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- Jesile Mogotsi - 01-01-2008 [html]
| style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 11px;"> style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 11px; overflow: auto; filter: alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity: 0.5; opacity: 0.5;">6 months Luperci bleachedstorm [at] gmail [dot] com bleachedstorm [aim] style="margin-left: 25px;">Preferably anyone who knows and/or recently saw Segodi, but anyone else is welcome to jump in, too Out here, all by himself, there was a sense of foreboding, but he also felt exhilarated, because there was no one to tell him he shouldn't do something or he should do something else. He was independent! However, there was a price to pay for independence, and he wasn't sure that he could yet afford the toll. He had to find his own shelter and scavenge what he could for food, and it was all tremendously mediocre. There was no one to talk to or comfort him when he felt like he was at a dead end, which he felt now. He could only afford the kind of independence that you couldn't depend on. Even the world pushed him and put him even more precariously against impossible odds. The land seemed endless as the skies he walked under. There was nowhere to go but on and on until something ended and he couldn't depend on that either. He would probably break before it ever came. But he believed that the universe always balanced itself out in the end. As he trudged through fresh snow on weary legs, there was a scent, and it smelled to him like hope. A bridge across the river of raging rapids. The scent of more coyotes warmed his heart and raised his spirits. Maybe someone here had seen his father, or maybe his father could actually be here. To anyone else it might seem like a shot in the dark to have any expectations, but Jesile had them because he wanted to see Dad again, and with this hope he believed that he eventually would. When Segodi had not come back for his family, the young puppy had been determined to find him and bring him back to where he belonged, and still, he remained determined. Nothing of life could stand in his way of that love and young, foolish courage. He had yet to learn anything the hard way. Inferni was his current hope. Dad was gone, but maybe someone knew where he had gone. Finding out was better than chasing ghosts. Maybe if he stood patiently on their doorstep like a good boy should, they would take pity and help him. It felt all right. |
psh, that was good. <3 The appearance of the female coyote brought a smile to his lips through the discomfort he felt being so far from home and everyone he knew, and he thought about all the things that had happened between the moment Segodi had taken the family to safety to that moment where he now stood. Every event that had transpired was a conscious thought on his mind and as he looked at her, he was pummeled by a number of emotions that became a swirling vortex in his mind. Initially, he was unable to speak, and the mixed feelings that plagued him were probably evident in his features. In the same moment, his heart swelled with hope and he felt a tug on it that threatened to let it sink. What if Segodi was really here? But then, on the other hand, what if she had never seen him before at all? What if she had seen him but didn't know where he had gone? What if, what if, what if. The little boy with champagne eyes was a little stubborn though, and refused to allow himself to think the worst of things. He would find Segodi. He would bring him back to where he belonged. “Hello,” he replied warmly, hardly nervous at all. There was no room for nervousness when you had a goal, when your mind was so focused on one thing. However, when she nearly immediately recognized why he was there before he even had a chance to explain, he was startled. His eyes widened just a little and he hopped forward a step in excitement without a conscious effort on his part. “Yeah! I—” but he cut himself off. Wait. He what? “He...what?” he stupidly asked, repeating his thought aloud. The confusion he felt was like thick fog, but he still had enough sense to cut through it, realizing that he had been impolite with this abrupt outburst. “Sorry, I mean... I don't understand?” That in itself was worthy of being a question because he was not entirely sure what he had heard. Maybe he simply misunderstood her. It was likely enough for him to believe and patiently, he waited for her to repeat, explain, or elaborate. He had forgotten what he wanted to say. |
Suddenly he didn't feel so alone. In the span of a few seconds it had become clear that she was just as confused as he was, which meant that she understood and if nothing else, knew who Segodi was, and had recently seen him. He still could not shake his confusion but the warmth within him spread from his heart to every extremity to create a kind of web of happiness. At the same moment that he was experiencing all of this, it finally hit him. He had another sister! Well, an adopted sister, but to him it was all the same and it meant the world. Somehow he had wandered far away from family he knew so well, but had managed to stride right into the life of more family, family he had no idea existed. It was a strange feeling to the boy. Everything had actually worked out in the end (even though he hadn't located his father) because he had found her, and she seemed just as anxious to find Segodi again as well. Now more than ever, he felt as though he was on the right path. However, he still had no idea of what he should say. Things had seemed to progress in a fast-forward state, and he had barely had a chance to let it all sink in. Though he wanted to say a million things, he could barely elicit a response that anyone on the planet would be able to comprehend, and so kept his mouth shut. The smile on his face grew though, and it was implicit. He was incredibly grateful for all of this. Finding out he had another family member as close to immediate family as she was, hearing her welcome him into her home clan, and finally, most importantly, finding out that Segodi (or Abel, as he had apparently called himself, which was still a mystery) had been here and that he was still out here, still alive. It was all so overwhelming, but it was the most amazing sort of overwhelming information he could ever hope for. “Thank you!” he exclaimed finally when she had made her incredible proposition. They would find him. They had to. “I would like to stay. Here. With you!” Partly because he didn't know how to get back, which was embarrassing and a poor display of his skills (or lack thereof), and so he would not tell her that. But he also had a feeling that he would be reunited with his father if he was only patient enough. Maybe he would regain his memory, and come looking for him! It was a long shot, he acknowledged, but he couldn't help hoping. Someday he would find his family again, and not just his father, but his mother and brother and sister, too. Being away from them for a little while would be okay, he knew, now that he had discovered even more family. “I'm Jesile,” he said with a grin, already looking up at her with a foundation of fondness. She was family, after all. |
He listened intently as she explained the ins and outs of their clan, and he smiled a little more with every detail. The boy was a quick learner, and loved gaining new knowledge of absolutely anything, and so he was more than happy to sit and just listen to others speak, archiving the new with the things he had already absorbed and noted. For instance, it was interesting to him that they had a different ranking system, because the clan he had come from had a different system, too. "Aquila", however, was a completely new word to him, and generally, he associated the Greek alphabet as wolf hierarchy, simply because he had not heard of anything otherwise. Not having to worry about any of this for a few months as she had said was a bit of a relief. If they had an entirely different system to what he was used to, he knew he would have to become accustomed to something else. Jesile also paid critical attention to her description of other members in the clan. Gabriel was both Faolin's mate and the clan leader, yes? He was also pleased to hear that there were others his age, though, she had noted Andrezej as "different". Later perhaps, he might have a different outlook on what exactly "different" meant, but for now, he merely wondered why he ought to watch out for the male, and decided that he would find out himself in time. All in all, he was rather content for the moment, pondering the things he had been told thus far, and the focus on his father was lifted for the moment. While Faolin was hoping that with Jesile here, Segodi would have another reason to return, Jesile was considering the exact same thing. If Dad had other family here, maybe he would come back all on his own. Then, if his mother, Sipho and Tshepiso came, he would be able to live among his family without any worries of how they were doing or how they would possibly be together again. It was a nice thought. “Yes, please,” he agreed with an even bigger smile. He had now become anxious to meet her own half of the family. To him, it just seemed to grow by the moment, because family in his eyes was not limited to blood connections. He was also excited to begin exploring and with a tour from Faolin who likely knew the land so well, it would be a jump-start. At the mention of a house and the possibility of choosing a room for his own after being on his own and frantically searching for shelter when the bad weather began, he was elated that much more. Here, he would be safe, and if Segodi did not show up, he would be able to set out to look for him again when he had adequate skills to track and navigate, with the reassurance that he had a home here to return to. |
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