(Hello. I was not in a writing mood yesterday)
Iris rubbed her snout, then poked Thar "Wow. She is very asleep"
"Oh good, that means you won't bite me" She gently stroked the two animals on her shoulder "I go by Shade, so that's what you can call me" Shade grinned "Say, why you carrying all that wood? Not gonna try to set the woods alight, hm" The serthis huffed at her, to which she gave a sideways look "Hmh, Spoilsport"
Mire watched all this with visible concern, then fully raised her crests when the sandsurge burrowed. Nope, no thank you. Gently grabbing her familiar with her mouth, she crouched, then leapt up into the branches of a tree, flapping her wings to gain height. The bough creaked a loud protest at her weight, but held.
(Insert boing sound effect here)
(Hello. I was not in a writing mood yesterday)
Iris rubbed her snout, then poked Thar "Wow. She is very asleep"
"Oh good, that means you won't bite me" She gently stroked the two animals on her shoulder "I go by Shade, so that's what you can call me" Shade grinned "Say, why you carrying all that wood? Not gonna try to set the woods alight, hm" The serthis huffed at her, to which she gave a sideways look "Hmh, Spoilsport"
Mire watched all this with visible concern, then fully raised her crests when the sandsurge burrowed. Nope, no thank you. Gently grabbing her familiar with her mouth, she crouched, then leapt up into the branches of a tree, flapping her wings to gain height. The bough creaked a loud protest at her weight, but held.
(Insert boing sound effect here)
Fyrestorm chuckled a little, still tense, but that was only due to his surroundings, as the other dragon seemed friendly enough.
"No, no. I'm just gathering some wood for Mire, my friend. We live outside the forest, I believe it's called the rift? Anyway, Mire's running out of supplies, so we headed here to get some. That's when I found your mouse, and then your other friend led me here.
Fyrestorm chuckled a little, still tense, but that was only due to his surroundings, as the other dragon seemed friendly enough.
"No, no. I'm just gathering some wood for Mire, my friend. We live outside the forest, I believe it's called the rift? Anyway, Mire's running out of supplies, so we headed here to get some. That's when I found your mouse, and then your other friend led me here.
many places I have been, many sorrows I have seen, but I don't regret, nor will I forget, those who took that road with me
(i see, i see, i understand that pain)
Wave: indeed she is...
Fern: y'know, maybe she's still feeling the effects of that whole... mind ordeal thingy, or maybe it's something else, i dunno, i dont exactly know what happened in your mind, Wave
Wave: ehhhh... i'll tell ya about it later, maybe once everything calms down for more than, say, a couple minutes
Fern: ya got yourself a deal, i'll most definitely bother you after everything is calm
Wave: ...heh, yeah
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, and Error~
*Error (or whoever was in control, well, if anyone was in control, that is), without really seeing anything above, dove out of the ground, expecting Mire to still be on that spot they circled, so they looked around for a bit... until they heard the branch, looking up at her, and then burrowing again, and, this time... the fans were gone, as if they gone further underground, and then, with some warning signs, they launched out of the ground towards Mire, with a mix of both blood and tears falling behind them, and their front claws (or, well, more accurately, their hands) reaching forwards, claws ready to strike*
(Error's still conscious...)
(i see, i see, i understand that pain)
Wave: indeed she is...
Fern: y'know, maybe she's still feeling the effects of that whole... mind ordeal thingy, or maybe it's something else, i dunno, i dont exactly know what happened in your mind, Wave
Wave: ehhhh... i'll tell ya about it later, maybe once everything calms down for more than, say, a couple minutes
Fern: ya got yourself a deal, i'll most definitely bother you after everything is calm
Wave: ...heh, yeah
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, and Error~
*Error (or whoever was in control, well, if anyone was in control, that is), without really seeing anything above, dove out of the ground, expecting Mire to still be on that spot they circled, so they looked around for a bit... until they heard the branch, looking up at her, and then burrowing again, and, this time... the fans were gone, as if they gone further underground, and then, with some warning signs, they launched out of the ground towards Mire, with a mix of both blood and tears falling behind them, and their front claws (or, well, more accurately, their hands) reaching forwards, claws ready to strike*
(Error's still conscious...)
"If it tires you out so much, why do it?" Iris reluctantly stopped poking Thar
"Mire... Wouldn't happen to be a bogsneak?" Shade tilted her head. The serthis poked her and hissed.
Mire yelped in shock and started to frantically scramble up the tree. Unfortunately not in time to prevent half of her tail from being grabbed. She dug her claws into the tree, barely able to keep a grip with the additional weight. Bubblen hissed and spat at the sandsurge, trying to be scary. Something else creaked nearby.
(Big ouch.)
"If it tires you out so much, why do it?" Iris reluctantly stopped poking Thar
"Mire... Wouldn't happen to be a bogsneak?" Shade tilted her head. The serthis poked her and hissed.
Mire yelped in shock and started to frantically scramble up the tree. Unfortunately not in time to prevent half of her tail from being grabbed. She dug her claws into the tree, barely able to keep a grip with the additional weight. Bubblen hissed and spat at the sandsurge, trying to be scary. Something else creaked nearby.
(Big ouch.)
Fyrestorm nodded.
"Yep! Really good cook, too. Do you know her? She seemed to know a lot about this forest, maybe she's from here?"
(Fyre, like me, cannot read a room to save his life.)
Fyrestorm nodded.
"Yep! Really good cook, too. Do you know her? She seemed to know a lot about this forest, maybe she's from here?"
(Fyre, like me, cannot read a room to save his life.)
many places I have been, many sorrows I have seen, but I don't regret, nor will I forget, those who took that road with me
Wave: ...well, it was mostly for whoever Thar's "mind friends", they... wanted information, and i did give them some, which did make them leave, but it took a while, since me, and im sure Fern, were asking them questions and such, which, who knows, might have put more strain on her mind... i dunno, we might have to ask her later about that
Fern: agreed...
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, and Error (and a tree /j)~
*Error would pause for a second, they seemed to be a bit surprised that that actually worked, and it wasn't as out there as they thought, but that moment of hesitation caused them to slip a bit, so they gripped harder on to Mire's tail, starting to climb up it (and, depending on the weight distribution, they could possibly be pulling Mire down, too), still trying to reach Bubblen*
(more ouchies!)
Wave: ...well, it was mostly for whoever Thar's "mind friends", they... wanted information, and i did give them some, which did make them leave, but it took a while, since me, and im sure Fern, were asking them questions and such, which, who knows, might have put more strain on her mind... i dunno, we might have to ask her later about that
Fern: agreed...
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, and Error (and a tree /j)~
*Error would pause for a second, they seemed to be a bit surprised that that actually worked, and it wasn't as out there as they thought, but that moment of hesitation caused them to slip a bit, so they gripped harder on to Mire's tail, starting to climb up it (and, depending on the weight distribution, they could possibly be pulling Mire down, too), still trying to reach Bubblen*
(more ouchies!)
"Questions are that important? Huh" Iris stared off into the distance.
Shade laughed "Know her?" She adjusted her bags "She's from these woods, oh yes. Be a bit hard to be from somewhere else when we're from the same clan" A brief pause as she listened to what Alchemis had to say "Hm. Good to hear that her cooking has improved. Last I heard Ole Purple had to kick her out of his workshop for making 'potions', hmhmhmhm!"
(Hehe, the joy of Shadow; Is she joking, or is she not?)
Mire loudly shrieked, lashing out with her hindlegs in an attempt to kick the other dragon in the face. Fleeing the sandsurge, Bubblen clambered up her, using her head as a platform to jump into a higher branch. Panting with effort, the bogsneak started to flap her wings in an attempt to stay on her perch. An arrow shot out of the shadows, narrowly missing Error's head. A quiet rustle indicated that another arrow had been nocked.
(Got company!)
"Questions are that important? Huh" Iris stared off into the distance.
Shade laughed "Know her?" She adjusted her bags "She's from these woods, oh yes. Be a bit hard to be from somewhere else when we're from the same clan" A brief pause as she listened to what Alchemis had to say "Hm. Good to hear that her cooking has improved. Last I heard Ole Purple had to kick her out of his workshop for making 'potions', hmhmhmhm!"
(Hehe, the joy of Shadow; Is she joking, or is she not?)
Mire loudly shrieked, lashing out with her hindlegs in an attempt to kick the other dragon in the face. Fleeing the sandsurge, Bubblen clambered up her, using her head as a platform to jump into a higher branch. Panting with effort, the bogsneak started to flap her wings in an attempt to stay on her perch. An arrow shot out of the shadows, narrowly missing Error's head. A quiet rustle indicated that another arrow had been nocked.
(Got company!)
Fyrestorm grinned.
"Well, glad you don't hate her or anything. Honestly, I was really worried, thinking something was gonna jump out of the woods and bite me or something."
(Fyre doesn't understand the joy of shadow, he takes most things at face value. I love writing naive characters)
Fyrestorm grinned.
"Well, glad you don't hate her or anything. Honestly, I was really worried, thinking something was gonna jump out of the woods and bite me or something."
(Fyre doesn't understand the joy of shadow, he takes most things at face value. I love writing naive characters)
many places I have been, many sorrows I have seen, but I don't regret, nor will I forget, those who took that road with me
Wave: ...i guess so, but, to be honest, we did kinda invite them in to our mind, so i guess it was more... voluntary? i guess? i dunno, it's not every day ya get a being with an unknown level of cosmic power to enter your mind and ask you questions about yourself and your world, which... yeah, i guess that did happen to us... interesting, eh?
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, Error, and whoever just fired that arrow~
*Error would continue their ascent, but then they saw the arrow fly past them, so they stopped to figure out where the arrow came from, while still grabbing on to Mire's tail (a bit tighter this time), they would look as far up as their neck allowed (essentially looking behind them), trying to see where who shot that arrow, and also where the next one would come from, slowly slipping and re-adjusting themselves every minute or so*
(they curious... curious enough to the point of potentially getting nearly shot at again)
Wave: ...i guess so, but, to be honest, we did kinda invite them in to our mind, so i guess it was more... voluntary? i guess? i dunno, it's not every day ya get a being with an unknown level of cosmic power to enter your mind and ask you questions about yourself and your world, which... yeah, i guess that did happen to us... interesting, eh?
~meanwhile, at Mire, Bubblen, Error, and whoever just fired that arrow~
*Error would continue their ascent, but then they saw the arrow fly past them, so they stopped to figure out where the arrow came from, while still grabbing on to Mire's tail (a bit tighter this time), they would look as far up as their neck allowed (essentially looking behind them), trying to see where who shot that arrow, and also where the next one would come from, slowly slipping and re-adjusting themselves every minute or so*
(they curious... curious enough to the point of potentially getting nearly shot at again)
"Hm... kind of.... seems a bit... dangerous... though" Iris tilted her head "What if they left something behind? More than just memories and information? What if they took something?" She shook her head "We're always told to not answer voices we can't see. The woods have eaten many that way"
Shade chuckled, half covering her snout "Something still might!" She flicked her tail around "Little things hop and scurry, but their predators are never far behind" The tundra eyed the twigs Fyre was holding "Say, you need any help with your gathering?"
(New sidequest unlocked)
Mire just grimly hung on, trusting those that she knew lurked nearby. Another arrow fired, this time going straight through a crest. At the same time, a shadowy fae with empty eyes suddenly appeared right in front of the sandsurge. She spread her wispy wings and shrieked at the larger dragon.
(Surprise!)
"Hm... kind of.... seems a bit... dangerous... though" Iris tilted her head "What if they left something behind? More than just memories and information? What if they took something?" She shook her head "We're always told to not answer voices we can't see. The woods have eaten many that way"
Shade chuckled, half covering her snout "Something still might!" She flicked her tail around "Little things hop and scurry, but their predators are never far behind" The tundra eyed the twigs Fyre was holding "Say, you need any help with your gathering?"
(New sidequest unlocked)
Mire just grimly hung on, trusting those that she knew lurked nearby. Another arrow fired, this time going straight through a crest. At the same time, a shadowy fae with empty eyes suddenly appeared right in front of the sandsurge. She spread her wispy wings and shrieked at the larger dragon.
(Surprise!)
