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09-11-2015, 12:19 AM
I'm like a prayer you whisper from your window to the world
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She hadn't seen the tall, dark stranger approach. So intent upon the peaks on the horizon had she been than the sound of his voice made her flinch and turn, fear constricting her heart and ruffling the soft down of her tiny, useless wings. What instinct was it that made her spread them and flap, as though to get away? They had never carried her into the sky before, and would not be able to do so either for at least another two seasons. Yet still they rose and fell and sent the powdery snow swirling around her, and as she backed away the tail thrashed in mock anger, as if by whipping it back and forth like a furious feline she might scare the big, looming, unknown man away.
And then, with no warning, Vlasi was there. With a crackling ZAP she materialized between them, all heads and teeth and vicious snarls, and Erthë had never been so happy to see her before in her life. She looked up, heart beating fast as hope came alive within her, and when her seeing eye landed upon the father's familiar, loved figure the tears began to fall in earnest.
"Daddy!"
Oh, but he looked nothing like her usual kind, soft-spoken father. He sounded angry, and looked almost dangerous with the folded ears and the hard, commanding eyes. The smile immediately flickered and died away on her lips and at his words she flinched again. The growling cerberus and the stranger receive a quick glance but she did not dare defy her father, not when he looked like he was about to kick something. So she obeyed, tail tucked between the sore, painful legs where curious boils just had begun to emerge, the small wings drooping miserably from the dirty, blood-stained sides.
"Daddy, I..." But with another glance at his pale, blue-marked face she closed her lips tightly, too shaken by the never before seen expression to say another word without permission.
@Soren - yay family gathering! :D
@Random Event - again, because boils.
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