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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:03 pm
 It had been a long day. A great deal of it was spent hunting, like most days, but today the prey was just a bit more clever than usual. It seemed like he hand ran around the entire swamp and back before he caught two foxbun for his and Light's dinner.
Other than that, it was a quiet day. Once he had dragged his prey back home to their quiet little clearing, and he and Light had eaten, Plains flopped down in the fading sun, wanting to bask until the sky turned dark.
Plains was an older Kio. When he was younger, he wanted nothing but excess. He wanted the finest things he could get his hands on. While he still loved anything decadent, he was starting to get to the point where he would honestly prefer to lay around in the sun all day than to go to some social gathering. It was good that Light was just as lazy as he was... It was often that Plains wold prefer to spend an entire day doing nothing with Light than an entire day having fun with other Kin.
There were still chores to be done, of course. It was a lot of work living with a blind Kin. Plains did all of the hunting. He also always kept a watchful eye out for the other buck. He couldn't bear to think about what would happen if something snuck up on Light when he wasn't around... Perhaps he didn't need to be so protective... But he couldn't help it, he just didn't want to lose the best thing that had happened to him in his entire life.
With a grunt, Plains rolled over and sighed, looking over to his mate, before looking over to the treeline. He was glad today was a quiet day.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:56 am
 I Walked Across' day, too, had been long, but it was for a different reason. She had been traveling all day - walking and walking and walking through the swamp. She wasn't sure where she was headed, because she wasn't sure she ever was. But she liked the idea of experiencing a different place, and really she didn't like to stay in one place for too long. She liked learning about different kin, yes, but she didn't like spending too much time with them. They got quarrelsome, or they'd want to pick a fight. Path didn't like fighting, even if it wasn't of the physical variety. She didn't like to do much of anything other than talk and sometimes watch and, slowly, walk. Traveling was good. Traveling when all you had to do was walk was even better, because it meant that you didn't have to think much about whether or not you were strong enough to swim across that river on your own, or about whether or not it was safe to duck into that cave. Today had been one of those walking days, so she came to the edge of the swamp feeling satisfied. She'd visited the edge of the swamp before, of course, but she had not visited the edge of the swamp here, and so she was not aware that the territory here was occupied by anyone in particular. She was a young kimeti, relatively, and she had only seen a few seasons pass by - old enough to be considered an adult, certainly, but young enough that she didn't know nearly enough about the swamp yet. Or so she thought, anyway. Path was coming in from the tree-line, and to Plains she must have been fairly visible once she got within seeing-distance - she was a pale cream color, and the trees were not. She was quiet, though, and did not make much of a noise. Path liked to observe, first.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:31 am
 The whole blind since birth thing really spoiled No Light in Your Eyes. He always laid around and did hardly anything. However, he had a very vain personality growing up that just got worse when he hit adulthood and more and more does kept throwing themselves at him. He learned how to flirt easily enough, like he was born to do it and that's when he wasn't going to settle down any time soon.
However, while flirting with a little group of females, Plains happened to wander by and see him. The two started talking and well... feelings developed. While he was with Plains, now, and loved him dearly, he couldn't stop flirting with the females. In all actuality, Plains had been the only male he'd been interested in. It was partly because of Plains' personality and partly because they both believed they deserved the best of everything in the world. Clearly, that was a sign they were supposed to be together, right?
But the ladies didn't back down when they told him he had a mate. It never once stopped him from flirting with, what he felt, was a pretty doe. He loved to make them shy, loved to make them slightly uncomfortable with how close he got to them, how he'd whisper in their ears.
What did he have to do that would stop him? Being blind, Plains took it upon himself to play protector as well as the role of mate. Plains caught dinner, cleaned him up, helped him when they traveled and just basically pampered and cared for No Light like he was a child. No Light had absolutely no complaints about this. He didn't feel smothered like someone else would have. He grew up being coddled and that's all he wanted. He wanted the attention of his mate and the attention of does all the time.
When he felt his mate look at him, the smoothed Kin shifted to lean against the Kio before resting his head against the other male's neck. His chartreuse eyes stared out at nothing, seeing just a blur of green. That's all he could see. He wasn't completely blind, but he might as well be. He couldn't make out shapes, depth, anything like that. It was all just different shades of green that all looked the same distance away. Laying there quietly, he sensed another close by and let his ear flick.
"Company," was all he said to his mate, sighing and staying where he wouls. Plains would take care of it, he knew.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:02 am
Plains despised how Light constantly flirted. Any female who graced their presence, Light devoted all of his attention to them and left Plains in the dust. Was he jealous? Of course he was jealous. Light never flirted with him. Not anymore, at least. When they first met, her flirted all the time. But now, the other buck reserved that sort of attention for the does. Plains didn't see what was so special about them. Was it because they giggled and shied away? Whatever it was, Plains sure wished they didn't do it.
Naturally, when he saw a cream colored doe wander into the area, he paid her no mind, but kept a careful eye on her. He didn't want to interact with her if he didn't have to. As he looked at her, his ears began to p***k up. There was something strangely... Familiar about her. He was sure he'd never seen her in his life. She definitely wasn't a family member... But she had the same strange horns that he had, and a short tail. Still, he didn't make too much fuss over her.
Until Light noticed, that is. With a grunt, he rolled his eyes and sat up, blinking blearily before he got up and walked slowly over to the doe, tail flicking a bit. "Hello there, Stranger. I've never seen you around here before."
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:47 am
She had not actually seen the pair of bucks - well, no. Of course she had seen them; one of them had a deep purple color on his belt that was unmistakeable for a kin of some sort. But she had not truly registered them, and when one spoke she turned her gaze from the pale grasses of the meadow.
"I've...never been around here before, I don't think," she replied, and watched Plains. She'd never seen a kiokote with horns before, and naturally she'd never seen one with horns so like her own. Their horns were very nearly the same, and his tail was short - not as short as hers, true, but it was clearly not the long-haired tail that most kiokote possessed. Were they related? Path should think not - even from afar he did not have the smell of her family (which was, she thought, familiar enough to her that she should have recognized it). "I'm I Walked Across - Path, usually. It's shorter."
"Do you travel here often?" she continued, because he sounded like someone who was familiar with the place (she neglected the possibility that they considered it their own territory: Path was not familiar with the idea of sticking to one place for all of your life). "The two of you, I mean." She glanced at the other buck - the kimeti buck, who had a pelt that was deep in color and long hair on his head that curled about his ears and his horns. He was certainly not related to Path: she could not think of anyone in her family who looked like him. His back was entirely empty of scales and spines, too - had he been born that way? How intriguing.
Path did enjoy meeting new kin, though she was neither a social butterfly nor a flirt. She could not say that she had expected the bucks here, but she could never say that she expected company. She'd enjoy it, for awhile, and then she would part ways amiably and head for a new, temporary home.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:27 am
A smile came to his lips as he realized he'd been right in assuming there was company, and then a laugh escaped when said company turned out to be a girl. Of course Light adjusted himself to sit up straight, still pressed close to his mate as he heard her talk. Ah, she seemed shy but... eager? He wasn't sure if she was, actually, but that's what he heard in her voice. She was curious, too.. Curiosity had a way of emerging itself in a voice.
"Path? That's an interesting name. Call me Light." He refused to tell anyone but his mate his true name. It was something private, for the two of them to call each other by their full names. At least, that's what he thought. There was no spoken rule about it, though, no agreement. His tone had taken a flirting one and he grinned a little more, sighing and moved to nose into Plains' neck again. "This is Plains.
Travel? They lived here. Smirking a little more, he shrugged and considered the question. "Well, the two of us live in this area, sort of. What about you, Path? Do you live here?" He was trying to be smooth and seductive.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:05 am
Plains tried to hold back a groan. Of course Light would pick up the conversation. Still, the doe was a traveler, and she seemed curious. Plains always helped travelers. After all it could be miles to the next area where a traveler could safely rest their hooves. He smiled a bit at her as Plains spoke, and then gave the buck a hard nudge off when he tried to be affectionate with him. Such was their usual song and dance while they were entertaining female company.
Plains was quick to chime in, interrupting Path's little speech. "I'm Plains. My name is longer, but it's just more simple to call me Plains." He said, watching her. "We live here, this is our den. You must be a traveler?" He gave Lights a wayward glance. "If she lived around here, we would have met her before." His mate did have a way with becoming well acquainted with all of the ladies in the area...
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