Europa
||Nickname- Eu||Dragon||Whisperer||Element-Water||
||Currently- trying to find the strength to crawl a little closer, just a little...||
||Feeling- Determined, even through the pain||Love Interest- None||
||Condition- Tired, multiple wounds on most of her body, some rather deep; the most affected area are her wings, where in some places it has been ripped right through. Still bleeding slightly.||
||Tags- Everyone||
For Europa, everywhere and everything simply hurt.
The fae, despite the time that had passed, was still collapsed at the very edge of the clearing, tiny body sprawled out face down onto the dirt and gasping for air. It had been a long flight to this place from the forest glade in which she lived with her father, and it had been an even longer crawl after the adrenaline faded and the wounds that the humans inflicted on her started to take their toll.
Especially, she think to herself,
my wings. She didn't try to move them, even slightly; she had already indulged in enough foolishness today.
But I cannot just stay here, or else...
She knew what happened to fliers with no wings; more than once she had seen how her father hunted sakura owls, grounding them with a few swift claws and watching them stiffen and fall to the ground to lie in a pool of their own pink blood.
Much like me. Her crest moved weakly in her equivalent of a grimace, keenly feeling once more the sensation of her own blood drying, mingling with earth to crust over.
And soon after that, maybe I will die.
She felt rather peculiar saying that; she wouldn't want to live forever or anything, but she did not yet want to join the shadows of shadows, like the vague shapes she sometimes saw at the corner of her eye. And the clearing, after all, with the fierce-looking dragon who didn't seem to be fierce at all making a speech about going somewhere, was right in front of her. Some of the dragons who had rejected the drake's dreams and hopes had even passed her by, but they had completely ignored her--she had to, it seems, do this on her own.
Slowly, trying to move her wings as little as possible, she dug her tiny claws into the earth in front of her and pulled, inch by inch, crusting her belly with even more loam and leaves and who knows what, until, finally, finally, she broke into the clearing proper, just as the drake had asked who could fly.
It was relatively quiet in the clearing, the gravity of the remnant's choice to follow a stranger setting in; but even then, would her whispering, monotone voice be heard as she struggled to form words? "I cannot," she murmured, trying to pull herself up, even a little.