Precocious Ponies campfire, early Saturday morning

[vkandis_son]

Karal was minus his menagerie this morning. Evey and Altra were off in the preserve, Trenor was in the stable where he belonged, and Vashti was sleeping inside

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[socksofcool]

Seely would rather have been in bed at this hour, but Aravis had been insistent in her leopard-y way, so they were walking over to visit Karal.

Seely came to a stop as he saw the spider. "Uh, Karal..."

[vkandis_son]

It took a moment for Seely's voice to penetrate Karal's concentration, but when it did, he lifted his head and smiled in the direction the voice had come from. "Good morning, Seely."

He also shifted his feet, and the spider skittered backwards, two huge horrible hairy OMG YUCK legs raised in defiance.

[socksofcool]

"Morning," Seely said, hopefully looking around for a giant shoe. "Uh, you might want to keep still there buddy."

Aravis, meanwhile, hissed at the spider, tail lashing.

[vkandis_son]

Karal startled at the noise, sitting up straighter and making the spider jump. "Seely, what was that?" It had seemed too loud to have come from an ordinary cat. "Are you all right?"

[sixstandingby]

"I had to step over bugs this morning on my way out of my cabin," Gavin said by way of greeting. "And they started following me!"

[vkandis_son]

Karal, who was staying away from the log of spidery doom, recognised Gavin's voice and turned in his direction. "There's a spider of doom over there somewhere!" He waved his hand towards the log, which still had a rather large lump of sulking spider on it. "It would have climbed on me if Seely hadn't warned me!"

[sixstandingby]

"Spider of doom?" Gavin shuddered. "It doesn't talk, does it?"

[vkandis_son]

"Sunlord, I hope not!" He bent down and started scratching his foot. "But I'm itchy. I think it walked on my foot and now it's itchy."