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Post by Holly on Jul 25, 2011 16:55:28 GMT -5
Synoran Mountains were indeed hard to manuever through, unless you knew the terrain to a certain degree. Light and swift foot falls were the key to a quick climb up the mountains, or if you just wished to admire the range, then you could travel cautiously with careful footsteps. Dawn might not have been a Polnoc or snow elf, but she knew the dangerous area as well as any of the mountain dwelling beings. And even if she fell, she still had her wings to catch her. However, so far, she hadn't fallen before and she didn't plan to.
A snowy clearing high up in the mountains allowed for Dawn to rest her bare feet from the long climb up. She had made this journey secretly, not telling Frost about her little adventure. As much as she loved her companion, she felt like she needed some time away from him and his overprotective watch.
She laid back, staring up at the cloud sky. Even though it was summertime, snow was starting to drift down slowly and gently. Smiling to herself, Dawn closed her eyes, succumbing to a light, pleasant sleep.
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Post by Atra on Jul 28, 2011 0:54:04 GMT -5
Hati, bounding up the mountainside with more ease than an energetic mountain goat, looked behind him. His mouth was open, his blue tongue lolling playfully over his enormous teeth. Eyes, bright blue ones that lacked pupils, darted over the mountainside curiously, searching. Where, where... he wondered frantically, but with much amusement.
Suddenly, a second voice yelled. "Haaaaa-sheeeee! I found him!" the young vinter/alchemist yelled from somewhere nearby, so loud that the mountains echoed all around them. Hati let out a frustrated, playful bark, turning tail and bounding to where he heard and smelled his master.
Cadmus, standing triumphantly next to what appeared to be nothing, grinned smugly at the enormous worg. Scrutinizing the air, Hati saw, indeed, the spectral form of his brother, Skoll. It was a game that he and Cadmus played whenever Cadmus went on journeys to the mountaintops, where the snow was thick and it was near-impossible to spot Skoll. Whoever found him first was the winner. Skoll hated the game, actually, but in his spectral for he was powerless to stop it. He could, however, roll his eyes and stalk away silently, unable to speak, going right through Cadmus and his brother on his trip back down the mountainside. He rarely stuck around for more than one round of "Skoll and Seek".
Laughing cheerily, Cadmus gave Hati a pat on the head. "Come on, you great beast, we have to find the lichen. A lot of the village kids are getting coughs, and we need to brew them some medicine." The simplest of potions, Cadmus took great joy in making it. It left his cabin smelling wonderfully of mint, must, and steam.
Moving on, Cadmus went to a spot where he knew the lichen grew thickly, Hati following by his side, towering almost half a foot over the alchemist's ashen blond head. The mountains were steep, but it was no problem for the gigantic worg and his snow elf master-- Cadmus froze, a grin spreading over his face. There, a few feet away from where he had climbed up over the lip of a cliff, lay an angel. Literally, actually, it was someone he knew from his village. She was a lesser angel Cadmus had treated at one point or another, though he couldn't remember for what. Her name was Dawn, and damn did she good in the mountain sunlight.
Dawn, however, was probably one of the few women Cadmus would never actually do anything with. He had discovered this during the few times he had spoken to her; she was like a child, and though she was gorgeous, Cadmus would feel... weird doing anything physical with her. He would flirt with her, keeping his worst comments to himself, but that was it.
"Trying to get back to heaven, Dawn?" the alchemist joked, taking the few steps necessary to reach her side. A few snowflakes got caught in his eyelashes, and he blinked them out rapidly. He sat down next to the slumbering angel, removing his pack and setting it down on the snow, pulled out and opened a half-empty bottle of wine. Putting the bottle to his lips, he took a swig before offering the bottle to Dawn. He had almost forgotten he was shirtless, he was so accustomed to the cold.
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Post by Holly on Jul 28, 2011 15:52:02 GMT -5
"Haaaaa-sheeeee! I found him!"
Dawn's eyes snapped open, the voice bringing her out her sleep. The clouds she had seen previous to closing her eyes were still there. Normally she wouldn't care too much and would go back to relaxing, however, she knew the voice that had caught her ear, even before he showed himself. Calmly, she sat up, shaking some flakes of snow out of her hair as the snow elf emmerged from the the cliff below the clearing.
It hadn't been too long ago that Dawn had moved to Vathia to run away from Krymo Zahrada. Cadmus was probably one of the first she met there, and, by the time she had gotten to the mountains, she wasn't in very good shape, physically or mentally. He made a bunch of funny comments that didn't exactly make sense to her, but he was nice and Dawn didn't find it hard at all to trust him.
She smiled, laughing lightly at his question. "Not at all! I'm perfectly fine with staying in Vathia," The lesser angel giggled, pulling her legs to her chest and hugging them. "Actually, I was waiting for a friend. I came early, though, because there was this butterfly and it kind of led me up here. You didn't send a butterfly, did you?" She beamed and her ice blue eyes shined in a playful manner, showing she was joking.
Without thinking, Dawn took the bottle from Cadmus and took a sip. "Woah," She said, awed with the taste of the wine and stared at the bottle. "This tastes weird! What is it?"
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Post by Atra on Aug 1, 2011 14:41:14 GMT -5
A charming grin spread over Cadmus's face as he pulled a second half-empty bottle from his backpack. Uncorking it, he took a great gulp before answering Dawn. "It's called wine, sweetheart. I make it myself. You don't think I spend all my time curing the sniffles, do you?" he threw a wink her way, smiling amiably.
Leaning back on one hand, he sighed as the sun fell across his bare chest. "Thank Kyreer for that, Dawn. I don't know what Vathia would do without you to brighten it up all the time." With her childish qualities and always cheery, almost Deliciaen attitude, Dawn was impossible to dislike. It was part of the reason Cadmus saw her as only a friend, never anything towards which he should direct his physical affection; he liked her too much.
"I didn't send any butterflies, actually. They probably just thought you were a flower, you're so pretty." Oh, yes, Cadmus could be quite the kiss-ass sometimes. It was who he was! It was like asking Dawn not to be nice.
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Post by Holly on Aug 2, 2011 11:56:46 GMT -5
"Wine?" Dawn tilted her head and let the word sink in for a moment. "Oh!" She exclaimed, the word finally clicking her mind as if a light bulb had just clicked on in her brain. "That's alcohol, right? It makes you all... tippy if you drink too much. My brother, Hadyn, gets that way sometimes." She smiled cheerfully as if this wasn't something to be worried about. Though, as much as Hadyn had told her not to drink any of it, she continued to drink from the bottle Cadmus gave her.
When Cadmus complimented her about how Vathia wouldn't be the same without her and how she was pretty, a light pink color spread across her cheeks. "Thank you... I didn't know people thought that way about me," She murmured, running a finger through the snow absentmindedly. After getting over her bashfulness, she grinned at him again, "Vathia wouldn't be the same without you either, Cadmus."
At the sound of crunching snow, Dawn whipped her head around in the direction of where she heard it. "Yay! You made it! I thought you might have gotten lost, Eve!"
Eve made it up to the clearing that Dawn and Cadmus were located, a little more heavily dressed than the two, mainly because she was used to a warmer temperature. "The directions were a bit hard to follow, but, no, I didn't get lost, Dawn," She smiled easily until she saw Cadmus. Her eyes were suddenly unreadable as she tried to keep a polite smile. "Who's your," Boyfriend? Probably not. Acquaintance? She didn't want to be rude. Dammit, why wasn't he wearing a shirt? "Friend?"
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