He'd had to ask around to figure out what a Glotter was, but luckily he hadn't had to go far. As it turned out, they were recent additions to the Greatwood in the past year, and while they were big they weren't particularly dangerous. They just liked shiny things!
Tal had heaved an even larger sigh than usual upon learning that and asking his sisters for some bait.
Because of course they'd pointed out that the best way to get a glotter to actually hit his vest would be to make the Vest shiny.
So he'd been given a shirt decked out in tinsel and glitter and then returned to the Greatwood to sit beside the Stonesong, glaring into the water and daring a glotter to show up and have an opinion.
Boreal was sunning herself on a rock in the middle of the rushing river, which was why she didn't realize that the glotter wasn't coming from the river. It was on its way back, and when it saw Tal in all his shiny glory its little black eyes lit up and it gathered its muscles, wiggling with joy before launching itself down the hill and directly at the back of the courier as he was turning around to face it.
It hit him like a ton of bricks in the chest and knocked him back into the water before Boreal could get airborn. Tal let out a strangled: "Fuc--!" before water filled his mouth and the sound of thrashing water and desperate glubs filled the once-peaceful stretch of river as the glotter tried to drag him under.
The white dragon circled overhead in increasing distress, roaring and making aborted dives at the surface of the water, but unable to get her claws into the big beastie that was wrestling her human to a watery grave.
Sah
Tal had heaved an even larger sigh than usual upon learning that and asking his sisters for some bait.
Because of course they'd pointed out that the best way to get a glotter to actually hit his vest would be to make the Vest shiny.
So he'd been given a shirt decked out in tinsel and glitter and then returned to the Greatwood to sit beside the Stonesong, glaring into the water and daring a glotter to show up and have an opinion.
Boreal was sunning herself on a rock in the middle of the rushing river, which was why she didn't realize that the glotter wasn't coming from the river. It was on its way back, and when it saw Tal in all his shiny glory its little black eyes lit up and it gathered its muscles, wiggling with joy before launching itself down the hill and directly at the back of the courier as he was turning around to face it.
It hit him like a ton of bricks in the chest and knocked him back into the water before Boreal could get airborn. Tal let out a strangled: "Fuc--!" before water filled his mouth and the sound of thrashing water and desperate glubs filled the once-peaceful stretch of river as the glotter tried to drag him under.
The white dragon circled overhead in increasing distress, roaring and making aborted dives at the surface of the water, but unable to get her claws into the big beastie that was wrestling her human to a watery grave.
Sah
