(Excited to have him back! ♥ )

The scarlet doe stepped delicately over the rich soil, her head raised, embracing the sun's warmth with relief, though the feeling was not for herself. She was heading for the mother Oak, one being alone drawing her there. She picked up her pace, eager to reach him, though she was careful as to not spill her precious gift being ferried on a maple leaf. Now that the sun had bathed the forest with its warm rays once again, the doe had periodically been bringing water to him, her closest friend. She would do anything to make him grow again.

Her ears pricked as the great Oak rose before her, and a smile grew on her muzzle. However, when she was a pace or two away, she stopped suddenly, her smile faltering; he wasn't there. Brilliant blue eyes grew wider as she gazed at the spot, now a deep hole, where he had once been. The maple leaf fell from her gaping mouth, the water cascading down to the lush grass underneath. Her head rapidly turned this way and that, ears standing erect, heart racing. He was alive, more than he had been over the past days. Giddy with excitement and joy, she raced off toward the first place she thought of.

It felt like her legs couldn't carry her fast enough as the pond came into view, and so she pushed them ever faster, until it felt like she was soaring. It wasn't long until she saw him, there, on the bank by the water. She skidded to a sudden halt, lose soil rolling down the gentle slope as she stood there panting. Her smile stretched across her muzzle, blue eyes alight and moist with joy as she gazed at him. She couldn't believe it, and yet, she could all the same.

"Seed!"

The scarlet doe closed her eyes at his touch, and nuzzled him in return. She breathed in his scent, which seemed a little different, but yet still the same, and more familiar as ever. So excited was she, and how content her being was to have him back, that she hadn't noticed his change yet. Not even when she pulled back slightly as he spoke, her smile slightly showing her glistening white teeth.

"You're very welcome, Seed," she replied in her usual soothing, light tone, knowing what he meant. "You were in need, and I could not leave you there in the cold of night without warmth." She didn't question what happened to him, or how his new appearance came to be, at least not yet. She would save the questions for later, because now, she was simply content and happy to have him in her company once again. Closing her eyes, she reached over and nuzzled his neck again, feeling the warmth of his fur and smelling the rich sweetness of his scent.

"Such a relief it is to have you here again..you were deeply missed."

((Bump))

((Sorry it took so long to reply ^^;))

Seed shook himself out of his revery as he heard hoofbeats. His gaze focused on the here and now and he saw the doe drinking. It was always uneasy for him, spotting someone, who had spotted him, but who had not yet made a move. Was she waiting on him? Was she waiting for him to leave? Did she want him to say Hi, as much as he'd like to meet someone knew? The thoughts that filled his head buzzed like a swarm of bees. At last he settled on clearing his throat and offering her a thin, slightly nervous, smile.

"Lovely weather, isn't it?"

Weak, Seed. Weak. He thought to himself.

"I'm Seed. Nice to meet you."

He thought about it a moment longer and it occured to him that this place actually didn't really have too much in the name of bad weather -- at least, not bad weather that happened often enough to make good weather worth commenting over. He chuckled.

"I guess we're pretty blessed...When you think about it, a beautiful day's the average, here."

"Ah, I suppose...I suppose it does."

He laughs a little, perhaps uneasily. He was yet to get used to how he looked now, no matter how easy it felt. He tried to find his way to a more natural smile, and, failing that, pressed forward.

"It is. I still don't know how this place manages some of its magic...But I suppose if I knew, I'd be a sorcerer and not a poet."

((Hmm....Trying to think of a new prompt...Any ideas?))

"I was born here as well...Just because it's the only world I've ever known does not mean I intend to accept it without thinking. When you do that, I think you close your heart to how amazing the everyday is."

He nodded. He couldn't help but take a little bit of pride at his vocation, even if often he felt himself clumsy and ameturish; it was a special and solitary existence.

"I am. To my knowledge, I'm the only one living here...Or, at least, the only one I've met."

"Everyone has a gift," He told her, his soft voice brimming with sincerity of the sort that would make a cynic wince.

"Even if it doesn't seem obvious...I really believe that everyone has something only they can do, if they dare to look for it..." His eyes moved skyward, a little wistfully.


((I finally found a new prompt!))

(Yay!)

Nemonica looked back up at the buck. "I should look for it, I know that my mother is really good with herbs, maybe I am too." She smiled with a feeling of eagerness in her heart.

"That sounds like a good place to start; I'm sure your mom would be happy to teach you, too..."

He paused and pursed his lips, mulling over other ways to encourage the relative stranger. He was in a pretty revitalized mood, on account of being re-vitalized, and he wanted to spread it around.

"Do you have anything that interests you?"

Greetings seed,
i have admired your from afar for a long time and finally met you today in the mushroom circle. Thanks for the spells and the company. <3

((*Sigh* I had a good reply to all the things. And then I don't even know what happened, but they ended up deleted.))

@ Jookie202:

"Well, those sound like good places to start... I think if you just listen to your own passions, you'll find what you need to. It's a big world; there's a lot of room to explore."

With that very children's TV-sounding response, Seed felt like he had exhausted his own sense of the subject. After all, to some extent, that's what it boiled down to; it was al just a matter of heart.

@ p

((I can't tell if that was meant to be an interaction or not, but anyway...Thank you! There's no need to be shy; you can hang out with Seed any time. I'll be keeping an eye out as well.))

@Rouda:

Seed noticed her; of course he did. He had trained himself to always be looking for her scent, the sound of her hoofbeats, the tiny awareness of her existence warping the fabric of the world -- well, that's how he'd describe the feeling, occuring somewhere beyond his peripheral vision. He hadn't used that training, really used it, for over a year now, but you never forgot. Not when love was involved. He turned his head to spot her.
Too close. His stomach somersaulted. His heart pounded. He felt happy and hurt and afraid until they all combined to make him nauseus. And this was just looking at her. But she was too close to run away...And he had been wanting to see her. To see where his feelings -- which, when she was not around, felt much more relaxed than this -- took him when she was around. He kicked himself in the stomach and walked forward, a thin and uneasy smile on his lips.

To her, he would have looked...Rather different from when he saw her last. But, in her small and subtle ways, she looked different, too. Just maybe not "Has legs coated in living wood and a big spot where thigns are growing on his back" different. Still, because it was such a turnaround, because it had been so long...He noticed she didn't look exactly...well. Unless Well had changed.
"Hello, Nevilly. It's been a while..."
That part was easily. Yes. He could do this. With a bit of concern, he asked,
"How have you been?"

"Fine enough, fine enough. I've been busy."

He was...A little surprised she didn't have more to say in light of, well, everything. Not everything between them, which was understandably avoidable. But all the ways he had changed as a result of that odd incident in the fall went uncommented on as well? How very odd.

Luckily, he at least had one last conversational volley to fire, which...Well, it was a harder one for him to do than the standard, but was...near enough. Inoccuous, except in all the ways it wasn't. And that was asking about her family....Yeah, it was easier to avoid that one, he felt.

For all she avoided his gaze, he avoided hers, and looked up at the sky above her head.

"I eventually got that scavenger hunt I was mentioning last time done. It went well."

The fledgling watched the scene progress, attracted to the sight of a green...bark covered stag being chased by a swarm of insects. That was interesting, after all. Not everyday you see a giant creature be beaten by something hundreds of times smaller. He charged the spot where the bees were mingling, puzzled by their quarry suddenly vanishing but still there, trying to leap up to pluck one of the creatures out of the sky, just as he had done to butterflies and tried to accomplish with dragonflies before. He cheeped in surprise and outrage as his prey turned on him, the bees buzzing in his ears and stinging him through his baby fluff. He soon gave up the hunt after several stings, leaping into the bush after the green and brown stag. The most he had accomplished was making the bees angrier, if anything at all.

This is the baby.

@ Rouda:

His smile lost the strain of it -- it just became sad, a specialty of Seed's smiles.
"...I've missed you, too."

He said. His tone was hard to place, warm and distant at the same time. How could it not be, saying what he really felt, but knowing as he said it that there was no place -- no place in this world -- for what he felt. That was what he had been working on for much of the year; putting that feeling in its own little world, detaching it from everything around him, so he could live. He didn't owe missing her anything, even seeing her again. That was how he felt.

And that awkwardness at last reached a tipping-point in his brain...And he began to laugh, self-depricatingly. He smiled that sad smile and kept on,

"...This is silly, isn't it? All this tip-toeing? Relax. How's Dariah?"

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@ Waning-Sun:

Seed looked up, spotting suddenly the little fluffy thing in the bush with him. Seed himself was unstung -- until the fledgeling had tried to defend him, the bees hadn't been attacking.
He pulled his head out, noticing the lack of bees. His antler-branches rattled as they pulled free of the bush, leaving trails of purple flowers.

He looked the younger creature over, full of concern.
"My goodness! Are you alright, little one?"

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@Jookie202:

"Ah, then perhaps you should ask about their problems. I'm sure I could come up with something, if you'd like to try it out on me."

He winked, trying to be playful. Seed attracted trouble like magnets attracted iron fillings.

It didn't seem like the little owl-deer could speak; perhaps not yet, perhaps not at all.

"Thank you," I suppose He added as a thought. After all, the bees hadn't been attacking him... They'd just been invading his personal space for pollen-collecting reasons. And he didn't like it. Still, it'd probably damage the young buck's pride to tell him *that*. Seed was going to be a slightly more mature adult than that.

"Looks like you got a little roughed up trying to get them off my back; is there something I can do to repay you?"

He hoped the little creature would make some sign as to what it wanted, or at least let Seed try some ideas as to how to help with the stingers.

Nemonica looked at her hooves then back up at the stag. "I should. I could get some help from my mother first just to get used to it." She giggled when the stag winked at her.

@ Waning-sun:

"Hmmm...Let me see what I can do."

He ran the scraping edge of his teeth over where he could see the skin swelling because of bee stings. This stung a bit, but he came away taking out many of the stings. And leaving Seed with some feathers to spit out.

"That should help a little...Let's head to the pond -- we'll wash that right up, and hopefully that'll help."

Seed was not a medic, but he was doing his best, after all. He began walking that way before he stopped to see if the little creature was following.

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@ Jookie202:

"That sounds like a good idea, too."


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"Well, if you need company, I'd be fine with keeping you company."

Ah, loneliness. He knew it well. Still...He was sad to hear that she was alone; after all, the opposite idea had been his comfort for a long time. In times like this, he had the endurance he had built up over the years to keep him warm...But he knew she was a bit more delicate than that.

"Who, Complex? She's much the same; always darting in and out, leaving her poor father to worry....Still, I'm sure she's fine."

It did not occur to him that her question could have had other meanings; they were talking about family, after all. He hadn't seen many people in his family, but he wouldn't say he was exceptionally lonely: but talk about friends, whether secret crushes or otherwise, didn't occur to him.

The black and white doe appreciated his words more than he could possibly imagine, but could she accept his offer was a whole another thing.

"I am sure you are busy as it is, I do not wish to disturb you or waste your time."

She nodded humbly with her eyes closed as a thank you. As she opened her yes, she flashed a bried smile at him. It was more relaxed and gentle as the previous ones. Most of her tension was gone, not sure if he was still uncomfortable or not.

"Ah.. I am sure she is alright wherever she is. She has proven that many times already."

As the male didn't seem to find the inner meaning of her question, she let it slide. Maybe he did not wish to talk about such things.

"You look.. different somehow."

Sorry i am gonna have to end the rp with Seed and Nemonica im getting 2 busy!

"Right. Just sort of grind bits of it away...It's not very good to swallow in a chunk, is the thing."

He explained. He could see it wasn't working very well...There was a lot of differences between his body and the body of the youngster he hadn't counted on. His face scrunched up with concern and frustration.

"Hmmm...Maybe if we ground it with a rock, it'd work better? Sorry, I'm not really experienced with medicine. But we could give that a try, if you'd find it easier to handle that way?"

((sorry...I kind of forgot about this for a bit.))

Hello may I roleplay? ^^

All right ^^

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A small brown fawn's ears flicked up and she ducked under the bushes as bees past the spot she had been out. She sighed thankfuly and poped out of the bushes and relized there was another deer hiding in a notso far away bushes aswell. He had her back to her, she slowly, and quitly walked up behind him. She said "I think there gone."

She smiled and said "I think so, though I don't know much about that subject yet." she and laughed "I wonder what you did to up set the poor things." She sat down for a moment, lookin at the unusally deer. He reminded her of someone but didn't know who.

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BTW here is her bio ~ http://endlessforest.org/community/rosa-ref ^^

She smiled and said "Oh thats all right Im Rosa." she looked up at his blooming branches and grined. "You remind me of someone? but I don't know who. Thought I do that this person made me smiled just like you do."