[Gift] Stars with different meanings

Ferdinand - AberrantKapro

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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 under he still didn’t like the waiting part, all though it wasn’t something the other two did intentionally. At least Kormal didn’t do it intentionally. He puffed up his dark red and yellow chest and burred up the rest of his feathers to keep warm in the cold night as he sat down rather than standing up. He was now reminiscent of a well fed bullfinch at a bird feeder, only much larger and angrier.
While the three of them had no specific plans necessarily, he was still not super pleased about arriving first and having to wait. Knowing him ,he would very likely take it out on Phaeniss as he arrived, but only time would tell. He sighed heavily and followed his fading breath in the cool air, which led him to see two colourful blobs in the horizon. He shook his head and focused his eyes to make them out, and just as the colour suggested, it was Kormal and Phaeniss. Finally, time to have some fun, he thought with a devious grin on his face.
He had found a fairly big rock where he had been able to watch the stars as the snow had been gently falling on top of him. Watching as the stars twinkled above him. At least it wasn’t the worst place to sit and just wait. But at the arrival of his partners he had sprung off the rock and he quickly shook the light blanket of snow that had covered him off before trotting over to his two partners to greet them. He gently ruffled Kormal’s pink, scruffy neck before turning towards Phaeniss, squinting at him with a harsh look.
“Are you to blame for this delay, perhaps?” he asked him with a slightly threatening tone as he gently caressed his green chin with his orange tail while locking his sharp, yellow gaze with Phaeniss’ red eyes. “I would hope not.”

Phaeniss + Kormal - Dillyweed

It was cold outside. And despite that the sky was almost clear of clouds there was a light snow drizzling down from the dark sky. As the two raptors walked across the open field to the place where they were supposed to meet their partner he let his eyes wander upon the sky. The areas between the few clouds were filled with a beautiful variation of shining and blinking lights. If you squinted and really tried to look they even seemed to shimmer in slightly, slightly different colours. Phaeniss eyes travelled from star to star. Some of them even made small images if you connected them with invisible lines. He could imagine a bear in one of them. A badly drawn bear, but a bear none the less. After a while he let his gaze down to look onto the raptor that was walking ahead of him. It was slightly ahead. Close enough so that the pink raptor could stop if he wanted and smack him in his face with his tail feathers. Even when it was just two of them, both Kormal and Ferdinand would walk ahead of him. He glared a bit. He would’ve left long ago if it wasn’t something about their treatment of him that made him want to stay. That's how he and Ferdinand had met from the beginning. Sort of. At least that’s how it ended up with Phaeniss following Ferdinand around. In the end it was more like that than anything else. For sure Ferdinand and Kormal must have some sort of fond feelings for the yellow and green raptor to let him try and ambush them ever so often. To let him follow them around, being a nuisance most of the time. Why else would they tolerate his aggressive nature? 

Phaeniss let his gaze travel back up to the stars as Kormal walked ahead of him. Kormal also watched the stars, letting his gaze follow along the path in the starry network that led him to find the north star. The guiding star. A star you could trust with your life. He wasn’t thinking as much about the stars as Phaeniss was. He found them intriguing. He wondered what they were. But he had since long figured that whatever they were, it didn't really matter. He was happy for their existence. The way you could find your way thanks to them, how amazing it was that the stars were so accurate. Neither of them commentated on that as they walked. How vast the world above them must be. The way the stars stayed upon the sky until dawn. Seemingly unmoving for a small raptor like himself. A tiny speck on presumably just another white speck for someone else out there to look up on. At least that's what Phaeniss thought about the stars he could see. He didn’t know what they were called. Someone had just told him it was a star at some point and he had believed them. He wondered quietly if anyone else was watching them as a speck on their sky at the same moment as he was. Or maybe those specks of stars were having their day time so they could not see stars either. Maybe that’s why he could see their star. This was nothing he would tell Kormal or Ferdinand though. His partners were happy too bully him. He did not always mind even if he responded with aggression. But there were things he didn’t want to tell his partners. Things that felt too stupid to share. Or like now, things that he did not want to be broken by their logic despite how correct he always thought it was. If they never told him the truth he would be happy thinking about how big the world outside of their world was and if perhaps one day they could find a way to travel to those other worlds.

It wasn’t til they arrived at Ferdinand that Phaeniss let go of the night sky again to concentrate on his partners and their words. Ferdinand did not waste time with pleasantries. He immediately started blaming him for their delayed arrival.

“It is not my fault, actually.” Phaeniss let out those words covered with a slight growl. His red gaze fixated on the orange and red raptor Ferdinand. Letting his tongue out like a dog nervously licking its nose to show its emotions. “I was ready far earlier than Kormal was.” 

It was true, this time, that Phaeniss had been early. In fact they weren’t especially late to this place to meet with Ferdinand. Ferdinand was probably just having fun messing with him. He felt the orange tail feathers under his chin and he let his feathers puff up. From his crest that grew immensely to the feathers on his tail. He practically looked like a bush. 

“But do you have any proof that it’s not your fault though? Doubt it.” Ferdinand said with a grin on his face. Kormal did nothing to defend Phaeniss in this instance. 

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