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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:39 pm
 Shadelight lounged about the clearing that was her occasional home, doing nothing but lolling in the sun. She was alone, and, she thought, perhaps she should find some...company. It had been a while since her last dalliance. The kids were all grown up and, for once, not here. Even Leafdark, the grumpy badger with whom she shared the clearing, had disappeared. Shadelight thought back to her recent lovers. That buck who looked like the sun had been good. What was his name? She was pretty sure he had fathered some of her offspring, but she could not for the life of her remember his name. Something with crows? His offspring had all dreamed of crow-like birds while they were in their sacs, apparently. Shadelight thought about this while she stretched sumptuously on the pile of leaves she normally slept on, but lying in the sun was just so comfortable. Perhaps a handsome buck would come across her lying here and ravish her? She could always hope.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:54 am
In a completely unexpected twist of fate, that is precisely what happened. Presently, with a gentle rustling announcing his approach, a buck stepped through the brush nearby. He carried himself with a very carefully practiced careless grace, and surveyed the space he had emerged into with half-lidded, calculating eyes.
When they lighted on the purple doe lounging in the sun, his eyebrows and ears shot up with obvious interest. He sauntered over to her, stopping a respectful distance away, and saying with his most winning smile, "Hello, madam. I hope you don't find it rude of me to say that you look quite lovely."
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:02 pm
Shadelight gazed, amused, at the buck who had apparently stepped out of her daydreams. He even looked like that other fellow she had been thinking about mere moments before. Maybe he was actually her destined lover. At the moment.
"I can't imagine anyone being offended by a compliment from a handsome buck like you," she said, tilting her head demurely.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:21 pm
The buck rolled his eyes and sighed. "I have found that some kin look for excuses to take offense," he said. "I've found that asking first tends to save myself a hiding."
He sat himself down at the edge of her skylight. "Hopefully you don't mind if I bask a while in your golden glow, as well?" he chuckled. "The shadows are lonely and cold."
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:06 am
"Oh, please do join me here." Shadelight shifted to the left a little to make room. And then the badger, whom she had thought had wandered off somewhere, rocketed out of the entrance to its sett in a mass of spitting, hissing fury, apparently focused on Yes's ankles. "So you were here!" Shadelight exclaimed, but it was obvious the creature did not want to cuddle. "Err..." She stood up, smiling gamely at Yes. "It's not usually like this. I don't know why it doesn't like you...perhaps we should find somewhere badger-free?" Her tail twitched in irritation at a flirtation foiled.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:04 pm
Yes had had enough mishaps with jealous bucks that the sudden advent of a snarling and spitting hell-beast hardly gave him a moment of pause. Almost in a single leap, he was up on his feet again and taking quick, mincing steps backwards. Hair and fur all on end and eyes wide, he looked back and forth between the badger and the doe as she addressed the thing as a friend and companion. Oh. That ruled out kicking its teeth in.
But, motherfather love him, the boy was undaunted in his solicitations. "That would be much appreciated," was what he told her through his forced, nervous smile, eager to follow her to some place much less full of gnashing teeth.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:03 pm
Shadelight smoothly slid herself between Yes and Leafdark, tsking and nudging the snarling badger away from the buck, occasionally forcefully, with one hoof while nudging Yes in a direction with another. "There's a perfect little glade," she said, conversationally, while she juggled kin and badger, "beautiful, full of flowers. The fireflies will be out soon, it's all very romantic."
Eventually they were far enough away from its sett for the badger, grumbling, to give up and leave. Of course, Shadelight had been so distracted by the badger that she hadn't pointed them in the right direction. "Oh dear," she said, looking around. "Where are we...?"
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