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Post by Madeline on Mar 4, 2021 19:21:15 GMT -5
he couldn't speak through the paw at his mouth. His rescuer, however, shouted, "O'er there are some tasty rats, better than beaver!" The monster turned away and left, ...
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Post by Fyri on Mar 5, 2021 9:04:04 GMT -5
...leaving the beaver with his reliever. It was good the hungry beast had no taste for seafood, Bucky thought, as the tiny paw left his maw. He turned and...
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Post by Madeline on Mar 5, 2021 18:31:06 GMT -5
saw none but an otter, just his age. "Now, about yer tail," the otter continued. Bucky was amazed at his rescuer's audacity. How could he act as if nothing had...
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Post by Celebes on Mar 5, 2021 22:59:46 GMT -5
happened? He had seen the beast, hadn't he?!
Bucky turned around, his indignation briefly overcoming his fear. "It's...it's just a tail! Why? What about your's then, huh? Why's it all...
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Post by Fyri on Mar 7, 2021 4:14:57 GMT -5
...rolled up like a bed ro--" He stopped awkwardly when he saw the otter's tail was naught but a nub where a cylindrical rudder normally sat. The otter leered at his tail...
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Post by Madeline on Mar 7, 2021 14:33:57 GMT -5
cheekily. "I've fought that monster afore, aye, an' got 'way alive, e'en though it caught me tail." The otter held out a paw. "Name o' Riverback!" The bewildered beaver shook the outstretched paw...
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Post by Celebes on Mar 8, 2021 23:25:03 GMT -5
flopping it about like a beached fish. Hopefully he wasn't hungry.
"Riverback...n-nice to meet you!" Bucky replied. That was the kind of thing that you said to your rescuer, wasn't it? "I'm from...
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Post by Madeline on Mar 22, 2021 18:34:51 GMT -5
Redwall!"
"Redwall?" Riverback seemed impressed, and possibly jealous. "I've never been there; is it nice?"
The beaver grinned and nodded, but before he could answer, who should find them but Bucky's fellow beavers? "What have...
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Post by Fyri on Apr 16, 2021 6:16:02 GMT -5
...you been doing ou-- who's this now, Bucky? Friend o' yours?" One of the new arrivals asked, taking in the oddly otter-shaped other. The words were civil yet the tone held a note of suspicion, and...
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Post by Madeline on Apr 26, 2021 14:54:10 GMT -5
...Bucky suddenly felt defensive of his rescuer. "Yeah, his name is Riverback, an' he saved my life! Be nice!" The otter placed a paw to his mouth and shushed everyone. "Quiet, or the monster will come back..."
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Post by Celebes on Apr 30, 2021 21:57:35 GMT -5
Everybeast was immediately back on their guard. Having actually seen the beast, Bucky could feel a sense of superiority over his comrades. Once you saw a beast once, you could no longer be surprised. "WAIT!" Riverback suddenly shouted,
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Post by Madeline on May 1, 2021 19:34:47 GMT -5
waving his paws around frantically. "There's no need to panic -- NEVER MIND, RUN." The monster had returned! They all ran, following Riverback and Bucky, the first seeming to know where he was going and the latter good at pretending...
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Post by Celebes on Jun 10, 2021 20:21:59 GMT -5
Crashing through the trees blindly, the part of less than intrepid water beasts were lucky enough to find their home element. Starting with Bucky, the beaver suddenly lost his footing and slipped through a leafy riverbank to the cold water...
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Post by Madeline on Jun 20, 2021 19:47:04 GMT -5
...which rushed all around him. The others couldn't stop themselves and fell in with him, the entire party of beavers and otter being swept downstream, safely away from the monster that wanted to munch them. Upon surfacing, they discovered that they...
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Post by Otus Shortwing on Jul 3, 2021 9:20:20 GMT -5
...were being swept out of the forest towards the sea. Bucky coughed up a mouthful of water and whipped around to look for his new friend. "Riverback! Where--!" he shouted. His fellow beavers had righted themselves, but Riverback, with his tail nub...
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Well, they're in the kitchen now so if you want you can have him end up there maybe? Or near them?
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