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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 14:57:31 GMT -5
A bright form swoops down, landing gracefully in a clearing among the trees. Sky-hued feathers and mane flutter slightly as she settles her wings against her back, and her eyes glance quickly around her. Sunlight reflects off of a silver tail-band. Her beauty is marred slightly (or increased, depending on the observer) by set of scars ringing her neck. She casts her eyes briefly upwards, then focuses on the trees ahead of her as she starts forward. She winds through the shrubbery, towards the sound of running water somewhere nearby. ( dragongoddess.tripod.com/wild84.html ) |
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 17:30:45 GMT -5
As she neared the stream a familar scent could be found in the air, Not quiet distinguishable among all the other smells but the source of it was evident soon enough. Monerith lay on the river bank facing the water and occasionally running a claw through it letting little red streaks move downstream with the water, he hasn't seemed to notice her yet, or has chosen not to react. ( www.geocities.com/thalron2002/Adopted/Monerith.jpg ) |
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 17:41:46 GMT -5
Querryth pauses for a moment as she spots Monerith. A suppressed instinct wells up in her for a moment, urging her to just flee, but she clamps down on that urge. There is no need for irrational fear, she thinks to herself.
As he gaze travels past him and to the water for a moment, another idea comes into her head, one rather uncharacteristic for her. For a few seconds, her thoughts turn to times long past. How long has it been? she wonders, before her gaze and her mind return to the red dragon in front of her.
Hmm. She ponders for just a second more, and then springs into action. Launching herself into the air and flinging her wings open, she sails over Monerith and dives into the river on the other side of him, coming up seconds later, sputtering a bit, mane plastered to her face, obscuring her view and dripping with water.
"Greetings," she says simply, peering at him from underneath the hair as she attempts not to drift with the current.
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 18:06:00 GMT -5
Monerith looks up at her slowly before a small smile appears, Standing up he walks forward into the water to her, moving the hair out of her eyes gently with one clawed hand "Good to see you again." he says with his forever deadly eyes focused on her.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 18:19:48 GMT -5
"Aye, likewise," she says, suppressing a small shiver at being caught in his gaze. "Thank you," she adds as he moves her hair out of the way. Don't flinch, she wills herself. Relax...
"Where have your wanderings taken you lately?" she asks, letting her tail keep her from drifting too much. Do I really want to know? she wonders after asking, though slightly amused.
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 18:30:17 GMT -5
"I have not been wandering as much as usual, The only new area I have been to in awhile were some caves." he says to her with a small nod then smiles as he notices the scars once more, Drawing his hand across them lightly as he moved it back down to his side "You are still as beutiful as ever I see." he says pleasantly while still gazing into her eyes unnervingly, wether he means for his gaze to be so frightening or not is uknown.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 18:46:33 GMT -5
"Ah," she replies. "Anything of interest in the caves?"
Her pulse jumps as he touches the scars, and in her mind, she pushes away sudden memories of that near-forgotten pain. Even if I were to fly as far away from him as I could, I would not be able to escape the fact that his mark is upon me... Her thoughts reel slightly. But would I ever even want to fly that far?
She gazes back, hoping that fear does not flicker in her eyes, though she wants to look away. Caught in his gaze like a trapped rabbit... could I fly away even if I wanted to?
"Thank you, she replies to his compliment, her voice almost a whisper.
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 18:56:54 GMT -5
He nods then closes his eyes in a enlongated blink turning his head and looking up stream rather than at her he replies "I met someone there, Although you probably know where you can find them." he says with a small chuckle.
It was strange that he looked away, It could be that he noticed that he was upsetting her... Although he never seemed to care about that before.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 19:12:02 GMT -5
She relaxes a trifle, unexpectedly greatful for what seemed to be understanding from him, though his words weren't precisely... well, cheerful. "I... can guess," she replies, pushing yet other memories away.
She lifts her heavy wings out of the water, finding them to be completely drenched. As she beats them, she raises herself a bit out of the water, though not much, as the wings are a bit too wet to fly with. After shaking them off, she settles them onto her back. She almost resembles an oversized blue swan with an extra pair of legs and a tail, a thought that amuses her slightly. Don't start turning into your prey, she thinks to herself, following Monerith's gaze up the river.
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 19:21:03 GMT -5
He looks back towards her then grins... His grin is disturbing at first but he seems to have atleast attempted to make less malicous, Reaching out he puts one arm over her neck then slides his other arm under her frontlegs attempting to trip, then dunk her into the water.
"You weren't paying attention!" he says in a playful voice... Of course he doesn't realize that he is probably just as open for being dunked.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 19:26:41 GMT -5
She sputters as she gets dunked, blinking at him for a moment, his action having been completely unexpected by her.
"Hey!" she says indignantly, recovering. She lunges (carefully) at him, somehow managing to avoid impaling herself on any spikes, and attempts to shove him under the water before leaping backwards, water flying from her wings and mane. Then, grinning, she smacks a wing at the water and an angle, managing to spray him with a considerable amount of water, though with the loss of a few small down-feathers.
"Hah!"
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 19:31:42 GMT -5
As he gets pushed underwater there is a odd noise as he exhales alot of air and rather than coming up immediatly lunges back towards her swimming down to the bottom and grabbing her feet in an attempt to pull her under again.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 19:36:14 GMT -5
She squeeks as she's dragged downwards, beating her wings frantically in an attempt to stay above the water, but failing as the weight of drenched feathers only helps to pull her under. She takes a large breath and then, instead of further struggling, attempts to dive down towards the other dragon to try and free herself from his grasp. Once again, her hair gets in her way, and she tries not to lose her air by laughing underwater as she struggles downwards.
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Post by Thalron on Jun 8, 2004 21:27:43 GMT -5
Monerith grins when she tries to free herself then simply lets go eyes going from her to the ground at the bottom of the river, Something seemingly catching his interest although he doesn't not look at it long enough for her to get an idea of where it was since he immediatly has to surface, Not having had time to take a breath before diving.
Gasping as he reached the surface he looks around for where Querryth was going to come up chuckling slightly as he treads the water.
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Post by Saturnalia on Jun 8, 2004 21:36:51 GMT -5
Querryth, freed, takes a moment to swim around a bit underwater, though her wings hamper too much maneuvering. She comes to the surface near him, shaking her head and flinging drops of water everywhere in the process.
"'Tis been quite a while since I've swam," she remarks.
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