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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:47 am
 Karis stopped to brush off some snow from an area of grass. She wanted to nibble on some. She was a little discouraged that even when she managed to dig up a small blot of grass. It was frozen. When her tongue tasted the green leaf, it didn't taste very good at all. In fact, it tasted just like eating an icicle. She did enjoy that once in a while, but it wasn't very satisfying for a young lady ulaya who was rather in the mood for some munchies.
She mumbled to herself about how she hated winter for this reason. So hard to find berries... Of course, she could try to eat something meaty, but she did dislike having to kill any other forest animals. Sure, many ulayas did live on meat. Still, she hadn't the heart or conscience to take away the life of any that lived in teh forest around her.
Feeling spurned to find something worth eating, she continued to follow the river as it led back towards the mountain.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:23 pm
It was cold, yet Dhiren gave no notice to it. He was busy playing in the snow. Or what would look like playing to any other ulaya out there. The truth of the matter, was he wasn't playing it in. But inspecting it. He wanted to know what it was. He knew it was water when it melted, but he wasn't sure how it happened. It was so crazy! He was amazed with it, that he hadn't realized that someone else was close by. Which wasn't uncommon for Dhiren.
He also didn't realize that he was fairly hungry. During the winter months, he tried to keep his mind overly occupied so he didn't worry about having to eat too much. His tail whipped around as he dug deeper into the snow, until he got to a point he figured was good enough. Almost to the grass below, but not deep enough. He didn't want to make it dirty, after all. Snow was so white and pretty.
"How is it always so white!" He asked himself.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:32 pm
She paused to drink from a melted puddle when she answered aloud to a question she heard asked but hadn't realized she heard it from another being. "What? Well.. of course snow is always white. What other color would it be?"
Then, she paused. Well.. how strange... Karis looked around curious. Where did that question come from anyways? This was a little detour and distracting her from her ultimate goal. Still, she wanted to be sure she wasn't speaking to voices in her head all of a sudden.
After a few hops and leaps around, she nearly stepped on... someone? Why, of course.. here was a ulaya hidden in the snow. She almost didn't see him there. She paused in the air and let herself fall down on the snow nearby. She then crawled on her belly to look into his little hiding spot. "What in the world are you doing down there? I almost fell on you, ya know." Was this ulaya.. the voice she had heard. She knew once he spoke that she'd know right away by whether it matched the other voice she heard.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:46 pm
Like the female, Dhiren also answered without realizing it. "Well, blue or green of course." He simply said. Blue as the sky, or green as the ground. He didn't realize he was having a conversation with another. He thought his inner voice just sounded different this time... and somehow louder, and over from a distance away.
Then a few seconds later the voice, now next to him and slightly higher asked another question. He looked up with a smile, of course it was someone else. He wasn't THAT crazy... yet. Even if his sister sometimes told him if he talked to himself too much something like that would happen. His tail flicked about. "Isn't it obvious? I'm inspecting the snow!" He told her with a nod and eyed the snow once again.
"It's so cold, yet peaceful." He added "and you didn't fall on me, so that's all that matters. Isn't it?" He looked back up at her. Maybe she didn't think about that. What hadn't happened wasn't going to happen. If she almost fell on him, then that just means she didn't, and probably wouldn't know that she knew where he was. Unless it was on purpose. "No matter! At least you know where I am now, though." He grinned at her. "Don't you just wonder what the snow is and why it comes down the way it does?" Of course snow was water, but that wasn't exactly what he was talking about. After a moment, he realized he was rambling and just grinned at her some more.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:28 pm
Karis laughed. Then, she covered her mouth with a paw as she tried to stop. She had barely stopped into sporadic isolated giggles, and she attempted to tell him something. Then, she laughed some more. After getting a good laugh out of her system, she looked at him with endearing eyes. She then tried to lower her head into his little hovel there to look at the snow herself.
"And.. what exactly are you inspecting it for?" When she heard his question about if she wondered or not. "Oh. Well, I've been around these parts for a few winters. I can tell you that when the time for snow comes around; the snow is always white. Well, sometimes it looks yellow. That is usually for a certain reason and certainly doesn't come down that way. Which.. don't ever eat.. the yellow snow if you see it."
Then in the back of her mind, she imagined him happening upon some having forgotten entirely their conversation. She imagined the disgusted look on his face after trying some out. Then, she laughed some more.
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:48 pm
He tilted his head. He wanted to ask why not to eat it, but then again he didn't to know the truth. He'd just take her advice and stuff it somewhere into his mine for later usage. "Anything really" He told her as she asked him what he was looking for. He smiled every time she laughed, missing something obviously funny, but he wasn't going to ask about. Perhaps what he said was a joke to her? It didn't matter. He kinda shook his head to get that out of his mind.
"Why wouldn't one not want to inspect it? You can find out a lot when looking at something closely." He told her with a nod. Of course this wasn't the most pleasant thing to look at closely. His feet were now numb, and cold. Though the rest of him was pretty fine. He could live with his numbing feet for the time being. They weren't hurting yet, so that was good. He could just hardly feel them. Which was in it's own interesting fact. He wondered if he stood up if he'd just fall back down to the ground from not being able to feel his toes.
As the thought came to his mine, he slowly stood up, but to his amazement he didn't fall. He grinned. "Excellent" he said to himself before looking back at the female. "Are your feet numb?" He asked.
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