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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:15 pm
"Yeah... well... I didn't really need your help." Pine looked at the apple, "its just an apple, not worth thanking me for." Pine followed the rotten apple's roll over to Dirt. She didn't understand why the other would enjoy the squishy ones more than the bright and firm ones. Really she didn't suppose it mattered much. When Vayu asked about her friend's name she realized she didn't really know. What if her friend didn't have a name. She didn't speak much, maybe she was like the birds and fish that didn't really have any names beyond birds and fish. At least none that they could tell her. "She's... uhh... What is your name anyway? You've got one right?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:10 pm
The cemetery leapt at the apple that Vayu had rolled towards her, squashing it below her front paws with glee and crumpling down close to it to lap at the juices that oozed from it. She ignored the temporal's eyes burning into the back of her head, and the uneasy feeling that rose up in (what was left of) her belly. She did not like that. He looked at her friend with a strange face and she didn't like that, either.
Suddenly both of their eyes were upon her, and she paused her snack to stare back at them with empty sockets. Na... name? Name? She didn't know what that was. She knew what people called her, though! The name they flung as they chased her away. Her thin paw grasped at the ground below and clutched soil into it.
"Naame," she babbled, clutching her paw outwards, "D... diii.. dirt."
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:17 am
He said no more to Pine about what she was or was not capable of doing. He didn't watch her pounce on the apple or begin to eat it. Rather disgusting display, so instead he watched Pine's mind working through his question. His eyes quiet yet cunning as he watched. Though in the end, getting the cemetary's name was also as suiting as her distasteful diet.
"Well, nice to meet you..Dirt." He said slowly. He looked to Pine. "Cemetary's don't speak much, and they prefer their food rotten. If you notice, she has no teeth so eating rotten food is easier for her." He paused with a slow head tilt. "Though food such as these apples are not the usual diet you know." He watched Pine closely. Perhaps no one had taught her how to feed properly? His tail does a slow motion back and forth behind him as he watched. Training a young one was all well and good, but he himself was getting hungry. Though as dark as he may be, he was not accustom to killing his..'prey'. Though taking energy from a young one was not as substantial as he was hoping for.
"Pine, have you seen any others like use in this area..besides Dirt here?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:28 am
Pine sniffed at the paw full of dirt and immediately regretted it. She supposed if you live on squishy, smelly food, you are bound to smell a little icky. "We're friends Dirt." She was very pleased with herself for finding a friend, even if she didn't really give Dirt much of a choice in the matter.
"But they're tasty." Pine spoke around a bit of apple, a line of juice dribbling down her chin. It was beginning to creep her out that Vayu was always staring at her, or Dirt. What was his deal anyway? For days she was on her own talking to bunnies, birds, and fish and now she had found Dirt, who wasn't much for conversation, but she was nicer to talk to than this jerkface. "Hmm? Others like us? You mean that can talk because I don't look much like either of you. There are some swimmy things in the river, and some hoppy things that live underground, oh! Oh! There are some others like you. They live in the trees over there." Pine nodded off to a little group of trees, from which a pleasant birdsong was coming.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:03 pm
Friend? She had called her... her friend? If Dirt had a heart left in her chest it would have swelled full with potent happiness. She barely noticed Pine's grossed-out look as she sniffed her paws of earth. Friend. Friend. Vayu's talk about her habits didn't quite register, although his words rang true. She would eat what she could get, of course! Apples were lovely and sweet, but whatever she could snuffle out in the forest was also welcome as a meal.
"Others, others," she warbled, attention snapping to the temporal quite suddenly. She could not think of the words to say it, her jumbled mind quite frazzled. Others, though! She had seen them in a human settlement on her path to the apple tree. They had sensed her approach and hidden away where she could not see them. It had saddened poor Dirt, but she trudged along past them anyway.
"OOoooothers." Try as she might, she just could not find any words.
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