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The halls of the prisons were always cold, empty and discordant. When it wasn't dead silent, the cells rang out with protests and insults being hurled at any passing guard. It certainly wasn't a happy place, and even the most stoic of the Iguanodon guards wanted to avoid guard duty here in favour of the open air prison pits.  "Have you ever played music before?" Bluebell asked the little purple raptor she had been or...

The Atlanteans weren't exactly quiet about the presence of a treasury somewhere in the dome, music to Cassidy's ears. The idea of somewhere this big and fancy storing all of their goodies in one place was too tempting to resist, and she knew she had to at least try to break into it and peruse the treasures inside. Piper was unusually agreeable about it, usually giving a few token excuses of protest about any idea Cassidy had but this one seemed to have piqued he...

As the bag of seeds began to grow lighter, the sunlight grew paler until it was dipping in and out of the clouds along the horizon. Soon, the Euoplos were squinting in an unfamiliar darkness as they tried to navigate their planting. Their paws were stiff with both the cold and fatigue and progress had slowed to a disappointing pace at this stage. As the sunlight left, so did the scarce warmth they had been relying on all day to keep them going, it was like the c...

"Git! Go on, git!" Lobo heard the raptor before he saw him, making a racket hollering at something out of the Euoplo's sight. The citizens of the Dead City were startlingly quiet, often sneaking up on him before he even smelled the change in the air. Something about this place had folk living like they were walking on broken glass, literally and figuratively. This raptor was the loudest creature he had encountered thus far, and it seemed he was being driven to t...

Wisteria took the vines she had acquired and quickly ran around the Euoplos. Doing what Cassidy wanted, to help tie them up. It took but a few moments for Wis to use the vines. Being small was a huge perk in order to be swift. Moving her small body across the Euoplos with the vines, in a criss-cross way, nearly making a figure eight betwe...

Opal had never been so far from the dome for Atlantis in her life. She had emerged from the tunnel onto the island of Kela and just kept walking as far as her feet would take her. She had attempted a few burrows on the way, trying to recreate the snug den she had dug for herself back home but none had felt quite right. Along her journey the ground had been too wet, too dry, too hard or couldn't hold the shape at all. This new area was even worse, with grey dirt ...

The work of planting continued for a while in silence. Korppi and Talos seemed to have come to the end of their questions, or they were rattled enough by the previous answers to avoid asking any more. Drift kept looking over her shoulder to the two Euoplos, hoping to catch them talking to each other or showing any kind of interest in the land around them but both were keeping their heads down and working. It made her feel a little bit annoyed, she loved her home...

Cassidy let her eye roam over the twins as they inspected the Iguanodon guards they had managed to incapacitate. Piper had a steady stream of blood dripping from her claw, clearly not belonging to the Iggy, and she was holding it close to her chest, soaking the breast feathers in crimson. Sparrow wasn’t any better, the site of his collision with the wall having bloomed into a swelling that began to crowd his mouth and eye. ...

The Gauntlet was by far the most famous coming of age ritual known to all Atlanteans. Usually reserved for the bravest of Iguanodon adolescents, it was technically open to all species when it came time to choose what way they wanted to earn their place in the court. Generally, Ovis and Euoplos found other ways to make themselves useless and earned their warpaint that way, leaving the grandstanding and pageantry to the biggest species among them. For Lego and Arg...

Hippocampus - water The azure plane that lay before Hippocampus' astonished eyes was something entirely new to him. The soft white foam that brushed the sand in repetitive motions reminded him vaguely of the end of the waterfall, but he couldn't barely make the comparison with how it caressed the shoreline. "This is the ocean," his guide told him, "No one knows how big it i...

Tiainen ran as fast as his legs could carry him over the frosty morning grass. He wasn't running from anything, instead he was hurrying to the frozen lake's shore, late for an appointment with a friend. "Kaiwi!" he wheezed as he hurried towards the dark purple Utahraptor, "So sorry I'm-" "Shhh!" the other raptor hissed, clamping his claw around the Oviraptor's beak to keep ...

Kratti hummed to himself as he trekked through the rugged jungle paths towards the main court clearing. There were a few patches of cleared foliage in the jungle of Atlantis that allowed safe habitation, but this one was the largest and where the vast majority of the citizens lived. His mission today was one he had completed several times before, take a group of juveniles out for a survival crash course in the jungle. For the first time, he wasn't in charge of a...

Days were a loose concept down in Atlantis, so Wollemia had no idea how old she was when the guards brought her to the nursery. One of the guards may have been her parent, but having been raised by a revolving door of iguanodons since she hatched she wasn't sure about that either. The ones currently escorting her were both unfeathered and stoic, not giving her any clue of a relationship. She managed to keep pace with their enormous strides by hurrying at a brisk...

Rebellion suited Cassidy, she thought to herself. The exhilaration of causing ruckus for the sake of protecting others had yet to be matched by anything in her criminal past. She didn't want to let it slip to the others, but she felt like this was her true calling, guerilla warfare in the jungles of Atlantis and beating back the threats to the islands. It was entirely out of selfish reasons, she wanted to keep her home intact, she wanted her gang member back, sh...

When the foliage of the Atlantean jungle finally parted, it felt almost like it was spitting the three raptors out. They trudged, feathers laden with moisture into a clearing, finally free from the constant gripping and groping of the lively plants in this strange new world. Piper laid on her back, spread out on the short grass with her feathers splayed, hoping the heat of the lamps above her would help dry them out. She didn't speak, too exhausted to even bothe...

Talos and Korppi were somehow pulled away from their prime directive of planting by the promise of knowledge from their native guides. The concept of seasons where their plants might be able to grow had thrown them for a loop and now they were eager to absorb any scrap of knowledge they could in order to improve the chances of the Queen's orders. They couldn't imagine returning to Atlantis to tell Queen Rhys that her only plan to save the Atlanteans was going to...

"Okay! We're here!" Brook announced cheerfully to the assembled Atlantean planting group. They had two Euoplos with them in the form of  Talos and Korppi, who both collapsed at the first indication that the journey was over. Their short legs with a lifetime of wandering around the flat ground of the Dome were burning with the effort of climbing into the highlands of Isla Kela. This was where Brook and his sister Drift lived, above the forest in the frequently s...