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 Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:59 pm
 Uck, why exactly did I come here again? the mare wondered to herself in irritation as she trudged through the swamp. Me and my brilliant ideas... Keela had grown bored of the usual forest scene and had decided to fly somewhere different for a bit. Well, this place was certainly different. And smelly. And wet. She'd have flown out of there already if it weren't for the fact that the tree branches were too tightly knit together for her to find an opening to escape from. She hadn't even been able to find a decent meal yet during her search and she was being eaten alive by mosquitoes!
All these things added together put the raven mare in a very foul mood indeed. I swear, the next thing I come across that's any good for eating is going to be ripped to shreds, she thought darkly to herself, irritability levels nearly at their peak. Just as she was about to unleash her frustrations on a nearby tree however, an odd light in the distance caught her eyes. What is that? she wondered to herself, trying to squint through the trees in her path. Are those... flames? They seem to be moving. Curiosity piqued, she cautiously started off in the direction of the strange light.
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:07 pm
Blah! a strange stallion sneezed as something got up his nose, snorting and rubbing his snout against a foreleg he listened around himself. The buzzing of flies swarmed about his head and the biting ones made his skin crawl. Shaking his body, flaming crest flickering a little before burning high to heat up the air around him. Already the insects were leaving him alone as some seemed to burst into flames and fall to the ground. Finally some silence, the bull like stallion marched further through the muck, the heat radiating from his body making the bugs flee.
"Now where am I?" he asked himself as his sensitive ears perked up to something else within the same area, head lowering some and bull like horns planted themselves outwards. Now he waited, blank eyes staring forward, now he waited.
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:59 pm
Keela continued to approach the strange light, seeing that they were indeed flames. What was very strange about them though was that they seemed to be on the back of a stallion. For a split second after she first made this realization she worried, thinking the other in trouble. However, when she noticed that for whatever reason he wasn't reacting to them, her curiosity grew even stronger.
"Good evening," she greeted casually once close enough. The raven mare continued to take in his appearance even more as he stood there. The fire was his mane? Interesting. "Get enough moths swarming you with a mane like that?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:10 pm
Ears perching themselves forwards, Bile listened as the other creature that happened to be within the swamp with him came closer to where he could smell its scent. It was another kirin, and it was a female, but what breed he wasn't sure. Huffing and turning his head to the side a little as if he were staring at her with a side long glance. Turning a bit, a cloven hoof stomping the muddied ground beneath it.
"Many things are attracted to my crest it seems. But what comes I do not know." he grumbled, his flaming tail flicked over his hind quarters swatting at the brave flies that happened to get too close. "But it seems that I attract more then just moths if you have come this close."
Head raising a little, nostrils flaring a bit as small sparks escaped them as Bile huffed once more. The scent from the mare was indeed a different one as he listened to more then just the one before him. The little things he could hear, the closeness of the mare gave him the sounds of her breathing and even her heart beat as it thumped within her chest. Then there were the other sounds that most would quite likely ignore, but those he ignored anyways.
"So it is evening already huh? Things changed when you can't feel the sun." Rolled a shoulder as he brushed against a tree, though he didn't really damage the tree besides shedding a bit of its bark with his scales.
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:19 pm
Keela continued to study him while he spoke. His eyes were a pale white, and judging from his words the stallion was unable to see. Interesting... "Yes, it is evening now. As such your flames posed a curious sight from afar. I did not expect them to be part of a fellow Kirin." Her wings rustled lightly on her back, trying to shake off some of the pesky insects that were gathering. "My name is Keela. And you are?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:36 pm
Turning his horned head to one side, pale eyes closing themselves as it was, they were of no use to him anyways. Shaking out the flames on the crest of his neck, they flickered in the motions before calming to a smolder. Teh ground at his feet already showing small wisps of smoke as he had stayed in one place too long. What was it that this one really wanted? Surely not to just talk and certainly not talk about the flames that always burnt from his back and tail.
"Bile" He said quite bluntly as those pale eyes opened again and he raised his head up, bull like horns almost pointing to the tree tops. "I am known, or was known as the Red Bull. I drove a certain creature to the seas for my master. But now, I only chase one tail and she has eluded me so far." He spoke of the one whom always seemed to take great pity on him, Amalthea...
Huffing to himself, Bile turned his head away from the strange creature, Keela was that what her name was? Yes, that was it, she seemed quite the curious one, too curious for his liking. If he were in any other mood, he would have let this youngling know it, but he was feeling tired and he wasn't in the mood for any fighting.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:27 pm
So, he was chasing a girl, eh? Kind of difficult to do when you're blind. Keela actually felt some pity for the stallion. Between his unusual appearance and inability to see, he had to have had it much harder than she had. Not to mention throwing love into the mix. Feh, who needs a mate. Companions would only ever bring trouble. "What makes this one so special?" the raven asked in all seriousness, golden eyes studying the male before her. "Why do you pursue her if she is so determined to keep away?"
Honestly she didn't know why she even cared really. It was his life to do with as he pleased, and if he wished to run around after some mare then he was free to it. Yet, in a very small way she almost felt a sense of kinship with the flaming stallion. Perhaps it was because he seemed a loner, or perhaps it was because he too could be considered a bit of a freak. Maybe it was simply the fact that it was late and they were both stuck in a swamp with his mane providing the only light and warmth around for quite a distance. Whatever it was, Keela didn't feel like leaving just yet, despite his small signs of irritation.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:09 pm
"She was the one that got away." He put simply and bluntly, "And the thrill was always in the chase. Don;y you feel that thrill when you hunt?"
Yes he could smell the scent of blood on this strange mare, Keela, he could smell it even if she wanted to try and hide it. Maybe the two ideas weren't exactly the same, but they had the same meaning to him. He loved to chase the one tail that got away from him and it seemed this ones hunting might have had the same thrill. Nostrils flaring a bit, he turned his head away and slogged on. The mud seemed already up to his knees and getting higher the longer he stood in one spot. With a sickening sucking sound, Bile pulled one hoof after another out of the thick clinging mud and step away from where he had been.
"I'm moving to higher ground." Admittedly, he wasn't sure why he even said that, but it seemed that this one wanted more from him then the few 'simple' questions. "I'm sure you would think it wise, the mud is starting to stiffen just a little and pull whatever stays in one place too long down." An unnecessary explanation, but one good turn deserved something, or something like that anyways.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:02 pm
"To some extent," she admitted, although the chase wasn't really that big of a part in her game. "How did you know I am a Pyrin though?" The mare watched quietly as Bile struggled in the mud. At his announcement of moving to higher ground she nodded, briefly forgetting that he was blind. "Yeah, this place is a bit of a hell-hole, isn't it. Can't decide whether the muck or the bugs are worse." Keela looked around briefly before walking off toward an area that appeared to have slightly drier ground. "This way then."
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:12 pm
"I can smell the blood on you, no matter how hard some try to hide it, blood had a distinct smell that stands out against anything. Just because I can't see, doesn't mean my other senses have dulled." He pointed out waving a muddied hoof some in the air, in a strange gesture before his ears flicked hearing her struggles through the mud.
Pulling himself through the muck, his flame tufted tail flicked at the bugs that buzzed too close and burnt them away. True there were some disadvantages to having been made almost completely of fire, but when the bugs were biting, it was a great help. Trudging mostly, he finally did make it to where the ground seemed somewhat dryer and more solid. Dragging himself out of the thick mud, he shook it from his hooves the best he could. Would have to wash the rest off later.
"In my case, the muck is more dangerous. Shrouds the movements of those that can travel effortlessly through it and who know what's out there. In other cases, the bugs, it's a losing situation either way." Letting the crest of flames roar at the nap of his neck, the air around them rose in temperature until it was quite comfortable to him and the flames settled back to a low flicker. "To say the most, I would rather settle with the bugs then the mud." He grinned, teeth slightly yellowed from age.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:21 pm
"Ah, I see," Keela replied to the blood comment. "I don't try to hide it, but such a thing slipped my mind as a possible giveaway." It was rather obvious when she thought about it really. With as messy as her hunts usually were she probably reeked of the substance. Some of it undoubtedly her own.
Once they were on solid ground, the mare paused to look around a bit more. Hm, nope. still just trees and muck. I might not find a way out till morning. The wings on her back rustled comfortably during the stallions brief flare-up, the flames warmth feeling quite nice in the darkness. "Tonight seems a lost cause, but perhaps in the morning we can find a way out of this place. Unless you think your object of affection is here somewhere," she added as an afterthought. In which case the male might not be leaving the swamp any time soon.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:36 pm
Bile settled himself down a little, now that the mud was less and he could let his bulk slip to the ground without worry to sinking, his head turning slightly to have a blind eye stare blankly at the raven mare. Ears flicking a little as the flames crackled at his back. Indeed this night was not going to get them out of this cesspool of a swamp and it would be best to just sleep until he could feel the sun on his face.
"She was never here. Her scent is no were to be smelt." He grumbled roughly as his flame tipped tail flicked behind him. "She is else where. Somewhere I have yet to reach, and if I fail to find her, then she finds me. It's how it goes commonly." Ruefully he wished things would change their tunes and subjects to other things. "Besides, won't yours be upset you haven't returned this night? Perhaps think you have cheated them?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:49 pm
"Mine?" Keela echoed back, momentarily confused before realizing what he meant. She gave a dry chuckle. "Nothing to worry about there. I have no one." The raven mare chose a spot to settle down in as well, wings rustling a bit to shoo off a few more bugs as she lay down. "I simply travel wherever the wind takes me."
True, it was a lonely existence that she led, but it was all she had ever known. The raven mare didn't generally make for very good company, and she tended to have quite the temper on her at times. "In the morning then we shall find our way out. Surely there must be normal land not too far from here."
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:24 pm
"In the morning then" Bile gave a slight huff as smoke escaped his nostrils and drifted into the air. An ear twitched as he listened, for what some might ask him, he was waiting for the raven mare to fall asleep. It would have been nicer if he could 'see' if she were asleep without actually waking her. So he waited, his own eyes closed, so a time it would seem that even he had fallen asleep. Flame tipped tail twitching once and a while over his haunches, swatting at whatever was there.
After a time, long before he knew the sun would rise, Bile hoisted himself from the ground and shook himself. Keeping quiet, his ears ever twitching, listening to the sounds around him. He could hear the mare's breathing, hoping to have no awaken her, he strode almost silently away. Head low, his snout almost touching the ground as he went. Finding another place no really that far away from where he had left Keela, Bile flopped back to the ground, here there were leaves, something to kindle and keep his flames from burning out. Folded legs kept him from catching the leave aflame while he ate, they were dry. Just how he liked them!
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:26 am
Keela stirred in her sleep ever so slightly as the warmth of the fire stallion drew away, but the mare didn't actually wake up until her ears picked up the faint sound of something plopping down into dry leaves. Slowly, golden eyes blinked open sleepily, and she lifted her head up just enough to spot the orange flames in the distance. So he's leaving, eh? Can't say I'm surprised. Bile was definitely the loner type after all. Whatever. It does not matter the time of day during which he travels, for his path shall be forever dark. Tearing her eyes away, she laid her head back down on the ground and closed her eyes. Good luck in finding your beau, flaming one. It was noticeably colder now it seemed.
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