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#1
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Adventurer
Discovery
05-08-2023, 01:07 AM
 She had informed @Esmerelda of her desire to see the nearby Saltwoods again. How fitting it seemed to travel between the two places. Here the life with its further vibrancy offered different sights and varied prey. She had seen more familiar things here than she had on Raven Rock.

 Like a doe that stood uphill, among a clearing of coastal wildflowers. How it grazed without concern led her to believe that it had not been disturbed by predator life so far — at least of the wolfen kind, no? Granted she had not ventured far enough away from the coast to know if scent marks laid thicker inland.

 Today she did, winding through tall trees that predated her own life, her own arrival. How it all had sprung up overnight was beyond her.

 All she knew was that she remained on high alert. Not willing to become lost or vulnerable in this still new place.

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#2
05-08-2023, 01:30 AM
(Gonna assume this is the open thread you were referring to) 


Finn woke up in a pool of sweat, darting her eyes around in search of anything familiar. Nothing in her gaze was as it was supposed to be, she didn't even know where she was, but that's when she suddenly remembered. She remembered having woken up a couple of hours earlier on a strange beach like area that filled her lungs with salt until she felt as if she was suffocating, the overwhelming urge to cough taking over her as she tried her best not to lose her lunch from earlier. 

Once she felt more "in control" of herself she made an attempt to stand up and began to explore, walking across the shore as her ears twitched every once in a while. Unbeknownst to her, she was incredibly dehydrated and slowly began to lose energy just as she thought she saw a figure out of the corner of her eye. "Hello?!" Her voice was raspy and at first it only came out as a whisper but slowly grew louder, crackling everyone couple of syllables. "HELLO? Is any.. Is anyo.. anyone.. there.." She felt an incredible wave of dizziness begin to overcome her as she made an effort to stabilize herself, but it was too late. Finn collapsed suddenly as her lifeless body thudded against the ground, momentum forcing her onto her side as she would lay there defenseless.
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#3
Discovery
Adventurer
05-08-2023, 01:36 AM
yes! sorry i thought i linked it haha


 A voice called out and it was good that Wake had stayed on high alert. Already she began to scout the source as she wove between rocky paths that led into dirt and sand. Cut through the wildflowers without much thought.

 Yet whatever had called out had suddenly stopped.

 Wake could not adjust her hearing into something magical. She could hear no heartbeats or breathing. Especially not with the roar of the ocean behind her back. She could not help but wonder if this was a trick — or even a warning. Perhaps this place might keep her too if she called back. Keep her trapped between the tall trees and wash away the sandbar, away from her lover.

 She nearly turned back before she spotted something bright among all the greenery. Something that was colored in fiery hues.

 A fox. It looked dead, practically, but it was the only sign of life beyond the doe that she had seen. Not really canine life in her regard, but close enough.

 Hardly scared of it, she leaned her head down to sniff around its limp body.

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#4
05-08-2023, 01:46 AM
Her chest would rise an fall in accordance with her breathing, shallow, but still there. She was certainly still alive, if you could call it that. Minutes would pass as she continued to lay there, lifeless, all the exhaustion she had experienced permitting anything but a recovery so soon after she had collapsed. Somehow, Finn still knew that someone, or something was there, maybe it was her mind spiraling out of control as she came to terms with the fact that all the while she was seemingly passed out, her mind was not blank, but rather stuck in a lucid dream, one that almost depicted the scene with perfection when it came to detail. Then again, maybe it was just her way of thinking about things as she sat and "watched" the lucid dream in its somehow telling imagery to what was actually happening, after all, this "place" did seem to have a sort of "magic" to it.
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#5
Adventurer
05-08-2023, 01:54 AM
 It breathed still, the soft rise and fall. Which meant it most certainly had not suddenly collapsed to death, but still begged the question of why it had collapsed.

 Then more cruelly the thought of how she imagined Esme might look in a fox fur, how she might adore the rich hues. How they would compliment the soft storm of her eyes.

 There was the worry of bringing back something contaminated from this place. Not that anything around here had given her the notion of sickness besides the emptiness of the place. Nor did the smell of an obvious illness waft off the vulpine thing.

 So, Wake took a still less kind but not outright-death option.

 She sought to pinch the things ear tip between her teeth. Would it rise with a fight or would it still be stuck in its unconscious state?

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#6
05-08-2023, 02:03 AM
Finn's ear would flick away from the figures teeth, completely aware and observant of what had happened as her eyes suddenly opened after a few seconds. It was certainly a delayed reaction, but it was still a reaction as she fought the urge of jumping to her feet, the sight of another being that wasn't a prey item almost soothing her. That was when she remembered to breath, she had been holding her breath the entire time since she had woken up as she suddenly felt her lungs burning, a sharp inhale entering her body as it was filled with the salty air. 

She opened her mouth to speak as a raspy, crackling in her voice continued. "Hello there-" She tilted her head to the side in an attempt to be polite and coughed as the overwhelming urge once more overcame her. "I'm sorry the air is just... quite sharp.." She replied, a failed attempt to swallow following soon after.
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#7
Adventurer
05-08-2023, 02:10 AM
 It awoke.

 Delayed and nearly drunken like a washed ashore sailor. At least it tried and it did not seem to be scared to be met by the face of a wolf over its limp body.

 “You don't belong here, do you?” It did not feel like the most farfetched thing to suggest. Wake had suddenly been rolled ashore, Esme had come from the waters like a pearl. What was to say that something else not-wolf had been spat upon this earth with a strong hand? Tricks seemed to be at hand here.

 Yet she waited, patient if only for some small sliver of comradery for the shared oddness of this world — and perhaps the shared status of womanhood.

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#8
05-08-2023, 02:28 AM
She sat and listened to the females voice, soothing her nerves as it reminded her somewhat of her mother whom she had not seen in months and would give anything for to allow it to be her.

“No, not at all..” She struggled not to collapse again stumbling to the side, only proving her point. “I just woke up here one day.” Her voice seemed to trail off, still dizzy and qeuzy as she attempted to study the female.
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#9
Adventurer
05-08-2023, 02:33 AM
 Just as she had suspected.

 Wake stuck out a long, thin limb for support. For one reason or another, she had decided to spare the little life before her. How easy it would have been to turn it into a gift for her lover. A thought she kept tucked in the back of her mind should the beast turn ugly unexpectedly.

 “Not unusual, unfortunately.” A small roll of her shoulders.

 “Did you wake up...sick?” The word hung in the air with an unspoken warning. Illness would not be welcomed by the sailor.

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#10
05-08-2023, 02:47 AM
"Outside the limits of the pungent odor of salt in the air trying to make me starve, no?" She spoke in a joking/playful way, her trusting nature taking over her better judgment as she referred to her coughing fits and struggles not to lose her recent meal. Finnegan now took a moment to truly study her as the frail arm reached out to help establish a firm placement of myself. Her eyes flowed over the vast amount of waves and small streaks of different shades of grey, how if you really tried, you could almost imagine her fur as completely different colors with how drastic the difference in the exact same color, grey. Her eyes were also grey, but these were a much darker, more solemn "tone", something Finn hadn't seen in a while. The figure, which she had now figured out was a wolf was skinny and incredibly lacking in the usual "layer" of skin she would have seen back at home, something that didn't really bother her. After all, maybe it would make the wolf easier to defend against should they choose to attack me in such a weary state, but no, they would have already done that if there was any intention of it.
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#11
05-08-2023, 03:03 AM
 Perhaps Wake might be this way too if she had not been saved by Yara and then given a revitalization for life from Esme. She might have slogged herself back out into the sea to see if she could return elsewhere. Magic worked in reverse too, no?

 “So what? You just need a meal and rest?”

 It was not so much judgement in her tone as it was a blank observation. Passed out from starvation? She imagined one had to reach an extreme point for that. Yet Wake was not so positive that the fox might find something to stomach if she did not turn to the salty breeze. The sea washed ashore easier snacks than hunting something down in a weakened state.

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#12
05-08-2023, 03:09 AM (This post was last modified: 05-08-2023, 03:14 AM by Finn. Edited 1 time in total.)
That was when the sudden need for liquid arose, a deafening thirst overwhelming her above anything else as it was almost like her ears were ringing. "No.. No, what I need right now is water." Her voice was still frail and weak as she fought the urge to bend down at the water's edge, fall mercy to its wishes and wants just for the pleasure of quenching her thirst, but no, she knew better than that.

"Please tell me you're not wondering around with no source of it." She deeply prayed that the female wolf would object to the insanity of not having found a water source, yet again, maybe the female was in no shape better than her based upon the way she could practically see the wolf's ribcage through her fur and skin.
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#13
05-08-2023, 03:15 AM
 Water.

 Wake had half a mind to suggest she look around. See how the water stretched out for miles and miles? More than she had ever seen in her whole lifetime now sat before her very eyes every morning. Only she too knew that it would only burn further with the way the salt cured it.

 “I bet there's a source here.” Said as if she was not bothered by the prospect of not being right near fresh water.

 “Will you make it to it or do I need to do all the work for you?” Somber humor became her tone now.

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#14
Misc Skill
05-08-2023, 03:26 AM (This post was last modified: 05-08-2023, 03:58 AM by Finn. Edited 3 times in total.)
Her immediate reaction was to fight back, to resist the female's jokes, but as Finnegan took the time to think about it, she became more and more intrigued. "You say that as if it's a common request, someone back home subjugates you to be such a 'servant' ?" The word slipped off her tongue as if she were meaning to entice the female into revealing something about herself, something the sly fox could use to her advantage.

Finn turned her head to the waves, and then back to the female before speaking once more. "I never did get your name, Stranger?" After several attempts, Finnegan had finally managed to swallow and it soothed the fire in her throat, allowing her tone to return to its normal range and tone.
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#15
05-08-2023, 03:48 AM
 It struck an ugly nerve within the mean heart of her.

 Servant. An ugly thing, a nasty title, something she would never wear again. She was no one's servant in this life and she'd rather leap into the sea than become one. Her features twisted into something colder and unbecoming.

 “You will get no help if you lash your tongue like that, fox.”

 There was a natural order here dictated by nature itself — and Wake would not let it be forgotten in the poor attempts at communication between the two.

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#16
Misc Skill
05-08-2023, 03:54 AM (This post was last modified: 05-08-2023, 03:57 AM by Finn. Edited 2 times in total.)
"My apologies, I didn't mean to strike such a nerve. It won't happen again." She almost seemed to bow her head in accordance with her words, attempting to make the lies that were spewing from her mouth appear at least somewhat truthful. Finnegan did mean some parts of what she meant, mostly that it wouldn't happen again as she had gotten exactly what she had done it for, she found something that dug into the female and forced her to retaliate, something that could be used if need be.

"I can walk should you lead the way to a place." She replied, being genuine this time, her lies no longer needed, assuming the female didn't see through them from before.
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#17
Discovery
05-08-2023, 04:03 AM
 Groundwork laid down for hurt, for mistrust. After all, weren't foxes the most cunning beasts in tales? Up there with the winding coils of snakes, surely. It served her right to give a lick of care to one, hm?

 “Come on then.”

 She grunted and pulled away at once. Stalking off into the dense treelined forest around them. There was no promise of fresh water, truly. Only a hope that it would be somewhere deeper within the salty woodlands. How hushed it seemed to be here, away from the roar of the coast and the crashing waves. Undeniably more prey life flourished here than on the dark island she had stepped beyond.

 Speaking of, the sooner this was over with, the sooner she could return to her lover.

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#18
05-08-2023, 04:08 AM
"So you do have someone at home?" She dared to speak, cautious to show the utmost amount of respect at this time, after all, the female may be saving her life. "IF you don't mind me asking about it!!!" She quickly blurted this out before the female could have even registered what Finnegan had said, an attempt to stop her from imposing and making the female even more angry.

As she awaited the wolf's response, she took a moment to glance around at her surroundings, the sound of waves crashing together still there, but definitely muffled and more distant now, almost like they were dying, just like she was.
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#19
05-08-2023, 04:12 AM
 A rush of words like the waves from the sea. It was enough that she lingered in silence for a moment as her mind tried to catch up with the sputtered words.

 “Why? Are you looking for warm bodies?”

 Her voice dared to plunge into humor, even if it was only surface level. She could not resist the urge to prod back at the sly little beast that was her company now.

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#20
05-08-2023, 04:17 AM
"Maybe~" There was a bit of playfulness in her tone as she spoke, the way her voice seemed to trail off as to avoid a clear punctuation to the statement. "Besides, if we're the only three animals on this godforsaken island, we might as well get along, shouldn't we?" 

She thought about the possibilities of surviving here, whatever had seemed to bother the female about being a servant clearly did not bother Finnegan as she almost took pride in the thought of it. Maybe it had something to do with the thought of being needed for something, or maybe it was just the natural order of things, the dominant species utilizing their dominion over others.
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#21
Discovery
05-08-2023, 04:29 AM
 That was not the way needed to be. This Wake knew from experience in times and lives before. It was unreasonable to ever think that all living creatures must exist peacefully among one another. Yet it did mean that she could push the boundaries back.

 Perhaps an ill form of karma for the earlier comment.

 “Oh, don't be so eager to live under the whims of wolves, little fox.” A smolder in her gaze as she looked sidelong and downwards at the fiery creature. “They might eat you up, no?” Her voice dipped into a low purr before she flicked her attention onward.

 The salty smell of the air was less here, near the heart of this side of the island. Although she had not a clue what was on the other side...perhaps for the best. Surely if there was any freshwater to be located, it would be around here...

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#22
05-08-2023, 04:40 AM (This post was last modified: 05-08-2023, 04:58 AM by Finn. Edited 2 times in total.)
"Possibly, but I have just as much of a chance as getting killed by one when I'm not trying to be friends with them, might as well increase my chances of survival, right?" She paused briefly, letting a gap of silence intervene before continuing. "Besides, I'm not afraid of death, if a wolf were to eat me, I wouldn't have an issue with it as long as it meant I was being used for something, fulfilling a purpose" The way she spoke was clearly odd, almost crazy. She was clearly displaying how menial she was and how much she longed for that wish of being needed or even wanted so that she was willing to do anything in order to achieve it.

"Over there seems promising." She suddenly spoke up after having taken the time to analyze her surroundings, a small pool of water in a clear-ish opening. She took a step towards it without regard to the fact that she had completely abandoned the female when it came to following her set path. As she arrived, her natural instinct was to just suck as much down as possible, but she took her time, bending down to sniff the water, no salt smell coming from it as she submitted to her instincts, lurching as her head dunked under and she swallowed mouthful and mouthful. Finnegan would be under for what seemed like minutes until her head finally rose with a satisfied look on her face, no longer feeling that deep burning sensation in her throat. 

"So, what are you gonna do with me now?" She spoke out, stating the obvious fact that the wolf had only been there to help her find water and that task had been fulfilled, so what now.
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#23
Discovery
05-09-2023, 02:14 AM
 The little thing spoke in a lackadaisical manner. As if being devoured by the very thing that stood before her now was not a jarring thing. Perhaps she had no lust for life like Wake had discovered.

 But at least the little pest was useful in the way it hunted down the water source. After all, its life depended on it, no? Yet it was a better mark upon it that it had discovered the fresh water here. It told her that more life would thrive upon the Saltwoods. It was a pensive sort of thought that came over her as the fox drank for its life in the small depths of the water. Was it rainwater fed then? Perhaps an underground spring.

 This place still held far too many mysteries.

 Then the fox dared to question what she might do!

 “Perhaps I'll keep you like around like a little pet. You like me, don't you?” But her voice was deep and teasing in equal turns. She would not be so terribly shocked if the fox ran free now while it could.

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#24
05-09-2023, 02:31 AM (This post was last modified: 05-09-2023, 02:42 AM by Finn. Edited 2 times in total.)
She listened intently as the female seemed like she was going to speak, Finnegan still attempting to catch her breath from having her under the water.

"Perhaps I'll keep you around like a little pet. You like me, don't you."

She looked at the female, her head snapping to look her in the eyes as her heart began to flutter. How badly she wished for that to be true, the want, the need, it was enough to eat her alive. Against her better judgement, or wishes for that matter, her tail because to lash back and forth, exposing exactly how excited those two sentences had made me, how easily I was subdued by just 15 words. 

"That would definitely be something, wouldn't it?" As she spoke to the female, she nor accepted or denied it, not that she even thought she had a choice, but it was also clear that she would enjoy the offer even though she was trying to desperately not seem too excited about it. "You already know how I feel about fulfilling a purpose, no?" Finnegan trailed off, dragging her tongue across her teeth, her maw slightly visible.
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#25
05-09-2023, 02:42 AM
im happy to wrap up for something new if you'd like?


 The little thing was needy and rather obvious about it. Why? What life had it lived to feel compelled to not go be among its own? Did it think itself closer to wolves than foxes? Perhaps it meant to only feed off of the strength of bigger beasts.

 Yet if Wake could manipulate this into something finer? She would win. If not? Her lover would find a new fox fur surely.

 “Then we'll find a purpose for you.” It was decided casually, as if she did not just suddenly assume control over the little beast. “Your first task is to figure out how to make yourself not be just a bag of bones, hm? No use to me if you're dead or unable to move.”

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