05-22-2024, 12:25 AM
Matilda
Matilda’s plan is ambitious and ridiculous - and therefore it is perfect for the glass antlered mare. She wanders past many other options to bring back for their quest - many that would be easier and when she starts to realize they are seeing more and more little signs of Tephra she shifts her shape into that of a capybara. She gets close to their natural colour - but keeps a soft purple tint to her fur. She has a hunch, and is willing to try.
She loses sight of Casimira and Claudius while she wanders in this smaller form, but knows that they’ll eventually meeting up again at the mountain even if they don’t find one another today. Matilda is focused on doing some finding today, it does not even drift into her mind that it is possible that she may get lost in the process.
Capybara-Matilda continues on for a little while until she comes across a pond where she spots a family of the adorable rodents lounging in the shallow, muddy waters. She approaches slowly, carefully, gauging their reactions. Fortunately, the adults appear wary but unbothered and the juveniles are openly curious. A trio of brave youngsters approach her - two little ones and one close to adulthood. Matilda doesn’t know the capybara mannerisms the same way she does wolves, but she lets them sniff her and sniffs them back in return. They are fascinated by her purple fur - as she had hoped - and she hums with delight.
This spooks the young pair but the other - a female she thinks would be about her equivalent in age - sticks around and makes a little chirpy noise back.
A little bit of touch-and-go testing to see if she'll be followed (yes!) and Matilda is then leading her new friend through the forest, looking for her companions on the way. She'll bring the capybara right back to her family, of course. Or maybe they'll all meet up again in Tephra!
She loses sight of Casimira and Claudius while she wanders in this smaller form, but knows that they’ll eventually meeting up again at the mountain even if they don’t find one another today. Matilda is focused on doing some finding today, it does not even drift into her mind that it is possible that she may get lost in the process.
Capybara-Matilda continues on for a little while until she comes across a pond where she spots a family of the adorable rodents lounging in the shallow, muddy waters. She approaches slowly, carefully, gauging their reactions. Fortunately, the adults appear wary but unbothered and the juveniles are openly curious. A trio of brave youngsters approach her - two little ones and one close to adulthood. Matilda doesn’t know the capybara mannerisms the same way she does wolves, but she lets them sniff her and sniffs them back in return. They are fascinated by her purple fur - as she had hoped - and she hums with delight.
This spooks the young pair but the other - a female she thinks would be about her equivalent in age - sticks around and makes a little chirpy noise back.
A little bit of touch-and-go testing to see if she'll be followed (yes!) and Matilda is then leading her new friend through the forest, looking for her companions on the way. She'll bring the capybara right back to her family, of course. Or maybe they'll all meet up again in Tephra!
Matilda got herself a capybara