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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 2:31:34 GMT -5
Casimir's ears twitched at her constant attentions and finally had to give his head a slight shake to stop his skin tickling. ^^;; He bumped her lightly with his own nose, carefully avoiding the spikes and wotnot.
Astafy smiled down. . . well, towards the ground, really. "It really wasn't much to see," she said quietly, but let it pass as neither she nor Yume seemed to want to have a serious conversation just then. "Your home sounds lovely," Astafy replied. "Too bad I couldn't see it without being eaten!"
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 2:50:07 GMT -5
Jaradka made a weird almost-purr noise when he bumped against her, She probably assumed it was intentional since well, that's just the way she thought... But she stopped (temporarily) with the assault and instead decided to simply rest her head over his neck/back. with a sigh, The other two's conversation made no mention of hunting or herself at any point and thus was not interesting.
Yume opened her mouth to talk then closed it... Repeating this afew times before finally figuring out what she was talking about. "Oooh! I have two homes! You'd be eaten at chaos hills but not my other one!" She said happily then suddenly looked serious for a second... "I know... I'll show you chaos hills!" she said then pointed at astafy's head... This is when everything would probably go black for the healer although it felt like she was still awake, and the same went for Yume for that matter but Jaradka and Casimir were un-effected.
Yume was going to show Astafy the place she'd get eaten if she went there, but in a dream and for dreaming you had to be asleep... She didn't bother waiting to ask permission.
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 3:00:25 GMT -5
Astafy didn't realize wot Yume was about to do even after everything went suddenly black. The purple body crumpled to the ground and that got Casimir's attention. "Astafy!" He couldn't help going to his childhood friend, glancing worriedly at Jaradka before staring hard at Yume. "Wot did you do to her?"
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 3:27:06 GMT -5
Jaradka walked over, rather calmly but quickly surveyed the two downed creatures... Asleep? Then it was probably Yume's fault. But she made sure that they were both alive and breathing, by pressing her head against the side of Astafy's chest and listening to the heartbeat and breathing... With yume she simply poked a few times. "Prey, prey are dreaming. Yume dreams end when Yume prey wants..." she said tried to explain to casimir... Since well... Yume was asleep... But Jaradka knew what she said did not make sense to those who did not know... How could she say it? ergh... "Yume make sleep... And is dream, is... Making dream." she attempted to clarify, succsesful or not only time would tell.
The darkness suddenly cleared to reveal a very interesting, lightly woodeed area. it all felt numb for a second, like standing in a picture would feel like but all of the sudden came a giggling sound... And a familiar shape, the feelings of wind, the scent of the trees and earth all came flowing in when Yume appeared out of thin air, flitting down onto a tree branch. "This is chaos hills! Sorta." she squeeked and waved down at the most likely confused astafy.
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 3:34:19 GMT -5
Casimir hadn't realized Yume was sleeping too, but he was worried now. Jaradka said they were dreaming, just dreaming. . . "Are they alright?" Dark eyes flicked to the large tsume as he worked to mask his anxiety. He glanced towards the other group near them, but the trio seemed to be occupied with their own conversation and if Astafy was just sleeping Mozer would just laugh it off. And probably want Yume to take him into some dream as well. The large Dark took a deep breath, letting it exhale slowly to calm down.
Astafy looked around herself curiously, surprised by the emptiness of herself and of everything around her, and then even more surprised, and yet not, when Yume appeared. She was, however, indeed very confused. "Yume, where are we?" she asked, nose lifting high to scent the wind now breezing by them. "Besides sorta Chaos Hills. . . "
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 3:43:33 GMT -5
Jaradka nodded... Yume had never hurt anyone to the best of her knowledge, even when it was extremely obvious that would be the correct course of action. Such as, after being swallowed scolding the person who had split them open and removed her.... Yume didn't believe that whatever it was would actually intend her harm. "Yume good prey, never hurting friends... or enemies." she said then ceased her prodding of the small tsume... She knew that if she had prodded her too much the little creatures body would most likely have vanished like it always did if messed with while sleeping.
Yume grinned and waved her arms around, before pointing directly at astafy. "We are exactly where we were! Except you fell down... Oops. Well, this is what chaos hills is like you can walk around if you want... Do you think I could look at your home afterwards?" she asked nicely.
The scents were... too real, Astafy could smell that there was another tsume somewhere along the wind, it's scent was crisp and metallic like it had some sort of chemical sprayed on it, and there were other things too... Everything you'd expect to find in a real place.
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 3:49:09 GMT -5
Casimir nodded though whether it was agreement or simply proof that he heard her was unclear. He was debating of whether he should attempt to wake Astafy up, which may or may not have dire consequences, or if he should just wait for her to wake. . . uhh, naturally. Though this was definitely not natural. As such, he finally sat beside the prone body of his friend worriedly.
Astafy's ears flicked back a bit uneasily as she tried to think of how to word the question well enough to find out wot she really needed to learn from Yume. "Alright." The tiny tsume wouldn't lie to her, so it was time to think this through. They were where they were, which was the Orchard, so. . . . her mind must be the part that's somewhere else? Did that even make sense? "I don't think you'd like to look at my home, Yume, it's not a very nice Reality anymore. So. . . we're still with Casimir and Jaradka? Where are they?"
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 3:58:19 GMT -5
Jaradka looked at the three that were there, two were unconsciess out in the field... Hmm... She decided to lay down next to casimir and put one of her large green wings over most of astafy so that she wouldn't get too warm while laying out in the sun... Hey, it was better than her idea the last time this happened, which was to bury them up to the neck and then leave to hunt.
Yume giggled and was suddenly floating besides astafy, without even flapping her wings. "You'r asleep! and I thought it made sense... hmm... was I thinking wrong?" she said in answer to astafy's... thoughts? but to re-iterate the point that they were still at the orchard Yume waved a hand towards a patch of grass which faded away to reveal the current scene of Astafy crumbled up on the ground, and Jaradka covering her with a wing.
Astafy could probably feel Yume sifting through her mind for a image of home...
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 4:08:48 GMT -5
Astafy felt relief that the other two were alright, though it made her a bit nervous to have Jaradka covering her with one of those giant wings. Wot was that tsume doing? However, Yume's rummaging, brought her mind back to the matter at hand as well as a swift memory of her home Reality before she forcibly thought about the here and now. Well, the dream here and now. "Stop that, Yume, it's not a happy place." Of course the brief glance might have been enough, though the memory certainly wasn't a pleasant one. She was trying to not remember the decimation of their home. . .
Casimir looked at Jaradka, touched by her concern for her comrade, even though Astafy hadn't necessarily been the nicest to his mate. He leaned slightly into her and gently nuzzled her with a only a slight hint of his inner anxiety.
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 4:17:26 GMT -5
Yume had obviously found sufficient memories to piece together an entire scene, Astafy could feel the memory bubbling to the surface but then... It stopped and went back down to wherever it normally rested in her mind. "Sorry! I get carried away sometimes... I know I can make it up to you!" she said then... Whoosh! they were somewhere else, annoyingly cheerful music was playing and... It was an ice cream shop. Somehow Yume had already managed to grab two cones out of... Somewhere? and was offering one to Astafy... This was definitely random enough to be a dream.
Jaradka seemed to relax alot when she was nuzzled by casimir, it was a little exaggerated but not entirely. She was always extremely happy when he payed attention to her like that <3 He was not nearly as open with feelings as she was.
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 4:34:15 GMT -5
Astafy blinked and shook her head, giving Yume a small smile tinged with sadness. She didn'tw ant Yume subjec t to that horrible memory and so tried to perk back up for the tiny creature. "And wot is this?" she asked quietly, almost sending like herself. But, in her mind's eye was the rememberance of the day the Poisontales over ran her Quad's home. Mozer would remember it, too, though Casimir had been out that day. The Light wasn't certain the Warriour even knew about it; Mozer had hurried all of the survivors off, catching the group of Warriours before they reached the mounds. She gave a small shake of her head as she forced herself to attend to Yume's reply.
Casimir was pleased when Jaradka seemed to enjoy his touch, though he still felt a bit anxious. It was hard seeing someone he knew so well just lying on the ground. As long as he remembered that she was just sleeping it was alright.
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Post by Thal on Feb 6, 2006 4:52:17 GMT -5
Yume floated over and handed Astafy one (or rather it floated in the air infront of her) of the cones, the one that she had probably been holding for herself simply vanishing in a puff of smoke. "It's ice cream, Food! but don't bite it, it's cold so it's better to lick it." She said before landing on the lights head. much in the manner she had earlier...
Astafy might realize that... Yume was Still hearing her more solid thoughts... Especially when she looked down and petted the top of the others nose. "You have a lot of sad memories..." she sighed lightly, beginning to move her hand in little loopy circles on astafy's head. "Do you want to talk about anything? No one else can hear you." she said as she began to smile... Strangely enough it seemed that Yume had about normal energy and voice levels now, not being super cheerful and squeeky... Although her voice was still a bit on the high side.
Jaradka let the side of her head rest against him as she re-arranged her wing to be more comfortable while still held out for the two, she hoped that they would not be asleep for too long otherwise she'd probably get sore. "Casimir prey, Hunter Jaradka's Horn itches." she said then leaned her head down next to him, in an effort to get her point across... It didn't matter that she could reach the spot herself.
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 5:01:25 GMT -5
Astafy meeped when she finally realized that Yume could still hear her thoughts. "Sorry, Yume," she bounced the tiny creature slightly. She smiled again though it was still rather sad. "I didn't mean to share those sorts of memories with you." A faint shudder slipped across the Light before she visibly pushed the thought away. "I don't have too many sad memories," she amended the tsume's statement. "But the ones I have are pretty bad." She bounced Yume again, having fun with the gentle movement. "But that's yet another reason for us to find new Realities. So we can have lots of good memories instead." So saying, she decided to try the interesting cold treat. She licked it carefully then gave a bright laugh at the chilled sweetness. "Oh, this is good! Ice cream?" she checked the name again with the tsume.
Casimir couldn't help another small smile then carefully tried to itch her horn without injuring her or himself with the movement. The large tsume was interesting and different, and, to a degree, rather amusing. He kept finding himself enjoying their time together. Not that it was bad, but it did surprise him. He tended to be very anti-social and was often referred to as such by the other gryvern, if only jokingly. He didn't regret how he was; it helped him be who he needed to be. Of course, perhaps those days were past. . . They weren't in the home Reality anymore. . . maybe the time for fighting was past. These pensive thoughts weighted his mind as he carefully scratched for Jaradka.
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Post by Thalron on Feb 6, 2006 13:12:45 GMT -5
Yume giggled in her annoyingling incessent manner once again when bounced by Astafy, She really could not stay sad for very long at all... Sometimes she felt bad about this, but then usually forgot that feeling too. "I like hearing peoples thoughts even if they are sad or scary! Someday maybe I'll learn to read, and then write a book on psychomochology... Do you think that would be a good idea?" She asked in a cheerfully squeaky manner. Giving a large over emphasized nod when she asked if it was indeed called ice cream... It was still somewhat strange here, for instance Astafy probably realized that out the windows of the shop there wasn't anything... It's just like reality ended there. And also the fact it seemed that she could tell whatever the little dream was doing even though she shouldn't really be able to look at her.
Jaradka crooned slowly as he scratched around her horn, turning her head slowly to guide which direction he did it in... It felt really nice, and unlike when she scratched didn't cut her at all, that was very good... And even if Casimir had been visibly showing some amount of pensiveness or deep thought, she wouldn't have noticed because of the scratching. <3
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Post by sera on Feb 6, 2006 21:34:01 GMT -5
"Well, if that's wot you want to do, then, yes, it's an excellent idea." Though why Yume would bring it up if she didn't want to was beyond Astafy. Of course, quite a few things seemed beyond the Light just then and she would just deal with it as best as she could. She glanced around as she enjoyed the very interesting thing called ice cream, noticing that the shop was all that existed here. It was strange, because she partially didn't remember going into a shop, distracted as she was, and partially because she thought it was weird for the world to just fade into fuzzy greyness. If she stepped out into that fuzziness wot would happen? Would she dream a new reality as she walked or would Yume have to be with her if she did so? Would she simply fade into nothing as well?
The tsume's pure enjoyment of the scratch pulled another smile from the gryvern. She was just so unalloyed and very much in the moment. He could relate with that when he was hunting or fighting, purely in the now. That was probably his favourite part of himself. So he kept scratching, pleased that she was so happy and glad that he could do at least something right.
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