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Post by Aries on Jul 19, 2012 21:23:32 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTab,le] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] Antares pulled at the rough grass, carefully digging around the black leaves sticking out of the ground. He was gathering plants from he hills just inside of the tribe border to take back to the Starpack den. From what he was told the tribe had an open border policy like his pack and he could come gather as he pleased. Finally digging enough of a gap between the golden root of what he wahis after and pulled it out, sticking it in the large folded leaf he carried with him from home as to carry his findings easier. The feline glued all but one opening of it together with chewed viper rose petals so he wouldn't drop anything on his way back.
A slight rustling sound disturbed his digging, he knew it couldn't have been the wind. It had to have been something rather large, not elk sized. Perhaps around his size or weight. Maybe a tribe member spotted him during his trip and was investigating, if it was a tribe member there was no use in pretending he didn't hear them.
"Whoever you are, you did a mighty foul job of sneaking up on me. No use in hiding anymore." he scoffed in the direction of the sound and proceeded to sit with his tail cured over his paws, completely relaxed. if the other native was looking for a fight, they weren't going to get one, he was completely content with fleeing. He could keep up fine with Silva in a race with his excessively long hind legs, he could outrun someone his size with ease. In his time alive he'd never been attacked though, so he wasn't anticipating an attack.
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 19, 2012 21:35:54 GMT -5
Kaylee padded up to the black feline, a slightly edgy look in her aqua eyes. "I wasn't sneaking up on you, I was looking for prickle plants for Ebony." Kayalee meowed indifferently. She dug around the base of the plant and carefully pulled it up by the roots, then set it off too the side. She began to dig up another but the prickles dug into her soft pad she hissed a curse under her breath and licked her paw, the wound was not deep but she didn't particularly want to walk back to camp with a bleeding pad. She tore up some grass with her jaws and wrapped it snugly around her paw, using her other paw to tuck the loose ends of the grass under the secure part so it would stay.
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Post by Aries on Jul 19, 2012 21:53:23 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTab,le] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] "Ya, okay." he snickered at the silver occult. He was about to tell her that prickle plants tend to be..well, prickly, but she cut her paw before he could speak. He dug around in his leaf pouch for the viper rose petals he picked up on his way to the plains that she could treat it with. her paw was already loosely wrapped up by the time he managed to pull them out, but it surely wouldn't stay on anyhow.
"If you chew these up and lick them onto your pad it will keep it from infection and make a wonderful glue to keep the dressing on." he rolled a couple good sized roses at her, one to treat her wound and another that could be saved for later if she wished to take his advice. He'd understand if she didn't, he was after all a stranger. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 19, 2012 22:03:12 GMT -5
Kayalee stared at the occult uneasily for a moment, then took the petals and chewed them up. She lowered her mouth to the ground and pushed the mess of chewed up petals out with her tongue. She used her teeth to take off the grass and rubbed some of the chewed up petal on her wound. It stung a little, but more pain ment it was healing, she remembered that from the snake venom she had accidentally swallowed. She pulled up more grass and wrapped it snuggly on her paw, then rubbed more of the chewed petals onto the grass so it would stay. "Thank you." She meowed, staring uncertainly at the red eyed occult. Her tail quivered, he didn't seem mean... But those eyes...
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Post by Aries on Jul 19, 2012 22:43:36 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] He sat quietly as she took his advice. It made him feel good to help another, healing was one of his passions, but fortunately something he only had to do on occasion. "My pleasure! You can find more of those in the forest if need be, the Starpack has open borders so you're welcome there anytime." he chuckled bearing a wide, friendly smile.
"Well look at that, we've established something akin to trust and we don't even know each other's names. I'm Antares and- Wait a second, would you happen to be that same little silver feline that stayed with the pack while you were injured, Kayalee?" unless his nose and memory was failing him, it had to have been the same feline. "I'm afraid I was a bit rude when we first met, I got upset about stupid things back then, I've matured since." he chuckled again, gathering up the plants he made a mess of finding the roses. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 19, 2012 22:57:39 GMT -5
Kayalee's mind flashed backwards to about a year ago when Apani beat her up. She had come across StarPack territory and was allowed to stay, probably only because she had met Silva before then. She remembered the black feline, and how icy he was towards her. Her tail twitched. "Yes, I am Kayalee, and I remember you, Antares." Kayalee meowed, eyeing the occult again. "So... How has StarPack done since then?" She asked awkwardly, she didn't want to pry, but she didn't learn much about how StarPack had been doing when she met up again with Silva while searching for the Tribe's camp. She still wasn't completely sure about Antares, but she supposed the iffy feeling she had towards him would wear off if she gave it a little time.
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Post by Aries on Jul 19, 2012 23:41:08 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] His tail twitched a bit when her piercing stare hit him, she was clearly not very fond of him but he hoped to change that if he could. Enemies were not something he wanted.
"We're doing swell, we've three new additions, two being my pups, and another I consider to be my son. Silva's doing fantastic, she's my mate, and Nerah's doing pretty good as well, a little stressed worrying about our pup, but still good. Yamir seems to have completely vanished. The territory is flourishing, I recently found a tree that bears fruit with meat-like qualities, which is good for me because I don't like to hunt. Harming other living creatures bothers me severely." he droned on for a bit, trying to summarize how everything as a whole and how each of the members have been without giving her every little detail, not being entirely successful. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 20, 2012 8:52:28 GMT -5
Kayalee nodded as Antares spoke, only half listening. She was wondering about what he had said about having pups with Silva and Nerah. He was a cat they were dogs how could they have children? She waited until he had finished speaking to ask. "How can a feline and canine have children?" She asked in a slightly bewildered tone. Is it some sort of thing that looks like a mix? I can't imagine what a mix would look like. Kayalee thought, all she could imagine looked really strange. She wished someday to meet one of these so called mixes. "Oh, what you said about Yamir disappearing. It seems Apani has disappeared as well.... So has the cult entirely." Kayalee meowed. "Not that I really care that Apani disappeared." She added under her breath.
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Post by Aries on Jul 20, 2012 14:41:56 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] "It's certainly not impossible. The only two in existence have canine-like heads, their muzzles are narrower and more delicate but still canine, and the body of a feline. Though the hind legs are more canine, with more prominent muscles and visible claws. Their tails are thick like a canine's, but lengthy like a felines. They're quite beautiful." he truly loved his pups and thought they were magnificent creatures.
"It seems a lot of the older natives disappeared, maybe the wandered to the areas beyond or something." Antares honestly thought they died off or got killed. Though he hoped in the back of his mind that they were alive somewhere, but it just didn't seem plausible to him. Yamir was his best friend, he even had a mild crush on him and then he just disappeared, it really hurt the feline for a long while. As rude as Yamir tended to be, he doubted he'd just run away from the pack like that. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 20, 2012 14:50:18 GMT -5
Kayalee tried to piece together the feline canine hybrid in her head, even with the description Antares gave she still couldn't imagine up anything that looked particularly nice. "It would be interesting to meet one someday." Kayalee mused, partly outloud, partly to herself. "Maybe they just found another area of the world and can't get back because they ventured to far away.... It would be odd to not remember how to get back to your own home though..." Kayalee thought out loud. "I doubt anyone would run away from a family, if they loved the family..." She meowed... "Not err... Saying he didn't love you guys or anything..." Kayalee added as an afterthought, not wanting to make it sound like she had hinted that Yamir didn't really love the pack. She flushed slightly in irritation with herself, why did she have to be so awkward with words sometimes.
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Post by Aries on Jul 20, 2012 15:10:18 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] "Well, they're still pretty young, so they stay at the den. If you ever wanted to stop by to see them for yourself, I don't think anyone would mind." Antares chuckled, he'd rather her look for herself than imagine a monstrosity. He picked up one of the crunchy pods and managed to chew the whole thing in one bite, listening to the feline speak.
"It's a big world, getting lost isn't entirely impossible." he pondered for a moment, uncurling his tail from his paws. "I understood what you meant, no worries!" the feline stifled a laugh, pausing to think for a second. "You wouldn't be up for an adventure of our own, would you?" he wasn't expecting the other feline to agree, but no use in not asking. He was getting bored and he was sure the other areas had useful plants he could bring back. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 20, 2012 15:18:52 GMT -5
"I'm sure I would love to meet them, I think I should probably wait until they are a bit older though. I don't know how they'd react to a stranger." Kayalee meowed, her blush receding. Kayalee shrugged, "I suppose it is a big world, but I haven't adventured enough to actually know if it is or not." Kayalee sighed. "What I'd give to see the world... But I have more important duties to the tribe." She meowed, mostly to herself a flame of pride flashed in her eyes as she spoke of her tribe. Kayalee nearly missed Antares question about an adventure of their own. Kayalee's tail curled up. "As long as we don't go to far and loose our way, I suppose that would be an interesting experience." Kayalee meowed, bouncing up and down on her paws excitedly, then she stopped, remembering the bandage around her paw. She then realized how foolish she must look to Antares... He'll never take me seriously... Kayalee thought, her ears drooped slightly for a moment, she hated being looked at like a fool.
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Post by Aries on Jul 20, 2012 15:38:30 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] "I've never been farther than the edges of the plains, but Silva and Nerah have been farther than I, so I know there's more to the world." Antares pulled him self to his feet, setting his leaf pouch on the flat space on his back, just behind his shoulders. He'd normally carry it in his mouth, but that would make it hard to speak.
"We should be able to follow our scents back if anything, and be sure to take notes of landmarks." he stepped forward, noticing the grass still around her paw again. "You can take that off now if you wish, the wound will be sealed by the rose paste by now." he began trotting towards the flat, grey land in the distance as she gave him a sulky look. "Everyone gets hurt, no need to be ashamed about it." the feline continued ahead, tail raised high. [/style] |
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Post by Hazelstar on Jul 20, 2012 15:50:34 GMT -5
Kayalee lifted her paw and tore off the grass, the slash in her pad was in fact healing quite nicely with the rose petal applied to it. "They have gone farther, I wonder what it's like...." Kayalee breathed, her eyes lighting with the thought of going beyond where she usually kept. She bounded forward a few paces, then turned to look at Antares. "Where are we going, exactly?" She asked, her tail quivering in excitement. She imagined everything from a lost mountain cave to a beach with shimmering sand, the mountains in her mind seemed like a place she would rather go, since she hated water in this form for whatever reason. She tried to use her power to draw up a real image of somewhere beyond, but she just wouldn't receive one. She huffed in annoyance. "Why won't it work when I want it to work?" She grumbled to herself.
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Post by Aries on Jul 20, 2012 16:38:57 GMT -5
[atrb=cellSpacing,20,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; box-shadow: 0 1px 5px #888; height: 600px;border-radius: 15px; background: url(http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3481/antarestable.png), bTable] | [atrb=style, height: 300px; vertical-align: top; width:420px; padding:5px;][style=height: 200px; padding: 10px;width:420px;overflow: auto; color: 5f4538; padding: 10px;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 5px;] "Well I know there's a Savanna over there," he pointed with his tail to the brown hills off to the right, "but it smells of disease, the scent is fading but I'm not taking any chances. Right up ahead is a wasteland, I've seen it on my gathering trips. I bet if we cross through there we can find something more interesting." he trotted a little faster to keep good pace with the other feline.
"Have you ever used you ability? Mine only really works on finding the uses of plants or to find already dying animals to hunt before I found the life tree." they were already closing in on the wasteland, the hills were beginning to flatten out and turn a dried out brown color. "I think we're nearly there." the air was dry and smelled of nothing but dirt, making Antares cringe slightly. [/style] |
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