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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:40 pm
The filly wiggled her bottom, the front of her body dipped down as she stalked her mother's fascinating and twitching tail tendrils. Her brother's were just like them, only he never let her play with them. Neve inched along, digging her cloven hooves into the dirt for purchase as she crept up. Her winglets flapped a few times...
Izusa looked skywards, and then back down and off into the distance; she didnt want her daughter to realise she had seen her approach a few minutes ago and the gentle shaking of her sides betrayed the laughter she was stifling.
'Raaar!' Neve jumped, launching herself at the tempting tail-plaything and as grabbed out with her mouth, Izusa flicked it to the side and twisted, scooping her daughter with her wing and tugging on Neve's mane.
'I got you..' she said quietly, and Neve squirmed.
'Muuuuuum..' she complained but stayed squashed up against her mother. It was hard to be both a mummy AND daddy's girl but she managed it quite well.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:59 pm
"Muuuuuummmmmm!"
It takes talent to make a one syllable word into a multi-syllable complaints, but it's amazing how much talent foals could have in that respect. Such was definitely the case with Antony, who was a master at sounding pitiful...when he wanted to be.
Such as right now.
Flopping over his leathery bat wings, so like his mothers, he stalked over to the kalona mare as she played with his sister, a petulant expression on his face. And why not? "Mum, how come Nicholi gets to go off and play by himself today and I DON'T?"
Therein lay the crux of the past hour or so of mulling; Nicholi, the third child, was off on his own, probably rambling the countryside, meeting new people, and generally having fun. And what did Antony have? He had to stay home and "guard his mother and sister", as if his Mama couldn't guard them all better than anyone! It just wasn't fair. "If Nicky gets to go by himself, I oughta be able to, too."
Nevermind the fact that the reason he had to stay around was that it was his turn to go roaming with his father; Guilian was a fun and loyal dad, but he was GONE so much! Antony betted that he could have done a LOT of stuff in the interim while waiting for Guilian to make it back with some food for the kids, but NO; he had to stay and watch his mother and sister.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:32 am
'Yes?' Izusa looked up from tugging on her daughter's mane, letting the filly go and looking over at Antony's sulky face.
'I thought your brother was with Guilian actually?' the mare felt herself beginning to bristle a little. The stallion better be holding to his fatherly duties. If anything happened to any of her children because of him...there wouldnt be anything left of him to do what he so loved to. She ground her teeth a little.
If Nicholi wasnt..well that was because their father obviously wanted to do something that his children wouldnt see. She nudged Neve who was watching her mother intently, curious as to the change in Izusa's mood.
'Go play..' she said softly as she stood, stretching her legs and then her wings. She looked at Antony.
'Do you know where your father headed?'
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:15 pm
Whoops. Mama didn't know about the rotation practices? That must mean that Papa hadn't told her, which meant...
Shifting slightly, Antony hoped devoutly he wouldn't get Papa in trouble as a result of what he'd let slip; even moreso, he hoped that this wouldn't mean an end to the little solitary wanderings Papa let he and Nicholi go on. It was fun to be able to walk about without having to stay with a parent, after all! There was nothing wrong with that, was there?
Squaring his shoulders, he looked up at his mother and shrugged. "Papa calls it 'round robin', actually; he said that me an' Nicky are big enough to walk around on our own, as long as we stay in the same gen'ral area. So...sometimes we go with Papa, sometimes we go out on our own, sometimes me and Nicky go walkin' on our own together when Neve's with Papa, and sometimes we all stay together. But Nicky's out on his own today, and it's so NICE!"
Sighing, he pawed at the ground, looking down at his bright hooves. "And I dunno where Papa went today, you'd have to ask Nicky. He said he'd be back around lunch, though, and it's almost lunch!"
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