Bearing Witness 5-05-08 (early)
May 6, 2008 - 1:08am — Seed
To describe time in the forest is the dream of a mad-deer: there are flashes of winter, or ast least of snow, a day's worth of night or sunset, and then daylight and spring forever once more. There is no end, one might surmise, because there is no time, only duration, only deer happening one after another. Maye the truth is, we, like the trees, can be so ancient that time itself has no meaning to us: maybe the snowfalls are ice ages, that nights are the deaths of the stars, that our springs are simply all we have time to perceive before the years slip by. Still, I will say that I felt like my sleep schedula had changed, that I was awake before I normally was: perhaps we keep time by the motions of other deer: Magnet or Scape usually comes along a while after I wake up, Payton used to wake up around the same time as me....Perhaps without her, I can no longer know when to wake up.
Still, there was a familiar face around, not long after I awoke: Walter. We had a rather full time of it: we watched some fights, we ran around, he met a doe, he cowered from said doe....
We got antler spells cast on us....we did some sparring after I got the big antlers ^^
He got the stubby antlers cast on him. I felt a little bad for laughing...after he ran away and hid from shame. After I understood what he meant, I tried pointing out he could just sneeze the &*$% things off. But I had to go and cast a big pair of antlers on him. I had to take a nap after that.
When I came back, Walter was still around. And Sluggs. and I noticed something: flowers have become much more popular than when I was a fawn. When I was little, no one but fawns wore antlers on their antlers: and now plenty of deer do. I wonder if I helped create a fad.... Sluggs, Walter, and I all lined up and did a little pose-and-musical number. I think if we had arranged it differently...maybe with me in the front, Walter in the middle, and Sluggs on the end, we could have made a little scale.
Magnet showed up a bit then, and things got...complicated. Walter was angry at Magnet...maybe because Magnet was wearing the big antlers. He tried to fight him...and then ran away. What do I do, then? How can I place a value on my friends? I stood for a moment, and Walter came back while I was unsure. But he was scared: Of the group, I guess, or of Magnet. And while I had seen a lot of Walter today, I hadn't seen him in a while, and so I went off with him. We ran around, and I showed him the point that the water from the crying idol is MUCH better for drinking than lake water. I mean, the lake collects dirt and plenty of deer drink and roll around in the shallows. The water from the idol is always fresh, rolling down in torrents that soak you to the bone, pressing against you like a strong wind or the laugh of your lover, shining like starlight distilled. We drank there and took a shower in the tears. And then things got complicated.
Walter can be very affectionate at times; it's one of his better traits. But to me, the third nuzzle in a row, in quick succession, means something entirely different from two nuzzles and then a reak and then another nuzzle. And the third nuzzle in a row...is just something I can't return. Because that was the rule I drew, on the inside, the day Payton and I became mates. And I tried, with all due affection and respect, to explain this to him: I think he either misunderstood, or he was very hurt by that. He ran off: and I chased him and chased him, trying to understand what he understood or what he did not, trying to be understood, trying to keep one of the few friendships I consider important from falling apart on me. We even fell in the pond, losing our sets, in our chase. When I finally caught him, both of us clean as nameless stags, dripping wet still....he curled up and went to sleep. I trotted off, caught more flowers in my antlers. I found Magnet in a beam of light, sat next to him, and curled up and went to sleep.
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edit: wait, you saw that I saw that....MADNESSS!
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No. SPARTA!
SPARTA!
Pega: O.O You sat next to
I need to write a journal entry...
Ah. Seed has some trouble
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Pega: It's ok. He got the
WALTER HAS LUFFCRUSH ON
And he's having his old man camp moments again. It's spring! He deserves to fling himself aimlessley at other deer in hopes of attracting them with his wrinkles.
doesn't he know it would
Poor Walter...He'll find true luff one day. Or he'll develop alzheimers and forget the whole matterer.
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If he develops that disease
And he knows! He's a very lonely old boy though. No 21 to dance with, no ladies to follow. He's very sad about it all.
Same, in the department of
but united in lonliness, they stand togethor as wierdos.
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Weirdism is love. <3