Instanciated last night for a look around before bed, as is my wont.



Before too long I encountered a couple of deer who were also awake, and neither of whom I had met before.



Being rather shy I didn't immediately rush in but they seemed amenable to social contact and there was a degree of cautious mutual inspection. The orange stripy deer with the headdress examined me with a degree of sniffing and head tilting that seemed almost canine at the time. Not knowing their name or picto I assigned them the designation "Quaver" as the top part of their picto looked like a musical note to me.



Pretty soon we each came to the conclusion that the other was friendly and we all spent some pleasurable time hanging out together.



Of course given the current focus on my learning aerial manoeuvres there was a degree of airborne shenanigans; Yak will never pass off an opportunity to goof around and look daft.



And there was a nice amount of frolicking and occasional nuzzling; it was just a pleasant experience to meet these two friends and spend a little time with them in forest. Meeting deer new to me is always a pleasure.

I think there's something special about anyone who finds their way to this place, and stays, somehow.



After a while I had to take my leave, and go home to the little hill. Encountering these two on the way back cwtshed up together, so pleasingly aligned! Even their pictos are symmetric about the Y axis. That pleases the nerdy part of the ox-ram-deer haha.



And then Eris asleep with a pile of friends, their pictos and bodies blended together. Is that Petaldance in there? Lovely to see you even if not cognitively present at the time <3



After retiring to the little hill and sitting down I had a quick look at the forum and saw someone new had posted there, only to find that I'd just been hanging out with their deer, the one I'd called "Quaver", who was in fact run by Cuddlebug and whose name was Scruffy!

And identifying as a wolf too, which accounted for those canine mannerisms I'd noticed.

Very nice to meet you Scruffy! Thank you for taking time to hang out with me. And I hope to see you in the forest again soom!