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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:31 pm
(I am SO slow. I had the stupid idea that you were going to use the tree as a bridge. I kept asking myself why you'd do that, since it wouldn't reach all the way across. DUH. Raft, not bridge. RAFT.)
Lune's shining eyes could barely be seen in the scrub at the edge of the beach. She watched the liger push a rather tall tree into the water, an act that must have taken a rather large amount of strength. Blinking in puzzlement, it slowly dawned on her that the creature was about to cross the ocean. Daring. This was one of the many monets she paused to appreciate her wings. She did recognise her limitations, however. Without one or two islands in their path, she and her cubs would never make it across. She backed up, dashing down the path bac k to their campsite. Her cubs laid snoring, and she settles in next to them once more. They would all need a lot of energy for their next-day's flight.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:22 pm
Kosim stopped pushing the tree into the water. Damn He thought. He needed a backup plan first. If the log, tree, he reminded himself, though it seemed small to him now that he was on his hind legs, started to sink, he'd be screwed over. He needed a backup raft, but if Kosim was on one raft he couldn't very well control the other, could he? Ever since he got a higher mind, he thought everything over very hard indeed. Kosim took a few steps back and dropped to his haunches, thinking.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:51 pm
Lune dreamed of battle. They were dark dreams, with fires raging across the landscape, and lightning arcing across a dismal grey sky. She woke with a start, shaking away the dreams, and then slipped back into sleep with the accompanying thought that is he should still be landbound when they awoke, her family would help the liger cross the sea in any way they could.
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:56 pm
Kosim started into the forest, looking for an adequate 'backup tree', when he stumbled upon a sleeping griffin and her cubs. Kosim took a few steps back, sheathed his claws, and sat down, his back to a tree. He would wait for them to wake. Not every day you see a griffin, with cubs, that close to the ocean. The air coming off the water was too much for some.
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:07 pm
Feeling a slight tug on her tail, Lune swam to the crest pf wakefulness, opening her eyes slowly. Her children had awoken before her, for once, and were hiding under whatever part of her they could get to, including her tail. It obviously didn't provide much cover. She snapped her beak, and they all spoke up at once. Her youngest son, Poru, and his brother, Niru, spoke loudest.
"MAMA! There's over there look there lookit LOOK!"
Not quite articulate, but she got the gist. She cast her glance in the direction they indicated, and caught her first site of the beached liger in the sunlight. She nodded, to show she acknowledged his presence. Then she stood, slowly, letting her children fall lighty to the ground from their various hidey-holes. She whispered to them to stay put, then walked gracefully and proudly towards the liger.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:42 pm
(Hey I already replied to your post, why isn't it showing up? Og wall.)
Kosim stood, slowly, and held his paws out enough to show that his claws were sheathed. He walked towards the griffin. He didn't want to tangle with her, for while it would be a fierce battle in which Kosim would ulitmately win (all cats have a sort of superior sense so I thought this would make sense to put in, no matter how untrue), he would suffer horrid injuries preventing his journey. Better to make a friend than a foe.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:00 pm
(My dohno.)
Lune accepted the show of friendship. She bowed low, as was polite for a larger creature, and sat down for their palaver. She spoke softly, trying to keep her children calm. They were always so nervous.
"You seem to be a creature of nobility, liger. What has brought you to this shore? Are you to take part in the battle of the elementals?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:02 pm
Kosim grunted in response. "I'm not to be knowing about a battle of 'Elementals', as you may call it. No, I just heard a calling from beyond yonder Great Blue, and I be knowing I must venture over, as says the yearning of my heart. To stay here would be to break my very own heart, which I cannot and will not be doing, and that is all that I be knowing." Kosim said, as if that was the answer to the meaning of life.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:15 am
"A just cause." Lune nodded, thinking there could be no better reason to go somewhere or do something. "So, traveler, be there any way we can aid your journey? We too go in the same direction, but I go to fight, while my children go to hide. If there is any way we can assist you, I would gladly try before we move on."
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:02 pm
Kosim snorted in a manner that coulda be interpreted as a laugh. "Lessen you will be wanting to be bringing another raft across, I be doubting it." Used to the 'every beast for itself' rules, Kosim could see no reason for flying creatures to ride the waves into a perilous never-ending sea. "I be searching for another creature who's be wanting to cross but isn't being able to fly across, so they be helping me cross."
(I love that accent.)
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:58 pm
(You pull it off nicely, too!
Most poeple would make it sound stupid, but it works with your character.)
"We could, of course, fly ahead of you, and mark your way. But if thatis your wish, then so be it. May we meet again on the other side." She bowed low once more, then took flight in a rush of wind and sand. Her children followed, solemn looks on their impish faces. Soon the rested in the high trees, awaiting the proper headwind for take-off. Lune nuzzled her eldest son Niru, and whispered a song of hope into his ear. Soon, we shall leave the land we have always known, and we shall, no doubt, never return...
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:36 pm
Kosim approached the griffin slowly, knowing now he would not alarm the mother, but he didn't wish to scare the kits. When the song ended, he spoke. "I'd be much appreciating your good help, sure, but how'd you be leaving marks for me, when we would be being in the middle of yonder ocean?" Kosim pointed out. "If'n we'd be figuring something out, I'd be much appreciating the help, and I'd be planning on being paying you back, don't doubt. Im'a being a big cat, word of honor an' all's part of me being me."
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:06 pm
Plucking a small feather from the tip of her wing, Lune passed the gift to Kosim. (I'm just going to use you r name now, K?)
"As a gift from a phoenix I once knew, my feathers can be used as beacons. Once dropped into water, not accidentally, but intentinally, the send up a short blast of fire. Should you follow this trail, we could lead you safely to shore. But you would have to follow close, for each burst lasts only seconds, and should you lose sight of them, you would be lost at sea. Do you accept my offer?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:48 am
Kosim snorted again, but it seemed a different form of laughter. "That'd be being a great offer, and I be feeling it's the best I be getting. I'll be going now, to be finding ways to follow. The name's Kosim. Yours being what?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:30 pm
Dropping the feather she held in her beak, Lune seemed unaffected as it burst into a small flame as it hit the branch below her. She smiled.
"I am called Lune Liniore, of the Night Sky. You may just call me Lune, if you prefer. It makes no difference." She stood up, balancing on the thin branch, and her children stood up behind her, a perilous line of tightrope walkers. Ruffling her wings, almost laughing as Poru, Niru, Rea, and her youngest girl, Sioe, copied her exact movements.
"So, Kosim. When shall we depart?"
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