((Sadly, we've reached the point where I re-use floats. ))
This float is pulled by a pair of spirals fully stretched out, wings flickering almost too fast for the eye to follow. Their heads are painted bright, and the color flows and fades along their body. If you squint, you can actually believe they're a pair of comets trailing fire.
The float itself is a bowl with pillars shaped like trees of the Tangled Wood along the edges supporting a dome above. At first glance, dome and bowl mirror each other. Both are dark but sparkling with stars. But something's not quite right. Arcane dragons, or other star-watchers, will realize it if they study the float - the dome shows the constellation of the northern hemisphere of Sornieth while the bowl shows the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
Spirals and coatl unwrap themselves from the pillars to throw favors out into the crowd. Many of them are painted with comets, too, and some of the coatl shake off glittering stardust as they fly over the crowd, much to the delight of the hatchlings.
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color on the float, though, is the coatl sitting atop the dome. Purple nebulae swirl in his feathers as he flares and flashes his wings. Every now and then, he stands up on his hind legs to throw out a favor, proudly displaying the clouds of stars in his breast-feathers.
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shadowmaat Another nocturne in the crowd calls back a response as the same type of bird. A different one does a sakura owl's call instead. This nets an indignant wildwood response from yet another nocturne, which results in two others teaming up on sakura owl-calls.
Suddenly, the entire parade is taken over by the soft sound of owl-calls before fading back into the normal crowd noises.
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Canisa The hatchlings laugh; coatl feathers flicker, the snapperling stamps her feet, and the mirrors' tongues loll out.
Laughter vanishes into excitement that has them all flapping their wings as a spiral from the float (lookit! another spiral from the parade!) flies overhead, distributing a few more favors with a wink.
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ThisOneIsBlue A spiral laughs, as she catches both the fae-intonation and the body language. She has plenty of fae in her own clan; she knows how they are. But it's still so amusingly incongruous.
"Hayyyyy~" She throws three favors, two of them neatly catching on the ridgebacks' noses and one of them aimed to fall directly in front of the fae.
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brain4puzzles Mirror dragons like Mallet are one of the reasons the Shadow Flight does a rain of toads towards the end of the Parade. It certainly makes cleaning things up much easier.
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Jurpassic A coatl with stardust falling from their wings swoops down, lazily dropping favors over the crowd. They pause for a moment over the nice-looking tundra, then toss something down to gently bounce off that fluffy, fluffy coat.
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fairyn The little fae attracts attention from one of the coatl krewe members. He tentatively offers to help with the untangling, stardust shedding from his feathers.
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Dreamlight "Praise be!" echoes a nocturne nearby. There's a few rumbles of approval, but most of it fades into the general crowd-noise.
Overhead, a pair of spirals from the krewe spin around each other, knotting up then slipping undone. They split apart, each going in a different direction. An errant fae startles one, though, and their mask winds up falling into the crowd.
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Artisuseless The coatl at the top of the float rears up, chest-feathers fluffing out. Spirals all in black, darker than the night, dart down from the sky, play-attacking, and he hisses and lashes out with shadow magic. Any trained magic-user, can see he's pulling his punches as it were.
But the black spirals are blinded and 'subdued', their illusions of darker-than-darkness fading. The coatl on top of the float settles then down then gathers up a string of favors to throw out into the crowd.
(( My responders are giving me feels. ))
