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POSTED: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:41 am
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Mistfell Vale
Crowstooth |
POSTED: Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:54 pm
It was always an adventure when Nick and Toh decided to go riding outside of the Vale's territory.
Today they headed south, to lands still fairly unknown, and they very quickly ran into the coastline; naturally, to avoid diving headlong into the ocean, they instead decided to follow the beach down further and see where it would take them.
Whereas Phoenix usually reveled in this sort of primitive sense of freedom — the wind in his mane, the blur of colors flashing past as Tohopka thundered through the sand — something was off. He was unusually distracted as of late.
He never usually dwelled on women, but he caught his mind wandering back to the amber-eyed Lyssa more and more, and he absolutely hated it.
She was cute as a button and nice and kind and just the kind of woman he would have liked to see more often, except he didn't want to fall into that trap. It was a trap he knew well and avoided thusly; it was a trap that was fatal to men like him. The coymutt was always so confident and flirtatious and it only came back to bite him in the rear when a decent person began to fall for his act.
Musing over the what-ifs and the what-thens did not last for much longer, however, as he spotted a figure further up the beach; he clicked his heels against Toh's sides, and the massive black stallion slowed to a halt, allowing the Mistwalker a better look at the stranger. Definitively doggish, the young man was pouring over an odd assortment of curiosities, needle in hand, and the cowboy whistled to him in greeting.
"Howdy there, stranger," he called, stopping the mustang at a respectable distance from the younger man. "This here's a pretty back drop fer sittin', gotta hand it to ya." Tohopka snorted and shuddered with heavy exhales, still catching his breath from the exhilarating run.
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hi there! hope you don't mind me joining in!
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Mistfell Vale
Hawkesond |
POSTED: Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:30 pm
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Mistfell Vale
Crowstooth |
POSTED: Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:31 pm
He seemed a harmless enough fellow, Phoenix reckoned. Inoffensive and agreeable, just as the man upon the horse liked to think he himself was. His words were tinged with a peculiar dialect, one more foreign than even Phoenix's in these parts, and the coymutt's ears pricked as he listened to the dark-furred male.
As he busied himself with his needle once more, Phoenix took the chance to swing his leg over the saddle and dismount, feeling the sand bury itself between his toes underfoot. Tohopka shifted beside him, probably glad for the momentarily respite.
"Well sure, 'm a traveler, sorta," he answered, stretching out his stiff limbs. "We're a lil' far from home, I reckon, but we ain't been in these parts fer too long. I live in Mistfell Vale, now; it's back thata way." He pointed vaguely in the direction they had came.
"Nice t'meet ya, Mister Wally," he answered with a grin, sticking out a hand to him for a shake. "'M Phoenix, n' this fella's name is Tohopka." The stallion in question glanced over at his name, but otherwise he began to wander away from them, curious to find a patch of grass, probably in vain.
"Where'd you come from, partner? Since you ain't from 'round here n' yer a traveler n' all. Toh n' I are from Arizona, out west. Took us a hot minute t'get all the way out here, lemme tell ya."
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sorry for the wait on this! <3
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Mistfell Vale
Hawkesond |
POSTED: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:00 pm
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Mistfell Vale
Crowstooth |
POSTED: Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:38 pm
"Oh, 'course not, they're real friendly," he assured Wally, but he bit his lip and cleared his throat. "We're real friendly, more like." He chuckled a little. "Sorry, still tryin' t'get use to this whole, uh, pack thing. I reckon it's my first one." The ranch had just been his family, but perhaps their little unit could have been categorized as a pack if he squinted at it hard enough. Although he never did like to think too hard as it was.
"M'sister lives out there n' convinced me t'join. Whole slew of nice folk out there, pretty relaxed place." He had been a little afraid initially that pack life would be stuffy and uppity, but he was happily mistaken. Besides, even if it had been, a woman like Sedona would not have thrived there and begged him to join up with her.
There was some percievable confusion in the stranger's face, and Nick supposed that was to be expected. "Ho boy, how 'bout that? Personally I ain't ever seen so many trees in my life 'til I got up here." Red rock country was starkly different from Nova Scotia.
He let out a "hmm". "I mean, 'bout as nice as walkin' fer days on end can be," he mused, stroking his chin, and Tohopka snorted behind him, probably wondering why they were still on this grassless beach. "'Least you wandered into a nice enough place."
"Oh, Arizona?" he repeated, his voice growing in volume. His tail wagged behind him and he grew audibly excited, like an old man eager to spill stories of his youth. "Weeeeeeeell, it's real far west of here, like I said, and it's real, uh, red. A heh heh." He flashed his acquaintance a grin. "Ain't no trees hardly, lots of rocks n' wide open space n' such. These parts almost felt claus-tro-phobic at first, you know what I mean? Ain't ever seen so much green before, so many trees."
A shrug. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I like these parts just as well, but... You never can forget yer home, y'know?"
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when wally is titled up in MV he and nick should definitely have another thread, btw!! :D
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Mistfell Vale
Hawkesond |
POSTED: Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:36 pm
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Mistfell Vale
Crowstooth |
POSTED: Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:53 pm
He touched his chin thoughtfully at Wally's question, and then his shoulders rolled in a shrug. "Just had t'get out and see the world, I reckon," he answered. Phoenix wriggled his toes as bits of sand and dirt caught between them. "M'sister left before me, headed east, too. So I just kinda, y'know, followed her path. I only found her by some miracle or fate or somethin'." Thank Christ for Lyssa pointing him in the right direction. Otherwise he would have been wandering for quite a bit longer.
He chuckled good-naturedly, apple green eyes flicking over to Tohopka briefly. The stallion was growing a little restless, he could tell, so he padded over to his side and dug around in the saddle bag, fishing out one of the tart apples from Mistfell's orchard. "Will this hold you over, big guy?" he taunted for a moment, holding the fruit just out of reach, only for the equine to lurch forward with a snort and tear the apple from the man's hand. Phoenix laughed a bit at that, raising a brow at the other male, wondering if he got a kick out of seeing the horse's antics.
Phoenix did, at least.
"If ya ever do, you better let me know," he told him, wagging a finger at Wally. "I wanna hear what'cha think. I could be yer guide, even, if you give me some notice." He grinned again. "Just swing by the Vale and we'll see some real red rock country."
He tilted his head slightly. "So where you lookin' t'head towards, Mister Wally? Or are you just goin' with the wind?"
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awesome!!
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Mistfell Vale
Hawkesond |
POSTED: Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:41 pm
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Mistfell Vale
Crowstooth |