[FIN] Small Blue Brothers (Defodio & Uligo)

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Uligo was amusing himself by a small creek on the jungle floor, twirling a paw around the rushing water. Water was his preferred medium for anything - hunting, gathering, playing. He knew that his brother, Defodio, was not always as keen on the liquid as he himself was, but those things happened. Siblings did not always agree with each other.

Well, what was this now? Something had trickled down the stream and bumped into his paw. Curious now, the ratel leaned forward for a closer look.  

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To be fair, given their reputation as troublemakers AND the fact that they loved pranking each other as often as they loved pranking everybody else, Uligo should have expected that action. Since he hadn't, however, the blue ratel got a mouthful of water instead of air and came up spluttering. The creek was shallow enough that only an idiot could drown in it, luckily, so there was no awkward swim to shore.

But Uligo refused to let Defodio distract him and poked the object that had peaked his interest. It was round. And really heavy. The ratel pushed it with paws and nose up out of the creek. Reaching his brother, he shook himself to rid his fur of excess water. Defodio might have gotten a bit wet. Too bad for him!

"Hah yourself!"  

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Uligo laughed at his brother's expression. It was always fun to push him off balance in the slightest ways. Especially since he knew that Defodio would do the same to him at the drop of a leaf.

He snorted at his brother. "I like water, remember? You're the one squealing like a girl at a few droplets," the blue ratel teased.

The heavy round object was pushed until it came to rest squarely between the two ratels. Uligo poked it and pawed it and sniffed it. It smelled...metallic.

"I have no idea. What about you?"  

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Well. That was..unhelpful. It was round, and, with a bit of effort, Uligo proved that it could and would roll around. But in the soft and loamy earth, the weight of the thing made it much more likely to sit and sink down slightly. It wasn't edible, it was very hard, it smelled metallic.

That was what the blue ratel knew about his find. Frowining, he rocked it back and forth in its depression. "Well I don't know what it is either. What do you think we could do with it?"  

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"I don't know, not everyone's as curious about these things as we are," Uligo responded. It would be nice if they could rely on the object's weirdness to distracted people sufficiently, but he didn't think it was quite strange enough for that.

The blue ratel poked at it some more.

"Think maybe we could trade it? I know some of the big creatures like to collect weird things like this and make them into other things." He wasn't sure what group of big things was closest and least likely to try and eat them.  

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The blue ratel rolled his shoulders in a shrug. "It's not like it would be that hard. Just bury it somewhere and we'll come back for it when we need it!" There was no reason to even attempt to carry the thing around (had he mentioned it was really really heavy?) unless if they knew they had someone who genuinely wanted it.

"So...where do we go to find someone who wants it?"  

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Uligo pushed the round thing over into Defodio's hole and helped his brother heap dirt on top of it while he considered the suggestion. It was a good point, how everyone needed water and you could usually find a lot of creatures of all types there.

"Sounds like a plan! Let's go!" Uligo replied cheerfully. Maybe they'd be able to get something really good in trade!"