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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:24 pm
Keahi smiled, looking for all the world like a weary teacher who's just discovered a star pupil lurking beneath the features of the class clown. "Exactly!" She returned his grin in kind, somehow managing to make the normally goofy-looking expression quite regal... for all the world that such a thing was oxymoronic.
She blinked, then mentally shrugged; if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
"Yes, it must be quite the lonely word. Imagine how jealous it must be of words such as 'the' and 'it' and 'he' and 'she'!" Keahi widened her eyes, to show shock. Perhaps such things would be the way to communicate with Imperio? "Oo! I bet if it could, it would make itself a more commonly used word! You know? Like, just change! Like that!" Keahi flipped her head in a jerking motion, sending her hair flying, before returning her gaze to Imperio. "But... then... it wouldn't be itself anymore... and then would it be sad? Or would it still be happy? ... Wait... can words feel? Oo! I bet, every time we use a word, it gets happy!" She smiled, giving herself a mental pat on the back for successfully talking herself in circles (and then a slight zigzag) as the stallion seemed so fond of doing.
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:49 pm
Imperio beamed at her response, feeling proud of understanding her speech. It made him all happy and bubbling on the inside when he finally got something that he didn't before.
He brightnened up even furhter at Kaehi's response. Finally, someone who understood the way he thought! He felt the excitement building again, and he couldn't repress another leap, flick, and twitch of his ears as he moved in closer to the mare.
"I know! Doesn't it just make you feel so bad for those words that we don't use that much! I'd use them a lot more too but then if I don't use them right, they'd probably feel embaressed, and I don't want them to feel embaressed. After all, then they'd probably hate me, and I can't deal with being hated. Being hated is bad, bad, bad."
He gasped again, being struck with another line of thought. "You don't hate me Kaehi, do you, do you?" he asked frantically, a pitiful whine emitting from the back of his throat as he ducked his head like a hurt puppy.
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:57 pm
Keahi had been nodding solemnly in agreement, her brow furrowed as she listened to his thoughts. "Yeah, and I bet the hate of a word is viscious. Grr!" she growled in a poor impression of a wolf or some other dangerous creature, only able to hold the pose for a second or two before it fell away.
He was... quite... close... Keahi stared, slightly cross-eyed, at Imperio's nose.
Her eyes uncrossed and widened even further at his question, and her ears swiveled backwards slightly before perking forwards again as though she was trying to see if she had heard wrong. "No! I don't hate you!" The beginnings of tears in his eyes disturbed her; she did not want to see this slightly childish yet intelligent (sort of) stallion-foal cry!
A part of her that Keahi had previously been burrying voiced it's protest towards her simple mannerisms, but that voice was quickly quelled when Keahi mentally engaged in a pillow-fight with it.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:29 pm
Imperio brightened instantly, his tears disappearing with another happy flick of his tail. "Really? Yay!" If possible he would have hugged her like he saw the two-leggers hug but he didn't know how since he had four hooves intead of those weird flesh-y limb-y thingies two-leggers had.
"Oh, oh, oh," he said excitedly suddenly, his previous and rather brief spurt of melancholy long forgotten. "Kaehi, Kaehi~" Imperio had a thing for repeating everything, feeling that it made it sound like it was important and that you had to listen because if he was saying something more than once than it was obviously important. Right? Right.
"Do you like chickens?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:39 pm
"Yes, really." She laughed, relieved that he had recovered so quickly. Despite the fact that she would have previously found herself quite immune to other's emotions, able to keep the moods of others and herself fully seperated, opening that door to the slightly silly foal that slumbered beneath her intelligent exterior made her own mood entirely dependent on that of the others around... which, at the moment, was only Imperio.
And so, when he became excited, she felt her own excitement highten. Her ears strained forwards, one front leg raised, her entire head following the movements of his eyes.
She blinked at his question, picturing a white squawking bird flailing about with feathers flying everywhere. "Well... I guess, yes. Yes, I suppose I do! Though... the animal, right? Feathered, small, squawky, orange beak, beady eyes? Not like cowards?" She peered at him curiously, her head angled slightly so she could view if full-on.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:22 pm
Imperio nodded rapidly. "Yep, yep. Those fluffy white birds that squack and stuff." He gave a heavy sigh suddently, his ears dropping in sadness. "I feel really bad for them though. I mean, they're birds and have wings but they can't fly. How depressing is that? It's like penguins but at least penguins can swim but chicken can just kinda sit their and squack and lay eggs."
Imperio looked wishfully at the sky. "I'd be depressed too if I had wings and wasn't able to fly. I mean~" He grinned, looking at Kaehi with sparkling eyes that shown from dreams and wishes and happiness. "Wouldn't you just love to fly~?" He laughed, though it came out more of a boyish giggle. He reared up slightly onto his back legs, his head high aganist the slight breeze as he let out an excited whinny.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:54 pm
Keahi considered this for a moment. "Well... they can hover... sort of... and the roosters can fly really short distances, right? But yeah, it would suck to just lay eggs all the time." Her nose wrinkled as she considered that. It would be so boring! Just sitting there... then PLOP, egg 1! More sitting. PLOP! More sitting. PLOP PLOP! Sit PLOP Sit Sit PLOP Sit PLOP PLOP Sit sit PLOP ... she resisted the urge to dance to the rhythm the sit/plop sequence created.
But why was it even necessary to resist such urges? Shouldn't one be in complete control of one's own actions? Why do we have those urges? Do they originate in the mind, or somewhere else? The heart perhaps? No, the heart does not send commands, rather recieves them and carries them out dutifully... perhaps it is that we each posess an inner thinking process, one which sets out what we should and should not do in every situation imaginable? But then why are we surprised? If we really did know how to react to every situation imaginable, even on a subconscious level, then there wouldn't be such things as surprise... because to know how to react to something, you have to know what that something is...
Keahi shook her head, clearing the thoughts. She had allowed herself to go back into her normal, introverted thought process, and had momentarily forgone the more fun way of looking at things she had rediscovered upon meeting Imperio.
"Eh? ... Oh, yes! I'd love to fly!" She had backed up a pace when Imperio reared, not quite trusting him not to accidentaly hit her with one of those flying hooves. "What color do you think your wings would be?" She stared at him, eyes bright.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:15 pm
Imperio was delighted to find someone who would love to fly like he could. Uncle Orion already could fly, and others like Demon never really took time to talk to Imperio. He grinned as he settled down a bit, all four hooves firmly planted on the grass. "Woudn't it be just great! To be up in the sky with the clouds and the birds and all the other stuff that can fly~?"
He pasued at her question, wondering what color he would want them to be. "Hmmm~" he said, his noise scrunched cutely in his deep concentration on the question. 'Well, my body is black so would my wings be black? But that makes it kinda boring? What if my wings wanted to be hot pink? That wouldn't look very good but wouldn't me wings have the choice? But aren'y my wings part of me so then the choice would be mine?' He gave a little mental cry of distress at his inner turmoil.
'Okay, Imperio, think, think. Use logic. Ohh~ Logic kinda reminds me of logarithms. Eek, oh, off topic. Wings, wings. What was the question again?'
"Orange!" he said finally, going with the first color that came to mind. 'Orange is good. Yep, yep. I mean it's bright and colorful and better than hot pink. Not that hot pink is a bad color but hot pink wouldn't look very good on me, would it?' Imperio thought, his mind wandering again. By the time the last syllable was out of his mouth, he was already contemplating what he'd look like if he had hot pink hooves.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:00 pm
Yes! To soar with the eagles, to chase after butterflies, to feel what the inside of a cloud was truly like! That would be grand. Nay! That would be awesomefully exciting! She let out a giggle, which she quickly surpressed. She hadn't spoken those words aloud, and so Imperio might become confused if she were to suddenly laugh.
Keahi grinned at his decision. "Orange wings would look great on you!" She pictured him soaring through the clouds, turning in circles and flying in a generally bee-like pattern which held no true path and served only the purpose of the amusement of the one flying in it. Her imagination-Imperio continued flying about, closing his eyes in bliss and letting out a whoop of joy, before plumetting towards the earth; he had forgotten to beat his wings. Before he hit the ground, he flapped furiously, and once again he was flying off, laughing at the world.
She peered at her own body, then grinned mischeviously. "You know what?" She looked about as though to check if anyone was watching, then brought her head in close and whispered. "I'd want wings of fire! Though not actual fire, of course. That would hurt! Just, fire-colored. Deep reds and oranges and a bit of golden-yellow!" Her eyes twinkled as she pictured what a brilliant pair of wings those colors would make.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:57 pm
Imperio broke out into a delighted smile at her comment. 'Really, really, really? You think so~?" He jumped, trying to twine his head back to see his body as he tried to imagine orange wings on him. He twisted his neck, his feet following as he started turning around in a circle. 'Aww,' he thought, continueing his dizzy spin and futile attempt to properly se his back, 'I can't see my back at all~'
He almost jumped at Kaehi's words, so content on attempting to see his own back (which he couldn't manage, much to his disappointment) that he almost forgot that he wasn't alone. He shimmied closer to her, excited at her grin that reminded him vaguely of his often-plotting Uncle Orion. "Fire wings?" he said, his eyes flying forward in excitement. "WOW. That would be so cool~ I mean, red and orange and yellow and all those pretty colors like the SUN," he said, his words fluctuating from a random murmor to an passionate shoat.
((Eek, sorry for big delay in replying. My internet has been spazzing lately and I haven't had a chance to come and reply. ._.))
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:15 pm
Keahi twisted about, bending her neck and touching her chin lightly to her rump. As she twisted back, an almost smug gleam shone in her eyes; she could reach her back. Her smile was confident, her head raising a tad as she felt slightly superior... for a moment at least. Then, she was drawn back into their rapidly firing conversation by Imperio's enthusiasm.
"Ooo!" She peered up at the sky, searching for that shining object called the sun. When her eyes found their mark, she almost wished she hadn't; the blinding light was too much for her, and pain flooded her senses. She snorted and pawed at the ground, blinking quickly and looking away. She shook her head for a few more moments, tail swishing irritatedly, before she was able to regain her compsure. "... mm... Oo, if you had sun-fire wings, if... when you were up there flying..." she started to look up again, but then remembered the blinding light of the sun and kept her gaze on Imperio instead "... someone on the ground would think you're a second sun! Blazing all brilliantly and the like..."
(( S'okay. xD ))
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:38 pm
Imperio gasped in excitement at the thought of being compared to the sun. "A second sun~? WOW. That would be so cool. I mean, I like the heat and the sky but I never thought I'd be bright, bright, bright like the sun. After all, it is the sun." He emphasized his last two words, as though Kaehi didn't know what sun he was talking about. "But, but" he said, his excitement faltering, "Wouldn't the sun be mad then? It has been the only sun for a long, long, long time and then suddently is has competition." His eyes widened at a sudden revelation. "Would the sun hate me then?" His eyes teared slightly, glistening as he held back puppy-like tears. "I don't want the sun to hate me~" he whined, his lips turned downward in distress as he reared slightly.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:44 pm
She shook her head swiftly, the almost-violent motion causing her ears to flap against her head. "No! The sun might be happy! You know, a friend?" She widened her eyes, gesturing towards the sun with her knows instead of looking at it as she normally would. (That lesson had been re-learned! xD) "It must be so lonely... up there, all day... and then it has to go away all night while the moon is out... it doesn't even get to play with the moon, because as SOON as the moon comes out the sun is gone! They miss each other, by only a few seconds!" Her eyes teared up slightly. "... at least the moon has the stars to play with. The sun only has the clouds, and they're always moving away!"
That is... if the sun could even feel. It was, after all, a very large ball of gas... but certaintly something that could hold a whole universe around it would have to have some sort of consciousness? Ahh, well... she would save such throughts for a day on which she didn't have an exciting stallion-foal to speak with.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:13 pm
Imperio gasped, sincerely amazed at the thought that the sun would be lonely up in the sky. After all, he had never thought about how the clouds always move and the moon moving and them always missing each other, and Imperio wondered if maybe the moon was sad that it always missed the sun, but then he thought that perhaps the moon didn't even know since it had the stars, but that made the moon kind of selfish didn't it? Imperio felt his head hurt from all of the thinking.
"Wow, Kaehi~ You really are smart. I think you're the smartest Soquili I've ever met, even smarter than Uncle Orchu." He nodded rapidly in emphasis, an easily recognizable habit he formed everytime he became overexcited. "Maybe I will be the second sun one day, that way the sun will never ever get lonely because I can fly up and talk to it, and we can be good friend. Maybe then, Kaehi can join us and we can talk and eat berries and applies and other sweet stuff together. Right, right?" His eyes lit up at the thought of having snacks with the sun, his tail already flicking back and forth as he failed to contain his happines.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:49 pm
Keahi blushed at that, though no-one would have ever known; her ebony skin did not allow the slightly pinkish tone to show. However, other body language (such as the way her eyes were somewhat downcast and her head drawn in a little to her neck) could have eventually led a keen-minded Soquili to the logical conclusion. "Ohh... I don't know about that." She couldn't help but be pleased at his praise, though she felt almost guilty because of it. Was it right to feel good at being called more smart then someone's mentor? And what would she do if she couldn't live up to that claim? If she suddenly became dumb, and...
She let herself become distracted by his latter words.
The mare let out a laugh at that. "But does the sun even eat berries and apples and other sweets? Maybe it only likes oats and hay!" She shook her head, answering her own question. "No. No-one, whether Soquili or Sun, could not like apples." Satisfied, she peered at him curiously. "You wouldn't... happen to know where any good apple trees are around here, would you?" The talk had caused her stomach to demand food.
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