Post by Pavane on Nov 29, 2011 0:55:15 GMT -5
Coinin - male wolf - Beta of Cerulean
Niyt - female wolf
---Along a Journey---
Coinin has spent the last few days just thinking about things. That display that he witnessed disturbed him. It got him wondering if there might be something really, really wrong with Niyt. She didn't seem to willing to provide answers after it happened and he could understand that too a point, but he finds himself needing some answers. He also finds himself wanting to get as far away from this place as he can and go home. At the present moment he is sitting by the oasis. His paw pads have healed a bit since the run which is good because it was rather uncomfortable.
Those last few days since her arrival, Niyt has done little; at least, not with Coinin's gaze on her. She's drunk from the oasis, hunted small lizards in the desert, and gone once more to walk around the area near the towering stone - but nothing big or significant. Nothing like that night. Unlike him, the female wolf seems comfortable in the desert, despite the howling winds and the burning sands underfoot. She knows how to live here, even if it's been a while. She hasn't forgotten.
Nor has she forgotten Coinin. She approaches the oasis again, her ears perked toward him. Evening is approaching, the worst heat of the day over now. "Shall we head back?" she asks. "We can likely reach the grasslands before it's too dark to travel."
Coinin is definitely ready to go home. Its not that he doesn't like the desert. He just doesn't like this particular spot in the desert. Granted the water is a plus but this place is far to odd for his taste, "I would like to go home." he says. Might as well start before it gets to be too late, besides once he gets her away from this place he will feel more comfortable in asking the many questions that he has for her.
Niyt nods, and she waits a moment for Coinin to gather himself before she starts off through the desert, traveling the familiar pattern of ever-shifting sands at an easy lope. This is no wild race such as brought her here; just a gentle pace, one that will allow long travel without tiring or comfortable conversation along the way.
Coinin gets to his paws, shakes the dust from his fur and starts off after Niyt. Once he feels he is a comfortable distance away from the place he decides to start asking his questions. He doens't want to be rude, but since he was here and witnessed it he feels a bit entitled to answers, "Niyt...what happened?" he asks. Why not start with the simplest question and go from there. Obviously there is much more than he wants to know, but the basics are always a good place to begin.
Simple. Niyt smiles as she lopes along. That question is simple; the answer may be anything but. As well ask that of a wolf returning with a deer or bringing puppies out to play! She didn't plan to involve Coinin, and so it's no wonder he's rather confounded. Still, she can give a simple answer, for all the good it'll do him. He just doesn't have the right context! "The wind carried me to beyond the sky."
Coinin offers her a return smile, the kind that you give someone who might be sick or old. Not a patronizing smile, but a nervous one none the less, "Can you explain that a bit more. I'm afraid I don't understand." Its definitely true that he doesn't understand. He just heard some odd things, he didn't see anything that she saw or experience anything that she heard.
Not that Niyt can see that smile, but perhaps some of it sneaks into the tone of voice, because she laughs. Or maybe she's just used to how people respond to strange things. "No," she answers, and then goes on. "I can't, not really. It wouldn't make much sense to you." She smiles, because she's had this conversation before, with different wolves at different times. "Have you ever wondered how I find my way, Coinin?"
Coinin figured that she made her way through a sense of smell and hearing, or something along those lines. Besides she knows the way well since he lived here, "I always figured you used your nose, and your ears." After all that is the natural way that folks find their ways around. He is frustrated by the no. He wants to know what happened so that he can wrap his mind around it. Or at least make the attempt.
Niyt smiles, her path weaving to the side briefly to avoid a small boulder. "That's true," she answers, "- but it's not the whole truth." Her ears and nose certainly didn't tell her about a rock - and how well can anyone really know the great expanse of land she ran over on her journey, even the parts that weren't in the shifting sands of the desert? No, there's something more to it. "I scent. I listen. I feel. Wolves aren't the only things that howl out their nature, and I don't always have to touch things to feel them."
Coinin doesn't really know what to say to that. It doesn't really make much sense to him, "What sort of things are you talking about Niyt?" he asks. He isn't sure he really wants to understand now. It sort of makes him feel uncomfortable.
Niyt laughs, and she answers simply again. "Everything." ...it's the simple answers that are the worst, sometimes. No room for interpretation. "Some things are stronger than others. Living things, thinking things. Even the earth and the river have their songs, though."
Coinin continues to run along with Niyt, "I understand that some things are stronger than others, but Niyt I didn't see anything when you were howling, and it was not a natural sound. You sounded like no wolf that I have ever heard." That is true enough. It was a very unnerving sound.
"I'm not surprised," says Niyt as Coinin admits to having seen nothing. "Most wolves wouldn't. You're wrong about the howl, though..." She turns her head, and smiles to about where he is. "It was a natural sound, it just wasn't a wolf sound."
"Ok. I didn't see anything there though Niyt. What was the sound if it wans't from you?" Hopefully she will be able to tell him at least that. That should be a simple enough answer. This conversation hasn't gone exactly as he thought it would. Of course there weren't alot of expectations for this conversation anyway.
Niyt shakes her head, smiling. "It was my call and my answer, to the wind as it touches everything and carries the world." She laughs. "To the world of spirits, if you'd rather. It's the same thing, or close enough. Just because it isn't a wolf sound doesn't mean it can't come from a wolf throat."
Coinin is just going to have to come out with it. This is the main concern that he has about her, "Niyt. Are you possessed?" he asks. If she was its not like she would likely answer in the affirmative tot he question, but it is a thought that he had that really does concern him. He isn't trying to be funny, or rude. He is dead serious.
"I suppose it depends what you mean by that," answers Niyt. "I'm still the same me I was before. That hasn't changed. Nor is my spirit sick. I'm not going to become like a wolf with the madness, or go running off cliffs because demons are prodding at me."
Coinin supposes that is a good thing, and that comforts him a bit, but she left a bit of wiggle room in there, "When you say you suppose it depends...what do you mean?" he asks. Hopefully she will be able to elaborate on that bit.
Niyt lopes along in silence for a while. "If a beast wounds you, the claws make marks. There are wounds, and perhaps an infection. Sometimes it maims, or leaves a scar. Some would say the influence of the beast lingers there." Her sightless gaze is straight ahead, staring at the course through the desert as the sands slowly turn to grass beneath their feet. "Spirits can be wounded, the same as flesh."
Now there is something that he can finally understand. That is the first time during this conversation that she has said anything that he could really latch onto. Ok. So at some point Niyt's spirit got hurt. He is guessing that it must have been some kind of spirit that did it, or at least a person, "Niyt what happened to you?" he asks. He has wonders if it has anything to do with the loss of her sight. Its the only thing that really makes sense.
"I went too far from home," answers Niyt softly. "I trusted something I shouldn't have. I got hurt. I managed to escape. I was lost. I found my way home." Is this her story, or her brother's? At this level of detail, it's difficult to tell the one from the other.
Coinin frowns at this. He doesn't like to think about something like that happening, "I'm glad that you managed to escape." he says. He won't pry to much more, after all she has already told him a great deal already. Now on to the final question that he has for her, "Niyt is me being beta going to bother you?" he asks. That was something that was really bothering him.
Niyt nods slightly. If she hadn't escaped, well... this conversation wouldn't be happening, for one thing. It seems the questions have slid from the spiritual to the social, the past to the future. Yet they're all connected, somehow. She considers on that final question as she pads through the grassy plain, back toward where the pack has been gathered. "You are who you are, Coinin. Being beta won't change that." She turns her head to him, and smiles. "I'm sure you'll try to do it well, though. It's who you are."
Coinin nods, the conversation has gone all over the place. It has been informative for him, and he is feeling a little bit better about things. He still doesn't really get the spiritual thing that happened to Niyt, but he is sort of ok with that at this point, "I appreciate that you think that, but that isn't exactly what I asked. I asked you if it bothered you."
Niyt smiles for a moment, then frowns for a moment, then laughs. "It depends on what you mean by that, now doesn't it? I'm not angry about it. I'm not worried about what you'll do. I think my uncle chose well, given the situation. I'm not happy about why that situation was there, but that's no fault of yours."
Niyt - female wolf
---Along a Journey---
Coinin has spent the last few days just thinking about things. That display that he witnessed disturbed him. It got him wondering if there might be something really, really wrong with Niyt. She didn't seem to willing to provide answers after it happened and he could understand that too a point, but he finds himself needing some answers. He also finds himself wanting to get as far away from this place as he can and go home. At the present moment he is sitting by the oasis. His paw pads have healed a bit since the run which is good because it was rather uncomfortable.
Those last few days since her arrival, Niyt has done little; at least, not with Coinin's gaze on her. She's drunk from the oasis, hunted small lizards in the desert, and gone once more to walk around the area near the towering stone - but nothing big or significant. Nothing like that night. Unlike him, the female wolf seems comfortable in the desert, despite the howling winds and the burning sands underfoot. She knows how to live here, even if it's been a while. She hasn't forgotten.
Nor has she forgotten Coinin. She approaches the oasis again, her ears perked toward him. Evening is approaching, the worst heat of the day over now. "Shall we head back?" she asks. "We can likely reach the grasslands before it's too dark to travel."
Coinin is definitely ready to go home. Its not that he doesn't like the desert. He just doesn't like this particular spot in the desert. Granted the water is a plus but this place is far to odd for his taste, "I would like to go home." he says. Might as well start before it gets to be too late, besides once he gets her away from this place he will feel more comfortable in asking the many questions that he has for her.
Niyt nods, and she waits a moment for Coinin to gather himself before she starts off through the desert, traveling the familiar pattern of ever-shifting sands at an easy lope. This is no wild race such as brought her here; just a gentle pace, one that will allow long travel without tiring or comfortable conversation along the way.
Coinin gets to his paws, shakes the dust from his fur and starts off after Niyt. Once he feels he is a comfortable distance away from the place he decides to start asking his questions. He doens't want to be rude, but since he was here and witnessed it he feels a bit entitled to answers, "Niyt...what happened?" he asks. Why not start with the simplest question and go from there. Obviously there is much more than he wants to know, but the basics are always a good place to begin.
Simple. Niyt smiles as she lopes along. That question is simple; the answer may be anything but. As well ask that of a wolf returning with a deer or bringing puppies out to play! She didn't plan to involve Coinin, and so it's no wonder he's rather confounded. Still, she can give a simple answer, for all the good it'll do him. He just doesn't have the right context! "The wind carried me to beyond the sky."
Coinin offers her a return smile, the kind that you give someone who might be sick or old. Not a patronizing smile, but a nervous one none the less, "Can you explain that a bit more. I'm afraid I don't understand." Its definitely true that he doesn't understand. He just heard some odd things, he didn't see anything that she saw or experience anything that she heard.
Not that Niyt can see that smile, but perhaps some of it sneaks into the tone of voice, because she laughs. Or maybe she's just used to how people respond to strange things. "No," she answers, and then goes on. "I can't, not really. It wouldn't make much sense to you." She smiles, because she's had this conversation before, with different wolves at different times. "Have you ever wondered how I find my way, Coinin?"
Coinin figured that she made her way through a sense of smell and hearing, or something along those lines. Besides she knows the way well since he lived here, "I always figured you used your nose, and your ears." After all that is the natural way that folks find their ways around. He is frustrated by the no. He wants to know what happened so that he can wrap his mind around it. Or at least make the attempt.
Niyt smiles, her path weaving to the side briefly to avoid a small boulder. "That's true," she answers, "- but it's not the whole truth." Her ears and nose certainly didn't tell her about a rock - and how well can anyone really know the great expanse of land she ran over on her journey, even the parts that weren't in the shifting sands of the desert? No, there's something more to it. "I scent. I listen. I feel. Wolves aren't the only things that howl out their nature, and I don't always have to touch things to feel them."
Coinin doesn't really know what to say to that. It doesn't really make much sense to him, "What sort of things are you talking about Niyt?" he asks. He isn't sure he really wants to understand now. It sort of makes him feel uncomfortable.
Niyt laughs, and she answers simply again. "Everything." ...it's the simple answers that are the worst, sometimes. No room for interpretation. "Some things are stronger than others. Living things, thinking things. Even the earth and the river have their songs, though."
Coinin continues to run along with Niyt, "I understand that some things are stronger than others, but Niyt I didn't see anything when you were howling, and it was not a natural sound. You sounded like no wolf that I have ever heard." That is true enough. It was a very unnerving sound.
"I'm not surprised," says Niyt as Coinin admits to having seen nothing. "Most wolves wouldn't. You're wrong about the howl, though..." She turns her head, and smiles to about where he is. "It was a natural sound, it just wasn't a wolf sound."
"Ok. I didn't see anything there though Niyt. What was the sound if it wans't from you?" Hopefully she will be able to tell him at least that. That should be a simple enough answer. This conversation hasn't gone exactly as he thought it would. Of course there weren't alot of expectations for this conversation anyway.
Niyt shakes her head, smiling. "It was my call and my answer, to the wind as it touches everything and carries the world." She laughs. "To the world of spirits, if you'd rather. It's the same thing, or close enough. Just because it isn't a wolf sound doesn't mean it can't come from a wolf throat."
Coinin is just going to have to come out with it. This is the main concern that he has about her, "Niyt. Are you possessed?" he asks. If she was its not like she would likely answer in the affirmative tot he question, but it is a thought that he had that really does concern him. He isn't trying to be funny, or rude. He is dead serious.
"I suppose it depends what you mean by that," answers Niyt. "I'm still the same me I was before. That hasn't changed. Nor is my spirit sick. I'm not going to become like a wolf with the madness, or go running off cliffs because demons are prodding at me."
Coinin supposes that is a good thing, and that comforts him a bit, but she left a bit of wiggle room in there, "When you say you suppose it depends...what do you mean?" he asks. Hopefully she will be able to elaborate on that bit.
Niyt lopes along in silence for a while. "If a beast wounds you, the claws make marks. There are wounds, and perhaps an infection. Sometimes it maims, or leaves a scar. Some would say the influence of the beast lingers there." Her sightless gaze is straight ahead, staring at the course through the desert as the sands slowly turn to grass beneath their feet. "Spirits can be wounded, the same as flesh."
Now there is something that he can finally understand. That is the first time during this conversation that she has said anything that he could really latch onto. Ok. So at some point Niyt's spirit got hurt. He is guessing that it must have been some kind of spirit that did it, or at least a person, "Niyt what happened to you?" he asks. He has wonders if it has anything to do with the loss of her sight. Its the only thing that really makes sense.
"I went too far from home," answers Niyt softly. "I trusted something I shouldn't have. I got hurt. I managed to escape. I was lost. I found my way home." Is this her story, or her brother's? At this level of detail, it's difficult to tell the one from the other.
Coinin frowns at this. He doesn't like to think about something like that happening, "I'm glad that you managed to escape." he says. He won't pry to much more, after all she has already told him a great deal already. Now on to the final question that he has for her, "Niyt is me being beta going to bother you?" he asks. That was something that was really bothering him.
Niyt nods slightly. If she hadn't escaped, well... this conversation wouldn't be happening, for one thing. It seems the questions have slid from the spiritual to the social, the past to the future. Yet they're all connected, somehow. She considers on that final question as she pads through the grassy plain, back toward where the pack has been gathered. "You are who you are, Coinin. Being beta won't change that." She turns her head to him, and smiles. "I'm sure you'll try to do it well, though. It's who you are."
Coinin nods, the conversation has gone all over the place. It has been informative for him, and he is feeling a little bit better about things. He still doesn't really get the spiritual thing that happened to Niyt, but he is sort of ok with that at this point, "I appreciate that you think that, but that isn't exactly what I asked. I asked you if it bothered you."
Niyt smiles for a moment, then frowns for a moment, then laughs. "It depends on what you mean by that, now doesn't it? I'm not angry about it. I'm not worried about what you'll do. I think my uncle chose well, given the situation. I'm not happy about why that situation was there, but that's no fault of yours."