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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:42 pm
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Tanhipom slowly weaved her way through the large roots of a beautiful tree. The roots had created a small hut like shelter which reminded Ta'hi of her games as a cub. The adult she scared by lying down and napping under one.
She wasn't napping this time. Well, maybe later. Much later. Ta'hi had wandered this far into the forest for material and inspiration on the latest project stuck in her head, heart, and gut. It just wasn't coming out the way she pictured every time she attempted to start. Something was always off.
This tree and it's root hut felt good. RIght. Like she was finally getting closer to the beginning of her journey to complete the project. Who it was going to go to, Tanhipom had no idea, but that wasn't what was important to her. She just needed to get the project out of her head. The quicker she completed it, the sooner she could go swimming for another thought, another idea, another piece of inspiration.
Ta'hi smiled as she nosed around the floor outside the root hut hunting for something to stand out. As much as she was still afraid of the deep water, Ta'hi loved to swim, she had ever since she was a child. Now she had learned how to swim with her eyes shut, or the very least only ever looking up. The deep still trapped her even though she was an adult. She still fought it when no one was around. But when others were, blind swimming.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:08 pm
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Ta'hi continued to noise around the area unaware of her surroundings. She got like that when she was on the hunt for just the right part of crafting a piece. She lost focus in the physical world. She could compare it to her habit of getting lost in smooth water, but she always came out of it with crafting focus ... not so with the water. "Ah!" She shouted in excitement at a potential rock with a hole in it. A holey stone .... maybe. Ta'hi noised it around, pawed at it and finally picked it up with her teeth to feel the weight and material .... "Hmm ... no. Not right." Nope, nope, nope. Not right at all. "Maybe the next project," she told the holey stone as she respectfully put it back in it's spot among the roots.
Tanhipom sat back on her haunches and sighed. Here was the right feeling for that one trigger piece, but she couldn't find the right feeling among all the rocks and sticks and things scattered everywhere. She closed her eyes and tried to listen to the material around her. Listen for the pull that said it was the one thing she needed. Everything felt and sounded right. So why wasn't any one piece telling her it was destined to be a part of the crafting project she was working on.
She puffed out a breath looked around yet again. "I would greatly appreciate any one of you lot deciding to come back home with me to be a key component to my craftings." Ta'hi figured it could hurt asking the small scattered bits of forest. It never hurt to talk to the forest. It usually answered back in some way, shape of form. Sometimes it was heard to tell and hear the answer, but other times it was most definitely not. The one time Ta'hi had asked the forest for something, a beautiful twisted branch had fallen at her feet, almost falling on her head. Asking was sometimes dangerous, but obviously necessary. Since she was addressing the things already on the floor, Ta'hi hoped to avoid things falling and possibly hurting her or some poor unsuspecting creature in the woods around her.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:42 am
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Ta'hi all but jumped at the voiced answer. As she turned to find the disembodied voice, she half expected the forest to have spoken - literally and she was not sure if that was a good thing or not. The forest had a voice, after all, but it didn't have a VOICE.
Tanhipom broke into a few parts when she saw the lion that had approached her while in her creative fog and oblivion. The first part was the smallest and filled with disappointment. Then there was the relief part. The biggest and thus most outward part of Ta'hi didn't even focus on the lion. She - and it - jumped at the stone the stranger had brought to her. It looked and felt perfect, right, just the thing. "Oh!" Ta'hi gasped in excitement.
She pushed the stone with her paw; picked it up with her mouth; held it in her paws; nosed at it; licked it (yes the taste of a stone was very important. Ta'hi never wanted to give anything that tasted wrong or icky to any of the lions or others that would end up with her craftings. Especially if they had cubs.)
Babbling about the dimensions of the stone, Ta'hi engaged the lion in her grateful excitement. "Thank you! Oh, it's perfect. The weight, height, circumstance of the hole, as well as the stone. It's ALMOST a perfect circle, but more natural. It doesn't taste harmful for cubs or other innocent ones. Thank you!"
The project took off in her mind like it had never done before. Tanhipom started to collect vines, dead roots, fallen living twigs and branches. How she was going to get this all back to her creative space, Ta'hi had noooo idea, but she didn't care one wit. Rays and cresents and circles ran around in her mind putting everything together. This craft would be finished in no time!
"You are the most amazing forest voice I've encountered yet! The most surprising whill being the least dangerous, which I am also very thankful for! I'm Tanhipom, by the way. Ta'hi to my friends. And everyone else, really. I'm especially thankful that you didn't fall out of a tree and hit me in the head!" Ta'hi tried desperately to keep herself from hugging the lion for the piece he had brought. She didn't know if he was a hugger or even a lion that liked touching and she was very careful not to over step those boundaries with others, but it was very hard to contain herself when she was so happy.
Of course there was the last part of Ta'hi that was not focused on forest voices or stones for crafting, but on the lion himself. She just couldn't figure out what it was all about. It was almost like smooth water, but not nearly as consuming. Maybe the lion would be a good muse if they became friends?
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:09 pm
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Ta’hi cringled guiltily. She really should be more careful when she asked the forest for anything. At the least, she could get hurt, but at the worst some else could as well. She was just lucky that this lion hadn’t gotten injured. Gods, image trying to drag him back to the centre? By veins and ferns, he was much bigger than her. She wasn’t sure if she could have managed it. At least not without hurting him more. She blushed embarrassed. ”I’m sorry that I wasn’t thinking when I asked the forest for it before. The forest provides one way or another.” Nodding, Ta’hi sighed. While she was excited about the stone and her crafting, she had no idea how she was going t manage getting everything back. ”Yes, I think I am.” Standing up, Tanhipom nosed her bundle of materials. Well, obviously the stone would HAVE to be carried in her mouth, but the bundle wasn’t going to sit on her back without tumbling for more than a few feet. Well, no point in waiting around. This was going to be a longer trip back than it was to get here because of the slow pace she was going to have to keep. ”Next time, I think I’ll aim for a small craft project.” Ta’hi joked around the bundle as she lifted it to put on her back.
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