All you've done gonna come back twice
You never cared how much it hurt, I really need to tell you
She’d always been intrigued by animals. Ever since she’d been able to move around, she had adventured, and gone outside to see the world; and the creatures in it. She had an especial fondness for the larger animals, the game that was hunted by her kind. Four legged game that ran away from you by natural instinct if you took a step near them. They usually didn’t spot Aoi, though. When she had lived with her mother, she’d crept up upon many a deer herd, and once they realised she was but a pup who meant no harm, they grew relaxed with her just watching them. That aura seemed to be rubbing off on others animals, too. They were not afraid of her; she was their shepherd, not their hunter.
And so today, perched upon a bale of hay, Aoi was watching some animals. Not deer this time, but close enough; horses. In the large stable like structure in the caves, that was their quarters. Aoi watched them with ease. Aren’t they just… she said to her pet crow, although she couldn’t think of a word magnificent enough to describe them. She waited for a response, from the ever talkative bird, but there was none. Confused, she glanced left and right, and then realised he was gone. Saigai? she whispered anxiously. She was sure he’d rode her shoulder here. But he was gone.
Or not so gone, as a flutter of black and white wings found their way fluttering towards her. Aoi grinned as the crow swooped low, coming back from wherever he had been. And then he dropped something on her. Ow! Aoi protested, sheets of white and a long, thin thing falling onto her head. Pape..pay-paper. Draw. said Saigai in broken high speech. Aoi looked confused, gathering up the sketchbook and pencil onto her lap, wondering what they were. In low speech, Saigai explained to Aoi what they were for; because he was a wise crow that had been around for longer than she had. He watched things. And so that was how Aoi ended up starting to fill the first page of the sketchbook with a picture of one of the colts in front of her. It was her first time drawing, so it wasn’t perfect, but it had a sort of creative style to it, and it was considerably beautiful.
Image courtesy of Majikdragon
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