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 Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:55 pm
Parvati stepped from the shelter of the trees to gaze out across the vast fields of grass that comprised the land of the Kawani. She was far from home, but she wasn't going to let the loneliness and unfamiliarity of the place get to her. She had never seen so much grass, and it was cooler and less muggy this time of year than back home, but she felt sure she could grow to love this place. Smiling, she took another step from beneath the branches of the unfamiliar trees. And another. Slowly, her feet drew her to a river. It wasn't quite like the one back home, but the sight of a river made Parvati happy. She loved rivers.
Ducking her head, she sipped from the cool, fresh waters, bluer than back home, where so many two-legs and other creatures lived that the waters were often a little muddy from so much use. Quite a refreshing sight. Smiling, she raised her dark red head to smell another mare in close proximity. She looked around. Who was there? "Come out, it is all right," she called out gently. "I won't hurt you."
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:50 pm
Emiko wasn't hiding, as a matter of fact, she was having a stare-off with a particularly nasty squirrel. For the last half hour, while she was trying to nap under the shade of her favorite tree, it had been throwing acrons at her. As was to be expected she was very unhappy. She hadn't had her nap for the day, and Claude had blatently -refused- to take her to the beach. Of course, the sudden noise scared the small animal and her as well. She eeped and fell forward, throguh the bush, and into the river with a splash. Of course, the scare reduced her to sniffely tears. She stood up shakily with mud from the bank all down her front and all over her nose. She sneezed most of it out, but it didn't really help. It didn't really help that someone had seen her blunder. She knew that her family wouldn't care, but she still thought that they were a fluke. Maybe this mare was like her mother and she'd be struck for her mistake. She wobbled backward, babbling incoherently through her tears her apology.
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:05 pm
Parvati smiled in surprise and relief as the mare appeared...by rolling forward into the river through the mud. Parvati couldn't help but laugh and slosh forward through the clear water to help the purple mare to her feet. "It is all right, that happens to us all from time to time," she said gently. She nosed the mare and started to clean the mud from the mare's coat, insofar as that could be accomplished. "You are not hurt or frightened, are you? I won't hurt you, you fell by accident, it's all right," she continued gently, hoping this mare who presumably had the accent all these Soquili from these parts had understood her and didn't run. Parvati hated scaring people.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:58 pm
Emiko fought feebly against eh uni through her sniffles. TEars did escape her eyes, but she never full out cried. "No... you will get all dirty. Emiko would feel awful if you got filthy like her. And then Claude would be angry with her for being rude." She shook her head a little, dreading the lecture that would occur should Claude ever find out. And it really didn't help that this mare was stunning. It just made Emiko all the more inarticulate. She stepped back and bowed deeply. "Emiko is sorry she invaded. Emiko was just... dealing with a problem... Emiko did not mean to intrude. Emiko will go now..." It did not occur to her until just a moment later to speak properly, and she seemed to stuggle with her words, between not being used to normal speach and her current flustered state. "I... am... very sorry. I... didn't mean..." Repetition may annoy the mare, but so may her infantile speach. Emiko was trapped!
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:03 pm
Parvati laughed gently. "I do not mind the mud. The rivers were muddier back home, and I often played in the rivers as a foal." She walked serenely through the mud, getting her snowy feathers muddy without a care. "No, I am probably the greater stranger to these lands, since I am newly arrived here. You do not have to leave." The infantile speech mildly amused Parvati, rather than irritated her, and she gently nosed the sweet violet mare. "See? It is all right, I don't find you rude, I find you quite sweet."
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:01 pm
"I'm sorry, Emiko apologizes again. She does not mean to insinuate that you're mean, or frightening. No, not at all. Emiko was simply frightened. Emiko hasn't met any other Soquili other than her new family. So she was frightened of the strange soquili being mean to her. But you've been very nice to Emiko!" She wiped the rest of the mud off with her shoulder and smiled softly. "Emiko was just glaring at a nasty squirrel... he threw acorns at me. I did not mean to make you feel uncomfortable." She looked around a little and twitched her ears. It was the next statement that caught her a bit oddly. "Well, if you're not from here, then where are you from?" She'd never heard of someone being from anywhere else, even see came from the outer edges of this land. Of course, that would explain her rather odd accent. Oh yes, Emiko thought it was lovley, but it was strange, none the less.
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:18 pm
Parvati had to laugh softly. "Squirrels around here don't seem to be very nice, do they?" She paused a moment before going on. "I come from very far east. I do not think you would understand how far I am away from home, so we'll just say very far. It is a place of long, dry summers, a wonderful rainy season in the winter, and rivers along which more two-leggers than can be counted live. The forests are filled with many animals that I have not seen here, and old two-leggers sometimes come into the forests to sit and think for many, many seasons at a time. It is a very different place," she added with a smile.
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:44 pm
"Oh no, most squirrels are very nice. Emiko chirps to them, and they chirp back. Most squirrels are Emiko's friends, but there's always one who doesn't like Emiko." Upon the mares story, Emiko listened with rapped attention. She'd never heard of such a place, but it sounded positivley magical. "O, Emiko bets her daddy knows where that is! He's very smart, and very well traveled. Before he found Emiko he used to travel all over the lands fighting demons, and rescuing damsels! One of those damsels is his mate now." She giggled sadly. She'd left out that she'd had a terrible crush on that damsel. She returned his happy attention to Parvati. "Oh, it sounds lovley. Emiko loves the warm, and she loves the rain. Unfortunatley, most of the time the rain here is cold. Is the rain there warm and lovley?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:13 am
Parvati shook her head. "In the beginning, it is warm, but it starts to cool off after some time. We cannot have warmth all the time, or it would be too hot!" she added with a laugh. She cocked her head. "Your father sounds like some of the heroes the two-leggers in the north of my land spoke of on their journeys to my old home. I think I would like to meet your father someday. Squirrels for friends? That must be very nice. I don't have any friends here, yet, but I used to be friends with the small deer who were the size of foals back home. They were very polite and kind." She missed the sika deer a bit, but not too much. Even Parvati found them a bit too stiff from time to time.
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