Aging

Life had been relatively kind to Maahes since his hatching. He'd found the remains of a city and made the second floor of the dilapidated building his home base for a time. The nearby woods had provided food and clean water, and as far as he could tell it was an ideal hunting grounds for a dinosaur such as himself. However, Maahes was growing bigger and bigger every day. The floor of his home groaned beneath every step he took, beginning to splinter and break fro...

Adolescence, the burgeoning emergence of hormones and increased appetites and the sudden change in how others perceive you. Roseate had been a ghost for most of his youth, slipping between different territories and not making waves wherever he decided to hunt. He had noticed now that when he encountered the owners of these territories now they were less likely to just let him walk by unchallenged. As he grew close to his full size and his dimorphic markings had ...

Despite the previous night's autumnal chill, the morning sun was warm on Maahes' back. He blinked away the sleepiness and stretched his short arms out in front of him as he pulled himself to his clawed feet. The dilapidated building he'd spent the night in lacked a roof but he was still small enough that the heavy structure did not creak beneath his every step. Maahes walked carefully toward the edge of the floor and peered down at the streets below. The road, on...

Food was hard to come by when you were a turkey sized carnivore with the caloric intake of a large family of bears. Roseate was barely taller than the savannah grass he roamed in but still had to seek his own food to nourish his growing body, lest he be struck by the rickets! Or something of the sort, the craftsmaster had been at the tail end of a lengthy rant at that point and Roseate had been tuning him out for a while. Still,the point remained salient, no foo...

Months had passed since the trials of thorns, and Snowshoe, Larry, and Latte had grown. No longer bumbling juveniles, they were quickly growing into their adult plumage and learning to take on more and more responsibilities. Ever since they had passed the trial with flying colors they had been fast tracked through the scout course, taught what kind of plants were needed on the surface and how to plant and care for them, told them how to avoid detection from the ...