[Shadow]

(Yeah, a roleplay with myself. This will be used for character development. XD)

What was she doing here? She had nothing better to do than... just... wander, she guessed. The Trikuhna felt that she could have picked a better place to just wander. The Vast Plains... Ugh. She could have gone to the Slums. The Slums were far more appealing to her than the plains. Full of dark and evil things, the Slums reflected, just slightly, her own soul.

Pumpkin silently walked over the tall grasses. She was rather deep in thought, as lots had just happened. She needed to get away from everything, away from the kits. She and Sunstorm had just had their own litter. That was ages ago. The season was over now, ages over. She just wanted to spend some time with Sunstorm, without the kits. How odd, she, a Trikuhna, wanting to spend time with a Preluhna. He might not be her permanant mate, but they were definitely good friends.

[Shadow]

He too was wandering. True, this place wasn't to his best interst, but he was here. Truely, it was a better place for training than for anything else. However, he was here with Pumpkin, and nobody else. That was all that mattered. He also wanted to stay away from the kits for a while. Rainfall could care fore them. Ugh, Rainfall was so hyper. He was so much like a kit himself, which rather disgusted Sunstorm.

"Pumpkin..." He paused. "So what do you want to do?" He asked. She had wanted him here for a reason. Maybe to just spend time with him, or to form a plan with him away from the ears of the other kuhnas?

[Shadow]

Pumpkin laughed. "Sunstorm, how did you not know?" She asked sarcastically. "I just wanted to get away from our kits for a while, and have it be just us," She said. "Of course, I would have preferred the Slums, but..." She broke off. "Well, never mind that. We're here, and that's all that matters for now."

For now. What could happen? Pumpkin surprised herself as she said this. What had she meant by it? She sighed. She felt as though everything had been... different lately.

"So, anyway, how about a game of tag?" She asked, not completely excited. She did want to play with Sunstorm, though. It was rather kittish, she admitted to herself.

[Shadow]

"Okay," Sunstorm said. It was rather kittish. Pumpkin's asking surprised Sunstorm. She would normally have dismissed something like this as being kittish, and turned down the offer to play. Something must have been wrong. He would ignore it for a while, unless it really started bothering him. He definitely didn't want to make Pumpking mad at him. She would probably tell him if there was something wrong when the time was right.

He leaped towards her swiftly. "You're it!" he shouted, bounding away.

[Shadow]

Okay, so that's how you want to do it, Pumpkin thought. She dashed after him. As they ran, she pulled in fromt of him, and stuck her paw out in front of him. She found it amusing to trip other Kuhnas, even the few close to her. She let out a mewl of laughter. Tripping Sunstorm always was quite funny.

[Shadow]

Sunstorm fell painfully on his face, not managing to catch himself with his paws. Pumpkin had disabled the use of his front legs by sticking her paw out in front of his, and he had almost done a somersalt.

He picked himself up off the ground. "Whatd'ja do that for?" He asked angrilly. Truely, Pumpkin shouldn't have done that to him. He felt that she was rather... selfish, doing mean thing for personal amusement.

[Shadow]

"Sorry," Pumpkin said, her eyes glowing malevolently. She was only partially sorry. The part of her that loved Sunstorm very much was sincerely sorry. The mean and nasty part of her wasn't at all sorry; that was the part of her that was mean and nasty, that loved to do evil things.

Pumpkin nuzzled Sunstorm. He was too difficult to make mad and not feel sorry about it, even a little bit mad.

[Shadow]

Sunstorm closed his eyes, knowing it was... almost difficult for Pumpkin not to be mean and evil, even to him. This was one of the reasons he loved her; he loved evil, for whatever reason. He did want Pumpkin to stay with him, although he knew that she had jobs to do for Shadow.

"Pumpkin..." He was on the verge of asking her what was wrong. She hadn't had to outlet her mean and evil side on him for a while now.

[Shadow]

"What?" Pumpkin asked, almost amused. Her tone was different from that of before; it was a rather rapid change. She was annoyed with Sunstorm's contant pauses when he adressed her, and had the feeling he was going to ask her an important question.

The truth was, that the next time Shadow snagged a Kuhna room, she was thinking that she was going to send Pumpkin into the room with Rainfall. This disgusted Pumpkin, as Rainfall was hyper, playful, and swet, her total opposite.

[Shadow]

Sunstorm would have to ask her what was wrong now, unless he could disguise what he was saying to act as something else. He thought of possible things he could say without sounding obvious. Play some more? No, she would probably turn the offer down, as usual. He had to say it outright. He didn't want to make her mad...

"Pumpkin, something has been bothering you."

[Shadow]

"Shadow has been thinking of putting me in another breeding room with another Kuhna," Pumpkin said. "Rainfall, to be exact. I can't stand him. He's so hyper and kittish. It annoys me," She finished.

Could it really be so bad? It seemed kittish.

[Shadow]

"Pumpkin, I don't care if Shadow makes you go into a room with Rainfall. I know that you don't neccerily want to, and more importantly, I know that you'll still love me. I will also have to go into the breeding rooms with someone else. Let's just not think about it now, Pumpkin. The season is over for a while."

He hoped he'd said the right thing. Sometimes Pumpkin was really easy to offend. He sighed.

[Shadow]

That was the big thing. She had wanted to make sure that he wouldn't be mad that she would be breeding to someone else.

"Thanks," Pumpkin said. She was now quite reassured. "And I'm really sorry about trripping you." Ah, sencerity. This time, she had ment wholeheartedly that she was sorry.

"So, how about a little battle training while we're up here?" She said. It seemed very convenient to train here, since it seemed the perfec place.

[Shadow]

Why had it been such a big deal? Maybe Pumpkin had thought that her going into the breeding rooms would ruin their friendship? At least she had sincerely said that she was sorry.

"Okay, he said. You can go first." Sunstorm wanted her to feel happier about everything. it had probably been difficult for her to tell him anything.

[Shadow]

"Okay." Pumpkin made a quick dash at Sunstorm. She jumped at him, and would pin him down. She was quite swift and witty in battle as she was outside of battle. She used her wit to escape sticky situations; she was one with Charlatan wit. Partially, she didn't want to hurt Sunstorm. She had already tripped him today, and didn't want to do more damage. she would be gentle, that was it.