Tarot Beach Party

[lady_moon]

There are those of the tarot who know how to set up for a party.

Ruin had spent most of the afternoon building the bonfire. He has carefully made it much in the way he would have with the villagers of his mortal life when they would celebrate the harvests. Charity, Unity, and Skill had spent most of the day setting up food, both their sorts of foods and the sorts the sentients would be expecting.

Moon watched it all with rapt fascination, her eyes on the marshmallows Skill told her firmly she isn't allowed to touch yet. But they're white and fluffy looking and Moon is curious. Mons barks at her, warning Skill, and Moon is shooed off.

It's Fortune who puts out blankets, spread all over the beach area for everyone to use. Moon watches her family set up for a party, for guests... real guests who are coming simply to come instead of for answers. She watches Fortune set down a large stack of very warm looking towels, and she grins.

Swimming. Damian will like the swimming.

Her wolves run up and down the beach in excitement, and Moon knows it's time.

Disappearing back to Milliways, she sets it up so people can come and go as they need to, pleased with herself and her family.

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The Forest

[lady_moon]

Then there is the forest, a good hike from the beach, with its metallic trees with their shiny leaves. Grasses of colors not found in nature, some not found anywhere but here, where Moon's imagination was allowed to give birth to anything it wanted.

Animals are in the forest, strange things to stumble upon or hunt.

Re: The Forest

[ostro_goth]

Teja wanders among the trees, remembering the first time he was here, three mere months ago -- but it feels like a lifetime.

Re: The Forest

[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

After Richard's last visit, it's not surprising that he's back in the forest. Not so much because he wants to separate from the party and the beach, but because he likes the forest. Likes the feel of it, the sight of it and the scent it carries.

Re: The Forest

[bright_daughter]

She comes through the trees, like the softest ringing of bells turned to laughter, barefoot dancing on the breeze. Small lights traverse from her fingers tips the things she brushes and the air where her long white skirts flutter out.

She does not find him as though she is surprised, as though just discovering him, but in the middle of a spin, stills with a smile, her skirts still twirling light around her. The smile, a warmth of one waited for and found, singular and unguarded.

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[puppyeyedulfric.livejournal.com]

Brown eyes watch her from where Richard has settled against one of the trees, head tilted to the side, almost touching the tree like his shoulder. He smiles back at her though, soft and welcoming.

He can already guess that she's like Moon, one of the Tarot. It's just a matter of which one. "Hello," he murmurs softly.

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[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason is drying off from his swim, exploring the beach when he sees the forest. He stops just at the edge of it, staring in disbelief.

It's the strangest forest he'd ever seen.

He lingers there on the edge, taking in the sights and smells with caution.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon creeps up behind him, barefoot, dry, but naked, since she hadn't really thought to put the clothes back on after the swim.

"I made it. Everything in it," she says. "They told me I could do anything I wanted with this place, so I made it mine. Moonlight and magic in trees and leaves and grass and animals."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason is slightly startled, but only because he was so engrossed in that forest. He smiles, pulling her arms around his waist from behind him.

"You made it, huh? That must be why it's so sparkly and pretty. And I bet there's not a brown thing to be found in there."

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[lady_moon]

"Not even the dirt," she says, grinning against his shoulder. "Do you want to go in?"

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He cranes his neck to kiss her over his shoulder, giving her arms a faint squeeze. "Yeah, I'd love to go in. Want to show your wolf around?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon lets go of him to scamper into the forest, her feet barely making a sound on the grass and fallen leaves.

"There's a tree in here that has the best fruit," she says. "If I can remember where I put it."

Some people lose their carkeys.

Moon loses trees.

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[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason laughs out loud, following after her. "What, you can't ask the other trees for directions? Or will they get jealous?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

She gives him a huffy, pouty face.

"It's my forest. I should remember where I put things in it."

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[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He loves that pout on her face. It's adorable.

"You keep tabs on all the sentients: you can give in a little on where you put a tree."

He slows a bit, giving a low whistle at his surroundings. "Moon, this is really beautiful."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon smiles at the compliment, looking around her.

"Moonlight, starlight, and sunlight, all trapped in the trees."

She's very close with Star and Sun, and she wanted to show that in the very trees all three shined down on.

"The wolves like running through here."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He snorts. "No wonder Rigel turns his nose up at the forest in Milliways: he's spoiled rotten having this forest to run in."

Not that the young wolf would ever turn down a run with Jason.

He catches up to her, nuzzling her ear from behind. "You did an amazing job. I'd like to run here once."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"Richard mentioned hunting to me," she murmurs with a grin, smiling over her shoulder. "He told me you could all remind me of what shape I'm supposed to be if I let him make the growly thing in me be... me... for a while."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He nuzzles at the long line of her neck, murmuring softly. "You think you could actually shift? Hmm...well, if you want Richard to call your beast and come hunting with us, you go ahead and do it. I'll be here to call you back."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon tilts her head, exposing more of her throat with a hum.

"Do you want me to come hunting with you?"

It's for him she'd do it, not Richard.

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[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

His lips close over the pulse in her throat, nipping gently. "I would love to hunt with you. But I love running as your wolf at your side just as much. So it's up to you."

His arms tighten around her waist, hugging her to him. "I told you," he murmurs, "everything is so much better with you."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

She closes her eyes, simple pleasure at being with him warming her from the inside out.

"We can do both," she murmurs. "This full moon, I'll hunt with you. Next, you can be my wolf at my side."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

"I like that," he says. "And I'll even play nice with Richard."

He does like Richard, even if the two clash. It's part of being who and what they are: Ulfric cannot show favoritism to one of his lesser wolves just because they're friends, even if Jason would prefer it.

"So this fruit we're looking for...what's it like?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon comes back to herself, bopping on her feet.

"I remember where it is!"

And she takes off through the woods, laughing at remembering, her feet light as she races over the various colored grasses deeper into the forest.

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He starts at her sudden exclamation, then breaks into a wide grin as he watches her dart off through the trees. She is absolutely adorable.

He takes off after her, darting as easily through the trees as he does at home.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Her laughter simply fills the forest as she races through it. After a few minutes, she draws up short in front of a tree.

The tree is different because it's a soft metallic blue, and from its branches hang deep blue-purple fruits. They look a little like pears, but not quite. Maybe like avocados? No, it's not quite right, either. Their shape almost seems to change ever so slightly the longer they're looked at.

"These!" she declares, panting, her cheeks flushed, her eyes bright as she looks up. "I tasted something yummy and purple on one world and I made these fruits to taste just as purpley!"