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Post by Renathan on Aug 13, 2019 15:54:39 GMT -6
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Post by Flare on Aug 13, 2019 17:04:33 GMT -6
This wasn't supposed to happen. The little female reeled from the confused that she felt, the pain. The others are supposed to be under her foot. To pay attention to her and play when wanted. But that rude rude female BIT her, on the FACE of all places. She makes a soft noise, rubbing her paw, getting wet now, on the bite. The giant monster had taken her, and pulled the tooth out. Tooth? She left a TOOTH in her? Rude. And she could hear more, nearby. Confused and in pain, the little female worried at her injury with her paw. Flare just was setting her back down, but still within reach, when he froze. A motion caught in the edge of his vision. There were more of those rabbits. Growling. Not more then three or four of them, at present. But he could see two hanging back, away from the growlers. One was worrying her leg, the other bleeding from the mouth, from a missing tooth no doubt. One, a creature with an orb on its tail, pointed forth with a paw, and made a declarative noise. How did Flare know it was declarative, he didn't. But this small posse... 14
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Post by Flare on Aug 13, 2019 17:14:00 GMT -6
He moved too slowly, reaching for the bleeding, whining creature. Four of them were upon the pair within seconds. Scales or not, those little teeth were painful! Swift too, avoiding his reaching hands as he tried to grab them, throw them aside. Snarling in pain, the drake lashed out with his limbs, crutch briefly forgotten. He was trying to keep them from getting to the thin membranes of the wings on his back, holding them close. But Flare had a hard time keeping the others from overpowering the little longhaired one. They surrounded it, tugging on ears and fur, biting limbs and ears. Bullies, the lot of them. The little whines became full blown shrieks again. One of the orbed ones fell before the pack attacking the longhaired. His haunch bloody. Sitting up, the giant monster lizard's maw curled into a hungry angry look. It made a roaring sound. Two of the attackers hissed at him, fur raised along their spines. The creature's tail smacked the others away, pulling the bleeding lump of longhair towards him. Fine, the domestic would be eaten and they would be rid of it. The male with the gashed leg chittered at the posse, shaking its head. They weren't going to win here. The giant was strong, but not fast. He and the others retreated after a short ...yip? of declaration. 15 ^
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 5:33:07 GMT -6
“What’s going on here” someone speaking common, and not that far away. Sounded female to Flare’s ear, but rather gruff. “Dang nab tresspassing strays.” Peddling around and trying somethihg? He wouldn’t be able to tell. Covered in rabbit bites, the drake kept the quivering lump of longhaired fur close to him, in case the posse descided to cme back for a second time. A figure appeared in the allyway. “Another hobo? NOt in my territory. Out, shoo!” Hobo? HIm? ]Not hobo. ] He treid to put across. ]wild rabbits\ “Wild rabbits? Did. Those rabbits have long ears? Long tails?” Nod. The stranger approached carefully. “Well blast it, say something of sort if you’ve been mobeed.” The figure takes in is ragged appearance. [Rabbit hurt.\ he tells them. Motioning to the fur near him. They swear, and without asking scoop up the fluffy rabbit thing. Looking not too happy. 16
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 5:41:34 GMT -6
It took a few tries for Flare to get himself off the ground, including using his crutch. The stranger just waited, holding the fur creature with a gentle way. ]Escape rabbit. Chased it. Attacked.] he manages to explain, mostly in tumai. The stranger doesn’t stare at him hlike he’s got two heads for once. [Not many around here speak tumai fluentlyl] the stranger mutters. Must be a foreign immigrant. Looked a bit work for ware to be anyone’s servant.. “Name?” “Flare.” He points to himself, and gives a proper tumai greeting.. “Charmed.” The stranger mutters; Upon closer inspection once the sun wasn’t illuminating from behind,. They were a furred creature on two legs witha tail. “Lets take this one to the vet. She’s going to need stitches at least. And check you over too. ORbaru bites, wild ones in particular, are no joke. And no taling your way out of it,” they explained. 17
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 9:35:53 GMT -6
{What is an orbaru?} he asks as he hobbles to keep up with the stranger ahead of him. She had the lump of fur still. "You called them wild rabbits; orbaru are those. Look like rabbits with longer ears, tails and orbs on them to tell apart male and female." the mammal on two feet told him. She? looked nothing like Darkee, didn't smell it either. Of course there were going to be different animal-people then just Darkee here, and Haix. Right? He nods in reply. "The labs, far as I've heard, created the orbaru as an adorable simple minded housepet for children. They evolved over the years, and propogated. Recently we've bene having issues with a wild group of strays; people not wanting their bu or the breakouts from the old Zoo of orbaru, I don't really know, or care. My job is to hunt down a particular stray and get her checked by the vet. 18
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 9:41:00 GMT -6
"Can't catch the little rodent even with baits and traps; they're street smart enough to steal the food and run before the trap triggers." The mammal person sighs a bit, ruffling her head fur. "I put out a quest for the Pethians who have been taking to the quest board like starving beasts for something to do, and its been working. However we keep finding injured females here and there." Nod. CRUNCH Flare had to catch himself on the closest thing to him to avoid falling flat on his face. Turned out be his savior, was the closest thing to him. She sidestepped, and he went flat on his face, cursing under his breath. The crutch had been chewed on and snapped under his weight. "Watch it!" she turned around, finding the 'hobo' ssashirk being a rug on the ground. Could clearly see one limb shorter then the other. The snapped crutch. The balled up fist of dirt. Well. 19
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 9:47:48 GMT -6
She must've walked away. He could just think it to be true. Who would want to be seen with a dusty lame ssa like him. Eventually someone or something would come. Kick him to move aside, or just plain step on him for being in the way. Practically penniless, he'd have no way to pay for the little 'orbaru' rabbit thing to get treated, nor himself. Flare closed his eyes against the grit of the ground, just waiting with resignment. Something started pulling his arm. "Are you going to lie there all day and wait for something carnivorous to eat you or are you going to help yourself?" He opened his eyes. She was not gone, and the orbaru, awake, was clinging to her as the mammal female person was attempting to haul him to his feet. "Help yourself up too, you're no sprig in the wind on weight scaly." It took two to get him off the ground, and finally to the vet, nearby thank anything. 20 ^
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 9:54:38 GMT -6
Once inside the vet office, Flare found his world moving very fast. Planted onto a table designed for taking creatures smaller then he, the other disappeared briefly, shouting loudly for someone in another language he didn't know. "I'm not a humanoid doctor, and you bri- oh. Oh, thats why. And you didn't catch the stray?! Oh, you found the colony. Go figure. They'll move before you know it. Yes I'm aware. Yes.. NO. Fine, I'll check the bites over. Give that scrap of fur to my tech, she'll look it over." a human in a white labcoat came out, wearing glasses and a frown on their tanned features. Basic look of a human, perhaps even from Tumai? No, not dark enough in pigment of the skin. "So you tangled with the local stray orbaru." he glances Flare up and down with distain. Flare shakes his head no. {Given orb-rabbit. Escaped. Chased it. It found strays. Strays attack us.} he managed in a broken sentence. Scribble scribble. Did he understand Tumai? {I speak Tum-} 21
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 9:59:34 GMT -6
"Of course you do. Most desert ssa learn Tumai as a secondary language to do their trades with, far as... oh hell what was her name." the vet looks up absently, snapping his fingers to pull the name from the air. "Came years ago with her little boy, selling sarane eggs to the bidder who could hork up enough gems to do so. Oh what was....It'll come to me. She told me that." He turns away, and washes his medium sized hands in a sink attached to the room. Flare hadn't exactly been paying much attention. "So your new pet scrapped with the wrong orbaru. Can't tell you how many of those damned strays have been in and out of my office; Joleynes got a bleeding heart to go try and catch those rats. Don't care for them myself. They're too stupid to learn from their mistakes." {Where fluffy rabbit go?} "Treated by my tech aide. She's got a thing for taking care of sick and hurt animals so don't worry your scaly head about it." 22
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 10:05:09 GMT -6
"I'll let my aide give you more information about the orbaru and such; I saw its markings when Joylene passed it over. I heard of a breeder who had a line with behavioral defects. Increased aggression and such; compulsions and such to do wrong things." Flare's gray eyes narrow as the man is digging out a pair of gloves and some wound treating equipment. Iodine, peroxide, bandages, some gauze, cloths, etc. "Now don't make me need to buckle your mouth shut, got me?" His eyes narrow further, staring the man down. Did he assume Flare would bite him while in pain? He wasn't a wild animal! "Extend your arm. Yes that one." the man took a cloth, dampened it with peroxide, and applied it straight to the wound. the ssa hissed in pain. It hurt, but not to the piont of biting anything. He'd been through worse. The liquid when poured straight on the wound hurt more. 23 20.20 lv 33 Flare
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 10:11:11 GMT -6
"Before I get started, you need to wash. There's a bathtub over there. Clean up, then I'll clean your injuries." He sent Flare into another room to use soap and water, unattended, to get himself cleaned up. Took nearly half an hour to get himself properly scrubbed down for once. Couldn't reach his wings but at least the water was removable from the wall with a long snake attached, and he could get water behind and around, and beneath. Afterwards, he had to hobble back to the very irritated lookign doctor. It took nearly twenty minutes to clean all the bites Flare had accumulated from the posse of attacking orbaru. The 'doctor' of animals applied a sticky bandage about the size of his palm over each wound. "Keeps the bad stuff out while the skin heals. You're lucky, these arent deep at all. Way she was going on, sounded like you were going to bleed out. Little rats barely can draw blood anyhow on humanoids." The more he heard this man talk, the more Flare found he disliked him. Why had the mammal female brought him here? Probably a contract or being something else. 24
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 10:21:40 GMT -6
"The aide will bring your pet back to you shortly." Without a goodbye, the doctor left Flare alone in the room. For the first time since he'd basically come here, Flare felt physically more relaxed. Thanks to the hot water. Mannah was a precious resource, so long showers and baths weren't a thing in Tumai. He looked at his arms. Under all the dust, dirt, and who knew what else, his scales were a fiery sunset of reds, oranges and yellows. Surprisingly bright colored. Not every ssa he'd seen in his life were as brightly colored. His hair felt almost as nice as when Offal had cut and washed it for him. The door opened shortly afterwards. A mousy female came inside, holding the silky orbaru rabbit thing in her arms carefully. She also had on a labcoat, in a light yellow color. almost the color of sunshine. Odd coloring, really. 25 ^
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 10:22:11 GMT -6
"Sorry about the doc, he's getting tired of that contract of treating the local strays for free that his bosses made years ago when creatures started escaping from owners in the city. He's a good vet." The wildfire colored ssa just looked at her in mild disbelief. "This is your orbaru, yes?" A slight nod. "She's going to be just fine." The orbaru in question hung slothfully in the aide's arms, looking for all the world to be drugged into submission. "I had to sedate her to clean her up and such. Some of those bites needed the fur shaved away in places to clean her up." She was talking fast, nervously. "I ran x-rays, no broken bones or internal injuries. But she may have some traumatic reactions when around other orbaru in the future. Judging by my examination, she was bred only recently too." The shaved parts almost looked like crop circles in her fur. "She'll recover, but you may want to find an orbaru groomer to even out her fur sooner then later once it starts to grow back." 26
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Post by Flare on Aug 14, 2019 10:32:45 GMT -6
She looks him up and down. "I... think I have a crutch in one of the closets, let me go check." At least she was considerate. Placing the drugged orbaru into his arms before she left, not the greatest idea. The orbaru without an orb probably was a female? She dozed in his arms, little body rising and falling evenly in rest. "We don't see many ssashirk in our line of work. Only one in the last few years, her sarane hen needed emergency surgery." the aide returned, holding a sturdy looking crutch. "We don't usually have ...people sized equipment like crutches, so forgive me for taking my time to look. Do... you speak common at all?" she asks. "Small common." he answers her, pinching two fingers close together. "Learrrrning." He points to himself. "Flare. Eeou?" he points at her. "Tales. Nice to meet you Mr. Flare." Now that he looks closely at her, she does appear to be mousey literally. 27
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