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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 26, 2007 21:44:03 GMT -5
Elthia hitched her bag higher up on her shoulder. She had offered to carry the ration packs since Ronan was carrying Juan on his shoulders. She smiled at the two male otters: the big one she was going to marry and the little one who they were going to adopt as their son.
This little trip had an important purpose: getting a specific medicine from the otter fixer for one of Elthia's infirmary patients. However it had the added bonus of giving the little family some time to get to know each other better.
"How are you doing up there, Juan? Warm enough?"
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 26, 2007 21:57:26 GMT -5
The tiny otter nodded happily. Yeahs, Mommy. Mes bes warms enoughses. His tail twitched happily as he surveyed the scenery. He hadn't been in the forest since he first came to Redwall so it was all pretty new to him. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 10:09:55 GMT -5
Elthia was still not used to being called Mommy, though it seemed to come so naturally to the little kitt to do so and she loved the sound of it. She loved it almost as much as when Ronan said her name and told her that he loved her. She chuckled to herself. That was a fairly recent occurrence as well. He had only proposed to her a day ago. Everything was so new to her, yet it felt like they had been in love all their lives and had only now just admitted it. Elthia wondered how her family would take the news. They knew it had always been her fondest wish to get married and have a family but nobeast had ever lived up to her standards. But then no other beast was Ronan, Skipper of otters at Redwall Abbey. Not that she was marrying him just because of his title and it wasn't because he was the first beast who had ever asked her. It wouldn't have mattered to her if he was the lowliest fisher-otter. She'd known the first time she set eyes on him that he was to be her mate and she'd fallen in love with him heart and soul.
She still hadn't decided how she would introduce him to her family. Her three older brothers could be pretty intimidating. "Do you know anybeast at the camp?" she asked him carefully.
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 15:47:43 GMT -5
Ronan nodded. I know a few people, yeah. I don;t know a ton, but I know enough to get around fairly easily. Do you know anyone there? His ears twitched as he kept track of their surroundings, making sure there were no threats nearby. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 16:06:52 GMT -5
"It's where I grew up, actually," Elthia was blissfully unaware of most of the dangers that could befall them in the woods. She knew all the stories of marauding vermin and had treated the wounds of a few poor creatures who had met up with them at the abbey but she herself had never come into direct contact with them. She'd grown up pretty sheltered by her large family. "So, er, yeah I know a few creatures."
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 16:34:59 GMT -5
Ronan nodded and kissed her cheek as he continued to stay alert for signs of danger. He'd come across a lot of vermin in the woods when he was a wanderer and he wasn't going to take any chances with his new family's safety. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 16:46:37 GMT -5
Elthia noticed a small clearing ahead by a stream. She pointed it out to Ronan. "Would that be a good place to stop and eat lunch?" she asked him. It was afternoon and Juan had been to excited to eat much for breakfast so she knew he must be hungry. She wasn't really trying to change the subject. She did want him to be forewarned about the number of family members he was going to have to answer too when they found out he had asked her to marry him. She wanted to ask him about his family too when she got the chance.
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 17:05:35 GMT -5
Ronan glanced around carefully, his ears a nose twitching. When he sensed no danger, he smiled and nodded in response to the question. I think this would be a wonderful spot to eat lunch. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 17:17:09 GMT -5
Elthia took the pack off her back and began to remove things from it that they would need: bread, cheese, and a carrot and leek bake, along with a flask of elderberry cordial. "You two go wash off your paws in the stream," she told Ronan and Juan in a motherly way.
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 17:39:38 GMT -5
Ronan nodded and carried Juan over to the stream where he helped him wash his paws off before washing his own. Juan scampered back over to Elthia as soon as his paws were washed were he attempted to help her set up lunch. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 18:05:58 GMT -5
"Let's see," Elthia inspected the kitt's paws and patted his shoulder. "Very good." She gave him a helping of the food on a dock leaf. "So what do you think of having a family so far? Do you think you'd like to meet some more creatures? Maybe a Grandpa and Grandma and some aunts and uncles?" She said this quietly as if she was testing out the information on the dibbun before she had to tell Ronan.
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 18:18:38 GMT -5
Juan whiskers twitched happily as he munched on his food. He tilted his head as he thought about the question for a moment before wagging his tiny tail happily. I loves havings a familys. Buts whats ares auntses an uncleses? |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 18:25:24 GMT -5
"Well," She took Juan on her lap and tried to explain. "When a mommy or daddy has a brother or sister that creature is the kitt's aunt or uncle." She didn't notice Ronan coming up behind her as she continued. "So that means that my big brothers will be your uncles and their wives will be your aunts."
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Post by Wolfie on Dec 27, 2007 18:30:06 GMT -5
Juan looked up at her curiously. Mes didn'ts knows yous hads brudders. Hows manys does yous haves? Ronan stodd quietly behind the two, listening to them talking. He hadn't known that Elthia had brothers either and was nervous at the thought of meeing them. |
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Post by carabadgermum on Dec 27, 2007 18:47:50 GMT -5
Elthia looked towards the stream wondering what had become of Ronan and was a little startled to see him right behind her. "I have three older brothers," she told him a little guiltily. "I was going to tell you before we got there." She realized that they didn't really know all that much about each other. It worried her a bit. It wasn't as if she wanted to hide anything from him. She was just a little afraid that if he found out something he didn't like he'd change his mind and wouldn't want to marry her after all. What would happen to Juan then? Would she raise him on her own? That would make things very uncomfortable at the abbey. "I'm sorry," she said to him holding Juan a little tighter. "I guess there's a lot of things you don't know about me."
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