Seasonal Prompts

It happened so fast. The flames rising, engulfing the treetops. Creating walls of impenetrable red flames that seemed to touch the sky. All three of them could hear their fathers on the other side despite the roar of the growing fire. Ashqua, his bright yellow brother, tried screaming back to their parents on the opposite side of the fire but the winds threw up dust and sot into his face causing him to cough instead. How could Öreis scream so loudly on the othe...

Knowing how deeply obsessed her sister was with humans, Kisse was just as surprised as Dexter when Roswell turned down his invitation to explore the Alpha Labs. She had come along anyway, of course, because they were a trio at this stage and being parted felt odd. Still, she took no notes, no observations of the various human mechanisms they passed by as they worked their way down. Dexter was the opposite, peering into every cupboard he could open and leafing th...

Dacia sat nervously in front of the two court members as they assessed her offerings. The pile of red peppers sat innocently in the light, their banana shapes glistening under the false lights of Atlantis. They somehow seemed different here, their rosy charm amongst the leaves diminished to the plastic gleam of their waxy skin lying flat on the grass. She chanced a look up at Jasper and Clemmons, the two court members that were processing her offering, and saw t...

Island Kela is known as the mild island of the isles; its volcanoes are dormant and lava flows restricted to its more active neighbor island Pera. It may have been a discarded piece of glass acting as a lens, stray ashes and cinders making their way to dry foliage, or one overzealous pyromaniac, but the wildfire took everyone by surprise. The forest was just smoldering at first, thin veils of light smoke rising to the sky in one moment, but it grew hungry and destructive within minutes...

The labs contained a wealth of knowledge hidden in their wretched bowels and knew he must brave them to further his understanding of the human menace. He knew very few scholars of humanity that could also read their runes, so he frequently descended alone into the old halls. The sight of the preserved specimens were familiar by now, and where once they had frightened him he now greeted them as old friends. It couldn't hurt to pay a modicum of respect to such for...

"I ain't a flier," Tony warned the two Cryos as they pulled him above the snow and onto the plateau. "We know," Drift said through her clamped teeth, rolling her eyes and making a show of rolling her eyes. Brook was pushing him from behind so Tony couldn't see if he was being as impetuous as his sister. "You need to get out more." "And here I am!" Tony exclaimed, gesturing ...

"Have you been up here before?" "Of course not, I'm just following what the old man told us," Tiramisu grumbled, clambering over another steep incline. He turned back to help Foxglove climb after him but Thistle forged ahead as she usually did, without help. She was waiting around the slight bend in the path for the two of them, staring out across the land. "It's so strange...

Fire season, the death of the old to make way for the new. The forest razed to the ground only to nourish the fresh new buds once spring came back around. It was almost beautiful if you weren't the one being burned. Raspberry kept her head low to the ground as she rushed through the burning woods. She and Miku had been by the lake at its centre, not realising their way back had been set alight in the meantime. As if t...

Acorn opened his eyes just as the morning sun began to peek over the distant mountains. His found family, Ivy and Borealis, were still sleeping peacefully on a bed of the softest leaves they could find. Which Acorn thought was quite a feat considering how orange and crunchy the leaves were. He hoped they'd turn green again soon! These didn't taste as good, and he much preferred juicy green leaves and delicious berries over what clung to the branches and grew in t...

Fire was common this time of year, but it never made it any less dangerous. Out on the plains, Kaiwi had seen a buzzard drop a flaming stick into the grass to flush out small creatures to eat. Now, four days later, the fire was reaching the edge of the Dead City and a gathering of volunteers had assembled along the boundary to plan for the worst. Kaiwi had raised the alarm immediately but it had taken time to mobilise the cooperative citizens of the city togethe...