[B]Come on! (Cave/Echo/Flawed/FB)

[Anhelisk]

Ugh. Cave Yell wanted to speak up, to chastise the stag for clearly not listening to what had just transpired, nor having asked for further details before deciding what the problem was for himself.

"I think it goes a bit beyond that, thanks." he replied, more than a little upset.

"If that's all you've got, you can go now. I've got a sister to find." He turned and started off on his own.  

[Lirilei]

Flawed frowned at Cave's reaction to the stag, and he pawed the ground lightly in anxiousness. This wasn't at all going how it should have and it was leaving him uncomfortable and yet...

He stepped forward as Cave Yell took off to go find Echo and sighed softly as he stopped in front of the stag and gave a small dip of his head. "What Cave Yell was trying to say is, thank you for that blessing as it is appreciated but I think not what he was hoping you could impart upon her as a blessing. Maybe something to soothe her obviously agitated nerves, or something. But, happy and healthy is very much appreciated."

He turned to look at the buck that had walked off in search of the doe. He was actually at the end of his normally long vine of patience as far as things went, but this? This was unacceptable to him!

Can't believe she just walked off, and Cave! I can't believe he'd be so rude. words rolling around mentally a moment, just full of absolute disbelief, before he looked away from where the buck had disappeared off to, and was turning back to Fish Bones. "I'm really, really sorry for the behavior of the two of them. I...don't know what got into either of them honestly, please forgive them."

"Thank you for bringing us out here for this, even if it ended sort of disastrously." he sighed then, the spark of fire he'd felt extinguishing as quickly as it had flared, and he breathed out quietly.  

[Lirilei]

Flawed gave Fish Bones a wry smile, and gave a nod of his head.

"If you wouldn't mind? Though hopefully it doesn't take him long to find her... I could go and help but I'd feel bad just leaving you here waiting and wondering if anyone is coming back. At least with me here...I figure at least one of them will come back before long."

If not well he did know the way back after all, but who knew at this point. "If neither of them come back in a little bit I guess I'll go see if I can find them." this was definitely awkward now for him.  

[Anhelisk]

Echo was nowhere to be found, and that meant that when Cave Yell had had to make a turn, he'd chosen the wrong direction. He turned around, starting to move past the clearing, and saw the two bucks he'd left still standing there.

Two options: either go after Echo, who might not want to be found, or approach them, and risk reproach and the unwanted burden of having to apologize.

It was obvious which was the right decision, even if he wanted to take the easy out, and even if he could argue why he'd taken it.

"I'm still upset that you didn't listen and just tried to go ahead with what you thought would fix the situation–" the buck started, perhaps a little harshly– "but I was an a** in how I handled my response. I'd like to apologize for that, at least." He held back, still half-on the pathway out of the clearing, ready to cut his losses and look for his twin if either of them showed him hostility for his prior actions, or his present apology.  

[Lirilei]

Flawed gave a nod of his head at Fish Bones words. "Alright, I'll see if I can find her, them...him. Someone." whomever, really. Someone, he hoped. It was easy to get turned around he knew.

He stopped though when he heard Cave speaking, and the upset he'd felt moments before at the others behavior evaporated, as he just didn't have it in him to hold onto such anger and such.

"Want me to help you look for her?" well, he might not!  

[Anhelisk]

Cave Yell sighed, looking a little deflated– it looked like he had two people to fill in, now.

"She's done this before. Parenting, I mean, not leaving when the subject of foals comes up. Though she does that too when she's carrying." A grim chuckle. "Four fat, healthy sacs and five healthy babies from them each of the three times she's had kids. I'm not worried about the sacs. She'll lay them, they'll be fine, they'll be normal– not, uh, that you're abnormal, Flawed." he stepped in for a nuzzle. "That was a jab at the agoraphobe she has a thing for– he's got wings and none of that strangeness ever passed onto the kids.

"Anyways, they were healthy the last three times without any sort of intervention, so I wasn't concerned about how they'll fare– I'm worried about how she comes through the process." Standing still wasn't working– he felt agitated and he had to work it out somehow, so he started pacing, working a figure eight around and between the two bucks.

"She's always a wreck that needs to be looked after and cared-for after she lays. She just stops eating towards the end, won't talk, won't hardly drink or interact at all. She refuses to be coddled or looked-after, and it takes far longer to put on the weight she'd had before clutching than it usually takes a doe to lose her clutch-weight. She'll be combative if I try to get on her case– especially if I imply anything to the effect that she's not back to a healthy state. It's the reason, I think, that it's just been the three clutches, and they've been spaced so far apart. It just... it's really hard seeing how difficult it is for her and not being able to do anything to help.

"I know that legendaries could sometimes offer blessings to make the births come safely and quickly, or to speed the mothers' and foals' recovery. Though I guess it's a little late for that now, isn't it." He chuckled again, trying to hide how distressed he felt.  

[Lirilei]

Flawed listened to the explanation from the buck and he gave a low sigh. He didn't know what he could do to help Echo, if anything, but he'd certainly give it his best effort, and said as much.

"I'll do my best to help her...in whatever way I can, even if she doesn't want me to help. I'll still try." well what else could he do? It was a situation that had him very much out of his depth of experience, so he was at a loss on how to react, and all, really.

He breathed a soft sigh.  

[Anhelisk]

Cave Yell chuckled sardonically. "A scaled foxbun who just so happens to have the same coloration as the stag who blessed her earlier? I daresay she'd catch on. You'd best roll in some mud first if you want to try that tactic. Or learn to turn into something scaled." Still, the idea had some merit....

"It would probably be easier for someone as small and nimble as you to keep an eye on her when she tries to go off on her own, though. You'd be harder to spot."
 

[Anhelisk]

A chuckle. "She does like gifts. Food's right out– she'd take it the wrong way right now, no matter how much she loves boar liver." The buck rolled his head a little, working at getting a stress-kink to relax.

What would you get the doe who had everything already? "We like exotic things, and rare ones. Feathered Serpent egg shells are one that she's been vying for for years, but she can't get that snake of hers to give any potential mates the time of day, let alone clutch."

Hmm. What else, what else? "Nothing draconic– we're lousy with the stuff and basically only trade it out because of its rarity elsewhere. Scale-sheds from another serpent, maybe, but again, they're incredibly rare. Griffin feathers, especially ones in changing hues, preserved or petrified eggs or sacs of any kind, though we take painstaking efforts to empty them before we'd take them into the den and she's probably not going to be feeling up for that. Uh... pretty polished stones, especially gems, pearls, but only fancy-coloured ones or ones with good shapes, stones with holes worn through– naturally, not by tools or hooves– uh..."

A nervous shuffle. "We're collectors. Stuff is... our thing."