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 Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:33 pm
 Though it had been several weeks since the bear attack, Rainbow's body still suffered the scars from those long claws. Spellbinder had him on a special poultice to aid the healing, and right now was about the time he was supposed to take it. He didn't like the smell, though: it was a little foul, like carrion breath.
Like if she had taken a fraction of the scent on the bear's breath. The young adolescent shuddered and settled under the shade of a tree.
Never far away, the sounds of the Timeless River burbled onward. Snips was currently on his shoulder and snapping a claw agitatedly, as if asking why they were on land when the water was just a little bit of jogging away. "Just a bit longer," Rainbow assured him, voice still squeaking despite being in the beginning stages of wolfish puberty. "I need to put this stuff on."
If possible, the crab rolled his eyes.
The poultice laid within the curl of a large leaf at Rainbow's feet, a dirty green - like if he had puked. Grimacing, he made a body bridge with his limb and let Snips scuttle down. "If you help me put it on, we'll go to the river, promise."
There was an implied sigh before the crab began to dip his claws into the stuff.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:03 am
 Glory was very confused about a lot of things lately. The number one thing that repeatedly confused her was the tendency of her thoughts to get away from her lately. There she'd go, training, exploring, enjoying her life...and then something would pop up in her head that she absolutely did not want to even consider thinking about.
Like the way a certain maned wolf looked when he smiled.
He probably didn't even really look like that, anyway. She was probably mis-remembering. And, anyway, it didn't matter how he looked, because he was stupid and foul and she really hated him anyway.
Still, when she caught a a flash of motion ahead, she jerked as though zapped by electricity -- then realized that the figure had a pastel rainbow pelt. Sighing with relief, she padded forward, smiling fondly at Little Rainbow. She had never thought to spare him a second look until the incident with the bear. Ever since, she'd always thought he was worthy of a little extra notice. She thought he had been very brave, the way the whole thing went down...and Glory valued bravery.
"Oh, hello Rainbow," she said, giving her tail a little wag. She looked at his injuries, and then at the nasty stuff at his feet, and because it seemed like the right thing to do, said, "...Do you need help with that?" Even though she really, really hoped he'd say no.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:57 am
Her wish was granted with an annoyed wave of Snips' claw, the green gunk dripping to the ground. "Don't waste it or Spell'll kill me!" Rainbow implored him, and with well-due concern: the healer's title was almost a misnomer, as Spellbinder was as likely to snap and cuff ears as she was to heal scars when she was in a foul mood.
The young wolf sighed. "Nah, Snips has it down I think," he said as the crab skittered carefully back up his paw and began applying the poultice to the scabs. "Thanks anyway." In spite of the whole "warring fathers" deal, Rainbow liked to think that Hero and Artemis's children weren't so bad. The only one that disconcerted him really was Celaeno, who kept acting as if Winner was her dad and followed him about like he was the sun of her world.
He'd heard on more than one occasion that Conk was going to beat her up, but so far he hadn't. In a way, Rainbow kinda hope he would: the girl was just stressing.
"Spellbinder said I had to keep putting it on for the rest of the week, just in case," he continued with another sigh. "It smells awful doesn't it. Makes me gag. What's up with you?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:11 pm
She watched this, somewhat fascinated. "It must be really useful, having an animal like that. That's alive, I mean." She winced then, in case this was a sore point. She always felt bad mentioning that to Rabbit's Luck, as she thought it would probably make the rainbow wolf start crying. But she'd always wondered just how many Blackavars she'd gone through by this point.
Still, she had risked her hide once going head-to-head with some crows to save the damn rabbit, so that had to count for something.
"It is really gross," she agreed. "And, nothing really. Was just wandering around, and then I smelled....that...and thought I'd come investigate. Does it still hurt?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:56 am
"Not really, more li- aaah!" He twitched as Snips hit a tender spot, almost knocking the crab off. "Snips, not so hard! W-Well okay, besides that part, nah. It mostly itches." Sometimes if he picked at a scab too much it'd open and bleed again, which sucked so hard.
Rainbow tilted his ears back, suddenly looking sheepish. "Is your bro okay? I heard he got messed up from . . ." He trailed off, not even wanting to mention the terrible creature.
Try two! "I-I also heard you and my brother went in like heroes with the adults," he went on, smiling. "He wouldn't stop going on about how awesome he was, b-but I guess he can boast this time for real."
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:57 am
She watched, fairly entranced, as the crab did his work. It took a second to realize that she'd been asked a question, and she snapped her attention back to him. "Castor's doing okay," she said, with a small guilty pang that maybe she should stop in and visit him today, too. She didn't talk to Castor nearly as much as she should. But he thought too much, and it made her brain hurt. "A few more scars. But he'll be fine, I think. Thanks to you," she added, genuinely, "Coming for help."
Glory smiled a bit bashfully at her paws at this second half. "Well, he wasn't too bad," she admitted, begrudgingly. "We'd've been dead if all the adults weren't there helping, though."
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:18 pm
"Yeah . . ." His sheepishness turned to shame, though, when she thanked him, feeling quite undeserved of it. "I-I ran away like a mouse. Didn't do anything 'cept yell for help, like anyone else would . . ." Something Conk didn't actually bother him about, for once, but still. Rainbow didn't feel like running was something to be thankful for, other than saving his hide; even Castor, whose brain was probably bigger than his muscles, stood back with the bear.
Of course, Rainbow was the one who instigated the whole thing to begin with, but that little tidbit hadn't made it out of the private conversation he had with Oath and KK. He didn't imagine Castor had mentioned that to any of his family; the guy was pretty nice for the few minutes Rainbow actually got to know him. The kind that forgave. Forget, though . . .
Snips clicked his claws together several times. "Done, boy? Awesome," Rainbow told him with a smile, bumping the creature gently with his nose. "We were going to go to the river to cool off after this stuff dried. Wanna come?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:07 pm
"Sure," she said, deciding to let any discussion of his bravery drop. She'd said her piece, no point in getting all gooey about it. "I'm always game for a swim."
She hoped Mysterious Abyss wasn't there, though. Getting snapped at for sticking a dirty puppy paw into the water was something she wasn't looking forward to.
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:19 am
In the short while it took for the poultice to dry off and be absorbed, Snips decided to inspect this oddly tree-colored-legged thing who was talking to them. With small, dark eyes, the crab stared up at the she-wolf with what could have been suspicion, waving a claw at her in silent threat; Snips' small size belied tenacity fitting a larger creature.
"Don't go trying to scare her off, Snips," Rainbow told him with a chuckled, resisting the growing urge to scratch some of the scars. "We don't even know her name yet." Knowing the face? Yes. Names? Not so much. "C'mon, we'll go downwind so Auntie won't snap at us." Mysterious Abyss was more prone to being territorial about only a certain portion where the TimelessRiver inundated a small beach, but he didn't want to take any chances. Being the same blood really didn't matter much to the older femme apparently.
He led his conversational companion southward, following the lazy current until they were just a little north of Pride Rock, almost in the center of the packlands. Here, the water split into a three branches: to their northwest sat the sprawling oddity that was Wonderland, and to their west were the Greater Neverland Hills. More than happy to cool off, Rainbow waded into the water with a sigh. "Nice and cold . . ."
He didn't know that they wouldn't be alone for long, but for the moment he had his respite. "Maybe it's 'cause of our blood or something, but the water is always calling us."
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:42 am
She blinked. He didn't know her name? How silly! She knew his name. Granted, it had helped that it had been yelled at least a few times in alarm recently, but she could swear she'd known it before then. Hadn't she?
"It's Glory," she said, as she padded along beside them, giving the crab a wide berth so it wouldn't jump off and decide to snip her ear. "Glory Storm, if you want to get technical about it."
She waded in behind him a little reluctantly, grimacing for a moment before her body adjusted to the cold. She couldn't help her eyes darting about just to make sure they were alone.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:14 pm
"Glory Storm?" Rainbow's voice was hushed, almost awed; he even forgot his itching for a moment. "Th-That's a nice name." Better than Little Rainbow by far. Probably something to do with real strong parents. Real nice parents. Less taken by perhaps the rudeness of making someone get into the cold water with him and more taken by the fact that her eyes seemed to be searching for something every once in a while, Rainbow tilted his head curiously. "Are . . . you looking for something?" he asked, curious.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:32 pm
"Huh? Oh...no...just wondering if we were the only ones here," she said, hesitantly. There was no way she was going to tell him she was keeping an eye out for his brother. For one, she was pretty sure Rainbow was terrified of Conk, or at least didn't like him much. For another, she didn't want to make it look like she cared what the maned wolf was doing. Because she totally didn't.
"So I never see you around much. Are you shy?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:51 pm
"Oh." Well that was a funny thing to be looking out for. The packland was pretty good sized for their population, so it wasn't uncommon to be alone for some stretches of time. Lil' Rainbow wondered momentarily if he should ask who, but bit his tongue back in the end - which was a bad idea to do literally.
So Rainbow's response face was something close to this for a moment as he tried very, very hard not to cry from the pain. While doing so Snips, who had disappeared in the water once they had reached it, was now busying himself trying to climb the new moving trees that constituted Glory's legs.
"O-Ow . . ." Rainbow blinked back tears, swallowed a little bit of blood and tried to go on through the conversation like nothing happened. "Kinda?" He hadn't really thought about it before.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:48 pm
Her ears swept forward, brow furrowing in concern, but a similarly absurd expression took over her maw as she tried not to laugh at him. He was so ridiculous! Did he realize how ridiculous he was? Oh, my. But it would be mean to laugh. And she was trying to get past all of that.
"Ah...are you okay?"
Was there something on her leg? Oh, god, there was something on her leg. Yelping, she splashed backward, trying to get away from....it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:06 pm
Snips, the uncaring crab that he was, clung onto her front leg with both claws as she flailed. Like he hadn't been given the same treatment by Hearty the Rainbow Kid! Said kid, however, immediately looked flustered and between the emotions of embarrassment, being annoyed, and possibly wanting to bolt before he somehow made it worse. "Oh gosh, oh gosh, I'm sorry!" he cried, stepping forward as if hoping he could snatch his pet off Glory, and then stepped back when he thought it over twice. "Snips, nononono! Please get off, Glory's nice! Nonononono."
Snips, cheekily, let one claw go loose to wave. Today was a good day. There was no particular reason to think this yet, but Conk knew it in his heart that if he just kept following his mojo, things would fall into place. Sure, Dad was being a douche and going off on his own again (instead of taking his son on, like, a hunting trip), but whatever. It wasn't like the teen hadn't found his own methods of entertainment before.
He was considering bothering Auntie Abyss again, because Conk derived great pleasure in pissing her off (even if it also tended to lead to bodily harm for himself), and thus had been following the river south, when he heard a voice. That voice. Those voices.
Holy s**t, was his brother really . . . No way. There wasn't - No. The little fairy boy couldn't possibly have the guts for it. Scowl-pouting, Cink had in a moment of real conscious thought gone the sneaky route and took the time to circle them until he was downwind. This was still the warm season, and plenty of bushes were about to hide and peek through.
And oh did he peek. Oh did he peek with those narrow green eyes at this scene of stupidity.
But for once, Conk remained quiet.
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