Aging

"This is foolproof, I've been working on it for months!" Roswell said, trotting into the forest clearing. Her sister followed closely, a speculative tilt to her head. "Since you were born?" she asked, but her twin ignored her. "Look at this," Roswell crowed, gesturing into the treetops. A ramshackle wooden cage hung above their heads, making Kisse recoil away from it. "My u...

Macaw’s hatching day had been, in a word, busy. The oviraptors had only recently made their way out of Atlantis, and seen the surface for the first time in years. The adults in the flock were always running around, scouting new territory, spreading seeds, attempting to make peace with the locals. And there was, of course, the nest. Macaw’s nest. Hummingbird herself had only hatched about a week prior, so she was still in the...

As they began to grow, the raptor twins were outgrowing their hatchling stomping grounds. They felt like two big fish in a small pond, cramped by the lack of sizable food and the competition only being other scrawny youngsters. The cruelty of the outside world was unknown to them, so one day they simply decided to wander out of their wooded haven and find their fortune in the city that surrounded it. The rats and voles they caught in the park were starting to no...

Quil had found another secret spot to show Cherry and both raptors were hustling through the streets of the Sunken City to reach it before the sun went down and the tide cut them off. Cherry was struggling to keep up but she didn't want to slow Quil down so she stayed quiet and wheezed along behind her. At least the sun was beginning to set, letting her see a little more clearly in the dark. It was still in that murky stage between day and night but that suited ...

When the sun rose the next morning, it failed to wake the three raptors curled in their makeshift nest. Instead, the building sheltered them and allowed them a few more hours of uninterrupted rest until Dexter blinked awake around midday. He gently extracted himself from the cuddle pile and climbed down the shelving rack until his claws touched the cool concrete floor. He walked out of the back room to see the sun streaming through the broken glass storefront, a...