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 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:47 am
She considered this seriously.
”I’m fine.”
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:48 am
"Good." she commented and continued. "How's Scars?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:49 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:50 am
She nodded, slightly impatient. "How's Mom?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:50 am
”She's fine,” after a moment's more thought, she added, ”she's worried about you.”
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:52 am
"Can't imagine why." she rolled her eyes, paused, then asked in low tones: "how're the kids?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:56 am
At this, Pristine paused. The seconds ticked by in her silence. She stared at Bitter End, processing how best to answer her question. She honestly didn't know -
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:58 am
"Good enough for me." she closed the conversation at the end of her tether, and leaned over to give her a rough nuzzle before wandering off, beckoning for Sleepless to follow.
"She's the weird one." End informed, shaking her head.
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Jun D rolled 2 20-sided dice:
16, 19
Total: 35 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:00 am
Sleepless hated to admit it, but she was inclined to agree. Any hope of asking that strange doe for help had faded within the first few moments of that conversation - the solemn face had not changed the entire time. What kind of malformed family was this, anyway?
She was distracted from her musings by an odd patch of mud - there was a strange, blue tint to it, and the grass around its borders had been stained a similar hue. Some sort of dyeing property? While nothing like this had been on the list, she couldn't help the nagging thought that it might come in handy to a stag like Never Idle, anyway. Putting down the beeswax, she said, "Maybe we should let Never Idle know about this. Dye mud could be pretty useful to him, and I'm sick of carrying the beeswax around. My mouth is going numb."
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:08 am
"I don't know - maybe it's none of his beeswax!!!" End allowed herself a few harsh barks of laughter before calming down again, her face settling into utter apathy. "Alright, let's go. That way I can get my tail cleared, too."
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:09 am
Sleepless rolled her eyes and picked up the beeswax, heading back to Never Idle’s base.
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Maxx D rolled 2 20-sided dice:
12, 20
Total: 32 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:10 am
They hadn't walked for very long when she found a giant grandfather tree. End peered in to find luminescent fungi infesting its innards. "Look," she said. "Glowy shrooms."
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Jun D rolled 2 20-sided dice:
2, 3
Total: 5 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:11 am
Sleepless spared a glance over, "Don't touch that, it'll hurt you."
On second thought, she didn't know why she told her not to touch that. Thankfully, the quick discovery of a nearby patch of tall grass mitigated her annoyance.
"I know he wanted this..." carefully, she reached down and extracted a good mouthful of long grass stems.
SUCCESS! #2
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Maxx D rolled 2 20-sided dice:
17, 2
Total: 19 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:16 am
"Work faster! Work faster!" floated over her head, and Bitter End - who was already slipping back into her old-fashioned doom-gloom hatred for herself and the world - collapsed straight into it.
"Curse youuu" she hissed, at a volume that was meant to be heard by her taskmaster Never Idle, but also to pretend that she hadn't meant for him to hear. "Of course it would be this way. Why wouldn't it? It always has been. How could I ever have thought that things would ever - ever turn out any better?"
"Work faster! Work faster!" it swooped over and almost into her head. It was not Never Idle's disembodied voice, but a crow. Despite her embarrassed anger, she was glad, at least, that it was a crow - suited to the darkness of her life.
"Work faster!" It concluded, and flew off.
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Jun D rolled 2 20-sided dice:
9, 7
Total: 16 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:17 am
Sleepless quietly sniggered past the grasses - then her eyes widened and she ran over to the clearing. She could hardly believe her fortune! Another perfect lynx skull, smooth and bleached!
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