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 Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 11:33 am
She wasn't lost. She had merely displaced the surrounding trees. She opened her eyes looking for nearby source of strong light. Murky beacon over there. She meandered north at a measured pace. Always calculating. She didn't want to be chastised. The others were fascinated with Gloom's watersnake and decided this week would be for elaborate curls to mimic Strawberry Hill's svelte curves. She supposed the way they fussed on, she was really pretty when styled this way, but it wasn't for her enjoyment. Sweeping low branches were her sentinent enemy. They were everywhere. Mother ********, her siblings were ridiculous with their preoccupations. She kept her eyes open until she cleared the canopy . And paused.
Mmmmm, something sweet she smelled. Her eyes and smile were alight with delight. Oh la la. She was starting to enjoy this period of downtime between the hunts. No other kimeti or animals to bother her. Just a bounty of succulent scents awaiting her. She spied with her fuzzy eyes something pink.
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:10 pm
 Thoushalt was interrupted in his conversation with a family of songbirds by his crane's warning croak. There's a doe coming this way, Of Course said, the loud flaps of her wings as she landed a few feet away from him scaring off the tittering songbirds. Thou looked at her deprecatingly. 
"Did you have to interrupt so rudely?" he chastised, sighing at the loss of his conversational partners.
Of Course began preening her feathers. I just thought you'd want to know before you're stumbled upon by someone even more startling than me. She croaked and tilted her head. I don't think she can see very well.
Thou blinked a few times in thought. "Is she lost? Does she need help?" he finally replied, his curiosity piqued and his chivalrous attitude coming to the surface despite himself.
Of Course seemed to shrug. Find out for yourself, she said, spreading her wings and flapping off just as the doe came into sight. Thoushalt was silent, staring at her in surprise, his pink eyes glowing softly.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:56 pm
The sounds of wings alerted her. This was a sound she was familiar with. Instantly she closed her eyes and moved forward while her mind quickly categorized the sound, frequency and weight of the flaps:
crispy twig legs
only two sticks
no arms
swift, accurate pecker
pretty feathers for her hair
not a lot of blood in them
easy to break, little meat
hello and goodbye, crane
She knew this drill by heart. Where there was one, another would be nearby. It was just a matter of what. Slowly she pried open an eye. She snorted disgracefully in surprise. The "what" was alarmingly close.
Nose, meet foreign shoulder scale.
She deftly pivoted a fair distance away. And stared at the fuzzy haze of glowing eyes. In another lifetime, had she not run with Doom or Gloom, she would have been taught that a stranger was just a friend one had not met. But not on this playing field. Warily she waited. This was becoming a misadventure worthy of three days of Gloom's chastising.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:22 pm
Thoushalt remained still as the doe bumped her nose into his shoulder scale and then spun away, staring at him, her eyes unfocused and clouded. He cleared his throat, unsure of how much the doe could see and not wanting to startle her by speaking too suddenly. "Miss? Um. Do you need help?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:39 pm
She had exactly 8 things she wanted to say but only one was not borderline hostile or a prerequisite to some permanent damage. In that very moment she became acutely aware of her limited conversation skills. Sure, she talked to many kimeti but they were now dead and they were not too chatty. She was the sweet poisonous lure after all. She talked to Doom and Gloom but they were family. She had to regroup. This one wasn't on the "naptime" list.
Let's go through the basics of communicating. A question is asked. It needs an answer. Depending on who the speaker is warrants the type of answer, truth or not, and the tone. What did I hope to achieve? And so her thoughts passed on like this until a small eternity had passed.
"No" she replied slowly. And continued to stand there. For reasons unknown to her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:16 am
Thou stared at the doe, unblinking, an expression of confusion on his face. "Um...well. Alright then," he replied, twitching his tail nervously at the awkwardness of the situation. "Sorry I...bothered you?" he was puzzled by this doe, and her bluntness had succeeded in making him forget his gentlemanly facade. He shook his head and attempted to snap back into it, correcting his mistake. "Sorry, sorry, Miss. Sorry I bothered you Miss." Great, now he just sounded like a lunatic, chattering away to himself. He scrunched up his eyes in displeasure at his blunder.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:49 pm
Miss. Miss misss. It jogged a memory of not too long ago. And then it hit her simultaneously: the creeping blush that was now enflamed red on her cheeks and the realization of where they had met before. “SHOUT! Is that you?” Her eyes focused on the cloudy purple and white with small bits of pink. Interest propelled her to shift all of her weight to the front legs, and her tail stopped mid-swing, suspended while she waited for his answer.
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:05 am
Thoushalt stared at the doe for a few moments after her exclamation, his brain ticking. She was nearly unrecognizably different looking from when he had last saw her, her now perfectly white coat brown with mud and silt, her perfectly coiffed hair tangled and matted with the waters and debris of the great flood.
Then the realization of what she had called him dawned, and Thou burst into pleasant laughter. "Shout, oh! Haha. It is so good to see you, miss, you look well! I am glad you survived the flood! My name is Thoushalt, actually, but I understand how you could have misheard me amidst the rush of water. And I quite like the nickname." He smiled, inordinately pleased. "Your family is well? I...I don't think I ever got your name, Miss."
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:42 pm
Hmmm. New territory. She never had use for other’s names. It just wasn’t important. Thoushalt. It was mere moments but she felt like things had gone stagnant too quickly. She was out of her elements anyway. Even during the flood. She inwardly groaned. She wanted to get back onto steady ground and quickly. She felt overwhelmed. Suffocated. It was all the flowers in her hair. Shaking it violently, she tossed her head back, not paying mind to where one branch flew off in a particular direction. It was followed by a large thud. There, she was feeling better already.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:28 am
Thoushalt dodged one of the flying flower stems and chuckled at the evident relief the loss of decoration made in the doe. "Does your family do your hair for you?" he asked, resigning himself to not knowing the doe's name at last. "It is indeed very pretty...but you have a very natural beauty of your own when it is let down," he finished, a little embarrassed at the blatant flattery. Well, she was very pretty, so it wasn't a lie -- and Thou was really at quite a loss at what to say to this strangely behaved doe. Of Course would be laughing her beak off at him if she were here, he had no doubt. Ah well.
"Are you hungry, Miss? There was a patch of just-ripe strawberries I saw not too far away," he ventured, a little more himself in the act of helping than in complimenting a doe's beauty. "I would be glad to show you to them, if you like."
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:24 pm
And because it was easier to agree to his adventure than coming up with an excuse or responding and acknowledging his awkward compliment, she went off into the dark to wherever it was he suggested. She resigned herself to the truth: she had in fact wanted to know more about this odd buck. After all, Doom and Gloom were always nearby and excellent trackers."Look-See's my name." In due time, Thoushalt will find out the name of her family members.
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