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 Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:54 pm
Alaster calmed down at Wolfies touch and snuggled back into her jacket.
Calendery nipped at Alaster's tail as he wiggled his way back beside her.
Lion bent forward then squat down facing the box like thing in front of her. "I'll try and walk over to it" She said as she inspected the floor. "I think the floor here is ok to walk on." Lion said as she stood up and took a cautious step toward the box. Slowly she stepped closer to the box testing each step she took. Close enough to touch, Lion reached out a shaky hand. Her fingers touching the side panel. It felt cold under her finger tips. "It's Cold?" she said aloud more to herself than to Wolfie. She placed her palm on it sliding her hand across it. Taking her hand away she yelled up to Wolfie. "I don't think it's wood Wolfie. It feels like metal." Lion held on to the sides of the metal box and used it for support, side stepping around to the other side of it. Placing her hands on this side of the metal box she slid her hands down it's cold surface once again. About half way down her had hit something sticking out of the side of it. Lion bent down to get a better view of what her hand hit. "Wolfie, this is not just a box, It's a safe!" Lion looked up at Wolfie. "Can you see this? Shine the light right here." Lion pointed down at the safe.
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:24 pm
"A safe? Now Im confused." Wolfie adjusted her flashlight and strained to see, trying not to fall over the edge of the hole. her boots were wet and slipped on the mud around the opening. She had been shuffling from side to side with an unsettled feeling and now, unfortunately, it was doing more harm than good.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:14 am
Lion looked back to the safe with the new light Wolfie supplied. "Yes, I believe it is. It has a dial on it like a safe would." Lion bent down toward the dial, her face so close, her nose almost touched. "How strange." Lion stood up. " Instead of numbers there are letter's on the dial." Lion looked up at Wolfie "Have you ever seen a safe like that?" She walked back under the opening above her to get a better look at Wolfie. "Do you think that safe would be ok to stand on? There is a shelf next to it. I could try and climb on top of the safe to reach the rope you have." Lion walked to the shelf. She took a good look at the shelf. " I don't see much else on this shelf. It was the one I found the warm bottle on or what you called the Moonstone." Lion placed her hands on the shelf and pushed on it. "The shelf seems a little wriggly but It might be strong enough to hold my weight for a moment or two." Lion walked back over to the opening."I wish you could get a better look at that safe." She said as she pointed at it once more. "Hey Wolfie, You have pup's older than my little one's. Do you think they could help?" She asked as she leaned up against the closest wall, feeling a bit dizzy, and touched her forehead.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:55 pm
Talencia was taking an evening stroll with several of her Moonlits. She had Scamp capering beside her, tugging on branches and making them shake loose their loads of snow. She also had Morgana at her side, giving little blind Tira a ride. The blind pup loved to be outside... the sounds and smells excited her and gave her strength. Tal herself carried the babe Sirius, whose hot puppy breath curled visibly in the cold air, looking like fairy decorations left to swirl behind them as they waded through the snow. Tal was dressed warmly, with awaterproof snowsuit over all and large galoshes on her feet.
Not surprisingly, it was Tira that perked up first. She yipped to Morgana, who translated for Tal. "She says that she hears someone... two human someones. Up ahead." Morgana nosed the air in the proper direction and Tal promptly headed that way, whistling to Scamp to come with and stay close.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:40 pm
Neverborn Comes bearing a large pile of fire wood upon a bough of pine, Fenrir in pursuit of an even larger pile on the sled.
"Sorry about the delay... We got lost." With a hurt expression Neverborn looks to wolfie, then the rope, and finally the hole. "Ok who feel where, and why?"
Fenrir.heedless of the goings on takes his load to the shed, and starts stacking it all.
(Been AFK for awhile with lots of work, sorry guys)
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:31 am
Lion pushed herself from the wall and looked up at the new person beside Wolfie. "Hi, I fell" She said and waved to the new person. "I'm Lionsrage, you can call me Lion." Lion looked back to the safe then back to Wolfie. "My Head hurts. Do either of you have something for pain and maybe some water?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:42 pm
smiles akwardly at lion, and shakes his cateen. "I still have half a canteen, lion. You are welcome to it." Neverborn leans as far as he safely can and aims for lion, releasing the water container. "And please, Call me True."
Fenrir walks over to them and looks to see what is a matter, his winged anthro shape casting shadows into the room below. Leans over to Neverborn and says, "Is she ok? Think I should glade down there and help her out?"
Neverborn grins at him and nods saying, "Be gentle, we made a pact to make friends, no matter our instincts."
Fenrir offers a smile laced in affection for his bond mate, then offers a simular, yet weaker smile to Wolfie. Noding to them both, "I understand, 'We shall prove to all that we may do good, and not wholly mischief.'" Neverborn releases a hearty laugh behind Fenrir as he glides down and alits before Lion. Offering her a deep bow in hopes to disarm her of his demonic features. "And I, you may call Fenrir Demonic Anthro of All Moonlits!"
NEverborn falls over in the snow laughing histarically muttering something about villagers and a cat being hungry. Fenrir smiles scratching his head, "Guess you had to be there. Just call me Fenrir, are you ok?" Fenrir begins to look Lion over"
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:58 am
"Okay, okay. Everybody just calm down. Fenrir, though you often are a great help at things the rest of us can't do, I think this time you might just be more harm than good. You are too heavy to be standing close to the edge of the room. And there isnt enough room for wingspan to get you down and up with flight of some sort." Wolfie paused and looked at Neverborn in the snow.
"Is now the time to be going into hystarics?! Neverborn!" She kicks some snow on top of him and looks back down towards Lion.
"Lion, don't drink that water too fast. Its cold and you have been down there a while. Im not sure if thats going to drop your core temperature too fast." Wolfie turned to Fenrir. "I think I found you a job. Can you go back to the Common Room and see if someone there can make a canteen of warm tea? And find a throw or something warm for her to put on for a bit. I want to make sure this place is stable. We dont want to collapse it further and injure her or make it so we cant figure out this strange safe later on." Wolfie looked down into the hole.
"Okay Lion, we should have you out of there soon. A safe should hold you but Im not sure the shelving would. I don't want that toppling onto the safe because we will never be able to get it out that way." Wolfie took off her winter hat and tossed it into the hole. It landed softly on Lion's face as she was looking up. "Put that on and stay warm. Hang in there hun."
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:32 pm
Lion reached up toward the canteen, standing as high on her tip toes as she could manage, catching it as it comes toward her. "Thank You True." Popping off the top Lion took a long drink and coughed a little, spiting some of the water out in her eagerness. Wiping her mouth with her hand, Lion looked up at the strange creature coming her way and backed up a few steps.
"Fenrir, you look like nothing I've ever seen!" She spoke still a little shocked at the Moonlit's appearance.
"No problem Wolfie, I won't drink to fast again." She said looking at Wolfie trying to keep her eyes off Fenrir. "Thanks for this." She said as she placed the hat on her head. Lion looked at the safe again and then to the shelf. "Ok Wolfie, I'll stay here and leave the shelf and safe alone. Your right. We need to be able to get this safe out of here and caving in the place won't help at all." Lion sat on the ground and pulled her legs to her chest to keep warm. "I think it's getting colder."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:05 am
"I think your right hun. I believe the radio said it was going to snow again. Not much, thankgod." Wolfie dug her hands into her pockets and looked for something useful. "Here," Wolfie tossed down a pair of mittens. "Its not much but its something."
Wolfie took a few steps away and whistled, hoping one of her pups would hear the ruckous. She waited. The sun was up and the snow glinted with its reflection. Wolfie whistled again. Of course the pups would hear such a thing, whether they would give up their prized nap, noone would know.
She turned back to Lion. "Hey hun, I dont know how much light you have down there but I dont need the flashlight anymore. Why dont you use my flashlight and check things out a bit more?" Wolfie held the object over the opening. "If you cant catch well, then duck. Dont wanna knock you out." She released the light.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:55 pm
Alaster and Calendery wiggled inside Wolfie's jacket at the sound of her whistle. Calendery poked her head out of the opening. She sniffed at Wolfie's neck giving Wolfie a lick. Alaster, below snuggled close to Wolfie warming his fur up with his small magic trying to keep his new friend warm.
"Snow? Wonderful, that is just what I need right now." Lion spoke her teeth chattering just a little. "Thanks" she said to Wolfie as she sliped the mittens on her cold fingers. Lion stepped back a little in time to hear the flashlight plop on the ground. "Not to much light, It seems to just be enough to see shadows." Lion walked over to the flashlight and picked it up. "I'll take a look around, but I think I'll try to stay in the open where you can see me." Lion flicked on the light and waved it around the room she had fallen in. There were many shelves lining the wall. It looked like some kind of storage area. The shelves had items on them here and there. A few bottles like the one she tossed up at Wolfie. "There are a few more of those bottles I threw at you. But they are different colors." Lion took a few steps toward the safe to get a better look at it. She noticed that the safe was not dirty at all, no dust. "That sure is strange Wolfie, this safe looks new. It's not even dirty. If it has been down here for along time wouldn't it have collected dust?" Lion bent down and Swept some dirt into a small pile with her hands. She picked it up and tossed it onto the safe. The dirt fell away from the safe without so much as a single speck falling onto the safe. "It can't get dirty Wolfie. The dirt won't stay on it." She said as she tried once more to throw dirt on the safe. Lion waved the light in the other direction. There were more shelves and a door. The door was blocked off by boards nailed across it in an X shape and a few more boards across the top and bottom of the door. Lion stepped back under the hole above her so that she could see Wolfie. "There is a door over there." She said as she pointed toward the door. "It's boarded up and there is a knob on it, but it don't look as if has been open in a very long time. I think someone put boards on it for a reason. I don't want to find out why they put them there alone. The weird thing is, is that I don't see any other doors down here." She said as she waved the light around the room. "If someone boarded up the room from this side, How did they get out?" Lion looked up at Wolfie seeing her pup Calendery. "Thanks Wolfie for taking such good care of them." She said as she nodded to the blue nose popping out of Wolfie's jacket.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:16 pm
"Collect those bottles if you can. I get the feeling that Hero might not be off ranting wild tales after all. A safe with a spell of some sort? And why all the moonstones in one place?" Wolfie thought for a moment. "moonstones do have a sort of magic. I wonder what would happen if we take them all away. Perhaps they are controling the safe somehow."
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:42 pm
The sun began to pull up a dense fog over the backyard and porch. Wolfie could no longer see the house from where she stood. It was beginning to get warm on top, even with the incoming wind. All of her pups toppled out of nowhere and assembled at her feet. She handed over Lion's pups to Autumn, knowing that she was the most motherly of them all. Autumn took Calendery by the scruff of the neck while Alaster got a ride. Apparently she was taking them both back inside.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:42 pm
Lion waved the light toward the nearest shelf. "Collect them? Ok. I think I can do that." She said with a little flick of nervousness in her voice. Lion stepped toward the shelf watching her feet as she went. The boards creaked under her feet as she tested each step. Getting to the shelf she shined the light on 3 bottles. The first one was a bright blue, the second an orange, and the third was green. Remembering the first bottle she had held, she reached out a hand and touched the first bottle. It too started to glow and her hand felt warm against it. Placing the flashlight under her arm she carefully picked up the 3 bottles and walked back to the opening. "Now what? Do I throw them up there?" Lion felt a little dizzy and bent down to place the bottles on the ground. She stood up and grabbed the flashlight from under her arm. She waved the light around the room at the other shelves. "There looks to be about 10 to 15 more bottles. I'll try to get them and place them here on the ground, while you figure out how I'm to get them to you." Lion walked to the other shelves and started to collect the other bottles. Each time she touched a new bottle it would glow and become warm in her hands until she laid them on the ground in the group she had already collected.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:50 pm
Calendery whined and tried to claw at Autumn, not wanting to leave. Alaster seemed happy in his new spot on top and rode peacefully into the house.
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