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RE: Aponi you found a trio of duck eggs

June 13th, Partly cloudy 69F/21C 2 PM
AW, Maybe @Mako or @Marina?

 

While she had once been somewhat nocturnal, sleeping in short spurts during the day and active throughout most of the night her schedule had changed since Lila's birth. If she ever needed someone to watch over the den while she stretched her legs or relieved herself it was much more likely someone would be nearby during daylight hours. Today once the sun had passed the highest tip in the sky her mouth had felt as if it was full of sand it was so dry, luckily @Sahalie had been near and agreed to pup sit. The dark yearling had been helpful since the birth of her youngest daughter and it made her feel particularly smug that she seemed to have the same feelings toward Naira as the older woman did. In fact she often thought of Sahalie's disdainful "How old even is she?" whenever she was in a need of a good laugh.

Aponi had sated her thirst and was turning to return to the birthing den when something gleamed dully out the corner of her eye. Nudging the cattails out of the way so she could peer closer the trio of duck eggs lay nestled within the hay like grass. Mostly white they were covered in small brown speckles and there was no sign of nearby debris so these were not just the duds. Pulling away the new mother glanced around briefly for the parents, the last thing she needed was an angry duck pulling out her fur.

 

(This post was last modified: Jun 14, 2016, 12:00 AM by Aponi.)

 

Kino had been out and about for most of the day doing his normal duty of patrolling borders and checking caches. It was a task that he was, quite frankly, growing very bored with but he found there wasn’t really anything else for him to do. Life seemed to be one long endless cycle, lacking the chaos that he’d known for quite some time which, for some reason, he didn’t know if it was refreshing or boring.  He needed a little differentiation, thus he’d decided to go search out Hal and see if she wanted to find a cache and eat together. He’d begun following her scent, surprised that it led him not toward her adoptive mother’s den, but toward Kyna’s mother Aponi’s den. Trailing along, as he got closer a flash of silver caught his attention and he paused, large head turning and brows raising to find the mother’s pale rump sticking out from a pod of cattails. Then, she pulled out and seemed to be looking around for something.

He had absolutely no clue what she was looking for, then he suddenly grew worried as an idea struck him. Had little Lila managed to escape the den? Was Aponi looking for her, then? If that were the case, then he supposed he should definitely offer his assistance. Stepping toward her, he cleared his throat. “Miss. Aponi, what’re you looking for?” he asked, hoping that he was wrong.

The large form of the silver yearling came into view but Aponi didn't pay him much mind as she figured he would just carry on with whatever he was doing. Blue gaze continued to scan the area, bypassing him without much more than a second thought. That is until his face twisted in concern and he also began looking around her. Silver brows furrowed in confusion, had the ducks reappeared without her noticing? Quickly straining her neck so she could peer above the reeds to glance around she paused when he asked her exactly what she was doing.

Oh. Duh.

Suddenly she chuckled as she relaxed and stopped straining, "Ducks." A smirk overtook her expression as she gave up on her search, clearly the parents were nowhere to be found. Turning her rear stood in the air rather comically as she took one of the eggs gently into her teeth so she could pull it from the weeds. Tail waved about above her in pleasure as the thought of slurping out the insides made her mouth water greedily. While she wished to savour them herself she knew the boy was a friend of Kyna or at least he was a friend of a friend through Sahalie.

Careful not to stomp on the other two eggs she took a few steps backwards before placing the egg upon the earth and rolling it towards the boy. Grinning mischievously she asked, "You like eggs Alastor?"

  

 

“Ducks,” Aponi replied with a chuckle, and the boy relaxed. A small grin spread across his maw as he realized how silly he was being. After all, Aponi had already raised Kyna successfully, why wouldn’t she be able to do it with another. He figured someone probably got rather good at looking at kids after having one of their own and especially it was their own that they were looking after. Of course, Lila was likely being watched and asleep back at the den and the boy had been worried for nothing.

He watched curiously as she returned to the reeds, silver rump shaking in the air as she finagled with something. Then, as the woman turned out, he spotted a round, spotted object clutched within her jaws. An egg? What could she want with an egg, she certainly wasn’t a bird. Maternal instincts aside, he was pretty sure that if the woman tried to sit on it she would certainly break it. A brow rose in question on his face as she rolled it toward him, asking if he liked eggs. Liked them? What was there to like, they looked kind of pretty he guessed, but they would eventually hatch into birds that got annoying and thought they owned the place. Then, it occurred to him. They would eventually hatch into birds, and birds were edible, so why wouldn’t their eggs be? “I’ve never eaten one before,” he confessed, leaning his large frame down to nudge and sniff the egg thoughtfully. He wondered what it would taste like, and how he would eat it in the first place.

(This post was last modified: Jul 28, 2016, 02:28 AM by Kino.)

The expression on the silver yearling's face was comical to say the least and the mother couldn't help the smirk that spread across her maw. At first he started at the egg in confusion and maybe some kind of exasperation and then a dawning of understanding came over him. At his words she turned and grabbed her own egg before reappearing from the reeds and plopping her rump upon the ground. Laying into a sphinx like position she laid the egg upon the earth gingerly between her paws and looked at the boy expectantly. Raising a single brow (a habit she wasn't sure if @Kyna had picked up from her or she had gained from her daughter) she questioned, "Well then what are you waiting for?"

The words were said playfully but with an underlying tone of expectation. Would Alastor try the egg just because she had presented the idea or was he a little more cautious of trying new things than that? Which would her own daughters do? @Lila would probably eat the egg without question if she was able but Kyna she was not so sure of anymore. Aponi couldn't put her paw on what it was but something had come over the teen as of late, a stubbornness, an assertiveness that the mother was pleased to see. She guessed Kyna was hers after all.

There are many ways to eat eggs, the fastest of course is just to crunch it and eat it all at once but with so few of them Aponi would need to savour it. Carefully applying pressure until she heard the cracking sound the salmon coloured tongue lapped at the edges. The liquid that reached her taste buds made her drool but still she restrained herself from gobbling the treat up all at once. Instead she licked at the small holes that she had created as the yolk seeped out to meet her tongue. Blue eyes remained trained upon the boy to see if he would copy how she was doing it or if he would try something else. After all, most of the time even she would have just crunched through it but Alastor had never eaten them before.