He let out another snort. "Oh really now, yes?" he snarled back at her. "Have tried, yes? No where to find..." he growled.... tucking on a feather that hung in his face .... now really bothering him. "... well is here now... at least... second time it was you... not mother..." he grunted, finally getting rid of the feather. "What was name again? Phaios, yes?" he looked at her again.

"Sleeping a whole day, yes? Heavy sleeper... or bad searcher..." he growled, watching the doe leaving with the fawn... he had been quite a long time with her... and this forest wasn't as big as a mother would't find her child within a short time. He snorted again, continuing to get rid of his 'dress' now... and obviously having his own twisted thoughts about this....

The small white doe approached her mother looking absolutely horrid. Her fur was messy and unkempt. Her feathers looked a little torn and ragged and her eyes had barely that sparkle they had before. She moved next to her and snuggled with her and the fawns and said not a word.

(thats fine :3 I have a busy day so mine will be random too )

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Aria sat quietly as her mother cleaned her. When she finally asked her what the problem was she sighed."Everything...Akehenaton disappeared...bear is dead....my daughter doesn't want to stay put with my like Auth...and now Zash pretended to love me only to get me to be more confident or as he put it "to get a backbone"she said leaning her head on her."I feel so exhausted...I just want it to be the way it was before ....all of this.."she said burying her face in Phaios' fluff.

Her frown can only grow as Aria describes her troubles. Bear she'd known a little something about, and Irie's troublemaking capabilities were nothing new, but when had Akhenaton vanished? And this Zash! The doe's ears lay back as she works to put a face to the name. Whose head did she have to beat in now? Well... she could worry about that later.
"Mm... The only thing you can always count on is that things will change, Ari. Sometimes it gets better, sometimes it gets worse, but we can't move backwards. Sometimes there are things you just have to learn to accept, and keep moving forward." Phai sighs softly as she drapes herself about her family. "You've got two little ones who depend on you. I know it's hard - but do keep trying, for their sake if not your own. Is there something you haven't tried with Irie yet? She likes games. We were practicing colors the other day. Make staying close a reward somehow."

Pff. Had to be twins. "If you let her go, she's going to keep going. Authieu will be alright for a few minutes if he stays put. Maybe we can find a couple deer who will help keep an eye on Irie, and teach her she can only be away from you if she's with one of them..." Except she couldn't think of anyone off the top of her head, aside from herself. Ramsus kept giving Irie dirty looks, Thane's family was absolutely out of the question, she certainly couldn't ask it of poor Jo and Henna... And apparently bird-face is just gone.
"Kids are hard," she agrees softly. "One day they'll be able to protect themselves, though, and it'll be a little easier. You'll always worry, but at least it won't be as warranted." Phai smiles a bit.

Oh yeah? Then what happened to Ciel? ;-;

Joro's such a neat character x3

lmao

Not at all. Sorry for the standing around ;-; My boyfriend neglected to tell me that his pain meds were filled and in need of picking up earlier, so I had to scoot real quick before the pharmacy closed.

♥!
Bebes growing up ;-;

Of course :3

"Ari," Phai answers softly in return as she lifts her head to meet her daughter's nuzzle from where she reclines on the ground. She'd meant to seek out the younger doe the night before, but politeness had kept her restricted to other company and so she's quite glad to see Aria now. "How are you, dove?" the doe inquires.

Irie wandering again. There's no huge surprise. "Perhaps she just needs a little space. Older younglings can be moody." The news about Akhenaton, however, is more unusual. Phaios muses on it for a moment. "The ocean, hm? I've only heard of such a thing." Her gaze wanders across the Forest, as though seeking some hidden place beyond where the fairy tale might lie. "You miss him," she states quietly after a moment, feeling it is a safe assumption to make. Phai pauses a moment more before asking, "Different how?"

"Everything changes, dove. The world was purple when I was born. I once had wings and fangs, and now I've got hooves." If that wasn't change, she didn't know what was. "You've grown a lot since you two first met and, I'm sure, so has he. Many things have happened since then." Her head tilts lightly to one side as she studies the doe beside her. "Have you asked him what he's got on his mind? He may just not know how to tell you."

Puzzlement knots her brows together. "Spilled milk..?" she echoes. How does milk spill? It's conveniently tucked away in... oh, never mind. Phai shakes her head. "No use in crying, no." At least that much made sense. "He'll come back and you two will find a way to work it out, if the trip doesn't manage to clear his head."

"You are stronger than you know, dearest," Phaios replies, reaching to bump the leather of her nose against the back of Aria's nearest ear. Though the whispers of a smile flit about the corners of her mouth, her eyes are solemn. "You have fought your whole life. You've courted pains others cannot lay claim to and emerged alive and well at their ends. I've no doubt you'll soar, little dove."

Phaios chuckles softly, glad to see her daughter's feistiness return. But thanks? The elder tucks her little one close, but holds an answer closer. How could she tell brave little Aria that she'd pulled her mother along as much as it was the other way around? Thanks is owed, not due, but the doe tends to fumble with such heavy words.
"Ah, Ari... My little heart-song. I love you, too."
It would have to do.

[Awh, but it was cute x3]


"Hah... You say that as though I have somewhere better to be," Phaios chides softly. "Of course, dove."

One shoulder rests lightly against the trunk of a tree; the brown-furred doe rarely rests away from one, though exactly why she cannot say. Maybe there's just something reassuring about the touch of a living thing so firmly rooted in its existence. The view is a familiar one, though if she had to paint a picture she'd never get it exactly right. Even intimate knowledge is imperfect; she could never place every leaf and blade of grass just so. Regardless, she's content to shut her eyes and trust that the scene remains as it has been for as long as she can recall in this place, and likely for a great stretch of time before. A quietly lilting melody makes its presence known, though tentatively; rarer than finding the doe away from a tree is to find her humming in another's presence.

A gold-graced eye peers down at Aria as she catches the sigh. Ah, good... the doe probably needs her rest, if she's been searching for Irie and worrying after Akhenaton.
The tune shifts with her thoughts, a second-nature melody with no chorus and a short, simple over-arcing theme. While calling it a good composition might be a long shot, she could probably do worse with her improvisation. A meandering mind leads her to wondering if, perhaps, she might pick up a different sort of song from the deer of other worlds. Maybe she would ask Akhen to sing of Egypt some time.

Of course <3
Yeah, it's nice to be on winter break, lol. This next semester is going to eat a ton of time, though.

For the first time in a long time left the territory embraced for his kingdom. Her dance steps were heading straight for Phaios, perhaps the last member of the family, who still managed to believe and not to consider him a traitor ...

She came to her wariness next big black beast on the site. The last few steps and stopped. Pricked up his ears when he lowered his head and gently touched his nose to my grandmother's head. "Grandma ... It's me, Irie. Are you awake?"

"How can she miss, when her eyes and heart only for Akhenaton and for their future, for their own happiness?" frowned. She of doing nothing from Ramsus angry, but she was surprised that it started gratuitously stomp and protest and Irie return him his behaviour. She will not listen to fool with serrated jaws, although fool with serrated jaws can be very dangerous, because it's really stupid and he feels good, that's stupid, she noticed...

Then her attention diverted back to Phaios.
"Since they are together, as if I did not exist and brother. Ignore us. Was not looking for us when we're gone... Simply does not exist." looked worriedly into the country. "Just not for her and she us "missing"? It's definitely just one of the silly tricks to bring us back so she had a good time..."

"Once I realized that Akhenaton's not my father. He did not care about me and tolerates me and brother just because it can be added to make mom children," she said, lowering her ears. "It's like my real dad and mom is just stupid...!" complained like a little girl. "They say it is an animal that the world had learned only produce children." she said sharply.

It was as if their words spoken really angry Angry... Perhaps it is due to the behavior of her family, perhaps due to lack of attention in the past, perhaps due to incomplete family, which was due to rush for more children, torn and unstable, all the bad things from Athair provoked... "Why nobody told me what dad did, why I have to tell myself? Why nobody told me that it was the king?" she snapped after her at once.

"Why did you wish his death? I could have father, who will love me and stand by me, which for me will be fear and worry... Mom found someone who did not love me and who will not try to change anything!!!" cried.

"Love, pcha... It just means 'try a little more'. Love does not exist!" she snapped at her. "Because if there were, he would love me as well as his own daughter? Even so he did not accept me, so why I should I try to give him another chance? Mother should be the one that he had to make, not me. He was to be the one who had to try, not me! Simply that's what I say... they only want their happiness, common children... to me and Authieu do not care..." Irie began to wail. Her mother's eyes filled with tears... And tears to Athair certainly had never been...

The front legs she started breaking. "I hate her, Grandma... She wants more children, but she could not even take care of me and brother. Whether it is born... I will kill they."

"Why does everyone want to kill me? Then why all blame me if I did not do anything?" she complained. Her eyes cried more than he could. "The jagged beast hates me... and I did not do anything, right, only I was born in a stupid place and stupid doe!" cry on. She could not calm down. Blamed fawns even before they were born, is accused that she tore a family that is scattered in all directions and that she now has a family. Absolutely not record grandmother, who told her that he loved her. As if that feeling lost faith and lost faith in the family.

Her cried, before sufficient comfort and the question of Athair hit her. "It was an accident. I ran for a long time, and then I bumped into him. Offered me that I pay into the dry and warm under the board at Playground. I noticed the white antlers. Such little brother is growing and has an equally honeyed eyes... again and I look like him in color and have his feathers... I asked him where are he from, who ever it is. We talked for a long time, he told the story of its history. Then told me that he is my real father." she added. "He told me everything, and that I was out of violence and therefore the world hates me... Every reason to attack me, everyone hated ... He offered me..." silent.