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Post by Sapphire on Aug 10, 2012 10:09:45 GMT -5
The cougar pounced a little closer. Jaela flatted her ears back. She walked forward a few paces with her curled ibex horns facing the cat. She blew hard through her nose. She also tapped her cloven hoof's on the hard rocks and got her footing sorted out.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 10, 2012 11:16:33 GMT -5
Zoran watched the little mare with interest, and then focused back on the cougar. It had moved forwards, certainly, but maybe it was young an inexperienced. On that matter, the cat would need a bit of persuasion that the pair of them weren't on the menu. He stamped his hoof again and whistled a warning, ears flicking back and his tail waving through the air in a threatening gesture.
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 10, 2012 11:45:43 GMT -5
Jaela moved quickly for a few paces as a warning. The cougar seemed scared but it backed off a little bit. It seemed lost but it wasn't very bright for a predator. There was clearly something wrong with it. It was thin, bony and obviously a youngster. She flicked her tail in anger.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 10, 2012 12:19:39 GMT -5
Zoran frowned as he noticed the condition of the cougar and walked past the mare to look at it more closely. He knew that if it tried to attack he could probably end its life with a single kick, but that wasn't what he was there for. He sniffed the animal cautiously, and though it smelt of danger it also smelt of fear and youth, and he turned back to the mare. "It can't hurt us", he said simply, looking back at it and snorting with interest. "It's just desperate for food." He brought his head back up and looked around. "There doesn't seem to be much sustenance around for a cougar anyway. It's surprising that there are any around here at all." He noticed a small patch of gorse nearby and trotted over to it, ignoring the cougar completely. He could smell something in there that was small and energetic, and as he swiped the top of the gorse with a single hoof a rathe large and ugly looking rat scuttled out towards them with an alarmed squeak. The stallion watched idly as the rat scuttled away from its tormentor and towards the mare, before he walked steadily back to her.
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 10, 2012 12:27:20 GMT -5
She softened up her defense stance. "Oh, well that's good." It did seem quite ill. She saw something dark shoot towards her. She jumped back at the little creature. then it ran in the other direction. The cat acted immediately and grabbed the rat.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 10, 2012 13:07:29 GMT -5
Zoran watched the cougar leap for the rat and though the animal's squeal of pain was a little unsettling to hear, the cougar seemed a little more content now it had a meal in front of it. He smiled softly in its direction. "There, much better than trying your luck with a couple of horses, huh?" he said to it, not expecting any response but just to reassure the cougar that he wasn't going to attack it. He looked to the mare and nodded. "You can relax now. It won't try anything. It's too sickly to try, really. It must have been driven to it seeing as it looks so weak." He looked sympathetically at it and watched it with its meal, ears slightly back at the smell of blood. "Everything has its time", he said softly, more to himself than to anyone in particular.
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 10, 2012 15:25:53 GMT -5
She flicked her tail. Her mind started to work again. "It must of came from the west city, that's the only place that has no food and is just a war zone."Acquila said, He came in from the passage at the back of the cave. Jaela jumped at the eagle's sudden entrance.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 10, 2012 15:30:02 GMT -5
Zoran looked up at the eagle with surprise, backing up slightly with confusion. He was accustomed to seeing such creatures, but having them at such a close proximity was a little unnerving. He looked back at the cougar and then at the eagle, seeming to judge both of them as harmless now and looked to the eagle, one ear falling back. "A war zone?" he questioned. "Seems I've been travelling further than I thought."
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 11, 2012 17:16:30 GMT -5
Acquila took off and landed on Jaela's right horn. "Acquila get off me! Dam bird!" Jaela said while shaking her head back and forth. "Silence Jaela! Yes there is a war zone where the 'king' rules and take's over new lands turning them into hell's. Many creatures have been slaughtered by him during his process of destroying the world as we know it. To create a new and 'better' world." He said to the new stallion. He stretched his wings and landed on a stone nearby him. "Nice to meet you, I am Acquila. Guardian of the mountains and ruler of the sky's. Oh! And I look after her." He pointed to Jaela, She just stuck her tongue out at him. "Im the one who has saved her so many times before! And protected her like she was my own. Since she was a foal." He whispered to the stallion.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 11, 2012 18:11:38 GMT -5
Zoran frowned with concern. "Oh, I see. I didn't know I was getting so close to something so dangerous. The humans are becoming foolish in their exploits, it seems." He thought he should backtrack, go back to the snowy tundra that he'd passed a few moons back, but then again he knew that he wasn't one to backtrack. A traveller never went back to the places he'd left behind, and he wouldn't break that code now. He bowed his head politely to the eagle and replied, "It's good to meet you Acquila, my name is Zoran. I'm just a wanderer, passing through." He smiled. "Well you've done a good job, she puts up a good fight."
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 11, 2012 18:22:04 GMT -5
"You were lucky! Your travelling in the other direction to the war. But in a few months/years we will surely have to abandon here fore the war will engulf here one day." He paused. "Humans are foolish creatures! Greed takes over their minds and corrupts them." He stood proud on the stone by the stallion. "Nice to meet you Zoran." Jaela wondered what they were talking about but she simply looked out to the snowy peek. She whispered to herself "Surly there is something better for me than here." She sighed and sniffed the snow by the entrance. "I've tried to teach her as much as I could when she was young." he said to the stallion. As he remembered him finding the weak little filly in the snow.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 12, 2012 7:53:53 GMT -5
"You were lucky! Your travelling in the other direction to the war. But in a few months/years we will surely have to abandon here fore the war will engulf here one day." He paused. "Humans are foolish creatures! Greed takes over their minds and corrupts them." He stood proud on the stone by the stallion. "Nice to meet you Zoran." Jaela wondered what they were talking about but she simply looked out to the snowy peek. She whispered to herself "Surly there is something better for me than here." She sighed and sniffed the snow by the entrance. "I've tried to teach her as much as I could when she was young." he said to the stallion. As he remembered him finding the weak little filly in the snow.
Zoran lowered his head and sighed. "That is a shame. Although this place is difficult to live in, it's still beautiful. Greed is the world's worse creation", he agreed with a flick of his tail. He bowed his head again in respect to the eagle and then glanced at the small mare thoughtfully. If the war was moving in this direction then it wouldn't be too long before she would need to move on herself. And where would she go? He shook that away and looked back at the eagle. "Well, you've taught her well", he said with a smile.
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 12, 2012 15:52:58 GMT -5
Acquila smiled at the stallion "I tried my best its up to her now." Jaela walked towards the two "What are you two talking about?" She stood raising her head and eyebrows in suspicion. She flicked her ears forward waiting for a response.
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Post by paperboat on Aug 12, 2012 15:57:35 GMT -5
((lol sorry, didn't realise my last reply had copied your reply o.O how bizarre.))
Zoran looked back at the mare and smiled innocently. "Nothing. Just that the war wil be brought closer to this place with every setting of the sun. The mountains might not be safe for you soon, and maybe you should think about moving on." He looked to the west and snorted softly. He didn't know what was coming, but that was the excitement of the Wanderer; life was full of surprises. "You don't want to be swept up in a warzone", he said seriously. "It might be the best thing to do."
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Post by Sapphire on Aug 15, 2012 14:22:49 GMT -5
"War? What war? W-what? huh?" She said confused. What war? "B-but where will I go? I've lived h-here all m-m-my life" She said flicking her ears in every direction, she was worried what would happen to her? Where would she go? What war was coming? She had so many questions her mind was working overtime. "I-If I move o-other horses w-w-would hate me...for being different..." She paused. "Like my mother did..." She whispered with a single tear falling from her eye.
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