this is the reckoning
Tracking and rummaging, he was not a creature of the jungle; more prone to the sea, to the mountains, to the forests. Not this humid world with opulent hues and the grasping unknown, but there he embedded himself within anyway, figuring they could hunt until they’d had their fill, and then fly onwards towards the ocean.
His challenge was met with an equal provocation, and he muffled the lightest of laughs, giving into the indulgence of stoking and chasing. The rapacious edges of his form contentedly sauntered deeper into the fronds, blending more into the shadows then the mighty fronds or the basking canopies. He sauntered next to her, sinking deeper into the foliage, accompanying the aspects with his hidden, quiet fringes; recalling days of hushed, brimming savagery, beckoning it towards the surface with ample, persecuting prowess.
Then – they didn’t have to.
Because the unknown fowl must’ve heard or noticed or spotted them in some way – and instead of escaping, tearing off into the undergrowth, or flying into the beckoning boughs, they attacked.
This time, he did chuckle and roar in the rush of the Attuned bond, as the birds flew at them, ducking his head, and then snapping his teeth at plumage flaring nearby.
His challenge was met with an equal provocation, and he muffled the lightest of laughs, giving into the indulgence of stoking and chasing. The rapacious edges of his form contentedly sauntered deeper into the fronds, blending more into the shadows then the mighty fronds or the basking canopies. He sauntered next to her, sinking deeper into the foliage, accompanying the aspects with his hidden, quiet fringes; recalling days of hushed, brimming savagery, beckoning it towards the surface with ample, persecuting prowess.
Then – they didn’t have to.
Because the unknown fowl must’ve heard or noticed or spotted them in some way – and instead of escaping, tearing off into the undergrowth, or flying into the beckoning boughs, they attacked.
This time, he did chuckle and roar in the rush of the Attuned bond, as the birds flew at them, ducking his head, and then snapping his teeth at plumage flaring nearby.
DEIMOS
