No meal until tomorrow

Characters: Kentar, Kluner

Location: Cliffs

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Its now the middle of the evening, and the sun is setting. Kentar is walking up the beach with Kluner. The stoat is keeping extremely quiet as they walk, not even making eye contact with the weasel.

Kluner is behind the stoat, just keeping pace with him. He feels better from last night, as he carries pawfulls of sand. He just lightly hums and he picks up some more sand, and lets it flow in the wind. After doing that for awhile, he runs to the stoat and says, "Fajer? Whats wrongs? Yous not takins much..." His tail playfully flicks behind him.

Kentar doesn't look back as speaks. "I feel bad about lying to you last night." he says quietly. "I shouldn't have lied. Even if it was to protect you from something so small." the stoat sighs and peers into the sunset sky.

Kluner nods a little bit, "Oh, dats..." He rubs his tail now, "dat was okays..." He doesn't say any more, as he begins to nibble the end of his tail. The shock of seeing a slain beast for the first time, was washed away, when the stoat talked about his home.

Kentar nods slowly and finally brings himself to look down at the dibbun. "I'm still sorry." he then nods. "So Kluner. You still want to come with me to my home?" he asks.

Kluner runs ahead of the stoat and laughs, "Oh Yeses! Its soundeded wondersful! Do I get me owns er... 'Comfry bed'?" He asks, jumping up and down a little bit in excitement.

Kentar laughs and nods. "Yeah. But you'd be sharing a room with my brother, I think." He chuckles. "You'd like him I think."

Kluner goes to keep pace with the stoat again, the tail in his paw, "Brudder? Whats that make me? Hed be me... N'kle? Whats he likes? Is he likes a Kluna too?" He bombards the stoat with questions.

Kentar can't help but to laugh at the bombardment. "Well. He'd be your uncle, yes." he smiles. "And he's stubborn sometimes. He enjoys calling beasts stupid. And he's a bit older then you are. And he is also fun when he's in a good mood." he grins. "Then there is Aikuen. My best friend. He's an otter. A dumb one." Kentar laughs. "Fun though, kind. Good fighter. And then there is Fira. She can't hear all that well but she's really smart and fun."

Kluner ooos as he names off the beasts, and tells of his Uncle. Then he gets to the otter, and hides behind the stoat. He waits till the stoat is finished and says, "Yous best freinds... With an waterdogs?" he asks as looks around the stoats leg.

Kentar nods and chuckles. "He's really nice." he smiles. "Actually, they're really nice." he nods. "They're more then nice. They're fun and funny."

Kluner tilts his head not understanding this, "But... Watersdogs... there means! They Attakins us, and says bad stuffs, and... and stuffs!" He looks to the stoat, "They is nices? er.. Funs? and funneh? All tha alls watersdogs?"

Kentar nods. "Yeah. But watterdogs treat pirates differently then they treat their friends." he smiles. "Don't worry, they're fine." he nods. "And there's a fox there as well. He can't talk yet but he's still nice."

Kluner scratches his tail at the novel idea. Waterdog, can be a friend? He hmms as he thinks about it. Slowly walking along and then looks back to Kentar when he says something about a Fox, "A Foxes? Da are mean also... But he'es nice too, rights?"

Kentar laughs and nods with a big small. "Yeah. He's really nice." and then without word he goes to pick up the dibbun and set him on his shoulders with a small wince but he still smiles.

Kluner whoas, as he is picked up and set. He holds on the the stoats head with his paws, and wraps his tail around this neck. He is not afraid of heights, its the falling part that scares him. He smiles and taps Kentar on the head his his palm, "Tent-Tar? Why is saying 'I sorries 'last nights, when yous wents outside?"

Kentar laughs and grins at the weasel's reaction. He then tilts his head a bit and walks along some more. "What do you mean?"

Kluner uses Kentar's head, as a resting spot for his own, as he asks, "yous... Last nights... after i wents to sleeps... I woked to finds you not there... i wents outside and you was saying stuff about Gernot, and failses her... Kluna den wents back to beds... causes you was sads..." His tail lightly flicks.

Kentar sighs and looks down a little as he keeps going. "Well. Garnet was another stoat. I loved her so much. And then a few days before your crew picked me up from the waters, she was killed by a fox. And...I had promised to protect her forever. But I failed. And I wanted her to know that I am so very sorry."

Kluner rubs his face in the stoats head, and says slowly "Dats... sad... Sads..." He sniffs a few times, as he begins to sob into the stoat.

Kentar closes his eye and lets a tear fall, reaching up and rubbing Kluner's side softly. "Yeah. It is very sad." he sighs. "We were so happy together but...the day she died. Apart of me died too." The stoat sighs, another tear falling. "But when I get home, the first thing I will do will be hunting that fox down and killing him. I will kill him and make him pay for what he's done..."

Kluner looks up, wipes his eyes, and growls out, as much as he can, "Yeses! Yous make ahim Pays, for whats he does to Gernots! No mores Saddies!" He lets go of the stoat to pound his fist in his paw, and he nearly falls off. But he grabs on to the stoats head just in time.

Kentar laughs and sighs. "I will. I really will." he then wipes his eye, then smiling. "So Kluna. I think we should find my ship tomorrow." he nods.

Kluner bounces a little bit on Kentar's shoulder, "Yays! Whats we gonna do is firsts?" He tightens the squeeze on The stoats neck, and then lets the tail play behind him.

Kentar chuckles. "Well. We'll probably get something to eat when we get there. Then you'll get to see all the gold and such. I'll let you steer it too." he smiles.

Kluner claps his paws together, and grabs back on Kentar, "Yeses! Eats... Is there gonna be more then scrapins' Kluna doenst likes scrappins..." He then goes wide eyes at the steering, "I cans tunrs da Whell? Oh Yas!" He totally forgot about the gold, that thought seems to be slipping from his mind.

Kentar chuckles and smiles. "There will be much more then scraps, I promise." he smiles, nodding slowly as he keeps walking. The two of them reach the top of a cliff. And then Kentar points to a huge ship out on the waters. "See that?" he smiles. "That's my ship." Its a huge galleon.

Kluner squints at the distant object, and says "Wows...." nice and long. He wraps his tail around Kentars neck again when he looks down over the cliffs. He then turns his gaze back to the Ship, "Is dat really yours ships? Why you is not ons it when we is founds you?" he asks.

Kentar smiles and nods and chuckles. "Well. Its not really mine, but I know the captain. He owes me a lot. I saved his life a few times when I was younger. And I know he'd give me his ship. But the gold and the money is mine. I lent it to me, and I know that he'd give it all back." he smiles.

Kluner nods a little bit, "Oh, Ohs'k... Do yous knows if he is stills arounds? He coulds have been... thrown oversboard?..." He is alluding to being killed.

Kentar chuckles. "He's still there." he smiles. "I know he is." he chuckles. "The crew love him. And he's a great fighter. In fact he trained me how to fight. With my father." he nods.

Kluner ohs, "Wells! What is we Waitnins for!" he plays a little percussion on top of the Stoats head, "If he'ns alive, lets go says hi!"

Kentar smiles and chuckles. "It will take a while to get to the bottom of the cliffs. We should set up camp and go in the morning."

Kluner says, "Awws!... Ohs'k..." he lets go of the stoat, and climbs down him. He looks around for a minute, and stuffs his tail in his mouth, as he begins to run around looking for a spot.

Kentar follows and chuckles. The stoat pauses. "Here Kluna!" he calls out. This place will do." the stoat sits down and digs a fire pit.

Kluner goes over to him and trips, like normal, and sits back up dusting the dirt from him. He watches the stoat working on the pit.

Kentar manages to dig a good fire pit before some how creating a fire with some supplies they had. "There..." he smiles.

Kluner yawns a bit, not realizing how tired he actually was, "Does... Does we haves any vittles? I is hungy..." His tail sits in his lap, flicking at odd times.

Kentar hrms and thinks for a few moments. "I'll find some." he says, standing up. "Stay here." he vanishes into the woods.

Kluner yawns a little bit more, as he begins to curl up, waiting for the stoat to return. He hums lightly as he plays with on of the rocks from his pocket.

Kentar returns a while later, sighing. "I'm sorry Kluna. But I couldn't find anything." he sighs, sitting next to the weasel. "I really am sorry. But we'll have a big feast tomorrow. I promise."

Kluner sighs as he gets up and goes over to the stoat, "Is okas... I cans waitses" He curls up next to him and hmms, "A Bigs feasty...yum..." He yawns a little bit more, as he begins to doze.

Kentar lays the weasel on his side gently before laying next to him. "I'm still sorry." he then sighs and closes his eye. "Do not worry. Tomorrow, will be the best day of your life." he smiles. And without knowing just how wrong he is, Kentar drifts off to sleep.

Kluner is soon lightly snoring, dreaming of the day to come. He is happy, and hopes that never changes.