Re: Float Down The Stream of Harmony [OPEN]

Wed Nov 02, 2016 10:42 am

Henrex Astillon

The Broken Raven

Descend Into Darkness

| Artist: Katawa Shoujo | Song: Innocence | Word Count: 585 |

What's going on with me...?

Henrex hadn't expected for Mirja to find him again. In fact, he had expected that the girl would keep her distance, only finding him to vent out her hatred for him. With her forgetting entirely who he was, and what he had done, Henrex had found it...hard to believe. It was hard for someone to forget something like that. Then again, it was Mirja. She was...not exactly a person who remembered everything. His mind wondered if this was all just a trick to get him to trust her again. Fear gripped his heart again, and his eye widened, before he heard a noise.

A weird noise that came from Mirja, and, upon looking at the tall wolf girl's face, he could tell that, for some reason, she was staring at him. Two blinks came from him, and he looked from the left, to the right. Then, a poke to the chest, before she spoke. Most of it was just little prods to his lack of speaking, and that she could hear something coming from him, and couldn't understand it, but then came the kicker. Those ears and the tail that she had were very, very real. That was something that Henrex had always wondered about. Did she read his mind or something?

Then, she went on about asking if she should speak Norwegian, French, or German, all languages that Henrex could understand, mainly because of his Cyberbrain's addition, which allowed him to not only understand all languages, but also speak them if he wished to. Not stopping for a moment, Mirja continued moving, before stopping abruptly, holding out her arm to signal him to stop as well, before Henrex leaned over to see what she was staring at. Mushrooms. However, Mirja must have seen something wrong with them, as she quickly started yelling.

Defacing the forest? Her forest? Henrex tilted his head in confusion, before he just let the girl go on her rant, before sitting down next to her, staring at the mushrooms, using some of the skills he learned as a ninja to see if these were poisonous or not. He didn't want to take any chances. He had poison running through him once, and he didn't want it again. So, through his mental reprocessing of what was poisonous and what wasn't, he quickly found that they....were not dangerous. However, he still had something else on his mind.

Those ears. Were they...really real? If so, did she magically sprout them out of her head? How would that even happen? Sure, there was a variety of magic in the world, but none that he knew of did something like this. He wanted to find out, but his natural awkwardness and shyness kicked in. Determination to find out soon trumped it, and he decided to act.

So, his right hand slowly rose from his side, his fingers curling back to point at the ears. Underneath the scarf around his mouth, nose, and eye, his teeth gently gouged into his lip. He was most likely going to regret asking this, but he really wanted to find out. How were they real? The first time they had met, she had nothing of the sort. How could someone construct something like that? That would bring up more questions if it was connected to her nervous system, which would mean that she had feeling in them. So, Henrex pulled his scarf down from his mouth, and spoke himself. A quiet, deep, but yet soft voice.

"C...Can I....pet....your ears? How...are they real?"

Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:33 pm

Mirja, The Mad Wolf

Mirja

The Mushroom seeds would pay, ohhhh they would pay. How dare they come here, to her forest, of all things.
"Be gone Mushrooms! I am a generous Wolfess, so I shall give you to the count of ten to leave this place in peace. I shall not tolerate your kind here" She warned, hands on her hips and tail swishing, staring down at the mushrooms and waiting for them to move. Softly, she counted to make sure she did not lose any count, and when she hit ten and they were still there, her irritation spiked. "Very well, then you have chosen death!" she cried, but was distracted by Henrex asking if she could pet her ears.

"Ohh, they are real because I got someone to make them real. But you ask to pet them, do you?! Such courage, it is laudable. Or, is it foolery rather than bravery that bids you act? Either way, you have not yet the victories under your belt to touch the ears. You must spar with The Wolf for nineteen hours and then win, before you can touch these ears. Unless you are Ceal. She was just so cute I couldn't say no to her when she asked" Mirja drifted off with a smile, before shaking her head and coming back to reality.

Reality, was her ripping a tree out of the ground, roots and all, and crushing the crop of mushrooms to a pulp with it, before burying the tree in the ground again by slamming it down hard enough that the ground gave way to the tree.
"There, those Mushrooms will never sow anyone's clothes a little tighter at night. Evil Mushrooms, destroyed!" Mirja pulled what looked to be a cool post, to her, but outside viewers would probably see it as just a crazed wolf in an equally crazed pose.

Coding Altered From: [The Frost]