mustelids unite! [edaniel]

[Caeden]

Caeden was scurrying around the caverns of Navule, sniffing things on the ground. He liked to come in here to catch things like bugs (nasty).

Scurry scurry scurry.

As he was running around, he heard another set of little claws hitting the rock floor. He lifted his little nose into the air and sniffed harder. Smelled like a mongoose. A human mongoose.

After you spent time as an animal, you learned what different things smelled like, and it was pretty easy to tell the difference between real animals and shape-shifters.

Tilting his head, wondering if the mongoose was someone he knew, he scurried over to where the noises were coming from.

[Edaniel]

Edaniel had entered the caverns while chasing a mouse. His claws clickity-clacked against the stone floor of the cavern as he persued the little rodent, the noise echoing throughout the chamber. Due to focusing all his senses on the mouse, he didn't pick up the scent of another human-animal right away.

He scurried around a corner a bit too fast. With all his momentum, he slid sideways, loosing the mouse and crashing into something small and furry like him.

[Caeden]

Even though Caeden had been expecting a mongoose just around the rock, he hadn't expected said mongoose to collide right into him. He made a little "Oomph" noise and jumped a little bit. Then he shook his head, his nose twitching.

He blinked at the yellow mongoose with purple eyes, a quizzical expression on his own little pine marten face. He sniffed at him.

[Edaniel]

Edaniel mirrored the marten's movements, tilting his head to the side inquisitively and sniffing at him. They sniffed each others noses cutely. Edaniel, recognizing the scent of a fellow Saelin member, backed up a few paces and transformed. He didn't stand up, and instead chose to stay kneeling on the ground so he could look the marten in the eyes.

"Hi!" he greeted amiably. He never passed up the opportunity to make a friend. "I'm Edaniel, what's your name?"

[Caeden]

For a second, Caeden was confused. He was almost positive the mongoose had been a boy, but the human looked extremely girly. However, once Caeden turned into a human himself, and his eyesight got better, he realized that the person was just a really girly looking guy.

"Caeden," he answered, a smile on his face. He thought the fact that Edaniel had stayed on his knees was pretty cute, so he did the same thing. Now that they were both human, it was kind of weird that their noses were almost touching, but Caeden didn't care. It wasn't often you got to touch noses with such a cute looking guy. "It's nice to meet you, Edaniel."

[Edaniel]

Edaniel didn't have a strong notion of personal space, but he still moved his head back a little bit so that they could look at each other without going crosseyed. Getting a good look at the now human boy, he decided he really liked Caeden's spikyish hair. He didn't tell him that though, because that would be kinda weird. "Nice to meet you too, Caeden!" he smiled.

[Caeden]

Caeden scrambled up and brushed off his knees and hands. He smiled a lopsided smile, "You should probably get off the ground," he said, holding out his hand. "There are bugs and stuff down there.

"Wouldn't want someone as cute as you getting crawled on by some nasty bugs." Bugs weren't as appealing to him when he was in human form.

[Edaniel]

Edaniel wasn't quite sure how to respond to that. "Uhm..." he said with uncertainty. Was Caeden...flirting with him? He knew he was a guy, right? Maybe Caeden was just a guy who was into other guys. Flattering as it was, it left Edaniel unable to come up with a response more intellgient than staring blankly up at Caeden.

He quickly got ahold of himself and scrambled to his feet. "Thanks?" he tried.

[Caeden]

Caeden decided to ignore the fact that Edaniel seemed weirded out by his flirting. Maybe Edaniel wasn't as gay as he looked. Not that it mattered, because Caeden was gayer than he looked.

"Never had anyone tell you you were cute before?" he asked, his head tilting a little like it had when he was a marten.

[Edaniel]

"Well...I have, but..." Edaniel replied coyly, looking at the ground. Usually when people called him cute they were either talking about his animal form, or mistaking him for a girl. He had never been told he was cute in a flirtatious way before. "Just not, you know, like that."

[Caeden]

"Well, you are cute, you know, like that," Caeden replied, the smile still on his face. Edaniel was even cuter when he got all shy like that.

"I'm surprised you didn't know that," he added, hoping the shyness would stay.

[Edaniel]

Edaniel actually blushed a little bit. He hoped it wasn't visible in the dimly lit cave. He didn't know why he was letting a guy's flirty compliments flatter him that much. "I, uh, I'm sorry, but..." he said hesitantly, not knowing how to tell this guy that he wasn't into guys and therefor was waste of time to flirt with at all. How do you say that nicely, especially when you're secretly enjoying the attention?

[Caeden]

He watched the blush form across Edaniel's face, and it just made his smile grow.

"You're sorry because you don't like guys," Caeden finished for him, a smirk on his face. "So I guess I should apologize too, because I can't stop thinking your adorable, even though I know that."

[Edaniel]

Edaniel looked up, surprised. Caeden knew, and yet he was still hitting on him? And why was he smirking like that? "Oh. Well, er, you don't have to apologize," he assured him, not quite understaning that Caeden was still flirting with him. "I mean, it's not that I'm not flattered, it's just...you know."

He sort of laughed nervously, feeling stupid. He was doing a horrible job explaining himself, and this whole situation was just one big mess of awkward. For him, anyways. Caeden seemed perfectly at ease.

[Caeden]

"Don't worry about it," Caeden said, waving it off. "You should let me make it up to you though, you hungry? I was just thinking about going to get some lunch and I'd love some company."

He raised his eyebrows. "You up to it? Just as friends of course, I completely understand that you're in to girls."