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 Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:50 am
 Wherever there is water to drink and forage ripe for the eating, preybeasts are sure to be. But the tan-blotched white waterbuck had never learned such a thing. He had never pursued the nomadic wanderings of preybeasts, even his own kind. Radi had always thought that they would come to him if he waited at his former herd's ancient breeding grounds. But going out into the great unknown had proven to him otherwise.
Radi'Utengo stood before a decent waterhole and stared into its depths as though it held the secrets to life. Then, in a brief fit of anger, he kicked at the water with a hoof. He felt vulnerable for being so long gone from his home beneath the banyan tree. But to his distress, he could not find his way back and neither could he accept it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:44 pm
Yourda was resting just at the other side of the watering hold when the sudden splash had awoken her. Her soft eyes slowly opened as she settled herself up and frowned, crossing her head some in wonder. Why was this male attacking the water in such a manner? It bothered her. Moving herself back she spoke out in a coy tone.
“Hello…?”
She wasn’t sure about him yet. He seemed very unhappy.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:25 pm
He looked up quickly at the sound of the voice, a flash of anger in case it was an attacker, an instinct even though the voice was distinctively female. He softened at the notice of the female form. It was a female... a female waterbuck? His breathe caught in his throat almost hopeful, almost expectant. He pushed that all beneath the surface for the time being.
"Hello," he said stepping closer to her. "Sorry for startling you." He didn't think it was something to be sorry for, much less apologize for it. But he had learned others seemed to require it.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:10 am
Yourda was still uneasy, so she held herself at a safe distance and softly spoke out to him.
“It’s alright, really, I just wasn’t… expecting it, that’s all.”
She blushed some. He was like her! This was a strange turn of events. She gazed at him with soft eyes and smiled. He had a lovely fur color, and his horns looked to be very sharpie. He must not have been too old. Her tail flicked from side to side as she slowly moved herself closer to the water and added.
“My name is Yourda.”
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:08 pm
"Well... ah...," he shuffled his feet a bit, "I was expecting to see another one of my kind." They seemed so rare in this area. Or maybe he just had the worst luck finding them. For indeed that was what he was doing: trying to find them. "I am Radi'Utengo. But please call me Radi." His name was the perfect opportunity for a pick-up line, meaning "thunder shelter", but of course, his philosophy involved not needing pick-up lines to get a girl. That it was a flawed one would always be something he would never accept. To him, it would be an insult and an act of jealousy or just plain evil.
He closed the difference until he was a friendly distance from her and raised an eyebrow. "Are you out here all alone?" Were there others? Where did everyone live? Why hadn't Radi ever found them? The questions of his life.
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