PLEASE LOCK OR SOMEBODY TAKE OVER: The Creatures of the Moon

[Meroei]

Lirisa looked at Maura in shock. "Wait--you don't know what green is?" she asked, incredulous. "It's a color, of course! You do know what colors are, right?" She thought back over their conversation, but couldn't remember Maura, or her, ever commenting on colors. "Wow...and fish taste, I dunno, kind of salty? Do you know what salt is?"

[Kawiku1]

"Green? Colors? I'm sorry, but I can't say I know what those are." The moon wolf replied, feeling slightly embarrassed when he noted the sudden disbelieving tone weaves in the other's voice, but decided to replicate the embarrassment with curiosity, only to listen carefully at to what the other said. Thinking over his answer while staring at his paws, he then lifted his head back up to stare directly at the human, showing his curiosity while replying," Salt... Is it that bitter sour dust, the sweet dust or the dust which keeps on making you sneeze?"

[Meroei]

Lirisa laughed, shaking her head. "Salt is the bitter dust," she said. "The sweet dust is called sugar, and the one that makes you sneeze is pepper." She looked around, finally focusing back on Maura. "Your fur--what do you call this?" She pointed to the grey coat. "And your eyes--what do you call that?" His eyes were blue, she saw, but she doubted that he had the same word for it.

[Kawiku1]

"Eesh, I like the sweet dust, or sugar as you say it, more than the bitter and sneezy dust, or salt and pepper.." The moon wolf then said, grimacing at the memory of him consistently sneezing the moment he snuffed that 'pepper' up. He then perked his ears when the other pointed her gangly fingers at both his pelt and his eyes, only to say," Well, my fur is my pelt, the other my eyes, is that what colors are? Body parts or fur?" Unknown to both him and the human was that with him being a canine, he only saw everything in black and white, and with the fact that the dogs back in his ancestor's times themselves had an inability to see color themselves, never mentioned such things as colors or shades of blue and purple as they passed down the language.

[Meroei]

"Eesh, I like the sweet dust, or sugar as you say it, more than the bitter and sneezy dust, or salt and pepper.." The moon wolf then said, grimacing at the memory of him consistently sneezing the moment he snuffed that 'pepper' up. He then perked his ears when the other pointed her gangly fingers at both his pelt and his eyes, only to say," Well, my fur is my pelt, the other my eyes, is that what colors are? Body parts or fur?" Unknown to both him and the human was that with him being a canine, he only saw everything in black and white, and with the fact that the dogs back in his ancestor's times themselves had an inability to see color themselves, never mentioned such things as colors or shades of blue and purple as they passed down the language.

Lirisa shook her head. "No, no!" she said. "Colors are...well, um, look at that rock." She pointed to a red chunk that was near one of Maura's legs. Lirisa picked it up, holding it up for the moon wolf to see. "We call this red. Not the rock, not the shape...the shade, I guess you could say."

[Kawiku1]

"Shades... Everything seems really dull and bleak to me. And everything seems to be in only two shades... One is dark the other light." Maura then explained, only to glance over at the rock before squinting with all of his eyes at the rock, wonder if it had any special properties to earn its 'color.'

[Meroei]

"Oh." Lirisa looked at the rock, thinking. What would it be like to only see in black and white? she wondered. "I bet you can see some things that I can't, though," she said ruefully, with a smile. "You are a moon wolf, after all, and you do basically come from a different planet. Even if the Moon isn't a planet!"

[Kawiku1]

"I guess, um, I can see in the dark?" The male then said, unsure if that was interesting.

[Meroei]

"That's cool!" Lirisa said in an encouraging voice. "I've always wanted to do that, especially since one of my friends got a cat." She made a face, laughing. "Anything else?"

[Kawiku1]

"Cats.... Ew." The male then said, grimacing at the thought of one of those wretched felines, only to then glance over to her saying," I can speak of many languages. Other than the ability to see in the dark, each moon creature gains a special ability, some have the speciality of herbs, fighting, others shapeshifting and the ability to manipulate at least one of the elements, for me its language."