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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:31 pm
Kyra looked at him surprised, "Hm?" She cocked her head to the side, "It was no trouble for me." She shook her head, "In fact it was a very enjoyable fly." She smiled as she folded her wings and settled next to him on the cliff. Her wings were a little tired from the trip, but it had been a long time since she tested her limits, it felt good to have sore wings. It meant she could do better next time.
"It is beautiful up here." She looked around, smiling to herself.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:41 pm
Kashet nodded, peering over at the view himself. "The sunrise itself can be quite lovely if you're fond of such things. I've always liked the quiet. Forests are well enough, but bird song in the morning is so defeaning. I have no idea how you sleep through it." Kashet offered a small smile to Kyra then looked back at the desert, then down the edge of the cliff into the narrow canyon below.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:49 pm
Kyra laughed, "I think I have the ability to tune them out now, because they did used to wake me up. but they don't do that anymore." The Daeva rolled her shoulders back as she yawned slightly. It had been several hours since she slept, and it was starting to wear on her. but she could go a couple more hours without sleep and not suffer any ill effects.
She wanted to stay awake long enough to see the sunset, to see if it was as beautiful as Kashet said it was. "I think now...i might have a hard time sleeping in silence."
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:00 pm
"You'd find it hard to sleep here then if that's the case," he said. "The most sound comes from the wind. Actually," he amended, gesturing to the canyon, "it can make a lot of noise when it goes through the rocks, so I suppose it's not all that quiet here."
Above them the sky had started to light up, turning into a deep blue matching his wings now and slowly getting paler.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:55 pm
"I don't think that any place is truly quiet. There has to be some kind of noise somewhere." Kyra smiled as she looked around the canyon and smiled. "Though i have to admit it is.....less noisy then some of the places I have visited over the years. Have you lived here very long?" She looked over at the male, cocking her head to the side as she watched him interested. This was by far the longest conversation she had had in months.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:26 pm
"Well if there is such a place, then the desert is as close as you can get. If you're away from the cliffs there's nothing for the wind to make noise against. It can make noise all on it's own in the dry season, but most other times it's silent. No animals around to make sounds because it's too hot and there's not much to support life."
Kashet looked up from the canyon bottom he'd been examing and at Kyra. "I've lived here a good part of my adult life. I like the warmth, and the quiet. Plenty of noisy stuff I can visit that's only a few days of flying from here, if I get the urge, but I prefer the solitude this place offers."
When Kashet stopped to thing, Kyra was only the second person to ever hold such a long conversation with him on first meeting. Avatre had been the first, but she felt more like a niece to him that anything else. Kyra was....something different. Friend, if nothing else, but maybe more than that. Of course it was far too early to tell, but it was a thought he stored away for later.
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:00 am
Kyra nodded her head, "I suppose that is true enough. You don't live that deeply into the desert so that you can leave whenever you want." The female looked around the canyon closely. It was beautiful, that much she had to admit. Though she had always found beauty in landscapes, not that she usually said it out loud to anyone. Thinking back she realized that she had been alone most of her life, and therefore couldn't said it out loud to anyone so the point was moot.
"Solitude has it's benefits...." But more and more lately she was seeing the more negative drawback to HER solitude. Kyra hadn't realized it before, but she was lonely. She didn't like being alone anymore. It was empty, and cold. She wanted contact, even if it was just a friend. Maybe if Kashet didn't mind, she could come back to visit him again when the loneliness was too much to bear.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:59 pm
Kashet nodded absently. "It does......though I suppose company has it's advantages as well. It's always more pleasant to share a happy moment with someone tolerable than alone." He mentally winced, adding, "And I say tolerable to imply that it wouldn't be much fun to be around someone annoying, not that your company is only tolerable. You are actually quite pleasant to talk to."
He coughed quietly, trying to halt his words before he spilled off on a babbling spree and embarassed himself.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:33 am
The female laughed softly, "I am please to know that I am tolerable. I would hate for you to find me annoying. Though I suppose if you did, then you would have stopped talking to me long ago. Certainly you wouldn't have shown me your favorite place to hang out." Kyra smiled at him. He seemed to be slightly caught off guard now and wondered what had changed. Or least that was the way it appeared to her. He was quick to clarify that he didn't find her annoying, maybe that meant he found her company more the tolerable.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:54 am
"One of my favorite places," Kashet corrected, a small smile on his face, encouraged by Kyra's reaction. "You happened to just drop down out of the sky on another of my places. And there are one or two other spots that are quite lovely that I frequent."
While the Daevas spoke the sky got brighter, from dark blue to steel blue to pearly gray tinged with periwinkle, lavender, pale pink, and orange. The clear, dry air of the desert combined with the vast amounts of open land, easily seen from the high vantage point on the cliffs, made the colors seem even sharper here than in places with more moisture in the air.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:25 pm
"Right...one of your favorite places." Kyra chuckled, but then her attention was drawn to the beautiful landscape before her. Never before had she had such a view of the splendor, and she found that it took her breath away with the magnificence of it all.
"Kashet....oh my god....this view is....it is spectacular." She wrapped her wings around herself to stave off the slight chill in the air.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:30 pm
Kashet smiled, but didn't say anything. He knew how beautiful the sunrise was, and didn't want to distract Kyra as she watched. Instead he sat down down to her, his own dark blue wings folded to his back, and watched with her. Actually, though he'd seen this many times before, the experience felt entirely different when he had someone to watch it with...
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:27 pm
"That was by far the most incredible thing I have ever witnessed in my life." Kyra watched until all the colors dissipated into the normal looking sky before she finally looked at Kashet. "I have never seen a sunrise like that before. The desert...I don't know what it is about it...it's just so different from anything I have ever seen before. I can't believe that you get to watch that everyday."
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:07 am
Kashet glanced over at Kyra and gave her a half-smile. "Oh yes. There's more than the fair share of harsh miserableness to living in this land, but then you see sights like these and you remember why you'd even want to live out here in the first places."
He exhaled a contented sigh through his nose and glance back at the sky. The sun was still an orange orb not not bright enough to burn the eyes to look at it, and did little yet for the chill of the desert night air. The sky was already lighter and turning bluer with each moment, and Kashet was willing to bet that in an hour or two he'd be missing this cool air.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:33 am
"Yes." Kyra looked out over the horizon, then shivered slightly at the cold wind. "I never thought I would say this....but it's rather cold in the desert. At least during the night hours." She smiled to herself. "I don't wish the morning weather to come back immediately though. It is quite a bit hotter then I am used too..." The vixen turned her head to look at the male.
"Though I'm sure that you have acclimated to the temperature change nicely after living here for so long. Am i right?"
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