A Gift for You (Amelia)

Amelia gets a present from Kalina

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While Sylira is by far the most civilized region of Mizahar, countless surprises and encounters await the traveler in its rural wilderness. Called the Wildlands, Syliran's wilderness is comprised of gradual rolling hills in the south that become deep wilderness in the north. Ruins abound throughout the wildlands, and only the well-marked roads are safe.

A Gift for You (Amelia)

Postby Kalina on November 25th, 2013, 11:25 pm

32nd Day of Fall, 513 AV
Early Morning


Once again Kalina had abandoned her Master's good advice of sleeping during the night in favour of heading out, away from her travelling party's encampment in favour of hunting for something more edible than the food the rest of them had eaten the previous evening. Kalina herself had merely picked at the food before wandering off to bed. Mere bells into the night, the young Kelvic had started to feel the familiar pangs of mild hunger and had crept out of the tent as quietly as possible. To her knowledge, no one woke at her departure and she was now returning before day properly broke, hopefully before the other three rose that morning.

From the distance, however, her heart sinks, as she picks out a figure sitting by the quickly dying fire. A few steps closer and she recognises the figure to be Amelia, the other female in the group. The feeling of dread leaves her slightly, knowing that. Had it been her Master, she would have likely been due a stern talking to about wandering off with no one knowing. She was young, after all... had no sense of the dangers of the world... was inexperienced... couldn't look after herself. She hated it! She could turn into an animal and had sharp claws, after all! Nothing had hurt her yet! She was going to prove them wrong!

Still unable to catch herself a deer, she had feasted once again on rats, and killed an extra one to return with, and offer as a gift. As Amelia was the only on that Kalina saw awake, she would offer it to her. Padding along, makes no particular effort to speed up her pace to reach the campsite, and Amelia, silently wondering whether or not she would be rebuked. Hopefully the present Kalina was carrying in her mouth would placate the older girl.

Finally she reaches the dark haired woman and, mewling to announce her presence, rubs her small, spotted body along the other's side and drops the rat from her mouth, at Amelia's feet. Lowing her belly to the ground, she lies down and, with her nose, nudges the dead animal closer to her, making the gesture of the gift clear.

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Postby Amelia Cross on November 26th, 2013, 11:02 pm

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Nights were especially close to Amelia. She would never admit it to the people she traveled with, as she was afraid that a member of the Black sun, and a soldier of the Stryfe would not understand and accept it…but Amelia actually appreciated the gods that ruled over this domain. The most cherished one of those was by far, the moon, Leth. He was a god of constant change that looked over the night and the lost in it, guided them with his own bright light. She needed his guidance, she craved it more than anything, that she would never admit.

Tonight though, she hadn’t come out of her tent to look for adventures and try to hypnotize poor animals…she was not here to pray to the moon or the music the trees here made. She was here because nightmares kept on forcing the girl up. For every chime of sleep, she had 5 of them that were full of tears or fear. Her nightmares, it just felt like nothing helped her get away from them, so she hopped that by watching the fire burn, she would relax and fall asleep. She wouldn’t mind the awkwardness of waking up to everyone wondering why she was sleeping by the fire, if she actually could sleep peacefully.

She sat down in front of the campfire. Amelia made sure her back was straight, but still relaxed just as her muscles… the girl looked at the fire calmly, a breath in and breath out, all growing into rhythm with the wind that danced with the leaves. Amelia was still horrible in meditation, but she seemed to have understood the basic concepts of it down. Her mind grew calmer, no more desire to cry or scream for her life.

It almost felt like she was dozing off, almost, and then something rubbed against her body. Instantly Amelia jerked back from the creature in a matter of simple self-defense, almost knocking herself in the flame. Thankfully, when Amelia got a better look at who had been the visitor, she recognized the kelvic slave, Kalina, in her true form as Amelia liked to think of it. She even felt sorry that she had gotten so frightened the first place ”oh, its you Kalina” she said in a voice a little above a whisper in volume.

The woman sat up properly again, and was about to pull her hand closer to the felines head, to pat her and start explaining her that it was not a nice thing to do, to sneak up on someone, especially in this form of hers. But her common sense thoughts were scared off as she notice that…that…rat! Amelia jerked her hand back and moved herself a bit distanced from the ocelot and the dead body of the rat. Its not that she was afraid of rats, she just liked her rats alive…in the wilds…when she practiced hypnotism on them.

”K~Kalina…w~why did you bring me a rat?” it was confusing and she couldn’t help but hold back the disgust she felt building up in her as she kept on looking at the rat, its little paws and tail…the dead face and still nose that should be full of movement.

Then again, what kind of answer did she expect from an ocelot? A meow? Looks like she will start to take some gesture and meowing techniques into practice latter on…like…one meow for a yes and two for a no.

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Postby Kalina on November 29th, 2013, 1:30 pm


Had she not been in ocelot form, Amelia would have seen the Kelvic's face drop, perhaps even comically. Instead, her eyes drop to the ground and a low mewl, close to a cry, escapes her. Shuffling closer, Kalina drops her nose towards the rat and sniffs at it, trying to work out whether or not there was something the matter with what she had brought back. It had been killed less than a bell ago, so it couldn't be rotting already. To her feline senses, it smelled fine, and her eyes narrow in confusion.

Dragging her large paws towards her body, she pushes herself up into a sitting position and then, with a quick glance around herself, she morphs out of her ocelot form. The figure left behind is a young, pre-pubescent girl, about eight or nine years old. Apart from than the thin, dry patches of mud covering her skin and hair, she is otherwise completely naked, and does not seem to mind this state of being.

Shifting, she remains seated, but crosses her legs in front of her. The only person present was the other female, but should either of the men appear by the fire, Kali would not cover herself up in shame. Her Master, for one, had seen her nude countless times. Clyde had not, but it doesn't occur to the ignorant little girl that it was socially unacceptable to appear without clothes in human form.

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It's for you, 'Melia." Kalina speaks quietly, the obvious hurt entering her voice, though it is mixed with a level of confusion and worry; the Kelvic was still concerned that something was wrong with the food she had brought back. "Last time I brought one back for Master. This one is for you..."

Though the young Kelvic had not slept the previous night, she is still bursting with energy, something she tries to clear from her system by rocking back and forth in her position on the floor. Looking to her right, she notices the first light from the sun creeping over the horizon and grimaces; the night was far better than the day.

"
See, 'Melia... you and Master and Clyde aren't very good at getting food. You can't hunt good, like me, can you?" Kalina grins as she turns back to look at the young woman in front of her, "And I like you alls, so I dun want any of you to die. So I have to find you food."

She bites down on her lower lip; the colder weather was making her lips dry, and she had developed the habit of peeling them as a way of relief. "
Thought you'd like..."

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Postby Amelia Cross on November 30th, 2013, 10:33 pm

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It was clear to the mortal eye that the kelvic was confused, confused why Amelia did not accept the gift, maybe even hurt, but she could not tell such things by just looking at a feline. Though the way the ocelot sniffed the rat and looked at Amelia once more, somehow she began feeling a bit guilty that she had not accepted it…then again, what would she do with a rat of all things?

Once Kalina morphed back to her human form, what was the real form? Amelia had never really studied anything regardless of kelvics other than their few habits and some visual marks that could tell them apart from others. For the most part, the race was a mystery…She assumed her true form was the ocelot, then again, was she born an ocelot who could morph in a human girl? Or was she born a human girl who learned of her heritage? ”that is too confusing” she confessed to her mind as she looked at the naked girl.

Funny really, how kelvics never bore any sense of shame about being nude in front of someone. Amelia had met a few kelvics who did, but she had a good guess that since those were not slaves and were thought to live like humans, they just were learned the natural way of things in the way a human child would…just faster. Then again, she should probably teach the girl that you can’t really go around naked on the streets…especially in a crowded city like Zeltiva or the city of monks, Nyak. ”aren’t you cold? Maybe you should put on some clothing?” she did ask, before throwing in the morals of why and why not you should wear clothing…no, just the reason why as the girl was too young to learn the other half. ”but my, do kelvics grow fast”

So it was a gift, her guess was not incorrect after all, but how should she explain that this is not the proper way to give gifts?”Kali, this is…a lovely gesture…but you can’t bring humans rats as gifts, gift giving between humans is a lot different than between animals…and I repeat, bringing a corpse of a rat is not a good gift"but what would be a good gift this girl could hunt down?"…maybe a bunny instead that actually has meat on it and doesn’t look this,ugly?” the last bit was supposed to be an inner dialog of her own that somehow broke out. How silly people could sometimes be?

”trust me when I say, we can hunt if we need to, but we don’t, because we have enough supplies set for the trip to Nyak…if you want to practice your own skills though, that is a bit different” ”why do I feel guilty, when the girl doesn’t understand me?” she complained and then looked back at the clueless kelvic who was biting down on her own lip ”thank you, I appreciate the thought…but…please take the rat away...and stop biting your lips, it doesn’t look good and ruins your pretty lips”


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Postby Kalina on December 6th, 2013, 1:43 pm


It is a little cold, the young Kelvic decides, and she pushes herself up, nodding, as she misunderstands Amelia's subtleties. "
Is cold," she agrees, "Can I have some warm?" Coming up to sit by the older girl, she drags her legs up to her bare chest and shuffles in as close to the other as possible. It would not take an intelligent observer much effort to notice the fact that the younger liked the older. From the instant she had been saved in Ravok, Amelia had become somewhat of an idle in the Kelvic's eyes, and their journey had only reinforced this idolisation.

The words are going in, and she understands what Amelia is actually saying to her, but she cannot comprehend the meaning behind the words. They could not hunt! None of them could turn into a cat, like she could. How in the world were they supposed to survive, without her help?! And... "
But... what's a bunnies?" having grown up in the Kelvic Research Institute, Kalina had seen countless different Kelvics, who were all different animals, and some who were the same. But she had never been given names to all of the different animals she had seen.

She knows than a 'bunnies' is not a deer; Kali had already shared her failed tale of trying to catch the buck, and she knew Amelia would not be expecting her to catch something that large just yet... And so she imagines that it is just a small type of animal, like a rat. Running her thoughts through the mental images she had stored of animals, she finally blurts out, "
Big ears? That's a bunnies? I never seen one of them. Not out here. Do they tastes good?"

Despite the explanation, Kalina is still hurt, and, sulking, she let's go of one of her legs and pushes the bloodied rat away with her foot, before dragging her leg back up towards her body, not caring about the blood that now remained on her toes. "
I will eat it later," she announces; rats don't taste as good as fish, but she likes the way the flesh peels away from the bone when she tears at it, nor does it taste all that bad.

A yawn escapes her lips; a night of hunting would soon take its toll on her. "
Where are we going today?" She asks, praying that Amelia's answer would be nowhere; Kalina didn't want to transform and travel on foot today, but she also hated the horse that took much of her Master's attention, and didn't want to ride it whilst she slept.

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Postby Amelia Cross on December 28th, 2013, 1:13 pm

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A slight, sympathetic smile came across the older girls face as the kelvic came closer to her. Amelia did like Kali, not quite as much as the ocelot liked Amelia, but she still did enjoy her innocent company. Though her cluelessness about the world made the girl a bit of a trouble to socialize with, actually no, it made most if not all kelvic a pain to socialize with...the kind was brilliant in the way they evolved and grew....learned...but the learned basic things so slowly that if they didn’t have someone that thought them things...they ended up like Kali...thinking that running around naked is the way it should be. Sometimes Amelia wondered, does the kelvic think that she is the crazy one for wearing clothing? The Cross chuckled at the thought as she pulled her arm over the young one’s shoulder and pulling her closer to herself.

Amelia observed as the girls expression changed as she tried to remember, or understand, what was the animal Amelia had spoken of. Rabbits were a pain to hunt down, that much Amelia knew, but that would probably give enough exercise to the cat...”yes, big ears and small fluffy tails, they are really fast, though they don’t really run...they jump?””explaining is harder than i thought” she had to admit to herself. Though the girl was surprised that Kali hadn’t encountered any, Amelia practiced her hypnotism on them here, they were quite hard to attract and keep around, but they were the curios kind and if you were quiet enough they would come close...that was the problem, Kali was not exactly the silent kind, as far as Amelia could remember at least ”Nonsense, the woods are full of them, they are harder to spot because they are changing their fur color now..” she explained while brushing some hair off the girls face ”yes, they are really tasty!”

”we are going to Nyak, its a city of Monks by the shore...its really the same place where we have been going since we departed from Ravok...once we get there, we go to Zeltiva...I was born in that city, its lovely...” Amelia smiled to herself, looking up at the sky as she remembered Zeltiva, it was the city of her dreams. I didn’t really stand close to Ravok, she doubted any city would, but still...Zeltiva was the last place she had a family, it was her home, she was happy there. And she couldn’t wait till they would get back there and hopefully...meet some of her old friends ”but you will have to learn to wear clothing before we get to those cities”


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Postby Kalina on January 5th, 2014, 10:59 pm


Being of the Kelvic race, the young girl struggles with the description, and of the pronouncement that they tasted good. Amelia was doing a very effective job of confusing the child sitting beside her. With the added description, Kalina knows that she had seen a few of them, not many, but a few. Once, she had tried to track and catch it, but she had failed abysmally, as she did with most of her hunts. Rats were, by far, the easiest to catch, she had long since decided. Rabbits, however, were a confusing sort of animal and, surprisingly, Kalina finds herself horrified at the idea that they would taste good.

In her sleep deprived state, the tired, almost human, Kali cannot get her head around the concept that someone would want to kill something so cute. "
Why kill? They so cuddly. They so cute and fluffy." It does not occur to the child that, were she to find another when her mind was on more predatory matters, she would likely kill a rabbit without a second thought. But for now, the younger girl stares at the rat’s carcass in horror, imagining it to be a little rabbit. Won’t kill them, she promises herself, want to cuddle instead.

Kalina closes her eyes as Amelia brushes a few loose strands of hair out of her face. The sensation is welcome, and it feels like being stroked, which is something that the Kelvic loves when she is in ocelot form. She grimaces a little, however; there was no way that anyone would be able to ‘stroke’ her properly in this form, given the knots that her long, greyish hair had fallen into. "
Nothing tastes so good as a fishes, ‘Melia. I can catch you fishes if you don’t like rats, you know." It is a quiet offer; the Kelvic was afraid of being rejected once again by the elder. Kalina was not able to do much, but what she could do, she would in order to make this girl and her Master like her.

Nodding at the human’s words, Kalina silently wonders how much further it would be, how much longer before they arrived. It is no doubt clear to the rest of the travelling party that Kalina was beginning to suffer from the long days and, for the ocelot kitten, even longer nights. Not more than a few days would go past before the youngest member of the group would have a tantrum, which could occur in either human or ocelot form. Despite the fact that she hated the sheer amount of water surrounding Ravok, she found herself missing her short lived home.

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I know how to wear clothes!" The apparent eight year old says indignantly, "Just… can’t when want to go hunting. Makes it difficult. Clothes don’t fit properly, and my hair becomes my clothes." Glancing over to where the horses were tied up, she gestures over to them, "My dress if probably near Master’s stupid horse." She chews on her lip for a chime or so, before finally saying, "Master never told me why we going there. Is silly, we should have just stayed at home."
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Postby Amelia Cross on January 23rd, 2014, 11:14 pm

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Once Kali had expressed her thoughts of the animals, them being cute and cuddly, Amelia’s eyes softened, but not exactly as loving, more like sad…like she felt sorry for the girl. Kalina was young, too young. She had never asked the girl’s actual age, but she had a good guess she was barely a year old, and she was thrown in a journey with Marcus, Clyde and herself. Neither of the men seemed to glow with particularly gentle lights…not that they seemed evil…but they served Rhysol, there was a limit to how good they could be even with all the respect Amelia had for her mentor who she felt she was letting down with every day…but Kali was a child, she was an innocent child who needed care, she was unprepared for the world, even less prepared for the world that this bunch was dragging her into.

”Oh Kali, you don’t have to give me anything, gifts are nice, but they are not something that are needed” something Amelia did not actually believe firmly. She loved her gifts, she loved men giving her everything from jewelry to dresses, but she wanted the girl to believe in the world that didn’t ask for those things. ”Remember, for friends gifts are vanishing values” She smiled and gave a kiss on the girls forehead. She didn’t lie, not entirely.

Listening to the way Kali expressed her dislike to the horse and the seemingly overall trip, well, Amelia somehow seemed to agree, the trip was not something she thought would please a child…it was tiring even for her and she had some experience in traveling back and forth from Syliras and Ravok…she had never been to Nyak though. ”Kali, you should wear clothing, for one, it gets cold, but more importantly it is needed to wear clothes when in your human form, it is no coincidence that I wear them, Marcus and Clyde wears them…you should to””is there even a way to explain why one should wear clothes?” she was not really sure.

”horses are smart animals, mine for example, has been for me with years….she understands me and has saved me multiple times…his horse might be just as lovely, give her a chance” she answered with a smile, the Cross sincerely loved horses, so she saw nothing bad in them and even if the horse might have sins on its souls, it was always the purest animal. ”I’m not entirely sure what the point of this whole trip is also, but that makes it a lot more fun, doesn’t it? It’s like an adventure! Where we get to explore and see new places…for you it must be double the fun, since you haven’t been away, no? or are you home sick, so to say?”

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Postby Kalina on January 31st, 2014, 12:16 pm


The girl had never really understood the purpose of gifts, or why one might give one to another. But she knew that it was a nice thing to do and she remained confused when Amelia tried to explain it to her, "
Van-shing values?" she repeated her brow furrowing, as if deep in thought, even when Amelia kissed her on the forehead. She didn't react to the display of mother-like affection, as she was still trying to get her head around the phrase that was, to her, clearly nonsense. Why was Amelia saying that? Was she confused herself? Was she ill? "Van-shing values for friends..." the young Kelvic finally assumed that it was a grown-up thing, and that one day she would understand. But not today...

Snuggling closer to the older girl, she took in what Amelia was saying about the cold - it was pretty chilly at this time in the morning, though she knew it would probably be fine when it got to the middle of the day. She remembered back to before Marcus had bought her, back in the Kelvic Research Institute. With the metal bars and concrete walls and floors, there had been a time there where it had been so cold that Kalina had been burning. Then, she had spend most of her time in ocelot form, a better was to conserve heat, she had found. Glancing up at Amelia, it finally occurred to the Kelvic that humans didn't have nearly as much fur as animals did - she surmised that humans needed clothing in order to keep themselves warm... they were just so hairless. But there was something else in Amelia's voice, an urgency of sorts that brought the girl to speaking again.

"
Is it... rude, 'Melia? Rude to not wear clothes?" She asked softly, wide, moss-green eyes cast up to look at the other girl's face. Marcus had never had a big issue with her flouncing about his apartment in nothing but her skin, but he had always insisted that she wore clothing outside, and brought a spare set if she left with him in ocelot form. "When I am human? Don't have to wear clothes as a cat?" people always seemed to cover up certain parts of their bodies... Not their face, or hands, and sometimes the legs and arms were bare. Must be something that people don't want other people to see all the time. She concluded.

At Amelia trying to convince her that the horse was alright, she shook her head fervently. "
Master likes it more than me." She said stubbornly, clearly distraught at the very notion that she would come second in her Master's eyes. And worse, to an animal who couldn't even talk back. "Wonder what tastes like.." the child muttered the last utterance darkly, to herself, rather than to Amelia, and her pupils narrowed into slits. In the wind, the scent from the horses were all wafting over to her, and there was no denying that they smelt good - better than rats, at least.

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Not sick..." she murmured absently, as her head turned to look at the horses, too big... too, too big. "My tummy feels fine, 'Melia." She replied, clearly missing the point of 'homesick'. Turning back to stare at the kindling fire in front of them, she did nod, however, "A-ventures are fun."

OOCthat's okay :)
I'm more sorry for my sudden tense change.. trying to move to the past!

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