Random Encounters

[skysung]

Appointment Post

Seek out the dragon kit anytime. You'll have to play dragon charades in any venue though, including over the journals, until/unless Kitten finds a workaround for writing in the journals. I'll update this post if she does!

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(i.e. "Action, 5/2")

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Possession Event, 5/26-6/1

[skysung]

Kitten tilts her head thoughtfully. Most people fail to note the differences between words. Her family knows her so well that they don't need to, not really. Half of the time what comes out of her mama's mouth is exactly what Kitten wanted to say in the first place. She doesn't see any reason someone couldn't catch the subtle changes if they listened carefully enough, though, and she nods again.

She points a claw down toward the trash can where her apple core landed, chirping 'apple,' pauses, and then follows it up with 'orange.' The two words sound very similar, both being foods and fruits, but there is a slight variation in pitch and duration between them.

[rather_be_surfing]

Derek listens to both sounds carefully, thinks about it for a minute, and then tries to imitate both 'words'. As an actual animal hunter in his youth, his dad had taught him many bird calls, and he still had an ear for music even after years of not really touching it.

Still, a dragon wasn't a bird, and his throat didn't have everything it would probably need to perfectly imitate the sounds. He may or may not come close, but he at least does his best to make sure the ending of both were as close to the pitch and variation as he could get them.

"Apple and orange, right?"

[skysung]

Any errors of pronunciation do nothing to dampen Kitten's delight at Derek's attempt to replicate her words. She whistles gleefully, pure sound without any real translation. The dragon raises her right forefoot and rocks it from side to side a couple times, the gesture saying 'so-so.' The chirps that accompany it translate to, 'Not quite.'

That he tried at all, though, will forever endear him to Kitten.

She does nod confirmation of the apple and orange assumption.

[rather_be_surfing]

He grins at the happy whistle, "Well, at least I can hear it right, even if I'm probably saying the totally wrong thing. Let me try it again, maybe I can get a little closer."

[skysung]

Nodding, whistling ‘go ahead’ as she gestures encouragingly, Kitten waits to hear his second attempt. She doesn’t mind if he can’t speak it. Having someone understand would be more than enough, especially if that understanding comes through effort and learning rather than inherent ability. People have done any number of remarkable things for Kitten’s sake over the course of her sixteen years, but Derek is the first to do this.

[rather_be_surfing]

He tries again, going much slower this time. It probably warps the word into something else by doing so, but the sounds themselves are closer than before. Still not quite right, but closer.

"How's that?"

[skysung]

Kitten nods, whistling encouragement. Much better. Aside from the speed, that was actually very close. She makes a hurry-up motion with one foreleg to get that point across, but the dragon is fairly certain her new friend already knows.

She is quite frankly thrilled to have a person attempting dragon speech for her. No one speaks it, not even other dragons. Kitten was raised by humans, but had she been brought up in the Dragonlands, she would be unlikely to hear dragonspeech there either. Adults speak mind-to-mind, and dragon infants are born infrequently enough that she has never met another dragon who has yet to grow into mindspeech. Dragons and basilisks understand her, but they don't speak her language.

Kitten leans against Derek briefly in thanks.

[rather_be_surfing]

He'll give her a half hug from the side, still smiling.

"You're welcome. I'll work on it some more, but I'll apologize right now for all the wrong things I'll be saying,"

He'll nod out over the village.

"Trying out the new wings, huh? Liking them so far?"

She has an icon with the same keywords in her other account; I didn't notice I was in the wrong one!

[skysung]

Kitten laughs, clicks and chirps that sound like a chuckle. She waves a forefoot in dismissal of the apology. Her whistles and the gesture both say, 'Don't worry about it.' No apology is needed. The attempt is as important to Kitten as its success or lack thereof. Besides, some of his verbal missteps may turn out to be very funny.

As for the wings, she nods eagerly. It's obvious just from looking that Kitten's natural wings are still much too small to bear her in flight, but dragons are flying creatures even so. Kitten loves it, at home in the air already.

Haha no problem. both are adorable.

[rather_be_surfing]

"Must be a treat; let's you see what you're looking forward to. Watch the skies though--" he pauses as someone else from the village does exactly what he's trying to warn against, "--some of the villagers are a little flight happy. You might get accidentally dive-bombed."