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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 4:27 pm
"Perhaps that is the case," he said with a small nod. "It is something to learn more about, at the least. Learning the differences may give us new insight into the ways of things, and the teachings of the human philosophers. How do you recommend we go about investigating this phenomenon?"
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 9:54 am
Auri gives Inoshishi a dubious look. "It is not an area of research in which I have a particular interest. I have my own field of study which I am currently undertaking."
He shakes his head, wanting to give his new friend more than that. "Though, were I to attempt such a course, I would start by approaching lone humans. Many weaker creatures react more quickly in a herd than they do alone. An individual often allows curiosity to overcome it's prey nature."
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 11:41 am
"What field of study would that be?" He was interested in investigating the new avenue, but admittedly it still scared him. Another idea to investigate, however, well...that meant he was simply putting off experimentation in favor of a new topic, not running away from it.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:23 am
Auri sighs and shakes his head, "My current interests are ones of self-discovery. I am looking for others like myself, or those who have seen or know of those formed like myself. For I have never met nor heard of another with my . . . traits." The admission seems to come with a bit of shame, but he doesn't shy from it.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:36 am
He turned his head to one side, confused. "I am not certain that I follow your logic. Please enlighten me," he said, and there was no sarcasm or snideness, he genuinely wished to understand where his friend was coming from. "How is it that you are seeking others, in order to discover yourself? Each of us is wonderfully unique, why then do you seem upset that you seem to be so as well? I have met none by my own children who look quite like I do, in some respects, and in some respects, they do not look as I do either. Your form is the outer shell you wear, and like a name it has some meaning that we ascribe to it, but it is not the whole of you, and both your mind and your body are refreshingly unique in my experience. Why would you seek, drive yourself, towards seeming to wish it were otherwise. I like you just as you are, but it seems...almost as though you do not like yourself, over much, my friend." He hoped that use of the word was, at last, acceptable.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:09 am
Auri shakes his head. "I am happy with myself. Yet there is a great amount I do not know or understand." He shakes his head, decided to try coming at the problem from a different angle.
"As you said, your children share some traits with you. As well as with others of your breed. I would doubt you had any children who were Mers. They came into the heritage of your breed. And because you are of your breed, you could give them insight into some of their nature."
"I was discovered, still in my basket, where a skinwalker had killed and eaten my mother and other siblings. My adoptive parents, one who looks kirin-wind and the other who looks kalona, took me in and raised me with their own children. Yet never had they seen nor heard of another like myself."
"I have talons and a beak, my mane and tail are of feathers and not hair. The differences are obvious. Yet I know of no breed with these features. My adoptive father taught me to hunt, as kalon hunt. And while I can digest meat, it is not a requirement for me. My kirin-wind mother taught me of acupuncture and healing, yet it does not come naturally for me."
"I have taught myself to use my claws to fashion things, to make objects both useful and amusing. I have learned to fly, yet my flight is less than either of my adoptive parents." Akos shakes his head.
"I would know what I am, that I might know where I may have hidden skills or talent. That I might understand from where my features are derived, what caused their evolution and what purpose they should serve."
Akos sighs, "I would also try and find any who could tell me of my birth parents, who could explain why I was born in a ruins, who could tell me if I still had a living father or if he was also slain by the skinwalker."
Shaking his head, "I am grown enough that my thoughts wander upon occasion to seeking a mate. Yet what have I to offer when I know not what I am. I could not give my children insight into their nature and they would struggle and stumble as I did. Perhaps I will seek and find no answers, find that I am unique in the world. That I am a mutation on another breed. Yet even that would be an answer. And it is answers which I seek." Akos isn't sure if his new friend will understand. But he can not keep the question that burns his soul inside.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:03 am
(sorry these posts take me so long. Inoshishioni makes me really THINK in a way that none of my other Soqs do. Also the past year and a half has been a nightmare IRL. Trying to be on more, though. I will try to do better!)
"I think that perhaps your journey shall not lead to the lessons that you expect or seek, however, the search, the quest for knowledge is itself worth doing. It is not the end, ultimately, of the quest that matters near so much as the journey. As you seek to learn, you will learn indeed and not simply the things you sought."
He smiled at his friend. "It sounds to be quite the adventure. How do you plan to go about the search?" he asked, studying him. He was pretty sure that he had already started down this trail, that he was already hunting this information.
It had been a great many years since Inoshishioni himself had felt any draw or pull towards his family. He hardly recalled most of them, in some ways. None of them had ever felt the pull towards the science of the mind, the study of thought and of all things that one might think of, that he himself had. But here, perhaps, here with this friend he might find the kinship he elsewise lacked. Perhaps not a relative of the blood, but a brother of like mind.
"Would you, mayhaps, welcome company as you seek these answers?" he asked. "I would learn along side you, should you allow it, and I would happily enjoy discussing what we learn along the way. Already we have seen that you and I learn from the same lessons different things, that we could continue to educate each other..."
For Inoshishioni the chance to continue to learn, to always have more to think of than he can focus on, so that he can pick and choose his focus, that would then be a dream.
Dream. Why exactly do people say things like that? That something good in reality would be a dream? Dreams were not real, nor were they all necessarily good. Yet if there was something in the waking that was called a dream, the implication was that it was a positive experience or something to be hoped for, wished for. Why then call it a dream? what was the etymology of the term? There had to be a reason that the idiom was used with only positive connotation, save when people were attempting to be ironic. But why? Yes there were bad dreams called nightmares, but there were also bad dreams that did not get classed as nightmares. Yet to call something a dream in the waking world was to imply a positive spin.
"Why do you think that dreams are generally considered to be good things, and beacons for hope?" he asked his friend, too lost in his thought to track back the fact that he had not shared the thought process that had led him there....
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