04-10-2022, 08:41 PM
The size got away from me a bit but the idea of exploring this lovely location was too much to resist. Anyone's welcome to come and join me! <3
Since waking in the mountains, Via had been left feeling exposed and vulnerable to her surroundings. There was a steadily growing tension in the air that set her fur on end, and while she couldn't see the clouds roiling in the distance due to her poor eyesight, the constant scent of a gathering storm set her as on edge as everything else.
A long, careful trek over the course of several days finally found Via safely ensconced beneath the canopy once again. The moment the forest closed in around her, a line of tension she hadn't been aware of melted away from her spine, and her steps grew lighter. While it was darker than the terrain she'd navigated until now, and there didn't seem to be a wide variety of color among the plants--thus her vision was poorer than she could ever remember it being--her nose twitched with an abundance of new information.
Wind and rain had less of an effect on the lingering scents as the trees grew denser, and Via began to pause in her trek to noise at various plants, learning of the flora that grew and the fauna that lived nearby. She quickly discovered the scents of evergreen, as well as a muskier fungi close to the ground. Rabbits, squirrels, elk had passed through at one point or another, and she thankfully managed to catch the particularly stinging scent of a colony of fire ants before she walked straight over it, neatly circumventing a potentially painful afternoon.
She had spent most of the day exploring, nosing at trees and tentatively licking the caps of a few mushrooms to see if their spores were strange in any way. They didn't appear to be; overall, it was an entirely normal if not particularly tasty fungi taste.
She came across a slow-moving stream, trickling gently through the forest, and tracked her way along it mostly by ear until it widened into a shallow pool. More of a puddle, really, and likely a result of recent rains that would narrow back into the creek's usual bed soon enough. For now, it was enough of a still pool that Via felt more comfortable drinking from the edge. Less likely to get hit in the face with fish she couldn't see caught in a current, when the water was still.
It was as she lifted her head, licking her chops of the last few droplets, that she finally saw what was special about the mushrooms--and at first she didn't understand that that was what she was seeing. Blinded eyes opened, and colors she was not familiar with seeing glow were suddenly drifting across her vision, blurring the shadows even further until she could see nothing but the spots of blue, green and yellow motes, steadily rising along with the mushroom's scent as they released their spores into the night air.
"Ah...beautiful." She couldn't help her smile, head lifted and yet tilted at an odd angle, staring into nothing as she let the colorful lights come to her on the breeze.
the staff team luvs u
Since waking in the mountains, Via had been left feeling exposed and vulnerable to her surroundings. There was a steadily growing tension in the air that set her fur on end, and while she couldn't see the clouds roiling in the distance due to her poor eyesight, the constant scent of a gathering storm set her as on edge as everything else.
A long, careful trek over the course of several days finally found Via safely ensconced beneath the canopy once again. The moment the forest closed in around her, a line of tension she hadn't been aware of melted away from her spine, and her steps grew lighter. While it was darker than the terrain she'd navigated until now, and there didn't seem to be a wide variety of color among the plants--thus her vision was poorer than she could ever remember it being--her nose twitched with an abundance of new information.
Wind and rain had less of an effect on the lingering scents as the trees grew denser, and Via began to pause in her trek to noise at various plants, learning of the flora that grew and the fauna that lived nearby. She quickly discovered the scents of evergreen, as well as a muskier fungi close to the ground. Rabbits, squirrels, elk had passed through at one point or another, and she thankfully managed to catch the particularly stinging scent of a colony of fire ants before she walked straight over it, neatly circumventing a potentially painful afternoon.
She had spent most of the day exploring, nosing at trees and tentatively licking the caps of a few mushrooms to see if their spores were strange in any way. They didn't appear to be; overall, it was an entirely normal if not particularly tasty fungi taste.
She came across a slow-moving stream, trickling gently through the forest, and tracked her way along it mostly by ear until it widened into a shallow pool. More of a puddle, really, and likely a result of recent rains that would narrow back into the creek's usual bed soon enough. For now, it was enough of a still pool that Via felt more comfortable drinking from the edge. Less likely to get hit in the face with fish she couldn't see caught in a current, when the water was still.
It was as she lifted her head, licking her chops of the last few droplets, that she finally saw what was special about the mushrooms--and at first she didn't understand that that was what she was seeing. Blinded eyes opened, and colors she was not familiar with seeing glow were suddenly drifting across her vision, blurring the shadows even further until she could see nothing but the spots of blue, green and yellow motes, steadily rising along with the mushroom's scent as they released their spores into the night air.
"Ah...beautiful." She couldn't help her smile, head lifted and yet tilted at an odd angle, staring into nothing as she let the colorful lights come to her on the breeze.
the staff team luvs u
