Lend me your ear and I'll sing you a song

Yumiko Tsume · 04-19-2010, 08:36 PM

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Sorry about the wait, some stuff came up in RL >>;

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Yumiko had spent the entire day cleaning up and preparing for her guests that would be arriving any minute. She had managed to hunt down a pair of squirrels which weren't very big but were very tangy on the tongue. She should really have started hunting days earlier, but she didn't yet have anywhere safe to store the food where it wouldn't spoil. As a replacement she had spent the afternoon using her extensive knowledge of plants to forage for some edible ones. A handful of carrots, some parsley, and a bucket of flavourful mushrooms were on the menu. She hadn't cooked anything yet because, in all honesty, she had forgotten to ask whether her guests enjoyed their food raw or not. Some did, some didn't. Yumiko personally preferred the browned variety of edibles, but was tolerant either way.

As she wiped off her hands and the small blade she had bartered for in the village of the squirrel blood, she laid the skins aside gently for her collection. It was starting to grow. Four rabbits, a small pile of feathers, and now two squirrels. Sure, they all had teeth marks in them, but she wasn't skilled enough with a weapon to hunt any other way. Who cared about the state of her bed besides herself, anyway.

Yumiko placed the knife onto her shelf and scooped the meat that was now ready for eating (or cooking) into a bowl, rather than the stone now littered with nasty bits. She wasn't very skilled with the knife, so the meat was a little bit hacked up, but meat was meat, even if it wasn't very pretty. The bowl went on the shelf below the knife, along side the bucket of mushrooms and other plants. Dinner seemed pretty plentiful already.

She went outside and took her bucket down to the river, filling it full of the cool, clear liquid after washing the remains of blood from her hands. She really, really, really despised being dirty. Humming as she cleaned she finished quickly, put the bucket back on it's branch sticking out of her little log fence, and headed back indoors. Her timing couldn't have been better, because as soon as she started obsessively sweeping the floors with a pine branch for the tenth time a little voice shouted through the cave right inside the entrance.

A gentle grin stretching her face, she put the branch down and dropped to a crouch a she spun to face her first little guest. It was Lotus, the pup she'd met a month or so ago and who happened to be related to her other friend, Ember. Some coincidence, eh?

"Hey, Lotus! You seem excited!" Not that Yumiko could talk, with her tail wagging and eyes gleaming in anticpation of some real social interaction with people who were more than just strangers. She reached around behind her and blindly picked up one of the older rabbit furs. "Of course I did. Your idea was brilliant, after all. Would you like to feel?" she asked, holding the fur out at head level for the boy. She always had a soft spot for pups, and it was really starting to shine through. Tonight would certainly be interesting.

"Hey Ember," she called out the hole to the mother who couldn't be far behind. "Glad you guys could come!"

"Talk." Walk. Think.

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