Aging

                “Isn’t it pretty, little flower?”                 Lotus gawked at the sight before her. She had been on this earth for all of a few months but in that time her mother had showed her a great deal. Spring made it easy to travel, keeping her warm as they wandered the isles but never too hot. There was food aplenty as they traveled, too. But Lotus had always been far more interested in the sheer amount of other children there were of so m...

“Do you see what I see?” Nerodia would ask.    “I think I do see what you see…and I don't like it. “ Electra answered.    “We should turn and run. “ Uzuragi reasoned.    ...

                In some ways, Blight thought of himself as lucky compared to his brother. He had only known his birthmother for a few days whereas Relic had known his mother for a solid month before he had gotten lost.                 There were nights when Blight would hear Relic crying. His breath would go from normal to ragged and shuddering as he attempted to hide his pain. The leaves that made up his nest would gently rattle together as he shivered, w...

                As the rain started to pour down there was a streak of yellow and black zipping from tree to tree in the highland ‘jungle’ of Isle Pera. The small creature breathing hard as he ran, his eyes wide as he darted around in search of warmth and a dry place to rest. His legs were on fire from how long he’d been running. He had long since stopped yelling for help, knowing no one was around to help him or his mother who had stopped moving some time ago after falli...

"What the hell is that?" Kisse hissed at her companions. "Big bird," Roswell said sarcastically. In truth, it was a decently sized Tropeognathus, dark gray in colour with flashes of white across its beak and wing tips. It was also currently hunched over the raptors' kill and gulping down chunks of meat as fast as it could. "Let's chase it off, that kill is ours," Kisse grow...

"It's pretty high up," Kisse stated, her eyes on the canopy of the forest, trying to locate the nest of eggs that her sister had promised she had found. "It's not that high," Roswell argued, already annoyed at her plan being shot down. "Yeah, it's pretty high," Bandit broke the stalemate. It had become her speciality of sorts, being the tie-breaker between the twins. Roswel...

"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 ...