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Thread Title: 「 Can’t Help Falling in Love 」 

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A bunny stops in your path, and while they may have looked like a potential meal, you see that it’s holding something. A branch with ripe berries and verdant leaves. Where could  it have gotten such a thing? Winter had long since wilted any foliage. As if reading your mind, the bunny takes off, leading you towards its origin. Should you follow it? Was this a messenger of some sort, here to guide you away?

Thread Participants

OOC partner: GalacticTeeth
Character 1: Vitus
Alignment: Neutral Good
Desired skills: Seer
No triggers listed

OOC partner: Sauwce
Character 2: Henwyn
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Desired skills: N/A
No triggers listed

Skill: Seer 1/5

Vitus' head was full, he sought...well, he never truly knew. Feelings and urges nagged at him, the hair along his spine rose and fell, and he never knew why until something happened. The seer followed where his paws took him, mind wandering, when he stumbled upon a...bunny.

A bunny carrying a branch, which was odd enough on it's own, but a branch with berries and leaves? In the dead of winter?

It ran, and despite his mind's urges to not follow he did.

Where would this take him? The gods have delivered this messenger to him, but would it be an ill omen, or a trap to take him away from the remaining family he had.

But what was life, if you didn't take risks?

The yearling followed the bunny, as the creature would stop and turn to see if he was following still before disappearing again, until the little beast disappeared under a tree root. A tree, that was not native to these lands, in full bloom no less.

Multiple trees it seemed, as he padded forward, inspecting the bark before seeing the branch with berries laid down in the center of the path.

Vitus picked it up, before following the trees that grew closer and closer together until he was in a lovely smelling tunnel, his tail up and wagging as the scents eased his mind and put a pep in his step that he hasn't had since he was younger. It began to open up, the tree tunnel leading into a summer field, the flowers of the tundra in full bloom...

And a stranger, seen in the distance.

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Henwyn

✦ Skill Point: Klutz ✦

Henwyn had been minding his own business, hungry as ever because who knew how to use paws right? The thought of skinning an animal let alone killing one was hard to stomach, add in his clumsy paws and you had a recipe for disaster. When the rabbit had hopped into his line of sight, Henwyn couldn't be more grateful. Not because he was going to kill it, nono sir. But instead because of what it carried in it's mouth; a branch of berries,

Practically drooling at the sight, Henwyn couldn't help but follow the critter at a distance. He wanted to know where he could find such a bounty in the middle of the cold chills of winter. He remained completely unaware of his surroundings, the man focusing all his energy on following this bunny. He didn't notice when the trees started to curl into a tunnel, when all light of the day started to be broken up between their skeletal branches like an oaken cage.

No, he didn't even notice when the ground began to fall out from underneath him and he began to fall down a small drop. Not enough to injury himself but boy was it enough to take the wind from his lungs. He'd rolled and rolled until he could roll no more! And then, he finally felt it.

Warmth.

Serenity.

Gone was the rabbit, and here was a summer's day warming the leaves of the trees. Henwyn was flabbergasted. This... place was not normal. Not right. But nor was being reincarnated as a wolf, so while he remained stumped, he wasn't completely panicked. The man did, however, remain sitting on his arse in a rather unorganised fashion, limbs skewed awkwardly, ungracefully, as he took all of his surroundings in.

He was still apparently unaware he had company.

Song: none

skill: seer 2/5

A clumsy stranger, apparently.

The yearling held onto the branch in his maw as he moved towards the handsome man, ears perked forward in curiosity as he pushed a trail through the flowers and tall grass. Who was this, that the little messenger would lead him to?

There had to be a reason, but was it to help Vitus or the stranger?

He spoke around the branch of berries in his mouth, as clear as he could though still muffled Are you alright?

Henwyn peered into the tranquil oasis with eyes of wonder, his maw lifting into smile as another came into view.

Just who had joined him in such a place? An angel? Had he died and gone to heaven? Pah! What a thought.

“I guess so!” He hummed, glancing down at himself who had naught even a bruise. It was simply his pride that was injured.

“Do you know what this place is?”

skill: seer 3/5

He felt some relief when the stranger seemed cheery enough, that he wasn't hurt from his tumble, setting down the branch of berries at the man's paws. The messenger meant for these to go to this man, right?

These are the lands between Northfall and Briar's veil he answered, though how they came to be here... But...this isn't the season for this. It's too warm There was a sprinkle of doubt in the yearling's voice, as he pondered. Do you have anything to do with that? He questioned.