These woods are lovely, dark, and bloody

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[PRIVATE] These woods are lovely, dark, and bloody

Tae Posts: 133

Dragon's Throat Alchemist atk: 7.0 | def: 10 | dam: 4.5

Mare :: Pegasus :: 15.2 :: 2 HP: 72.5 |

Mal :: Timber Wolf :: Terrorize & Hel :: Royal Hellhound :: Hellfire Odd

12-21-2015, 04:16 PM (This post was last modified: 12-21-2015, 07:08 PM by Odd.)

Grusha & Tae

If you throw us to the wolves, we'll come back leading the pack

Tae's delicate legs leaned heavily on Grusha's haunches as she tried to help her twin negotiate the narrow entrance. It became immediately obvious that Grusha would make it through, the question was just how hard it would be for her to do so. Grunting with the effort, Tae spread her tiny wings and beat them as if trying to use the force of the air to assist with the task. Slowly but surely, Grusha edged her way into the blackness, and Tae immediately followed suit.

As did..

Tae had noticed that her sister had been forced to drop her prized squirrel in order to carry one of the wolves. And, given that Grusha was not normally altruistic, Tae assumed that Grusha had only done it because she had. And so, her sister's loss of that particular carcass was her fault. But not for long.

Tae focused on the animal skin, laying discarded in the grass. She knew not where her magic came from, only that it came when she thought of it. The song that fueled the magic seem to live within her very bones, and all it took was an inward hum to draw it forth. A flash of light suddenly took hold of the squirrel, and it rose, dancing awkwardly and then flying in the air towards them, bouncing up and down as Tae tried to make it appear lifelike. In this, she obviously failed - she was far better acquainted with what things looked like when they were dead, rather than alive - but the gesture was clear enough. Her spirit-magic dragged the skin into the cave, depositing it promptly at Grusha's hooves.

"You left this behind, Seestra." Tae whispered, a wolfish grin upon her lips.

Outside, the sound of thunderous hooves caught Tae's attention, but she did not flinch. Instead, were it not for the rustling of the eggs, she might have left to investigate. But something coming out of an egg was simply too familiar to her own origin story, that she moved to the back of the cave, rather than out of it. The eggs were shiny, and flat black. Even in the dim light, Tae could see something moving inside - and the girl was caught by a weird deja-vu. She recalled well how it was when she was inside of her own egg, rolling around and demanding to be freed. So instead of aiding whatever was inside, Tae merely watched.

She had been stronger for freeing herself, and she would not rob this creature of the opportunity to be its own champion.

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