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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:19 pm
The eyebrow that had been lowered promptly shot up again at her incredulous expression and without meaning to, he shifted his head once more and caused another musical chime to ripple out from the peculiar golden rings upon his head. Needless to say, he'd grown so accustomed to them that he was otherwise unaware of them but this...well, it wasn't the first time and he was incredibly amused by the reaction he had received both times.
They'd said the same thing!
"Apparently I do." Again his tone was flat, a little at a loss for words at her sudden change in manner. Now she seemed almost childish due to her surprise but what hostility there was had also evaporated. Was this the spirits' ways of telling him that all he needed to do was shake his head like a disturbed heathen and he would automatically charm mares?
...He made a mental note. Occasional head jerking, although uncomfortable, could prove useful in the future.
"You have never heard it before?" He continued, although his tone had returned to it's normal, sultry one. Scarcely above a whisper it may have been difficult to hear had the waves been any stronger but at present, they weren't.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:26 pm
Selene's ears shot back. "Don't do that." she grumbled. That stupid, smooth, sultry, YUCKY tone! "I don't like it." she explained. "Your voice. Bleh." She looked at him, helpless to know what difference there was in his voice other than apparent lack of... hostilitity?
Was she masochistic enough to only like a stallion when he was being cruel to her?
"And no, I never heard the music before. It's pretty."
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:35 pm
If the brow could have raised higher, it would have. Her demand that he stop talking in such a manner amused him as that was the way he talked normally and he would struggle if forced to place a merry tone in his voice or if he was ordered to raise it above a level that bordered on a whisper - it was simply not within him to speak in another manner.
Aha! So perhaps that was what riled up the females so much in this valley. They hated his voice, how very superficial of them to attack him for such a small thing - it really did a lot to decrease their desirability to him. When in his own herd they had simply said that it was a voice that brimmed with confidence but here...
"Am I to assume that you would rather I shook my head like a demented and troubled beast as opposed to speaking?" The stallion enquired coolly, although his voice maintained the low level, "If so I think that mayhaps you will be disappointed." He pointed out in a rather matter-of-fact tone. Under no circumstances was he going to change how he sounded just because someone didn't like it.
...That would be like telling her to rip her wings off.
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:51 am
She snorted. "It's ridiculous. The voice is just... ridiculous! It's all..." she cleared her throat, making her voice the truest approximation of his as she could. "It's all like this. Hi, I am mister smooth and sensual, and I am plotting how to have my wicked way with you while looking down on you for having thoughts, and opinions, and a personality that clashes with mine."
She took a deep breath, clearnig her throat out again. "It's just a yucky voice. Now mine, mine I know is yucky. It's high pitched, and kind of... loud... and I hate it, but at least I don't make it... smooth and sensual to try and hide it. I liked your voice better when you were talking to me, in a voice that didn't sound like you were thinkig of thirty other things while we were supposed to be discussing."
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:18 am
"I find it amusing that you would accuse me of 'making' my voice sound like it does. That would be as though I have accused you of sticking those translucent wings upon your back." He pointed out smoothly, his brow raising some more as her childish behaviour shone out. He was growing accustomed to that though, it was more of her sudden paranoia and insecurity that interested him - now surely he hadn't had that much of an impact so quickly?
"As I said before, Lady Selene, I have no inclination towards you. What ideas you may gain from the manner in which I talk are in your own mind and not in anyone else's." Pursing his lips he canted his head to the side, the rings on his head giving yet another small 'chime'. She truly was a child at heart and not yet fully mature, yet he was surprised that one with such a 'confident' front would allow herself to show weakness before someone she evidently abhorred.
"Do you always lack in so much self-esteem?" He enquired at last, remotely curious as to why she had let her barriers fall.
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:28 am
Selene snorted. "If you didn't make your voice sound like that, why does the other voice sound just as natural?" she pointed out. "You may have trained yourself to think it's natural, but what... if it's not? What if it's something you just trained yourself to speak in, when you are trying to be all bossy-like? It's the kind of voice I can see a leader that no one really likes but they pretend to so he doesn't kill them using."
Luckily, she was unaware of the fact he'd been a leader, or she would not have said that, really.
"And I wasn't suggesting you HAD an inclination towards me!" she snorted again, smashing a hoof down onto the sand. "Why do you persist in thinking I do?! I am making a generality! Have you heard of those?" She scrunched up her nose at the chime, trying not to let herself fall into the music- she loved music.
At his question though, the mare paused. "Self-esteem? I have plenty of that. I just don't hide my faults behind it. I have a squeaky voice, and I'm really horribly small, and I have a horrible coat color, and wings that, though they look stupid, are quite practical and fun, but... that's fine. There are things I love about myself that make up for it." Where was he going with this anyways?
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:44 am
"Someone who speaks of themselves in such a foul manner most certainly does not have self-esteem. In fact, their continual insistance that they have fault is a thinly veiled attempt to gain compliments from those around them as they find it may be the only way they can receive them." Pursing his lips thinly as she spoke of his voice in such a derogatory manner, he took the opportunity to release a small 'huff' of warm air from his nose and swivelled his ears round to take in the sounds away from them.
The irony of her comments in relation to leaders, or leadership qualities however did cause a someone malicious glint to slip through his eyes, one that revealed he did not approve of the way she approached such issues - in fact, one might say he could handle criticism but not when it was openly brutal and wasn't particularly constructive.
"I have always spoken like this, since I was a child. Although you are quite perceptive in relation to a few things, for one, my herd are completely aware that attempts to over throw me might very well result in their deaths." He pointed out cooly, his eyebrow raising somewhat as the cold glint returned. Perhaps if he put things into perspective for her, she would be aware of who she was talking to.
"And might I add, that anyone who continually mentions a 'lust' in another persons voice has formulated the idea in their head that the one in question is interested in them in such a manner. It is perfectly logical for me to therefore point out that I am not inclined towards you. Most would thank me for taking your feelings into consideration."
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:00 am
Selene snorted. "Well then, forgive me for commenting once on my own faults, milord. Obviously it means that I am so desirous of your praise, that I myself didn't know I wanted it! Oh please, good sir, shower me in compliments, so that I may feel at peace with myself." Selene raised her head and stared at Paramekia with liquid eyes. "I had no clue I was so simple, and so obviously desiring the compliments of such an otherworldly, and truly magnificent beast such as yourself, until you of all-knowing wisdom and glory informed me I was."
If one looked closely, they could almost see the hearts pouring from Selene's eyes, and pure adoration there.
It was a revelation, surely! SURELY!
So..... when could she stop doing this? She was making herself almost gag.
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:29 am
And there it was, once again the mare cracked and he could only lift a brow as she seemed to allow every sense of logic to escape from her lips. Wave after wave of what she must have assumed to be 'below the belt' insults reached his ears and yet, the most he did was shift his weight onto his other hindleg.
"Are you quite finished?" He enquired at last, as she seemed to stem her attempt at a verbal lashing. Needless to say, all she had served to do was to confirm to him that she was nothing more than a mare who had just breached adolescense - that might explain why she always failed in a battle of wits and why she might have been so incredibly blind to the truth.
"If so, then I shall point out only once more that commenting on your own faults is all well and good, but repeatedly doing so is another matter. To point out one's faults is to claim, for example, that one has an inability to express themselves in certain situations but they are currently attempting to deal with the issue." He narrowed his eyes to mere slits as his gaze became malicious, he was tired of her games and if she so desired to be brutally torn asunder then he would do it.
Perhaps then she would know her place.
"To point out one's faults is not to complain about one's appearance in the hope that someone will ease your own worries. I do agree with you though, your pelt is of the most appalling colour, your wings do nothing for your complexion and your mane is a tangled mess." His lips, though remaining tight and thin curled up into a cruel smirk.
"Your eyes lack the lustre of an desirable female, you are far too petite to even be considered to have potential and your personality leaves much to be desired." He shook his head and released a surprisingly chilling laugh as he shifted his weight once more and gave a toss of his mane, the musical 'chime' of his head dress more forboding than beckoning now.
"If I am entirely honest I fail to see what your saving grace is and I give you my word of honour that I have tried to see some spark of potential in you." His voice, although still low held a sharp brutality about it, almost callous in nature as though he truly had lost his patience.
"If anything you are a child and until you reach maturity and realise that there is more to life than your own physical appearance and material desires then you are going to be very lonely and very disappointed."
"The world does not revolve around you and your inability to show some manners." He pulled himself up to his full height and, at eighteen hands that was quite a height, from which he then gazed down upon the mare in the most degrading of manners. Up until this point he had kept his cool but everyone had to crack eventually.
"Are you satisfied now?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:53 pm
Selene's head tilted. "I'm sorry, did you say something worth listening to?" she queried. "If so, I am sorry I missed it." She raised an eyebrow. "If indeed I cared whether you found me desirable, or even if you liked me, I would perhaps have tried to make myself more desirable. As it stands, I was here first, and though I first debated attempting courtesy, I soon realized what it was about you that made me feel like a raving b***h. So, if you desire to be near someone who is perhaps more desirable- leave and find one." she said simply. "I am myself, contradictory, ornery, and as brutal as your bludgeoning of my physical and mental traits was, it is your fault if you don't like it. If the clashing of our temperaments is too difficult for you to handle, then simply... avoid it. Didn't you say it was better to run from altercations than remain?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:13 pm
The stallion simply chuckled at her rebuttle and raised a brow. She truly was a child and a worthless one at that, by far the most undesirable of all he had met, even the unicorn was considerably more approachable than this one and she had nearly stabbed him with her horn. Nevertheless, after a few moments he gazed at the mare in a derogatory manner and his chuckle quickly turned into a cold and almost malicious laugh.
"Oh my dear girl, how truly uneducated you are." The stallion continued to laugh as she ranted at him and once again took the bait! Had she any ounce of intelligence she would have dropped it. Nay, from what he could see this pathetic little welp was going to end up in an abusive relationship with a stallion who merely treated her as a piece of meat.
Would he provide sympathy?
Probably not, he would look forward to degrading her for her failure to listen to someone who was considerably more mature and experienced.
"I am going to level with you and for once in your life you should listen to someone older, more mature and more experienced than you." Clearing his throat the stallion caught his breath although the glint in his eyes was brighter and his dark smile was practically etched across his chiselled features.
"You do not have the status to dismiss someone, you lack the ability to gain respect from anyone to the point that you could even attempt to order as such. You were not here first, in fact you are entirely unaware of who may or may not have stepped upon these sands before you so you cannot claim them as yours and more importantly..." Drawing near the young mare he came within inches off her muzzle and snorted warm air across them almost threateningly.
"I run from nothing and I have already found my bride. I have no need to look, or no need to run for everything comes to or leaves my presence when it is required." Drawing himself to his full height once more which was considerable in comparison to the small 'flutter' soquili, he allowed himself another chuckle, "Nothing you can do will ever change that."
"Are we clear, or are you going to pretend you did not hear that as well?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:40 pm
Selene raised an eyebrow. "Well, isn't someone nitpicky." she said mockingly. She drew herself up to his height, using her wings to flutter when she needed to, until they were nose to nose. "Alright then, try this. I don't give a damn about whatever dimwitted mare you managed to seduce. She'd have to be dimwitted to fall for your tricks, unless there is a personality under all that superiority. And sir, as I looked carefully over these beaches BEFORE I went for the water, that would mean you came here AFTER me, and as such? I'm staying here." She dropped down into the sand, continuing the roll she'd been planning for HOURS.
She wasn't going to let a superior brute with some sort of... complex... ruin her carefully planned evening.
Though the next phrase he uttered may have her 'petite' body ramming her horn through his belly.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:00 pm
"Mmm...I would encourage you to meet her then." The stallion replied coolly, curious as to how she might react the moment she encountered Ailurinnae. No doubt she would swallow her words and would once again be put in her place by the subtle panda-mare who wouldn't be so brutal with her words but would probably make the flutter feel incredibly stupid.
"Perhaps I shall coax her out of the forests, just for you and then I will encourage you to repeat what you have said to me in relation to her." He flashed a dark smile as she continued to roll about in the sand, shaking his head as the ornaments upon his horns began to jingle again, "It seems you have forgotten what I told you long ago about allowing people to know of your name." Swivelling his ears at the sounds around him he continued to gaze at the flutter thoughtfully.
"I sincerely doubt that many will appreciate your insults in relation to Ailurinnae...Especially if I repeat them word for word. I will not be the only one who considers you to be lacking in manners, nor will I be the only one to find you undesirable with a temper like that." He purred softly.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:17 pm
Selene raised an eyebrow. "Have at it." she hissed back. "I would be pleased to meet your mate, and see exactly what she sees in someone like you. And where in her mind she sees something... decent." She raised an eyebrow. "And as I said before, Paramekia, I treat my peers with the respect they are due. When she shows me her intelligence, I will believe them. As I do not know your mate, by appearance or by name, for now I choose to believe she is an ignorant mare you tricked into mating."
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:35 pm
"I beg your pardon?" Paramekia seemed to be somewhat incredulous at her words and soon released a peel of laughter as she jumped to conclusions again. He had scarcely even touched his potential bride and here this filly was, assuming he had already seduced and had his way with her!
"My dear she is worth more than that. To seduce her would be an insult for which she stands for, you however, would be so low in standards that you would warrant such physical and emotional abuse." Having pointed this out, he shook his head and drooped his left ear lazily as though he had gained the little action from Yei Umeko herself - it really was quite an addictive move.
"I would give my life for Ailurinnae - one of such beauty and intelligence deserves it. Although I am sure, as pleasant as she is, she will try to see where the decency in your heart lies...regardless of how cruelly you have degraded her." Raising a brow he snorted onto her muzzle once more to indicate that he cared very little for her close proximity, it seemed he was very comfortable with himself and his own security.
"Only a coward and the dishonourable insult those who are not present to defend themselves."
He was certain though, if she insulted Ailurinnae any further she would find that she would experience his wrath in the form of an ivory horn to the neck or a rather unrestrained headbutt...
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