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06-08-2012, 11:22 PM
At the outskirts of the Deep Forest stands a tree, not unlike its neighbors in height and foliage, but special for what shelters within it. There is a hollow within this tree, a woody cave that serves as a home for a colony of bats. Little bats, vampire bats. Not all that strange, for several colonies are scattered not only through the forest but across the realm, but there is something unique here. One mother has given birth to twins, but instead of letting the extra die, she has begged the largest of the males to summon someone else to take care of her offspring.
It is dawn, the sun just now lightening the sky to the east with pale colors streaming along the horizon, and the relatively big brown bat is sitting just outside the hollow, peering shortsightedly about for predators and hopefuls. He screeches and chitters, a small sound but out of place in the gathering light. He waits, she waits, it waits.
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It is dawn, the sun just now lightening the sky to the east with pale colors streaming along the horizon, and the relatively big brown bat is sitting just outside the hollow, peering shortsightedly about for predators and hopefuls. He screeches and chitters, a small sound but out of place in the gathering light. He waits, she waits, it waits.
[This will close to all respondents on June 13th, 9:21 PST]
