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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:54 am
 Hate was not a new emotion to Adour. It seemed from her first breath she had known hate. Only three creatures had shown her love and kindness from her birth, her mother, Nene and Liberty. Even her own father had attacked her and called her names. Now...Mother was dead, Nene and Liberty far away. She had found a new gurdian in the dark fayth Kalona Aveshar. His acceptance was a balm to her ragged little soul.
Midday found the young halfbreed stalking a wounded buck. Unlike many youngsters her age, Adour had already master her wings and found the freedom of the skies. Swooping down she had attacked the larger buck in a blindsided attack, and now trailed him waiting for bloodloss to make the kill for her.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:07 am
Samsara beat her shining purple wings and flew. Her flights were far from the easy grace she had seen in her mother but she had managed to not run into any trees so far that day. A stray gust of wind nearly broke that record and she decided to land instead of risking a crash. She closed her wings and dropped back onto her four hooves, stumbling a few paces before she stilled.
It was a good thing she had landed. It was then that she saw the buck coming staggering through the underbrush. He was bleeding from several gashes and his eyes were frighteningly dull.
Samsara recoiled away from the suffering creature with a gasp. What could have done this to the poor thing? Was it still around? She turned her head frantically from side to side, wondering what she would even do if a skinwalker should spring from the brush.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:33 am
Sam would hear a leather snap of wings as another filly dropped down just behind the buck and snarled, her little fangs bared "that is -MY- kill!" Adour hissed again, her tail snapping from side to side as she stalked forward " If you know what is good for you flutter you will leave..now!" She spat the word as others might spat Kalona.
Ignoring Samsara, Adour whirled around and tore into the dying buck. The beast, already weakened, had no more fight in it than to bleat in terror and pain once before collapsing, still twitching to the ground. Ignoring the other filly, Adour tore into the buck's stomach, growling at the fresh blood and warm meat.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:18 am
Samsara's squeak of fear at the appearance of the part-kalona foal turned into a shriek of fear when she started to bite into it. The filly couldn't have been any older than she was but she was acting just like the monsters her father had told her scary stories about.
"Wh-what are you doing? Stop that!" she cried while backing away from the spectacle. Her legs wouldn't even work well enough to carry her away. They shook beneath her and the best she could do was take more wobbling steps backwards. Where was her father and mother? Too far away. She knew that they wouldn't come if she called. No one would.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:57 am
Lavander eyes were filled with scorn as Adour lifted her head to reguard the other filly a sneer of disguest on her bloody muzzle. "And to think I am related to a coward such as you...sickening." Adour shook her head, her familiar red and gold mane shaking.
"I am not going to waste my meal just because you are a weakling." Her eyes never left her sisters as she lowered her head and tore another bite from the still bleeding carcess. "Sure you don't want to join me...sister?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:54 pm
"S-sister?" Sam was convinced that it was some mean tease but then she started seeing familiar things in the filly. Her white color.... the red and gold in her mane.... the cloud designs that she had heard described to her once.
Knowing that they were related only made watching her eat even more horrible. "Please! Stop that!" She squeezed her eyes shut but could still hear the awful wet tearing sound. "Wh-why are you doing that? Can't you just eat grass?" Her legs were shaking even harder now and Samsara didn't know how much longer she'd be able to stand.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:39 pm
Adour made a noise of deep disguest in the back of her throat. "Grass?! GRASS?! You would have us eat grass that others has crapped on, walked one, pissed on, like some damn weakling?!" She tossed her head staring at her shaking sister. " We are above them, no matter -what- that pathetic wretch that sired us says. He is too weak to accept what we are...I am not."
Her tone turned almost pitying as she licked her muzzle clean " Really little sister, there is nothing to fear. "
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:56 pm
Samsara's eyes snapped open but she immediately regretted it. Adour casually cleaning the blood from her face was almost worse than her biting the poor deer. It almost took her voice away but what her sister had said about their father was enough to get her talking.
"Why are you talking about Dad that way?" She held her head up in an attempt at bravery but the quivering in her voice gave her away. "Y-you should be nicer... and not kill things. Th-that's mean." As she spoke her eyes had fixed on the gaping hole in the buck's belly. Beneath the torn skin and flesh were other things that glistened wetly. How could anyone enjoy that?
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:06 pm
Lavander eyes went hard as stone "he is a b*****d!" She spat , her tail lashing in aggitation as he wings snapped open. "A lying b*****d who looks down on his own kind even as he hides behind his own damn prejudice!" She stalked towards her frightened sister, her eyes promising death.
"Do you know what your precious Father did the first time he saw me? First words of love" she sneered," from him where threats and calling me a monster." Her wings flared out as she snarled " If i am a monster it is one that HE MADE!!"
Stepping back some, Adour took a deep breath trying to calm down. " He may deny it all he wants...but -he- is the one that put this taint in me. He is the one that denies what he truly is and has taught you the same fear of what you truely are."
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:19 pm
"Taint? Taint? We're not tainted!" The words were squeaked out without being given any thought. In the face of her sister's outburst they were just the first ones that came to mind. What did that even mean? That there was something wrong with them? Something wrong with her tall strong father and her rambunctious brother... something wrong with herself?
"We're not tainted!" she repeated more desperately. "Please don't say that!" The edge of a sob shook her. She didn't know how to talk to this sister who was a stranger to her. She didn't even know if it was safe to be talking.
Her eyes rolled white with anxiety. The smell of the blood was stronger than anything she had ever smelled before. It was everywhere... all over the leaves, the dead buck, and her sister... The smell was so strong that it almost felt like it was all over her as well....
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:28 pm
Adour crooned softly as she spread a wing over her sister's back " shhh shhhh sweetling. Unfortunatly we are. Why do you think you have those horns? My wings, fangs, and bloodlust? Our brother's tail? Or -his- tail? We are kalona sweet little sister."
She lightly nibbled along the crest of her sister's mane, almost tenderly before moving away. She spoke again with her back to her as she guards her kill, " It doesn't come at first. Mother thinks it simply came to me ealier because I am more kalona than you or our brother. I was like you when I was born. I drank milk and eat grain...but it wasn't enough. I began to fall ill. Nothing helped, nothing till Nene brought me my first kill and I lived again."
She turned back to her sister with a gentle smile "it will come to you one day too. Our brother as well. The lust and the need. I hope you give in before the sickness takes you. It hurts like nothing you have ever felt."
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:20 am
Her sister's sudden softness both confused and calmed Samsara. She initially trembled at the touches but soon her tension began to relax. Her sister might be frightening and violent but she was still her sister. Sisters didn't scare and hurt each other.
Even though they carried the same distressing message Sam didn't feel the same revulsion for it when it was spoken soothingly. Her sister was right. They had the kalona parts, didn't they? All of their family did except their mother. Just because they did didn't make them bad.
Accepting the bloodlust was another matter. Even spoken softly it was still a horrible notion for Samsara. "Maybe... maybe the sickness won't happen to Auby and me. Just because you eat... eat other things doesn't mean that we have to... right? It doesn't happen to everyone, right?" Her eyes were wide and pleading. She remembered seeing the last dying steps of the buck and shivered. She never wanted to do that to another living creature.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:29 am
Adour's smile stayed sweet and gentle "I am sorry sister dear but it -will- come. Maybe not as soon, but it comes to all of us. I have met one that looks like you in my travels. Big shinning wings, pure horns. She is sweet...if not utterly mad." Her tone turned pitying, "it seems the more of the other you are..the deeper into madness you will sink once the sickness comes to you. "
Swishing her tail she circled Samsara as if thinking " but there may be a way to avoid it. To head off the sickness before it taks you. " Her purple eyes seemed almost hypnotic as she smiled, much the same smile the snake gave Eve, " I can help you sister, just...trust me."
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:41 pm
Samsara's own golden eyes met her sister's purple ones and she was half under her spell already. It was hard for her to be upset with her like this. What she said was still scary for the filly but the messenger was becoming less scary by the moment. She hardly even noticed the sticky patches of blood that still discolored her sister's white fur.
What she had said about the other with wings and horns like her made Samsara choke back a frightened gasp. The way Adour said it sounded like the truth. Was she really going to go mad like that other one? Did Adour really know how to help her stay herself? She quailed uncertainly before that amethyst-eyed gaze.
"To avoid it... do I have to kill things? I-I don't want to kill things. I like animals."
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:44 pm
"oh tut tut now sweet sister. I promise you once you have taken the first steps, once you understand then you will not fret over something as small as an animal's death. " She smiled sweetly , " Besides it is not as if we aren't honoring them."
She trotted to lick the dead bucks face " if this brave stag had not given his life, then I might not live. Their lives are given to a greater good. It is not a death but a rebirth as part of something more. And they don't really suffer."
She laughed at the faint confused look she got, "Oh I know it -appears- that they do and that they have no choice but honsetly sister. Look at the size of him and then the size of me. Do you really think something my size would hurt something that -big- if it didn't allow itself to be brought down?"
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