Lost from Moledeep.
Characters: Christopher, Kluner, Kentar, Aikuen.
Location: Moledeep; The Clearing. Mossflower woods.
Christopher is plotting something today. Something his father told him never, ever to do. He's going to go exploring! In the woods! Without telling his father. But he doesn't want to go alone. So he's out and about, looking for Kluner, wondering if the weasely brother of his wants to go too.
Kluner is outside, like he normally is. He likes to spend time alone with his thoughts and his paints. He is currently up in a tree near the entrance. His pack and a sketchbook is with him, as he sketches the tree line that he sees. He reaches for another colored stick when he loses his grasp on the one he is holding and it falls to the ground below. He blinks and looks down, "Hello Chris..." he waves trying to get the little ones attention.
Chris hrms as he sees Kluna. The stoat returns the wave and smiles, moving over to the base of the tree, tilting his head a little. "How you get up 'dere?" He asks, tilting his head the other way now.
Kluner keeps his tail, nice and wrapped, around the branch, "I climbed up. Its real simples... What are you doings out heres alone?" he asks.
Chris hrms and starts to try and climb the tree but a foot or two off the ground, he falls back on to his rear, owing and frowning deeply. "Not simples." he shakes his head before pointing to the path. "Gonna go 'xploring!" he nods, smiling. "Wanna come!?"
Kluner chuckles a bit at the little ones attempt, "Its simples after you practice enough... likes me..." he then tilts his head, "Explorin? I don't know... I don't think fater would like that..." he hrms.
Chris frowns. "He said it otay." the stoat nods, looking around before standing up and staring back up at the weasel. "Come on....peas'?" he tries to look nice and sad.
Kluner creases his brows, "He dids?" he hrms and scratches his head for a minute. He then nods and chuckles at him, "Okay... Sounds like funs!" he laughs, and puts the things back in his back, and is quickly down the tree.
Chris nods and smiles as he watches Kluna climb down the tree. He watches and then tries to figure out how he got down so quick. "Yah." he nods before starting off down the path. He looks around and oohs a little bit, never having actually left moledeep before.
Kluner blinks as the little stoat runs off. He resettles his pack before chasing on after him, "Hey! Waits up! Slow Downs!" he ergs as he catches up and matches speed with him. Kluner has only seen what when they left for the coast, and when Kentar first brought him out here. Never been by himself though. Never saw a reason too.
Chris giggles a little and waits for his brother before continuing on the path. "Wow." he looks around, smiling like a kid who just got his all time favorite toy. He sticks his paws in his pockets. "Its...biiiig!"
Kluner keeps his paws on the straps as he follows just behind the stoat, "It is bigs... Mossflower woods i thinks its calleds..." he chuckles, "I saw a maps of it once..." he makes a circular paw motion, "It was this bigs... on the maps... so it must be bigs..."
Chris watches Kluna then giggles a little at his attempt to show just how big Mossflower was. The little stoat looks around, so many new things to him. But instead of wanting to figure out what else there are aside from big trees, he grins and taps Kluna on the shoulder. "Tag! Yer it!" he grins, dashing off into the trees. He's not the fastest, so should be easy for Kluner to keep up.
Kluner was admiring the tress, until he is tapped. He blinks a little bit before chasing after the other stoat, "You meanie! Come here yous!" he chuckles as he, after a bit, catch up the the little stoat. He pokes him in the back, "Got yah! Your its now!" he grins, running the other way.
The young stoat eerps and falls over, but he rolls onto his knees and gets up, just like his father showed him to do, running after Kluner. "Heeeey! Nos fair." he runs after the weasel trying to tag him back, but its not going all that well.
Kluner chuckles as he runs away as fast as he can from the little stoat. He is taller than him, and his legs are naturally longer than his, so he is making quick work of getting away from. He is going to lose him before he trips over his long tail and slams onto the ground, head first. He forget to hold his tail while running. He rolls over onto his back, and rubs his nose.
Chris giggles as he watches Kluna tumble. He stops next to him then points, then laughs. "Hehe! You go boom!" Apparently Kentar forgot to teach Kluna how to roll when he falls.
Kluner's nose is now begining to bleed. He broke his nose again. The weasel begins to feel the hot blood running down his face as he blinks up at the little stoat, "Is not funny..." he sits up and the profusion now drips onto his legs. Kluner blinks as he places his thumbs above his nasal openings and pops it back into place, "I broke my nose again..." he hrms, like its an everyday occurrence.
Chris blinks. He's never seen blood before. And it scares him a little. "Is...is you okay?" he asks, tilting his head a little bit, not laughing anymore.
Kluner wipes his nose on the back of his paw, "I'm okays... Just needs to be more careful..." he stands and wraps his tail under his pack so it seems to stick up out of the top of his head. Even though the nose is set back into place, his nose is still bleeding, and Kluner sniffs.
Chris gulps a little bit and and rummages in his pockets for a hankie. He hands it over, the nice clean cloth not going to be nice and clean anymore. "You...sure you okay?" he asks.
Kluner smiles a bit and takes the cloth, wiping his paws first and then his nose. He then shoves an end of the cloth in each of his passage ways, stopping the flow. He muffly says, "I'm be okay..." he nods a bit.
Chris ewhs a little and cringes at the way his hankie is being used. "Yous keeps it." he nods. The stoat then looks around and starts walking in the direction Kluna was running when he fell.
Kluner smiles, "Oh... Okays Thanks..." he chuckles a bit as he starts to follow the little stoat again. It was just a little mishap. Nothing to worry about. After a bit, the weasel asks, "Know where we are going?"
Christopher thinks a bit then nods. "Yeah." he says, pointing in the direction they're going. "That way!" The stoat giggles a little. If they were to look all around them, they'd find they were in the middle of no where already.
Kluner blinks a little bit at the little stoat, before shrugging and continuing to follow him. He remains quiet as he looks around, "This place doesn't look familiar... i thinks we got off the path..."
Chris giggles a little bit and nods. "We're fine!" the stoat nods. "Sooooo..." he was about to say something before he stops and looks down. "Look!" the stoat smiles, pointing down at his foot. Some sort of blue rock.
Kluner is still not so sure, and he keeps a look out just in case, for anything that looks familiar, "What?... Oooo!" he grins and runs forward looking at the blue rock. He picks it up and wipes some of the first and mud off it, shining it on his vest. He grins, "Ah! This looks amazings!" he chuckles.
Chris smiles brightly and nods. "Yahs!" he replies with a bit of a giggle. After a few moments he thinks. "Hows many rocks you have?" he asks.
Kluner puts the rock in his pack, through a hole at the top, "I dont knows... a tons... I like pretties rocks!" he grins as he looks down, trying to find a few more. You never know. Find one, find a few more!
There's a smaller blue one there where the other one was, probably was one part of a bigger rock! Chris grins and points down. "There!" he then looks up and around. Erg. "Where...where's moledeep?" he asks, looking around, not realizing how far they wandered.
Kluner ooo's and picks up the rock, examining it for a minute before putting it back on the ground, "Looks like the other one..." and he already got one of those. He looks up and dusts his paws before saying, "I don't know... I thought yous knew!" he frowns.
Chris looks around and hrms. "I home is. Dat way!" he points off in some random direction and starts to walk. "Yeah! Dis way!" he grins.
Kluner creases his brow again at the little stoat. He eyes him before shrugging, "Are you sure? Okay then..." he hrms as he follow the stoat, once again.
Chris nods. "Sure!" he nods again, having his father's habit of scratching his ear when he's not sure or nervous. Or both.
Kluner tilts his head at the little stoat, "I hopes so..." he pulls out the redden rag from his nose and puts it in his pocket.
Chris nods. "Me toos." he mutters quietly, the stoat looking around slowly and frowning. He walks along for a little bit more before stopping and looking around.
Kluner frowns deeply when he says that. When he stops again he pokes the stoat, "I think you are lost..." he hrms loudly.
Chris frowns and wiggles at the poke. "Not lost!" he insists, looking around a little again, hrming. Got his father's sense of direction too.
Kluner says, "You are losts..." The weasel decides to take it for himself, "Lets go back the way we came... See if we can follows our tracks..." he points to the way they came from.
Christopher, the little kid he is, has to do things HIS way. "This way!" he nods, starting to walk in a direction that's not Kluna's. The stoat frowns a little, looking over his shoulder at his brother for a few moments.
Kluner doesn't go with Chris, nor does he go the way that he pointed. He just waits and says, "And why do you thinks its thats ways... and not my ways?" he frowns slightly.
Chris blinks and stops, turning around to face the weasel. "Er..." he looks Kluna's way before frowning. "Fine." he folds his arms and hmphs as he walks back to Kluna and then the way they came.
Kluner nods, "See... my way is better... I have a reasons..." he nods, and follows their tracks back the way they came. Now they are at the place where they first found the blue rocks. But that seems to be the end of the tracks. Kluner frowns, "Nuts!" he curses.
The stoat frowns and then when the tracks stop, Chris giggles and points at the weasel, sticking his tongue out. "Hehe!"
Kluner frowns, and pokes the stoat none to gently, "Shut up... and think... we are lost..." and its all his fault.
"OW!" Chris frowns. He rubs the spot where he was poked before going to poke Kluner right back.
Kluner frowns at the poke and goes to poke him back, even harder than before, "Stop it and think!" he frowns.
That poke, pushed him over. Yeah, he went down easy but he still went down. He just sits there and tries to not cry. Ow.
Kluner goes over and sits next to the little stoat, "Sorries... just... we are lost... and this isnt helping..." he feels really bad and hugs him lightly.
Christopher frowns and hugs back before the two should be able to hear something over the air. Its quiet. But its hearable. "Christopher!? Kluna!?" Almost like a whisper in the trees.
Kluner blinks a little bit as he still holds onto Chris' arm, "Chris... I thinks i hear some beast... our names... See if you can hear who it is..." he looks off, but doesn't say anything just yet. He knows when to keep quite. He was a pirate you know.
The little stoat flicks his ears, and looks around, but doesn't see anyone. There's no sound for a minute or two but then there's two voices calling out this time. "Chris!? Kluner!!?" One of them is clearly Kentar. The other, probably Aikuen. Maybe.
It is in fact Aikuen. When he found out the little ones were missing, he just had to come with. To back up Kentar... you know, just in case, "I think that they went this way... When did you say they went missing?" he asks the stoat.
Kluner looks off into the distance and says to Chris, "It sounds like fater... Go hide in the bush... ima gonna go check..." he nods as he goes off and climbs up the nearest tree.
Kentar sighs and rubs his head. "I don't know. Maybe. An hour or two ago. But they weren't anywhere near moledeep..." The stoat sounds really worried. "Christopher!? Kluna! Where aaaaare you?!" The stoat frowns and then sits down, setting his head into his paws. "I'm such a horrible father." Chris blinks and nods, dashing into the bush.
The otter nudges the stoat with his footpaw, "Your not a horrible father... How dare you say that... your out looking for them... that's better than most..." he helps him, or forces him up, "Come on mate... I can see some tracks... might be them..." he nods and goes off in that direction, "
Kluner looks off from his branch, hovering over it like a squirrel. He squints his eyes as he looks off. He can see two beasts, and one of their voices is defiantly Kentar sounding. But still cant make sure.
The stoat stands up and wipes away his tears. He really thinks he's lost them. And its not that thought that's making him cry. Its the fact that they're gone. The fact that he couldn't keep them from going anywhere. "Alright." he says, following Aikuen. "Chris!?" Kentar calls out louder. "Kluna!?"
Kluner eyes off into the distance as the otter comes into view, shortly after he sees his father. He smiles a little bit and waves, "Fater! Aiks! Up heres! We are over heres!" and he slides down the tree waiting for them to arrive.
Kentar blinks and puts a paw out to stop Aik. "Did you here that?" the stoat asks, looking around before spotting Kluna in the distance. "There! There they are!" Kentar smiles and runs off towards them. Chris pokes his head out of the bush to look around. "Is it dem?" he asks.
Kluner smiles as he goes over to the bush, "Yes! Its fater and Aiks... they come lookin for us's..." he smiles twitches his tail in excitement.
Aik blinks as he looks to Kentar, he didn't hear it, "Hear what?" he looks to where Kentar looked and he sees the beast in the distance, "Sure that them?" as he runs after the older stoat.
"Its them! I'm sure of it!" Kentar says. He climbs up the hill to them quickly and stops as he sees them. "You have no idea how happy I am to see you two!" "Daddy!" Chris runs over into Kentar's arms, the two hugging tight. He then opens his arm again for Kluna. "Don't ever scare me like that again!"
Kluner runs over to hug Kentar as well, "But you said it was alright... " at least that's what Chris said, "... We just got lost a little... didn't stay on the path... Yay, Fater!" he grins.
Aik stands in the back just looking around and then tilting his head when Kluna said that 'it was alright'.
Chris ergs a little when his brother speaks, the stoat pushing his face into his father's chest. "What?" Kentar asks, blinking. "I didn't say it was okay for you two to go exploring without anyone watching you." he's confused.
Kluner tilts his head at Kentar, and glance between him and the little stoat, "Yes you did... Chris said so... I didnt want to go unless you said it was okay..." he is also very confused.
The stoat blinks as he feels Chris try to hide himself in his father. Kentar rolls his eye and takes his son by the shoulders. "Christopher, look at me." he says. "Did you say that it was alright if you two left?" he asks. He just nods slowly and starts to cry.
Kluner tilts his head as he removes himself from Kentar's arms. He has seen that before. Better get away before fists start flying. He walks over to Aik, "Hellos... " he says quietly.
Aik looks down at him and frowns slightly, "You wait for your father to deal with you..." he places a paw on top of his head.
Kentar sighs. "Chris. I told you never, ever to leave moledeep without me, or without telling me. If there had have been any vermin out and about, you could have been captured and taken away." Which is what happened with the rats while they were away. "Listen to me...I don't ever want to you do that again." he then takes a deep breath before motioning Kluner over.
Kluner looks up at Aik and gets sad all of a sudden. So much for that. He waits and listens to what Kentar tells Chris, until he is waved over. He holds onto his tail, rubbing the top as he approaches, "Yes..." he looks down for a bit, before looking back up at him.
Kentar takes another breath. He doesn't quite notice the dried blood on Kluna's snout yet. "You should have checked with me before listening to Chris. So, in away, your just as responsible as he is. And for that." he stands up. "Your both grounded. Confined inside for a week.' he nods. But then he blinks, noticing the stain. "Are you okay, Kluna?" he's got that worried tone again.
Kluner looks down and nods slowly, "Yes..." that seems reasonable enough. Though he hates the idea of being cooped up for so long. He shoots Chris an evil glare before looking back up at Kentar, "I just brokes my nose... we were runnings and i tripped over my tail... i landed on my face... I'm okay... i fixed it..." he nods slowly.
Kentar phews a little. "Okay. Good...that your okay I mean." he nods. "Lets just get back home." he says. "Follow us." He picks the still sniffling Chris up and sets him on his shoulders before walking along.
The otter goes over and waits behind Kluna to make sure he goes.
Kluner nods slowly as he follows the older stoat, "Yes... Home..." he shakes his head slightly. He doesn't want to be cooped up indoors. Stupid Chris.
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