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 Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:38 pm
A dark green tail twitched slightly, trying to cover more of the Epona it belonged to. Grumbling Oran tried to curl into an even tighter ball so as to fit more of him under his tail and conserve more body heat. Why, oh, why, did it have to be quite so gall danged cold. Normally cold didn't bother him but when it was nipping through his fur and making his skin go numb, that was just a bit too much.
Giving up on getting warm he stood, giving an irritated growl as he realized that the snow that had melted when he had lay down on it had refrozen onto his fur. He turned his head to glare at it. Not only was it making his fur stick out in spikes it was darned uncomfortable.
Grumbling to himself he turned and set his teeth to the task of pull off all of the ice. By the time he was about halfway through the job his mouth was frozen and he was muttering some not very polite things about winter under his breath.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:45 pm
Yumi had been wandering through the forest boredly when she began to get a tad hungry. It was a rather cold day, the icy wind nipping at her ears and nose. Though the cold did not bother her-afterall, she had lived in the forest for some time now, accompanied by her "older brother"-it did annoy her. The tip of her tail-which had been dragging in the snow-was now frozen and so were the tips of her ears.
A long sigh escaped her muzzle as she shook her head, getting some of the snow off of her. Why couldn't there be some kind of a hot spring in this forest? That would most certainly be nice. Just thinking of a hot spring made her warm and fuzzy inside, but the feeling could not fill the little empty hole in her stomach.
Any berry bushes that she usually went too were either buried in snow, fozen, or dead. The rivers were partly frozen over, she could easily go out an cath a fish if she wnated too, but her paws would probably freeze over. This was most certainly going to be one horrible winter.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:59 pm
With the last piece of ice from his coat between his teeth Oran froze. His nose lifted into the air and his eyes scanned the forest around him. It hadn't been long after he had lost his hear that he had developed a kind of sixth sense for sensing when other creatures were around. His ears flick back and forth, not because they would actually hear anything but because of a deeply ingrained instinct.
There. He spotted a flash of brown moving between two trees on his left side. Moving forward on silent feet he stepped to a place between trees about 10 yards in front of the other Epona. He wasn't sure he wanted company just now. Especially an Epona who he had never met, who would probably just keep asking questions about his deafness once she found out about it.
He moved back into the forest but because of his deafness didn't hear when his foot landed on a small twig, neatly snapping it in two and sending the crack echoing through the fairly quiet forest.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:06 pm
Yumi's brown head jerked up quickly at the sound of a twig cracking. Many would have just thought it was possibly an animal, others would have probably not even heard it, but to Yumi, it was a human firing off a gun. recently, Yumi had been getting a tad paranoid, since she no longer traveled alongside Ezra constantly. Which meant, no one was going to be there to save her if she got in trouble.
Yumi whirled around and looked about with her brown eyes, at first not seeing anything, but out of the corner of her eye, she spotted something that didn't look very...wintery.
"Who's there?" Her voice rang out loud and clear, she was not about to approach whoever that was-so far her best guess was another Epona. Recently, she had been seeing more and more Epona in the quiet forest. Maybe this, uh, mysterious creature was an Epona, maybe he or she was a friend of Cadmus or Iris, maybe someone from Mara's 'family'.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:23 pm
Puzzled Oran watched as the other Epona whirled to face him. He could see her mouth moving but he wasn't quite close enough to see what she was saying. He assumed she was demanding that he could out into the open and there was something like fear in her eyes.
With a sigh he moved out from among the trees "I.. won’t.. hurt.. you" His speech was slow and slightly slurred. His eyes stay calm and fixed on her face. Any attempt to study what she looked like would probably cause him to miss whatever she said next.
He took another step closer so he could better see her mouth and winced, letting out a soft involuntary sound. The twig he had stepped on earlier had not, apparently, broken cleanly, as there was a piece of it stuck in one of the pads of his foot.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:31 pm
Yumi had 'inherited' Ezra's bad-eyesight, of course, it's not like the two were related, but it made it sound like she had a family if she put it that way. Inching closer to the other Epona, she eyed him suspiciously.
After hearing what he had to say, she sighed, obviously relieved he wasn't some sort of violent creature. Of course, Yumi trusted just about anyone. She wondered why his speech was somewhat awkward, but pushed the thought to the very back of her mind.
"Hullo. I'm Yumi."
Yumi hadn't meant to introduce herself, but it was a sort of habit-she often had to introduce herself to other Epona. Though she seemed like an innocent child that noticed nothing that was oging on in the world, her senses were quite sharp-exspecially her sight. Yumi's brown eyes caught everything. She noticed the other Epona wince from something, though she didn't want to be nosy...
"What's wrong?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:49 pm
Oran blinked and slowly worked out the syllables in his mind "Yu--mi? It's.. nice to.. meet you." His head tilted to one side for a moment as if he was considering something. He nodded slightly then smiled a bit crookedly at her. "I'm Oran"
Once again picking through the syllables he glanced down at his foot. After considering for a moment he simply turned it over to show her. "Splinter" There was a rather nasty splitter imbedded in his paw causing the pad to already swell slightly around. "From twig" He nodded back towards the woods, indicating that he had picked it up somewhere back there.
He settled back into a sitting position to take weight off his foot. "Why twig noise scare you?" He couldn't help wondering, most of the time when he wasn't careful and stepped on a twig other Epona just ignored it assuming it was some sort of wild animal
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:59 pm
Yumi frowned, his speech was a tad awkward...the frown was quickly replaced with a warm smile within seconds, "It's a please to meet you Oran."
Yumi's ear and tail twitched slightly as she stared at his paw, "Aw. We ought to get it out or it'll be quite painful." Yumi disliked seeing others in pain or injured, she also hated the sight of blood, since blood was usually tied to injury.
"I-I wasn't scared. Psssssh, where'd you get that idea?" She got a tad shifty eyed like most people did when they lied. In truth, Yumi was frightened by quite a few things. She thought that it would've been better with Ezra being rude to others and being so protective of her, but instead, she didn't feel all too safe in the forest anymore.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:20 pm
Oran's head tilted, usually Epona asked about his speech by now. It seemed this was a polite one.
He glanced down at his paw studying it for a moment before using his teeth to pull it out. With a slight hiss of pain he used his tongue to clean it until the small amount of bleeding stopped. He glanced up again and grinned "There."
His eyes gentled slightly as he studied her. "Fear not bad. Smart." He meant that when you were cautious bad things were less likely to happen to you. Like if he hadn.... no it did no good to dwell on the past. He just had to keep living. "You out in cold, why?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:25 pm
Yumi's ear twitched once more as he pulled out the splinter, though it was small...it looked quite...gross. She walked up to Oran and plopped down infront of her, surely, her tail would freeze over. Think hotspring. Hot spring. Hot spring.
Oddly enough, Yumi somehwat understood what he was saying, "Exactly! I'd rather be cautious and safe then um....un-cautious and regretting what happened." She nodded happily and smiled at him.
"Why am I out here? I could ask you the same. Ah well, the forest is my home and like yeah. Though, it's not that cold, I suppose I'm used to it. Aha, you must be wondering, 'How come this foolish girl doens't go and find herself a nice 'lil cave?' I find caves somewhat...unsanitary." It was habit of Yumi's...jumping to conclusions and asking herself questions...then answering her own questions.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:44 pm
He smiled at her and nodded. "Right." That was to true and cut a little to close to home for him.
He shifted curling his tail up along his back as the underside was starting to freeze from being in the snow too long. Man, he missed summer, spring, and even fall. This was just too cold for him. This winter wasn't going to be any fun at all.
He blinked and stared at her for a moment as he tried to process what she had just said. He had missed most of it but he had the gist "Cave not much warmer. Need sun." He used as few words as possible as he was embarrassed by what things sounded like when he tried to talk too long or fast.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:59 pm
Yumi tilted her head to one side, "True true. But cave blocks out the snow I suppose."
Oran didn't come off as the talkative type to Yumi, maybe...she was scaring him. She pondered the simple possibility for a bit and shrugged, "I hope winter ends soon. Winter is death."
Yumi was a tad on the, uh, weird side. She was rather shy at first, but once she warmed up to someone...she was rather...longwinded. She shook her head to get some of the snow out of her ears, winter was not Yumi's season.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:27 pm
A sound that sounded a bit like a suppressed laugh escaped Oran's throat. This Epona was slightly amusing and she didn't seem put off by his quietness, just a little confused. "So do trees, bushes."
"Death?" The snorting sound escaped again "Don't think quite THAT bad" He didn't like winter, but as long as you were careful and didn't stay out in the open for too long it would kill you. The only slight problem was that of finding prey, as the winter did tend to kill off some of the smaller creatures.
He blinked, watching her shake the snow off and then seeing her hair standing in spikes on her head, the laugh he had been fighting broke forth in a deep rumbling chuckle. "Hair... spiked..." He managed to get out as he chuckled.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:53 pm
Yumi shrgged nonchalantly, "eh, I guess. But bushes freeze over and get covered in snow while trees loose their leafyness."
She laughed slightly, "A negative thought, I know. But's kinda true. It kills the leaves on the trees, it kills the smaller animals in the forest...sometimes." It was so hard finding food in the winter, she could always migrate over to the town nearby for food. But the forest was her home.
Yumi let out a little gasp, "Eh?" She shook her head several times and began pawing at her long mane.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:04 pm
He let out an irritated snort as his mane fell into his eyes he attempted to blow it up out of the way. Finally giving up he looked back at her. "All true."
Oran just chuckled harder as all she managed to do was make even more of a mess out of if. Finally getting control of his laughter he grinned at her "Be still" He moved next to her and used his claws to comb through the mane. "If you can't see, won’t work." He informed her calmly.
He was at a disadvantage here though; if she said anything he would not be able to see her mouth and wouldn't even know that she said anything at all.
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