If I can help one fainting robin unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain
I shall not live in vain
The melding of human and animal is still unique after all this time as an Attuned. How he can still plan and think as a man, but focus with the single-minded intent of a predatory creature. The harder he thinks about it the more it falls apart, and so he has never bothered to try. The bird and the man are one in the same, and thinking of it that way makes it much easier.
He waits for Ray to dive first, the twitch of her wings before she folds them immediately visible and prompting him to dive alongside her. With a less streamlined form he is a few heartbeats behind her, but it ends up being to their benefit as Ray strikes hard and kills the rabbit mercifully quickly. His own target startles hard at the display, but isn't fast enough to spring away by time Harper has descended, snapping its spine with the impact to end its life just as painlessly. Shoving back off the earth he joins her in the sky, their victorious emotions swirling together until it's unclear where he begins and Ray starts.
Great job! he compliments heartily, still a mentor at heart, inclined to praise and encourage even when they are equals. Since we can only carry one each, I set up a wicker basket back at the bank we met at so we can have a better haul. We can hunt down whatever we find that we can take down as birds and then get some grub of our own? It's a string-free offer if she has other things to attend to after their hunt, but Harper certainly won't rush off after their job is done if she's willing to entertain him.
He waits for Ray to dive first, the twitch of her wings before she folds them immediately visible and prompting him to dive alongside her. With a less streamlined form he is a few heartbeats behind her, but it ends up being to their benefit as Ray strikes hard and kills the rabbit mercifully quickly. His own target startles hard at the display, but isn't fast enough to spring away by time Harper has descended, snapping its spine with the impact to end its life just as painlessly. Shoving back off the earth he joins her in the sky, their victorious emotions swirling together until it's unclear where he begins and Ray starts.
Great job! he compliments heartily, still a mentor at heart, inclined to praise and encourage even when they are equals. Since we can only carry one each, I set up a wicker basket back at the bank we met at so we can have a better haul. We can hunt down whatever we find that we can take down as birds and then get some grub of our own? It's a string-free offer if she has other things to attend to after their hunt, but Harper certainly won't rush off after their job is done if she's willing to entertain him.
