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"Remind me why we're knee deep in muck again?" Rose asked rhetorically, truly fed up with Rei's shenanigans this time. Rei ignored the barbed tone and responded in full earnestness instead. "We have to find something cool for the Ovis, I bet no one else thought to bring them some local delicacies," he bragged. Rosethorn rolled her eyes but stayed in the swamp with her two friends nonetheless. Seri had been quietly com...

The skies over Isla Kela were clear and the air currents were buoyant as the scouting party set out on their mission. As usual, Magnolia took the lead, her two followers completing a small V formation behind her. She kept her eyes shut for a while, letting the wind rush past her, caressing her face and crest, lifting her wings and carrying her along. The weight of the mission was not lost on her, but she was committed to enjoying every second of flight the skies...

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...

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...

Themis was on a mission, a mission for Lucent, which granted it her full attention. Her brave leader had set off on his own recon, telling her to visit somewhere else to gather information on her own. Though she was loath to be parted from him she took this order with grave seriousness and had immediately broken out into a run from their pack's home. Her destination was the lava fields of Isla Pera, where tunnels had been filled with scattered seeds and swarming...

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...

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...

Mako’s morning was as boring as it usually was. He made a few laps of his territory, finding no one in his remote corner of the sea and settling back down in the shallows to spend the rest of his day grazing. Monotonous, dull, uneventful, just the way he liked it. He had spent enough of his life being tossed from place to place, conflict to conflict, he had earned his solitude with years of suffering. His scars tingled as he recalled their origins but quickly ...

The long rays of dawn spilled into the streets of the main urban area of Isla Kela. While most of the island was gradually coming to life as the sun rose, the city remained still, save for the rustling of the plants in the breeze. The plant life of the island had made a valiant effort to swallow the concrete in their years of abandonment but the structures of man had been built to last. Still there was enough cover to create dappled spots of light in the alleywa...

The sedentary lifestyle of incubating eggs was beginning to wear thin for Ophelia. The rest of the clutch was already being miniature menaces around the lake, chasing waterfowl with their tiny tails paddling furiously behind them. But this one, this solitary silent egg, still waited in the nest. She could feel movement when she pressed the end of her snout into it and she had taken to gently rocking it to try and encourage it to hatch. There was a chick in there...

A final jab with his snout sent sunlight flooding into the eyes of the fresh hatchling. He brought his forelimbs up to his face, shielding his vision from the blinding rays and tried to retreat back into his egg. The hollow casing rocked backwards, tipping over and causing the Suchomimus to spill out of its protective embrace. He lay stunned for a minute, looking up into the blue sky that swam through the grey buildings. The clouds drifted across their azure exp...