Aging

"Don't go outside." It was the mantra to Blanco's life since the moment he was born. His earliest memories were of the inside of this room, looking up at his mother's grim countenance as she relayed the sombre warning. Outside was dangerous, he would die out there, she said, it was better for him to stay here and let her provide for him. He had nodded gravely in response, agreeing to stay within these four walls for a...

Grackle shuffled around in the bushes, eyes shut tight to avoid the branches currently smacking him in the face. He felt around on the ground with his chin until it hit something soft. Carefully he picked up the clump of feathers and backed up out of the brush. The branches tugged uncomfortably on his soft baby fuzz as he limped over to the small pile of leaves he had been collecting. The hot air pressed against him. He scratched his chest uncomfortably. The fires had mostly died out. ...

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 ...