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xhunterko wrote:"The council is waiting for you now," said the guard on the left, "Please follow us." And with that, they started to walk to the woods.
"I'll take your word for it. I--" then her nose caught a new, familiar scent. She turned. "Oi! Ain't that Lance? Why is he being escorted here?"xhunterko wrote:"Heh, maybe, but," Mitch said, then his tone turned serious, "Our ancestors where given this way because we couldn't understand something simpler. We respect all beliefs, and our ancestors do as well. IF your God is jealous as you say he is, don't leave off following him for our ancestors. They won't like it. And they may even tell your God that you've abandoned him so he can punish you for it. They're like that."
Lance nodded taking the Blindfold and wrapping it around his head "Right, I get you." He adjusted it a bit making sure it blinded him completely and tied it tight in the back. "Alright I think that should be good enough. Lets go." He said reaching down a bit blindly for a paw to take.xhunterko wrote:After a little ways the pandas stopped and turned around. One produced a blind fold.
"Eh hem, now, you don't have to, but, if you don't mind, and we'll guide you by the paw, but," one said, "It is a secrecy meeting."
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"And that's one of our legends at least," Mitch said, hoping he hadn't put Rikki to sleep.
At that answer, Belisarius rapped his own skull with a pained expression. "Not a wolf, not a wolf, not a wolf, stupid wolf!" then, to Will, "I mean your...circle, your association, your club..." he exhaled with frustration. "What do you call it when you have mate and friends in a hierarchy and it's not a wolf pack?!"Pecan wrote:"M-my pack?" Will tilted his head. "I'm n-not sure I know what you m-mean..." Looking around, he gave a small shrug. "I don't usually c-carry one- Uncle P-paige does sometimes, if he h-has a book to c-carry one in his a-arms."
As Paige tried his hardest to control how closely he resembled a tomato, he nodded. "I'll definitely think about it. Do you know when they'll be set up?" His face started to return to a healthier shade, "I wouldn't want to impose on them if they aren't set up for it yet."zephyrtobiaswolf wrote:Tara danced for a few more seconds as she continued to smile at Paige, the feline swiftly closing the distance between the two of them before she stopped nearly nose to nose with male.
“Yes and no. My dads are choreographers, so they've always helped me, but I learned most of what I know from watching the ghawazi in Egypt while my dads were doing volunteer work. Now they're looking to open up a dance studio here in town. You should come by sometime.” This last she said before tapping Paige lightly on the nose before twirling back a step or two, her green eyes shining.
"Oh." Will scrunched his face in thought. "I'm n-not sure we really h-have an actual word for it. I th-think 'group' would be closest, but that could d-describe many things..." Shrugging it off, he smiled a bit. "As f-for what we do... well, I guess you c-could say it's usually spur of the m-moment. We do whatever sounds fun, and if s-something else happens, we deal with it then."valerio wrote:At that answer, Belisarius rapped his own skull with a pained expression. "Not a wolf, not a wolf, not a wolf, stupid wolf!" then, to Will, "I mean your...circle, your association, your club..." he exhaled with frustration. "What do you call it when you have mate and friends in a hierarchy and it's not a wolf pack?!"
Belisarius blinked as he reflected on that. "Soo..you don't plan your activities, don't you?"Pecan wrote:"Oh." Will scrunched his face in thought. "I'm n-not sure we really h-have an actual word for it. I th-think 'group' would be closest, but that could d-describe many things..." Shrugging it off, he smiled a bit. "As f-for what we do... well, I guess you c-could say it's usually spur of the m-moment. We do whatever sounds fun, and if s-something else happens, we deal with it then."
It was then that Borues walked out of the woods on all fours silently. He walked up behind Belisarius and looked at Will. He got down on his "knees" to make eye level with him.Belisarius blinked as he reflected on that. "Soo..you don't plan your activities, don't you?"
"Well then, I would love the chance to come over. I'd just have to ask Dad." Paige thought to what his dad was doing at the moment. He was probably helping Sam finish catching up on some homework- the boy was in First Grade now. "So, what kind of dancing do your parents teach? I'm not quite sure I'd make the greatest belly dancer."zephyrtobiaswolf wrote:Tara could see the effect she was having on Paige, but she couldn't help teasing the cute male just a little. Besides he seemed to be taking her playfulness quite well for a male, and Tara decided then and there that she would most definitely make Paige her first friend in the neighborhood.
“Well, I'm pretty sure bad is probably whipping the contractor over the flooring mishap, so it will probably only be a week until everything is ready. That's just the dance studio though; the rest of our house is pretty much set up, and my dads love having other pets over.”
"The most planning I've s-seen is a day in advance." Will gave a light shrug as he pondered this. "M-maybe it would be good too p-plan something bigger, for once."valerio wrote:Belisarius blinked as he reflected on that. "Soo..you don't plan your activities, don't you?"
"GAH!" Will jumped back as, once again, he was surprised by a new voice. The pet- er, animal, he guessed, he couldn't just assume every animal was a pet- in front of him seemed to be a bear, but he couldn't bring the type to the top of his- wait, Grizzly, that seemed correct. "Oh, M-my name is W-will. Will T-turner."xhunterko wrote:Borues spoke in a quiet, friendly tone.
"Hello small creature, I see you are new in my woods," he said, "What do they call you?"
) Lance sat down and swallowed hard and fidgeted a bit in his seat from all the eyes on him. He flashed a nervous smile and readied himself for the questions to begin.xhunterko wrote:"Thank you sir," said one, and then they each took one paw. They lead him north a bit, a few steps east, a few steps south, a few steps west, a little over in each direction again. Then they walked purposefully, to the chapel, up the stairs up a chair, then onto a table. Then his blindfold was removed, and he was standing in the center of a table, with a chair behind him, 6 members of the secrecy council looking at him. Plus, the chieftain and his wife facing him.
"You may know where you are, but for our benefit, if you would, pretend you do not," Benjamin said to him, "If you may please be seated and we'll get started." Around the table, panda faces were giving him all sorts of looks already.
Lance thought for a moment "Hmmm, well obviously I would ration out the wine the best I could between the two of us." He shifted slightly in the chair and added "Then I would take off the label and use it to write a message on if we had anything to write with, put it in the bottle and throw the bottle into the sea in a hopes of someone finding it and being rescued."xhunterko wrote:"Firstly, character," Benjamin said, "Tarzone'?"
"A friend and you are stranded in a boat," a panda said, "There is a single bottle of wine between you to drink. How do you handle this?" Two pandas behind Lance whispered to each other quietly. Benjamin looked at Lance.
) Lance thought a moment before arriving at his answer "Well, I would get down by his bed and make sure to cover him back up before anyone came to the cell. I would then also keep a watch over him to make sure it doesn't happen again since I can't sleep anyway."xhunterko wrote:ooc: The pandas are merely looking for how Lance behaves, as a judgement on how well he can be trusted. How he answers is more important then what he answers with.
"You are sharing a cell with an acquaintance. It is cold and you have thin blankets that do not behave right, he sleeps on his back," an elderly female says, "You cannot sleep for some reason tonight, and his blanket just happens to fall half way off his body, exposing his legs and his money sack on his belt! Yet you hear someone whistling. The constables are as crooked as the crooks. Or it could be the murderous smiling Jack. He likes to punish the bad luck prisoners. You don't know. You can't know. How do you handle this situation?" A couple pandas behind Lance on his right whisper about him, audibly mentioning his name. Another coughs.
Will nodded. "I-it's good to meet y-you to, sir."xhunterko wrote:The grizzly bear chuckled a bit.
"Human's have odd curiosities don't they?" He said. Then he stood up to his full height, seeing the creature was braver then he thought.
"And my name, is Borues," he said, "Three days east, west, and south, and four days north in these woods are mine. And you are most welcome in them. It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance."
Paige smiled in kind as he leaned back against the tree. "Well, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a dreamer." He replied, looking up at the sky. "My one goal in life is to go into space. I stargaze every night, enough so that he's considered building a skylight on multiple occasions, so I don't 'recklessly endanger myself in high places.'"zephyrtobiaswolf wrote:Tara moved back towards the tree, sitting down with her back against it and bringing on long leg up against her chest. With her paw the feline patted the ground beside her.
“Come sit with me sugga, I promise I wont bite.” Tara gave Paige a soft smile this time, one with no teasing behind it as slowly her eyes drifted to the sky.
“Let me think now. Jason does a lot of hip-hop and pop stuff, along with some freestyle and contemporary. Shaun on the other hand focuses on the more traditional dances like the tango, samba, and the foxtrot. It’s really funny to watch them dance together sometimes, since most hip hop stuff is done solo whereas Shaun likes to sweep Jason off his feet into a jive.”
The feline's smile had drifted into a dreamy one, her eyes going unfocused for a moment as she thought back to the last time she had watched her dads dance just for the fun of it. Snapping back into reality Tara looked at Paige once more.
“What about you sugga? Tell me about yourself.”
"Oh boy alright this might be a long one." Lance said as he relaxed and got ready to tell the story of that trip. "Well we had found a cave on the second day there and decided to explore it. Mostly it was just a pretty long corridor with some nice looking stones in the walls. So really for a while it was pretty, but rather uneventful." He leaned forward slightly and continued "After a while of walking and trying to remember were we were going, the group and I came up to a large lake with two statues near it."xhunterko wrote:The head who asked that question nodded, then all the heads nodded at once in intervals, and then made a quick, short bow.
"Thank you, you have done very well, and thank you to our guests as well, you've been most patient," Benjamin said, "However, considering our situation, and the tenacity of our enemy, we must question everyone. Now, Lance, if you would, would you please recite your adventure you took with my son on your camping trip together a short time ago and what you found there. If you please. Also, you may relax now."
Will turned toward where Borues was pointing, and tilted his head slightly. "I c-could.... but, I only kn-know one of them..."xhunterko wrote:"Good to meet you as well," Borues said, then he pointed to Tara and Paige, "Now if you will, would you mind introducing me to those two?"
Paige once again blushed lightly at Tara's encouragement, and started to reply as he followed her gaze. "Hey, if you need me to help look for him, I'm will is talking to a panda?" His eyes widened as he saw his brother with both the bear from earlier, and a panda. He then gave Will a big smile. "Hey, he talked to another animal without looking to me for comfort first. Good on him." Looking back to Tara, he continued, "Anyway, yeah, I'm okay with helping you look for him."zephyrtobiaswolf wrote:Tara looked up at the sky, trying to imagine what it might be like to actually go up into space. Sure the female liked being up in the air, and acrobatics were a lot of fun, but being all the way up there? Tara looked back at Paige, giving the feline a look somewhere between admiration and befuddlement.
“Well sugga I’m sure if there’s a way to get you up there you’ll find it.”
Tara continued to listen to Paige’s story, her eyes shifting from concern over this Will character to mirth thinking about what it would be like to call Shaun, or especially Jason, grandpa. A soft chuckle escaped her muzzle at the very thought.
“Sounds like you got yourself an interesting family; now I wish my Dad’s had a son or daughter just so I could call Jason gramps. Alas it’s just me and my brother. Speaking of which, where is that dog…?”
Tara gave a quick scan around the park, but besides some other pets and (was that a bear?) her brother was nowhere to be found. The feline gave a heavy sigh, her ears flattening against her skull. Just her luck, that tom-fool Dalmatian had probably gotten himself lost… again.
