Caba tweeps and goes to join Vertei.
Caba> Caba snatches a hole in space and time and dives through it, going ::between::!
Caba> :::BETWEEN!:::
Caba> You hang, senseless, in the dark nothingness of ::between::... absolute darkness surrounds you, and the profound cold stings you... you wait, and count...
Caba> Black...
Caba> Blacker...
Caba> Blackest...
Caba> Main Beach
Caba> This long stretch of white sandy beach is one of the main gathering spots at Ista Hold. A large uprooted tree, felled in the big storm, makes for a great bench, for people or firelizards alike. To the east, the crystal blue waters of the Hold cove roll up in gentle waves onto the beach, hissing softly as they ebb and flow.
Caba> To the south, Ista Hold juts out of the cliff. Just west of here, a low bluff leads up to the grassy field that serves as the Hold's main gather grounds. Beaches stretch away to the north and south.
Caba> It is a spring evening.
Caba> Curled up in the sand are Jiro, Vertei, Anarchy, Forest Mist, Elspeit, Deception, and Camorin.
Caba> Blue Magnolth is here.
Caba> You see Prydz, Istan Wagon, and Muff here.
Caba> Obvious exits:
Caba> Shallows Steep Trail Gather Meadow Courtyard Dolphinhall
Caba> Caba dances in from his trip ::between:: space and time!
Caba> Valdi ,with a gust of cold air and a sweetly crooned b flat, flows in from ::between::!
What's this? Green Vertei seems to be glowing a bit on Ista hold's beach. All male 'lizards over a turn are free to join Ver at the beach! (Come now!)
-- entered by Siuan on 1999-12-05 21:31 MOO Time.
Caba> Elspeit launches herself into the air, circling once before disappearing ::between::.
Caba> Valdi
Caba> Shades of lapis lazuli and harper blue, a symphony in grace and time, this firelizard is a poet, a dreamer and a composer. Wings are patterned in bars of music, half notes, eighth notes and rests, all in a darker ink on the scroll of his harper-blue hide. His creels are sweet and with perfect pitch, never off key. A song of love is in this blue's heart, and will be there always.
Caba> Carrying:
Caba> Padded Egg Pouch
Caba> He has a leg band indicating that his humanpet is a harper, but its not a traditional blue and white...this band was lovingly handmade. A mahogany brown strip of leather,lovingly embroidered with musical notes and a bar staff in gold thread adorns this beloved firelizard, with a single milky white button to attach the two ends around his leg.
Caba> Valdi is 2 Turns, 8 months, and 25 days old.
Caba> Valdi is awake and seems alert.
Caba notices Valdi looking at him.
Caba> Camorin
Caba> Wry sarcasm and bitter humor combine for a whammy of a flit. A little blue frizzmop he is, moping about, pacing, creeling in a peculiar monotone. While his voice is odd, his attractive, rounded face and mildly plump little body cry out, 'Hug me!' Stinging wit allow him to cope easily with any situation, be it harrowing, ecstatic, sad, or happy. Always prepared with a comeback, he's a true dear at heart.
Caba> A small green band encircles his foreleg, telling all that he is Camorin, master trickster.
Caba> Camorin is 8 Turns, 9 months, and 16 days old.
Caba> Camorin is dreaming peacefully.
Caba> Valdi churbles a hullo.
Caba> Gokou glides in from the courtyard.
Caba> Haplo blazes from ::between:: leaving a trail of sparks.
Caba> Gokou
Caba> Darting metallic color shimmers, a gleaming patina layered over this 'lizard's bronzed hide. Shades of murky brown slide themselves to fade into the crests of headknobs and gradient pigment that forms his covering - it stretches in between to form the billowly crescents of dark wingsails. Lacing down his back, umber strokes form a fishbone pattern, leading further to trail in the whip of his tail. There is an impertient slant to his head, neck spiraling down in a filament of burnished copper, to mount deep-set eyes. He holds himself high, always proud, with head's rakish angle perfectly placed for the warrior image.
Caba> Gokou is 3 Turns, 8 months, and 5 days old.
Caba> Gokou is awake and seems alert.
Caba> Haplo
Caba> Snap, crackle, pop! Brittle, dry tinder burnt to a crisp, the remnants of an inferno of extreme heat. Now, all that remains is a creature of smoldering presence. Scorched umber hide streatched taught over a body of sinewy proportions. Severly lined muzzle, pronounced nostrils, sharp eyeridges, all of charred henna that gives way to a neck, well-difined spine lined with burnt sepia. His deep firelizard chest, which was once licked with harsh flames, is left now streaked with darkenings of sorrel. Wings unfurl to reveal a sheer canopy of ashy dun. Slim haunches move to wiry tail, seared by flames so that it is nearly black. Embers of red-gold scintillate unpredictably across his hide, as in thosw watchful eyes of his. Fires have a tendency to flare up again, so show hints from the quickly snaooubg tail and never resting talons. Sifting through the cinders, one sees a beast of fiery intellect and a parched humor just begging for the right kindling to send it ablaze.
Caba> There is a black and orange band about his neck, Ista Weyr colors.
Caba> Haplo is 11 Turns, 2 months, and 17 days old.
Caba> He cocks his head to the side as he considers your gaze...eyes swirling a green-blue.
Caba> Valdi jumps into the sea breeze and unfurls his wings to fly!
Caba> Caba hisses at the gathering males, mildly, nudging a blue to the side as he trundles over to watch...and wait....
Caba> Gokou flies in, attracted by the pretty green glowing firelizard. Now where can she be?
Caba> Vertei looks around at the surounding male lizards, her hide pulsing a lovely green. Why won't they leave her be?
Caba> Vertei
Caba> A deep forest green flit, acts like a golden queen at times. Her green hide holds different shades to it of leaf green to dark green. The shades of her greens blend in well enough with the trees when she wants to go hide from something. Most of the time her eyes swirl a clam green-blue, blending with her hide a little. Her personality is charming, though she acts like a gold she tends to dream sometimes, and may forget the most recent event.
Caba> Painted on the base of her neck there is a green shield of a different hue than her hide with a white circle, marking her someone's from Grinstead.
Caba> Vertei is 5 Turns, 7 months, and 13 days old.
Caba> Vertei is awake, and seems alert, but maybe otherwise.
Caba> Vertei seems agitated and proddy.
Caba> ArrowHart blinks in from ::between::!
Caba> Haplo spins about upon port-fingersail, a slow and leisurly spiral descending down to a bit of a rocky outcropping. Careful backwing as talon's stretch to take ahold. Wings flutter to his sides - /finally/ he curves neck about to reguard the object of his arrival.
Caba> ArrowHart swoops out of between with a low dragon like rumble of protest as he narowely misses an incoming blue who screams and chitters like a woman in distress. Sharp tail lashes at the errant blue and majestic bronze circles up higher over the watery beach, wondering what could draw this many flighty chromatics to his feeding spot.
Caba> Vertei looks around and hisses again, rising on her hind legs, wings spread wide as she hisses at the crowd, more daring then she usually is.
Caba> Gokou suddenly disappears ::between::!
Caba> Haplo scratches charred talons upon the bare rock, sharpening them to a fine point. Turquoise-swum orbs are tainted with the beginnings of lust, carmine dripping through, set aswirl with a whirlpool's beginning tug. Wings flutter once more at his sides, then steady, patience now...
Caba> Caba gives a little bugle, just for the sake of sound. Wings a-rustle, he waits, little claws flexing upon coarse-grained sand.
Caba> ArrowHart spots the hissing green and adds his own deep bass hiss to her high soprano, another flitty young green riseing. Not having anything better to do the huge bronze dips into the water absently getting a small fish, he holds it between one taloned paw and lays it open with another, still hovering in the air he tips his head down sucking out it's guts, his tail flicking furiously to balance till finally his stomach lightly sated he throughs the fish back to the sea and rises yet higher above the swooping and diving crowd.
Caba> Anarchy lifts his head from his hollow in the sand, noting that there is one thing missing -- warmth, that warm presence that once did share his place in the sand. Tongue tasting the air, he wonders what all the commotion is about, a projection of the missing green sent out to the surrounding... hey, waitaminute. The brown starts to his feet, stretching his wings.
Caba> Vertei has enough of this and with a final hiss launches herself up into the air, her hiss going to more of a bugle of challenge for all those lovely guys out there to /try/ and catch her. She won't be that easy!
Caba> Gokou glides in from the courtyard.
Caba> Caba lauches up in the blink of an eye, his wide wings actually helping him in this case. Liquid chocolate strives after gold-holding green, life's love luring him on.
Caba> ArrowHart rumble chuckles testily to himself as the green bugles her challenge, 1/3 his size she gets the status of child in his brain. But still she moves fast like prey, a worthy challenge to fierce hunter, and with the blink of an eye he is off after her like a speeding dolphin dives through fierce waters in search of safety.
Caba> Haplo clenches talons, bunches haunches, unfurls ember-speckled canopy, and then ly /releases/. With a *swoosh* of wing's downstroke, he is aloft, forelegs clambering and outstretching with the might to gain altitude. Neck stretches long before him, framed by striving wings, trailed by whip-cord tail.
Caba> Vertei hisses back under her wing, mostly at ArrowHart for chuckling at /her/! She is not something to be laughed at! Flying over the sea with ease, but yet at a fast pace she looks to see where they all all behind her, and lets out a trill of laughter. They'll never do it!
Caba> Gokou launches off of the beach, behind the other chasing firelizards. He may have a late start, but is powerful wings will surely outdistance the other firelizards, after all, isn't he a nice big bronze?
Caba> Anarchy returns the trill, the thrill of the hunt and the game sending a course of adrenaline through his veins. He launches himself from the sand with the usual lazy start, the more immediate crimson emerging midst the whirling blue of amusement within his eyes as he slowly realizes that this is the game that he /must/ win.
Caba> Caba lets the wind rip an answering hiss from his mouth, average-sized frame lurching forward the barest bit. A thermal caresses honeyed back and mud-dark wings, looming him upwards, and the hiss turns into a bugle of pure elation. Elation for speed, elation for hunt, elation for /love/.
Caba> Haplo emits not a sound, for but a waste of energy -silence, only the tearing of the very air as he slides his way through. Speed is granted as he allows gravity to do its job, body angling for the waves. The sea's very breath, wave's capping foam, all dance across his burnt bulk, glistening sparkles as he follows resolutly after her.
Caba> Narrow set faceted eyes whirl faster, not in ardor, but further amusment as veteran ArrowHart watches the ardourus green take time away from speed to concentrate on a mirth-full bronze. His laughter doesn't cease for seconds more, then as suddenly as it came it leaves again the the constant hunter is again concentraiting on the 'prey'. Small enough to feed him, not his siblings, no fur, easier to get to the meat. All run through his head as he uses easfull flying green as a training tool. Wings built for slipping through air or water prove themselves as the flap in an almost-slow motion like fashion. Prepelling him ever forward, ever faster as gravity slips away and mindless effort replaces it.
Caba> Valdi ,with a gust of cold air and a sweetly crooned b flat, flows in from ::between::!
Caba> Breyade flies in from ::between::!
Caba> Vertei continues with her flight, looking straight ahead now, her small form flattening a bit more to provide less air resistance, going up higher into the evening sky, then aburbtly lower, aiming to get the setting sun in the others eyes, blocking the view of her.
Caba> Cobe blinks in from ::between::!
Caba> Gokou suddenly disappears ::between::!
Caba> Haplo extends forelegs out, splayed talons shredding the very air in his lustfull efforts to gain some kind of advantage, some kind of purchase, leaving nothing but a chaos of sundered air in his turmultous wake. Vermilion-slid orbs watch amorously the green's jagged flight, following and calculating her every move.
Caba> Brown Breyade follows green Vertei with lust in his whirling eyes.
Caba> Wings wide, Caba glides, silently, for the barest second, latching empassioned gaze upon the devious green. Winter-roughed muzzle thrusts forth, seeking to find, seeking to hold, seeking to /be/ the one, the leaf-loved green's knight in shining....honey.
Caba> Breyade flexes his talons, all the while keeping his eyes on Vertei, waiting for any sudden moves the green might make to avoid him.
Caba> ArrowHart hisses as objective is achieved, and glowing globe of fire flashes right into widely opened eyes. A hunter caught un-aware is dangourus and he pushes himself harder to compensate, double layers of thin eye-lids lower over glowing vision orbs and final outer layer half lids, makeing it hard to move between other flitting creatures. So higher he goes and stays, breathing shallowely to make up for lack of air, but moveing fast enough to suck in more then a slow fire-lizard would get.
Caba> A little late perhaps, but definetly in tune with his surroundings. The brown Cobe takes one look at the situation, a screams defiance at the other males, extending his wings, displaying their strength. Then with a mighty leap, he is off, making up for lost time with his determination.
Caba> Leaping forth in the air, determined to /be/ the /one/, Breyade lets out a trumpet of domination, thrusting himself forward to catch the female.
Caba> Vertei bugles again, raising from the suns view to go up, almost straight up as she catches a drift, her hide pulsing again, brighter yet. Now at a good altitude, above the rest except for ArrowHart, who seems a good ways above her. Maintaining her beinging speed, Ver zooms on, not seeming to be tiring at all.
Caba> Anarchy soars with an air of nonchalance filling his sails, rising upon the choice currents, much practice placing him in the knowledge of where the swiftest might be found, propelling him forward. A sigh filling his mahogany breast, he urges Vertei to slow her climb with a scolding chitter towards the glowing green before he strains his own wings in frenzied flight.
Caba> Caba loses ground, the path of a brutal bronze freeing him of prize and love. He spirals down, hovering sadly as he chirples a gentle g'bye.
