Post by Pavane on Oct 12, 2011 16:05:25 GMT -5
Hilltop Vista
Ikuna - Male Juvenile Wolf
Tala - Female Juvenile Wolf
Dawn - Female Elder Raven
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Ikuna has been practicing his hunting. Well, more precisely, his stalking; that art of moving silent through the forest, of slipping into position and ready to strike. There's a patch of brambles and dead branches partway up the hill, and he's using that for his practice. After all, if he can sneak through that, he'll be able to sneak through anything! It's going pretty well, too - until he stretches his paw too far to avoid a crackling leaf and ends up on a patch of ice instead. He slides off balance, tumbling forward into poking sticks and thorns with a yelp!
Tala has been following after her brother, keeping an eye on him to say the least. Her tail twitches now and then from her spot and she tilts her head while eyeing the brambles that are wiggling about. Her maw twitches and she shifts on her paws to trot over to that and see what is going on within. About this time dear Ikuna is stumbling head over paws across the ice and into the thorn bush. "Ikuna! Are you alright?" Is questioned while she moves towards him only to go sliding across the ice away and yelps out at the feeling of not being able to get a grip on the ice..
Ikuna lets out a little wurf, and gives his head a shake from his sprawled-out and tangled-up position to clear it. "Yeah. I'm okay. I just..." He tries to pull his paw back, then winces as it encounters a thorn and adjusts the position before trying again. "Just a little tangled u- Tala!" His eyes go wide as he sees her start sliding as well, and he pulls his paw back quickly to try to scramble to his feet. Try is the operative word here, as paws go scrabbling all over ice.
Tala grips out at the ice as best she can with her claws, which after a moment seems to help and stops her from sliding all the way to hit her brother. "What the heck.." She states while looking down at the ice as if trying to figure out what it is.. "What did /this/?"
As the panic of seeing his sister lose control of her paws recedes, Ikuna's attempts to stand become less frantic. They work much better that way, and he actually manages to get up to his feet... if with a few brambles stuck to his paw. "I... I dunno," he says, and tries a careful step.
Tala nose twitches and she leans down to sniff out at the ice and lick at it a few times before making a face. "What ever it is is cold and wet.. Like water but not like water." Well that made total sense didn't it?
The water that is not water. It's kinda zen. Ikuna ducks down to creep out from the bush, moving slowly and carefully to not get stuck... or lose his balance... and then nudges the ice with one paw while standing on the other three, looking at the claw marks that leaves. "It's like that snow stuff. Only it's the ground turned cold instead of the rain."
Tala slowly inches her way off ot the ice, which takes a few moments. Her tail lashes a few times and she flops down upon firm ground once there. "That is so strange.. I wonder what its called." Leave it to pups to question something as simple as ice.
Everything's questionable the first time you encounter it. Ikuna pokes at the ice a little more, then carefully makes his way off it. He lies down beside Tala at the edge of it, and pokes his paw over the smooth surface. "It's kinda shiny..."
Tala eyes the ice her tail wagging about and she snuffles out to nose and lick at it a few times as well. "Ya it is.." She paws out at it a few times, pushing against to try and move it around.
Ikuna watches as his sister pokes at the ice. He hmms, considering on this weird stuff. It's just all... slick. Like muddy grass, but all over. Easy for wolves to slide around on. Or maybe... he pauses as a thought strikes him, then pads away for a moment to poke around and returns with a small, flattish rock.
Tala continues to poke at the ice her tail swaying around a few times. She blinks and looks over to her brother as he comes back with the rock. "What you gona do with the rock Ikuna?" She questions while shifting up to her haunches.
Ikuna grins around the stone at Tala, but doesn't answer. Instead, he sets it down carefully on the edge of the ice patch. He looks it over, and then... he kicks it with his forepaw, just like he and his friends used to kick around crabapples. And that rock zooms off across the ice!
Tala peers at the rock, her maw twitches a few times and she shifts on her paws while waiting the rock skitter off across the ice. "Woah.. That is so cool!"
Ikuna grins big! Yeah, it worked, just like he thought it would! "If I can slide, an' you can slide... so can other stuff!"
Dawn glides in nap-of-the-earth, swooping uphill at the last to clatter to a stop on a little rock outcropping, a dark blot on the landscape.
Tala giggles out now and looks around before picking up a small rock and sets it upon the ice as well. Once the other rock stops she sends this one sliding as well and it bumps into the first.
Ikuna laughs as he watches Tala's rock slide out and bump his own. "Yeah! I bet -" At the sight of a bird approaching, he stops suddenly, turning to face the raven and looking at her intently. The bad bird is dead. He saw that. But is this another one like it? He's not sure. It's smaller than the other, at least, and differently colored, but...
Dawn cants her head and looks up, down and all around, everywhere but right at Ikuna, and then she finishes ruffling and folding her wings and roosts there somewhat compactly, black eyes hidden in her feathers. It's like she doesn't even see him.
Tala peers over at her brother as he stops talking, a snuffle is offered. "Ikuna?.." Is questioned before she glances around and catches sight of the bird. "Is.. that a bad bird?" She questions with a unsure tone to her brother while she leans somewhat closer to him.
Ikuna stands his ground, looking over the raven. It's not a songbird, that's for sure. "It doesn't look like the other one," he says to his sister quietly as she leans against him, though he doesn't take his eyes away from the bird. "I don't know if it's bad."
Dawn cocks her head in that lopsided avian way and finally turns to point her beak right at Ikuna, obviously staring at him. Well, well. It isn't often she gets to teach one of life's little lessons herself. It's all she can do to keep from laughing. The silence persists a little while longer before she says, "Caw."
Tala seems unsure for a mmoent well.. It is a bird after all. Her nose twitches and she glances to Ikuna. "Maybe we should go find an adult anyway.."
Dawn looks at Tala, then at Ikuna again, silently prompting him. Well? Run for cover?
Ikuna glances briefly to his sister. She's probably right with that. He doesn't really want to turn his back on the bird, though. And besides... he's not certain where the nearest adult is. So instead, he takes a single step closer to the bird... "What are you?" he asks in a trying-to-be-firm voice. "This is Ute land."
Dawn watches him with approach narrow eyes, then distracts herself in preening, ducking her beak under her wings and growing a size or two with her feathers up. "Cruh-huh," she clucks and chortles, echoing him absently. "What-are-you, what are you... Ute, youts, you two. Yoo-hoo-hoo..."
Tala seems rather unsure about actually speaking with the brid, still she doesn't move from her brothers side. Well there is /no/ way the bird can carry off both of them after all. Its a bird, not some flying demon.. At least that is what she thinks.. She sticks next to Ikuna even through she is quiet now..
Well, that's... sort of an answer. Sort of. Ikuna frowns, and leans lightly against his sister. "Come on. Let's go," he says to her. This bird seems more crazy than threat, but he's not going to stick around to find out more. Not right now. He turns away with her, leaving the new game forgotten behind them, and heads away with cautious glances back to see what the raven does.
Dawn could almost be said to be smirking. It's in her eyes, anyway. She settles down again as you turn to go, and you aren't five steps on your way before she says to herself, "Hmh-ho. Too young yet to be imprudent, are we? Oh, if only it could last..." She starts up in quiet, clattering laughter.
Ikuna looks back to the raven when she speaks. That almost made sense, but... he shakes his head a little. He knows from experience what happens from rushing in without thinking. Bad things happen. Better safe than sorry. So he looks back, for a few long moments, but he doesn't speak in answer. He just noses his sister gently, and continues to move away with her at his side.
Dawn opens her wings and stirs on her rock, half-hopping forward and back like she's thinking of taking wing again, and she lets her thoughts all rattle out of her beak meanwhile as she's wont to do. "But it's time to be curious, isn't it? Curious, curious. What could've put you off of us, hm? Haven't you ever seen a crow before? Silly, silly. Makes you wonder if all those stories are worth something... huh-ho, stories for children, stories for nighttime when all the world's dark..."
Ikuna frowns. "Stories aren't just stories, sometimes," he says, half to himself but out loud. Maybe it's meant for his sister, too. Or maybe he's just holding up his courage as best he can, and the raven's spouted speech makes him feel he has to somehow add his own voice against the winter's silence.
"Oh, no, no," she says distantly. "No story worth remembering. Fancies are fine for fledglings, but the stories your mother and father tell..." She has her keen eyes on you again. You can almost feel her back there, especially when it falls still again, just the cold evenings's breeze coming up the hill. "But what have they been telling you, hm, to make you so afraid of the night?"
Ikuna shakes his head. No frightening stories for him. Just frightening realities. Despite those eyes driving into him from behind, he keeps on walking. The raven is by no means the scariest thing he's met, but she's strange... and she makes his sister nervous. For that, if nothing else, he'll keep walking away.
"Oh, well," she clucks to herself. She's done worse. Some sunny day, maybe, but not tonight. There's a flurrying of wings, and then she catches the moonlight above you as she circles and rises, a little wider every time.
Ikuna - Male Juvenile Wolf
Tala - Female Juvenile Wolf
Dawn - Female Elder Raven
---
Ikuna has been practicing his hunting. Well, more precisely, his stalking; that art of moving silent through the forest, of slipping into position and ready to strike. There's a patch of brambles and dead branches partway up the hill, and he's using that for his practice. After all, if he can sneak through that, he'll be able to sneak through anything! It's going pretty well, too - until he stretches his paw too far to avoid a crackling leaf and ends up on a patch of ice instead. He slides off balance, tumbling forward into poking sticks and thorns with a yelp!
Tala has been following after her brother, keeping an eye on him to say the least. Her tail twitches now and then from her spot and she tilts her head while eyeing the brambles that are wiggling about. Her maw twitches and she shifts on her paws to trot over to that and see what is going on within. About this time dear Ikuna is stumbling head over paws across the ice and into the thorn bush. "Ikuna! Are you alright?" Is questioned while she moves towards him only to go sliding across the ice away and yelps out at the feeling of not being able to get a grip on the ice..
Ikuna lets out a little wurf, and gives his head a shake from his sprawled-out and tangled-up position to clear it. "Yeah. I'm okay. I just..." He tries to pull his paw back, then winces as it encounters a thorn and adjusts the position before trying again. "Just a little tangled u- Tala!" His eyes go wide as he sees her start sliding as well, and he pulls his paw back quickly to try to scramble to his feet. Try is the operative word here, as paws go scrabbling all over ice.
Tala grips out at the ice as best she can with her claws, which after a moment seems to help and stops her from sliding all the way to hit her brother. "What the heck.." She states while looking down at the ice as if trying to figure out what it is.. "What did /this/?"
As the panic of seeing his sister lose control of her paws recedes, Ikuna's attempts to stand become less frantic. They work much better that way, and he actually manages to get up to his feet... if with a few brambles stuck to his paw. "I... I dunno," he says, and tries a careful step.
Tala nose twitches and she leans down to sniff out at the ice and lick at it a few times before making a face. "What ever it is is cold and wet.. Like water but not like water." Well that made total sense didn't it?
The water that is not water. It's kinda zen. Ikuna ducks down to creep out from the bush, moving slowly and carefully to not get stuck... or lose his balance... and then nudges the ice with one paw while standing on the other three, looking at the claw marks that leaves. "It's like that snow stuff. Only it's the ground turned cold instead of the rain."
Tala slowly inches her way off ot the ice, which takes a few moments. Her tail lashes a few times and she flops down upon firm ground once there. "That is so strange.. I wonder what its called." Leave it to pups to question something as simple as ice.
Everything's questionable the first time you encounter it. Ikuna pokes at the ice a little more, then carefully makes his way off it. He lies down beside Tala at the edge of it, and pokes his paw over the smooth surface. "It's kinda shiny..."
Tala eyes the ice her tail wagging about and she snuffles out to nose and lick at it a few times as well. "Ya it is.." She paws out at it a few times, pushing against to try and move it around.
Ikuna watches as his sister pokes at the ice. He hmms, considering on this weird stuff. It's just all... slick. Like muddy grass, but all over. Easy for wolves to slide around on. Or maybe... he pauses as a thought strikes him, then pads away for a moment to poke around and returns with a small, flattish rock.
Tala continues to poke at the ice her tail swaying around a few times. She blinks and looks over to her brother as he comes back with the rock. "What you gona do with the rock Ikuna?" She questions while shifting up to her haunches.
Ikuna grins around the stone at Tala, but doesn't answer. Instead, he sets it down carefully on the edge of the ice patch. He looks it over, and then... he kicks it with his forepaw, just like he and his friends used to kick around crabapples. And that rock zooms off across the ice!
Tala peers at the rock, her maw twitches a few times and she shifts on her paws while waiting the rock skitter off across the ice. "Woah.. That is so cool!"
Ikuna grins big! Yeah, it worked, just like he thought it would! "If I can slide, an' you can slide... so can other stuff!"
Dawn glides in nap-of-the-earth, swooping uphill at the last to clatter to a stop on a little rock outcropping, a dark blot on the landscape.
Tala giggles out now and looks around before picking up a small rock and sets it upon the ice as well. Once the other rock stops she sends this one sliding as well and it bumps into the first.
Ikuna laughs as he watches Tala's rock slide out and bump his own. "Yeah! I bet -" At the sight of a bird approaching, he stops suddenly, turning to face the raven and looking at her intently. The bad bird is dead. He saw that. But is this another one like it? He's not sure. It's smaller than the other, at least, and differently colored, but...
Dawn cants her head and looks up, down and all around, everywhere but right at Ikuna, and then she finishes ruffling and folding her wings and roosts there somewhat compactly, black eyes hidden in her feathers. It's like she doesn't even see him.
Tala peers over at her brother as he stops talking, a snuffle is offered. "Ikuna?.." Is questioned before she glances around and catches sight of the bird. "Is.. that a bad bird?" She questions with a unsure tone to her brother while she leans somewhat closer to him.
Ikuna stands his ground, looking over the raven. It's not a songbird, that's for sure. "It doesn't look like the other one," he says to his sister quietly as she leans against him, though he doesn't take his eyes away from the bird. "I don't know if it's bad."
Dawn cocks her head in that lopsided avian way and finally turns to point her beak right at Ikuna, obviously staring at him. Well, well. It isn't often she gets to teach one of life's little lessons herself. It's all she can do to keep from laughing. The silence persists a little while longer before she says, "Caw."
Tala seems unsure for a mmoent well.. It is a bird after all. Her nose twitches and she glances to Ikuna. "Maybe we should go find an adult anyway.."
Dawn looks at Tala, then at Ikuna again, silently prompting him. Well? Run for cover?
Ikuna glances briefly to his sister. She's probably right with that. He doesn't really want to turn his back on the bird, though. And besides... he's not certain where the nearest adult is. So instead, he takes a single step closer to the bird... "What are you?" he asks in a trying-to-be-firm voice. "This is Ute land."
Dawn watches him with approach narrow eyes, then distracts herself in preening, ducking her beak under her wings and growing a size or two with her feathers up. "Cruh-huh," she clucks and chortles, echoing him absently. "What-are-you, what are you... Ute, youts, you two. Yoo-hoo-hoo..."
Tala seems rather unsure about actually speaking with the brid, still she doesn't move from her brothers side. Well there is /no/ way the bird can carry off both of them after all. Its a bird, not some flying demon.. At least that is what she thinks.. She sticks next to Ikuna even through she is quiet now..
Well, that's... sort of an answer. Sort of. Ikuna frowns, and leans lightly against his sister. "Come on. Let's go," he says to her. This bird seems more crazy than threat, but he's not going to stick around to find out more. Not right now. He turns away with her, leaving the new game forgotten behind them, and heads away with cautious glances back to see what the raven does.
Dawn could almost be said to be smirking. It's in her eyes, anyway. She settles down again as you turn to go, and you aren't five steps on your way before she says to herself, "Hmh-ho. Too young yet to be imprudent, are we? Oh, if only it could last..." She starts up in quiet, clattering laughter.
Ikuna looks back to the raven when she speaks. That almost made sense, but... he shakes his head a little. He knows from experience what happens from rushing in without thinking. Bad things happen. Better safe than sorry. So he looks back, for a few long moments, but he doesn't speak in answer. He just noses his sister gently, and continues to move away with her at his side.
Dawn opens her wings and stirs on her rock, half-hopping forward and back like she's thinking of taking wing again, and she lets her thoughts all rattle out of her beak meanwhile as she's wont to do. "But it's time to be curious, isn't it? Curious, curious. What could've put you off of us, hm? Haven't you ever seen a crow before? Silly, silly. Makes you wonder if all those stories are worth something... huh-ho, stories for children, stories for nighttime when all the world's dark..."
Ikuna frowns. "Stories aren't just stories, sometimes," he says, half to himself but out loud. Maybe it's meant for his sister, too. Or maybe he's just holding up his courage as best he can, and the raven's spouted speech makes him feel he has to somehow add his own voice against the winter's silence.
"Oh, no, no," she says distantly. "No story worth remembering. Fancies are fine for fledglings, but the stories your mother and father tell..." She has her keen eyes on you again. You can almost feel her back there, especially when it falls still again, just the cold evenings's breeze coming up the hill. "But what have they been telling you, hm, to make you so afraid of the night?"
Ikuna shakes his head. No frightening stories for him. Just frightening realities. Despite those eyes driving into him from behind, he keeps on walking. The raven is by no means the scariest thing he's met, but she's strange... and she makes his sister nervous. For that, if nothing else, he'll keep walking away.
"Oh, well," she clucks to herself. She's done worse. Some sunny day, maybe, but not tonight. There's a flurrying of wings, and then she catches the moonlight above you as she circles and rises, a little wider every time.