The Chicken Herder

Sura · 08-24-2012, 05:02 PM

Only 1 or 2 please?

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The four month old child had quite a reputation for mischief, and after the recent turbulence in her own life, with both her guardians disappearing and being adopted by 'Satan', had come to a crucial realization: surely all that she was taught by her former guardians no longer applied. Including the order never to go outside Vinatta's borders without adult supervision. Sura was a creature of literal meaning, and as borders are always quite fuzzy, found no harm in hanging around the borders, dancing shortly outside of them, or wandering a little ways into another territory's border not so far away.

By this time, Sura was lost, but with a sense of adventure, she pressed onwards and inwards, resting as she needed to, as four month olds hardly had the stamina as adults did, not to mention their short and stubby legs could never boast the lengthy and effortless strides of someone senior to their age. Little Sura would not be discouraged at how long her progress took, as each step was an adventure, and every few minutes, there were new things to look at and admire. Her scenic route was mostly a scribble from bird's eye view, as she stopped to look at rock formations, holes, flowers, bugs, and even dung, trying out the taste of each one except the last. (She'd done that when she was much smaller and had quickly developed an aversion to such things).

Wandering more, she had long since crossed the territory boundaries of Sangi'lak and after a near collision with a tree that had suddenly sprouted in her path (because she could hardly pay attention to everything at once), she found herself eye to eye with a peculiar creature. It walked on two legs and had no arms but rather, a plump body, thick "fur", an upright stubby tail, obscenely tiny eyes, and large, red dry flaps of skin hanging from its face. Startled, she jumped, but the creature took her movements as an opportunity to peck at the ground where her feet had been. Sura moved around more to see if it would repeat the behavior, but it did not and wandered just as she had, stopping to examine the ground with its beak every few seconds.

What was this terribly odd creature! How exciting! Sura began to follow it around and made jabs of her head just as it did, even going so far as to emulate its noises. "Cwuck cwuck cwuck..." . She went about this for a few minutes, but quickly became bored. In the distance, another, similar creature loomed, nearly taller than her. She felt the urge to chase it just because it moved so funny, but thought it would be much more fun to follow behind them both, and hopefully emulate each bird's actions at the same time. Sura began to do her best to herd the creature by blocking its path.

"Cwuck cwuck cwuck..." , she repeated again when the creature didn't seem to get the message. Surprisingly, it looked up, cocked its head, and per chance, went the direction she wanted it to. Exuberance filled her veins. This was far more interesting. Sura felt so proud of herself! She could talk to these creatures by making the same noises they did! How ingenious! Of course, with the size of the brain housed in each of these avians, it was most likely they didn't have a language at all, and Sura's actions and result were mostly by chance.

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Jaden Ohanzee · 08-24-2012, 09:47 PM

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Jaden knows little about puppies >.< but he will try! PGP+4 Words-400+

There was always something that needed tending to somewhere in Sangi’lak. The Issum enjoyed have these things to consume his time. Since Thana’s visit he had felt occasional thoughts of loss and sadness but it wasn’t hard to shrug these feelings off. The dark woman had left him months ago. A simple return trip to try and upset him just proved what type of wolf she was. It was hard to believe he could still even trust what she said and did. And he had his dearly beloved co-leader as his own now. Thoughts of X’yrin always brightened the man’s day.

Having already hunted for himself, Jaden was now wandering about the territory on four secui legs looking for that something that always needed doing. It didn’t take him long to remember that the animals and their barn had alluded his close inspection for a long while now. The structure was easy enough to find and stood as an oddity on the Nomad land. Every other unnatural building was rotting from the depression of time or completely destroyed. The barn stood as a new and different structure than the others. It was the only one built by optime hands. It smelled of cut wood the many animals living in it. The Issum was proud of it. He marked it to express this in a feral way.

The sound of excited chickens drew his attention and pulled his eyes from where they admired the crafted wood. Jaden peeked around the barn’s corner and gazed out on the area where the flightless birds were kept. A young pup was amidst them and looked like it might be mimicking the waddling and pecking movements that made up, as far as Jaden could tell from his observations, the entirety of a chicken’s life. Where most would have smiled at the sight or found it endearing, the bicolored optime grimaced. Pups were such fragile little things and hard to understand. How one had managed to wonder this far into Sangi’lak without another of the members taking notice he wasn’t sure. Perhaps it was another secret of his love’s. He frowned further at that thought but didn’t really believe it. They had slept together in her chambers. No smells but hers and Zeus’ existed there.

So if it wasn’t another pup adopted by X’yrin then it could be or it was someone else’s. With slow and deliberately noisy steps Jaden approached the young one until he stood a comfortable distance away. Good day, little one. Are you having fun with the chickens? He asked in a gentle voice.

Jaden does. Jaden speaks. Jaden thinks.

Sura · 08-25-2012, 10:43 AM

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In her puppyish lupine form, it was the first time Sura had herded everything, and little did she realize that her strong desires were deeply rooted in the genetics within her : the collie dog. When she moved left, the chickens moved right, when she moved left again, the chickens moved left. Perhaps this wasn't so easy as she had expected, but still she continued about her task of herding the two together. One part of her wanted to rip the chickens to shreds just because they walked so funny and looked so easy to maim.

A man's voice startled her, booming at first to her unexpecting and dulled senses fully focused elsewhere. She turned to face him and let out a gasp at his enormous four-legged halftime form. She had never seen such a thing, so it came at quite a surprise to her. "Uhuh...", she gulped and managed to get out with a shaky voice, perhaps the shortest thing she'd ever said in her life thus far. But fear could only last so long in the fearless and it had quickly worn off.

"Yous are is biggers! Does dat mean yer poops is biggers too? If you makes a steps, does da gwounds shakes? What if you swips and yer paw hits dis stwange ding here, does it SWQUASHES it? Pluuuuuuurrrrgggghhhh! " (hover for translation), her tongue had a hard time with man words as she indicated one of the chickens and cocked her ears in deep thought. What kind of noise would it make if his paw came down on a chicken? What kind of noise would it make if that paw came down on her? Sura gasped.

"Pweases don'ts do da squishes me wif yer paws, I am only wery widdles! I am goods Suras, I pwomises. Why does yous not the makes cwuck cwuck cwucks toos? Does yous knows hows to twalks wif dem? Whats are dey? Dey wook wike dey woulds be funs to chases cauz dey wawks the funnies. Dey eaten all yer dirts!! Theys gonnas eat it all ups till you haves no mores the dirts weft!", Sura now pointed with her paw in urgency, realizing exactly what they were doing. How would this place survive if it didn't have any dirt left? Would they float about like in a zero-gravity room?

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Jaden Ohanzee · 08-25-2012, 04:45 PM

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Jaden’s big black rump fell to the grass as he was sort of over powered by a sudden blast of question, after question, after question. Some of them he didn’t even understand. Others were quite embarrassing. The size of his poops? Where was he supposed to begin? The Issum’s ears pinned back and he cocked his head while waiting for the pup to finish. There was so much energy in the little body. This was what made him uneasy about them.

The jumble of words and sounds offered forth by a young and inexperienced mind offered more than enough for the more mature of thought to decipher. He found what might be a name and tried to figure out what was most pressing for her little mind to know. She sounded like she might be afraid of him because of his size. That made him smile a little.I won’t step on you, don’t worry. He said from where he sat. But that didn’t seem fair for all the questions that had been asked. So Jaden stood and took a few steps toward her and sniffed for a scent while he spoke. And those things are chickens. They are like birds but cannot fly. The desire to chase them wasn’t strange to Jaden. He felt it too but also understood that the little things were valuable.

Jaden does. Jaden speaks. Jaden thinks.

X'ies Lambda · 08-27-2012, 08:44 AM

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ooc: Form, Lupus. Mid-day.

With a foriegn smell on their lands and no call to bid it, X'ies would move to investigate. What he found was Jaden approaching and talking with a pup, one that was not of their breeding. Most likely it was from one of the neighboring packs. Now Xies was attempting to get his mind back into order after the unfortunate incident with X'yrin. Attempting to get back into the Lambda mindset of logic, rules of pityless power. So when he emerged from the woods he had but one thing to say to the leader.".....Hail Jaden.....Why have you not chased this welp off yet?". Like the vulture X'yrin so alikened him to, he would circle around Jaden and the pup, watching closely with fogged eyes. "...The rules of the founding members....If a member is found to be in the company of a tresspasser...then they are subject to disaplinary action pertaining to their rank....and the tresspasser is to be ran off pack lands without mercy...". His eyes bre down on the pup, he knew that Jadens stance would likely be the same one that X'yrin would take But its just a puppy!. There was of course, no special dispensation given to younger creatures. Only to those seeking sanctuary or who sought to aid a pack member, even then they were to be closely watched as an outsider.

"...Since you gave no permission for this creature to enter prior to its tresspassing.......tis a tresspasser...and all rules apply thusly....I assume as the alpha you will set an example...and...escort...this young one to its proper home......or would you prefer I be the one to do so?",

Of course, his words were simply manipulations of the packs rules. For the black wolf likely knew that if it was X'ies who returned the puppy, it might not well be in a good state. And likely he would have a choice of select words for the pack it belonged to concerning teaching their young to respect borders.

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Sura · 08-27-2012, 01:35 PM

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Sura's tiny four-month-old mind knew nothing of howling at borders, sniffing for borders, or even of a border's very existence. Nor did she know anything of manners, rankings, or tail positions. But what she did understand was that she'd made a new friend who would tell her all about feces and these strange new animals apparently named 'chickens'. But what were the names of the other birds if one was named 'chickens' ?

"Wook! Wook! He is big-widdle wike me! See him?" (hover for translation), she pointed to the new man who'd showed up, excited to see another creature similar to her size, in Lupine form. "Twesspassers? Dat is sumfin bad, I nots bads, I a goods Suras. I accidentwally fwounds dis pwaces. My mummy saids I habs come heres but den dey abandonds-ededs me to dies n' I almowsts starwves to deafs! But I am not starved'eds to deafs, I still awives. I is good Suras, I not some bad twespassers, I not do nuffin bads, I just pways wif your birds'ses, dey were wonelwy and neededs somones to pways wif so dey gets dere excercisum's cuz dey is da fats! ", she explained, leaving out many crucial details and perhaps causing more questions than she could answer.

"He not twesspasswer eifer, he is my fwiend, see he has a stick! Cans we pways fetch wif your stick?" , she bent her body in order to crouch low to the ground, pointing to her new friend Jaden's undercarriage.

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Jaden Ohanzee · 08-30-2012, 08:11 PM

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The scent of Vinátta was easy to pull from the little one’s fur once Jaden got close. He’d smelled it on many occasions. So she would have to be returned there. Jaden wasn’t sure how to feel about that. He settled with a little irritated. When he’d shown up on the boarders of the pack they had spoken like having Sangi’lak so close was an inconvenience in some way. As Alpha he would be aware of any Sangi’lak intrusions into Vinátta. There had been none. So they were the ones truly being an inconvenience to Sangi’lak. Worse was what might happen if little Sura was injured. No doubt it would just be another reason for the two packs to dislike each other.

Jaden saw no reason to communicate such items of thought to the young mind even as they weighed down his expression a bit. The voice of X’ies spoke up in his usual tone as he invaded the scene. Jaden looked to him with a first neutral expression that quickly hardened into one of disdain. It would be like the Lambda to think he could scold the Issum. Perhaps that was not what he intended with his words but the analysis sounded much like scolding. That rule was set with the assumption our trespasser would know full well what they were doing. If it isn’t easy enough to understand the ignorance of a pup should be dealt with leniently, then perhaps we can amend the rule next time we have a pack meeting. He had been facing X’ies while he spoke but turned back to the pup before finishing, Besides, I may have given the pup permission to be here. You wouldn’t know. You assume too much X’ies. With that he bent his head down to nudge the pup gently with his muzzle. Her words had been ignored by the adults. Come little one, I will take you home, He didn’t necessarily feel comfortable chaperoning a pup himself but knew better than leave Sura to X’ies.

Jaden does. Jaden speaks. Jaden thinks.

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