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"Ugh, would you--"

"Stop it!"

"You terrible little thing, stop laughing at me!"

Finally, Eclipse had had enough. He had been followed by an owlcat ever since making his way out of the cave. He had failed to find the source of the luring, taunting voice, had stumbled and gotten lost in a maze of sparkling magic; he'd gotten so turned around, so hopelessly tangled, that he'd found himself back to where he'd started without even trying.

And he had been accompanied the entire time by an owlcat with snickering eyes and lashing tail. An owlcat that had seemed to take a shining to him, at least because it seemed to feel Eclipse was worthy of mockery. Eclipse had, again, managed to chase after a woman and lose her.

Losing his patience, Eclipse aimed a hoof in a well-placed kick at the owlcat, who darted nimbly out of the way, licked a front paw, and then lashed its tail at him. The buck sighed, tossed his head (would he be able to gore it with his horns, he wondered), and then began making his way back to his usual stretch of swamp.

Twenty paces later, he had a niggling feeling that the owlcat was following him, and he looked over his shoulder for it. Nothing was on the ground... but something high up in the trees gave a giggling, mocking little mrowl of laughter.

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Peeper laughs at him, but it isn't mean-spirited. Nothing about this buck seems particularly mean at all. "No thank you. I'm already in enough trouble." The mongoose on his back chitters angrily in return at the owlcat; Peeper has no doubt that Bleeding Heart might just go off and try to pepper the beast with acorns or pebbles. "I have to drag this back to my -- um. Friend. I help him feed his giant butt turtle." It's pretty obvious that when Peeper says 'my -- um. Friend' what he really means is more like I love them sooo much but they don't seem to love me yet even though I love them to pieces and they probably don't even realize it but oh well so I call them friend to avoid any awkwardness even though it's really just not the right word AT ALL.

"Uh." Peeper thinks about that for a minute and makes another sound like a laugh. "No, not really. It's mostly one thing, to be honest, and not very complicated, just um." He scuffs one hoof in the dirt. "Difficult. Like getting a log out of a mudhole. Not complicated, just hard."

Bleeding Heart chitters at the owlcat again, leaning up with front paws on the side of Peeper's neck to do it louder. Peeper bears with this with every evidence of humor, and blinks at Eclipse's question. "Uh. I have no idea. Probably. He's um. Kind of." How did one describe Nettle? "....kind of himself."

Peeper stares at Eclipse before picking up the seaweed and continuing with him. His voice is muffled, but still understandable. "You've never met him. I dare you to say that if you ever meet him. Besides, I don't want to outdo him or -- or confound him or anything. Why would I? I l--err. Care about him a lot." One ear flicks back irritably. "I just want him to know that I care. All that stuff would probably just make him grumpy."

Otherwise what would eat him alive? Peeper gives him a strange look around the seaweed. "Why would it eat me alive? I'm happy. I get to den near him and see him everyday. If he doesn't figure it out, well -- he's not stupid or anything--" he sounds a little offended, as if Eclipse has implied that somehow. "--he'll put water and dirt together and get mud eventually."

"Let what fester? What's festering?" Peeper has the sneaking suspicion that they are talking about two entirely different things without realizing that they were. How weird was that? "He's smart. He doesn't need nudges." It sounds a little defensive, but for good reason -- who in hell was brave enough to nudge Nettle? Certainly not Peeper. His bravery ran out at loving him.