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Post by Largo LeGrande on Sept 13, 2004 15:45:07 GMT
"The snakes like the rocks, but the rocks miss the scorpions." Caitlyn said, and then turned to Rhonan. "And it was just an exact guess." Caitlyn responded innocently.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 13, 2004 23:12:23 GMT
"Right," he said sarcastically, and reined his curiosity in check. They were close enough to make out the basic details of the rock even though there really wasn't any. It was just a rounded half sphere of rock about twenty-five feet wide in diameter and about fifteen feet up. It was dark brown in color with bits of grass growing around it and a point in its' perimeter where the sand was lower - a sink hole. "There it is ladies, home sweet home for the night."
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Post by ShadowRune on Sept 14, 2004 2:22:47 GMT
Chara giggled at the title of 'ladies'. She followed Rhonan and Caitlyn into the hollow and looked around. She grinned and clapped her hands, whereupon a just right-sized camp fire popped up in the middle. It gave off plenty of heat, ate little firewood...and was vibrant purple in colour. "Eh..heh," Chara grinned ruefully.
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Post by Largo LeGrande on Sept 14, 2004 2:49:43 GMT
Caitlyn sat passively on a rock, staring at the fire with a tiny smile on her face.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 14, 2004 20:25:54 GMT
Rhonan stared at the purple fire for a moment as the flap slid back into place, once more become unidentifiable to the rock it covered. Fire... and ice. Fire nd ice together by chance? What could it mean? He shook off his idle contemplations and took a seat on the other side of the door so he could keep an eye on it. There were two hollowed out areas in the rock with woven mats serving as matresses. In the center was a hollowed out firepit where the purple fire burned fitfully, and next to the door was a stone basin with water bubbling into it from a carved lions'head spout chisled into the wall. The ground was actually sand and all along the walls were chalk drawings of various animals and symbols. "That's a neat little trick," he said to Chara. The smoke from the fire rose up to a hole in the cieling and floated up through an intricate set up of animal skins that let the smoke out, but not the light.
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Post by ShadowRune on Sept 14, 2004 23:10:20 GMT
Chara grinned, "Well...it wasn't supposed to be purple..." she muttered, grinning. She was staring around, mezmerized by the simple beauty of this primitive-seeming place.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 15, 2004 0:55:54 GMT
He smiled at her. "It's still a neat trick." He smiled at her a bit longer and turned to dig through hi saddlebags. He pulled out a piece of cloth and unwrapped it revealing a piece of chalk. He took it out and crawled over to a clear spot on the wall and began drawing something.
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Post by Largo LeGrande on Sept 15, 2004 1:42:16 GMT
Caitlyn started to alternate her glance between the fire and the drawing every minute or so, still looking very passive.
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Post by ShadowRune on Sept 15, 2004 2:08:05 GMT
Chara watched him drawing for awhile, then crawled over and held a handful of blue light near his picture so he could see better than he could with the flickering violet flames.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 15, 2004 20:08:26 GMT
He smiled at her again. "Thank you. That helps." The form he was drawing was a wolf howling at the moon, lines through it representing the winds. He stopped for a moment and pointed at all of the other drawings on the wall. "This place is used by different carriers whenever they pass this way. Whenever one stops here it's tradition to draw their spirit animals on the wall. They believe it will protect them until journeys' end." He paused and looked at Chara. "Do you have a spirit animal?"
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Post by ShadowRune on Sept 15, 2004 22:56:36 GMT
Chara blinked, she'd never heard of a spirit animal before...or maybe not in those terms. "What's a spirit animal?" She asked instead.
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Post by Largo LeGrande on Sept 16, 2004 0:00:00 GMT
Caitlyn just listened from a way away. Interested in what he was saying.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 16, 2004 21:11:46 GMT
Rhonan shifted so he could see her better, trying to think of the right way to describe a spirit animal. "Well," he licked his lips, "Have you ever felt a special connection to a certain animal? A special fondness for it?"
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Post by ShadowRune on Sept 16, 2004 22:56:12 GMT
Chara tilted her head and stared into the blue flames, "...perhaps?" She was quite good with animals, and liked some more than others, and felt their moods and characteristics sometimes...then there were...but no... who knows.
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Post by SuibuOgami on Sept 17, 2004 19:47:38 GMT
"Good, which one is it?" Rhonan asked.
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