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Cad wandered through the forest and out into the open area that served as a commons area between herds. Here he had played as a foal, grazed along side his mother and even his sisters. Now he was grown, a large stallion having taken after his father with the lithe form of his grandfather. His cloven hooves broke the earth as he picked his way through the grass looking for something to eat for his breakfast.

Finally satisfied with a patch of the new grass growing in, he lowered his head down and nibbled, tearing the blades till he had a mouth full. It was during this time of chewing that he pondered over his newest ideas. He's taken up his tinkering once more, and his mind was racing with more inventions and plans.

His attention was tore from his thoughts at the sound of the impact. Turning his head he shook his bangs from his face to see a winged mare looking bedraggled coming from the bushes. His mind wasn't slow to putting two and two together and his gaze turned to the sky as though he were trying to figure out just how far she must have fallen from. Looking back to the mare, he made his way over. " Did you fall very high?"

It was a bit of a blunt question and could have seemed even a little rude. though he wasn't trying to be rude at all. It was just his way. He cut out the middle man and didn't see the point in beating around the bush. If he had a question, he'd answer it without giving any thought as to how it could have been taken.

"It is good that you weren't injured too badly." Stepping forward, he investigated the bushes then looked to the sky before eying her over. She seemed to be in good health, moving around and even making small jokes. As she shook out her wings, he eyed them closely, watching them flex and move. There had been few he'd met before with wings and as she moved hers, he made note of how they moved. Yes even her wings seemed to be in good health.

He actually got close enough so as to invade her space as he looked over her wings, inspecting each and every feather as he went. On one hoof he was making certain she was unscathed. On the other, he could never pass up an opportunity to examine wings. His ears flicked as he 'hmm'd' with interest causing the rose in his mane to shift and rustle some.

He blinked forgetting he'd yet again closed in on some one before properly knowing them. "Sorry." He checked her wings over once more, finding a small twig stuck between two feathers. "Nothing's bent.. but there is something still in them.. hold still." He spoke gently to the mare before gently moving around the feathers with his upper lip till he could grab the twig. Just as carefully as he'd moved the feathers around, he pulled the twig from them and dropped it to the ground before checking to make sure he hadn't bent anything. "Should be all good now."

Stepping back, he looked slightly sheepish. "Forgive me my rudeness.. I am Cadhla, though my family calls me Cad." He gave a small bow of his head in greeting to her. "Might i know your name?" He asked lifting his head to look at the mare.

"I sadly forget from time to time and get too close without asking.. It's just that I find wings fascinating to this day.." He admitted with a slight sheepish look. "I have gotten better about it, really I have.." He added. "It's a pleasure to meet you though, Neena; and please.. call me Cad.. my name can some timed be a mouthful."

He looked around for a moment. "I'm sure you just had an off moment for this landing.. it happens to us all.. I once caught my mother's rabbit familiar's paw in one of my inventions.. She was alright.. but it did make her jumpy about helping me with things for a while."

He felt rather ashamed at her display of hurt feelings. "I'm really sorry.. I would have helped regardless.. but... I guess I put my hoof in it this time.." He was back peddling, trying to find some way to keep her from thinking he'd been just some horrible fiend that just saw the oddity of wings rather that the individual they'd come with. When she began to laugh, he looked stunned. Shocked and a little lost all at once. The humor of this had clearly flown over his head. "I really am sorry." He stated once again trying to work out just what was funny.


"A bird hmm? Unfortunate for both you and the bird.. though it did give us an opportunity to meet." He chanced a small friendly smile with his words. Ears flicking forward, his head canted to the side. "Inventions? I make things... not that they all work.. but I make new things that soquili can use to help them." He hoped it'd be a good response for her. Having to explain just what inventions were was something he'd never done before.

"Oh..." He stated when she mentioned she'd just been kidding. humor was one of those things. he either got it or he didn't today seemed like one of those days he wasn't getting it too well. Still he gave a light chuckle to show he understood.

"Well.. Mostly little things.. I made one friend something to help cut the sun from his eyes as he's mostly awake at night and not accustomed to the sun..." He gave it some more thought. Some times showing was the best way. "Here.. let me show you..." Turning, he trotted off across the field. He was heading for his own clearing where he kept most of his things.

Looking over his shoulder, he smiled. "I'm sorry I hadn't gotten the joke right away. My sisters found me strange that humor was something I wasn't quick to get." He nodded looking ahead a bit, avoiding a bush in the nick of time. "fine tuning the more dainty things is difficult though. My mother has lent me her familiar on several tasks." He couldn't take all the credit after all it would be bad form. Sure he thought and dreamed the ideas up like some silly little foal thinking of the impossible, but in his mind, the impossible was possible.

He lead her to the small clearing. The bottom of the old basket , though still tattered from when Nigiri had wrecked it when they met, was sitting to the side filled to the brim with little things he'd found. There were scraps of leather taken from abandoned teepee's and other such items salvaged from old two-legger sites he'd come across while wandering. Everything here had a purpose even though he hadn't quite figured out just what it was yet. "Here we are..." On the far side was a frame of some sort that looked vaguely birdlike. It was something small a model like size or even possibly a toy.