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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:41:37 GMT -6
‘No. Just these bugs in the packet.’ She says quickly enough, her eyes narrowed down upon him. Did he accidently send his thought on which insect he wants to prey on? Sigh. He so wants to try and taste them. “Tri..” He says in response, looking attentively at her. He might not get the food he really, really wants to try, but at least this is food as well. Even if it is the already dead kind. It does still taste quite nutritious. “Good.” He tilts his head in question when he doesn’t understand what she said, but the wide open mouth filled with sharp teeth to crunch on prey looks like a good sign. At least from how she acts when she does it. The first time he may have just tried hiding and hoping she won’t crunch on his head. That would have been a unpleasant ending.. Curling his tail slightly as the only sign of discomfort he allows himself to show at the thought.
*20 Twilight 1.0 Sev Lv 4.0, Ly 11.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:41:49 GMT -6
‘Okay Sev, see this treat?’ He hears her say as she takes out one of the squished cubes of insect bodies, making him focus entirely on her hand. ‘Come and take it.’ He hears her continue as she lowers her arm so that it is easy to reach for him, but then, she moves away! What gives?! “Trii?!” Scooting closer, she steps away again! “Follow.” He hears her say out loud and inside his mind, making him frown and press his antennae against the back of his head to show his displeasure. Mouth gaping and showing his teeth. He is not happy! Every time he scoots closer to her hand to grab the cube of squished dead bodies, she just takes a couple steps more away from him. “Triii!” He says shrilly, showing what he thinks of it. Luckily though, she stumbles against something when she isn’t looking at where she walks backwards. Making it that she falls and drops the treat!
*21 Twilight 1.1 Sev Lv 4.1, Ly 11.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:00 GMT -6
Quickly before she snatches the treat from the ground, he pounces on it! Munching on it in delight as the small carapace insects crunch deliciously against his teeth, he doesn’t pay much mind to his caretaker’s short cry of pain from the fall. She’s distracted, and he finally got his treat! Trilling in delight, he looks at her with something akin to defiance for not following her instructions, but notes that she isn’t paying him too much attention right now, rather, she seems to be digging out some kind of a odd object out of the dirt. He wasn’t certain what its purpose is, but she seems to be happy with it? Why? It caused her pain, didn’t it? Tilting his head to the side, he trills in a questioning tone at her, getting her to glance at him for a second, but then pays more attention towards whatever she is digging out.
*22 Twilight 1.2 Sev Lv 4.2, Ly 11.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:10 GMT -6
If he could frown, he would, as it is, his antennae are pressed tightly at the back of his head while he looks from her to the object. He isn’t certain what it could be, but her cleaning it from the remaining dirt makes it seem like it could be something important. Is this just like what she did with cutting off those pretty plants? It just seems weird and pointless. Its likely not even edible to her, or at least. He looks at the strange object. It doesn’t look like it from his point of view. Still, with her not paying much attention to him again, he could just…go, again. And find some actually living insects to munch on. Slithering slowly away from her side, he tries to scent where that last insect he saw might be now. They didn’t leave the area he saw it last after all, even if it crawled quite a bit faster at a speed he can’t match yet. He knows one day he will.
*23 Twilight 1.3 Sev Lv 4.3, Ly 11.3
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:20 GMT -6
While she is distracted, he starts hiding under the foliage, making sure not to make too much noise as he looks underneath it. Nothing. No small insects seem to be crawling here. Or at least. Nothing of interest. The ants here are too tiny to actually be worth the effort unfortunately. Alright. So maybe there might be a dead tree around here? He’s... Not too certain if there might be any in this area. But the best prey tends to live in dead trunks, so he would just need to look for it. Twitching his antennae involuntarily as he hears his caretaker starting to move, he stays silent and stills his body. Hopefully she hadn’t noticed him underneath the foliage yet. Last time she found him because he deliberately made a noise. He doubts she could actually sniff him out like a canine would. She seems too… Long legged to crawl in the dirt for smelling the right scents to track.
*24 Twilight 1.4 Sev Lv 4.4, Ly 11.4
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:31 GMT -6
‘Ahh! There you are Sev!’ He freezes at hearing her voice inside his mind. What? She found him already? But?! He doesn’t get much time to contemplate it when two hands are shoved through the foliage and he gets picked up under his arm pits by her, the first thing he sees is her teeth as they look extra sharp when sunlight hit her face, making him shiver, but he still can’t help but wonder- ‘How?’ He trills it in a questioning tone too, even if it might be more of a stutter out loud. And he sees her blinking at him in amusement. ‘Real easy. You might not think it, but you do leave quite a trail behind when you move.’ Wait, he does? And she could see it without needing to scent his track like a canine? Trying to look down didn’t help nearly as much as he wants too, what with the way she is holding on to him. It makes it difficult to actually see what she was saying about tracks or scent trails.
*25 Twilight 1.5 Sev Lv 5.0, Ly 12.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:43 GMT -6
‘Now then, lets try this again.’ Try what again? He trills in a questioning tone as she walks away from the thick foliage with him, and after a while, they enter a patch with purple upstanding plants that scent quite strongly of something. His tail curls slightly as he is gentle placed within this strangely smelling foliage, keeping his mouth closed and feeling like he really, really wants to get away from these strange plants. It doesn’t feel right to be near this at all. He watches as she takes a prey crushed cube between her fingers again, and while interested, he really doesn’t want food while being near here. ‘Sev? Follow.’ He hears inside his mind and out loud the strange words that likely mean the same thing, even if it is harder to differentiate between it all. He sees her take a step away from him while her hand is lowered enough for him to reach the treat between her fingers.
*26 Twilight 1.6 Sev Lv 5.1, Ly 12.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:42:53 GMT -6
Well… At least she isn’t stepping further into these strange plants, his skin is starting to feel irritated with each move he makes that touches these plants. No cube of food is worth trying to figure out what she wants! As quickly as he can, he starts slithering and scooting away from these plants, wanting to reach the edge, and feeling a desperate need to clean his body as its starting to itch just that little bit more. “Where are you going Sev?” He hears her say something, but he doesn’t pay it much mind, he already figured out that each time she says in his mind or out loud but in a different tone, that Sev is his name, but he isn’t bothering with the rest right now, nope! He feels like coughing as he scoots on a section that makes the plants move wildly and release a lot of useless pollen. Pollen that isn’t just starting to make his skin feel irritated, rather, it’s starting to itch horrible!
*27 Twilight 1.7 Sev Lv 5.2, Ly 12.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:03 GMT -6
“Sev?” He hears her say as he twitches miserable when he couldn’t move forward, he can’t quite see where he is going with all the pollen getting in his eyes, and he knows he should clean it, but what if it will be even worse should he ingest it while trying to get rid of it? Wouldn’t that make it even worse? He certainly thinks it very well will be! Getting picked up by her and hearing concerned cooing words coming from her makes his antennae twitch forward. He wants to trill for help, but he’s scared. Any movement now just makes his skin itch worse, he wants to rub himself against grass, against dirt, even the harsh bark of trees if it will help! “Something is wrong with you.” He hears her mutter, and yes! They’re moving! They’re moving away from this purple filled hellish place! Yes! Yes! No! Not there! Anything but there!
*28 Twilight 1.8 Sev Lv 5.8, Ly 12.3
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:14 GMT -6
He wants to trill in protest, but the pollen feels like it is too close to his mouth to try, and now being placed back with the purple plants? He doesn’t try moving further. His vision still more yellow than getting a clear sight of what is going on in his surroundings. “Why aren’t you moving Sev? There aren’t any predators here, but then again... You do got covered in quite a bit of pollen...” He hears her muse while his antennae twitch and press tightly to the back of his head, his tail curling as he tries to grip on to something that isn’t there. He shivers as she lightly scratches at his skin, making the itch be just a little elevated, but as soon as she stops? It just feels all the worse for it! “Your skin doesn’t look all that great somehow… Is it?” She mutters as he feels her hand all over his body. It’s the plants! Get me away from them! ‘Please!’ He shouts inside himself.
*29 Twilight 1.9 Sev Lv 5.9, Ly 12.4
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:25 GMT -6
He feels as if she is so close to the answer on why he reacts like this suddenly, her hands seemingly examining him all over his body as he twitches painfully. “Shit!” Suddenly he gets picked up again, quick movement of up and down motions from her running is something he easily feels, even when he can only see partly with what his eyes are contaminated with. “I’m so sorry Sev!” He hears her say as finally, finally! He gets laid on a patch of grass instead of those hellish purple plants. “I forgot wasps and other certain insects can’t handle lavender.” He hears her say in slight panic, the sound of a zipper after she shrugs of her backpack is heard clearly, but he feels like ignoring it as he starts twitching against the grass. Wanting to rub all the pollen off his body just so that this, ITCH! Stops!
*30 Twilight 1.10 Sev Lv 6.0, Ly 13.0
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:35 GMT -6
“Found it!” He hears relieve coming from her, but he doesn’t know why. The twisting of a bottle cap, and then! Oh! Water? Yes! That feels loads better! “Triii!” He trills as the pollen gets washed off his body, his eyes finally rid of the yellow in his vision makes it easier to see his surrounding once more, and the itch! While it still wasn’t entirely gone, at least it is a whole lot less then it was a few moments previously! He still wiggles in the grass because of the itch, but trills in delight when she scratches him, and is that cloth? Yep! He wiggles as the scratchy cloth both dries and helps against the itch! ‘I’m sorry Sev, I should have realized something was wrong when you stopped doing anything.’ He hears her say, he trills darkly at that. She should have realized that when he tried getting out of that vegetation!
*31 Twilight 1.11 Sev Lv 6.1, Ly 13.1
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:45 GMT -6
‘Do you need more water to clean off Sev? More drying?’ He hears her say in a uncertain tone as she watched him, he glanced at her, but quickly turns his attention to where they are. Grassy terrain with large trees and off in the distance he can see the hellish purple plants. Just looking at it makes his skin itch, but at least the itch seems more in his mind now? He mulls over his caretaker’s question as he moves his body, slowly testing to see if everything is actually alright with him. Whatever happened in there, he hopes it never will happen again. Any prey insect that would run too it aren’t worth hunting down, not if their shells are contaminated with those pollen. Shuddering at the thought, he freezes for a second when he feels her scratch his back, slowly he relaxes once more, enjoying the feeling as much as he can for the affection she is showing to him.
*32 Twilight 1.12 Sev Lv 6.2, Ly 13.2
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:43:55 GMT -6
‘Ok!’ He decided to answer her, he did feel fine now, certainly more tired then usual for all the excitement he went through. And any remaining energy he had wanted to spend on hunting just feels drained away. Still, when she offers him cubes of dead prey, he isn’t one to turn his head away from it. ‘So no need for more water or toweling you dry Sev?’ He hears her say, making him feel puzzled as he did say he was fine, didn’t he? ‘No…’ Short answers just seems easier to send through the link, and he didn’t feel the need to chatter all that much, even with his own kind. Munching on the cubes he gets offered, makes him feel awake at least a little more again, enough to perk up and watch in interest as she packs up the supplies she had used to get rid of all the pollen that was on him.
*33 Twilight 1.13 Sev Lv 6.3, Ly 13.3
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Post by Twilight-Claw on Feb 7, 2024 6:44:05 GMT -6
When that was done, and she carried the bag back on her back, she picks him up, carefully shifting his body so he lays sideways in her arms, turning his head with curiousity at his surrounding as he eyes everything that they pass. It’s quiet as they move around, just relaxing. He does note that when she seems to find interest in certain objects she stops for a moment, examining it, and if it’s too her liking, she gentle drops him to the ground. Making sure it is no where near those plants that hurt him so, he noticed quite well how she is now avoiding those patches that contain purple plants, and he is glad of it. ‘Alright! This seems like quite a good find!’ He tilts his head at her, then at the object in her hands, it didn’t look all that special to him. Though, he isn’t even certain what purpose it served either.
*34 Twilight 1.14 Sev Lv 6.4, Ly 13.4
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