Closed A horse and figs(Miu)

[Lyn'nice]

"Well, no family is perfect Miu. I should know I never have met my father. Grew up in Mura with my GreatGrands, my Gram, my Mom and Cousins. I came here to fufill a promise to my Great Grandfather to continue the Akalak race. I'd love to stay here as I don't feel like I fit in back in Mura, too calm there. But I don't know if I can ever become a resident due to the need to know how to use a weapon. As a healer I never have felt the need to learn to wield one. Healers normally only fight in self-defense situations and even after that we heal our enemies. Say, what sort of weapon do you use?" Lyn'nice asked curiously. "Oh okay. But if you do ever need anything, don't hesitate to come to me. Plus, I get lonely. So maybe you could come to my place for dinner some time? You could bring some of your game and I could cook it up for you. Hopefully if I start planting early this spring I should have some extra vegetables and herbs, if so you're welcome to some." Lyn'nice knew no other way than generosity. Perhaps it had come with her mark or perhaps the mark was because of her nature. She wasn't really sure. After period of silence Lyn'nice spoke up she had been thinking,"I'm going to make a guess at what animal you are. You said predator earlier so.... I'm going to say...Maybe some sort of bird, with your hair I'd say an owl. But I don't think that's it. A hawk maybe?" Lyn'nice laughed, "I'm nowhere close am I?"

[Miu Lonewolf]

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She kept quiet peeling an apple as she spoke, handing the pieces to rowan while she ate the skin. "You're nice... I will take you to my camp to fish sometime." her response was lacking but socialism wasn't her thing as she peeled it carefully with her eating knife before speaking up. "Long bow. I use a long bow but I hunt with traps more often..." she grew quiet hearing her guess at her other form that seemed to stir inside her like some sub conscious thought, "Would you like to see?"

[Lyn'nice]

Lyn'nice smiled, "I'd like that and come summer when I'm further in term I may have to drop in for a swim. But go on and tell me more about your camp." She was curious what it was like where Miu live. As she herself resided within her missing Talvas' home. Oh if she ever found Favchean... The tongue lashing she'd give him! "Is it hard to use a long bow and how hard is it to make traps? If it isn't too hard, perhaps you could teach me how to make traps or give me some long bow lessons? I'm always willing to learn something new. I could teach you a few things on gardening in return." If Miu was living outside of the city's comforts and testing her survival skills teaching her how to grow herbs and vegetables would be beneficial. "Umm sure!" Lyn'nice was a little confused. Did Miu mean show her the traps she made or did she mean her Kelvic self? Either way it was bound to be interesting.

[Miu Lonewolf]

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

Hmm... She watched the woman for just a pause, it was noticeable but she was in a good mood and considered showing the woman her camp and other half...

With this thought in mind she mounted Rowan once more before reaching out to the woman as if to pull her up to ride, "Come, I will show you it all and then we can eat." she was blunt with her actions but meant to be nice and not so rigid of a person to talk to.

She planned to first ride there to show her traps and things she had built and then shoot arrows with her watching or beside her, it was the woman's choice... by the time they would eat she knew she'd be ready to shift.

It was natural but... she feared her other side, it was her but in that form she let it all out, Anger, stress... it all was released as she ripped open the skins of her prey... She didn't like to show people that side but she was sure all the woman would see was her shell of fur and not the predator staring back at her, no... she already hadn't seen it in her eyes, it was pleasing to know it wasn't as outwardly visible as she thought it to be.

[Lyn'nice]

"I've never ridden a horse before," Lyn'nice said taking Miu's hand and getting up on Rowan's back. "Can we just go slow?" She had heard of horse riders who lost their babies from horseback riding with the galloping and such. But she trusted Miu. "O-okay, I'm ready." She stammered and clung to Miu for dear life as the horse slowly began to move. With time Lyn'nice began to loosen her death grip on Miu and relax. What had been utter terror dissolved into embarrassment, "Uhh, I'm sorry for squeezing the life out of you. It's not a scary as I thought it would be and now I'm super sorry for my death grip!" Lyn'nice could only hope Miu would understand and would be angry with her it had been a natural reflex. As cold and blunt as most probably saw Miu, Lyn'nice saw her in a whole different way. She did the things she did for a reason, and while Lyn'nice didn't know said reason. She would bet it had something to do with Miu's family, the way in which she spoke of them... Lyn'nice just had to wonder what had shaped Miu into the girl she was now. Maybe in time she'd know. Not today, nor tomorrow, nor a week, but someday maybe.

[Miu Lonewolf]

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She laughed a bit feeling the woman squeeze her from behind, she would feel that Miu wasn't well fed or at least it seemed with all her ribs showing but really she just burned off most of her game meat with hunting. "Hahaha, Don't worry about it." She had Rowan trotting in the snow at a slow pace knowing of the risk of losing a child on horse back. They were edging the woods before being surrounded in the wood of Riverfall.

Riverfall was a rocky and grassland sort of place but what forest it did have was full of game, she was rather lucky when it came to hunting and surviving. This woman had been the first to tell her animal like features apart from her human appearance, she was rather fond of this close observation and owed her something for healing her even if she didn't want it she would keep it a secret as to if it were a gift or not.

The wood was dark with odd twisted branches that made their way up to reach for the sky like hands from the earth reaching for the hiding sun. Clouds rolled by casting shadows as they trotted through the gleaming white snow, Rowans hoof prints were all over the place, a few traps were passed and some even seemed to be cut. Miu sighed, "People fuss over the foolish game that fall prey in my traps... They cut them free and I have to repair the damage with what I have left." Some were made with what looked to be strips of deer skin and some rope, even vines and one had been strung up with fishing line. There were leaves crumbled here and there but the little plant life seemed to be under the snow, berries greeted them as the bright colors caught ones eye against the white of the snow. Miu pointed the bluest of them out, "Don't let those touch the skin or tongue, They eat you away and get under your skin. They'll burn holes in your stomach too." She started to point berries out, "The pink are sweet, The orange will make you see things that are not there and the black you can eat."

It had been quite some time before they reached her camp, it was the only cleared spot it seemed, torches were balanced on forked sticks unlit and a skin covered frame of what was to be a hut sat beside a black tent with clay soaking in water on the ground beside it, she was working hard to keep it from freezing with her makeshift stove beside it, three rocks were balanced to make a box with a large opening that had smoke blowing away from the camp with a rock atop those three held up by two forked sticks, it seemed to glow with heat just slightly.

There was a large black tarp tied to two trees facing the stream that seemed to move just slightly over a thin sheet of ice beside a large tree with rope tied around it, it being Rowans spot where she slept and grazed. A shovel and mallet was leaned against this tree. "Here we are..." She helped the woman down, Rowan went off to graze while she started to cook some rabbit meat and fish sitting on a rock that was beside the fire pulling one over for her to sit on, they were rather cold but not as cold as the ground, Miu kicked a flat blood covered rock away. "Heh... So do you like rabbit?" She was trying to make small talk.

[Lyn'nice]

"I've never had rabbit before, but I'm willing to give it a try." Lyn'nice took a look around,"You do pretty well for yourself Miu. I don't think I'd be able to do all this on my own. It's pretty impressive to be truthful! So, those orange berries you said that make you see things? How did you know that? Did you eat one once? I wonder if I could make some preserves or jam out of the pink and black ones... If I did you'd be more than welcomed to some of it." Lyn'nice wandered Miu's camp as if she was looking for something she settled on a patch of snow, squatting down she dug through the snow until she reached dirt. It was frozen, but she managed to loosen a clump and take it into her hand. After studying it she put the dirt clump back and moved to a new spot and repeated the process. Lyn'nice did this a few more times before she settled down back by Miu. "Sorry about that. I was checking where you could plant a garden. See every Konti has a gift and mine is reading the soil." Lyn'nice pointed to a patch of snow. "Over there would be best, it's not too acidic, nor too sandy. It has a natural mix of minerals that are good. I'd plant there come spring."

[Miu Lonewolf]

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

She smiled watching the white haired woman dig around in the snow before listening quietly to her talk of berries and spring, "Aye, I figured there. It smells right like salt when everywhere else it just smells like dry paper." She hasn't noticed how strange it was to talk about the smell of things, she didn't seem to notice she could smell differently from others,

She was picking apart a rabbit on her lap then with a flat stone she had kicked away, it's unwanted organs being tossed aside as she cut through it casually. "The black berries are good on bread. The pink? I ate some a week ago and could have swore I had two horses and seven fingers, almost cut my fingers off in that fit." She laughed a bit nervously.

[Lyn'nice]

"You're right, it did have a rather pleasant smell compared to the rest of my samples. You have quite the nose! I couldn't pick out why it smelled better than the others, it wasn't until I touched it I understood everything about it. People overlook dirt it's sad. We rely on it for so much. But to most it's just dirt." Lyn'nice gave Miu a look,"Which two fingers were doubled and where were they?" It was a curious question. "I'm sorry, I was just curious." She gave a sheepish grin. She watched closely as Miu prepared the rabbit. Maybe she could learn something from watching. Lyn'nice watched every cut and movement Miu made. She couldn't help but notice how calm and easily she prepared the rabbit. There was no hesitation with her cuts. "What will you do with the innards? You can't just leave them laying out like that. It would attract unwanted 'guests', right?" She wondered what Miu thought about her teaching this strange fish girl. From her demeanor it looked as though as she didn't mind.

[Miu Lonewolf]

✯Miu✯

"I will find peace within the future, This is what drives me forward."

Miu looked up from the skin she was cutting, she was cutting it free of the meat and fats of the animal while she tossed aside the heart. "Ah, well It looked like I had two thumbs. It also looked like the tree's were stretched." as she spoke she went back to the meat that she was wrapping in deer skin that she pulled from her bag, she was running low though. Maybe hunting in my form will do some good tonight... She thought to herself as she cleared her throat and began to explain, "Animals can smell this is of their own yet they try to devour it anyway, I bait traps with the blood and sometimes I use the unwanted organs to squish up and hook them on my line to fish with, I use their bones for needles." She pointed with a bloody hand to where she had started making needles with the bones of rabbits.

"It hurts the fingers but they're useful." She smiled a bit before continuing, "I have only come by a bear that had woken much to early that wanted a bit of food, he took it and left. No harm done." She was lieing though, she had skinned the poor beast after almost dieing from it's claws, she planned to make clothing of it, The wounds healed by then and the evidence nearly gone. She didn't want the Konti to know of her cruel side.