Pandora's Nest

[OPEN] Pandora's Nest

Vulkán Posts: 16

Dragon's Throat Colt

Colt :: Tribrid :: 18hh :: Yearling (ages quickly)

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06-01-2017, 12:15 PM (This post was last modified: 06-01-2017, 12:16 PM by Vulkán.)

Sneaking away from the Mountain That Knows is no mean feat - the clue is in her name. There's a pull in the colt's body that drives him to want to wander away and explore his home for himself, but getting out from his dam's watchful stare is an unenviable task. It's only when he realises that his sister isn't there that he thinks there's an open window of opportunity, and with a furtive glance at his massive mother, he seizes it.

Stealthy, stealthy, stealth goes the volcano boy, his wings tucked to his sides and his strides long to try and get away from Isopia before she turns around. With the wide open expanse of the Throat now seemingly at his mercy, Vulkán isn't sure what to do first - he settles for following Otem's scent, hunting for her simple familiarity. He soon comes across her alongside two other fillies, and he tilts his quad-horned head with interest at the sight in front of him. Eggs, a defensive mother-owl, and a snake hunting for its dinner.

One of the fillies is winged, and points out that the snakes will eat the eggs without help. The burnt-coated colt frowns. "It's nature," he states matter-of-factly. Despite being only a handful of days old, the colt already grasps the general meaning of life - that, as a herbivore and a prey animal, he's vulnerable to being eaten by predators, but that he shouldn't hold it against them as they're only trying to survive. He immediately compares himself and Otem to the eggs, wondering if his mother would protect her children so savagely. She would, he's sure of that, because regardless of the circle of life and the dance of predator and prey, it's also a mother's primal instinct to do anything for her offspring. These eggs are not he or Otem's offspring, though, and the snake has as much right to eat them as they have to eat the grass beneath their hooves.

He looks over to Otem. Surely she will agree that it's best to leave the snakes to their feast? "We should leave them alone." He glances at the eggs again - there's no empathy in his gaze, merely a dispassionate admiration for the mother-bird's valiant attempt to save them.

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Pandora's Nest - by Otem - 05-31-2017, 02:05 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Melita - 05-31-2017, 06:05 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Otem - 05-31-2017, 07:33 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Vastra - 05-31-2017, 08:16 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Vulkán - 06-01-2017, 12:15 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Melita - 06-01-2017, 05:14 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Otem - 06-02-2017, 10:35 AM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Vastra - 06-05-2017, 08:20 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Vulkán - 06-06-2017, 02:34 PM

RE: Pandora's Nest - by Melita - 06-08-2017, 05:37 PM

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