"I was," she said looking at the doe, "I died, and I was reborn here. And I keep learning new things about this forest." Her curiosity was getting the better of her, and she asked, "What time are you from? It seems that some deer come from different time periods." She gently sat down, hoping that would make Suiren more comfortable.

@NikaGika:
She'd heard some of the deer here had been reborn from lives outside the Forest. So Nika was as well. Interesting.

Suiren lowered herself to the ground as well, thinking it would be rude to remain standing while the other sat. "I assume I'm from the present...unless this forest is in its own timeline. In any case, for me it's the year 2013. A.D.," she added on just to be safe.

@Mick:
Toukan blinked, nearly tilting his head again but catching himself at the last second. "Ok..." He debated on asking what Kylar had imagined that was so amusing, but decided not to. For all he knew, it could be something about him. He must be quite the sight, standing around with one antler on his head that he was trying to keep from falling off too soon when it was obviously about to.

He tried not to snort at the image, instead giving in and answering the question. "Ok," he said with finality, "I've been thinking about getting my ear pierced." He hoped that didn't sound like a silly idea.

Knights, kings, and queens? Was she from the Middle Ages?

Suiren could only blink at the rapid fire questions shot her way - still hidden behind her mask of course.

She was beginning to regret saying what year she was from.

713 years? So she was from the Middle Ages then.

"Ah. Sorry. Can't say I've met anyone from 1300 before." Suiren attempted a chuckle. "I'm just not sure how I'd explain everything different between our times."

She barely had to think of an answer for that one. "Probably electricity." A pause, filled by an unseen blink. "Which I'm not completely sure how to explain..." She gazed off in thought. "Somehow, people learned how to control lightning, even create it, and use it to power things. Like...light sources. It's much more reliable than using fire. And safer...for the most part." A basic idea. She was no expert, so that would have to do.

Well that was certainly surprising, of the many things that he had thought that Toukan might be about to suggest, getting his ear pierced hadn't been one that had occurred to Kylar.
“Well, I certainly hope you're not asking me to pierce it love,” Kylar teased in response, his usual mischievous smirk returning to his face, giving the youthful stag the appearance of the young and the reckless, “I can do many things for you, but piercing an ear isn't one of them, but I must say, I wholeheartedly approve of the idea, think you'd look quite sexy with an ear pierced. I could buy you something spectacular to wear – nothing too flashy, you aren't a lady, however pretty you may be.” Whilst he may tease about it, Kylar was telling the truth, the idea, now spoken aloud to him did seem appealing as he thought about something adorning his love's ear. It was an idea he had toyed with himself on occasion, when he had been younger, but Kahlan had granted permission either for it or for his angel tattoo, and he had wanted that more than he wanted the ear piercing, and after that had abandoned the idea – but as he thought on it more and more, it seemed like a better idea for his partner than it did on himself, so yes. Support it wholeheartedly he did indeed.

Her eyes try to search her face, but was blocked by her mask and could only see her eyes. "I see." A question was forming in her chest, ready to bubble up, but fought it back with another question. "Well, what country are you from?" she asked.

She had heard of Japan from other knights, soldiers, and merchants, but had never seen it for herself. And she had of course heard of Scotland, but never traveled there.

"What are those places like?" she asked curiously.

OOC: Sorry I didn't give her ref to you yesterday, I didn't have time. I can give you a quick description of the markings on her legs. The rest of her body (except her rump, which is the same color as the markings below) is black.

From hoof to knee her fur is the same color as her skin (like on her neck), and when the light color reaches her knee it tapers past her kneecap to a point. Same for her hind legs, except it pasts that first joint.

OOC: Okay! And I'll reword her sentence.

"Do you like it there?" she asked, "And how do you travel freely from there to here? Do you use a portal?"

"Ah, I see," she said. Even though she had just met the doe, she wanted to ask her if she could take her to the modern world, but thought against it. "Why do you come to this forest?"

@NikaGika:
"Mostly for a change of scenery. I run my own business, so it's nice to take a break here when I can." Perhaps she would more often.

@Mick:
He stopped studying the antler sitting at their hooves to look back at Kylar, blinking at the question. "Uh...I just...do?" Then Toukan frowned, glancing away for a second as he realized something. "...I never told you how I travel back and forth, did I." It was more of a statement than a question.

"I teach my family's style of martial arts." There was a hint of pride to her voice.

“If you ever have, I can't remember it,” Kylar answered, “Although, I'm sure something about sleeping was mentioned....although to be fair, you do just sleep a lot darlin'.” He chuckled a little as he finished, not being able to resist the tease – there was a more sexualised tease running around through his brain, but he'd keep that in reserve for the moment, it wouldn't be hard to fit it in elsewhere, if that was how the conversation ended up going, which it did sometimes – but he was curious enough for the moment that he was quite content to let the conversation remain mostly serious. He shifted his head, leaning in a little closer to Toukan – without his antlers to worry about, he could lean in a lot closer than he would normally, in deer form they kept a good distance, he was fairly certain he could only remember one incident where their antlers had collided. That as an experience wasn't actually painful more than just awkward. It was nice during the winter to be closer to his love in their deer form – where he had to admit, leaning on each other was more comfortable, fur being rather comfortable to lean against – on in Toukan's case, on various occasions to simply flop all over.

"Ah, I see. It is like hand-to-hand combat?" she asked. Her fighting was about survival and killing your enemy with any means possible. You had to be resourceful, and use anything that could be a weapon if you lost your own, and if you could not find anything, fight until you can no longer fight. If you had a chance to escape, don't hesitate to take it.

@Nika:
She nodded. "Exactly. Although..." Suiren added, glancing down at her hooves, "...I had to adapt it to a style more fitting for deer as well."

@Mick:
"Maybe..." he went along with it, shifting his eyes to the side as if he was up to no good. "You never know what might happen..." Then he snickered, dropping the mock seriousness. "Actually, I can only go back and forth between the two...'dimensions' I guess you'd call them. And it's easier to appear where I was last." ...which sometimes led to odd situations. Like that time he appeared under Illrose because she'd apparently found the exact spot he'd last been appealing to sit in. He almost snorted at remembering that time.

Suiren tilted her head in thought. "Perhaps I could. But I'm a bit rusty at the deer form. It's been awhile since I've visited this forest..."

Toukan's brow furrowed in a thoughtful expression, trying to figure out if the other stag was being serious or not. He wouldn't give away that much information if he was. But the reindeer went along with it anyway, putting on a small smirk of his own. "Who says I haven't already been spying?" What with that "spiriting" ability he had. More accurately called "astral projection" he believed. He hardly ever used it nowadays, but it's not like anyone else would know unless he told them.

He'd almost started to feel worried until Kylar had broken character by laughing. Sometimes he swore his boyfriend could be an actor if he wanted to.

"Hmm..." He took a moment to sort his thoughts, remembering what everyone had been up to. "I haven't seen Oura in awhile, but last I saw she was doing alright. Sui's got her hands full with the business as always. She's even started giving Tundra some lessons." He chuckled a bit at that, recalling her pointing out that sometimes he had "reflexes like a sloth" and could do to be more observant. Even Kinsha was more mindful of his surroundings than the caribou was. Speaking of a certain ninja... "And Kinsha...well... He really needs to talk to Tundra," he continued with a bit of emphasis on the word "really".

Toukan couldn't remember if he'd mentioned to Kylar the "little" revelation Kinsha had revealed to him. But the fact he hadn't said anything yet was getting ridiculous. He understood being guarded after the last time, but how long had it been since Kinsha had admitted to Toukan that he liked his brother? A few months at least. He was tempted to shove them into a room together and lock the door.

Kylar chuckled as Toukan told him of Kinsha and Tundra – the two of them had been dancing around each other for a while, it was amusing for Kylar, and also induced a little bit of nostalgia; he and Toukan had danced around each other for a bit before getting together properly, after Kylar sort of pushed the stag next to him into admitting his feelings. That prompted an 'a-ha!' moment, which likely crossed over Kylar's face before he began to speak.
“Perhaps we should give them a push. It worked for us,” He commented, before the mischievous look that so often adorned his face, returned. There was always the back up plan – well it wasn't so much a back up plan, as an amusing idea that he assumed would actually have a fair chance of working with the two of them, “Or we get a couple days worth of supplies and lock them in a room.”

"I am sure you will do fine," Nika said, standing up as well. She followed the doe's gaze to the rock she had been using earlier; it had many scratches on it's face.

OOC: It's alright! And you're fine!

@Nika:
[[It's been awhile since I've written an action scene like this before, so this should be interesting. 8D; ]]

She stepped towards the rock, sizing it up as if it were an actual opponent. Or perhaps to decide on the best spot to hit and in what way.

Nodding as if satisfied, the green doe took a step back, placing her hooves in some semblance of a fighting stance - angling her body so that one side's hooves were forward more than the other's. She stayed like this for a moment, focusing on the rock and releasing a calming breath...before rearing forward in a graceful and fluid manner, then striking forward with her front hooves in a quick succession of strikes that took little chips out of the rough surface and landing back in a similar position to how she started.

@Mick:
It took a second, but that smirk made Toukan roll his eyes, getting the double meaning to the words Kylar had said. "I guess that depends on how hungry they are at the time..." He made no indication of how he meant that to be taken. But it was probably obvious.

Now, as for how the actual "locking in a room" would happen...

Toukan tilted his head at the start of a plan Kylar laid out. He'd have to figure out exactly how to deal with Tundra, but... "...this could work...maybe. Just keep up those good acting skills of yours so Kinsha doesn't get suspicious."

He couldn't believe they were actually discussing this. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and those two could apparently use all the help they could get. Or at least Kinsha could. Tundra seemed oblivious from what he could tell, unless he was just good at hiding things.

“My love, for you I will act so incredibly they will line up to present me with Oscars,” He responded with a chuckle before a thought ran through his mind – they were planning this without concern, without any real thought on it and yet it sounded so realistic a plan, so easy a plan to do...did Toukan really want to do it? He was a little unsure if they were actually planning this as a thing to do, or just a mental wandering that would probably help the oblivious pair. Kylar saw no issue with doing it – at best, Tundra and Kinsha would get together and be happy, and at worst...nothing would really change. He supposed in theory it could all blow up, but he doubted that either of the two of them would really get that far – besides from what he had heard from Toukan, the two of them were close, very close, and that nudge was really all they needed to descend into a relationship – and that was without considering certain declarations from Kinsha to Toukan.

“The question that remains is, do you want to actually do it?” He asked curious to get to the heart of their conversation.

"I am sure you will get there in no time with skills like that," she said with a smile, "Your martial arts is much different than how I would do hand-to-hand combat."

"Yes. It is a bit more aggressive. Anything and everything can be a weapon," she said, "And you fight you expect to die."

"I suppose a little. Though, I was mostly for war," she said with a nod. War during her time was brutal, most of it being close combat with terrible injuries.