Her head and eyes followed him as he raced around her, causing the uni-doe to become incredibly dizzy. As she sat up and tried to focus, she could see just about five 'Snakes' in front of her. "W-wooah... I didn't know you had friends out here." Sabel chuckled, slumping back over into the flowers. The world was a blurry mess for a few seconds before she'd managed to blink all of that disorientation away. Up above them, she was looking at something that briefly glimmered in the sunshine. It was a wind chime, hung on one of the thinner birch trees. It jingled slightly with a gentle breeze.

Sabel chuckles and sits up a bit. "A friend gave that to me as a ... 'house warming'... gift?" she stated, tilting her head at the statement. Her eyes softened slightly, and her ears drooped. "I intended to make this a home." she explained, curling her tail around her hooves and watching his movements with some interest. "What's wrong? Do you not like it?" she asked in a confused manner, her ears twitching.

"Sometimes. But the forest is very giving." she replied, smiling and wiggling her hind legs a bit. The dark uni-deer's tail swished and flicked in the grass a little restlessly. Though, she could see that her companion was drifting off... elsewhere. Perhaps thinking of something. Though her brows raise and she frowns as he seems to mention 'crows' with a strange look of disdain. "Oh... they don't come here. Or well, even if they do it's very rarely." the uni-doe replied. "Though, one time I saw a huge crow leaving The Old oak!"

The stranger's words were quite vague and ominous. Watching? The crows? But why? She couldn't really remember if something like that had happened before. As the doe pondered this, she made a decision in her head. "W-well... if they bother you that much, you can always come here. It's usually very quiet since everyone comes here at different times." she offered.

Someone was using the crows to spy on him...? Could it be the same person who afflicted him with his punishment? Ominous. A frightening thought. It was no wonder he had been paranoid earlier. "No- please. Don't hesitate to come if you need to. You will find that this place is quite safe." she assured him, glancing off into the distance. With this new information, she'd have to make sure that the birds remained at a distance. A look of relief came across her face, looking back up at the wind chime. Her friend had said it help magical properties... maybe it could help protect them? Moving over, the unidoe carefully cleared away a few flowers and berried before digging and pulling up some soil where they had been looming over. She kept digging until the hole looked slightly larger than him, and was decently deep, before moving over to display it to him. Then, the doe began arranging flowers and berries- around and over it. "if you see any coming near- you can hide here. Though, the berries and flowers still offer much cover without it." Sabel explained.

(( He's gonna love meeting some folks who can transform into birds. :'D))

Watching as he received the little hidey-hole quite well, Sabel let out a small whinny and her tail thumped up and down. disturbing the berries and flowers behind her with joy. She hadn't noticed his expression of thought and suspicion, but was relatively grateful for company. Though, her thoughts turned to those who would otherwise have been here- if she hadn't fallen asleep so suddenly, so often. Although there was a brief glint of some sadness in her eyes, the doe had hope that she would find them once again- soon, hopefully.

"Say, have you ever been to strange places? New Places?" she asked, having gone into a long pause of deep thought.

Based on his answer, he'd indeed been to other places- and perhaps even lived in one. Though, the term human caught her attention. It wasn't quite uncommon for it to be mentioned from those who were not born here. "Hm... I think I've only met one or two like yourself." she replied, settling onto the flowers and laying there. "What do you mean by 'human's place'?" the doe asked curiously, setting her head on the grass.

Unfortunately, this only earned a look of confusion and forced the doe to start thinking about the places she had been to. They were all different, yes- and had names. "There was... a world of sand... a world of poison.. but so far that's all I know." hey replied honestly, slumping over a bit. It was frustrating to lack so much knowledge. "Mortal? Topside?" the uni-doe echoed, her ears raising a bit. The term mortal was often used for those who lived short lives, and were very fragile. This description fit humans the best. And what he was saying could be confirmed by her past endeavors. "I.. see. I think."

Chuckling a bit at Snake's terms, she shook her head and sighed a bit. "Both were lovely, in their own ways. But both had many undesirable things." she explained, reminiscence a bit. "The world of sand had a blazing sun, and its humans held strict traditions. But in their world, what they made was beautiful. In the world of poison, humans did not walk equally. It was hard to breathe, and risky to consume anything. But even so, there was a strange ... effort, it held. To keep some strange order." the uni-doe continued.

"Oh- I hadn't... though of it that way. What is underground like?"

"They build so much, and think so much- but all too quickly, lose too much." Sabel replied, thinking about how humans lived and tried to do so many things in so little time. Their desperation. They would seclude one if it threatened many, they would trick each other for better or worse. Though, this was not unique to them in all respects. Just- for some reason, more common for their short time. "They feel so free, yet so restrained. To create so much, but to be able to do so little."

Snake appears to become lost in his visions of the place he longed to return to, yet his description brings Sabel much curiosity. What were crystals? They could shine and glitter? And a place with so many changing temperatures- many beings must live there, and not stray far from the one they are used to. But one term that rang true to her memory was 'jewels'. In the world of sand, she has been introduced to jewelry- one of the many precious, beautiful things humans tended to make. Yet, remains of others... did that mean that they died often? Or that they simply took longer to leave no trace at all? It was a strange concept- as only one thing in the forest that had died currently remained. Bodies would vanish, or be taken. Her facial features relaxed into a distant-eyed look of contemplation, looking down at the grass as her head lay on the ground. "I have no memory of the word before now. Hell. The word itself is very strong in presence... but this sounds like a new world- with both good, and bad things. Why would one think it meant something 'ugly?" she asked uncertainly, glancing over at Snake in his hole.

However, she is met with a gaze of longing- directed at something unseen. It was something unfamiliar- as, though she had often felt it through some others, she had never witnessed any here who would openly display such an emotion. "Why can't you return? Were you told not to?"

She was not experienced enough int he human world to fully agree with what Shake was saying, but the uni-doe understood how he was marveling at it. But that begged the question of whether they truly left anything other than memories, as much else faded away in the human worlds. Though his explanation for the world he called 'hell' was somewhat confusing. Why would only those who have committed crimes in their lives be sent there? And if he'd done something to get pushed out of such a place, what could it have been?

"I think I have heard the word one other time... but I never fully understood it." Sabel replied, pursing her lips and narrowing her eyes in thought. "And they watch you, to keep you from coming back..?"

Glancing back down as she ground, Sabel rolled onto her back and watched the sky. Who knew that something so pretty and vast might hold something so scary? Eyes that would watch you for mysterious reasons. But if he didn't know why they were watching him, maybe it wasn't the same creature that had cursed him. Though, her eyes were growing oddly heavy. Perhaps it was due to oversleeping? She could not be sure. Her body was still drowsy. "I hope they do not seek you out, here." she replied, leaning back onto her side. "It's... safe." she muttered. The uni-doe's eyes fluttered briefly before closing. They felt a little sore.

"Oh? but you seem so nice." she replied, hearing his little body moving closer. His response was a little surprising. "It... used to be different, I think. But I don't remember when that was, or if was even longer." Sabel told him, trying to think back. No, remembering wasn't possible around that time. All she remembered was waking up near the starting season of the rut, making new friends... did she have any friends before that? She must have. "I've heard that before. I remember a friend trying to help me fix it, too." the raven haired doe explained. Most of what she did remember was fairly recent- just before she fell asleep again. After a few minutes, she'd stopped talking and lie still. Soundlessly breathing, sleep had whisked her away.

'Maybe we'll meet again when I wake, Snake.'

(I think this is a good point to end it for now c: for this encounter. But if you'd like, we could role play at other times via skype and such. Sabel was pretty glad for his company.)