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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:34 pm
Kepi looked over and saw that Toreth seemed to be following her actions, which was actually good since it would save her from having to tell him about the whole possible deity and this one it was custom to be clean when you visited. As Osiris was the modeity of Judgment it was a pretty good idea not to piss him off by blowing off customs. She had heard the other tribe Modeity was a bit less strict.
“Yep, they helped build or so it’s said. Can’t say I was there to know firsthand. I would have to say there are no humans claiming the buildings as theirs, by the time that Horus grew up the relationship between modeities and humans really soured so Osiris banned them from the tribe lands. Apparently when humans come through all they see is a bunch of unimportant sand. Ah your brother a history nut? We have some of those in the tribes. They’re okay for the most part as long as they ask the questions to some one else”
“I would have to say I would be a disappointment to him considering I don’t profess to be an expert on the tribe, and there you go again with the flirting” Kepi said in an amused tone.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:38 pm
Toreth just grinned, completely unabashed. “That wasn’t flirting, it was just a statement of truth,” he said in innocent tones. “I would never be so bold as to openly flirt like that, my lady! Unless you like it, then bold it is,” he said, smiling and laughing at the same time at the pure silliness of it all.
“I wouldn’t think Kaleth would be too disappointed though,” he said when he’d finally managed to calm down and return to seriousness. “Even if you don’t know a whole lot he goes on these rants where it’s mostly just him talking aloud and asking himself the questions, and if you happen to have answers that’s fine and if not then he’s not really listening. And if he isn’t doing that he’s just pelting you with questions anyway with no discouragement if you can’t answer more than one in ten.”
Toreth shook his head in mock sadness. “Scholars. What a strange breed.”
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:11 pm
“Uhuh” Kepi stated this time rolling her eyes. “However to what I am sure is your great disappointment I confess I am not one for bold obvious flirting. You have the wrong sister for that, maybe my younger sister Oriana.” Then again Oriana tended to drive others crazy with her weird a** conspiracy theories.
Kepi just stared at Toreth and resisted the urge to shake her head. She probably would have been less sociable than she had to this brother; then again she often dealt with Kateri and her clinginess so maybe it might have been different. However it did sound like Kaleth would get along fabulously with some of the scribes in Kemet. “Well just be glad he isn’t a scribe then” Kepi finally spoke out. “Our Modeities grant the scribes almost perfect photographic memory, we have a scribe that sounds a lot like your brother, it takes forever to get him calmed down when he comes across something he’s passionate about”
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:43 am
Toreth snorted. “I’m pretty sure my brother already has a perfect photographic memory. He certainly always manages to bring up the most obscure, trivial things or stuff that happened so long ago that I’m almost sure he’s making it up. I mean I can remember a few events from my kidhood, like pouncing on my little sister, but ask him and he’ll go on about what the weather was like that day and the exact color the sky was and how the temperature felt and how annoying that beetle crawling on him was while we waited for our sister to pass by.”
Toreth’s expression was comically mournful. “A fellow can’t do anything reckless around him, otherwise he’ll start bringing up all the past mistakes. If he were a scribe I don’t think your deities could find much to improve on,” he said.
A thoughtful look crossed his face. “Well, it could be worse. I’d rather have him than my sister. Toxic can be downright violent and is not easy to work with.”
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:59 pm
Kepi tilted her head to the side as she thought about what she wanted to say next. Normally she would have said something along the lines ‘oh deities I pity you’ however when it came to family foxes had different views when it came to family and it was better to just avoid speaking in what could be taken as a negative light. However you couldn’t just sit there with a blank look on your face either. Ah the troubles of conversing with others. “Cant say I have any siblings like that although I’m not sure about if the modeities would add anything. My tribe member didn’t say what or how his memory was affected”
“Then again when it comes to messing up, you cant really do that around none photographic memory family members either. Its almost a given that they’ll remember anything you ever did that was stupid or silly or reckless for the rest of their lives with more clarity then you ever thought possible.” Kepi agreed.
“Ah I guess there is a family member in each family that doesn’t invoke the nicest of feelings but you’re still slightly attached to them” Kepi commented thinking about her own not so in tact family. It had mended back together mostly.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:58 am
Toreth just shrugged. “Of course. I mean I remember a lot of things my brother probably wishes I would just forget. But they’re all big things, you know? Stuff that leaves a big impact and usually has you rolling on the ground and laughing, or at the least doubled over and laughing. Kaleth can remember stuff that was only ever maybe mildly embarrassing just as easily as he remembers the big stuff.” He frowned and slowly paced around the inside of the temple. “I try to do that, but it’s usually foggy and I only remember the vague picture of what happened, whereas it’s always crystal clear to him.”
Then Toreth shrugged again, looking up from the wall he’d been examining and back at Kepi. “Well, we all work with what we’re given. It’s not like anyone can be perfect in all regards, much as some strive to be.”
He tilted his head, listening for noise outside. “So when do you think it would be safe to emerge? Not that this place isn’t fascinating and your company interesting, but I get twitchier the longer I have to stay in a single small space.”
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:20 pm
Kepi thought over what he had said before figuring out how she wanted to say her next statement. “Hmmm I guess that would be pretty annoying to have every little embarrassing thing remembered. Here we know there are at least three people that can recall all those things so we’re used to it I guess in such it doesn’t bother us any more. Or maybe its just I establish, I know about my failures and have or are dealing with them thus if you bring them up for leverage or something like that it hurts the friendship.” Kepi mused.
“That’s true, and of course it wouldn’t be really a family if you didn’t have some problems that brought you closer together” Kepi agreed. ‘or at least something irritating like that’ she thought silently squashing the urge to really think about Oriana.
“Well its not safe to go the way we came but I guess we can go out a rear exit or something, I just have to think about what rooms I can actually take you in” Kepi answered trying to recall the temple’s layout.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:36 pm
“We can’t just go out and sneak around,” Toreth asked, peering back towards the door they’d entered through. He hadn’t heard anything from outside that sounded like there might be herds milling around outside, though admittedly the thick stone of this building did a good job of muting sounds from outside. Still, he couldn’t imagine why they’d want to climb up over that sand dune just for some scruffy grazing here when there was better stuff nearer to the river. This building surely didn’t have anything interesting to them in or around it.
Plus if they had to navigate through here just to get to the back, that seemed like it would be a lot slower and take a lot more time than just simply going outside and skirting around.
“Shouldn’t we check first,” he wheedled, looking back at Kepi. “I mean it seems like if the way’s clear it would be a lot easier and less of a pain than having to go through this building, unless it’s a straight-way through or something.”
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:06 pm
Kepi resisted the urge to smile, or more smirk. Toreth had mentioned he really didn’t like being cooped up in these buildings. It was extremely amusing. She had no problem being where ever although she did prefer the out doors. “You really weren’t kidding when you mentioned not liking to be in these buildings.” She teased before looking out towards the entrance they had just come from. There was a pretty good chance they wouldn’t have made it up the dune and they would have calmed down a bit having finally gotten to the food.
“Yeah we can attempt going out. The temple is right next to the river again. In fact it opens up in the next room to a place to fish. However they’ve probably calmed down again I wouldn’t think attempting to slink away from them would get noticed at this moment.
Besides as he wasn’t a member of Kemet she really couldn’t bring him into much more of the temple. Some of them where open to outsiders. This one wasn’t. As they neared closer to the door she couldn’t sense or feel anything that would indicate the herd was closer to the temple.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:00 pm
Toreth followed after Kepi, ears pricked up as high as they could go and tilting forward a little as he strained to catch the sound of anything that might be ahead at the entrance. If there was still danger they could probably get away with sheltering in here. The neatness seemed to argue that the building didn’t play host to living creatures with any sort of frequency.
For a moment it looked like they were in the clear. He could hear sounds, but it was all a bit distant and quiet enough that even if the herds were nearby they had probably stopped their charge to graze. Then he heard something snort very close by, and heard the muffled thumps of hooves against sandy soil. He looked over at Kepi.
“What’dya think? Chance it, or sit here a bit longer to be sure?” After all, there was no guarantee that things wouldn’t get worse if they waited.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:55 pm
Kepi nibbled on her bottom lip as she thought about the situation. She hated not really knowing anything about Toreth. Sure she thought he was okay and she felt like in the future she could tolerate him, he wouldn’t be one of those annoying foxes. However in this situation where she didn’t know how he would move and how the antelope and other such creatures where going to behave… well she hated it.
He had been good though and had been following her example for the most part. Then she had to consider the prey animals and what their current mood was. She wasn’t skilled as a hunter might be at tracking their movements however she was still a scout and she had to be able to read them to avoid being trampled by them. They had reached the bank with the food and would be busy eating. It wasn’t the mad dash to get over.
Then again they still could be spooked none the less. Ugh the whole thing was utterly stupid, however she was known for doing some rather stupid things for others, like jumping into a flooded river as a kit to save Kore and half the stuff she rescued Kateri from. “Well I know you don’t like buildings. I would prefer waiting longer but I suppose we can chance it, just make calm quite movements and try not to seem like you are a prey animal.”
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:24 pm
Toreth nodded. “Slipping out and acting calm sounds good,” he said. “If you don’t really pay attention and don’t act like you’re predator out for prey, prey doesn’t do anything but keep an eye on you. For the most part,” he amended. “I know deer are pretty skittish and usually run every time they get startled unless they’re in really big herds.” He didn’t think it would be a problem here though. Nearly all the animals seemed to run in huge herds, and a lot of them were so big that they never even bothered to do more than occasionally glance at him to make sure he was moving on. Sometimes he even fancied they were debating attacking him instead!
Toreth shrugged. “It’s up to you. I’m good at running around and dodging, so as long as we don’t incite another stampede I can handle one or two animals that might want to charge.”
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:00 pm
“These types of animals aren’t exactly like deer, they’re a bit more tougher than deer but general principle is the same. When they are in a calm state of mind that plan often tends to work. Unless you stay too long then they start attacking you.” She commented and then looked back to the outside of the temple again. Well he thought he could dodge and at least keep out of their range. Only problem is that if they spooked them enough for one or two or them to charge the rest would quickly follow. Eh what was life with out a bit of danger? This wasn’t any worse than trying to save a kit while you where a kit as well in a crocodile infested water.
“Well then lets see what you can do then” Kepi stated and slipped out of the safety the temple provided. Sure enough emerging from the cave gave her a feeling of being watched but she kept her focus on just getting to the river bank near the temple walls and traveling away from the herd. She made a note to send something to the other scouts later to tell them of the prey animals.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:44 pm
Toreth slipped out close behind Kepi, keeping slightly behind and to the side of her, blocking her from the horned creatures. It was part of his protective side that he couldn’t help, and anyway he was bigger and could probably take a sudden attack better than Kepi. With his height, he was almost a match in size for the deer-like things.
He made sure to keep his attitude casual and obviously disinterested, keeping an eye out on the herd but otherwise completely ignoring them, keeping the main part of his focus exclusively ahead of him. He could sense that he and Kepi were also being watched in the same way he was watching, but thus far it seemed like the beasts were disinclined to attack when there was good grazing around and neither of the foxes were hunting.
Toreth slowly began to relax the further away they got and glanced at the back of Kepi’s head. He felt a question bubbling up in his throat, but swallowed it down; they still weren’t clear yet, he didn’t want to startle the herds with sudden sound.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:03 am
Kepi wanted to frown, not missing the fact she was moved into the outside, however it wasn’t the time to show ire. Besides some times you just had to go along with it. Plus even though she so didn’t need the protecting, this kind of situations often came up in her job. However she did admit was slightly used to it having Oriel slip into protection mode every once in a while.
She let her eyes wonder back to the path before us. As a scout she didn’t need her eyes to keep close attention on the animals. Scouts often got the gift of enhanced senses. Occasionally they would flicker over to the herd or when one sounded like it was too close for comfort. Of course the sheer amount of animals caused her a slight headache as every shift of movement and the tense state quickly wore on her nerves
As soon as they were mostly in the clear, she gave a quick glance back at the herd. She would have to make a note to tell one of the scribes about the temple and the current whereabouts of so many prey animals as soon as she got back to Kemet. Suddenly she had the feeling of some one looking at her and wondered if she should bring anything up with Toreth. Eh, he would either say what was on his mind or not.
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