You are a fawn. You are bursting with youthful exuberance. Your senses are keen and your small body is agile and able to operate tirelessly, but you lack knowledge and strength. Your little mind is wide open to new things, but there isn't much in there yet and the forest can be such a large place...


Where are you?

o by a lot of water

o near many rocks

o beside moving water

You are near a number of large, rough stones scattered around the grassy hills. You can smell the earth and the dust of the dry, yellow grass around you. It is very quiet and sunny. To your right, there is a massive boulder, flat enough that it looks like you could climb it. To your left, one rock slants over another, creating an alcove of shade.

Will you go left or right?

double postttt.

jump back onto the rock to look for it!

Wait

I go to meet it.

(Albeit cautiously, if that can be added, but I'd... Leave this to you, Eye.)

c:

Your heart is beating faster and a shiver runs down your spine as you slide from the rock and pick your way through the grass to the creature, watching and listening carefully. It continues forward, growing larger and larger, until it fills your field of vision. Something about this creature is very familiar. Its legs look similar to your own, although much longer and thicker. Its smell is of hair, skin, dust, and grass, not so different than your own. It towers over you on its long limbs, but when it moves in to sniff your face and behind your ears, its nose is very soft and a warm. Its eyes are large and wet, hooded by long black eyelashes.

Its nose runs inquisitively along your neck and back, which tickles, causing your legs to kick out involuntarily. You hop, buck, and shake the feeling off, your hooves pounding the ground and stirring up dust. When you have settled, it bends its graceful neck to nudge your cheek with its long face. It runs its neck along yours and a smell you cannot identify fills your nose.

Then, taking its scent with it, it steps towards the slab of rock balanced at a slant against the large boulder. From a few feet away, it looks back to you.

Will you follow?

You follow as it walks into the shadow of the overhang. It pauses, sniffs the air, then folds its legs beneath it and lays down. It observes you without concern, listening to the birdsong and watching little flakes of light drifting to the ground. Its face is now the same height as yours, and you trot over to look it eye-to-eye.

o play with it
o inspect the area
o lay down

The sun is strong, so the cooler shade of the alcove is welcome. The silence and still makes you antsy, so you dash from one wall to another, hopping over the creature and kneeling to check the corners. There are some ants marching up the stone slab. A number of vibrant purple flowers are growing just outside the shade. They have a light, sweet smell. You also notice from the corner of your eye earth pushed away around a dip just beside the big rock.

You go to mess with:

o the dip
o the flowers
o the creature beside you

(i'm glad, thank you)


The flower's petals are smooth and silky against your skin. The fragrance fills your nose as you eat one experimentally. It's tender, but kind of bitter, leaves an aftertaste, and the perfume smell is very strong. You stomp one flat, and then another. If you stomp with both front feet it flattens them in one go- hey presto! Your racket attracts the attention of the creature again. Its ears are back.
You stop.
Its ears come forward.
You stare at the flowers and return to plucking them with your teeth, meaning to eat quietly, but the aftertaste of the first one is still on your tongue. You hold the flowers in your mouth, at an impasse.

Will you:
o eat the flowers
o bring the flowers to the creature
o drop the flowers and look around more

It watches you closely as you drop your new find in front of it. You wait to see what the creature does.
It bends its neck to lift one. Will it eat it? Maybe creatures like this like that flavor. You wrinkle your nose at the thought. Instead, it places one behind your left ear. It picks up another and again adorns your right ear. You can barely feel them up there, but somehow, they don't fall when you tilt your head.

o put the remaining flowers on the creature
o leave the flowers and play with the creature
o try to get the flowers off your head

You lift a couple of flowers in your lips to try and mimic their gesture, but all but one wobbles out and flutters to the ground. The creature lowers its head to make your task easier, and although it is tricky and takes several tries, it waits until its head is scattered with the somewhat rumpled flowers, still lovely despite your rough treatment. Once again it pushes your cheek with the side of its face, and a kind of giggly energy wakes up inside you. You copy their movement, rubbing your face on them with vigor. You feel their breath as they lightly brush their muzzle over your head.

Your legs feel as though there is electricity racing through them and you have the strong urge to run.

o Mess with the creature to see if it will play with you
o Take off and see if it follows

You experimentally paw at its chest with one foreleg, and when it doesn't react you use your strong back legs to bring both forelegs up. It raises and turns its head to avoid your flailing, so you headbutt its shoulder and check to see if it's looking at you again. You feel a small, painless pinch on one of your ears. It nipped you!

You try to climb its back, hooves slipping from its smooth hide as you struggle to get on top of it. You are almost there, reaching for one of its ears with an open mouth, when you are sent sliding to the ground in a tangle of legs as it pushes itself to its feet.

You have its full attention as you spring up and rub your face in their warm belly, just behind their foreleg. You feel a pinch on your flank, whip around to find nothing there, then turn about and rear up at it again. A loud noise comes up out of your throat. It sounds pretty good! You make it again and again until the creature uses its large head to push your side, sending you wobbling out into the bright sunlight.

You
o run and see if it will chase you
o keep making the noise at it
o go back in and lay down

It's really very easy to make this noise, so you stand in the sun and call at it again and again, testing how loud you can be. Its ears are back and it leaves the shadow to come and stomp a hoof at you. You stomp back and make the loudest noise yet, scrunching your eyes shut to help you keep it up as long as you can. When you finish, you open your eyes, pleased with yourself and short of breath.
Something in the creature's manner has changed. Its ears are flicking about as it sharply turns its head to look around, sniffing the air intently. It walks towards you, but doesn't look at you. It stops while standing over you, still searching for something.

o try to get the creature's attention
o try to find what it is looking for

try to find what it is looking for

Edit: ninja'd 8'D

climb the big boulder to try and get a better look

try to get the creature's attention

Go inspect the thing with the branches

make your noise at the new creature

move aside

I chase after my creature.

continue beside my deer

make my noise at it

Stay beside my deer

slipping past it