He had been spending a great deal of time in the Greatwood lately, seeking Roses. After the hunt with Maea and Thalassa, where they had killed several enshadowed delphinids and only barely prevented the bodies from flowing downstream to spread their corruption to the ocean he had chosen to do some patrolling through the waters around the forest's coast. Many others were also hunting there these days, and not all were as conscientious about cleaning up after themselves, after all.
He cut through the tall stalks of a kelp forest in his hippocampus shift, quietly but pleasantly surprised to find little evidence of the Void lingering in the calm waters of the Spillwave. The cool rain pounded down on the ocean's surface above, turning the water a dim grey, but a dozen feet down the currents were calm and gentle.
The forest that was not as robust as he remembered it being the year before, however, and emerald eyes searched for a cause that he could deal with.
Soon enough, he found it.
At the edges of the forest the ocean floor turned spiky and bright purple. Not the purple of the Void, but a vibrant color fully natural to Caido. The sand was mostly hidden beneath a carpet of sea urchins that had overgrown the local area and were devouring the kelp. In a timely manner, the Tidebreaker's stomach rumbled, reminding him that it had been hours since breakfast. There was a gleam in his eyes as he folded his hooves to his chest and dove down, his water magic already forming blades of ice around him that lanced forward to strike a dozen urchins, shearing away the spines on one side of their shells. His magic lifted them in a small vortex, spinning them so that they banged into each other until the rest of their spines broke off, and then he moved in to crack their shells with his thick molars, beginning to dine upon their succulent flesh.
Kaiden
He cut through the tall stalks of a kelp forest in his hippocampus shift, quietly but pleasantly surprised to find little evidence of the Void lingering in the calm waters of the Spillwave. The cool rain pounded down on the ocean's surface above, turning the water a dim grey, but a dozen feet down the currents were calm and gentle.
The forest that was not as robust as he remembered it being the year before, however, and emerald eyes searched for a cause that he could deal with.
Soon enough, he found it.
At the edges of the forest the ocean floor turned spiky and bright purple. Not the purple of the Void, but a vibrant color fully natural to Caido. The sand was mostly hidden beneath a carpet of sea urchins that had overgrown the local area and were devouring the kelp. In a timely manner, the Tidebreaker's stomach rumbled, reminding him that it had been hours since breakfast. There was a gleam in his eyes as he folded his hooves to his chest and dove down, his water magic already forming blades of ice around him that lanced forward to strike a dozen urchins, shearing away the spines on one side of their shells. His magic lifted them in a small vortex, spinning them so that they banged into each other until the rest of their spines broke off, and then he moved in to crack their shells with his thick molars, beginning to dine upon their succulent flesh.
