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 Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:43 pm
 Afternoon now, and Caolan still hadn't found Tamotsu. What he had found was where Tamotsu had spent the night, but the orange fox wasn't there anymore. There were a series of trails leading away from the spot as well, and it was hard for Caolan to tell which was the most recent...was Tamotsu trying to hide where he was? If so, why? Had something happened? Was Tamotsu trying to avoid him? Was this related to whatever Tamotsu had held back saying last night?
Too many questions. No, right now he should focus on trying to find Tamotsu.
"Tamotsu? Where are you?" Caolan called out, not holding much hope that Tamotsu would reply...but he had to try. Otherwise he would have to try each trail, and that would take much much longer.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:28 pm
 Eh? Was that someone calling him? Tamo blinked sleepily, and his bright orange head poked out from a pile of debris that he'd nested under.
"W'as goin' on," he slurred, brain still clogged up with sleep and trying to catch up with what was going on. He hadn't meant to take a nap, but he didn't sleep too well the night before and this pile had been so soft and the sun shining on it so warm....
Normally he slept like a brick too, that was why waking up took him a little time. Thoughts had been buzzing like annoying flies though, and wouldn't let him sleep until the night was at least half gone. Wandering in the forest, just exploring, the sleepy caught up and made the nap a particularly good one.
Tamo's stomach grumbled and he peered down at it with blearly suprise. Hmmm. He was hungry?
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:26 pm
Was that a voice? Possibly. It seemed to be along one of the trails, so it wouldn't hurt to start there...
And in a short while, Caolan had finally found Tamotsu. He relaxed slightly--unaware that he had even been tense in the first place--when he saw that his friend wasn't hurt. Simply still asleep. He hadn't thought that Tamotsu would sleep for that long. And, come to think of it, the area he had just come from looked slept in as well...too confusing for right now. Focus on one thing at a time.
"Did you oversleep?" he asked, having a feeling that wasn't the reason why Tamotsu was still here, but unable to think of any other reason why Tamotsu wouldn't have come.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:47 pm
Tamo's head swiveled around, owl-like, and he blinked large, sleepy eyes at Cao. It was actually a ridiculously adorable sight, the large male acting like a newborn kit that just got woken up from a nap.
"'S napping," Tamo muttered, still not yet conscious enough to manage proper pronounciation. He knew he should also feel bad that Cao seemed worried, but his brain was still starting up and he just couldn't make all the proper connections in his head. Later he would, but for now he was still in a very zombie-like state.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:32 pm
It took Caolan to process that "s'napping" translated into "was napping". Part of him wanted to push for answers right now, part of him knew that he probably wasn't going to to get anything coherent out of Tamotsu until the orange fox had taken some time to wake up further.
Irrationally, Caolan pressed on anyway: "All day?"
He still couldn't get the pieces to add up: Tamotsu had left his den, but gone off in random directions rather than find Caolan, he had taken a nap in the middle of the day...still wasn't with it, in fact.
Had Tamotsu been drugged?
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:30 pm
Tamo made a small face. It was hard, when your body was so comfortable and wanted to go right back to sleep and even your mind supported this decision; but with your mind working, the sleep started to fade and you knew you'd never get back to that some level of comfy and happy right away.
Whether or not he really planned to go back to sleep Tamo's body acted on habit, which was the assumption that more sleep was better. So it tried to get away with short, simple answers that required as little brain power as possibly. "No. Got up th's mornin', jus' wandered around a bit. Sun felt nice 'n' I jus' feel 'sleep."
Ah yes, the slurred grammar technique! Generally used when one wanted more sleep and hoped that, by making their words into gibberish, the other would leave them be! Tamo, had never had to use this deception upon anyone before, so it wasn't a desception so much as, one might say, sheer laziness of the mind.
Yes, even Tamo could be lazy.
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:28 pm
Caolan (who realized 30 seconds after he had the thought, that his drug hypothesis was absurd) just gave Tamotsu an incredulous look.
"And that's why you didn't come this morning?" It still didn't add up--he knew Tamotsu wouldn't ditch him so lightly. And Tamotsu hadn't overslept--he had said himself he had been up between his nightly sleep and his nap. And the drug thing was just absurd.
Nothing Caolan could think of fit at all.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:41 pm
"Well you looked upset over something last night, thought I'd give you space." The words were still touched with sleep, but only a little now; Tamo was waking up. He'd always been a fairly honest and frank fox, but sleep haze of the brain took away the few filters he did have.
Slowly and with all the delicacy of a newborn fawn Tamo stumbled up to his feet. He shook a few loose leaves from his fur, and the huge male was in danger of collapse. It only served to strengthen the fawn-reference. Briefly he contemplated whether sitting or continuing to stand would be a better move.
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:37 pm
Caolan let Tamotsu stand up on his own; while the red fox looked slightly unsteady, he was a grown fox and didn't need to be babied. Caolan would only help if Tamotsu asked for it.
He had been upset last night, but with a good rest behind him, he had nearly forgotten about it in light of Tamo's "disappearance".
"I'm over it now." It was a lie. But he didn't see anything to be gained from going into detail. Especially when he still couldn't fully explain it to himself.
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:15 pm
Tamo nodded, blinking sleep from his eyes. "Well that's good. It's no fun being upset over stuff. What were you upset about, anyway?" Under fully awake mode he might never have asked that question, since he didn't try to pry. But normally Tamo was curious and didn't think twice about questions or commenting. It was just something about Cao himself that made him leave that personal bubble alone.
Over time that would probably change though. Tamo wasn't a nosy fox, but he liked knowing things and the best way to do that had always been to ask questions.
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:23 pm
Caolan sat down next to Tamotsu, while he thought about if he should lie again or not. With any other fox, he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind. But this was Tamotsu, and he valued their friendship more than that to so casually risk it on something like that.
Friendship...? Odd, how that had happened. He had never thought himself the type to have friends.
He decided that lying would only cause more tension between them, and so spoke the truth: "What you said last night." He kept a close eye on Tamotsu, wondering how the other would react.
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:05 pm
"Right," Tamo said, then blinked. "Um, I remember saying a lot of stuff. What was it exactly?" His brow wrinkled with thought-frowns. He could vaguely recall saying something and then Cao acting a bit stand-offish, but he couldn't recall exactly what he said nor the exact moment the behavior had surfaced. He tried to force his sleepy mind to focus, but it was an effort. Cao would probably remember and be able to tell him before Tamo got halfway through the details in his head!
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:09 pm
((Quote is to test the guild notification system. Let me know if me quoting you sent you a notification or not? (I'm hoping it does so it can save us both effort of having to catch the other online to pass out tags~))) "About dening together." But no, that wasn't even really it. "No, the second part, about 'pushing too many boundaries too fast'."
It was irrational and something Caolan himself couldn't wholly explain, but something about the phrasing...no, that wasn't it. It was the reminder that he 'shouldn't' be willing to share a den with Tamo already, even though he had been. Had been until Tamo had pointed it out.
It was almost, but not quite, like Tamo had been telling him he wasn't 'allowed' to want to den with him yet.
No, that still wasn't quite it either.
He couldn't explain it. All he could explain was that he had been willing to den with Tamo until the orange fox had added on that 'too quickly' bit, and then he wasn't (had perhaps snapped back to himself or reality, one could perhaps say), and that annoyed him.
But which 'that'? That he had snapped back to reality? That he had changed his mind? That he had lost progress?
That one. That was more like it. It felt like he was losing ground in his relationship with Tamotsu. And that bothered him. He valued Tamo as a friend, and didn't want to feel like he was losing that friendship, like he was losing Tamo.
How very odd. And irrational--after all, Caolan, not Tamo, was the one who had made the decision to sleep seperately.
How extremely odd.
He didn't even know how to begin to explain that to Tamotsu--it barely made sense to himself.
No, he'd wait for the next round of questions instead; address whatever issues were actually important to Tamotsu, rather than what Caolan thought would be important to Tamo.((I apologize for the shoddiness. I apparently need to work on getting back into Cao's head @_@ ))
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:30 am
Tamo blinked, and tilted his head. "That? That wasn't meant to single anyone out or set up boundaries or anything." He stretched out his long body, sunlight catching in the orange fur and making it gleam like coals in a fire. He recoiled his body back into a sitting position and looked at Cao, face still tired but more awake now.
"It was more....an attempt at courtesy. I mean," he added, frowning and trying to figure out how exactly to word what he wanted to say, "everyone has their own 'personal bubble', and their own rules about how to manage their personal space. Some foxes like to curl up in groups and sleep practically on top of each other, some like to just barely be side-by-side. Some don't mind sleeping near others but want to be off to the side on their own, and some don't like sharing a den period."
Tamo hesitated, then continued, hoping he was doing an accurate job of explaining without upsetting Cao again. "I just...wasn't sure....what kind of sleeping arrangements you preferred," he mumbled.
((It did make a notice, but generally quotes leading to the guild don't let me follow then >.< ))
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:33 pm
Mollified by the explaination, Caolan stepped closer to his friend, and hesitantly nuzzled him in apology.
"Did you sleep well?" he asked, abruptly changing the subject. He didn't have anything else to say about The Denning Incident, and so saw no point in continuing on about it. They had sorted it out, and now it was time to talk about other things.
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