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Saran sat ridged and quiet as the gathering of the dragons before Sortara disbanded, each starting to follow their respective orders. He was to go hunting, and so he waited, eyeing the green stripes of his paws in front of him. The lantern light gave them a dull sheen he found pleasant. Of course he'd noticed the Feral Call. Beyond that, he'd copied some of what he'd seen in the others with it. He was a Nocturne, after all. Even so, as perhaps one of the first to notice the strange effects he had the aching suspicion it had left him more open to its effects. It hadn't been long after he'd copied it that he could actually feel it, and then hear it.
His eyes glazed as he watched the light on his scales, mind losing focus as it turned back to hunting they were supposed to do.
Hunt the prey and eat the flesh
Tear limb from limb until nothing is left!
Hunt the prey and eat the flesh!
HUNT THE PREY AND EAT THE FLESH!
He looked up then, normal thoughts half-disjointed in the background of his mind and all but downed out by the raging chorus that had suddenly filled his head. His wings shifted anxiously along his back, and his tail twitched wildly behind him with anticipation for the hunt. The dragons before him -- Prey. The could all be prey! They could all be hunted!
A low growl, quiet, issued from his throat, and his own sound startled him back into awareness. Just what, exactly, what he doing? He shook his head a bit, trying to clear his mind and dropped his gaze back toward his striped feet, a bit embarrassed with the slight outburst. He prayed silently that no one noticed, no one could see him slipping.
One thing, Saran was certain, that his habit of being a copy cat had left him more open, more Susceptible to the thoughts sweeping though his mind like a virus. Not only was he more prone to its effects -- he feared it would also cause a faster decent into the madness.
A chill swept down his spine then, expression going from pensive and mildly embarrassed to worried. What was to become of the clan, or himself, he didn't know, he just hoped his mind stayed intact long enough to find out.
Saran sat ridged and quiet as the gathering of the dragons before Sortara disbanded, each starting to follow their respective orders. He was to go hunting, and so he waited, eyeing the green stripes of his paws in front of him. The lantern light gave them a dull sheen he found pleasant. Of course he'd noticed the Feral Call. Beyond that, he'd copied some of what he'd seen in the others with it. He was a Nocturne, after all. Even so, as perhaps one of the first to notice the strange effects he had the aching suspicion it had left him more open to its effects. It hadn't been long after he'd copied it that he could actually feel it, and then hear it.
His eyes glazed as he watched the light on his scales, mind losing focus as it turned back to hunting they were supposed to do.
Hunt the prey and eat the flesh
Tear limb from limb until nothing is left!
Hunt the prey and eat the flesh!
HUNT THE PREY AND EAT THE FLESH!
He looked up then, normal thoughts half-disjointed in the background of his mind and all but downed out by the raging chorus that had suddenly filled his head. His wings shifted anxiously along his back, and his tail twitched wildly behind him with anticipation for the hunt. The dragons before him -- Prey. The could all be prey! They could all be hunted!
A low growl, quiet, issued from his throat, and his own sound startled him back into awareness. Just what, exactly, what he doing? He shook his head a bit, trying to clear his mind and dropped his gaze back toward his striped feet, a bit embarrassed with the slight outburst. He prayed silently that no one noticed, no one could see him slipping.
One thing, Saran was certain, that his habit of being a copy cat had left him more open, more Susceptible to the thoughts sweeping though his mind like a virus. Not only was he more prone to its effects -- he feared it would also cause a faster decent into the madness.
A chill swept down his spine then, expression going from pensive and mildly embarrassed to worried. What was to become of the clan, or himself, he didn't know, he just hoped his mind stayed intact long enough to find out.