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 Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:44 am
 Riley hummed lightly to herself, bored. She'd lost touch with her friend Kiyo and had been passively hunting for him, but that giant ball of fluff was usually good at turning up when he knew he was needed. Of course that was assuming he wanted the company, so chances were right now he was busy with something and would catch up to Riley later.
That left her just a tad put out. She wasn't much of a tribe fox, but she liked company. Kiyo, for all his weirdness, was pretty good company. She supposed she could always find someone else to hang out with, but there was never any guarantee that she'd get along with that person. Riley looked mournfully up at the sky. She wanted company, her only friend was missing and any new company would have to be broken in. Not fair, so not fair.
She sighed. "Don't be silly girl, just get the heck over it and try to make new friends some other day," she scolded, impatient with her own moping. It wasn't like she was socially inept after all, and moping would not help her make new friends any time soon.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:10 pm
 El did not like walking through the forest. In fact he tried to avoid them as much as possible, but the one thing that was worse then forest. Open fields. El had learned at a young age that his appearance was a serious disadvantage to him. Resembling an elk was terrible. More then once had he been pounced on by another fox or worse, a Daeva, and nearly been eaten. Luckily, somehow, he had managed to escape their clutches and was still alive.
But now, with the open field in front of him, he really didn't want to move. He pursed his lips, sighing. Why did he have to be born looking like an elk? it made his life so much harder.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:47 pm
Riley stopped. She was in a field at the moment, heading towards the forest, when movement at the edge of the trees caught her attention. Her golden eyes narrored as she tried to make out what it was. It....looked like a deer or elk of some kind, but the height wasn't right and there was something about the body that just seemed a bit off.
Well, one way to find out. "Hello," Riley called uncertainly in the direction of the trees.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:44 pm
"Mm..." El looked down at the vixen. Was she calling out to him? He slowly looked over his shoulder but didn't see anyone. He figured that she must be talking to him. "Um....Hello." He called back to her, staying in his current position. She might be bait for him to step out into the open to be snatched away by a daeva or some other flying beasts.
El didn't like flying beasts, they tried to eat him one too many times.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:24 am
Ah, so someone was there. A fox, maybe an odd one but at least she was fairly certain he was part fox. She started up into an easy, ground-eating lope that required little energy to maintain, quickly closing the distance between her and the unknown male who didn't appear to want to leave the safety of the trees. She probably wouldn't be welcomed in his personal space either, so stopped a dozen yards away from his still.
"Hey. Didn't think I'd run into anyone out in all this nothing," Riley said, gesturing to the fields behind her with a toss of her head. "You don't live around here, do you?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:49 pm
"Maybe I do.....or maybe I don't." El remained vague on purpose, not knowing anything about the female, he didn't feel the need to trust her with any personal information. She might feel the need to use it against him later. All his years of the world, he had learned to be skeptic first, then trusting only when necessary.
"What are you doing out here?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:40 pm
Riley shrugged casually. "Traveling," she responded. "I don't really live anywhere in particular right now, just a bit of time here and a little time there. Mostly I've got Kiyo with me, but he flew off on one of his weird little journeys."
Riley rolled her eyes. She'd known Kiyo for a long time, and she still didn't know what he got up to when he vanished. For a guardian that was very open about a lot of stuff, he could be annoyingly secretive. Or maybe not annoying, Riley just wasn't patient with secrets in general.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:29 am
"Travelling..." El looked at her skeptically, but decided that she had no reason to lie to him and accepted her story, though he was determined not to walk out into the open just yet. "I happen to be travelling too....though in my case it is a little trickier." He frowned as he looked around. Really, being born with horns. How unlucky was that. Instead of naming him El, his mother should have given him the name lucky, at least that would have been comically ironic.
"Any particular place you're travelling too?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:18 am
"No where in particular," Riley said, taking a few steps forward but still making sure to leave some distance between her and the male, tilting her head curiously and examining his antlers as she spoke. "I don't really have ties to any one or any place, so there's nowhere for me to actually travel towards."
Her golden eyes flicked down from the antlers and to the male's face. "Some folks find it a little odd, but I guess a lot of them have families or have settled at some point in their lives, even if only as kits. Even the other travelers seem to have destinations or purposes of some kind, but I've never had any of that either."
Riley shrugged carelessly. She herself never saw what was so odd about it, but she was kinda biased in her favor...
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:19 pm
"I guess it would be nice to have a family." He shrugged his shoulders, "But you can't blame anyone for not having one. Or for not wanting to stay put I guess." El looked around, "I left my family back in Mirwood....it doesn't mean I love them any less. I just wanted to get out and see the world." He sighed, "My first big mistake. This world was not meant for foxes that look like me." He shook his head as he leaned against the tree to his right.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:01 pm
"What, foxes with horns on their head and short little tails," Riley asking, eyeing El critically. "I'll be honest, it doesn't look all that weird. I mean it's unusual and all, but I've seen others with odd little quirks to their appearance as well."
She suddenly grinned. "What, you've had people freak out on you or something?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:25 pm
"Freaking out would be a pleasant change." He sighed as he looked away, "No my problem is that foxes are always trying to eat me because they confuse me with those damn elks i resemble so much." El comically looked to the side as his eye twitched. "Do you know what it is like to be gnawed on...I can tell you that it is not the most appealing feeling."
He looked back at the vixen and sighed once again, "Sorry if it seemed like I was snapping at you. I wasn't. I'm just frustrated."
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:31 am
Riley had to smother a giggle. She was pretty sure this male was totally serious and had some bad experiences in the past, but, well...
Asking if she'd be gnawed on?
"I've been nibbled," she offered up, once she was sure she'd properly smothered the laughter impulse so it wouldn't hurt his feelings. "It would have been gnawed, but my friend has more of a break than teeth. And it was more for play that trying to be eaten."
She shrugged. "I can see how it would rub raw, but surely you haven't come across the problem more than once or twice? You're big enough that our kind wouldn't just attack you out of hand, and you look and smell enough like us that they'd probably stop and think first. I guess Phims or Daevas might be more of an issue since it's harder to change your mind when you're flying, but they're so rare. And you can't dive past trees."
Riley blinked golden eyes at the male. "I mean really, there's always larger predators out to get us, mostly the normals. Wolves, mountain lions, all sorts of things. I wouldn't go thinking that being horned is the reason you're a target. You've even got more defense than us normals, with those sharp little points up there," she pointed out, casting a glance at the male antlers.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:30 am
"Five times...." El made a face as he looked away, "And it is easier when I am in the forest I admit, but I have run into quite a few phims. They seem to be the nicest out of the two. At least they pause long enough to realize I am a fox and decide not to eat me. The Daevas on the other hand." He made a disgusted face, "Honestly I don't think they truly care because they continue at me like it mattered little what I was."
"I know it is a fox eat fox world and everyone is both predator and prey. But I am sick of being the prey." He looked back at the female and sighed, "But it doesn't do any good to b***h about it. My appearance is what it is."
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:30 am
Riley snorted. "Damn right. Feeling sorry for yourself gets you just about nowhere." She could vaguely empathize with the male, having been cornered by a pack of wolves once, but Kiyo had been out on a trip and for once had excellent timing. Easily three times her size in height, not even counting for mass, he'd certainly helped quite a bit.
"Anyway I wouldn't put too much stock in it. Even Daevas aren't cannibals. Likely you just did something to set them off, deities knows what, cause they're all highly touchy and tempermental. I know it's little comfort, cause dead is dead no matter what, but I'd feel better knowing at least they weren't trying to eat me!"
Riley stepped a bit closer, tilting her head. "I mean have they ever done more than attack you? I can get a few mistakes initially if they start out at a distance, and if they realize their mistake and get embarassed over it it'll probably make a Daeva more pissed than anything and redouble their attack just out of pique. Not sensible, but like I said they've got volatile tempers. But I really don't think another fox would eat you, once they figured out what you were. You're just prone to more misunderstands, that's all."
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