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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:50 pm
 Ayela was lost. That was all it could come down to. It was so frustrating when all of the greenery ran together like this. It didn't help that she couldn't see well. She sighed, sitting down. She had never needed someone's help before, but right now... She badly needed someone. What it came down to was, for the first time in years of traveling alone, she was longing for someone to be nearby... and maybe they could help her get out of here, too.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:52 pm
 Nouă grumbled softly under his breath as he sucked gently at a cut he'd received on the back of his hand, much thanks to the foliage that he was in a constant battle with. Well, since about childhood. No, wait, those were just his earliest memories. He pouted softly, pawing at the ground a bit with a front hoof before he started walking again.
It was by a stroke of luck -unluck; pardon me- that one of his front legs caught in the loop of an exposed tree root, causing him to tumble forward and into a surprisingly out-of-place glade, where the trees grew over a small clearing and a small creek trickled from a hill a ways off, a swampy bit of overrun likely a result of the recent runoff from the higher mountains. Baby blue eyes glanced around as though this was some kind of track, before he walked forward cautiously, finally bending down to cup his hands in the stream and take up a bit of the water to sip at it. With his luck, it was probably poisonous.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:59 pm
Ayela jumped up at the crashing sound. She looked up to see what must be another taur, and judging by the outline... it was a male. She squinted a bit, as she does when trying to make things come in focus. He was a male cervitaur. She cleared her throat quietly. "Hello?" she called softly and unsurely, trying not to spook him and wondering how smart calling out to him was.
Any other day, and she never would have pointed her presence out to anyone. But today was different. How long had it been since she saw another taur? She had lost count of all the moons that had passed.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:13 pm
In any and almost all other situations, the phrase 'almost jumped' would be gauged as a good reaction to a greeting from a female 'taur. However, in Nouă's case, it wasn't almost in the least. The male cervi honestly jumped, skidding backward and managing to trip and land on his rump, the water previously in his hands falling all over his head and the rest of himself a moment later as he stared with wide blue eyes around the clearing, his gaze finally stopping on the female.
His hands twitched gently, a tick that had lingered with him since teenhood with how many injuries his muscles had likely gained. One of his ears flicked to the side softly, and he stood, taking a few slow steps forward as he felt the well-expected, dark red blush crawl slowly across his tan face, the tips of his ears reddening as they were very well known to do.
"H-h-h-hi," he mumbled, standing close enough to the stream not to slip in for a moment. But with the way she was squinting, he wasn't sure if she could see all that well. And if he had to jump across the stream, well...
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:25 pm
Ayela smiled slightly. He was cute, from what she could see. She could feel that he was nervous, but she continued to stay sitting. "Are you alright?" her voice was still gentle and soft. She let her eyes open fully again. She felt his blush reflect slightly on her own face, him being one of the first taur to talk to her in a long time, much less a male talking to her. She felt a longing slowly build up in her, wanting him to not feel nervous. She wanted to comfort him.
Ayela stood slowly. "I'm not going to hurt you." she couldn't bring herself to look up into his eyes. Not just yet... instead, she continued to take in what of his features she could see, and listen to the sound of him standing there. Her ears were very sensitive, possibly even more so than most taur in order to make up for her not seeing well. "My name is Ayela." She wanted him to talk very badly for some reason she couldn't understand.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:12 am
"M-m-me? I'm fi- I'm fi-ine," he noted nervously. Like the female, he had been lost for a while, but that had become normal for him. After- Err, after what happened between him and Vesna, he'd gone with the intent of going to see his friend Vexus. Obviously, with the glade he was now in, he had no idea where he was anymore.
"I w-w-wou-would c-c-cer-certain-certainly h-h-hope no-not," Nouă said with a weak laugh, looking down at the stream, and taking a few steps back before attempting to bridge the gap of the little stream. His back leg, of course, hit the perfectly wrong place, slipping into the mud, quickly followed by the other leg regardless of his scrambling. Rolling his eyes, he gave a bit of a smile toward the female. "I s-seem to be go-good enough at doing- at doing that myse-myself...
"M-my name's N-N-Nouăspre-sprezece," he noted, the blush on his face darkening at the length of his name as he hauled himself out of the stream, having not expected it to be as deep or as muddy as it was. "Y-y-you can ca-call me N-N-Nouă."
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:51 pm
Ayela could feel that he was very nervous, but she couldn't tell why. "Noua.. it's very nice to meet you..." Her face was a reddish gray by now... she felt like an idiot. "Do you need help?" Her voice was shaky. She took a step towards him, wanting to see what he looked like better. She didn't want him to hurt himself. But even more than that, she didn't want him to fear her.
She felt around in her small bag, looking for a piece of cloth. She could tell from the sound that the stream was not very clean... she took a few more steps forward, so that there was only a few feet left between them. She held out the cloth. "Do you need this?" she could see his features a lot better now. He was rather cute, though he looked a little bruised. "So.. I guess you're lost, too?" she asked, losing what little confidence she had earlier.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:33 pm
"M-m-m-me?" Nouă stammered, before laughing nervously and waving off the offered help, his face bright enough that he may as well have red skin as far as the female could tell. His stubby tail twitched slightly as he pulled himself the rest of the way out of the surprisingly deep stream-thing. Geez, he really wished that maybe that night he'd had with Vesna had made him more... 'smooth' around females. Hah, him, smooth that was a good one. He was drunk at the time, and nearly everyone in his village-community now knew that he could actually talk to females. when he was drunk.
He scuffed one of his hooves against the ground, before making a move to go sit beside the stream, cupping water in his hands and spreading it across his flank, trying to brush the mud out of his fur. At the offer, he blinked up at the female with... well, with one wide blue eye, the other nearly swollen shut from a trip that he'd had a day or so earlier. He was just lucky that he didn't bruise both again and have to walk around blind for the next month. Smiling a bit, he took the offering with a stammered thanks, dipping it in the water and wiping the mud off himself as best as he could.
"I- I u-u-usu-ually tend to, uh, get- get lost in places l-like this," he stuttered quietly, answering her question with the general statement, using the hand he wasn't cleaning himself with to fiddle with one of the broken parts of his antlers in embarrassment, wishing especially around this rather attractive female that he didn't look so pathetically torn-up. "S-so... you're, um... you're lost too, then...?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:22 pm
Ayela's face went a new shade of deep red when he asked if she was lost, too. At first she thought about lying, but what would be the point in that? Looking down at her hoofs, she kicks the dirt softly. "I...I can't see... the way out..." She was never really wanted to talk about her eyesight, ever. It hurt to remember what seeing well looked like, and not have sight hardly now. She wondered why this handsome, as far as she could tell, male was so nervous with her near.
She made herself look up after a while. There was no use in hiding her not-so-secret-now secret. She walked slightly closer, not wanting to keep a distance and not be able to see into his eyes at all.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:42 am
As morbid as it likely sounded, it was almost a relief when Nouă discovered that this female he'd met was unable to see him in the shambled state that perpetually followed him around. He smiled at her in a way that better befitted a teenage girl, tail flicking a bit as his ears tipped back, her closeness turning his face a shade of red even darker than her's had previously been.
"I-I-I'm sor-sorry to h-hear that. Some-someone must be missing- someone must be m-m-missing a be-be-beau-beaut-t-tif-ful girl li-like yourse-self, wh-where-wherever it is you c-c-come from," he said, trying to at least flirt a bit with this girl, still under the belief that his beautiful bride-to-be would never find him in this mess of brambles. Sarah wasn't just going to drop from the sky one day; for that matter, her father would likely never even allow her out of the village with Nouă so much as existing outside of it. As a matter of fact, she probably already belonged to someone else. Someone with cleaner hair and bluer eyes...
Nouă literally jumped when he noticed the beauty come so close to him, stumbling backward and gasping in surprise, face darkening once again. "So-so-sorry about that! I wasn't- I mean- I didn- e-e-expe-e-ect th- t-to y-y-you..." he paused here, watching the female and taking a slow step closer to her, hesitant and wondering, nervous about trusting someone else. Finally, a statement fell from his lips, but it wasn't at all what he'd wanted to say. In fact, it was the last thing he'd expected to say, and was one of the most personal things he'd revealed to no one but the lovely cervitaur standing in front of him.
"I was banished by my tribe."
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:02 pm
"I highly doubt anyone is missing me... I-i don't have a place to be." Ayela's face went bright red when he called her beautiful, and she knew she had no chance of hiding it. She looked down at her dainty hoofs, unsure what to say. Her thin, short tail flicked nervously behind her as she fought to think of something to say.
When He jumped, so did she, startled by the sudden amount of noise. She learned that it was just him, and took a deep breath to calm her fluttering heart. "I-it's alright, I understand..." gave a small, nervous laugh. She always had gotten in trouble for walking silently... She blinked slightly at his comment of being banished, but, for the most part, was unaffected. "I lost mine, too...." She smiled gently at him "Said I was bad luck, an unfixable bad luck, and left me..." A small hand went to her eyes. "No one could find a cure..."
"I'm going to walk towards you now, so please don't be startled..." She took a few steps forward, then tripped on a fallen branch, stumbling into him. Her face went a deep, deep red. "I-i-i-i'm so sorry!!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:41 pm
As much as Nouă wished that no one was missing him, he still had that dirt on his conscious, that nagging suspicion that Vesna was fuming at him, and Luke would likely be right with her on that. Geesh, he really didn't want to have to face all of that again, just wanted to run off and start a new life all. By. Himself.
But once again, he had to tell himself: It was just his luck. He had to take into account all of the bad things that could possibly happen because of him. That would mean that he was expected to be back, but he would get there just too late and be welcomed poorly. Vesna would be pregnant from their little... meeting only a few nights before. Luke would hate him forever, and Vexus would have once again moved herself to a new cave, meaning he had nowhere to live until he found her.
The male's jaw literally dropped, however, when she responded with her own story, heart quickening in pace. He could do nothing more than nod numbly when she said she was going to walk toward him, only fidgeting a slight bit when she fell, bracing himself for her impact and feeling his arms fall gently around her waist, resting there without hesitation, the only blush on his face a minor one as his ears flicked a bit, one of them cocking to the side before a goofy smile flew across his face.
"B-b-bad luck? You me- you mean that I wasn't the only one who was se-sent away for s-something so tri-tri-trivial?" he gasped breathlessly, honestly taking a step closer to her, bridging the small gap that had been left between the two as he wrapped her up in his arms, pulling her close and hugging her against him, obviously happier than he'd been in quite a long time. "I've never- I've n-n-never met s-someone e-else... wh-who was banish-shed for b-being 'b-bad lu-luck'..."
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:22 pm
Ayela's face got even redder as he held her closely, never having been held like that before. Slowly, instinctively, she wrapped her arms around him. "If you were banished for "bad luck" then no, you were not the only one.." She smiled slightly, unable to keep herself from leaning her head against his chest. She looks up at him, glad that she can tell he is smiling. "You're not alone, and neither am I..." Relief flooded through her, and she relaxed slightly, enjoying being in his strong arms and being held for the first time...
"For as long as I could remember, they never wanted me.. When I was young, they left me, probably hoping I wouldn't make it." Ayela felt wonderful getting her story off her chest, having always been afraid to tell someone in case it happened again... "I have been on my own and able to take care of myself... until now..."
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:47 pm
This was the first time that Nouă, a sober Nouă, wasn't shirking away from the touch of a female. Instead, he couldn't help but pull her closer, the non-missing of his incisors biting at his lower lip to try and keep from smiling in such a terribly irrepressible way. He rubbed his cheek gently against her hair, taking in the scent in a way that wasn't even conscious, ears flicking a bit before laying against his ragamuffin hair. He was surprised to see that he was actually taller than Ayela, by a decent amount. Apparently he really hadn't been around a lot of females since he was so... tiny.
It was only instinct that led Nouă to lay a soft kiss to the top of Ayela's head, one hand staying around her waist as the other ran through her hair gently, pulling out any stray pieces of dirt or twigs that he happened upon. He gave a small sigh that was infused with relieved laughter, smiling sweetly and hugging her close once again, hand still slipped into her hair. He'd never known a feeling quite like this and he truly didn't even want to question it.
"I h-h-honestly can't be-believe that I w-w-would ever meet some-someone who was... s-sorry!" he said, giggling cutely. "I've a-already made that pre-pretty clear, h-haven't I?" he asked rhetorically, sighing softly. "I w-was lucky enough to b-be cared for, i-if you could ca-all it that. I was-w-was ostrac-c-ciz-zed when I wa-was small be-because if anything b-bad could h-happen, it would, and a-always, always happen. Eith-ther to me, or b-because of me," he paused here to take a deep breath, calming the nerves that were making his arms shake softly.
"I w-was th-the son of m-my tribe's leader, t-too... I fe-felt terrible that I br-br-brought so much... so much shame to m-my father. N-no less what I looked l-like to my betrothed... M-my mother t-took more ca-are of me than a-anyone, but she t-taught me mo-more how to b-be a house-housewife th-than anything," he said, blushing gently at this part, nuzzling against Ayela's hair snugly. "I'm sorry that you're on your own, A-Ayela... s-s-someone li-like you sh-shou-shouldn't b-be on y-y-our own..." Once more, his face was growing red.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:14 pm
Ayela's face was redder than it had ever been, and joy was bubbling up inside of her as he held her closely, she listened to his heart beat in his chest, and was sure that her heart was fluttering itself. Her hands moved slowly up his back, feeling of his muscles. She seemed to fit perfectly into his arms, which made her even happier.
"I won't push you away, Nouă..." Tingles of pleasure ran through her as he brushed his hand through her hair. She didn't feel insecure for once, instead, she felt extremely happy. Confident. Her arms wrapped tighter around him, trying to bring him closer. "I'm sorry you went through what you did..."
"You don't have to say sorry... I never thought I would find anyone like me, either." She giggled softly, unsure what the warm feeling building up inside of her was. She brought her arms around him ever so slightly tighter, and closed her eyes, listening to his breathing and heartbeat. "I don't see why anyone would blame you for every single bad thing that happened..."
She took her arms off from around him only to put one hand on either side of his face. "Something deep down inside of me tells me I won't have to be on my own anymore..." She smiled, her eyes full of warmth. She stood on the tips of her hoofs, trying to get their faces level. She was so tiny compared to him.. After stretching as tall as she could, she finally managed to plant a soft kiss on his lips before returning to her previous position with her arms around him. "Every wound you've ever had... I want to fix it..." His scent was relaxing to her, along with the steady beat of his heart.
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