Mermaids actually exist! Oh no wait, that's just a seal DX (A Long Patrol, Salamandastron Ambassadors, Reavers, and seal log. Because this is what we do.)

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Scene: The lovely beach of the Western shores, nearish to Halyard and Salamandastron.

Frienemies:

Hares: Flint, male. Felicity 'Lissie', female.

Seals (not kidding): Kenwei, female.

Foxes: Vannon, male.

Mice: Leon, male.

Flint has been busy with training room, even some boxing and trips to the beach. This morning he was a little harder to wake up, but he did wake up after a dibbun tried to pry his eye open and drop hot oatmeal on his head, then yep he awoke and still has traces of oatmeal in his headfur but he is here an on duty. Brother Leon is with him to check on the seal as promised.

Kenwei has not went too far, she can't till her flipper heals better. The two guard hares make her nervous, hey they are quiet and strangers and they eat a lot so it's freaky. She nods a hello to Flint and Leon and lets the healer look her over as she is quiet for now.

Felicity is mildly furious. It was her sister, her baby sister Julia, who dumped /oatmeal/ on their Uncle's head. Oh, for the love of sleeping in! She decided to leave Julia with the Dibbun caretakers and accompany her Uncle and the Abbey Ambassador out to the beach. She also is on duty, but she also brought her art supplies, just in case the seal will let her make a sketch. She has her weapons with her; she basically never leaves the mountain without them. The walk from the Mountain to the area of the beach where the seal is has done wonders to calm her down, but she's still not talking to anyone yet.

And then there were foxes, or rather just one fox but Vannon could easily count as 20 in foxy wiles alone, possibly a fox and a half in weight alone. It was part of the reason Vannon was out here, getting some fresh air of the sea, stretching his legs, and getting away from his boss with a pointy hook.

Suffice to say he is surprised to see a pair of long eared fluff tail hares moving towards something on the beach, something he can't quite make out from this distance. Curious beast that he is Vannon picks up the pace trying to make out what these hares are up to as he moves along the inner edge of the beach, between the sand and grass of the shore.

Flint keeps alert as the healer mouse tends to the seal. He also has his longbow out just in case there is trouble, of course there is the other two hares as well with weapons as well.

Kenwei is more alert as more beasts come she is more nervous and she sees something that doesn't have long ears and its tail is long and bushy and she grunts a little, but she stays still as she doesn't want to injure herself more or mess up ageing and tending to.

Felicity smiles as they come up to the seal. "'Ello!" she says cheerily. She sits down on the sand, but is ready to hop up and fight if need be. "My name's Felicity. Do y'mind my askin' what your name is, love?" That's a good way to make friends, right? If she has spotted the fox, she's not letting anyone know.

For once Vannon continues to hang around the edges of the scene. He finds a moss covered rock on the beach to lean himself against. Arms cross, feet crossed, the vulpine just watches for right now as the hares continue towards the otter on the beach. No...not an otter. A fuzzy, furry...mermaid?

Vannon has to check his vision. What he sees can't be real, can it? An otter with a fish body? What madness is this? He must be off his rocker with ale. The fox checks his breath, nope, sober. This is even worse! Vannon is going mad, MAD!

Or...or mermaids actually exist! The fox can be seen biting his paws in the background as he quietly questions his reality.

Flint looks at the seal when it grunts and looks around. He nods a hello to Felicity but is ever alert in case a fox wanders too close. Leon meanwhile is rebandaging the wounds "Healing good looks like, just no moving too much for maybe a week."

Kenwei nods "Is...good, yes?" She then looks towards the fox, she sees it and is uncertain of it. But stays as calm as she can for now and glances at Felicity finally."Ello..."

Well, she tried. Felicity just smiles, then turns and looks at what the seal was looking at. "Oh! We've got a fox visitah. 'Ello, Mistah Fox! Just 'elpin' a seal 'ere. Fell free to move along at any time, wot!" It's all said cheerily, but she's very vaguely warning him to not start any trouble.

Move along? Kydo Vannon /move along/? After having his whole universe turned upside down by the discovery of mystical creatures?

Hardly.

"They exist!" He shouts, stalking forward in more of a stagger than actual walk. "Mermaids! They actually exist! Mermaids actually exist! Sentient fish! What's next? Banshees, were foxes, /DRAGONS/?!?" The fox's eyes grow wide at the very thought, he peers upward while nervously rubbing his paws, as if a dragon were to swoop down and eat him on this very spot. Crazy? It would be if not having discovered mermaids existed!

The two hare guards point sabers at the fox and look ready to move and attack if needed. Flint keeps a close eye on the fox and starts to lay an arrow on the longbow as he studies the fox "You....who are you? Wot ya want?" The fox seems familiar and last time something was familiar it led to someone close dying.

Kenwei is clearly not one of those seals that fight, she looks more ready to run away, she does snort at the fox... "Away....furred evil"

Felicity leaves her haversack on the sand beside the seal, stands, and takes a couple steps towards the fox, paw on shortsword hilt. "She's not a mermaid, she's a seal. Mermaids aren't real. Sorry," she adds with a sad face. "Trust me, I'm probably more disappointed about that than you are."

The fox's paws pause in their flailing. "A seal?" Vannon blinks, "Oh. I've heard of those." He rights himself, running a paw through his head fur, "Yes, that makes much more sense now. World view not shattered, it is all clear now."

The fox coughs politely into his paw then points it accusingly, "You're trying to throw me off the trail by calling this mermaid a seal! Ha aha! You think you could pull the wool over /my/ eyes. You don't out wit foxes deary. Just you wait until the town hears about you keeping mythical creatures! Just you wait!" His eyes hover over the group, perhaps with a twinge of madness until they focus on the one eared hare, and he smiles. It's not quite clear why he smiles, beyond simply being crazy, but he does.

Then with out another word the vulpine turns and tries to trot quickly away, back down the beach in the direction of the town.

Flint eyes narrow at the fox, he dos not trust that fox just the way he looks at him, he then loads an arrow and pulls back as if debating on firing or not, his fingers let go and the arrow flies towards the fox's direction. Will it miss or hit?

Then they rolled dice! The command was +roll-dice 1d6. If Flint rolled higher, it hit. If Vannon rolled higher, it missed. Let's see what happened....

    • DICE 1 d 6 + 0 ROLLED by Vannon :
    • ROLLS: 4
    • TOTAL: 4
    • DICE 1 d 6 + 0 ROLLED by Flint :
    • ROLLS: 6
    • TOTAL: 6

Oh, shnap....

Kenwei backs into the water, it is close after all, and she trusts the fox even less than the hare.

Leon frowns as the seal backs up "Wait, you need to let the flipper heal" He is not paying attention to hares or foxes right now.

Felicity just stares at the fox as he toddles off. "What.....just 'appened, wot??" she asks in mild shock. She hears the seal re-enter the water and turns around just as her uncle fires his arrow. "Wait, Uncle Flint, what are you doin'?! 'E's leavin'!!"

There is a loud, shrill yelp as Vannon's body goes completely ridged, sailing through the air until he lands face first into the sand. The fox would later come to realize that there were worse places to be shot with an arrow, say for example the gut, or the chest, or the head. There were fewer places more painful though than the rump.

And he makes this known with a horrible shrill whine, one could almost hear him shout 'Not again!' as he limps away on all fours, dragging his wounded leg behind him, but perhaps that is just the wind.

Kenwei speaks "Some furrys.....not good..wish danger upon us"

Flint takes a calming breath, "I...don't trust him, or any vermin and that...why he smile at me like that, may be blooming up ta no good, wot" Leon looks over at the yelp and decides the fox will live and be fine, though he may not want to sit down for a couple days.

Felicity covers her eyes with a paw as she hears the vulpine yelp with obvious pain. "No, I think 'e's probably crazy, but whatevah." She sits down again beside her haversack and opens it. "You're right, Miss Seal. But 'e's gone now, so we should be okay..." Hopefully....

Kenwei relaxes a little and is not so in the water now "Kenwei...means flower of the waters....." As the fox gets further away she seems more relaxed. "From the...great rock yes?"

Flint drops down to his knees, yep just a little stress here as he then stands and slowly walks back after a brief talk with the two hare guards, he is then by the seal and the other beasts "Great rock...ya mean de mountain?"

"Kenwei? That's a beautiful name! My names means 'Happiness'." Lissie smiles and pulls out her sketchbook and a charcoal pencil. "Aye, we're from the big stone Mountain. We live inside it."

Kenwei watches the hares and looks at the paper and charcoal Felicity has a is curious of it, she has not seen much past the large ocean and beaches.

Flint nods "Home of de long patrol it be" The healer mouse has put away his stuff and is now just sitting down on the beach, no sense in walking back on his own.

Felicity holds out her sketchbook and charcoal for the seal to get a better look at. "This is a pencil, and this is a sketchbook full o' papah. I was wondering if ye'd mind if I drew you. You're so pretty, you'd make a wonderful model, wot!" And she would liek to draw a real seal that she's looking at, but the haremaid refrains from saying that.

Kenwei frowns "No pain...no?" She looks at the pencil and the paper, so...odd to her it would seem. "If no pain...is a yes, if pain is a nope"

Flint says a few words to the guards and then walks off back to the mountain, he will send another hare to escort them back if needed, his good ear sort of droops down.

Leon watches Flint head off, he starts to follow and then just stays where he is for now as he can wait.

Felicity sadly watches her uncle leave, then tells the seal, "Oh, no, it won't 'urt at all! In fact, I won't 'ave to touch you." She smiles and opens the sketchbook to a clean, unused page.

Kenwei nods and will let the hare maid draw her and who knows maybe it will help others learn what a seal is, "Ok then being."

Felicity starts the preliminary sketch. "Are you all by yourself 'ere, love?" She asks kindly. "The 'are with the bow and arrows is my uncle. 'Is name is Flint. I 'ave a baby sistah named Julia."

Kenwei frowns as she looks at the sand, then back up again, "I....lost my tribe...small was of seals...the evil furry ones o' the floating home took their life away, away I got but the floating home torn my flipper badly...the one pawed one helped my flipper he did"

Felicity looks up at the seal, compassion and empathy showing plainly on her face. "Oh, I am so sorry. My parents and brothah were killed by pirates, too. It's one of the worst things to evah 'appen to a beast." The haremaid decides to make this seal her new friend.

Kenwei frowns, she quietly gets more comfortable now on the sand of the beach, she glances at the healer mouse before looking at the hare maid again, "Pirate?...oh word for evil furs"

Felicity nods and starts drawing again. "Aye, that's the name for the....er, evil furs who live in the floatin' 'omes. But some beasts in floatin' 'omes are nice. 'Tis 'ard to tell sometimes." She smiles in a friendly way. "I'm glad that you found your way 'ere so Leon--the one with one paw--could 'elp you....and so we could become friends?"

Kenwei listens some as she nods "Friends?.." She looks tried as she yawns some

"Aye, friends. It's where 2 beasts spend time togethah and care for each othah and....oh," Lissie smiles as the seal falls asleep. She continues to quietly draw the seal. She hopes they can be friends....

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