Aging

According to Vanim, Kyrien was going through his “rebellious teen phase,” which Kyrien refused to acknowledge. As if Vanim would know anything about rebelliousness! The old man had never done anything interesting in his whole life. Kyrien knew it, the twins knew it, everyone knew it. The twins were more fun to play with, but they were constantly exploding with enthusiasm; Frasil was too rough when they tussled and Fainel was always talking. Kyrien couldn’t stand it....

Brook had been alone since he left his nest, surviving, thriving even, on solo hunts and scavengery. Whatever part of the island he had found himself in was noticeably lacking in the dinosaur population and he mostly found himself managing to live alongside mammals instead. A lot of them were still slow from the retreating winter and their hibernation, as long as he didn’t make himself a threat they never seemed to see him as one. He tried to ignore the pang i...

There are different kinds of fliers all over the world and different kinds of teachers. Some fliers are fair weather, preferring to only take to the skies during times of clear weather, blue sky stretching out in front of them with the sun beating down at them, warming them. These fliers might only fish from calm waters, eat small critters, or scavenge kills from those more daring. At the sign of a dark cloud they turn in and ground themselves until conditions improve. These fliers are unlike...

The peace in their new home didn't last long for the twins. The next morning under a meagre sun, they had begun to redecorate the place and make it more comfortable. Frasil had put herself in charge of finding new bedding, the moss was nice but it grew damp in the chilly night air and she feared catching scale rot if she used it for too long. Fainel was arranging fronds of the highland forest plants into a cover for the entrance of the cave, taking great care in...

It was a warm spring morning when the young twins made their decision to strike out on their own. They were beginning to outgrow their nest and after learning to hunt for themselves they no longer relied on their mother to survive. They also had each other, a built-in mini pack to help stake out territory in their new lives. Frasil was convinced, and had convinced Fainel in turn, that nothing could stand up to two Cryos working in perfect tandem. Nothing they ha...

Life was rough for a lone baby dinosaur. When Kanna hatched, she was surrounded by eggshells and cryolophosaurus scent that was several days old. She’d been the last to hatch, and, evidently, her family hadn't felt like sticking around and waiting for her. So from the very beginning, she was alone. She spent a few days trying to follow the scent of her family, but she was slow, rambling, and inexperienced, and realized she had no hope of finding them. So she left the...

There were pros and cons to having only two eggs in a clutch. On one hand you had two hatchlings, easier to feed and easier to focus your attention on individually. They also only had each other in the nest when their parents left to hunt, so their bond could grow unbreakably strong. Unfortunately this also meant that the pure concentrated sibling urge to fight was focused entirely on one other individual. All the strict parenting in the world couldn't curb a ha...

Elisia woke with a startled snort in the dead of night. She hadn’t intended to fall asleep so soon in her new home, but it was encouraging that nothing had happened when her guard was down. She stretched her limbs and shook herself out, feeling refreshed from her rest. She slipped into the cool early morning waters and swam out into the main body of the river. The current was as gentle as it had been the previous day and Elisia let herself float along with it....

Morning came quickly and cold to Elisia’s nest, rousing the hatchling with a sudden stiff breeze. She sat up abruptly, her head spinning with the quick movement. Her eyes darted around in the darkness searching for the familiar large silhouette of her mother. Both the nest and the lake surrounding it were empty of her usual presence. Elisia stood on her spindly adolescent legs and tried to wade into the dark waters to search for her. She circled the nest, chir...

                Tempest had never thought of himself as someone that would make a good father. Which is exactly why he had never settled down with any one female to have children and raise them. He’d had plenty of one night stands, hell, even that time with Nightingale. But none of them had resulted in any of the mothers coming after him to demand anything of him.                 Until they did.                 Cheer had been droppe...