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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:40 pm
 The day was cold, though no snow had fallen yet this year. Her breath fogging the air in front of her, Keetah was having fun enjoying the crunching and scattering of dry fallen leaves as she ran about the meadow. Her activity keeping her warm, she didn't dwell on the fact that she was, once again, alone.
Clay, Keetah's fox friend, had gotten tired of playing. He was a grouch when he was cold anyway, and he had gone back to the cave they had sheltered in the night before. Keetah missed having the company, but he really wasn't much for playing. And any time someone new happened along, he tried to chase them off. She knew he only wanted to protect her, so Keetah didn't mind too much. But it did make things a bit more lonely, at least for the limited amount of time any stranger stayed around.
Not that anyone new had come around all day. The shadows were starting to stretch across the ground as the sun sank lower in the sky. The clouds would be rosy in about an hour, but for now there was still plenty of light.
Keetah had found some acorns when the sun was high and was still pleasantly full. And the leaves were so wonderfully fun to run through and kick up and chase. She was so busy with her game, that she didn't notice when the meadow was no longer as empty as it had been.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:10 pm
 Karei was traveling as he has become a story teller who travels about. He has learned a lot of stories but though his stories had happy endings in love. He has never found it. He was starting to think love was only truly real in stories and fantasies. Though putting that aside he is now somewhere new as he looks around seeing a mare playing with the leaves. He smiles as he watches her. "That looks like fun." he whispered to himself not wanting to startle the mare. He is tired from the traveling so he lays down in some leaves and watches the mare still. Thinking that it is good to watch one enjoying themselves. He has always been like that. He is the most happy when someone around him is enjoying themselves. His butt and ear wings flinch from time to time as he continues to watch the mare play. Wanting to have fun himself but needing a breather before he can do that.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:49 pm
Keetah continues to frolic for a time before she notices her pale watcher. Stilling, she stops to look at him. Then, with a grin large upon her face, she bounds over.
"Hello! I didn't see you there were you there before or did you just come here because I didn't think you were there but you are there and I wasn't watching so I don't know but it is good to see someone new and I'm Keetah and it is good to meet you and do you want to play?" It was a rather short greeting for her, but she managed to put enough energy into it and her grin that she was bouncing. And for all that she didn't pause to breath while she spoke, Keetah didn't seem out of breath.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:56 pm
Karei laughs a bit "Wow you didn't take a breath while speaking that is awesome. I showed up here a few minutes ago. I am called Karei. The meaning of it is a bit girlie. It is nice to meet you." He smiles as he stands up and bows his head to her. "It is nice to meet you. Are you from this are?"
He wonders as he is new to this area and would get lost if he tried to do too much wandering in this area by himself. this butt and ear wings wiggle as the breeze runs across them. "I am a traveler so I would get lost in this area if I just wander about too much." He points out as he smiles. He is a careful fun loving stally.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:08 pm
"Hi Karei you don't look girly to me but maybe you were girly a few minutes ago when you showed up and I didn't notice but that sounds silly because I don't think someone can be a girl and then not a girl but maybe you can and that would be really neat and you have those wings so maybe you can and they can do magic or something and I stay near her in a cave with Clay but only when I sleep because it's boring during the day to just stay in the cave all the time but Clay likes it there because he's a grump and he says foxes always have dens even if usdia don't have dens and I should stay with him because it is safer but traveling sounds like a lot of fun but getting lost doesn't sound like fun and would you like to have some acorns because I found some earlier and didn't eat them all but they were very good and they aren't too far from the stream and if you don't know where you are you might not know where that is but you might be hungry and it isn't good to be hungry if there is food to eat." Keetah looks a bit worried for Karei as she thinks about him being hungry, but that doesn't seem to put a damper on her enthusiastic talking.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:16 pm
Karei laughs "No not that I do girlie stuff. It is the meaning of my name that is girlie. The meaning of my name is Beauty." He smiles as he wiggles his butt and ears wings. "Oh do you like my wings. I get a lot of compliments on them. I am what is called a Putti. And getting lost is fun at times. You get to meet so many when traveling and getting Lost." He laughs again as it shows that he is fun loving and outgoing.
"May I ask what your name might be?" He isn't sure how she can speak so much and not need to breathe between it all as he watches her.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:47 am
Keetah looks impressed at the wing wiggling and she giggles. "You're a Putti named Beauty? That rhymes! I'm Keetah and I must be talking too much because I said it earlier but you didn't hear which means I'm talking too much and you can't listen to everything and Clay says I need to not do that or people will stop listening to me and I think he mostly stopped listening to me and . . ."
She stops, blinking twice in rapid succession. "Um . . . I'm . . . sorry. I can . . . talk slower . . . I . . . " Her expression gets frustrated and she deflates a little, the slight bouncing she had been doing the whole conversation stills.
Keetah's voice soft, "I know . . . I'll get lost." Shuffling her feet slightly, she starts heading towards the nearby tree line where the forest begins.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:05 am
Karei smiles listening to her as she stops and then starts to head off. "Oh no please stay. I just missed when you said your name. It isn't a bad thing. I am normally the one telling stories. So I have a lot of others listening to me. It is nice to listen to someone else talk." He points out as he trots up to her.
"So please don't leave." He is next to her as he looks at her. "So your friend Clay. Is he another usdia or an animal?" He wonders as he oddly wishes to get to know her better.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:28 am
Keetah stops, looking at the stallion. Her large eyes full of unrepressed hope. Slowly a grin reemerges.
"Clay is a fox. He says I look like a fox but I don't think I really look like a fox but he says my color is like a fox only his color isn't the same as my color so I think he's silly but he stays to protect me sometimes when I'm not being annoying but I'm annoying a lot so he sleeps in the cave."
Keetah grins as she pauses for a breath, "You tell stories? Are the good stories or scary stories or stories about things that aren't real? I don't really tell stories I just talk and Clay says I say everything I'm thinking and I shouldn't do that but I should think and then talk but when I think and then talk I forget about what I wanted to say."
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:46 am
Karei looking at her and giggles a bit. "They are stories about anything and everything. I tell love, fantasy, scary, and much more then that." He smiles as he watches her. "Would you like to hear one?" He wonders a bit seeing his joy comes from his stories. "I would be honored to tell you a story to your liking." He points out as he waits to hear if she would like to hear a story from him. LydaLynn Tag and sorry so late.. RL was a killer
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:37 pm
Keetah smiles with joyous enthusiasm. "A story sounds nice!" She's bouncing again, but doesn't seem to notice.
"I know what love is or at least what I've been told it is and and I what scary is but what is fantasy and is it fun or does it hurt or is it just like stories about flowers and stuff and I don't know any stories about flowers but those might be fun too because I'm sure flowers have to be interesting but they don't talk to me even though they are very pretty and smell good but they are shy or I just don't understand them or their voices are very very quiet and I can't hear when they talk but I've seen a small soquili with pretty wings fly inside a flower once and there must have been something nice inside because she flew into a lot of flowers until I asked her what she was doing but she didn't seem to want to talk and flew away and is fantasy like that or is it about something else? Keetah runs out of breath, her voice getting higher as she neared the end of what she felt she needed to say before it escaped her.
But since she asked her question, she waits, bouncing, for his reply.
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:38 pm
Karei looking at Keetah as he laughs. "Hmm fantasy is things that aren't real. Like trees that walk and talk. It can be anything as long as it isn't real in reality." He points out as he looks at her and watches her a bit more as he wonders what kind of story she might ask of him. "Did that clear it up or should I try to explain it better?" He wonders a bit
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:09 pm
Keetah's brow furrows slightly for a moment. "A not really real story? How do you have stories about not real things? If they aren't real how do you know the story and who told you if they didn't see it and how do you know if you have it wrong or right because it isn't real so it can't be right and it must be wrong but if it's a story then . . . I don't understand." By the end she seems to have run out of steam and stands there looking deflated.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:23 pm
Karei giggles as he looks at her. "That is what makes fantasy so wonderful. It can be anything. Like a lion that turns into a dragon to protect it's lovers. These stories are make believe so what is right is to the teller or maker of the story. These stories are to bring dreams and much more to the ones hearing them." He points out as he smiles. "Do you understand it a bit better now? And do you have a fantasy?" He wonders.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:33 pm
Keetah thinks for a long moment before answering. "It's like make believe, like play pretend? But . . . playing pretend is fun because you can play believe anything. A story is . . . to learn?" Her head tilts to the side as she tries to understand and relate what she understands.
"Stories tell truths so we know about things. They can warn or explain or teach or . . . all kinds of things. But they tell about true things. If we learn from stories about not true things, then we don't know how to see what is true and good and what is not. If a story lies, then we don't know what is safe or dangerous because the story . . . " Keetah shakes her head.
For once her words have been paced, as though she is struggling to puzzle her thoughts together as she speaks. And now she's hit a wall. "But story tellers are good. They make the truth and learning fun. And hearing stories is like playing pretend and being all the people in the story because you can think each person even if you're still. So if stories are good and fantasy is a story but fantasy isn't real and is a lie . . ."
Keetah sighs and lays down in the grass. Her eyes focused on nothing as she continues to think at the problem. To appearances, she has even forgotten the stallion who started the train of thought. A train she is pursuing with a single-mindedness many would find hard to believe she is capable of.
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