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Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:33 pm
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Maple Milk had been through some emotionally trying times recently, but life didn't stop for anyone just because they were rethinking their place in the world. Business went on as usual, and business, for her, required certain rare herbs. She'd been out to her secret places gathering them, and had been away from home on little food and less sleep for several days. She returned to her cave-mouth home in the grey predawn, laden with her harvest and as tired as she had ever been. Even her crow, Mildew, seemed wilted, and the lazy bag of feathers had mostly sat on her back.
Leaving the shell she'd been dragging somewhere deeper in the cave to be dealt with later, Maple gratefully sank into her nest. She'd need to gather more thistledown and moss for it soon, but it was soft enough for her tired bones. She gently closed her eye, sighing contentedly.
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Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:58 pm
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There had been an exceptionally ghastly doe with a haunting bird by her side. Both of them were wonders to behold, but that bird... Grim Grinning Ghosts had to have one. So he'd done the reasonable and mature thing and trailed off after the doe, intent on talking her into giving him one of those spooky, lovely beasts.
Finally, on her journey, she'd come to a halt, and it seemed as good of a time as any to approach her. Tittering on his hooves, Grim approached the doe, smiling from ear to ear.
"Um, hello! Hello!!! I. I couldn't help but notice that magnificent avian you're tending to," Grim started, digging a hoof in the dirt absently.
"Quite a marvel, really. It strikes me as the epitome of fear in this wondrous swamp of ours." He smiled, stretching the goofy marking across his face even further.
"I'm a maker of fear and horror, you know! I run a ghost tour! Exploring the paranormal aspects of our swamp and the world! And I believe one of this magnificent birds would be incredible in my show!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:13 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:15 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:31 am
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:08 pm
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Maple hadn't actually meant for the challenge to start immediately - she assumed he'd need more convincing than that. But there he was, the earnest little fool, clearly so dead set on his reward that he jumped right to it. Bless his stupid heart.
"So far, so good. I am going to sleep now," she announced. "If you disturb by rest at all, I will hurt you terribly."
After which, she promptly turned her head away from him, snuggled down a little deeper into her bedding, and almost immediately fell asleep.
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When Maple Milk awoke, it was early afternoon. The light from the sun barely filtered down through the leaves outside her cave, lighting only bits and patches here and there, but she was long used to reading the time by the light in this dark place. She stretched gently in her nest - she had walked far the previous day, and her muscles were still a little stiff, but she would be able to stand without difficulty. She leisurely rolled her head around to look out the mouth of her cave -
And that stupid zikwa was still there. He had stayed by her cave the entire time she had slept. She'd been hoping he'd get bored and wander away, like some easily distracted child, but this was plainly not the case.
"I see you are... still here. Such determination is... commendable," she said, slowly and without conviction, while she tried to wake herself up enough to think of what to do about her current situation.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:31 pm
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"Well," she began, as her mind slowly warmed up to motion again, "I have several things I must attend to today. I must clean, sort and store the herbs I have spent the last few days gathering, clean the detritus from my cave's floor, check my animal snares... perhaps harvest some tubers... make sure all of my pets are in fair health..." The old doe rolled over to get her legs under her. "You should make yourself as useful as you can. I will handle the herbs first myself. You should start on the sweeping, or perhaps see to my pets," she said, with the ghost of a mischievous smile. "Which would you prefer? Ah, you may tap your hoof on the stone once for sweeping, and twice for the animals," she added as an afterthought, deciding to be merciful this early on in his trials.
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