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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:38 pm
Ren stopped for a second and turned around to just look at Kuari. “I think you got all of us confused there. I suppose the whole nature of the quest is to figure out just what you are looking for. When you think about what you are supposed to be doing it just serves to be confusing and your head ends up hurting yet at the same time. Floating through life not thinking about it doesn’t seem to get me anywhere either. As for the whole not giving up on the quest and pushing forward. I’m stubborn I won’t let some foolish family mission get the best of me. Perhaps it’s because I’m a were leopard and our dna contributes to being feisty and stubborn that drives me on to find it anyways and to defend the whole thing” Ren mused trying to make things a bit clear. She didn’t think she succeeded all that well. “Anyways enough confusing each other, we should get something to eat.” Ren replied.
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:54 pm
Kuari had his head tilted the entire time Ren was spreaking. When she finished he shrugged a little. "Cannot tell if Ren loves her family or is very very mad at them." Then he straightened up and got brighter. "Hunt? Hunting is good, I enjoy very much!" His tail wagged a couple times eagerly.
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:28 pm
Ren laughed and shook her head. “You know Kuari foxes can be both, I can be down right mad at my family yet still love them at the same time.” She replied trying to get herself in a better mood. “well then, as I forbid you from the trees I will allow you to pick what we go hunting for then.”
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:36 pm
Kuari nodded brightly. While some of it just didn't seem to make any sense to him, he understood that. He loved his adoptive family to bits and pieces and knew they felt the same, even when they got on each other's nerves. Which happened a lot. Kuari missed them, he really did.
His tail wag briefly increased in tempo when Ren told him he got to pick their hunting. "Quail! Really tasty and lots of fun to spook. Gotta be sneaky and pounce just right before they fly away, good challenge!" He looked expectantly at Ren to see what she thought of his choice. He and Ren both liked challenges and quail weren't all too challenging in their difficulty to hunt, but entertainment every now and then wasn't at all a bad thing.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:41 pm
Well it was good they finally understood each other on that note. Ren nodded happily and then watched him waiting for his final decision on what they wanted to hunt. She would go with pretty much anything with in reason. She wasn’t too fond of bugs but bugs couldn’t be classified as hunting right?
Ren debated this, hunting quail was interesting. She always felt bad if she took out a dad watching out for his family or a mother or baby. She shouldn’t since she should be a fearless warrior but then again she was a girl. “Alright Quail is fine, however no parents with families.” She answered. So they would have to find a group of adults, probably still a family of some sorts but easier to appeal her girly side. Now to find quail, this wasn’t exactly a quail type of area but then with humans moving in all over the place animals where getting displaced to strange habitats.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:29 pm
"Or bush bird of some kind," Kuari said, looking around the land. He actually wasn't sure what lived around here. "Bird that like land more than tree. Sitting on ground, like Kuari." He didn't pout since he knew there was only so far he could push Ren before she stopped being amused and got impatient with him, but it didn't stop him from teasing her. Anyway there was a difference in that Kuari liked being in trees and ground birds usually weren't.
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:21 pm
Oh Kuari was just asking for Ren to keep the punishment longer, yes he was. However before she could say anything a sound rustling near by caught her attention and her ears swiveled to pick up on the sound more. She watched as what was probably a hen of some type poke its way out of the underbrush. Ren then turned her head away from Kuarai to look at it, it looked to be alone and it didn’t seem to be a scout or part of a family. Well at least there wasn’t any others she could see. She looked back at Kuari and then back towards the Hen her tail wagging ever so slightly as she waited to see if it was with a party.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:02 pm
Kuari noticed Ren's ears swiveling, and had even heard a bit of the noise himself. He was still learning the difference between ground hunting and tree hunting, since he tended to prefer the later. Silence was key there, you had to be a ghost that no one on the ground noticed. But since he was already on the ground and they hadn't been keeping their voices down, the bird probably knew they were there. Silence or whispering might spook it.
"Ren maybe spot something interesting," he asked conversationally, keeping his voice light and neither too loud or too quiet.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:26 pm
“you don’t have to worry about that type wondering why the noise has gone down or not, they tend to be a bit oblivious of their situations if they aren’t out scouting” Ren replied. Once when she wasn’t hunting she had almost stumbled over this type of bird before they both became aware of the other. Most of her attention was still pretty much trained on the bird. She’d have to move quick before girly emotions took over and she started feeling sorry for the bird. Maybe they should hunt deer instead ren definitely had no love for deer.
“But yes I did find something quite interesting” Ren replied still talking, her eyes darting after the bird. She was too far away to actually start chasing as the bird would just escape into the sky.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:22 am
Kauri glanced over his shoulder to see what Ren was looking at, and made a happy (though quieter than usual) sound. "Ooooh! Very good, yes. Ground bird, not fly up into sky at tiniest little noise. Pesky if escape though, they make lots of noise and scare off other prey. We creep closer?"
Kauri noted the slight discomfort on Ren's face, and couldn't help but grin in amusement. It was yet another difference between them he found fascinating. She was so stoic and serious, but cringed at the thought of hunting certain animals. He was always so cheerful and enthusiastic that he'd been threatened with all manner of things from being pushed out of trees to dunked in rivers, but had no such squeamish thoughts when it came to hunting.
Not that he went out of his way to hunt babies and mothers, but there were always more where those had come from. It was unfortunate, but it didn't follow that if he'd left the animals alone they'd be safe. There was still starvation, natural disasters, disease, other predators. It was the natural way of things.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:28 pm
Ren nodded and then shook her head. Seriously one needed to be prepared for all types of hunting. Then again Kuari didn’t come from a family that liked to drill every bit of survival technique they could get away with into their children. “yes we slowly creep closer, although we have to judge the distance to leap”
After all you tried to get to close and they would run away no matter what. Now that Ren was pretty sure it was a lone hen she wasn’t too worried. Sure there was a chance that something else was going to get the mother or the children, but if she didn’t see it happen then she could always think that somewhere out there they were still alive right? Plus the challenge was going after the strong lone males who thought they could take on the world. Sure it was romantic thinking but after all Ren was still a girl.
When the hen looked like it was going to bolt she casually stepped back a few steps and watched it carefully. She could probably go one more step before she was going to have to leap after it. They would have to catch a few more game before it was really a meal but right now the lack of other birds wasn’t too particularly important.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:56 pm
Kuari tilted his head. "Ren want pouce, or Ren want Kuari to take opening if Kuari sees," he asked. Their hunting styles were vastly different, his operating on a more aerial approach, so when they tried hunting the same quary often as not....it just didn't work. Though it was kinda cute how Ren glared at him when he messed things up. Maybe he just liked to tease her?
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:12 pm
Ren tilted her head to the side and thought about it. Normally she would insist on getting the kill however she had decided to hunt on account of Kuari so she supposed the kill could go to him. "You can pounce. After all I did say it was your hunting game. I'll be back up in case you miss" she replied after a while. If worse came to worse and he missed Ren supposed they could go fishing, although to her fishing was easy and lacked a real challenge.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:35 pm
Kuari grinned happily, then slipped away into the forest with no sound to betray his presence. It always seemed to surprise people, given how happy and sometimes simple he appeared, that he was such an excellent hunter. Ground work wasn't his forte, but he was still good at it.
He didn't go too far into the growth, just far enough that he was lost to sight to the bird. Slowly, keeping close to the ground and using his coat to his advantage as camoflauge, he crept around until he was downwind of the bird. His mouth watered as the scent reached him, making his nose twitch.
He ghosted forward, using every bit of cover available and lamenting that there weren't any good trees he could use for a downward pounce. Finally though he got in position. He waited until the bird was almost facing him, for if startled they didn't seem to be able to move swiftly either backwards or to the side.
The creature cocked it's head, bright eyes comtemplating a particular patch of ground for edible plants or insects. Kuari gathered himself, then leapt!
((I'ma be mean and make you decide if he's successful or misses >3 ))
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:53 am
Kuari was feeling quite pleased with himself. Not only had he landed the kill on that bush bird, he and Ren found another bird (which she killed) so they both had full bellies, and Kuari got to climb in some trees. Yup, good day.
The whole time though Kuari got the feeling he was just a bother to Ren. All he really did was tease and torment her anyway. She could defend herself after all, and he didn't seem to be able to do anything to help bring Ren the answers she was looking for.
Kuari watching his friend for a moment while she slept, then turned and ghosted away into the forest. He really hated leaving her like that, and doubtless Ren would be pissed that he didn't warn her he was going. But goodbyes were just so sad, Kuari couldn't bring himself to do it.
Maybe he'd get to meet her again someday. "Wish you much happiness, Ren," he whispered, looking back briefly over his shoulder in the direction of their camp, then looked forward and quickly vanished in the foliage.
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