Post by tusti on Sept 20, 2010 14:08:37 GMT -7
Tusti: Female Adult Red Panda
Avalikia: Female Adolescent Golden Eagle
Mitra: Female Adult Clouded Leopard
Tusti is sprawled over a tree branch, all four paws dangling lazily over its sides. She lays there for quite some time, content to just lounge, until she seems to finally decide otherwise and does something very drastic indeed. She leans eeeever so slightly over, and pulls a rather leafy twig towards her with a claw, and catches it up in her teeth, gnawing lackadasically on the leaves. Couch potato? Try branch panda.
Soaring just above the treetops, Avalikia looks for a good perch to land on. Something high up, not a lot of branches or foliage to get caught up in, but strong enough enough to bear her weight... Ah, there's a good spot! She lands at the very top of the tree the panda happens to be in, causing it to sway just slightly. She keeps her wings open to steady herself until the tree calms down, as maintaining her balance is more difficult when she tries to perch on one foot. The reason for that is because the other is clutching a rather unfortunate hare. Secure in the knowledge that the height of the tree and her size will keep her safe from most anything, she's not observant enough to notice the small creature beneath her just yet.
The shake of the tree arouses an upward glance from Ti, who just expects is to be a fat squirrel or other small creature. Hey, guess whose wrong? She may be a loafer, but she knows a predator when she sees one - the panda scuffles upright and spins around to better stare up at the eagle, keeping a firm grip on the branch between her paws. Finally, she registers the prey dangling from his claws and - while she swallows back her revulsion and last lunch - registers that a bird clutching a freshly caught kill would not be as keen to snatch at her. She keeps a steady eye on the preadator still, and settles back down onto the branch, poised to leap at the slightest inclination.
( Fortunately, the eagle seems to be fully occupied in her meal and has already started into it by the time her sharp eyes catch the movement below her. But when she does, she does nothing more than look at the small creature for a moment before she turns back to her meal and dryly comments, "Lucky I found him first, huh?" After all, she's not a picky eater and the panda is the right size. But she's not going to toss aside a caught prey for an uncaught one, even if it's bigger. That would be wasteful! )
Mitra has arrived.
"Lucky for me at least." She says after a moment's hesitation. She nods once towards the rabbit. "But, uh, I've got claws you know. Sort of vicious. Wouldn't taste too hot, either." Just throwing that out there. With her status as unedible laid out, she reaches a paw down beneath the branch again and pulls another leafy section to her, going back to gnawing lazily as she was before - though her eyes continously flick upwards to he eagle and its prey. Alright. Thats disgusting, she can't eat and watch that at the same time. Ti lets the twig go and it snaps back to place. What does she do? It took a lot of work finding this branch. "So, uh, just to clarify - how much does it take to fill your up?"
The panda's explaination of her food value doesn't seem to work very well. In fact, when it's finished, Avalikia comments, "I've had fox before - they're quite good." Just so that the small creature doesn't think that she'd back down from something because it's vicious. She keeps eating for a moment longer, until she briefly responds to the next question with: "Oh, not to worry - this will hold me the rest of the day at least, and I'll probably be long gone before the day is done." The eagle actually seems amused by the panda's worry, which is probably not very comforting at all even though she spoke the truth.
The grating of bark and the scuff of claws announces the arrival of another arboreal creature. Mitra is an animal not much larger than the red panda she's climbing toward, her smiling face and striped eyed fixed on the lush red and black beacon above her. When she speaks, it is a curious, almost muffled sound...as though she might be trying deliberately to hide the huge canines in her mouth. "Oh...e-excuse me, dear...might I have a word?" She has to call up, as still a length or more down the trunk, quite oblivious to the vivid creature's present company. Even with her mouth closed, her coutenance is mild, despite very long digits digging in for purchase.
Oh gracious, she's surrounded by the nommy beasts. "Thats...gross. I'm still cuter." See? Can't eat her, she's adorable. As a voice hails her from below, her gaze snaps downwards. "Oh good lord - seriously. Don't eat me." She crouches against the branch and peers down at Mitra. "But, uh, other than that sure? Don't meet many toothy beasts with manners." Her long, ringed tail flicks and wraps around the branch behind her, keeping her firmly balanced. She may have an eagle above her, and a leopard below, but at least she's balanced, everybody.
A snort from the bird is enough to destroy the cute theory. Then again, that's doesn't really matter since she's planning on taking off after lunch. But she's interrupted once again when she sees the feline also climbing the tree. While the panda, being lunch-size, is of no consequence since she already has lunch, the clouded leopard gets a careful look. But after a moment the bird seems to decide that it isn't a problem for her at least, because she goes back to her meal.
Mitra arches her neck and twists her head to one side, looking...quite horrified. "Oh, not at all, dear, I shan't bear the thought a moment," she replies. "I could never do harm to someone I've spoken with so gently. No, it's just.." Bracing her hind legs she pushes upward, edging to one side in the attempt of finding a branch to rest herself upon. "You see, my mate is away on business, and I was hoping that a creature of your stature, in an elevated position, you see, might have seen him recently." She has a soft voice, motherly and with a strange, melodic lilt to it as she speaks. Not the sort of voice one might credit to a predator. "It's of highest importance to me, much moreso than hurting you at all, I promise."
"Notice I didn't say anything about the beaky ones." Ti mutters towards the bird with a pout, before her eyes roll back to the ascending leopard and scooting back a smidge. "Eh - I'd guess he looks a bit like you but...manlier? No I haven't. Been a bit preoccupied with Big Bird over here, actually - see." She points her muzzle to the bird nervously and slides more to the end of her branch. "But I'll keep my eyes out. He been gone too long or something?" She's heard the funky rumors, it wouldn't suprise her if another went poof in the forest.
"She's asking the /panda/?" Avalikia says quietly to herself. Or perhaps she's talking to her meal, which is probably much worse. "When there's someone right /here/ that can see for miles and travel hundreds in a day?" she continues, sighing and shaking her head sadly to herself. She wishes the smaller creatures were so quick to ignore her as the larger ones. Other than that commentary she seems disinclined to talk to the other two, her focus still on her food which is disappearing quite quickly.
For all of the fluffy creature's caution, when the cloudie finds herself a perch, she stretches out lengthwise along it and rests quite comfortably. She follows the direction of Tusti's nod, catching sight of the adolescent bird but doing no more than flicking a well-rounded ear. Flesh eater she may be, but like Avalikia, she seems to be honest. "Aye, that he has," she says, expression ripe with concern. "For some days now, he's overdue and I've heard no word...so I thought I might take matters into my own paws.." Words trail off as she catches on to some of the eagle's words. "Well now, if I had seen you first, I might have asked you first...my apologies," she says, sounding abashed. "I do have a friend on the wing who's been doing some searching for me, but she's had no luck. I mean you no offense."
Tusti, finally deciding that she was in no danger of being eaten, relaxes. "Ah. You think he mi--" She stops. She doesn't want to upset the other by suggesting that her mate be one of the unlucky beasts to disappear. "I mean, where was he headed off on 'business'?" she recovers, ears flicking up as the eagle begins to converse with...well she hopes with herself because the alternative is kind of nasty. "Don't play with your food." She offers up as a reply to her ramblings before returning her attention to Mitra. "If you don't mind me asking."
That seems to placate the eagle a little because, instead of brooding over her food she turns some attention back to the conversation below her. "Well I don't know what kind of friend you're talking about, but unless it's a diurnal raptor - well we get a better view with better eyes than anyone, really. But I have not seen another of your species for several miles. Of course, I can't see through trees," she says easily, not really inclined to analyse the odds of that actually meaning anything.
Mitra lays her ears back. "To be honest.." She lowers her yellow gaze, visibly troubled. "Someone we know well had gone missing...out of concern and respect for his mate, my own and another male went together to look into the whole mess, and.." She trails off, little left to the imagination as to what happened next. "It's...well, frightening! A creature being eaten, that's one thing, but...meaning you no offense, dear, you're quite lovely, but...well, /our/ kind don't just vanish like that! It's highly unlikely, we've had no sickness, we don't have many creatures that could get to us.." She looks up to Avalikia, distracted briefly from her fretting. "Oh, she's an owl, in fact," Mitra clarifies. "Strictly nocturnal, although sometimes she might stir herself earlier...she's an early riser. Most wonderful bird, I highly respect your sort for her sake." Anything to placate ruffled feathers..she's used to it.
"Ah...right." The panda shifts uncomfortably and her ears prick forward. "There are...well there /are/ predators bigger than you and... well rivers to fall into. I know thats not what you might not want to hear but - you know - there might be that chance." She looks up to the bird, now sensing another oppurtunity for a sarcastic comment. "Which is good for me."
"Oh, an /owl/," Avalikia says, the mild sarcasm her tone indicating that she thinks less of them than she might without going so far as to say that she dislikes them. They're nice, but they're not eagles. "Well, she'd be able to /hear/ him more easily than me," the bird allows, but that seems to be all she has to say about that. After that, she takes a few more nibbles of the hare, before she's apparently finished because she lets the leftovers go - some other creature can have the skin and bones. "The rainforest is also a big place to find anything," the eagle comments idly, though if that's meant to encourage or discourages is anyone's guess.
"A fish-owl," Mitra says...always nice to be specific. "She's a bit more sight-oriented, much like yourself, I'd imagine." The answers provided by both avian and panda don't seem to soothe her fears, however, and the cat climbs regretfully to her feet. "I do understand that..that things happen, but.." She pauses, as if unsure how to continue. "It would be...extremely unlikely for such a thing to happen to my mate and his friend." She peers down toward the ground. "Well..my name is Mitra. I would implore you both, with a promise that neither my teeth nor claws should harm you at all, to keep an eye out, and try to find a way to send me word if you hear anything...see anything...please." She gives her tail and anxious flick as she starts down the way she came. "Please!"
"I will. And thank you. And nice to meet you - I'm Tusti. But thats a sort of awful name, so I go by Ti." She throws one last anxious look up at the eagle. "And I'm going to head off myself. No offense my feather creeper, but you give me the heebie jeebies." And with that she bunches up and leaps to another branch, and scurries out ofsight.
"Right," Avalikia says at the clarification of the type of owl, obviously not believing that /any/ owl could have comparable sight. The rest of what the cloudes leopard says goes unresponded to, though that rarely means that the eagle isn't listening. She's too busy weighing the odds in her mind of spotting this one's mate and then finding a way to relay the information back. Both would be tricky, and she'd not inclined to go out of her way. The panda's comment gets a smirk, but though it leaves she's not inclined to linger herself and is soon back in the air.
Avalikia: Female Adolescent Golden Eagle
Mitra: Female Adult Clouded Leopard
Tusti is sprawled over a tree branch, all four paws dangling lazily over its sides. She lays there for quite some time, content to just lounge, until she seems to finally decide otherwise and does something very drastic indeed. She leans eeeever so slightly over, and pulls a rather leafy twig towards her with a claw, and catches it up in her teeth, gnawing lackadasically on the leaves. Couch potato? Try branch panda.
Soaring just above the treetops, Avalikia looks for a good perch to land on. Something high up, not a lot of branches or foliage to get caught up in, but strong enough enough to bear her weight... Ah, there's a good spot! She lands at the very top of the tree the panda happens to be in, causing it to sway just slightly. She keeps her wings open to steady herself until the tree calms down, as maintaining her balance is more difficult when she tries to perch on one foot. The reason for that is because the other is clutching a rather unfortunate hare. Secure in the knowledge that the height of the tree and her size will keep her safe from most anything, she's not observant enough to notice the small creature beneath her just yet.
The shake of the tree arouses an upward glance from Ti, who just expects is to be a fat squirrel or other small creature. Hey, guess whose wrong? She may be a loafer, but she knows a predator when she sees one - the panda scuffles upright and spins around to better stare up at the eagle, keeping a firm grip on the branch between her paws. Finally, she registers the prey dangling from his claws and - while she swallows back her revulsion and last lunch - registers that a bird clutching a freshly caught kill would not be as keen to snatch at her. She keeps a steady eye on the preadator still, and settles back down onto the branch, poised to leap at the slightest inclination.
( Fortunately, the eagle seems to be fully occupied in her meal and has already started into it by the time her sharp eyes catch the movement below her. But when she does, she does nothing more than look at the small creature for a moment before she turns back to her meal and dryly comments, "Lucky I found him first, huh?" After all, she's not a picky eater and the panda is the right size. But she's not going to toss aside a caught prey for an uncaught one, even if it's bigger. That would be wasteful! )
Mitra has arrived.
"Lucky for me at least." She says after a moment's hesitation. She nods once towards the rabbit. "But, uh, I've got claws you know. Sort of vicious. Wouldn't taste too hot, either." Just throwing that out there. With her status as unedible laid out, she reaches a paw down beneath the branch again and pulls another leafy section to her, going back to gnawing lazily as she was before - though her eyes continously flick upwards to he eagle and its prey. Alright. Thats disgusting, she can't eat and watch that at the same time. Ti lets the twig go and it snaps back to place. What does she do? It took a lot of work finding this branch. "So, uh, just to clarify - how much does it take to fill your up?"
The panda's explaination of her food value doesn't seem to work very well. In fact, when it's finished, Avalikia comments, "I've had fox before - they're quite good." Just so that the small creature doesn't think that she'd back down from something because it's vicious. She keeps eating for a moment longer, until she briefly responds to the next question with: "Oh, not to worry - this will hold me the rest of the day at least, and I'll probably be long gone before the day is done." The eagle actually seems amused by the panda's worry, which is probably not very comforting at all even though she spoke the truth.
The grating of bark and the scuff of claws announces the arrival of another arboreal creature. Mitra is an animal not much larger than the red panda she's climbing toward, her smiling face and striped eyed fixed on the lush red and black beacon above her. When she speaks, it is a curious, almost muffled sound...as though she might be trying deliberately to hide the huge canines in her mouth. "Oh...e-excuse me, dear...might I have a word?" She has to call up, as still a length or more down the trunk, quite oblivious to the vivid creature's present company. Even with her mouth closed, her coutenance is mild, despite very long digits digging in for purchase.
Oh gracious, she's surrounded by the nommy beasts. "Thats...gross. I'm still cuter." See? Can't eat her, she's adorable. As a voice hails her from below, her gaze snaps downwards. "Oh good lord - seriously. Don't eat me." She crouches against the branch and peers down at Mitra. "But, uh, other than that sure? Don't meet many toothy beasts with manners." Her long, ringed tail flicks and wraps around the branch behind her, keeping her firmly balanced. She may have an eagle above her, and a leopard below, but at least she's balanced, everybody.
A snort from the bird is enough to destroy the cute theory. Then again, that's doesn't really matter since she's planning on taking off after lunch. But she's interrupted once again when she sees the feline also climbing the tree. While the panda, being lunch-size, is of no consequence since she already has lunch, the clouded leopard gets a careful look. But after a moment the bird seems to decide that it isn't a problem for her at least, because she goes back to her meal.
Mitra arches her neck and twists her head to one side, looking...quite horrified. "Oh, not at all, dear, I shan't bear the thought a moment," she replies. "I could never do harm to someone I've spoken with so gently. No, it's just.." Bracing her hind legs she pushes upward, edging to one side in the attempt of finding a branch to rest herself upon. "You see, my mate is away on business, and I was hoping that a creature of your stature, in an elevated position, you see, might have seen him recently." She has a soft voice, motherly and with a strange, melodic lilt to it as she speaks. Not the sort of voice one might credit to a predator. "It's of highest importance to me, much moreso than hurting you at all, I promise."
"Notice I didn't say anything about the beaky ones." Ti mutters towards the bird with a pout, before her eyes roll back to the ascending leopard and scooting back a smidge. "Eh - I'd guess he looks a bit like you but...manlier? No I haven't. Been a bit preoccupied with Big Bird over here, actually - see." She points her muzzle to the bird nervously and slides more to the end of her branch. "But I'll keep my eyes out. He been gone too long or something?" She's heard the funky rumors, it wouldn't suprise her if another went poof in the forest.
"She's asking the /panda/?" Avalikia says quietly to herself. Or perhaps she's talking to her meal, which is probably much worse. "When there's someone right /here/ that can see for miles and travel hundreds in a day?" she continues, sighing and shaking her head sadly to herself. She wishes the smaller creatures were so quick to ignore her as the larger ones. Other than that commentary she seems disinclined to talk to the other two, her focus still on her food which is disappearing quite quickly.
For all of the fluffy creature's caution, when the cloudie finds herself a perch, she stretches out lengthwise along it and rests quite comfortably. She follows the direction of Tusti's nod, catching sight of the adolescent bird but doing no more than flicking a well-rounded ear. Flesh eater she may be, but like Avalikia, she seems to be honest. "Aye, that he has," she says, expression ripe with concern. "For some days now, he's overdue and I've heard no word...so I thought I might take matters into my own paws.." Words trail off as she catches on to some of the eagle's words. "Well now, if I had seen you first, I might have asked you first...my apologies," she says, sounding abashed. "I do have a friend on the wing who's been doing some searching for me, but she's had no luck. I mean you no offense."
Tusti, finally deciding that she was in no danger of being eaten, relaxes. "Ah. You think he mi--" She stops. She doesn't want to upset the other by suggesting that her mate be one of the unlucky beasts to disappear. "I mean, where was he headed off on 'business'?" she recovers, ears flicking up as the eagle begins to converse with...well she hopes with herself because the alternative is kind of nasty. "Don't play with your food." She offers up as a reply to her ramblings before returning her attention to Mitra. "If you don't mind me asking."
That seems to placate the eagle a little because, instead of brooding over her food she turns some attention back to the conversation below her. "Well I don't know what kind of friend you're talking about, but unless it's a diurnal raptor - well we get a better view with better eyes than anyone, really. But I have not seen another of your species for several miles. Of course, I can't see through trees," she says easily, not really inclined to analyse the odds of that actually meaning anything.
Mitra lays her ears back. "To be honest.." She lowers her yellow gaze, visibly troubled. "Someone we know well had gone missing...out of concern and respect for his mate, my own and another male went together to look into the whole mess, and.." She trails off, little left to the imagination as to what happened next. "It's...well, frightening! A creature being eaten, that's one thing, but...meaning you no offense, dear, you're quite lovely, but...well, /our/ kind don't just vanish like that! It's highly unlikely, we've had no sickness, we don't have many creatures that could get to us.." She looks up to Avalikia, distracted briefly from her fretting. "Oh, she's an owl, in fact," Mitra clarifies. "Strictly nocturnal, although sometimes she might stir herself earlier...she's an early riser. Most wonderful bird, I highly respect your sort for her sake." Anything to placate ruffled feathers..she's used to it.
"Ah...right." The panda shifts uncomfortably and her ears prick forward. "There are...well there /are/ predators bigger than you and... well rivers to fall into. I know thats not what you might not want to hear but - you know - there might be that chance." She looks up to the bird, now sensing another oppurtunity for a sarcastic comment. "Which is good for me."
"Oh, an /owl/," Avalikia says, the mild sarcasm her tone indicating that she thinks less of them than she might without going so far as to say that she dislikes them. They're nice, but they're not eagles. "Well, she'd be able to /hear/ him more easily than me," the bird allows, but that seems to be all she has to say about that. After that, she takes a few more nibbles of the hare, before she's apparently finished because she lets the leftovers go - some other creature can have the skin and bones. "The rainforest is also a big place to find anything," the eagle comments idly, though if that's meant to encourage or discourages is anyone's guess.
"A fish-owl," Mitra says...always nice to be specific. "She's a bit more sight-oriented, much like yourself, I'd imagine." The answers provided by both avian and panda don't seem to soothe her fears, however, and the cat climbs regretfully to her feet. "I do understand that..that things happen, but.." She pauses, as if unsure how to continue. "It would be...extremely unlikely for such a thing to happen to my mate and his friend." She peers down toward the ground. "Well..my name is Mitra. I would implore you both, with a promise that neither my teeth nor claws should harm you at all, to keep an eye out, and try to find a way to send me word if you hear anything...see anything...please." She gives her tail and anxious flick as she starts down the way she came. "Please!"
"I will. And thank you. And nice to meet you - I'm Tusti. But thats a sort of awful name, so I go by Ti." She throws one last anxious look up at the eagle. "And I'm going to head off myself. No offense my feather creeper, but you give me the heebie jeebies." And with that she bunches up and leaps to another branch, and scurries out ofsight.
"Right," Avalikia says at the clarification of the type of owl, obviously not believing that /any/ owl could have comparable sight. The rest of what the cloudes leopard says goes unresponded to, though that rarely means that the eagle isn't listening. She's too busy weighing the odds in her mind of spotting this one's mate and then finding a way to relay the information back. Both would be tricky, and she'd not inclined to go out of her way. The panda's comment gets a smirk, but though it leaves she's not inclined to linger herself and is soon back in the air.