Post by Pavane on Nov 3, 2011 10:20:41 GMT -5
Desolate Scrubland
Bristlecone - Male Coyote
Sanuye - Female Coyote
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Bristlecone trots along near the edge of the desert, ears and whiskers perked. There's been less snow here than in the forests or mountains, and what little there is has already begun to melt, gathering to make streams in the little gulches and crevices. The coyote pauses at the edge of one of those gullies, peering down at the trickle of water inside, and then kicks a clump of snow in to watch it melt in the cold water.
Another form may not been seen at first, Sanuye is moving along at a lazy pace, paws moving through the melting snow and leaving a good mess behind her as she pads along. A half yawn escapes her, she's been traveling for a while now, on little sleep and perhaps even less food. She's a touch on the thin side but her still thick winter coat is hiding this fact rather well. So onwards she goes, making her way from the north, an with the streaks of mud across her form it is for sure been a rather long trip.
Bristlecone watches that snow until it's fully melted, then turns back from the edge and starts to pad along - then stops. That approaching figure. Is that? No. It can't be. And yet he recognizes that loping, swaying sort of motion, the easy pace that can make mile after mile disappear. If it isn't - which it's not - who is it? He takes a few steps closer - then launches into a lope of his own, coming to meet her.
Sanuye continues along her pace, ears twitching forward and back while her nose quivers at the passing breeze that carries different scents along. Wolves are around somewhere, but there is another scent that is a little more pressing that causes her to pause in her movement and peer one way, then another. Her ears flick behind then and the movement is picked up to her right which makes her gaze snap over towards the approaching coyote. A faint erk escapes her and she shifts on her paws so to better watch this approaching male. Her head lowering and her tail wagging about before half tucking figuring she found herself upon some coyotes lands without picking it up until now.
Yeah, that is totally a coyote. Huh. Bristlecone slows his pace as he gets closer, his ears perked as he looks over the other coyote curiously. No, looks over her. This is most certainly a her sort of coyote. To judge from the unworried way he's roaming around here, it might be his land. On the other hand, his behavior as he gets close - a brief wag of his tail that settles to pointing straight back, a pace that slows instead of charging forward - don't entirely match a creature trying to defend his territory.
Sanuye tilts her head while eyeing the other coyote a few moments, her ears flick forward and then to the sides to see if anyone else is sneaking up on her to take her out from behind it would seem. Her bright gaze drifts over the other and then behind him before she peers back to him a moment. "Ah.. evening.." She offers after a few moments, her tone friendly but also cautious.
Nobody else around but the crickets. Them, and a few lizards who haven't scuttled away from the rocks they're basking on yet. Bristlecone's tail wags again, and he ducks his head for a moment in a nod. "Hello. I mean, good evening."
Sanuye relaxes slightly as the other seems to be in a relaxed stance, her maw twitches and her head slowly lifts. A curious look offered to the other. "Ah.. This your land that I'm wandering on.." A slight pause. "Because if so it is /lovely/.." She's trying to be all nice and friendly, not wanting to make him mad if it IS his lands.
Bristlecone laughs, and he turns his head to look out over the land for a moment. The setting sun is sending pink and blue splashes across the sky, and making the shadows sharper, the outlines brighter. "It is, isn't it?" he agrees, and then looks back to Sanuye. "It's not mine, though. It used to be my sister's, but... she's gone now."
Sanuye hums softly and nods, her tail swaying a few times as she seems to relax a bit more. A soft oh escapes her at this. "I sorry to hear that.." She offers with a soft tone, a slight frown seen. "I didn't mean to bring anything up.." This said while a forepaw shifts nervous like. "An I ment it, very lovely lands."
Bristlecone shakes his head. "It was already on my mind," he says. Perhaps that's why he was down here in the first place. He's quiet for a short moment, and then he smiles. "It is very pretty," he says, and his eyes linger on Sanuye as he says it. "Oh. I'm Bristlecone, by the way."
Sanuye hums softly at this and nods, her gaze drifting to the right before she peers back to the other. A soft oh escapes her and she smiles a moment. "Well, nice to meet you. I'm Sanuye." Her tail wags about a few times. "So.. you live around here then?"
Bristlecone smiles, and nods. "Very nice to meet you," he says, and then he pauses a moment at the question, looking away over the plains. "Up near the river," he answers, then adds, "It's my father's territory, not mine. I still live there for now. Perhaps not for much longer, I'm... not sure yet."
Sanuye glances towards the area where Bristlecone looks to, a slight oh escapes her while she nods. "I see." She offers while glancing back to the other. "Well, I can understand the need to get away from family if that's the problem." This offered while she settles to her haunches, tail curling to her side after a moment.
Bristlecone nods. "Sometimes, you have to be what you are, not what your family expects" he says, and frowns to himself for a moment with his brow starting to furrow. Then his expression relaxes as he turns his full attention back to Sanuye. "So how about you? Not from around here, I'm guessing," he says, and grins. "What set your paws moving?"
Sanuye hums softly, and is quiet for a moment at that comment. "Well.. I suppose you could say I'm not what my family expected." She offers with a faint smile and half shrug seen. "As to what got me moving, a few to many 'conversations' with my family about what I should or should not do in the end sent me going." Her family was, and is a funny one to put it lightly.
Bristlecone listens to that explanation with ears perked, and then laughs. It's a friendly, appreciative sound, because that story sounds rather familiar. Well, not so much the conversations. He's heard them, mind, but that's just because his older sister had them loudly with their parents on her own behalf, and so Bristlecone has been avoiding the issue. "Are all families like that?" he asks. "I mean... it all made sense when I was a pup, but now, I'm not so sure."
Sanuye tilts her head while peering over at the other, a slight amused look crossing her face to show she seems alright with the laugh. "Well that's what I always thought.. Seems I was wrong." She offers with an amused tone and soft chuckle escaping her. "So.. I figured it was about time to take off on my own and see the world so to speak."
Bristlecone may not have quite gotten to the point of taking off himself - excursions like this one aside - but he's certainly thought about it. "That makes sense," he says with a nod. "It's a place worth seeing." He turns a slow circle, looking at the sunset-lit desert all around, and then tilts his head to give a grin back to Sanuye. "And, hey. Maybe you'll find a place in it you fit better than what your parents expected."
Sanuye lets her gaze drift over the desert and she smiles at the thought, her gaze drifts back to Bristlecone and she chuckles softly. "Yes well.. Perhaps I will. One can only hope for such a thing really. Not many find that place where they actually fit in and belong from what I've seen."
Bristlecone keeps his head tilted, though the expression grows more considering. "There's degrees of fit, I think," he says, and then returns his head to an even position. "Some things don't fit at all. Some fit okay. Some fit well. Maybe there's a perfect fit, but that's asking an awful lot. I think I'll settle for a good fit, myself. Or even an okay one, if it comes down to it. Better than looking for perfect and ending up bad."
Sanuye ahs softly and chuckles a moment before nodding, her head lowers a tad and she eyes the ground a moment. "Yes that would be nice. Just a place to somewhat fit into I wouldn't mind actually." A shrug of her shoulders can be seen. "Though one can never tell what tomorrow may bring them."
"Never really can, no," says Bristlecone, and laughs. "Me, I'm just trying to figure out what it is to be a coyote. Once I've got that... well, then maybe I'll know where I can fit in as one of those, since I'm pretty sure I am one." He grins. Cryptic statements and big smirks? Yep, that's a 'yote.
---Some Time Later---
After a much needed rest Sanuye is making her way through the scrubland, a yawn escaping her while she trots along. Her tail swaying about a few times and her ears perk forward while she glances one way and then another. With the breeze passing by she sniffs out at it a few times before licking across her maw. Seems she is on the search for a meal at the moment. Her head lowers to the ground while she trots along.
Bristlecone is still taking some rest, it seems - the coyote is lying on his belly, half underneath a bush with his front half sticking out, paws extended and his head resting on them. His eyes are, in point of fact, closed.
Sanuye continues on her trek in the look for food, her ears flicking forward, make twitches and she nuffles out a moment. Her bright gaze drifts towards where Bristlecone is as she catches sight of him asleep, a slight smirk is seen and she ponders before trotting over a bit closer to where the other is..
So peaceful. It's like one of those postcards. Coyote, brush, dozing. Bristlecone breathes in, nice and steady... then snorts at a bit of desert dust, shifting like he's going to wake up... before flopping over onto his side and falling deeper asleep once more.
Sanuye grins slightly and soon shakes her head while peering at the other before she turns an starts to trot off once more. Seems her stomach is wining out over trying to wake the other coyote up. Though soon enough she finds the scent of a rabbit and moves on over towards some bushes, sniffing about to see if its still around..
Zzzz-snort. The dust kicked up by coyote paws makes Bristlecone sneeze, shaking his head, and this time it actually wakes him up. His eyes open... blink shut... wait a minute. They open again, and he grins. That's what he thought. That shape, receding into the distance... Bristlecone rolls back around onto his belly, and then slinks out from under the bush and stands, giving himself a shake. He stretches, forequarters down and hindquarters up, and wags his tail before he starts trotting after Sanuye.
Sanuye hasn't caught on that Bristlecone woke up yet, her mind on getting that rabbit at the moment. She is kicking back a mixture of snow and dirt as she works on digging into a whole where she has caught the strong scent of rabbit from.
When Bristlecone sees what Sanuye is up to, his ears perk and he pauses for a moment. Hunting. Ah! There's a rather varied set of expressions that go across his face, from a grin, to a moment's concern, to a frown, to... a considering look. That one stays the longest, and then he shakes his head vigorously enough to dislodge a few little tufts of fur as well as that consideration. He starts moving again, slinking low to the ground and keeping his eyes on the hole that Sanuye is digging.
Dirt continues to fly and kick out behind Sanuye a few moments long before a half squeal escapes something within the hole and the coyote comes up with a buck within her jaws. Her gaze snaps right towards Bristlecone, seems she /did/ hear him, as for the buck its not dead yet and the animal kicks about and lands a good kick in to San's nose in the process and she lets go of the rabbit that takes off running. Well this is not how Sanuye was expecting to lose her dinner, but she didn't know someone was creeping up around her either, until right there at the end.
Bristlecone narrowly avoids flying clods of dirt and tufts of grass, crouching near the hole Sanuye is expanding with vigorous digging. He grins when she emerges victorious with rabbit! See? It didn't have a chaa - oops. There it goes! Guess it had more of a chance than he thought. Bristlecone leaps off to the chase, running after the fleeing bunny as it tries to dodge amid the small plants and brush.
Sanuye maw twitches a few times, blood dripping from her nose but she doesn't stop to worry about it. Instead she is chasing after the rabbit as quick as she can! The rabbit races one way and then another, once Bristlecone is in front of him he darts the other way and right towards San without knowing until its too late. She won't make the same mistake this time, she lunges down and grabs hold of the rabbit by the neck and yanks him upwards and gives it a hard yank which ends the rabbits life rather quickly.
Rabbit shoulda zagged. But instead, it zigged, and there's Sanuye to make sure he won't make that mistake again - or any mistakes, really. Bristlecone grins as he slows to a stop, panting just a bit as he gives himself a shake. He turns to look at Sanuye with her prize... and the blood dripping from her muzzle. Okay, slightly less grin. "Uh, sorry about that. Didn't mean to startle you."
Sanuye crunches down against the rabbit a few times before lowering her head to drop it to the ground after she is rather sure that it is dead. "That's alright, just didn't hear you. Suppose my stomach was talking to loud." Her tail sways a few times and she gives her head a shake, the sting across her nose and upper lip felt but there isn't a lot she can do about it.
Bristlecone hehs, and nods. He sits down, still some distance from Sayune and her kill, and his tail thumps once on the ground before curling forward around his legs. "They can be like that, or so I've heard."
Sanuye chuckles softly and nods while giving her head a shake while she peers around before settling to her haunches. "Guess I woke you up. Didn't meant to do that." She offers before rubbing at her muzzle a few times with a forepaw.
Bristlecone shrugs cheerfully. "Aw, you're still quieter than it's likely to be back at the den. If I'm going to be woken up, I'd rather have a pretty 'yote than a swarm of foxes doing it." He grins.
Sanuye looks amused at this while she peers at Bristlecone, a soft chuckle heard. "Foxes?" Is questioned while tilting her head. "Didn't think foxes and 'yote's got a long that well.." An she does pick up the pretty part but doesn't comment on it.
Bristlecone ducks his head, looking aside back toward the river. "Yeah. Well... my family lives with a family of foxes." And, if he was to give the full story, foxes don't begin to cover it. At least foxes are sort of reasonable-ish company for a 'yote to keep. Sort of. At least they're predators. "I sort of... grew up with them."
Sanuye ponders this while watching Bristlecone and nods, a soft smile seen. "Well.. Sounds like its not a bad bit, at least you all get along an so forth." She doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Bristlecone perks an ear up, and then turns his head back to look at Sanuye. "Er. Yeah. There's a lot of getting along and such." So, whew. At least he's okay so far on not freaking her out. He knows that life around there is... well, strange. Not very coyoteish.
Sanuye doesn't seem to think long on the subject of foxes living with coyote's. It could be worse.. Like cougars instead, or maybe wolves even. "Well, we had a few ravens that would hang around my parents lands. Got to know them rather well actually."
Yeah. Just like cougars. As well as lynx, not to mention housecats. Or wolves, like... the ones upriver he's visited. Dogs are kind of like wolves, too. There are all sorts of things that could be worse, and most of them actually are or have been present. His ears do perk at the mention of the ravens, though. Safe topic! Whew! "Yeah? There's one that's started hanging around my parents' lately. She's so dour. Like... always talking about death. And laughing at us. Are the ones you knew like that?"
Sanuye doesn't have a problem with lynx, cougars are not high on her list though. As for wolves she's never actually spoken to many. A chuckle escapes her and she nods. "There was an old male raven that was like that.. Always talking about death and cackling. Very.. strange.. He would also tell me stories of two-leggers and there busy dens. It was crazy talk half the time I thought, but some things were true I feel."
Bristlecone hehs, and nods. Yeah, that sounds like the raven he knows. He tilts his head at the mention of two-leggers, and nods. "Might've been more true than you thought. My parents went along the edges of two-leg land before they ended up here, and the stories my mom tells are pretty crazy too."
Sanuye ears perk forward slightly while she watches the other, a faint oh escapes her and she hums a moment. "Well.. That's interesting.." She offers after a moment. "I really did think he was just talking out his head so to speak."
Bristlecone shakes his head... and then his shoulders and his back, while he's at it. "Nah. I heard there are giant two-leg dens. Like... anthills, but with big two legged things instead of ants. And they get horses to carry them around, and lock up their food in big shiny things, like tree-trunks that sound like thunder when you knock them over. And they carry sticks that make thunder-noises and shoot lightning."
Sanuye hums and nods a moment. "The raven spoke about the thunder sticks before. He said the two-leggers would often fire the lighting out at him and the other ravens in his group to make them leave the fields an so forth."
Bristlecone laughs. "I guess two-legs don't like to listen to ravens being all mournful and death-obsessed either." He grins. "Shows taste. Course, I heard they use the thunder-sticks on 'yotes, too, so... maybe they're just kinda crazy, all told." Because seriously, who wouldn't want a coyote around?
Sanuye grins and nods, her tail slowly swaying a few times. "Well that is a thought." She chuckles and grins still. "Really.. He never picked that up before." She hums softly at the thought. "Well.. Just have to make sure to not run into any that may not like us then huh?"
Bristlecone grins. "That's how I figure it," he says. "Not sure I feel the need to go find out myself, but if I happen to end up near some, well..." He shrugs a bit. "They mostly just like dogs better, anyhow."
Sanuye makes a slight face and coughs. "Yes well.. the dog's I've met have been rather nasty. They can keep there dogs as far as I see it."
Bristlecone hehs. One of his ears splays to the side. "Not all of them are like that. I mean... some dogs are pretty vicious, yeah. But... there are nice ones. Sometimes."
Sanuye is quiet for a moment, her maw twitching while she glances off. "I suppose there are some.. But the ones I've met have not be nice. I've never gotten close to two-leggers and when some was moving through my parents land they had dogs. It wasn't pretty to say the least."
Bristlecone nods. He lowers his head, staring at the ground as he talks. "A dog was... a friend of mine, once," he says. "She ran away from the two-legs. Humans. That's what she called them." He shrugs a little. "She... wasn't much like other dogs, I guess. Most of them tend to show up, lay claim to everything they like and growl at everything else."
Sanuye blinks at this, her ears lowering a moment while she takes in a faint breath. "I'm.. sorry about that.." She offers with a soft tone. Not like she knew he had any dog friends.. She didn't even think many dogs could get this far into the wild.
Bristlecone shrugs a bit, still staring at the ground. "Hey, you're mostly right. Dogs and coyotes don't tend to get along." Just like coyotes and foxes. Or coyotes and wolves. Or coyotes and... a great many other things, many of which his family claims alliances with. He lets out a sigh, and then looks up with a smile again. "Just always weird ones, huh? Of anything."
Sanuye watches him a few moments, feeling rather bad to have brought the subject up now. She slowly shifts and settles herself down upon the ground, forepaws resting pulled to her chest. "Well.. I've always been called strange or weird before so I don't tend to mind it." She offers with a soft tone and slight smile.
Bristlecone tilts his head to Sanuye, and hehs. "Oh? So what makes you so strange, then?" Coyote curiosity: engaged.
Sanuye seems amused at this and chuckles. "Well.. strange to one 'yote is different to another, or not strange." She offers with a soft tone. "The speaking with ravens bit was out of my paretns comfort zone.. Needless to say my parents are very strict on certain things.."
"Traditionalists, huh?" says Bristlecone. He tilts his head to the side, considering for a moment, then says, a little hesitantly, "So... you're the sort to make friends with other kinds of animals? Not just... well, not just coyotes?"
Sanuye nods slightly at the comment. "Oh yes.. they are very much so.. Rather sad I think." Her ears perk while she peers over at him curiously, her nose twitching and she wishes she didn't as its still tender. "Well.. I try to make friends with anyone.. I have to admit I don't care kindly to cougar's though.."
Bristlecone nods, quiet for a moment as he considers. "The problem with... too many friends... is... what do you eat?" he says after a long moment, then sighs. "I mean. My parents... my mother is friends with all sorts of things. Even deer, and hares. But we're coyotes. We eat those things. If we went around making friends with all the hares and rabbits, well..." he points his muzzle to Sanuye's latest kill. "Where does it stop? My mother tells everyone not to eat her special hare friends, but she goes out and eats /other/ hares all the time."
Sanuye blinks slightly at this, finding it rather interesting that a coyote would be friends with prey. A slight glance is offered to the hare before she looks back to Bristlecone. "I imagen.. that would be rather hard thing to do." She offers softly and takes in a slight breath. "I may speak with birds.. but I don't think I could make friends with hares and squirrels.. Or deer.."
Bristlecone nods his head slowly, and sighs. "Yeah," he says, and looks away a moment, then back. "So. That's what you get when you go too far away from that traditionalist view. It's... confusing." To say the least. "So. That's why I'm... not spending much time there, lately. I've kind of realized... I'm a coyote. And coyotes eat prey."
Sanuye hums softly and nods a moment while she watches Bristlecone. "Well.. its alright to do that thought." She offers, pausing a moment. "I mean.. you have to eat after all. An last time I checked we can't get grass and sticks too well.."
Bristlecone laughs, and shakes his head. "Yeah, not so much. We could eat fish, I guess. I don't know anyone who's managed to make friends with /those/. But it's still... yeah. We're hunters. We chase things down and eat them. That's just sort of the way it is."
Sanuye blinks and giggles softly. "Yes well.. Fish are rather hard to catch, and during winter the water is /very/ cold I've found." She offers while her tail sways about a few times.
Bristlecone chuckles, and nods. "That too. I wouldn't want to try diving for fish in winter. They'd end up eating me instead... after I melted." He grins, and shrugs. "So, there you have it." Whatever 'it' is. He's not entirely certain himself.
Sanuye hums softly while tilting her head to peer at the other. "One ice cicle 'yote.." She offers before giggling at the thought. So it is.. Anything else you care to share about yourself?"
Bristlecone makes a brrr noise and shakes out his fur to make it all fluffy! Then he grins. "About me, huh? Uh..." What does one say, in circumstances like these? 'My name is Bristlecone, and I am a coyote' doesn't quite have the right feel, and besides, it's already been pretty well covered. "Well, I've got some siblings... oh." Now there's something worth mentioning, even if it is a somewhat awkward sort of thing. Bristlecone glances up toward the river, then back to Sanuye. "I mentioned how my sister used to live here, right? Well... she died, but she had a kid. I'm, uh... sort of taking care of him, for now."
Sanuye tilts her head and offers a soft smile before nodding. "Well.. That is good of you to do that." She offers with a friendly tone, seeming to think its a good thing to do. "I have a few siblings myself.." There is a slight pause. "But they tend to think more like my parents do.."
Yet another potential hazard, navigated by dint of it turning into not a hazard at all! Bristlecone breathes a sigh of relief, then nods. "Most of mine have left, a long time ago. There's only one who even visits anymore, and that's pretty rare." He shrugs. "She's more like me than like our parents, though."
Sanuye nods slightly while glancing upwards to the sky slightly. "Its sorta strange how things work out like that. Me I felt the need to just leave the situation instead of dealing with it.. I suppose it was a rather corwardly way to do it."
Bristlecone stretches, and stands up. "Maybe. But... what could you have done, really?" He's arguing his own case as much as he is Sanuye's. At this point, he's told her more of his philosophy and his problems with his parents than he's told them. Running away? Yeah. Even if he does come back... so far. "They weren't going to listen to you. It's their territory. Let them run it by their rules. There are other places. Other territories to claim, where you can set your own rules. It's the coyote dream. A place of your own."
Sanuye lets her head settle upon her forepaws for a few moments, while she listens and takes in Bristlecone's words. "This is true.. But.. They are still my family. I'm very far away from them now an I know they are not happy with me." Her gaze drifts towards Bristlecone a few moments. "Sure. It would be nice to have a place to call my own, have my own dreams but one can not do that on there own."
"Yeah. Family is still family," Bristlecone says, and once again it's as much for himself as the other 'yote. He sighs, and lowers his head, not noticing the moments when Sanuye's gaze lingers on him. "I suppose not. But I don't think that means you should stop dreaming. Even if they're only dreams."
Sanuye watches Bristlecone a few moments long and her ear twitching before she lifts her head. "I suppose so. Sometimes one only has dreams." A faint smile is seen for a moment. "Anyway.. We should change the subject to something not so.. oh depressing perhaps could be used."
Bristlecone lifts up his head again, and tilts it to the side. "I was thinking morbid. Poking the dead dreams with a stick." He grins a bit, and gives himself a shake. "I think it's your turn. I did the last topic, and just look where it ended up. Maybe you'll be better at this."
Sanuye peers at him, a look of amusement crosses her face and she chuckles softly before nodding. "Yes well.." She offers while grinning. "So.. ask me something that." This said while she grins slightly as she peers at the others.
Bristlecone laughs, and ponders on that question for a moment. It's harder than it seems! "So... what's the land like where you're from? Like this? Or more like a forest?"
Sanuye tilts her head and grins a moment, her tail swaying a few times. A soft oh escapes her. "Its sorta like this. There is a brushland much like this running through the center, thick fuzzy trees around the edge of it." She hums faintly. "There is also a stream running down a part of it, has a large green pool that has many fish in it to go after and chase around."
Bristlecone smiles, listening to that description, and nods. "There are more trees where I was born, but... they're a different sort." He pads over, and jumps up onto a rock, looking around. "And there's the river, which is sorta like that stream... but way bigger. I learned to swim about when I learned to walk." He grins, looking out onto the horizon. "It's nice to see something new. Maybe... I'll go on a longer trip, someday soon."
Sanuye watches the other curiously, her ears perking and she smiles while nodding slightly. She shifts up to her paws and moves over towards the rock he is on and hops up next to him in order to peer out where he is looking at. "Sometimes it is nice to get out and see things that are different." A glance is offered over to Bristlecone. "I passed and went through a lot of rather nice looking lands on my way here."
Bristlecone looks over to Sanuye, and smiles. "Maybe you could show me some of them," he says, and then splays his ears. "Er, I mean, if you wanted to..."
Sanuye ears perk and she smiles before nodding, her tail swaying a few times. "Well.. Sure I wouldn't mind doing that at all."
Bristlecone's ears perk right back up, and he grins. "Great!" he says. Though... it's probably more because of the company than the potential scenery. Not that he doesn't appreciate a good view.
Sanuye smiles and nods, a faint burr like sound escaping her while she settles back to her haunches. "There's some land not to far from here that is actually rather nice. Had a few sloping hills with these trees on it, lots of wild flowers starting to show up for spring too."
Bristlecone tilts his head, looking at those trees, and then back to Sanuye. "It sounds nice," he says, and grins. Not much like anything he's familiar with... and that seems like a fine thing, just now.
Sanuye tail sways about and she nods with a smile while she shifts and hops down moving over to the rabbit she caught not that long ago. A ear twitches back to Bristlecone. "Just let me know when you want to go exploring. An I'll be glad to show it to you." She offers before starting to munch down on the rabbit.
Bristlecone nods. "I will," he says, and grins. "Soon," he adds - and then jumps down from the rock, heading off across the scrublands. Time for him to catch some dinner of his own... because, while he's looking forward to the trip together, he's not exactly on food-sharing terms with Sanuye just yet.
Sanuye isn't that type to go about food-sharing herself, her tail sways about while she peers after Bristlecone while chewing on a rabbit leg. She's rather curious of him to say the least. Wondering how he.. well seems so normal and yet from what he says his normal is nothing close to it.
Bristlecone - Male Coyote
Sanuye - Female Coyote
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Bristlecone trots along near the edge of the desert, ears and whiskers perked. There's been less snow here than in the forests or mountains, and what little there is has already begun to melt, gathering to make streams in the little gulches and crevices. The coyote pauses at the edge of one of those gullies, peering down at the trickle of water inside, and then kicks a clump of snow in to watch it melt in the cold water.
Another form may not been seen at first, Sanuye is moving along at a lazy pace, paws moving through the melting snow and leaving a good mess behind her as she pads along. A half yawn escapes her, she's been traveling for a while now, on little sleep and perhaps even less food. She's a touch on the thin side but her still thick winter coat is hiding this fact rather well. So onwards she goes, making her way from the north, an with the streaks of mud across her form it is for sure been a rather long trip.
Bristlecone watches that snow until it's fully melted, then turns back from the edge and starts to pad along - then stops. That approaching figure. Is that? No. It can't be. And yet he recognizes that loping, swaying sort of motion, the easy pace that can make mile after mile disappear. If it isn't - which it's not - who is it? He takes a few steps closer - then launches into a lope of his own, coming to meet her.
Sanuye continues along her pace, ears twitching forward and back while her nose quivers at the passing breeze that carries different scents along. Wolves are around somewhere, but there is another scent that is a little more pressing that causes her to pause in her movement and peer one way, then another. Her ears flick behind then and the movement is picked up to her right which makes her gaze snap over towards the approaching coyote. A faint erk escapes her and she shifts on her paws so to better watch this approaching male. Her head lowering and her tail wagging about before half tucking figuring she found herself upon some coyotes lands without picking it up until now.
Yeah, that is totally a coyote. Huh. Bristlecone slows his pace as he gets closer, his ears perked as he looks over the other coyote curiously. No, looks over her. This is most certainly a her sort of coyote. To judge from the unworried way he's roaming around here, it might be his land. On the other hand, his behavior as he gets close - a brief wag of his tail that settles to pointing straight back, a pace that slows instead of charging forward - don't entirely match a creature trying to defend his territory.
Sanuye tilts her head while eyeing the other coyote a few moments, her ears flick forward and then to the sides to see if anyone else is sneaking up on her to take her out from behind it would seem. Her bright gaze drifts over the other and then behind him before she peers back to him a moment. "Ah.. evening.." She offers after a few moments, her tone friendly but also cautious.
Nobody else around but the crickets. Them, and a few lizards who haven't scuttled away from the rocks they're basking on yet. Bristlecone's tail wags again, and he ducks his head for a moment in a nod. "Hello. I mean, good evening."
Sanuye relaxes slightly as the other seems to be in a relaxed stance, her maw twitches and her head slowly lifts. A curious look offered to the other. "Ah.. This your land that I'm wandering on.." A slight pause. "Because if so it is /lovely/.." She's trying to be all nice and friendly, not wanting to make him mad if it IS his lands.
Bristlecone laughs, and he turns his head to look out over the land for a moment. The setting sun is sending pink and blue splashes across the sky, and making the shadows sharper, the outlines brighter. "It is, isn't it?" he agrees, and then looks back to Sanuye. "It's not mine, though. It used to be my sister's, but... she's gone now."
Sanuye hums softly and nods, her tail swaying a few times as she seems to relax a bit more. A soft oh escapes her at this. "I sorry to hear that.." She offers with a soft tone, a slight frown seen. "I didn't mean to bring anything up.." This said while a forepaw shifts nervous like. "An I ment it, very lovely lands."
Bristlecone shakes his head. "It was already on my mind," he says. Perhaps that's why he was down here in the first place. He's quiet for a short moment, and then he smiles. "It is very pretty," he says, and his eyes linger on Sanuye as he says it. "Oh. I'm Bristlecone, by the way."
Sanuye hums softly at this and nods, her gaze drifting to the right before she peers back to the other. A soft oh escapes her and she smiles a moment. "Well, nice to meet you. I'm Sanuye." Her tail wags about a few times. "So.. you live around here then?"
Bristlecone smiles, and nods. "Very nice to meet you," he says, and then he pauses a moment at the question, looking away over the plains. "Up near the river," he answers, then adds, "It's my father's territory, not mine. I still live there for now. Perhaps not for much longer, I'm... not sure yet."
Sanuye glances towards the area where Bristlecone looks to, a slight oh escapes her while she nods. "I see." She offers while glancing back to the other. "Well, I can understand the need to get away from family if that's the problem." This offered while she settles to her haunches, tail curling to her side after a moment.
Bristlecone nods. "Sometimes, you have to be what you are, not what your family expects" he says, and frowns to himself for a moment with his brow starting to furrow. Then his expression relaxes as he turns his full attention back to Sanuye. "So how about you? Not from around here, I'm guessing," he says, and grins. "What set your paws moving?"
Sanuye hums softly, and is quiet for a moment at that comment. "Well.. I suppose you could say I'm not what my family expected." She offers with a faint smile and half shrug seen. "As to what got me moving, a few to many 'conversations' with my family about what I should or should not do in the end sent me going." Her family was, and is a funny one to put it lightly.
Bristlecone listens to that explanation with ears perked, and then laughs. It's a friendly, appreciative sound, because that story sounds rather familiar. Well, not so much the conversations. He's heard them, mind, but that's just because his older sister had them loudly with their parents on her own behalf, and so Bristlecone has been avoiding the issue. "Are all families like that?" he asks. "I mean... it all made sense when I was a pup, but now, I'm not so sure."
Sanuye tilts her head while peering over at the other, a slight amused look crossing her face to show she seems alright with the laugh. "Well that's what I always thought.. Seems I was wrong." She offers with an amused tone and soft chuckle escaping her. "So.. I figured it was about time to take off on my own and see the world so to speak."
Bristlecone may not have quite gotten to the point of taking off himself - excursions like this one aside - but he's certainly thought about it. "That makes sense," he says with a nod. "It's a place worth seeing." He turns a slow circle, looking at the sunset-lit desert all around, and then tilts his head to give a grin back to Sanuye. "And, hey. Maybe you'll find a place in it you fit better than what your parents expected."
Sanuye lets her gaze drift over the desert and she smiles at the thought, her gaze drifts back to Bristlecone and she chuckles softly. "Yes well.. Perhaps I will. One can only hope for such a thing really. Not many find that place where they actually fit in and belong from what I've seen."
Bristlecone keeps his head tilted, though the expression grows more considering. "There's degrees of fit, I think," he says, and then returns his head to an even position. "Some things don't fit at all. Some fit okay. Some fit well. Maybe there's a perfect fit, but that's asking an awful lot. I think I'll settle for a good fit, myself. Or even an okay one, if it comes down to it. Better than looking for perfect and ending up bad."
Sanuye ahs softly and chuckles a moment before nodding, her head lowers a tad and she eyes the ground a moment. "Yes that would be nice. Just a place to somewhat fit into I wouldn't mind actually." A shrug of her shoulders can be seen. "Though one can never tell what tomorrow may bring them."
"Never really can, no," says Bristlecone, and laughs. "Me, I'm just trying to figure out what it is to be a coyote. Once I've got that... well, then maybe I'll know where I can fit in as one of those, since I'm pretty sure I am one." He grins. Cryptic statements and big smirks? Yep, that's a 'yote.
---Some Time Later---
After a much needed rest Sanuye is making her way through the scrubland, a yawn escaping her while she trots along. Her tail swaying about a few times and her ears perk forward while she glances one way and then another. With the breeze passing by she sniffs out at it a few times before licking across her maw. Seems she is on the search for a meal at the moment. Her head lowers to the ground while she trots along.
Bristlecone is still taking some rest, it seems - the coyote is lying on his belly, half underneath a bush with his front half sticking out, paws extended and his head resting on them. His eyes are, in point of fact, closed.
Sanuye continues on her trek in the look for food, her ears flicking forward, make twitches and she nuffles out a moment. Her bright gaze drifts towards where Bristlecone is as she catches sight of him asleep, a slight smirk is seen and she ponders before trotting over a bit closer to where the other is..
So peaceful. It's like one of those postcards. Coyote, brush, dozing. Bristlecone breathes in, nice and steady... then snorts at a bit of desert dust, shifting like he's going to wake up... before flopping over onto his side and falling deeper asleep once more.
Sanuye grins slightly and soon shakes her head while peering at the other before she turns an starts to trot off once more. Seems her stomach is wining out over trying to wake the other coyote up. Though soon enough she finds the scent of a rabbit and moves on over towards some bushes, sniffing about to see if its still around..
Zzzz-snort. The dust kicked up by coyote paws makes Bristlecone sneeze, shaking his head, and this time it actually wakes him up. His eyes open... blink shut... wait a minute. They open again, and he grins. That's what he thought. That shape, receding into the distance... Bristlecone rolls back around onto his belly, and then slinks out from under the bush and stands, giving himself a shake. He stretches, forequarters down and hindquarters up, and wags his tail before he starts trotting after Sanuye.
Sanuye hasn't caught on that Bristlecone woke up yet, her mind on getting that rabbit at the moment. She is kicking back a mixture of snow and dirt as she works on digging into a whole where she has caught the strong scent of rabbit from.
When Bristlecone sees what Sanuye is up to, his ears perk and he pauses for a moment. Hunting. Ah! There's a rather varied set of expressions that go across his face, from a grin, to a moment's concern, to a frown, to... a considering look. That one stays the longest, and then he shakes his head vigorously enough to dislodge a few little tufts of fur as well as that consideration. He starts moving again, slinking low to the ground and keeping his eyes on the hole that Sanuye is digging.
Dirt continues to fly and kick out behind Sanuye a few moments long before a half squeal escapes something within the hole and the coyote comes up with a buck within her jaws. Her gaze snaps right towards Bristlecone, seems she /did/ hear him, as for the buck its not dead yet and the animal kicks about and lands a good kick in to San's nose in the process and she lets go of the rabbit that takes off running. Well this is not how Sanuye was expecting to lose her dinner, but she didn't know someone was creeping up around her either, until right there at the end.
Bristlecone narrowly avoids flying clods of dirt and tufts of grass, crouching near the hole Sanuye is expanding with vigorous digging. He grins when she emerges victorious with rabbit! See? It didn't have a chaa - oops. There it goes! Guess it had more of a chance than he thought. Bristlecone leaps off to the chase, running after the fleeing bunny as it tries to dodge amid the small plants and brush.
Sanuye maw twitches a few times, blood dripping from her nose but she doesn't stop to worry about it. Instead she is chasing after the rabbit as quick as she can! The rabbit races one way and then another, once Bristlecone is in front of him he darts the other way and right towards San without knowing until its too late. She won't make the same mistake this time, she lunges down and grabs hold of the rabbit by the neck and yanks him upwards and gives it a hard yank which ends the rabbits life rather quickly.
Rabbit shoulda zagged. But instead, it zigged, and there's Sanuye to make sure he won't make that mistake again - or any mistakes, really. Bristlecone grins as he slows to a stop, panting just a bit as he gives himself a shake. He turns to look at Sanuye with her prize... and the blood dripping from her muzzle. Okay, slightly less grin. "Uh, sorry about that. Didn't mean to startle you."
Sanuye crunches down against the rabbit a few times before lowering her head to drop it to the ground after she is rather sure that it is dead. "That's alright, just didn't hear you. Suppose my stomach was talking to loud." Her tail sways a few times and she gives her head a shake, the sting across her nose and upper lip felt but there isn't a lot she can do about it.
Bristlecone hehs, and nods. He sits down, still some distance from Sayune and her kill, and his tail thumps once on the ground before curling forward around his legs. "They can be like that, or so I've heard."
Sanuye chuckles softly and nods while giving her head a shake while she peers around before settling to her haunches. "Guess I woke you up. Didn't meant to do that." She offers before rubbing at her muzzle a few times with a forepaw.
Bristlecone shrugs cheerfully. "Aw, you're still quieter than it's likely to be back at the den. If I'm going to be woken up, I'd rather have a pretty 'yote than a swarm of foxes doing it." He grins.
Sanuye looks amused at this while she peers at Bristlecone, a soft chuckle heard. "Foxes?" Is questioned while tilting her head. "Didn't think foxes and 'yote's got a long that well.." An she does pick up the pretty part but doesn't comment on it.
Bristlecone ducks his head, looking aside back toward the river. "Yeah. Well... my family lives with a family of foxes." And, if he was to give the full story, foxes don't begin to cover it. At least foxes are sort of reasonable-ish company for a 'yote to keep. Sort of. At least they're predators. "I sort of... grew up with them."
Sanuye ponders this while watching Bristlecone and nods, a soft smile seen. "Well.. Sounds like its not a bad bit, at least you all get along an so forth." She doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Bristlecone perks an ear up, and then turns his head back to look at Sanuye. "Er. Yeah. There's a lot of getting along and such." So, whew. At least he's okay so far on not freaking her out. He knows that life around there is... well, strange. Not very coyoteish.
Sanuye doesn't seem to think long on the subject of foxes living with coyote's. It could be worse.. Like cougars instead, or maybe wolves even. "Well, we had a few ravens that would hang around my parents lands. Got to know them rather well actually."
Yeah. Just like cougars. As well as lynx, not to mention housecats. Or wolves, like... the ones upriver he's visited. Dogs are kind of like wolves, too. There are all sorts of things that could be worse, and most of them actually are or have been present. His ears do perk at the mention of the ravens, though. Safe topic! Whew! "Yeah? There's one that's started hanging around my parents' lately. She's so dour. Like... always talking about death. And laughing at us. Are the ones you knew like that?"
Sanuye doesn't have a problem with lynx, cougars are not high on her list though. As for wolves she's never actually spoken to many. A chuckle escapes her and she nods. "There was an old male raven that was like that.. Always talking about death and cackling. Very.. strange.. He would also tell me stories of two-leggers and there busy dens. It was crazy talk half the time I thought, but some things were true I feel."
Bristlecone hehs, and nods. Yeah, that sounds like the raven he knows. He tilts his head at the mention of two-leggers, and nods. "Might've been more true than you thought. My parents went along the edges of two-leg land before they ended up here, and the stories my mom tells are pretty crazy too."
Sanuye ears perk forward slightly while she watches the other, a faint oh escapes her and she hums a moment. "Well.. That's interesting.." She offers after a moment. "I really did think he was just talking out his head so to speak."
Bristlecone shakes his head... and then his shoulders and his back, while he's at it. "Nah. I heard there are giant two-leg dens. Like... anthills, but with big two legged things instead of ants. And they get horses to carry them around, and lock up their food in big shiny things, like tree-trunks that sound like thunder when you knock them over. And they carry sticks that make thunder-noises and shoot lightning."
Sanuye hums and nods a moment. "The raven spoke about the thunder sticks before. He said the two-leggers would often fire the lighting out at him and the other ravens in his group to make them leave the fields an so forth."
Bristlecone laughs. "I guess two-legs don't like to listen to ravens being all mournful and death-obsessed either." He grins. "Shows taste. Course, I heard they use the thunder-sticks on 'yotes, too, so... maybe they're just kinda crazy, all told." Because seriously, who wouldn't want a coyote around?
Sanuye grins and nods, her tail slowly swaying a few times. "Well that is a thought." She chuckles and grins still. "Really.. He never picked that up before." She hums softly at the thought. "Well.. Just have to make sure to not run into any that may not like us then huh?"
Bristlecone grins. "That's how I figure it," he says. "Not sure I feel the need to go find out myself, but if I happen to end up near some, well..." He shrugs a bit. "They mostly just like dogs better, anyhow."
Sanuye makes a slight face and coughs. "Yes well.. the dog's I've met have been rather nasty. They can keep there dogs as far as I see it."
Bristlecone hehs. One of his ears splays to the side. "Not all of them are like that. I mean... some dogs are pretty vicious, yeah. But... there are nice ones. Sometimes."
Sanuye is quiet for a moment, her maw twitching while she glances off. "I suppose there are some.. But the ones I've met have not be nice. I've never gotten close to two-leggers and when some was moving through my parents land they had dogs. It wasn't pretty to say the least."
Bristlecone nods. He lowers his head, staring at the ground as he talks. "A dog was... a friend of mine, once," he says. "She ran away from the two-legs. Humans. That's what she called them." He shrugs a little. "She... wasn't much like other dogs, I guess. Most of them tend to show up, lay claim to everything they like and growl at everything else."
Sanuye blinks at this, her ears lowering a moment while she takes in a faint breath. "I'm.. sorry about that.." She offers with a soft tone. Not like she knew he had any dog friends.. She didn't even think many dogs could get this far into the wild.
Bristlecone shrugs a bit, still staring at the ground. "Hey, you're mostly right. Dogs and coyotes don't tend to get along." Just like coyotes and foxes. Or coyotes and wolves. Or coyotes and... a great many other things, many of which his family claims alliances with. He lets out a sigh, and then looks up with a smile again. "Just always weird ones, huh? Of anything."
Sanuye watches him a few moments, feeling rather bad to have brought the subject up now. She slowly shifts and settles herself down upon the ground, forepaws resting pulled to her chest. "Well.. I've always been called strange or weird before so I don't tend to mind it." She offers with a soft tone and slight smile.
Bristlecone tilts his head to Sanuye, and hehs. "Oh? So what makes you so strange, then?" Coyote curiosity: engaged.
Sanuye seems amused at this and chuckles. "Well.. strange to one 'yote is different to another, or not strange." She offers with a soft tone. "The speaking with ravens bit was out of my paretns comfort zone.. Needless to say my parents are very strict on certain things.."
"Traditionalists, huh?" says Bristlecone. He tilts his head to the side, considering for a moment, then says, a little hesitantly, "So... you're the sort to make friends with other kinds of animals? Not just... well, not just coyotes?"
Sanuye nods slightly at the comment. "Oh yes.. they are very much so.. Rather sad I think." Her ears perk while she peers over at him curiously, her nose twitching and she wishes she didn't as its still tender. "Well.. I try to make friends with anyone.. I have to admit I don't care kindly to cougar's though.."
Bristlecone nods, quiet for a moment as he considers. "The problem with... too many friends... is... what do you eat?" he says after a long moment, then sighs. "I mean. My parents... my mother is friends with all sorts of things. Even deer, and hares. But we're coyotes. We eat those things. If we went around making friends with all the hares and rabbits, well..." he points his muzzle to Sanuye's latest kill. "Where does it stop? My mother tells everyone not to eat her special hare friends, but she goes out and eats /other/ hares all the time."
Sanuye blinks slightly at this, finding it rather interesting that a coyote would be friends with prey. A slight glance is offered to the hare before she looks back to Bristlecone. "I imagen.. that would be rather hard thing to do." She offers softly and takes in a slight breath. "I may speak with birds.. but I don't think I could make friends with hares and squirrels.. Or deer.."
Bristlecone nods his head slowly, and sighs. "Yeah," he says, and looks away a moment, then back. "So. That's what you get when you go too far away from that traditionalist view. It's... confusing." To say the least. "So. That's why I'm... not spending much time there, lately. I've kind of realized... I'm a coyote. And coyotes eat prey."
Sanuye hums softly and nods a moment while she watches Bristlecone. "Well.. its alright to do that thought." She offers, pausing a moment. "I mean.. you have to eat after all. An last time I checked we can't get grass and sticks too well.."
Bristlecone laughs, and shakes his head. "Yeah, not so much. We could eat fish, I guess. I don't know anyone who's managed to make friends with /those/. But it's still... yeah. We're hunters. We chase things down and eat them. That's just sort of the way it is."
Sanuye blinks and giggles softly. "Yes well.. Fish are rather hard to catch, and during winter the water is /very/ cold I've found." She offers while her tail sways about a few times.
Bristlecone chuckles, and nods. "That too. I wouldn't want to try diving for fish in winter. They'd end up eating me instead... after I melted." He grins, and shrugs. "So, there you have it." Whatever 'it' is. He's not entirely certain himself.
Sanuye hums softly while tilting her head to peer at the other. "One ice cicle 'yote.." She offers before giggling at the thought. So it is.. Anything else you care to share about yourself?"
Bristlecone makes a brrr noise and shakes out his fur to make it all fluffy! Then he grins. "About me, huh? Uh..." What does one say, in circumstances like these? 'My name is Bristlecone, and I am a coyote' doesn't quite have the right feel, and besides, it's already been pretty well covered. "Well, I've got some siblings... oh." Now there's something worth mentioning, even if it is a somewhat awkward sort of thing. Bristlecone glances up toward the river, then back to Sanuye. "I mentioned how my sister used to live here, right? Well... she died, but she had a kid. I'm, uh... sort of taking care of him, for now."
Sanuye tilts her head and offers a soft smile before nodding. "Well.. That is good of you to do that." She offers with a friendly tone, seeming to think its a good thing to do. "I have a few siblings myself.." There is a slight pause. "But they tend to think more like my parents do.."
Yet another potential hazard, navigated by dint of it turning into not a hazard at all! Bristlecone breathes a sigh of relief, then nods. "Most of mine have left, a long time ago. There's only one who even visits anymore, and that's pretty rare." He shrugs. "She's more like me than like our parents, though."
Sanuye nods slightly while glancing upwards to the sky slightly. "Its sorta strange how things work out like that. Me I felt the need to just leave the situation instead of dealing with it.. I suppose it was a rather corwardly way to do it."
Bristlecone stretches, and stands up. "Maybe. But... what could you have done, really?" He's arguing his own case as much as he is Sanuye's. At this point, he's told her more of his philosophy and his problems with his parents than he's told them. Running away? Yeah. Even if he does come back... so far. "They weren't going to listen to you. It's their territory. Let them run it by their rules. There are other places. Other territories to claim, where you can set your own rules. It's the coyote dream. A place of your own."
Sanuye lets her head settle upon her forepaws for a few moments, while she listens and takes in Bristlecone's words. "This is true.. But.. They are still my family. I'm very far away from them now an I know they are not happy with me." Her gaze drifts towards Bristlecone a few moments. "Sure. It would be nice to have a place to call my own, have my own dreams but one can not do that on there own."
"Yeah. Family is still family," Bristlecone says, and once again it's as much for himself as the other 'yote. He sighs, and lowers his head, not noticing the moments when Sanuye's gaze lingers on him. "I suppose not. But I don't think that means you should stop dreaming. Even if they're only dreams."
Sanuye watches Bristlecone a few moments long and her ear twitching before she lifts her head. "I suppose so. Sometimes one only has dreams." A faint smile is seen for a moment. "Anyway.. We should change the subject to something not so.. oh depressing perhaps could be used."
Bristlecone lifts up his head again, and tilts it to the side. "I was thinking morbid. Poking the dead dreams with a stick." He grins a bit, and gives himself a shake. "I think it's your turn. I did the last topic, and just look where it ended up. Maybe you'll be better at this."
Sanuye peers at him, a look of amusement crosses her face and she chuckles softly before nodding. "Yes well.." She offers while grinning. "So.. ask me something that." This said while she grins slightly as she peers at the others.
Bristlecone laughs, and ponders on that question for a moment. It's harder than it seems! "So... what's the land like where you're from? Like this? Or more like a forest?"
Sanuye tilts her head and grins a moment, her tail swaying a few times. A soft oh escapes her. "Its sorta like this. There is a brushland much like this running through the center, thick fuzzy trees around the edge of it." She hums faintly. "There is also a stream running down a part of it, has a large green pool that has many fish in it to go after and chase around."
Bristlecone smiles, listening to that description, and nods. "There are more trees where I was born, but... they're a different sort." He pads over, and jumps up onto a rock, looking around. "And there's the river, which is sorta like that stream... but way bigger. I learned to swim about when I learned to walk." He grins, looking out onto the horizon. "It's nice to see something new. Maybe... I'll go on a longer trip, someday soon."
Sanuye watches the other curiously, her ears perking and she smiles while nodding slightly. She shifts up to her paws and moves over towards the rock he is on and hops up next to him in order to peer out where he is looking at. "Sometimes it is nice to get out and see things that are different." A glance is offered over to Bristlecone. "I passed and went through a lot of rather nice looking lands on my way here."
Bristlecone looks over to Sanuye, and smiles. "Maybe you could show me some of them," he says, and then splays his ears. "Er, I mean, if you wanted to..."
Sanuye ears perk and she smiles before nodding, her tail swaying a few times. "Well.. Sure I wouldn't mind doing that at all."
Bristlecone's ears perk right back up, and he grins. "Great!" he says. Though... it's probably more because of the company than the potential scenery. Not that he doesn't appreciate a good view.
Sanuye smiles and nods, a faint burr like sound escaping her while she settles back to her haunches. "There's some land not to far from here that is actually rather nice. Had a few sloping hills with these trees on it, lots of wild flowers starting to show up for spring too."
Bristlecone tilts his head, looking at those trees, and then back to Sanuye. "It sounds nice," he says, and grins. Not much like anything he's familiar with... and that seems like a fine thing, just now.
Sanuye tail sways about and she nods with a smile while she shifts and hops down moving over to the rabbit she caught not that long ago. A ear twitches back to Bristlecone. "Just let me know when you want to go exploring. An I'll be glad to show it to you." She offers before starting to munch down on the rabbit.
Bristlecone nods. "I will," he says, and grins. "Soon," he adds - and then jumps down from the rock, heading off across the scrublands. Time for him to catch some dinner of his own... because, while he's looking forward to the trip together, he's not exactly on food-sharing terms with Sanuye just yet.
Sanuye isn't that type to go about food-sharing herself, her tail sways about while she peers after Bristlecone while chewing on a rabbit leg. She's rather curious of him to say the least. Wondering how he.. well seems so normal and yet from what he says his normal is nothing close to it.