Don't put all your sprites in one basket. [closed]

[plaited_sprite]

Characters: Ni'ci, Robin, Sam, Tyrus
Content: Robin is less graceful than normal
Setting: the airport
Warnings: I du'know, Robin can get a bit raunchy...

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[yellowflicker]

Down the concourse a little, Sam looked up from the peanut butter soy power bar wrapper he was reading. "Did...did you hear something funny there, Tyrus? Maybe like a kid falling into a well?" Sam chuckled. "Yeah, and then you could be Lassie and rescue him. But I thought I heard something, maybe over by the stream. I guess I will go check it out, just to be sure. Probably it was just one of those little critters messing around or something

[tornadowolf]

Tyrus did seem perfectly content to sit and lick what was left of the baby food, and he was, of course.

His ears flicked when Sam spoke, and he, too, had heard something, but shrugged the small noise off as something he could easily kill, if it came down to it. Besides, he had the human as a distraction. With a defenseless human like that, it would be easy to trick anything that came his way.

That, however, meant he did have to follow. He couldn't use a distraction if it wasn't around to be used. Whuffing a low breath, he licked his chops, and tongued the baby food off his muzzle, before sitting up once more, stiff with the undercurrent of pain still lacing through his body even though he'd gotten used to such things, and padded after the human.

[happysprite]

So close to another’s body, it was hard for Ni’ci not to sense their emotions. As curiosity arose around her she began to awaken. There was nothing so much she liked as discovering something new. If there was something to be curious about, she wanted to see it too! She sat up, poking her head out from the little pocket she was resting in. The hair on her head was all rumpled around her antenna and she tided it distractedly as she looked around. Realizing where she was exactly, and who she was on, she giggled and climbed up to ride on his shoulder to get a better view.

[plaited_sprite]

Robin found the vines rather stupid and depressing, all in all. They gave him some useful information, but didn't know much to start with. They seemed to be the only prominent plant life for quite some distance (a fact which disturbed Robin greatly) and while they could give him a good feeling for the physical layout of the general region, they were entirely too young to supply him much of a sense of his temporal surroundings.

Given the architecture, Robin could guess that humans had done quite a lot of work here, more than likely wiped out the older forests, but the state of things suggested that they had been absent for some years. The network of vines around him held no memory of their presence, which was unsurprising.

They had mentioned other new arrivals, however, and Robin found that interesting. When Robin asked for the location of these others, he noticed that three of them were quite close and currently coming in his direction. He giggled to himself and stepped back into the vine-tree, disappearing from view.

[yellowflicker]

"Good morning, Merry Sunshine!" Sam chirped at Ni'ci when she climbed out of her pocket. "We're off to check out the waterfall stream. That way your hurt puppy can get his own water after this, and I can get another look at the critters that live there, see if any of them make the funny noise I heard. We found Tyrus a bit of food and he seems to be doing better, but he's walking like he still hurts a bit. If Meta-Physician were here, she could heal Tyrus right up, but all I have is bandages and time."

Sam laughed as they turned the corner and entered the atrium. "I guess the next thing on the agenda is finding out more about this place so we can find out how to get home, huh, Ni'ci? It can't be that hard, can it?"