Seasonal Prompts

The dark gray, hard rock made an unpleasant sound as Nova's tiny claws scraped against it. The female clung tightly to the highest rock shelf, nervously spreading and folding her wings for several minutes. She didn't know what to do. The jungle, whose distant edge was just visible on the horizon, looked completely different today. It was no longer the typical dense, green forest, perpetually covered in a milky white, damp fog. Over the last hour, it had changed beyond recognition. ...

Matriarch jumped onto the steel railing that bordered the ship's side facing the land. She took a deep breath of the crisp morning air – spring was just blossoming, so the temperature was still rather low. The female looked up, feeling the gentle wind ruffle her feathers – it was a cloudy day. A lot had changed on the islands over the past dozen or so days. With the arrival of the new season, the surrounding landscape had completely transformed, making the areas she knew so well al...

Silvercloud treaded carefully on the soft moss, placing each step with care. Her gait, tense but also distinctly graceful, was almost silent. The moss, saturated with water from the winter thaw, soaked her bare, featherless feet. Silver was somewhat frustrated by this. The grey female had been roaming the surrounding forest for a good hour. She had no deeper purpose in doing so - she was not looking for a new shelter, nor w...

Winter, although it had ruled the archipelago with an iron fist for a good dozen weeks, finally gave way to spring. The sun rose earlier and set much later than it had just a few days ago. Various animals awoke to life – not only those that had survived the winter in hibernation, but also a whole host of birds and other creatures. With the arrival of warmer months, birds began to show off their synchronised singing from the early hours of the morning, providing a pleasant, gentle alarm cloc...

Spring had a habit of sneaking up on you when you lived on Isla Kela. Pera was the temperamental sister, her seasons charging in and out like thunderstorms, but Kela was softer, subtler. It seemed like the snow melted millimetre by millimeter until one morning you woke to an explosion of colour and sound as the world began to wake up again. Amaryllis described it as the season ‘sneaking up’ on her, or at least that continued to be her excuse year on year as ...

Camille was letting the water grab a hold of her. The warmth that was the hot springs embraced her as she floated carefully beside Fell. She would occasionally let out a sigh as if the weight of the entire world was benign taken off her shoulders when she laid in the hot spring. “You know what? That’s the calmest I’ve seen her since she was inside her egg.” Kassadin let out a laugh at Cantalou...

Ferdinand - AberrantKapro 380 Words The mainly orange and pinkish red volcanic utah was impatiently tapping his brown, curved sickle claw on the frosty rock he was standing upon as he was looking around for his two colourful partners to arrive. The starry sky above him told him they were rather late. And while it was at least a fairly good view he was waiting und...

Camille was running ahead of the small herd of Styras. All four of them were her dads. They had found and adopted her as an egg and despite the shock of her hatching out as a raptor and not a herbivore they had loved her from the moment she hatched. Brick, a yellow and red striped Styra walked beside Fell, a neutral based Sytra with dark green tabby markings covering his body. Just behind them were Kassadin, a wine red Styra and together with him walked their fo...

After Öreis had been the first one to exit the water and shaken off all the coldness he watched from the shore as Chrail, Wärechaw, Ashqua and Moswuiro continue their bath despite how cold it actually was. But Öreis felt a bit more at ease now. They weren’t the only dinosaurs there. There were actually quite a few that had gathered to do this. Öreis and Chrail had not lived out in the real world for that long. Maybe this was something they did every year. ...

Öreis wasn’t sure why the rest of his family wanted to go to the inshore lake. If they wanted to watch the water they could go to the beach that was much closer to their cabin. But it was either option one of staying behind to avoid the cold and waiting for them to get home. Wondering if something happened on the way home. Wondering why it was all taking so long for them to go back. No, if he had to worry about it he could do that worrying while they were on ...

The year before Irody and Obscura created a comfortable and big nest in the cellar of a since long broken down house. There was barely anything left of the house anymore but the house ground that it stood upon had proven rather sturdy. So even this year Irody and Obscura had decided on making this their winter home. It had been helpful the year before so they both doubted it would be anything other than comfortable this year as well.  ...