Ace ✠ 11

[knightofchanges]

Who: Ace and somarium
Where: Field in Espoir
Style: Either!
Status: Open

[despite the heat, or perhaps because of it, Ace had grown rather restless. so taking a page from the events from last month's Renaissance Faire, he decided to try his hand at fighting on horseback. it looked interesting and fun at any rate, plus what knight wouldn't be able to do at

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[rainbowpalette]

[He does look like he's having fun, doesn't he? Kanaya sits down to watch.

[knightofchanges]

So you call a horse a "hoofbeast", a cow a "milk hoofbeast", but a goat a goat? [laughs.] Why not "horned hoofbeast" or something?

[rainbowpalette]

Because that would just be silly, Ace. That's why.

[Laughing too.]

[knightofchanges]

[still chuckling.]

Well if you ask me, the other names are silly.

[rainbowpalette]

[Gently teasing.]

And I think yours are tremendously non-specific.

[knightofchanges]

[teasing back!]

How are they non-specific? A bird is a bird. Of course there are different types, but I would think just saying "hoofbeast" would be more confusing and non-specific.

[rainbowpalette]

Actually, now that you mention it, there is certainly a greater variety of animals and birds here than back home. Maybe your names are more specific because they have to be.

[knightofchanges]

Really?

[rainbowpalette]

Yes. There were really only a few different creatures around my home in Alternia, so I didn't need many different names to tell them apart. That said, I also lived in a desert, so perhaps it was different in the forests or on the plains.

[knightofchanges]

Hmmm, that is a good point.

What kind of creatures did you have in the desert?

[rainbowpalette]

Well...

[Listing them on her fingers.]

Legless scalebeasts, winged flight creatures with big, black wings, stinging tailbeasts, and toads.

[knightofchanges]

[he's just going to look up at her at that.]

Again with the vague names, until you came to toads. That's actually pretty funny. [laughs.]

Hmmmm. Stinging tailbeasts...I wonder if those are like scorpions. I keep imagining bats for the flight creatures, and I'm assuming legless scalebeasts might be snakes.