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"Wow..." Nerah tried not to think too much about it, lest it overwhelm her. In the meantime, Silva was acting impatient. Nerah could understand. Maybe the cave was calling her, too? Maybe it was calling them all. Soon it wouldn't, because they'd be there in person to witness it. "I have a feeling we're not done growing just yet." Her tail wagged. "I wonder what the future holds for us besides the den...I guess we'll find out later, huh?" Silva mentioned visiting the sproutlings, and Nerah blinked. "Is that where you keep disappearing to?" She giggled. "Sounds fun. I'll have to join in someday. After we're all established and all.

Then Silva asked what they were to do now. She glanced in the direction she felt the cave was located. "I vote we keep going. The sooner we get there, the sooner we can set up our territory and the sooner we can have another adventure!" She laughed. Life was fun.

[Meesh]

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[atrb=background,http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/pikachu59013/silvatablemid.png] hen Silva asked what they were to do now. Sarah glanced in the direction she felt the cave was located. "I vote we keep going. The sooner we get there, the sooner we can set up our territory and the sooner we can have another adventure!" She laughed. Life was fun. (Who's Sarah? XD) Silva nodded. "Yeah, I love going there. Something about helping out sproutlings makes me feel really happy, y'know? Plus, it was by meeting three random sproutlings that we met" she smiled "And yeah. You can join me whenever~ I just explore the orchard until I scent the sap of a freshly broken pod and follow my nose" the image flashed in her eyes again and she frowned "But yeah, lets hurry up and find that den, as soon as you guys are all ready" the black furred female stood, licking her lips as she pushed aside the remains of her now eaten bird. She shook out her thin fur. "I'm ready when the rest of you guys are" then she smiled "And yeah, can't say I don't love adventures!"

[Aries]

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Antares said his injury would leave a mark, and she smiled at him. "It'll make you look tough and distinguished." She was sure her own injuries - some from the bird fight - would leave their own marks, but it didn't bother her. She could still function normally, so she had no complaints.

"It sounds like a lot of fun." Nerah giggled. "Maybe soon I'll find the time to head back there. In the meantime, though, there are other things to be getting on with. I'm ready when you three are. I feel like I won't be completely at peace again until we find it, you know? So...I'm eager to see it with my eyes." She picked up the bird Antares hadn't been able to eat and trotted off, gesturing with her tail for the others to follow.

((We need Crumbles! Also, no idea what you're talking about. I said no such thing. >.> <.< :-P))

[Meesh]

[[lols XD I have it typed out. I GOT PROOF]]

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[atrb=background,http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/pikachu59013/silvatablemid.png] Silva grinned at Antares, tail wagging "What Nerah said. You'll look pretty good with it" she craned her neck to look at the scar on her left flank- the final remainder of her fight with the birds when she was a pup. It had almost dissapeared since her evolution, but it was still faintly noticeable against her jet black fur. Turning back to the group, she continued "I agree Nerah. It may sound strange, but I've been having....you could say, visions of this den of ours. I don't know if I'm imagining it or not, but it comes with this really strong desire to find it and...yeah" she shrugged "hopefully it will end once we get to the den, but I dunno." she pointed her tail west, towards the den "Only one way to find out~"

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Nerah grinned when Silva commented on Antares's injury. "It does. Honest. Besides, I'm sure we all got something lasting with those birds. Maybe even Yamir." She glanced at him, hoping he was ready or would be ready soon.

Silva then mentioned having visions and Nerah nodded. "I think it comes with the new shape, somehow. Like, our brains got bigger when our bodies did, or something. I don't feel any smarter than I was, though."

She trotted a few paces toward where the den seemed to be and then looked back. "I'm gonna scout ahead a little, just to get a look around. I'll stay within earshot." She then bounded off.

[Meesh]

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[atrb=background,http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/pikachu59013/silvatablemid.png] Silva chuckled and nodded "Yep .And yeah, those birds are vicious, until you get used to their fighting style. We'll all be battle hardened warriors soon" When Nerah nodded, apparently also having those visions, Silva blinked, eyes widening "I don't feel any smarter either. Well, I mean, I feel loads smarter then that clueless pup I once was, but I bet Antares and Yamir feel the same, and they're still the same shape." suddenly, her eyes widened "I've got it!" she said "Maybe it's something that only happens to females!" she wagged her tail, proud of herself for figuring it out. When nerah said she would be scouting, Silva nodded. "I'll stay here with Yamir and Antares" she said, wagging her tail at her friend "I'll howl if something comes up. In the meantime, you know where you'll find us" she grinned, she turned to the males "but whenever you're ready to go, feel free to say so~"

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Yamir's ear flicked of its own accord and his tongue curled out to clean his muzzle for the umpteenth time, because he had issues accepting that it was indeed clean and that no, there was not orange bird smeared all over his face. He'd only caught one, and even that had been a bit of a show - but one was all he needed to banish that diluted gnawing. He'd managed to avoid several attempts at retaliation from the birds, but only narrowly. The only scratches he had on him were from Antares playing with his tail earlier, and lucky for it. If he'd been injured, even just a nick, none of them would have heard the end of it.

He eyed Antares' wound lightly, and then turned to Nerah, watching her bolt off into the trees. "You're all so spontaneous." He pronounced it like a disease.

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Nerah wagged her tail and weaved between the trees, being sure to keep track of exactly how far she was going. She didn't want to lose her friends in the woods, especially without knowing the trees very well. If she lost track of them, she could be lost for days. She shivered at that thought. Yeah...that wouldn't be good, no matter how powerful she felt right now.

When she was as far as she was comfortable with travelling away from the others, she trotted a bit to her left, still glancing to the west. Seeing nothing, she went to the right. Nothing but trees, but they had plenty of forest left to search through.

[Aries]

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[atrb=background,http://i56.tinypic.com/53a5o9.jpg][atrb=border,0,true] [atrb=width,600,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true] Text here Antares's whiskers twitched a bit that the females' comments at his ear. He still didn't want a big ugly gash in it, no matter how "good" it looked on him. "Visions? Is that how you know where the cave is?" the feline asked, puzzled at what they were saying. With that he decided to get up, they should be heading off soon. "Shouldn't we get going, we've been lounging around for long enough" he started to trot slowly in the direction the other canine had gone, hoping the others would follow him. Or at least give him direction in where he was going.

[Meesh]

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[atrb=background,http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/pikachu59013/silvatablemid.png] Silva nodded, giving a grin to Yamir before hurrying to Antares's side. She raised her voice momentarily "Nerah, we're heading out now" loud enough for the dissapearing female to hear before continuing the journey. She spoke as they trotted along "Yeah, right after I changed, I started getting this one vision of our den. It's hard to explain, but it...compels me...and I think ti does for Nerah too. It's like some sort of sixth sense thats nagging at me where to go and how to get there." she was quiet for a few minutes of running then, thinking about what she just said "Maybe it comes with the changeing. I mean, I think it comes with the changing" her tail twitched as they ran along "I wonder if it'll happen to you. What do you think felines look like after they've changed."

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"All right!" she called when she heard her packmate's voice. Nerah decided to venture outward just a little bit more, but not before marking the place where she currently was. She did this by scratching at a nearby tree until her claws left a noticeable pattern in the trunk. Satisfied that she wouldn't get lost, she bounded a bit further.

Then she saw it. A mound of rocky dirt with a clear opening, big enough for all of them. It would need work, but it was livable now and could be made perfect in time. Trees clustered around the mound, almost sheltering it from view. If not for the trees, they might have been able to see it from their current resting spot.

Yes, this was exactly the place that had been calling to them! Excited, Nerah let out a long, loud howl.

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Listening to Silva with pricked ears and a mild interest, he tilted his head when she tried to explain the sixth. Part of him thought how fantastic it all seemed, to get these unexplainable visions. "Well, it all seems very heroic and all that, getting these sights of things you've never sensed before, but I like being normal." His eyes were swimming with the pout he couldn't pull off.

Yamir stuck out a paw to keep Antares in place. "The point of her scouting is that so that we don't run after her and get caught up in trouble, if there is any. Besides, she said she would - Oh." There it was, the howl. Properly shut up, he shrugged. "Guess she found something."

[Meesh]

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[atrb=background,http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/pikachu59013/silvatablemid.png] Silva froze as she heard the howl. Was their trouble "C'mon" she called, and without another word, turned and began sprinting west towards the howl as fast as she could, dodging trees by a hairsbreadth as she ran towards her friend. Only to skid to a stop as she recognized the place from her visions "Nerah, what's wrong-oh. Oh." she blinked, as she could only gaze dumbly in wonder around her. There was that tree, and that hole, and that rock! There was no doubt about it, Nerah had found the right place. It was -exactly- like Silva's visions. The resemblance was so strong she staggered in shock, managing to catch herself form falling just at the last second "Wow" Silva breathed

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Nerah walked around the borrow...cave...thing. She didn't know which to call it, because - to her - it appeared as a mix of both. Was there really any true difference between the two, anyway? There was enough room forte four of them and maybe a couple extra bodies, though it'd be really snug if they had more than themselves. That could be fixed. If nothing else, they could make a few passages and some underground rooms and whatever else they felt they needed. It'd be fun!

Silva arrived. No doubt the males would be here soon, as well. Nerah grinned at the other female. "We've been near it for a while and didn't even know! Neat, huh? It's going to need a few adjustments, but we can do that easily, and it's livable the way it is now."