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Thoraka 1

It was their first day back at the ranch for the new year and what a day it was. The air despite being in a tropical region was oddly well frigid and Thoraka was unimpressed, he had hoped to go for a nice swim and get rid of the travel dust and cramped muscles. But instead he was wrapped in his towel, shivering, staring resentfully at water that was awfully grey and roily for a good swim. He licked his lips in irritation and resignedly folded the towel back up and got into a new set of clothes.

"Lame." He muttered. He had no books he wanted to read. He supposed he would go for a walk..with a coat...around to the beast pens. That was always fun the ranch was always stuffed full to the brisket with all the critters one could shake a stick at. Maybe he would get one this year. He did have Armena whom he called to him but he thought that a janarim might be fun too.
"Come on girl." He called to the radaku, "Lets see if we can pick you out a new friend." He set off for the beast pens successfully distracted from his sulk.

Thoraka 2

He noticed a boy about his age if not his height looking fondly at a pair of janarim guarding a nest of eggs. "Hey, uh how does one go about getting one of these beauties, I have a radaku already but I really would like to have a janarim companion too. They are so elegant." He tilted his head and pondered why all of Ustasis's family looked so very similar. He and his brother hardly looked alike and they were in the same family. He found it quite amusing.

"Wow, those are two fine looking janarim. I can never get over how well the breeding program is coming on. Where are you guys getting your bloodlines? Can I help?" He hadn't expected to offer assistance but the whole thing was so fascinating. These were sharp sleek well muscled beasts that looked like moving pieces of art. Man if he hadn't have loved storm magic so much this would have been a possibility. Critters were fun. He had endless hours of fun with his radaku, teaching her to hunt and listen to cues, she was a smart girl and he was hoping to compete in hunting trials with her.

Thoraka 3

He didn't much care about the geneology involved here but the beasts were certainly interesting enough to hold his attention. "They are your's?" He asked with awe in his voice, man this boy was younger than he was and he had a breeding pair already. Man it paid to grow up in a beast taming family with more beasts than sense it appeared. But they were kind and long term family friends so he would behave as he ought. They deserved respect. Especially if this one wanted to gift him a baby and one he could pick out as they hatched, how amazing. "I will pay you back, I will take this opportunity, thank you." He bowed low to the other boy. It was an honor, a janarim was a big responsibility and one he didn't take lightly.
"This is way more than I could have hoped for. The parents are such fine beasts, I think you chose really well who to breed to whom." he was honestly interested in how they did it, critters were awesome and yet another connection to nature and life.

Thoraka 4

This boy was acting like he had known Thoraka his whole life, which he supposed in a way he had but they had never hung out like they were right then. He supposed it would be nice to have another friend here, and there was no easier in than an interest in critters. Boys would be boys and he had chosen to tame storms, but he could tell just by looking at this boy that the beasts were his true calling, it was in the way he stood in the way he looked at them. In the soft way he stroked the armored hide. He adored these animals and Thoraka would take the best care of the baby he had been awarded.

He would be a pet parent from this day forward and he would learn as much as he could about janarim and the best way to take care of them.

"I don't suppose you offer training courses for folks like me, a radaku is a bit different than a janarim hey." He was not above taking lessons if it was the right thing for him and his critter which it was in his opinion.

Thoraka 5

He smiled. "I know, I can see your passion for them in your face, I am sure that like me, you have found where you are meant to be." Somehow it felt very grown up talking about this sort of thing with the boy. Whos name he gathered eventually was Vhallas. It sounded very iceling that name and he wondered if his Dad had named him or his Mom. Thoraka had been named after the thing he loved most. Lightning. It was like his parents had just known somehow. Not that there was a storm the night he was born not that at all, he smirked.

"I chose to be an elementalist and to work with storm magic. It his heady and powerful and headstrong. I love it, it was what I was meant to do. Its even in my name." He gazed up at the pure blue sky, wishing for thunderclouds and that solid dark smudge of grey that indicated a properly angry storm. "I know it will be forever until storm season comes around again and I figure I will fill that time with critter taming. "

Thoraka 6

It was time. Many of the eggs around him were hatching and there was indeed a prodigous nine in number. This had to be the very coolest moment of his life. Animals were the coolest beings and it seemed smart to him to hatch from an egg or flower unlike poor earthlings and their method of reproduction. Hooo, he was glad he was a flower bud baby. Little whip like tails where unraveling for the first time, baby janarim were cute but gangly. He eyed the first three that hatched, looking for something he could not quite describe and Vhallas he could see doing the same thing. Picking your beast was an art unto itself. There were good solid choices but no beast that screamed that they were the one. He watched and he waited. Two more eggs hatched. He also sort of wished that Vhallas would chose first since it was his beast. He thought though that it was very fair to have them both looking during the hatching, couldn't get more first pick than that. Especially for a free beast.

He admired the beauties that emerged. Finally he spied and collared a baby with dark black hide, blue eyes and rainbow blotches. What a specimen! He wasn't even sure which gender it was yet.

Thoraka 7

He was sort of in shock. His baby boy was so beautiful that it made him nearly want to cry. A giant in tiny paws at the moment, they were still big for his size. A mighty friend this boy would make him down the line, with a radaku, a sailscale and a janarim no one was going to bug him ever. Just the way he liked it. He could travel very far once this little one grew up and was trained. Oh what an adventure this was going to be. It was overwelming. "Thank you," he murmured to the boy who had shared with him such awesomeness. "I am truly grateful, I think you chose fine critters too. Ooh look at that bright green one, that is interesting!"

One of these things was not like the other. He looked at the stud and the dame and tilted his head. Something didn't add up, though he supposed it could come from the rainbow ink buck...somehow he didn't think so. "How odd." Seemed like there was some politics among the janarim. He was amused.