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 Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:27 am
"I am a special case. My mother was the first Midwife to Pack Devoncroix many years ago, back in Siberia. To this day, there has been a Mendenhall serving the pack. I am proud to say i have been serving the pack for many years myself. I am the only Felis erectus aside from my mother to leave our sheltered homeland for the more temperate climate of Italy. My mother died at the side of the greatest alpha Devoncroix had ever known, and i took up her mantle."
*Kira bears herself up proudly*
"But I am sure my history must bore you, one as learned as yourself."
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:47 am
"Voyaging for a long time means there's nearly always a place left behind your back with things you haven't learned yet, albeit less than there may be ahead of you." He said thoughtfully before his lips formed a smile, a slight laugh escaping him. "Wise words aside, I am unfamiliar with the Mendenhall history which is why it doesn't bore me at all."
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:53 am
"It is a long and sordid tale as far as i can remember."
*She smiles distantly, and runs her paw down Adens chest before proceeding to her chair and pulling a vial of purple fluid out of her pocket and drinking a few sips*
"The mendenhall women have always been the healers of my tribe. I am a "deserter" in that sense, as when i left, i left no one in my place. But i was determined to find my mother. I found her on a blood stained battlefield, giving her life to save her closest friend. My grandmother taught me the magicks and medicines i dispense now. They are ancient secrets that date back to the first mendenhall woman. There has never been a man with the name mendenhall. it is Forbidden. No matter how we mate, we are forbidden to give up our mendenhall name. the bloodline must remain, if in name only."
*She smiles again*
"Howondan traditions, very strange."
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:00 am
"It's reasonable enough. I have learned the power of a Name some time ago after all. To preserve the name Mendenhall may very well assist in preservation of your kind's spirit... I suppose in comparison to yours, my skills were not ever considered area, nation or culture-specific. If you are the Devoncroix healer, then in times past I would have been the blacksmith to a group I was affiliated with. However much time has passed since then and my knowledge has expanded towards other spheres of creation and alteration of matter..." He paused, looking down at the book in his hand before once again looking up at the Mendenhall healer. "Regardless, I would appreciate if you could tell me more of your traditions?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:24 am
"There are many. first, do you know where Howonda is?"
*Amethyst eyes pierce to your very soul*
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:28 am
"Do enlighten me." He didn't flinch at the stare of the amethyst eyes, looking back into them.
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Prufalas Devoncroix Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:31 am
Aracela hooded entered the shop with Maecer and Raspurion for the blessing of Kira. They needed the mark to protect them as all of the delivered had been given in the past. She kept her distance and waited to be sniffed out. She enjoyed playing with Kira.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:35 am
*Her white ears flicked at the sound of aracela padding into the room, but she continued speaking, as if nothing had happened*
"Howonda is a small island off the coast of What you call Australia. Rather well disguised as an impenetrable jungle by our shamans, it is a haven for my kind. there we grow, and breed, and learn. at the age of ten, every Howondan youth is expected to chose thier skillpath. once they have chosen, they are bound to that path, and cannot alter it."
*Turning her face slightly, she catches aracela's Eye and Grins*
"Well well, Child! Come, sit, and tell me why you have come. and don't just stand in silence, i know it's you. I brought you from your mother's womb, i would know your scent anywhere."
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Prufalas Devoncroix Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:50 am
"Auntie Kira!" She gushed and ran into her arms."I have two little ones for your touch and blessings, they are anxious to meet you."
She tenderly took out the little pups Maecer and Raspurion from her cloak as two guards stood eyeing the stranger sharply. She held their carrying basket and pulled back their coverlet showing two sleeping pups.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:54 am
"Oh what angels! And they're yours?"
*A tinge of envy washes over kira's face before she recomposes herself and grabs a large round gourd from a basket. Cracking it open she hands one half to Aracela, and smiles*
"You must remember this part, you did apprentice me, after all. And only the mother can Begin the marking."
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:01 am
Dimitri walks into the store and sees someone he has never seen before. He walks close and says "Hello I am Dimitri and you are?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:04 am
Aracela closed her eyes and a deep grumble sounded in her throat as her eyes opened and lluminated her lunare mark, she held the gourd, and dipped her thumb inside and began to sing in Sindarian-"Uich gwennen na 'wanath ah na dhín.
An uich gwennen na ringyrn ambar hen.
Boe naid bain gwannathar,
Boe cuil ban firitha."
[You are not bound to loss and silence.
For you are not bound to the circles of this world.
All things must gain bless these lights guide through the darkness]
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Prufalas Devoncroix Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:05 am
He nodded as Kira explained the location of Howondan to him. However the next moment his interlocutor was distracted. Devoncroix business apparently. As she praised the cubs he watched silently. They seemed to cause a strange sort of thoughtfullness to wash over him briefly, yet he snapped out of it when addressed by another Devoncroix member. "Tsu. I am known as Tsu. Pleased to meet you." He said with a smile, extending an open hand from which the pen has once again dissapeared.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:08 am
Dimitri nod his head and shook the hand his grasp was firm as he said "So what brings you here? Research I presume?" he looks to the notes as he says this making the connection.
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Prufalas Devoncroix Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:10 am
Guards snapped upright and bared teeth at Dimitri--warning of his needed silence as blessing proceeded.
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