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The answers to his questions came swiftly, yes she was referring to her companion and no it wasn't alive. She looked close to tears again but seemed to steel herself against them, which impressed him, but he wouldn't hold it against her if she needed to cry again. He hadn't ever had the misfortune of losing a companion, because he'd never had one, but he had talked to his sister in private about her companion. He could only imagine what it would feel like, losing something, someone that was your other half. He was naive in that aspect, grossly uneducated, but he had an imagination that he could use and if it was anything like he imagined he couldn't blame Rasta for the tears she had shed. "Do you know how?" He asked carefully, just in case it mattered later on in their game of charades.
Rasta stamped her hoof on the ground and immediately Alleo looked down. At first he expected to find something there that she had stomped, like a snake, but there was nothing but earth. His ears flicked forward and his gaze rose to hers. "Earth?" He asked, feeling that it was a stretch, then looked up as she looked to the sky. "Earth ... sky? Earth... tree.... Earth.... bird...." His voice trailed off as he told himself mentally to think. He continued to stare at the sky, that same look of concentration on his face because the sky was significant in whatever she was trying to tell him.
His eyes narrowed, head tilting slightly. Up there, through the treetops, he could see the very faint outline of the moon. A breeze swayed the branches and the moon was covered and a bit of the sun peeked through. Moon. Sun. Earth. Earth. Moon. Sun. Three different elements all ruled over by three different gods in this land. "Earth God!" He exclaimed as he looked at Rasta and grinned. "The Earth God."
She stomped twice more and touched the marking again. "Earth god. Two. Hawk." Alleo's brow furrowed again and as he tried to figure out again what she was trying to say he realized that he hadn't had to concentrate on something for so long and so completely since he'd left home. He was actually enjoying trying to figure out what Rasta was saying because he was learning how to read her body language. His still wet tail flicked as he continued to think back to what he and his sister had discussed about companions. She had quested for her bear... through the earth god.
Alleo's gaze settled on Rasta once more, his ears straining forward. "Are you trying to get another hawk?" He asked. "A ... a quest from the Earth God?"
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[P] one more day, one more time [abba]
