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 Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:11 pm
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Things were going well enough, but nothing fully satisfied Skan. He was always looking for things hiding in the shadows; for unknown issues to crop out of no where and haunt his dreams. He had been raised in a warm family, but the knowledge that he had absorbed when he was young clung to him like burrs in fur. No matter how he tried to soothe his weary soul, he was always worried.
His worries had begun to turn towards his daughter, the alu'nadi of the clan. She seemed happy, but he would not openly admit that he still worried about her. Yinehi was long gone, and there was a part of him that would never truly get over her departure. Ever. And another part of him that could never fully forgive the Wolf clan for his perceived betrayal. He was to be the wise and stoic leader of all Ela'wadiyi, but he could not let himself loosen the shackles of bitterness that dragged his heels.
He walked quietly around the Bird clan, a clearly troubled look on his face. Most of the clan members knew to keep a bit of a distance from him when he looked so cross; it wouldn't do well if they said the wrong thing and received a curt reply instead of the warm acknowledgement that was due from the wanidatsi.
Oh...he needed to do something to get his mind off of these issues. He glanced skyward, mildly hoping that one of the messenger birds would report some frivolous issue so he could throw himself into a different pile of work. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:03 pm
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Gadane had settled quite comfortably into the Bird Clan after the festival, leaving the Earth Clan behind hadn't been as hard as he expected. Of course he loved his family and his birth clan, but maybe there was just something about the nomadic lives they lived that prepared him for this kind of chance, or maybe he was just so happy to be with Dohi all the time now. He hadn't really thought about finding a wife and now that he had one, he wasn't sure how anything this wonderful could have happened on purpose.
He didn't want to get in the way of Dohi's day to day business, though, and she was pretty busy today.. so he was wandering a bit on his own. He'd been thinking for a while about the birds trained by the Bird Clan.. he'd only ever been able to do so much tending to the earth at home, this seemed a much more simple directive.
The only problem today was that Gadane couldn't find any birds that wanted to cooperate. He was a quiet lion but he was a hard worker, his determined look was probably not encouraging any of the feathered beasts nearby to come chat with him as he stared at the sky, thinking. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:16 pm
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Skan had spent a long moment looking towards the sky, but it was a rather quiet day. He could see a few of the birds out flying, though it appeared that they were flying for pleasure rather than work. It seemed there wouldn't be much for Skan to do to keep himself preoccupied today. A pity.
He glanced around, attempting to decide where to go next when his eyes landed on Gadane. He had not spent too much time with his new son-in-law, as he didn't want to be too overbearing over Dohi's husband and have her chide him until his ears fell off. In a way, part of Dohi's stubbornness against her father was due to his own choices in life, and he had been trying to ease up some of his stiffness to strangers. Gadane was Ela through and through, but change in his personal life wasn't easy for the wanidatsi.
"Ah...greetings, Gadane," Skan cleared his throat and greeted the male, nodding his head as he approached the pale male.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:26 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:38 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:47 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:14 pm
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Gadane nodded. Dohi's bird was the only one he'd really had a good opportunity to meet, he hadn't needed to interact much with the birds travelling into and out of the Earth clan and he hadn't really thought to go out and make friends with random birds before now, either. Still.. it was a good reminder that they had varying personalities, too. And lives of their own. He wasn't actively frustrated by his failure so far today but it eased his disappointment, thinking on that.
"I would like that!" he said, his smile now sincere, "I've been in this area before but I've never paid attention to where the birds usually are, and I don't know if.. maybe they come out more when you're here?"
And suddenly, Gadane was unusually chatty.
"If the birds work with the Bird Clan, they must know more of us here," he said, glancing back around them and to the sky, searching for any sign of the birds, "I think they mostly left the Earth Clan alone."
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:51 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:16 pm
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