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 Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:44 am
A stubbly tail twitched, and a blue fox stretched out. He was rudely awaken by a snow flake that landed on his nose. He twisted himself a bit to get an itch on his side, using his antler to scratch. He looked up at the mountain. He knew Psyche would easily climb the face of the mountain. But Rui, was going to use the trail like a normal fox.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:57 pm
 Ayame sighed, trudging up the side of the mountain. Though it was summer and plants were thriving below, snow always capped the top of this very high mountain. With her powerful muscles though it gave her no trouble.
There were a few reasons for her being up here, away from her tribe. There were no races going on at the moment so she wouldn't be needed, but climbing was a good way to keep herself in shape for when the snows returned. She could also forage a bit, though no plants grew here and so no animals would be coming where no plants were. Maybe she'd forage on her way back.
But most she was here to be alone.
Ah, it always did seem to turn out like that. Ayame was calm for her kind, most of the tribe filled with hyper furballs. Bright, colorful personalities. Ayame herself was as calm and steady as her own colors.
She would never be a beauty, that much was certain. Large and stocky, muscled, she gave an impression of toughness. Combined with her no nonsense face, no one really seemed to want to approach her. Her colors were steely gray, deep blue, and golden brown, none of which seemed to help her.
Ayame was maybe a little lonely, but she'd never admit it. Oh there had been a few she'd courted, but those attempts never seemed to get very far. After yet another failed try she figured she must be completely hopeless...
Lost in thoughts as she was, Ayame wasn't paying all that much attention to her surroundings. But that warm, fluffy thing she'd just stepped on probably was indigenous to these cold, hard surrounds.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:33 pm
Rui's eyes twitched. Now what... He looked up and saw another fox. He cleared his throat to get her attention. "Miss... I am not part of the trail." He slid out from under her paw and stood up, shaking the snow that happened to fall onto his antlers.
He must have looked like some stick sticking out of the snow. He looked around, he didn't think to many traveled the mountains at this time of the year, especially Sled-foxes. He wiped off the slight dirt smug on his coat. He was near a lady, he needed to look presentable.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:14 pm
Ayame quickly jumped back, paws skidding against the snow for a moment before finding purchase. She was quite startled to see the deerfox rising from the snow, not even realizing he'd been there. "Ah, I'm sorry about that. Though there really isn't any path around here that dictates where I should step, and you kinda blend in with the snow."
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:01 pm
"It's fine. No damage done." He checked his bow, it was fine, his antlers seemed intact to... even if they were damaged they would grow back. "And how about you, are you alright?" He examined the vixen, she seemed fit enough, and she didn't seem hurt. He looked back at his coat and then at the snow. "I didn't know my coat would blend in..." He shrugged, he could have swore he didn't have a lot of snow on him.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:12 pm
Ayame raised an eyebrow, looking the male up and down. "Well your coat is a pale blue, bordering on gray, even. It blends well with the colors found up here." Over her surprise, Ayame shook out her coat and placed her feet in a better position for the terrain. At least with the thick fur around her feet it gave her better purchase.
"I'm fine as well. Perhaps a bit startled..." She gave the male a look. "Generally I don't see others around this mountain at all, given that a tribe lives on it, and especially don't see others up this high."
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:31 pm
"There is a tribe here?? Am I intruding? Do I need to leave?" He looked around, tail twitching and nose sniffing for others. He looked at the vixen. "Hmm, I see. I guess I haven't really looked at the colors here. I will have to next time I decide to take a nap... Hopefully it will save me another stepping." He raised a brow at her. "My name is Rui."
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:41 pm
Grayish-brown eyes met green ones. "I'm Ayame," she responded, still looking Rui over. Then, unable to help herself, "Aren't you at all frightened of me?"
She could understand being wary of a tribe, any fox tended to be. But thus far every deerfox she'd met was of a nervous dispotion. Kinda edgy. It must be prey instincts mixed in with predator ones. Rui's matter-of-fact disposition was throwing her off from all that she thought she knew about deerfoxes up to this point.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:49 am
He blinked at her. "No. You are another fox like I am." Well not just like him. He was a deer-fox. "I don't think you are into cannibalism either." So he had nothing to fear. "Why do you ask?" Was it because the type of fox he was? He did know others could be skiddish. But, he wasn't. When he was a kit he was. But as he grew older it changed.
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:29 pm
Ayame simply shrugged. "I've known a few of your kind, deerfoxes," she responded. "One's a member of my tribe, the other was just a wanderer I came across, kinda like how I found you. Of course I didn't step on that guy. Anyway, both of those guys were kinda nervous when they first saw me. Skiddish."
She raised an eyebrow slightly, recalling Prancer and Peyton. "More so that usual for a first-time meeting of a stranger."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:21 am
Rui rolled his shoulders. "I see." He eyed the vixen. "Not all of are like that." He offered a rare smile. "But I'm sure you are aware of that." He looked around and saw where she had come from. "May I ask what you are doing out here?" He heard it was normal for foxes like Ayame to live out in the mountains.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:47 pm
Ayame thought about that. "Makes sense," she finally commented. "After all I'm considered kinda somber among dogfoxes." She certainly felt somber, what with all the hyper personalities, the high-strung ones, the dominately confident ones...
Sometimes Ayame felt like a stranger among her own kind.
She refused to allow herself to sink into any kind of self-pity though, and used Rui's question as a convient way to stave off the emotion. "Training, mostly," she answered, rolling her muscles into another shrug. "Further down the mountain there's no snow, so no sleds to pull and more than enough hyper foxes to deliver messages. I'm not much needed. Gotta stay in shape somehow though, or Boss with tan my hide come winter again."
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:01 pm
Rui nodded. "That is fine with me. I prefer more relaxed foxes. Hyper foxes are too much for me." Training? "Can I join you?" Rui had seemed to gain a few pounds since he had stopped chasing Psyche around. He shuffled awkwardly. He usually never opted to go out. But having some calm company would be nice for a change.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:54 pm
Ayame raised an eyebrow, looking Rui up and down a bit more thoroughly that she'd done before. "What's your specialty," she asked, eyes lingering on his chest and leg muscles for a moment before she looked back up at him.
To demonstrate what she meant, she flexed her own powerful muscles so they stood out more than they normally did. 'I look more like a bulky dog than a graceful fox,' she thought ruefully, carefully hiding the thought behind a calm mask.
"My specialty is power. I'm not as fast or agile as some of the others, but I've got a lot more strength and a lot more stamina in the end."
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:21 pm
"I have gotten quite fast. Though with my antlers I'm not that aerodynamic." Rui was slim, and flexible. From having to chase Psyche he learned how to squeeze through certain places. His head tilted. "Though why do you want to know?" He was rather curious.
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