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((I don't have a firekin yet so here's my random NPC animal! biggrin ))

Kuchimba was awaked by a disturbance all around her. The walls of her burrow were shaking minutely, as though all around her something was moving the earth. Maybe something big?

Kuchimba's hole was not deep, but she'd made it weeks ago in the hard-packed earth and so far it had held. But now whatever it was was causing the roof to crumble in places!

With a scowl and an angry squeak, the jerboa dashed to the mouth of her hole to see what all the fuss was about.

((OOH, does this mean I won the last familar? biggrin ))

I do not own any Firekins or familiars here. (NPC snake familiar)

Fajra wandered what all the fuss was about, as she frowned in displeasure. She used her tongue to scent the air to see if danger was upon her home in the ground. Ah just some enthuastic cub digging around in the dirt. Rolling her eyes Fajra rolled her scaly body deeper into the dirt and fell asleep once more.

Maddy sneeezed, dirt flew up into her face as a breeze caught the loose bits and right into her face. She took a moment to rub her eyes and tripped backwards over her little snake friend, she laughed for a moment but had to move as a larger creature's paw thumped down on the earth nearby, the little female snake curled carefully around Maddy and together the found a spot that wasn't so crowded, digging furiously she tried to find more treasures but found nothing yet again.

After a while, Keahi got bored with digging. He opted to take a break, crawling out of his hole to sit down. Blue eyes, like pools of water amid the charcoal and fire of his coat, scanned the area, before landing on... A mongoose. Slowly a red tongue slid out, licking his lips. Oh, that looked tasty right now... He got down, starting to stalk it.

Otherwise bored, the snake mindlessly looked around. And then he became aware of the cub MOVING. It was a slow and deliberate movement... He looked in the direction that his new-found partner was going and his tiny jaw dropped. "Wait a minute, that belongs to my sister!"

[[ <33 Since all prizes have now been won, there's no need to roll in thread. However RP may continue until tomorrow at 8 for raffle tickets! ]]

Veru shrugged his shoulders as he looked over the muddy bay. So far he'd found nothing... but by the look of Naseera's grin, others had been much more successful. Just his luck. He'd been hoping to at least snag a smile of his own from the rather lovely looking cat. Oh well. "Any luck, An?"

The blackened young lioness shook her head, her face about as sour as they could come. "Absolutely nothing! Just fish bones. That's not even fair. I think there are rodents that are finding more things then I am!" Her ears flattened. "Miloooo, I didn't even find one single cursed object."

Beside her, the scarred jackal rose his head. Veru wasn't certain what role the little dog seemed to have in this operation, but he had been watching them all with an almost kingly gaze. Odd. What, was he some sort of jackal bigshot around here? When he spoke, his voice was thick with some sort of accent. "Better that you not. We don't need any further tears into the Other World."

Veru arched his eyebrow. He didn't know what that meant, but An seemed to nod. With a sigh, the golden lioness rubbed her cheek, and looked over at the other lions searching, still digging in the mud. "Kinda strange that the water dried up though."

The jackal shifted his ears, turning towards the same scene. "Yes. It is troubling. We are making preparations."

"I'm sure deserts have droughts all the time," Veru commented, shuffling back into the mud.

"I can't remember a time when this place dried up..." An trailed off.

"Nor can I," said the jackal.

As he continued his trek towards the seemingly empty oasis, Kob took his time to pause at the edge of the barren pools side, staring into its nude disposition. If he could frown, he would. There were others about, but he didn't give any mind or care to them, descending down into the open dip. Perhaps there would be some leftover critters to nibble on... some that got stuck in the ground. Though as the lizard was searching about, he instead came upon random trinkets and old artifacts. What would a lizard want with these old things?

[[Update:

Rather then rolling tonight, I'll be rolling Friday at 8PM EST. I'm delaying the rolling for anyone who might have missed the game yesterday, but also so that there's a really nice post up about familiars in the forum. <3 This post will serve as a member list of sorts so we can start to keep track of all the little guys running around!

And, if people have an interest in continuing RP with their NPC critters, I'll try and make a spot for them too. ]]