first meeting, anyway. "I don't think it's the brain growing so much as evolving. Maybe it just needs an extra boost of hormones or something," she suggested. She was a doctor, after all, though psychology wasn't her specialty. "I have medical knowledge enough that I wish I could help, though complex machines and magic and elaborate formulas are a bit beyond my realm of expertise. Are you sure there's nowhere else to get information from?"

MoonRazor
"I suppose sassy can be good." Dekko said with a smile, looking over at the white wolf. "But it's hard for me to even imagine what she went through. See for us, foals learn how to walk within the first half hour, and flight comes shortly after that. So we're pretty much always safe, and, if you don't mind me saying, fleetfooted. I've never heard of a pegasus foal being taken away or killed."

"Fairly sure. Kar's the only one who knows the slightest information, and that we need, at least, to start in our search. But with him not being able to talk... And plus, it happened only a few days after the... er, incident with the pups. And maybe the grief was also part of it."

Amyla Edana
"Definitely. Especially when... err... never mind." Whoops. He really needed to think before he spoke at times. Really, he did. "Well, no offense, but you are prey. Natural instincts say that you have to be able to walk or fly away soon, or you'll get eaten. Wolves are predators. They can take as long as they like to grow with much less fear of being eaten," Aiodhan mused thoughtfully.

"A telepath could maybe pick the information out of his head, though I don't know if you'd really want someone messing about in his mind," Amyla suggested, though it was a farfetched solution at best. She shifted Caleb's weight on her hip, wincing a bit when the boy gave her ear a tentative nibble. "What happened to them... your pups?" she asked, giving the she-wolf a compassionate look.

MoonRazor
"Well, definitely." The happy-go-lucky nodded, not seeming to notice his hesitation. He never quite took anything to heart, and besides that, he heard what he wanted to hear, and always seemed to miss hearing what he didn't. "But since there are hunters around now, they're born with a natural fear for humans. Although why just humans, I don't quite understand..."

"A telepath..." SHe mused. "But yea, I mean if it didn't work and it had some sort of damage..." She shook her head slightly to herself. "Oh, well..." She looked up. "Two of them were stillborn and the other two were taken by hunters."

Amyla Edana
Aiodhan didn't even have to ponder on Dekko's last musing. "Humans are among the most destructive of creatures. Ironically, they are among the most constructive as well, but they balance themselves out. Some humans really enjoy others' destructions," he replied. It seemed odd for him to be speaking about half his heritage in such a negative manner, but the dragon in him had made him a bit wiser (not to mention more mature).

"It was a thought. Not a good one, but a thought..." Amyla sighed. She hated difficult problems like these. It made her feel awful when she couldn't help. "I'm very sorry... to hear about your pups," she said softly.

Caleb cooed at the female wolf and extended a chubby hand in her direction. "Uhhheeee?"

MoonRazor
"Surprised to hear you saying that." Dekko said with a smile. "You're still at least half a human, aren't you?"

"Well, what's gone's gone, I guess." Sheva said with a slight smile. She hardly ever dwelled on the past, and to her, the pups were a bygone thing in her life that was not enough to bring her down.

Amyla Edana
"Yes. At least I think so. It's close to a half anyway," Aiodhan said, meaningfully eyeing one of his massive wings. "It's the truth, though, about humans. I have had plenty of time to think about the nature of humanity."

"True. It does make you consider things for the future, though," Amyla added with a slight shrug. "After losing so many of my own making to miscarraiges, I was almost afraid to try for Caleb. It was worth it, though, "she said, using her free hand to tickle the boy's nose.

MoonRazor
"Yea? How so?" Dekko asked curiously. He had to admit, he'd never quite met anyone half human who had ever really given much thought about the nature of humanity.

"I suppose you're right." Sheva said. "In the end, no matter what happens, it'll still teach you something. And it'll still all be worth it."

Amyla Edana
"Ahhh.... about seven years of ... I guess you could call it self-imposed isolation. You get a lot of thinking time," Aiodhan said with a shrug. He did have plenty of time to ponder on it, and he came to some very frightening conclusions.

"Definitely worth it," Amyla said, watching Caleb gnaw on his teething ring. The little bugger had nearly chewed through another one of those. They needed to find him something new to chew on.

MoonRazor
"Self-imposed, eh?" Dekko smiled. "Well, I've yet to meet any more of my kin." He said with a shrug. "But at least being a lone Peg doesn't give me too much thinkin' time, especially not with Sheva around."

Sheva grinned, watching Caleb chewing on his teething ring. "I don't know about humans, but wolves in my pack, we used to live not too far from an abandoned salt quarry. There's still tons of salt in there, and the wolves used to bring back huge chunks of salt licks for the pups. It's great for the teething and all, and it's not as salty as the refined salt they sell." She said, thinking back to her puphood days, when she and her fellow pups had all fought to clamber atop the hard salt block, gnawing at it to gradually wear it down.

Amyla Edana
"Lucky you. Thinking is depressing and tends to give me a serious headache." Aiodhan sighed and then looked thoughtful for a moment. "You've never met another pegasus?"

Amyla chuckled softly and ruffled Caleb's already-tousled hair. "Natural salt licks? That might be an idea. Thank you! I'll have to try it," she said, watching the boy gnaw away.

MoonRazor
Dekko shrugged. "Well, you know us, far and few in between. Except for my mother, I've never seen another Pegasus. Not that I've taken much time to look, but still."

"Yea, but I don't know where you'd find unsalty salt nowadays." Sheva said with a laugh.

Amyla Edana
"Huh. That's odd. We've got some sort of feathery winged thing that likes to roam the property. She and her partners in mischief take refuge in our stable when the weather gets bad," Aiodhan mused, more rambling than anything else.

"That's true. In our society, everything has to be processed and as full of flavor as possible," Amyla sighed, making a face. "It would probably be better for him than these things, though. He just gnaws right through every kind of teething ring we find."

MoonRazor
"Huh... Is she white?" He asked. Not that it really mattered. From what he knew, a Pegasus could be an shade of the color spectrum, as long as it was a solid color. Like him. He was exceptionally proud of his black muzzle, of course. Not many had a different colored muzzle like his.

Sheva smiled. "He doesn't chew furniture?" She asked. "Or wires."

Amyla Edana
"Uhhh, no. She's like... beige and pink. She might not be an actual pegasus, but she looks like you, though perhaps a bit more feminine. Very sweet, but quite forgetful. Took a blow to the head awhile back," Aiodhan mused, grinning a bit. Yes, Miette was an interesting creature.

Amyla shook her head. "No, he really doesn't. Then again, we've always provided him with things to chew on, and with the amount of people and creatures in our house, I don't think he is ever bored enough to chew on either of them."

MoonRazor][size=9][color=gray]"Oh. Well, some Pegasi are known to be a bit spacey." Dekko said with a grin. "But if she took a blow to the head, then I'm gonna go with ouch for now." He said, drfiting off enough to still hear everything that was going on, but was really imagining what it would be like to be a forgetful creature.[/color]

[color=red]"Well, at least that's good." Sheva said, grinning at what Amyla
had said. Big families sure were fun.[/color][/size][/quote]
[quote="Amyla Edana
"Oh, this wasn't a natural state for her. She fell and and hit her head on a rock and now has some short-term memory loss problems," Aiodhan chuckled, watching Dekko as the Pegasus seemed to wander away in mind. "She still is quite sweet-natured."

"It is, and it isn't. We're definitely spoiling him with all of the attention, but I think we've spoiled all of the kids that way. With the exception of Kayce, of course, who doesn't want attention..." Amyla trailed off, glancing at the tree Kayce had disappeared up into. Speaking of Kayce, where was the girl?!

MoonRazor
"Ah, I wouldn't be surprised..." Dekko said with a smile. All Pegasi were sweet-natured. Or perhaps that was himself, idolizing his breed over all in his mind.

Sheva shrugged, smiling. "Well, there's two sides to everything." She said with a nod, her gaze following Amyla's at the mention of Kayce. "Say... where is she?" She wondered, voicing aloud the thought that was most probably the same one as Amyla's at the moment.

Amyla Edana
"You should come over and meet her sometime. I think you'd like her," Aiodhan remarked, tail swishing back and forth behind him. Then he noticed the searching look on Amyla's face and blinked in confusion. "Who's she looking for?" he muttered.

Amyla gave Sheva a bemused look. "Really, I'm not sure. She climbed that tree before," the woman said, nodding her head at the one tree among many. "But I don't see her up there, and she hasn't climbed down yet." Turning, she glanced among the trees for sign of her fae daughter.

MoonRazor
"I really should." Dekko bobbed his head in agreement. His eyes fowllowed Aoidhan's look over to Amyla and Sheva, tilting his head. "Huh..." He took a quick scan. "If I'm not mistaken, your daughter Kayce."

"I'm sure she's fine." Sheva said with a reassuring grin. It was just a park after all, and kids got into all sorts of trouble. It was a wonder, really, that they managed to live to adulthood.

Amyla Edana
"You're welcome to. I'm sure every male being on the property would be nice to see the levels of male hormones increase. Too many females about," he said, pulling a face. At the mention of Kayce, he simply shrugged. "Ahhhh, Kayce is fine. She can climb and knows self-defense."

"I know she is. I'm a mother, though, so I still have to worry," Amyla sighed. She turned her attention to Caleb, lightly tapping a finger on the boy's nose. "Where's your sister, Caleb?" Where's Kayce?"

The infant boy chortled happily, kicking his feet and tipping his head back to look straight upward. "Aaays! Aays!" he giggled, apparently looking for his sister as well.

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Dekko chuckled. "Are things really that bad?" He shook his head with a laugh, thinking of his own living situation. "I'm sure Sheva would disagree with you in regards to our living space. Too much testosterone around, that's what she thinks." He rolled his eyes. Looking over at Sheva and Amyla, he shrugged. "It appears Amyla is rather worried." He said after a moment's study at her face.

"Well, I know what you mean." Sheva agreed. It was natural to feel worried, even when it was obvious that the worry would be resented later on by the child. She smiled at Calebs antics. "Well, he sure is cute."

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"Yeah. Me and Caleb are really the only two males, besides Ezhno, who spends most of his time out hunting. And the only other males are mostly feral creatures who stick around the house for shelter or protection. It's rather female-filled around our place," Aiodhan said with a sigh. He gave Dekko a jealous look. "Lucky you. I'm drowning in estrogen-"

Whatever he was about to say was ended in a startled yelp as something dropped out of a tree above him. Shocked beyond all reason, the dragon-man very nearly launched himself into the air, his wings opening and closing behind him. "Kayce! Don't do that!" he managed to get out as the fae girl gave him her customary blank expression.

"Cute and stubborn," Amyla said with a sigh, looking rather relieved when Kayce made her unannounced appearance. "There you are! I was wondering where you had disappeared to!"

Cooing happily, Caleb reached out his arms in his sister's direction. "Aaaays! Aaaaays!"

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"I do have it easier than some." Dekko grinned. He almost shied away as there was a yelp and Kayce fell from the tree nearby. "Huh, you'd think she'd be more considerate about fallin' out of trees like that and scaring everybody." He said with good humor. Somehow, he'd never quite expected Kayce to be the type to fall out of trees.

Sheva started at Kayce's falling, but did little else, standing by with a smile. Ah, young creatures.

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Having landed upright and safely on both feet, Kayce was unharmed and unruffled by her father's response. She gave Aiodhan and Dekko a polite inclination of her head and then headed in her mother's direction.

"Yeah, I think you do..." Aiodhan managed after a moment, tail whipping about agitatedly behind him. When he got home, he was going to strangle that fae for scaring him!! GAAAH! "Nah, Kayce really isn't one for consideration. She has the attitude of a cat. She does what she does, and if you don't like it, then that sucks for you. Really, she isn't a bad kid at all. She just.... doesn't care."

Amyla gave Kayce a look, which the fae promptly ignored. When the girl held out her arms to hold Caleb, her mother simply sighed and set the infant in her arms, rewarded by the immediate smiles from both kids. "I think I'm almost ready for another practical child. My oldest two spoiled me," she said rather glumly to Sheva.

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Dekko chuckled. "Well, I'm sure she'll grow up fine."

Sheva laughed. "Eh, all's good. At least she helps out, right? Cause if she didn't, I'm sure you'd be carrying Caleb all day."

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"I sure hope so," Aiodhan said with a massive sigh. "The moment of truth is quickly approaching."

Amyla nodded, watching Kayce tickle Caleb's nose. "Yes, she does. I don't mind carrying Caleb at all, really, but it is nice to see that she care about something or someone. "

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((I think maybe we should end the RP for the while? -saw teh babehs- Oh, gawd, I think I could just die from their cuteness! xD We should get the kids together for a playday xD))

"Ah, they always do. Unless they turn suicidal, but even then it can be turned around." Dekko said, smiling at Aoidhan's sigh.

Sheva smiled. "Oh, I'm sure it is." She said with a nod. She looked up. A dark cloud had passed over the moon, and something in that moment made her feel... She didn't know. But it wasn't a great feeling. She looked uneasily at the stars. She had always told the time by looking at the heavens. And by looking up, she could see what was written in the future. "Looks like rain..." She muttered with a shake of her head. "I suppose that means we'll have to get going. It was great meeting you Amyla. Mayhaps one day, we might get together again?"

Dekko seemed to sense something. He looked over at Sheva grimly. "Looks like she wants to leave. And... rain?" He chanced a peek up. The moon had almost been covered by a thick black cloud. "Well, Aiodhan, it was great chattin' with you. And maybe we can have an outing or something soon? We could bring Kar along too." He said with a wink, remembering the look on Aiodhan's face when they had talked about werewolves.

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((Mmkay! heart --just saw the babies tooo-- Eeeeeesocute! Definite playdate sometime!!))

"Thanks, Dekko. Just what I needed to hear," Aiodhan drawled, giving an exaggerated roll of his eyes.

Amyla watched Sheva look up. The she-wolf looked... uneasy to Amyla's eyes. Worried, perhaps, about her mate? "Rain, huh? I think we'd better get home too. It was wonderful to meet you too, Sheva, and... wait..." she trailed off, digging through her bag until she found a pen and scrap of paper. Scribbling something down on it, she added, "For a future get together, here's our address and phone number. I'd love to get together again, and if you ever need female company, call me. Our house has plenty." She finished writing and held it out to Sheva.

"I think Amyla's about ready to head home too. Probably tired," Aiodhan said. He perked up considerably. "An outing sounds wonderful. Please, do bring Kar. He sounds interesting!" the dragon-man said all-too cheerfully.

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Sheva grinned, taking the paper. "Thanks, I'll keep it in mind." She said with a grin.

"Here she comes." Dekko said as the white she-wolf turned toward him. "I'll remember to." He agreed with a nod. "But I'd wear extra padding if I were you!"

And that was that.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:17 pm


Pregnancy -> Infant Requirements

RP from the clinic of your First Visit. Must transfer to journal. Only way you may get this is if Skysong Keitra is around or on the Mule.

At Least 2 journal entries from the parent(s).

At Least 2 rps with another couple/parent.

Had the first stage for at least a month. - September 5th


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:44 am


As of September 5th, there are officially two new members to this strange family! xD

The twins were born on Tuesday, September 5th, at 8:30 pm exactly. One boy and one girl, by the names of Randon and Fellah! Welcome to the world, little ones! heart

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Infant -> Toddler Requirements

At Least 2 journal entries from the parent(s).

At Least 3 rps with another couple/parent.

Had the first stage for at least two months. - November 5th
 

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:51 am


September 5th, 2006, by Dekko

-- 8:00pm
Something's happening! I know Kar surely be barking things for me put down if he could. But he's incapacitated, so I'll be recording. A few minutes ago, Sheva started complaining of stomach aches, and we all thought it was Kar bringing back bad food. But he knew he didn't - he was adamant about it, in fact. When she said that the stomachs came and went like clockwork, three twinkles to a star, we started to put things together. She just officially went into labor three minutes or so ago. I think I may be the only one of the three of us who knows clock time.

And because she went into labor a little earlier than we predicted, we never got round to going back to the Clinic for a checkup. Maybe we should've. It mustn't have been good, being kicked by that deer out hunting. Anyway, we're only expecting one baby, which is good, but it's because when you go into human - or at least two-legged - facilities, the result is always only one. Haven't you noticed? Anything that goes to humans gets shrunk in size and number. Huh.

Anyway, on to what's going on. She's barred herself in the cave that opens out into the clearing where we normally sleep. She's not letting anyone in. Laws of the forest. She has to do this alone. And when I say Kar is incapacitated, I mean it. He's just pacing about, forward and backward, and I'm scared he'll pace a track into the rock, the way he walks. You know how werewolves are. Stomp stomp stomp. Although, if it had been me, I'd feel no different.

Which brings me to it. I find it strange. I mean, isn't the baby mine too? Even if I am just godfather to them, they'll have some of my traits, you know. Oh well. Uncle Dekko's good enough for me. Hmph.

-- 8:13pm
There isn't much different. Since neither Kar nor I can go in, all we can do is wait outside, and I realized I'm not much of a waiter, so I came back to record. Nobody ever told me childbirth was such a worrying thing.

We can all sense it in the air. Something's not right, and we both know it. But until Sheva gives the okay, we can't go in. Even if, god forbid, she dies during labor, we can't go in until she says. And if she never does, we'll be condemned to waiting outside forever. But she won't do that. She's a nice wolf.

-- 8:24pm
Well, all I can say is that it hasn't been long. It feels like eternity, though, and I'm almost sure the rock outside the cave's got a big fat dent in it where Kar's been stomping around. As if just waiting in silence isn't enough. All I can hear is his huffing and puffing and growling. Who cares about him? We care about Sheva!

The birds have stopped singing. That much I realized. Maybe they sense it too. Something isn't quite as it was all planned. And most often than not, these things turn out to be bad news. All we can do now is sit and wait. Wait on the news, and hope against heaven that it's good news.

-- 8:30pm
THE BABY WAS BORN!

-- 8:47 pm
It was good news. Sheva called Kar in first, because I'm not a wolf and we both strictly believe that a babe should get to know its parents before meeting their extended family. Kar went in, and the moment he did, I could hear a yelp of surprise and glee, which I'm, of course, taking for good news. It's been a solid 17 minutes, and neither have come out yet. Although I don't expect Sheva will. She's got to be tired. Who knows what it's like to give birth. I mean, I wouldn't know. And I don't plan on finding out, no thank you.

-- 8:56pm
Wow. Before I tell you what the good news was, this I've gotta say. She doesn't look half bad for having just given birth. When I went in, all I could see at first was grinning faces. But then I saw what it was and it truly took me by surprise.

TWINS!

Man. And they both have my brown mane! Praise the lord, they do look a tad like me. And one of them has brown wings! I'm so happy. And one looks like Kar, the other much like Sheva. Man, they looked so adorable, curled up side by side. But I left the cave before long. I didn't want to outlive my welcome.
 
PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:52 am


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:16 am


The Twins

To say that the twins were trouble was an understatement. Indeed, wolves often went through raising litters of six, and many times with more pups that that. But there was nothing that could compare wolf pups with werewolf/wolf/part pegasus pups. Anything that had been tampered with by humans, or at least two-leggeds, was trouble. And it was this that kept Sheva from going over the edge. The fact that it was not her fault entirely that the two rascals had turned out as they had. The she-wolf had a good eye for defiance. And she could see it in every inch of the black she-pup that was her daughter. In her son, she could see a strange air of war about him. It was violence, clinging to his every movement, every sound. It was just Randon himself that brought to mind the image of blood and battle. And it worried Sheva to no end. What would her son turn out to be like? And what of Fellah?

There was no explaning the obnoxiousness that was the twins. The moment they had been born, they had been naught by twin bundles of trouble. By the left, they were as different as night and day could be. And it was, surprising, Randon who was the sun. Open and friendly, although all too violent, he was up near front for all. And it was the dark princess that troubled one's mind, for she hung back with a little less than malicious smirk upon her maw that told she was constantly scheming. Scheming what, it was not obvious. And for Karyon to say that it seemed normal was impossible. He knew nobody who was as clever and cunning as she, yet she was hidden away, unlike any evil he had seen. She was an enigma yet to be solved. Or perhaps fated to remain unsolved.

Perhaps he felt left out for being just an uncle to the pups, but for Dekko, what Karyon and Sheva thought were endless trouble was the beginning of a new dawn for him. He could see no fault in these two pups, and the only thing he could see was the light that shone from them, radiated from them as if twin bundles cast down from the heavens itself to bless the trio with joy. And it was this thought that led him, for he knew little to do with raising pups. But the twins in all their puphood fury and charm, were all he knew to be family.
PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:00 pm


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:20 am


--- Unfortunately, Moon will have a lot of work (homework, plus helping prepare about 10 people new to MUN who are off to a conference in less than three weeks... god help us!) for the next few weeks, and will be on a semi-hiatus until things are less hectic ---
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