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 Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:20 pm
Lucius twitched his tail and gave an internal sigh; he was getting nothing out of this one. The swaying motion was odd, very odd, but didn't betray feeling either positively or negatively towards the blood bay. All the black stallion could tell was that finding Aitumn was very important to the tall stallion before him.
"He told me he was a traveller," Lucius said truthfully. "That he liked to see the world and such. I don't believe he has a set home territory but I met him some way south of D'ob, if I remember correctly. Further east than we are at the minute though, I think." That much was true but the orange-eyed stallion still hesitated to say more. That stamping hoof and those laid back ears spoke of no easy relationship.
Still, with winter easing the blood bay would probably have moved on by now, if he'd ever been to the valley in the first place. Well. There was probably no harm in it and Aitumn could probably handle himself if things went awry.
"He said that he might go to D'ob for some of the winter," the boned Aeri said s he reached his decision. "The weather's easing off again now though so I expect he's left and gone on with his travels if he even did visit the valley in the end."
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:44 pm
Disturbed at the fact that Aitumn had no place he frequented, the tribal stallion glanced over to the direction he had just come from; the valley of D'ob. Well, he had been there all winter, all his life in fact, and he hadn't seen Aitumn there. Much less doubting the fact that the Jala could have slipped under his nose and was living there right now. So that left... everywhere else according to what Lucius had just told him. Not exactly a delightful throught to the tribal stallion, but nonetheless he now knew that eventually he might run into him if he kept on heading in the direction Lucius had pointed out.
"Oh... tha-" he gazed at the bone-clad aeri once again, unsure if he should bother thanking him for the information. With a ripple of motion his green marked hide twitched with his tense muscles, and he cleared his throat. "Thanks." It was a plain word, and one that felt odd against his tongue; as if he would have rather chewed on it then let it out. Once again his attention, after being driven away from Aitumn at the thought of getting no closer to finding him, was set upon Lucius and his bones. The only releif is that they didn't belong to Aitumn. Oh no. Pleasure of conflict belonged to Zak and Zak alone.
The more he stared though the longer the more tensed his body seemed to become, until his hide itched from underneathe him. What's with the bones?" he inquired bluntly, craning his neck as if to side-step away if need be. He had indured the conversation thus far, and wanted to know what the deal was with this weird aeri. The fact he did not show the same tension with the talk of Aitumn though, told Zak that he likely did not harbor ill-will towards the Jala, which made the tribal stallion more uneasy with him. Perhaps they shared the same twisted fate in the death of others.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:14 am
It was bitter, reluctant thanks but the black stallion supposed it was better than none at all. There again, he wasn't sure if he even wanted to be thanked for setting this creature after the bloody bay. The other stallion was definitely tense about the idea of finding Aitumn and it didn't seem like the tension that an old friend showed in his eagerness to find a foalhood playmate once more.
Still, it was best to acknowledge the thanks, he supposed. "No trouble at all, I assure you," he murmured even as the other spoke again. Lucius gave a small sigh at the swirling-marked stallion's blunt query. He didn't feel overly inclined to go through the whole intricate story for the sake of this unfriendly male but the bare bones - haha - weren't all that much effort.
"They belonged to an Aeri flame elemental who called himself Pyrus," the orange-eyed creature began. "He lived a generation or so before I was born and tried to unite several groups of Nequus who lived in the area with the aim to make their lives more peaceful, to cut out their petty squabbles and such. Some people didn't like the idea and so they gained his trust, became his friends and then they ganged up on him and killed him. The last of the group that did the deed was an oldster telling the tale of his ‘great deed’, for so it was considered, when I was a colt. I'd always been an outcast because I was sickly as a youth so I decided to show them all my strength by climbing to the place where he was killed and bringing them back. I chose to keep them by me also because what had been done to Pyrus disgusted me and I wished to allow him to live on in a small way through me. I live to fulfil the dreams he had, that have become my own; to gain strength, knowledge and to protect those weaker than myself from those that might seek to take advantage of them."
As he finished speaking, the black stallion twitched an ear at a bothersome fly and watched the other Aeri carefully. He never was sure how folk would take his tale.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:26 am
Settling himself once again when the other didn't budge forward in a menacing manner at the mention of the bones, Zak set his gaze upon him once more in a cold reseptance, waiting for an answer. Whatever answer that may be really, but he didn't doubt the possibility of battle spoils, or some other weird reason for him carrying around the strange bones. Though he ignored the murmured words, he pricked his ears at the begining of the explanation, unsure what to expect but despite himself; listening nonetheless.
An elemental? What kind of bull was this stallion spilling from his lips. Weren't elementals suppose to be rare all on their own, and even then he thought they were rarely seen. If at all. For he had never heard of an instance where another nequus met up with one. Then again, he pondered further, this was just his bones. He supposed that was more likely then meeting up with the nequus elemental himself. Finding little interest in the happenings against the elemental Pyrus, he allowed his ears to go a bit more lax. Though when Lucius started talking about himself and how he acquired the bones, he unconciously ran his crimson alone the spinal cord and ribs before coming to the skull once again.
That was it? He found some bones and brought them down to spite everyone? Definatly not the bloody story Zak had been expecting, and whether or not the aeri stallion before him believed what he did about carrying them, Zak couldn't help but think just how... fool-hearted Lucius seemed. To live to fulfil someone else's dreams, only the orginal could fulfil the dreams they had in mind, for only they knew exactly how to do it. "Ah. Seems kinda, odd", he muttered mostly to himself.
Though now that he had learned that Lucius did not kill the owner of said bones, the aeri relaxed considerablly, so much so his head hung in a lazy arch and his tail twitched from side to side. He glanced over his shoulder towards the vast expanse of Urin, and was about to turn around. He wasn't really worried about turning his back on him anymore, but that didn't mean he wanted to stay and chat any longer. He thought about saying something cruel. Since he figured he and Aitumn had a friendly relationship, and that in itself made his stomache do flipflops. Shifting crimson eyes towards Lucious once more, he thought instead of said. I'll let Aitumn know when I meet him the name of the nequus who pointed me in his direction. Of course, that involved a wonderfully twisted lie to tie it all together, but he was prepared to do that.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:09 am
The black Aeri shrugged. "Perhaps it is odd but it is what I chose to do. I have never regretted it even for a moment. I enjoy the life I lead as it is without alteration." The other seemed to have relaxed now that his tale was told; he'd probably thought the skeleton a battle trophy or some such. The red-maned creature couldn't help but smirk internally at that thought as he watched the green glance over his shoulder.
Perhaps the idiot would let him be soon and head off to find Aitumn. Lucius certainly hoped so; he was eager to scoop up the stone he had dropped to the ground and find a convenient way to carry it before setting off southwards once more. The orange-eyed male ran his eyes over the tribal-marked Nequus once more, hoping that either he was mistaken and that the green was a friend to the blood bay he sought, or that his hunt was unsuccessful.
Either way, there was little he could do about it one way or the other. The Aeri kept his gaze fixed steadily on Zak and waited patiently for him to either speak again or leave. Hopefully the latter.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:47 pm
Having pondered over which direction to take, and no longer bound to the conversation by his own undecisive nature, the tribal marked stallion turned his gaze to Lucius once more before flaring his nostrils in a brash excusion of himself without further words being spoken. Turning his body to face the other way, he began at a ploddingly lax pace, ears flicked back as his stomache did flip flops. How someone could be friends with a monster like Aitumn, as he suspected Lucious to be, was beyond him.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:04 am
The curly-maned stallion watched as the bulky shape began to retreat, he felt no more need to add words to the conversation than had Zak. Snorting to himself, the black Aeri took a step back and bent to retrieve the piece of obsidian. Present reclaimed from the frosty ground, he turned away and set off at a purposeful walk. The sooner he was out of the presence of the disagreeable creature the better. Lucius shook his head to himself; the sight of the ocean couldn't come too soon.
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