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RE: Big paws, little meetings - Murgrind - 7/30/2025
”An’ I’ll drool over it all t’ keep y’ from it,” the beast snuffled, licking her chops as she swayed on immense paws. A few steps leftward, and down she dipped again, taking great strings of slowly-blackening offal in her maw and slurping them up with great, greedy gusto.
“You don’t knows what a seal is?” That’s enough to get Murgrind to stop eating so actively. Instead, actually, she steps over and forward, towards Häti once more. Not an immense amount, no, but enough so she’s past the carcass and got her front feet on the dark sand once more. “They’s a bit shaped like this.” One foot sinks into the sand, before pushing forward and out, making a wide, slightly curved swipe that almost looks like that of a brush-stroke. Claws dig in and carve rudimentary flippers and a short, round head. A rudimentary ringed seal, all fat around and bearing those useless-seeming flippers.
“Bout as big as you are. Fat fuckers that swim all day an’ sleep on the ice sheets. Real easy hunting’ if y’ wait ‘em out. Nowhere near as delicious as beluga, yeh, but they do quite right.” Sagely, does she nod, like she’s imparting great wisdom unto Häti.
“You don’t knows what a seal is?” That’s enough to get Murgrind to stop eating so actively. Instead, actually, she steps over and forward, towards Häti once more. Not an immense amount, no, but enough so she’s past the carcass and got her front feet on the dark sand once more. “They’s a bit shaped like this.” One foot sinks into the sand, before pushing forward and out, making a wide, slightly curved swipe that almost looks like that of a brush-stroke. Claws dig in and carve rudimentary flippers and a short, round head. A rudimentary ringed seal, all fat around and bearing those useless-seeming flippers.
“Bout as big as you are. Fat fuckers that swim all day an’ sleep on the ice sheets. Real easy hunting’ if y’ wait ‘em out. Nowhere near as delicious as beluga, yeh, but they do quite right.” Sagely, does she nod, like she’s imparting great wisdom unto Häti.
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Häti - 7/31/2025
"Gross. Don't think I'll want it when you're done, then either. Not sure even the flies will." Dramatic simply for the sake of being so. For a scavenger, she has developed rather refined taste. Blood and viscera she can tolerate just fine, but saliva? Open-mouthed chewing? She could faint just thinking about it.
"Fat fuckers, mm? So they look a bit like you, then?" Lips peel back in a snide grin, as if she is the most clever creature ever to have lived. And oh, she is quite certain she is.
A pause, after. A beat, to see if the bear will give chase. And when she does not, the coyote scrapes up a drawing of her own. The beast she draws is all curves and long, swirling shapes, humps of fat rising tall along the spine. She taps it with a claw when she is finished, ready to impart her own sagely wisdom.
"Bet you've never seen a camel before, huh, lug? I used to hunt these back home. All by myself, too." A lie, bold-faced. She shoots a quick glance to see if the beast has caught it, tail sweeping once across the ground.
"Fat fuckers, mm? So they look a bit like you, then?" Lips peel back in a snide grin, as if she is the most clever creature ever to have lived. And oh, she is quite certain she is.
A pause, after. A beat, to see if the bear will give chase. And when she does not, the coyote scrapes up a drawing of her own. The beast she draws is all curves and long, swirling shapes, humps of fat rising tall along the spine. She taps it with a claw when she is finished, ready to impart her own sagely wisdom.
"Bet you've never seen a camel before, huh, lug? I used to hunt these back home. All by myself, too." A lie, bold-faced. She shoots a quick glance to see if the beast has caught it, tail sweeping once across the ground.
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Murgrind - 7/31/2025
"Naturally. Bit skinnier 'round the belly, though." Murgrind nods with such pointed enthusiasm, it's clear that the titan-sized ursine doesn't read it as an insult. Why would she? Fatness is might, and might is right, when it comes to the herculean ice-bears of the north. Her paw raises, and down it slams, turning the rudimentary scribble of a seal into nothing more than a gash in the sand, soon to be swallowed by the slowly rising tide. Then, their attention is stolen by Häti as she scruffles and moves around. Murgrind's full, now, utterly stuffed with decaying narwhal meat, and she'll be fine for five days or more.
Ink-black eyes squint down at the strange shape, with it's knobby knees and long neck. There's a thick pause as Häti makes her claim, one circular white brow rising high on the beast's sloped forehead. "What, these things the size'a penguins 're whatnot? You ain't got the jaw's to put down lil' bogeymens like this, yeh?" Not only does Murgrind think Häti can't hunt one of these, she only naturally assumed something the likes of a camel didn't exist. It's now, that the carcass is abandoned, paw raising to bat away Häti's own depiction of the animals hunt. "You ain't got the beef's fer that, y' lil ratty fuck. Scavenger's ain't hunters." A lull out of their tongue, a cheeky little move as Murgrind . . . begins to move closer.
How bearish of her to just trundle forward instead of bothering to go around when leaving the carcass she'd devoured all the succulent and tasty bits from. Some of the more repugnant chunks of offal were left, most of the skin and muscle and blubber devoured by the bear.
Ink-black eyes squint down at the strange shape, with it's knobby knees and long neck. There's a thick pause as Häti makes her claim, one circular white brow rising high on the beast's sloped forehead. "What, these things the size'a penguins 're whatnot? You ain't got the jaw's to put down lil' bogeymens like this, yeh?" Not only does Murgrind think Häti can't hunt one of these, she only naturally assumed something the likes of a camel didn't exist. It's now, that the carcass is abandoned, paw raising to bat away Häti's own depiction of the animals hunt. "You ain't got the beef's fer that, y' lil ratty fuck. Scavenger's ain't hunters." A lull out of their tongue, a cheeky little move as Murgrind . . . begins to move closer.
How bearish of her to just trundle forward instead of bothering to go around when leaving the carcass she'd devoured all the succulent and tasty bits from. Some of the more repugnant chunks of offal were left, most of the skin and muscle and blubber devoured by the bear.
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Häti - 8/4/2025
Silently satisfied with the results of her experiment, Häti relents with an easygoing shrug of her shoulders. "Yeah, you caught me. They've got sharp hooves and all. You wouldn't think i— what are you doing." She lifts a paw uncertainly, for once entirely caught off guard.
A quick and almost frantic up-and-down flick of her gaze as the bear lumbers toward her, the coyote determining whether to bolt forward or backward. She decides on the former, charging the bear headlong and diving low between those tree trunks it calls front legs. She pops out on the other side looking all too pleased with herself, ambling along by the beast's side at a pleasant trot. It seems she's decided for the both of them that they make an excellent pair— or rather, that this big fat hunk of muscle will serve as an excellent source of food, shelter and entertainment until she tires of it and moves along.
"So what's your name, then, mm? Bears get names, right?" She ignores the carcass in its entirety, deeming it not up to her standards. The sheer amount of drool covering the damn thing is wholly off-putting. Instead her focus is on the ice bear...and whether she can possibly get away with climbing up on their back.
A quick and almost frantic up-and-down flick of her gaze as the bear lumbers toward her, the coyote determining whether to bolt forward or backward. She decides on the former, charging the bear headlong and diving low between those tree trunks it calls front legs. She pops out on the other side looking all too pleased with herself, ambling along by the beast's side at a pleasant trot. It seems she's decided for the both of them that they make an excellent pair— or rather, that this big fat hunk of muscle will serve as an excellent source of food, shelter and entertainment until she tires of it and moves along.
"So what's your name, then, mm? Bears get names, right?" She ignores the carcass in its entirety, deeming it not up to her standards. The sheer amount of drool covering the damn thing is wholly off-putting. Instead her focus is on the ice bear...and whether she can possibly get away with climbing up on their back.
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Murgrind - 8/4/2025
The great front paws of polar bears stop for nobody and nothing. This includes the little Häti. As she dips and dives between immense weapons, Murgrind only continues her slow, lumbering march with a flace that is nothing but blase. Realistically, Murgrind doesn't have much to say as to whether or not Häti clings onto her. They're a solitary beast at their deepest, unused to company. And if she were to speak true? It's a bit nice, to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with another.
"A'course I got's me a name. Wot, you'se yote's got no names?" Thick black lips shift and curl slightly, seemingly just as amused with this predicament as she is. Down the beach they trundle, as Murgrind moves forward. Onward, towards those frigid northerly wastes she so lovingly calls her home. How that bone-cutting freeze of the Diamond Beach whispers her name. "I could see 'em callin' you'se scrawnies."
"A'course I got's me a name. Wot, you'se yote's got no names?" Thick black lips shift and curl slightly, seemingly just as amused with this predicament as she is. Down the beach they trundle, as Murgrind moves forward. Onward, towards those frigid northerly wastes she so lovingly calls her home. How that bone-cutting freeze of the Diamond Beach whispers her name. "I could see 'em callin' you'se scrawnies."
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Häti - 8/15/2025
"Nah, we've got names. Typical of us to share them, though, when asked. Is that not the way of bears, them? Do you folk guard your names?" A wriggle of her haunches follows, and then a great bounding leap as she tries (and fails) to launch herself up and onto the brute's broad back. She slams headfirst into a wall of blubber and brawn, a rough smack accompanying their meeting. The coyote falls onto her back with stars in her eyes and bugs in her head, shaking wildly to free herself of them. And then, when at last she does so, resumes her jubilant chase of the beast of bone-white.
"Well, beast, my name is Häti. Ha'teliin, if you've a stick up your ass."
Her head pounds along with the rhythm of her own heartbeat, a warsong she does not particularly care to hear.
"Well, beast, my name is Häti. Ha'teliin, if you've a stick up your ass."
Her head pounds along with the rhythm of her own heartbeat, a warsong she does not particularly care to hear.
RE: Big paws, little meetings - Murgrind - 8/17/2025
Häti's nose and Murgrind's muscular side become quick friends as she can feel her body scrunch up like a slinky allowed to settle into it's natural state. There's no gave, save for the wobble of blubbery flesh that barely shifts with the entire weight of this little coyote pelting itself into Murgrind's immense bulk. It's so light, even, that Murgrind doesn't heed that pitiful attempt of a shoulder-mounting, continuing to thunder down the beach with loud, gravelly scrapes of paws across the ground.
"Guard our names?" comes her voice, ruddy and wholly befuddled at the mere idea. Brows, though white on white, raise and crease her sloped forehead, giving the little scrap of fur a sideye. "Naw. I just . . . " Socially, the bear's utterly inept, dull to the more pointed topics of conversation. Her mind's gone and glossed over the request for her name. "Well 'äti, 'm Mugrind." It's a symphonic name, turned guttural by that harsh accent she bears like teeth. "Don't thinks I got me's any sticks up there, but who knows!" ANother low, whooping laugh, more to herself than to the coyote.
"So why's you followin' me?"
"Guard our names?" comes her voice, ruddy and wholly befuddled at the mere idea. Brows, though white on white, raise and crease her sloped forehead, giving the little scrap of fur a sideye. "Naw. I just . . . " Socially, the bear's utterly inept, dull to the more pointed topics of conversation. Her mind's gone and glossed over the request for her name. "Well 'äti, 'm Mugrind." It's a symphonic name, turned guttural by that harsh accent she bears like teeth. "Don't thinks I got me's any sticks up there, but who knows!" ANother low, whooping laugh, more to herself than to the coyote.
"So why's you followin' me?"