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Post by Renathan on Oct 19, 2019 17:28:05 GMT -6
Renathan stopped right where he was, in a particularly mushy part of the ground, and rubbed his pained shoulder, which was undoubtedly scratched by now, probably pretty deep. He turned towards Auburn well enough to catch sight of her, and then asked; "What was that for, Auburn?" In a mock-incredulous way. He wasn't really mad at her, he was sure that she was super nervous and all. She'd never hurt him on purpose, he knew that for a fact. However, she didn't trill at him. Auburn did not even look at him! She stayed puffed up, her back arched and wings raised, staring at the ground nearby. The mammalian furrowed his brow beneath the mask, unsure of what she was looking at now, the area was fairly nondescript other than being between the first and second two small hillocks on the landscape in the mansion's inner grounds and all.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 19, 2019 17:39:05 GMT -6
The tall mammalian glanced around quickly now, trying to figure out what was freaking Auburn out so badly, when his eyes finally caught on something moving, using the track between the two hillocks as a sort of path. Renathan knew there was no where for him to really hide from it, so he hoped that it couldn't see him from this angle, at the very least. "Oh." He said, dumbstruck a bit. What should he do? Renathan hadn't had to use his magic in a long time to be honest, and he wasn't sure if he wasn't too rusty to really protect them without getting hurt this go around. Then again, it could just be another little mansion goer, and not actually some kind of an enemy. Renathan hoped on that, actually, but still, Auburn was nervous. Nothing made Auburn nervous, she was the one bright ray of sunshine in Renathan's bad days sometimes.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 19, 2019 17:42:03 GMT -6
Renathan thought about his options in that single second between breaths, before he acted in whatever way he really deigned fit. The options were to immediately protect himself using magic, immediately protect himself by using Auburn's little bit of battle training (might be a bad idea), run up the little hillock, walk closer to the individual and wave 'hey', or run the opposite direction inbetween the hillocks to see if he couldn't do it a little faster than trying to run uphill. These were all pretty valid options, but they really depended on the individual situation. He really, really needed to know what kind of person or thing this was, and what kind of a threat that they could cause the two of them. Renathan wasn't all that worried about himself, but he was worried about Auburn. She was a lot smaller and possibly weaker than him, and he was worried about that!
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Post by Jack on Oct 19, 2019 19:58:17 GMT -6
Ooh, what a strange crystal ball...
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Post by Renathan on Oct 20, 2019 11:17:19 GMT -6
All of these things came together as Renathan considered them, and then finally he decided to high-tail it down the valley between the two hillocks himself, away from the figure that wound bounding at him by this point. It could not be humanoid, with the way that it moved, but it sure felt as if it was! Concerned with his safety, and with that of the smaller being sitting atop his shoulder, Renathan was not going to take any chances at a slow retreat. Renathan was super curious, but wasn't ready to turn around and try anything else; not until it got close enough that he could hear more about whether or not it was humanoid or not. It wasn't really occurring to his slightly foggy mind that perhaps, he should have turned and fought, and that humanoids could be just as, if not more so dangerous, than that of animals.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 20, 2019 11:21:18 GMT -6
Time sort of froze for Renathan, he felt. The mammalian scarcely felt the claws at his shoulder, or hear the little squawks that his distressed companion was making as she clung for dear life. He was not aware of the cold whipping air through the valley between the two hillocks, the whispering of the grass as it pulled over it, or the strange boney clacking that he could hear from the individual behind him. He couldn't really even feel his tails as they were lifted above the grass, and they trailed behind him in a way that he perhaps would not have allowed. He could, however, hear the thing that was chasing him clack clack clacking against the ground, which sounded to Renathan like a bootfall, or a hoofall perhaps? The thing got ever closer, ever closer indeed to his tails, and reached out for them where Renathan could not see or hear it.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 20, 2019 11:25:04 GMT -6
It scarcely took more than a breath of a moment, outside of Renathan's slowed mind, for said whatever it was to grasp at Renathan's tail tips, and remove a single brush-stroke's worth of hair from the very tips. This alerted Renathan, and forced him to produce a yelp which otherwise would certainly not have graced the area, since Renathan is not typically a verbal sort with this kind of situation. Whereas others might have run screaming, it took Renathan actually being aggressed to actually produce any sort of noise, and at that it was a slightly cut-off yelp. The mammalian turns, his antlers suddenly catching a bit of a flame at the tips, as he put out his arms towards the being behind him, whipping about suddenly to meet the thing in it's eyes. His palms held flickering flames, and he could feel just at his neck that Auburn was puffed up aggressively.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 20, 2019 11:31:58 GMT -6
Auburn's aggressive display also showed her beginnings of snowy-attacks, puffs of snow falling beneath her wings. The pair must have looked quite frightening to something expecting an easy snack; but Renathan was not, in fact, expecting the thing behind him to have been a giant, skeletal horse... Sort of. The thing was of two heads, one of which was a horse's, and it was in the front. The second head was that of a person, and both of these heads had trunks. The human trunk appeared to just meld out of the skeletal body of the horse, and all four legs were that of a horse, but skeletal. Renathan took a quick moment to take this in, trying to figure out what, and why, and where? The russet mammalian had never seen anything like this anywhere, and it made him feel a little bit ill at the horrific sight of the thing.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 20, 2019 11:35:15 GMT -6
If the horrifying nature of said thing was as bothersome to the senses of Renathan's small companion as it was to him, she gave no emotional information back to Renathan of that. Renathan full-body shuddered for a moment at what he was seeing, and concluded that there had to be at least something there, even though he knew that the mansion often mentally tricked him indeed, because not only could he feel the breath, and see it coalescing into a fog about the air, as well as affecting his waist sash some a good distance away, but he could see his little tail-tip hairs in between the teeth of it. In fact, it was quite obvious that even if Auburn was more aggressive feeling than frightened, that there was in fact something there that she was looking at, even if it wasn't what Renathan was seeing as. Renathan had lowered his hands for a fraction of a second while he stared.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 22, 2019 14:13:41 GMT -6
It took Renathan a little longer than he would have preferred to have figured out what he was looking at. Luckily for him, the thing at first seemed a little curious to figure out what he was exactly, instead, and stood there as well, though not looking quite as shell shocked as he did. Whereas Renathan hesitated, something he would consciously remind himself not to do in the future, Auburn decidedly did NOT. A blast of cold air erupted from her wings, shuddering into the bones, leaving frost snaking across the now glazed bones of the creature. It didn't seem to be enough to defeat it, but it did give Renathan long enough to get 'unstuck' and then dash away again, trying to get a head start on the now quite cold beast. Would the pair get away? Renathan wasn't really thinking coherently, only emotion and fire running through his veins hard enough to leave embrous footsteps behind.
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Post by Jack on Oct 22, 2019 18:02:45 GMT -6
Two little wax leaves fluttered down to the ground.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 24, 2019 16:11:15 GMT -6
Renathan probably should have done something or another to actually hurt the monster, as soon as he realized that it was indeed a monster, but his first instinct was never to attack; it actually shocked him that Auburn's first instinct was indeed to fight. She was generally sweet and calm and happy. Renathan was sort of the opposite, folks had described him as being prickly and difficult sometimes, though he didn't generally think of himself that way. However, it would seem that expectations were somewhat flipped on their heads for Renathan and his beloved Familiar, but he really needed to get out of there and stop waxing poetic about the irony of such a situation. Really, one could consider it quite ironic that Renathan had chosen fire for his own element (perhaps it would not have been his first choice, if not for the needs of the time period) and ice for his familiar's.
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Post by Renathan on Oct 24, 2019 16:14:51 GMT -6
Renathan had given his situation with his familiar some more thought as per recently, but he couldn't consider, not even a small amount, doing what he would have had to do to set him 'free' of Auburn. Really, that wasn't why he wanted to try to find some way of 'fixing' this; it was indeed that he wishes that Auburn could be set free of Him. He felt so bad about her being stuck near him. It must be difficult to really fly and stretch one's wings as a bird creature without actually leaving a mile's radius of him. It was sad, what he had caused to her in this way. However, he tried not to think of this really, he knew that there was no way he was going to uh, kill her. That was out of the dang question, regardless of how much he worried about and cared about her otherwise!
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Post by Renathan on Oct 24, 2019 16:17:07 GMT -6
Renathan was running as fast as he could, even while thinking on all of these unfortunate things, but the thing was starting to catch up now. He had to find a way to get out of here, and fast. It would seem that the mansion was ready for him to be gone, and he was ready to get the heckie out of here too. The mansion did not seem to like him much most months, regardless of what was going on and how much he respected the thing. It was actually a little sad for Renathan, he did not anger any leys in his homeland, but he sure had annoyed this one quite a bit. Still, he would never purposefully stay away from here. He wanted to visit at least once every few months or so. It was important to him to be near a ley, and this was the only one he knew of around here!
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Post by Renathan on Oct 24, 2019 16:19:44 GMT -6
Renathan finally saw a break between the two hillocks, one that would allow them to climb up the hillock on the way out of here with quite a bit of speed. Renathan knew that it was their only chance to get away from this 'thing', so he did what he had to do and scrambled out of there, on all four claws, grabbing the ground rather harshly. Thankfully, it would seem that the flat hooves of the creature, not cloven like that of an equillion, were not able to get a purchase on the slick ground like Renathan's paws and claw could. The thing seemed to creak and almost yell at him, but he had already scrambled up the hillock by that time with Auburn on his shoulder freaking out, and he had raced for the front gate, grabbing anything near the gate whenever he finally shut it and hauled them out of the mansion grounds for the month.
[30] - [The pair pick up anything interesting and go home.]
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