Wheeling Gull Isle Laws arise not from divinity, but reason.

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Luli, quiet as usual, felt rather out of place alongside Nüwu and her friend from the mainland. She simply listened to the duo as they conversed, curious to know of the girl her sister associated with, but was also distracted.

The mahogany yearling, brother to Meerkat, took his leave of their little gathering as they reached the shores Wheeling Gull Isle. Luli, not wishing to be caught staring, regarded him briefly from the corner of a seaglass eye and a swivel of her mottled lobe as he moved away to explore on his own. She did not turn to follow him at once but, when the opportunity presented itself and when she felt the other cubs were too engrossed in their reunion to pay her departure much notice, the koi slipped away to pursue @Bronco's trail.

She found him investigating a coconut that floated in the water further along the coast and paused a short distance away to simply observe his actions with intrigue. Oddly, the rosy Jiang did not attempt to stay out of his view, but instead willed him to look her way - despite knowing that she appeared well outwith her comfort zone.

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When he caught the coconut, he'd had to wade into the water up to his chestm, and was now thoroughly soaked with salty water. It was cold, but it'd been worth it- or so he thought it might be, so long as the coconut was received well. He shook the majority of the water free from his pelt nd then set the coconut shell down on the shore, pondering a moment before he decided to move it further up the beach- just in case an unruly wave came along and decided to steal it back into the ocean's depths again.

He was surprised to look up and see that Luli had left Meerkat and Nuwu to their own conversation, but he was pleased to see her wandering his way, her seaglass gaze curious as she approached. He chuffed, welcoming her to join him as this was, after all, her turf, and he was a guest. He gestured toward the shell. “D'you know what this is? Or what it was?” He asked, having had no name for the thing. Given the fact that she lived here, he assumed she might know- but he reconsidered for a moment, given the fact that perhaps this was simply an anomaly that had washed ashore. “An' d'you think...It'd be OK if I took this back home with me? I know someone who really needs something like this,” He explained hopefully.

He was easily one of the most beautiful things she'd ever seen, and Luli could do nothing but stare with wide, glittering turquoise eyes as he emerged from the surf. His fur, made sodden by sea water, lay slick along his flanks to reveal the strong, athletic build beneath. Bronco glistened beneath the Autumn sun and, unable to tear her gaze away, Luli struggled to keep her jaw from dropping as he took notice of her presence.

She managed only a glimpse of his warm whiskey irises, before her breath hitched and she looked away submissively. Her tail-tip twitched in silent communication - sorry! - and she mustered a timid little smile as he beckoned her to join him.

Me!? She was screaming internally, and her belly flip-flopped anxiously, but she stepped closer on dainty paws to better look upon the earthen yearling's prize. "椰子," the koi answered at once, obediently and mistakenly in her mother tongue that Bronco would surely not understand. Mortified by her error, she stammered, "oh, uhm. It-it is coconut."

She blinked, traced her lips nervously with her tongue. The coconut, she knew, was not native to their island, and so she explained: "we find them on beach when tide low, the water bring them. This one broken." Seaglass eyes studied its ragged edge, "they round, usually."

Luli pricked her ears as Bronco asked if he could return to his home with this unusual gift, and after her inital consideration to find a more intact coconut she hoped he might keep it and be reminded of Yuèlóng - of her! Then he dropped the bomb that he wished to to present it to another, and disappointment bloomed in her chest. "You can keep," she said, trying to squirrel away her sorrow for the time being, "for your... friend? Why they need?"

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He felt a little bit silly, and a bit ashamed of himself when he realized that maybe he'd been a bit too much at first- assuming that Luli was shy, or perhaps that she preferred a gentler introduction to conversation with someone she hardly knew. Still, she obliged, and he smiled faintly when she spoke a word in another language. He was reminded of Kukutux, who also occasionally slipped her own words into her sentences, though it always seemed charming, to him, to catch glimpses of another wolf's language and culture slip through. Luli looked a bit ashamed of having spoke in her own language, which was something he could understand. She obviously cared about being a welcoming host, though he didn't fault her one bit for lapsing into her own tongue.

“Coconut?” He asked, incredulously. The word she had spoken in her own tongue had sounded so different- and made his word for it sound clunky and childish in comparison. He chuckled softly. “I think I like your word for it better- how do you say it, again? Yea-zuh?” He attempted, flicking his ears forward to see if he'd caught the pronunciation right. He hoped that it was alright to ask to learn a bit of her language, and that it wasn't overstepping any cultural boundaries.

The coconut itself hadn't come from the island, but she seemed familiar enough with them, as they'd apparently drifted across the inlet to Wheeling Gull Isle before, carried by the tide. He'd assumed that due to its ragged edges, it was only a piece of a whole thing, though it still seemed kind of strange to find something perfectly round and hollow floating out on the ocean. He wasn't sure what they were from- if they came from the bottom of the ocean, or if they came from a plant along the shore- but he was fairly certain that it was plant, not animal, and that there wouldn't be much harm in taking it back with him, so long as Luli thought it was alright.

She seemed a bit surprised by the fact that he'd wanted to take it, and curious about its function. “My friend, she'd a healer, and she likes to grow herbs so that she can use them as medicines. But if, say, we get a drought and it doesn't rain, I thought she could use this to carry water from the river to her plants, to get water to them. Or to bring a drink of water to wolves who're injured and unable to move.” He added.

"Yea-zuh," the koi repeated in confirmation, her delicate voice exaggerating the syllables for him. She smiled, loving that Bronco shared how he much preferred her way of saying the word for such an unusual object. "They sometime different. Sometime they have water inside, other time empty."

Luli didn't know much of the strange coconuts that wound up on Yuèlóng shores, nor did she know of their pale inner lining. She'd never thought to try cracking them open, having simply assumed that the liquid they carried was sea water.

She felt her heart skip an uncomfortable beat to kearn that his friend was referred to as she and her, and her little forepaw shuffled in the sand as she struggled to keep keep her threatening whine from slipping beyond her teeth. Regardless of her confusing discomfort and the budding of jealousy within her, Luli did pay attention to what the mahogany yearling had to say. "Sound like your friend very caring of others," she dared to say, and smiled pleasantly through the inner turmoil of her whirlwind emotion.

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EDIT: Just going to tuck a wee conclusion on here, and archive this. Would love for these two to thread again in the future!

“Yea-zuh,” He repeated carefully, hoping that he'd pronounced it at least somewhere close to the way it was meant to be pronounced. It was a much better word than 'coconut,' which just sounded ridiculous to him. He learned that they sometimes carried water in them, before they broke, so he felt even more satisfied with the thought that this would definitely work for Fennec. If it was created with water on the inside, then it would definitely hold water even if it was only half a shell. Fennec would have to be pleased- this might mean that she could even save her garden from drought, all because of the gift he was about to bring her.

When Luli commented about Fennec, he felt a small, soft laugh trickle past his lips. At times, Fennec wcould be incredibly infuriating, and even just a bit cruel- but only when provoked. Otherwise, he did consider her to be a caring wolf. And every wolf that cared, also had reason to be hurt and lash out when angry or upset, just the way she'd felt when Penn had stranded her. “She is.” He said. But he was reluctant to say much more, because he was more fond of the idea of keeping his small infatuation to himself, rather than gushing all about her to some stranger who had no idea who he was talking about.

With the coconut shell safely enough inland that the tide wouldn't reach it again, he glanced over to Meerkat and NuWu, who looked as though they were having a grand time getting caught up. This would allow him some more time to explore the seaside, and spend some time with Luli, if she was interested. “So- what else can you tell me about this place? What kind of stuff do you guys eat here? There's so many great smells along the shore- I don't know what to look at first!” He said.

While Meerkat and NuWu took some time to get reacquainted, he would spend some time wandering along the shore, with his starstruck companion- oblivious, of course, to her admiration, but appreciative nonetheless of her kindness.