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 Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:25 pm
"It's bad luck to cut your hair?" She glanced briefly at her own carefully braided tail. She was aware that the critters surrounding her herd took pride in adorning the stallions and mares with jewellery and ornate decorations - but they also tended to trim and cut the hair accordingly. They did it to ensure it remained healthy, so that the dirt wouldn't crust up and cause difficulty but she'd never known it to be bad luck before.
Superstition perhaps?
Shaking out her braids, she took a few moments to imagine the mare with her hair so long and afforded a smile. With the braids undone the mare must have been quite a sigh to behold - those long wavy longs would captivate any stallion in the immediate vicinity. Was it something to do with this superstition or practicality that she kept it bound?
"It must look beautiful when down...why hide it?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:36 pm
 "Hide it? There be nothin' t' hide." She shook out her mane which made the thick dreads fly about the golden bangles that decorated them clinking in the quiet of the day. There was a seeming danger to her hair along with the beauty, one of those bangles if swung right could hurt. "If ah didn't have it tied up mah hair be in t' way. Ah can't be huntin' with hair around mah ankles." She glanced at the other mare with a sly glance. "Why do ya hide all ya hair in t' small braids? Ain't it be for t' same reasons?" Malis considered the mare's braids a little skinny for her tastes but then the braiding part made them look rather pretty so she considered mayby trying that style once maybe... if she could ever untangle her hair from the dreads long enough to do such a thing.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:43 pm
"Well, to be honest..." Ashura glanced at her tail, the only braided part of her form and gave a wry smile. She had asked an otter to do it as a matter of curiosity, just as she had asked said creature to apply the dyes to her tail and mane - and act of rebellion that had infuriated her elders but at the same time...had made her mother give her the strangest look. Her father had said nothing, simply nodded.
"It was an experiment more than out of practicality." She confessed after a few moments, returning her gaze to the mare at the sound of the clinking. From the intensity of those jingles, it was clear that those things would hurt if Malis shook her head at a rather quick speed.
Ashura made a mental note not to try.
"But it does have it's uses, my tail gets a little less muddy, it looks pretty...I suppose I can't really complain but long locks can look just as nice." She mused after a few moments. "Especially when they blow in the wind, you know?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:04 pm
Malis was not the type to sit around all day and talk hair... even if it gave her a chance to bost about her own fantastic looks and sense of style. "When ah be little troll ah be havin' dreads in mah hair. Kept them out t' way. Mah hair be in dreads ever since, Ah doubt ah be able t' take them out now." She though for a moment before turning towards Ashura with a questioning glance. "How ya be getting t' critters t' work on ya hair? Or ya meanin' t' two-leggers. Most lil critters be runnin' away from me at t' sight." She spoke that with almost an air of pride before turning a little thoughtful, "Ta be thinin' o' it most two-leggers be runnin' too."
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:10 pm
Two-leggers were those strange paled faced things weren't they? Walked on their hind legs and uttered strange words she couldn't understand. She'd avoided them from the moment she entered the Kawani more so for the sake of her own sanity. She didn't want to feel like she was talking to a stone - she'd probably get better conversation out of a stone though...if she was honest.
"No, I mean critters...like otters and raccoons," She supposed she could see why some might run, the more judgemental would but that was hardly fair. If Malis were round her herd the otters wouldn't leave her alone! They'd practically beg to play with those thick braids - put a few flowers in, thread some spider silk and voila!
"All you have to do is ask, they love fiddling with anything soft." She explained, motioning towards her tail which appeared somewhat battered from travel but was reasonably intact. "Especially if you let them at decorations."
"...I don't really understand why they'd run though -" She paused briefly and eyed the stones, then the bush for a few moments before grinning.
"You didn't try to hit them with a stone did you?" She enquired jokingly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:17 pm
"Ah might have..." Malis looked thoughtful for a long moment. "There be that time near t' river where ah be board and decided t' start practicin' and there be a bever who came out t' screech at mah stones. Ad din't go near his home but ah be guessin' he didn't know that... or she" The blue mare added as an after thought. "Nah... most critters be afraid o' mah good looks." A troll spent years cultivating an aura of agression around them, if anything but to keep the more dangerous creatues at bay that would otherwise cause a troll to get hurt while hunting. However with Malis there was a reason why she had left the tribes and her un-troll-like tendencies was showing more and more now she was out of the Barrens.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:22 pm
The image of a beaver shaking its paw angrily at Malis popped into the mare's mind. It took all of her self control not to burst into a fit of giggles at the mere thought! Truly, it was an amusing image and one she had seen many times as foal while her herd mates (colts would you believe) had went on their mini adventures to prove their worth to onlooking and potential mates...it had usually resulted in a water fight which the otters and beavers completely dominated.
"Well I'm sure that he wouldn't have appreciated it," She mused as she recalled Malis accuracy and the intensity of her hit, "The power of your kick would destroy his home!" She pointed out after a few moments of consideration. That being said, Malis wasn't exactly the most approachable of mares...something in the way she walked perhaps and a lot of smaller creatures were intimidated by such things.
"Your good looks wouldn't scare away the critters...but the way you walk may very well do," She tilted her head to the side and flashed a smile, "Should probably work on that," She continued in a teasing tone.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:43 pm
Malis took her words the wrong way and shook her head sadly. "Ah know ah be needin' t' work on mah prescence... ah not be scary enough. It be hard enough keeping t' males away without usin' the stones. Mah sister could scare a flock o' birds from t' trees just by snarlin' but when ah be smaller a couldn't even frighten t' mice. Though she be much bigger than ah be." She towered over Ashura, about the size of a large stallion, so saying that she was 'small' was almost laughable. As if to change the subject from her own failings she grasped at the comment Ashura had made earlier about her accuracy. "Why thank ya, Ah don't think ah would try t' destroy his home but it be nice knowin' that ah could." She nodded with a smirk.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:19 pm
How big was her sister?!
Ashura positively quivered at the potential size of Malis' sibling and couldn't even begin to imagine how she must look. No wonder a simple snarl would cause the critters to bolt, she was bloody huge! Malis was already far above Ash in height and if she could scare off small creatures too - well, maybe they had no problem with dragons (whatever those were) after all.
"Why would you want to scare away males?" This troubled Ash, while she wasn't interested in romance just yet she had no intention of scaring them away just based on gender! Malis certainly came from an unusual herd, did that mean her herd was all females and no males. Ash let out a gasp - what if they ate their males like spiders!
"...You're not a cannibal are you?" Ash enquired hesitantly.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:01 am
"Males be brutes, only t' strongest are welcome t' try and woo t' females... unless they be havin' a lot of shinies, that always helps." Malis grinned and flicked her tail at a passing fly as she remenisced. "Ah remember when ma sister had a troll-suitor, he be commin' in with all t' golds he could find... an' he was pretty 'andsom to boot. Tusks that were as long as a kodo an' bright orange hair..." the troll chuckled, "Mah sister be throwin' him out of t' cave an still he came up an' persisted. Even after she be hittin' him over t' head with a club, he still be commin' around. She found a good'n." At the last comment she laughed out loud, a hearty sound that had a little roughness to it. "Ya think we be cannibals mon? Nah, Ah be never eatin' one o' ma own kind. Jus' no' right..." The more she talked about her homeland the stronger her speech became, as if she was talking more 'Troll' than Kawani.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:54 am
Kodo? Club? Shinies?
So many questions and so little time, Ashura's face was a picture as Malis continued to explain the strange rituals that were present in her homeland. Really, she had seen a lot of things but physically abusing a stallion just because she could? Well, it wasn't really in Ash and she wasn't sure if any male in these parts would permit it.
"How strange," She murmured at last, choosing not to ask about the Kodos or the Club for the sake of her own sanity, "I can't say I've ever felt the urge to beat up a male, it seems somewhat uncouth." As to the brute comment, the mare wasn't entirely sure how to address that one, her father was completely harmless and spent most of her time smiling idly at trees.
...He was a troubled soul.
"I know some males are brutes but not all of them are, some are lovely!"
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:20 pm
"Well that be 'cause they be not trolls." Malis chuckled, a harsh gutteral sound that seemed fitting since her heratage. "Ah do 'ave t' admit that ah be a little more partial to t' shinies but then if ya can't be hittin' them over the head, how can ya tell a male ya interested?" The troll never learnt the 'niceties' in basic flirting, though when casually observed it could be said that she'd pretty much flirt with anything that moved, even if she would have denied any proof if put in front of her nose. "Though ah have been herein' about mares seemin' t' go with t' 'bad boy' soquili so maybe that be the little troll in them?" She mused for a bit on that wondering if there was a connection.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:25 am
Ash couldn't help herself and burst into a fit of laughter that sounded somewhat musical. She had never met any soquili quite like this one. Like her, Malis seemed completely oblivious to the traditions of the Kawani lands but Malis was much more extreme! Ash wasn't sure what a troll was to begin with, but she had to send the Spirits her thanks for creating them, they were beyond unique.
"Oh! No, no!" Even she knew you didn't hit a stallion over the head, he'd probably collapse and scream for aid upon the abuse, "If you want to show a stallion you like him you just give him a nudge and then a little wink," Ash explained as she approached the mare. It was only after she mulled over the blue mare's previous words that she 'corrected' herself.
"But don't nudge them hard enough to knock them over, their male pride couldn't handle a mare stronger than them." She teased, although she suspected that some might find the concept to be an intriguing one!
"You should give it a try."
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:13 am
"Hmmm... maybe if ah be finding a male out here ah might be. Ya should be showin' me!" Malis grinned toothily and then looked around. "Ah remember seein' t' males around t' lake this mornin' dunno if they be still there." She mused for a moment not thinking for a moment about her non-trollish behavior. "So if they still be there ah be goin' up to them and be winkin'..." As she spoke she siddeled over towards Ashura and attempted to wink alluringly. "Sometin' like this?" She then attempted to nudge Ashura but decided against it at the last minute... she wasn't sure how hard was too hard.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:35 am
Ashura suppressed a giggle as Malis attempted to saunter up to her suggestively. This rather reminded Ash of the times (as a foal) she had attempted to practice the same things with her friends. Some had mastered it while some looked utterly ridiculous, nevertheless each time it made things very entertaining. There would be much laughter and much teasing but each and everyone of them found their own 'way' to make things work for them.
...Even if it was tripping at the hooves of a stallion!
"Sort of, maybe try to add a bit of a smirk in there?" She suggested, placing a small, coy smile on her lips as she gave a wink of her own. She tilted her head slightly for good measure...That in itself gave results, as her long mane shifted and cascaded over one eye - it hid half of her face from view but gave that 'I am so mysterious' look.
Or so her mother had said - she always thought it looked stupid when she did it.
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