Playtime Diaries - 14th May 2010 feat Collector, Stella, Ayanel and Touraga
May 14, 2010 - 9:49am — kovah
The forest has seemed quiet in the last few days, I've only recognised the trees there are lots of strange deer in the forest and after my initial meeting with the Collector since my absence I haven't seen him since. He seemed a little different at first, not quite as heartless or aware of his surroundings when he slept as I managed to doze next to him for hours. Several fauns started to approach with the hum of forest magic around them trying to provoke the sleeping phantom but I stood and chased them off. Normally I like fauns lovely bouncy little things but today I just wanted to rest, my journey over the past few months has been a long one and taken its toll and i just wanted to listen to the grass and the whisper of the wind in the trees.
Eventually I left the Collector and after bellowing into the stillness of the birch forest I sensed a familiar presence finally, I followed my instinct feeling the long grass on my legs and the delicate scent of the flowers that grow here. But the flowers were not the only pretty thing here...The timid doe Stelmaria - Stella barrelled right past me at first presumably not recognising me, I jerked to my senses and jumped after her calling her as she finally skidded to a halt behind a protective tree to see just who it was behind her. Her ears pricked up as she recognised me and a moment later I was by her side, she was just as I remembered slender and perfectly white apart from the black and red markings of her pelt.
We spent some time together and I tried to get her to join me in play, she was hesitant at first I wondered if it was something I had done wrong until I realised that she was listening to the rest of the forest in case strange deer should approach, when a group passed by a little close and stationed myself in-between her and them and bellowed in threat. They steered away and I rejoined my timid companion finally getting her to dance and laugh for a short time as she relaxed and finally lay down opposite me when it was time for me to leave.
I wandered around the day after the wind had picked up a little and the trees groaned and creaked in protest at the weather, I didn't dare to run as if the moving air catches my antlers mid jump I might stumble and fall and of course I can't dance if I have hurt my legs. I found a group of deer I had seen the previous day Ayanel and Touraga, I believe the pair have recently become mates but unable to run and jump I needed to find something else to amuse me and eventually I couldn't help myself and had a go at sitting on the unsuspecting doe. Well that was it, I found it so funny I couldn't help myself and pranced off to find other sleeping deer to sit on before darting away with a thrill that made it perfectly clear why the Collector enjoys stealing masks.
Did Ayal sit on you ?
