[Nia The Elf]

username: Nia The Elf
kalon name: Miera
prompt response:

A paw stretched lazily up to brush the clouds, smudging them across a sky blue canvas. One smooth stroke and soft grass spans across to create a horizon; another few jagged strokes and foggy mountains reach up high. Miera carefully places her paw down in the corner and a small cloudy sun warms the painted land.

Shaking herself and smiling, the canvas also shakes and the clouded brush strokes dissipate - a clear canvas there once again.
She hums, turning to one side.. And then the other.. Her eyes light up and she thrusts herself back into her craft; both paws reaching - mixing cloudy paint into a swirling current. Careful claws make bubbles and ripples, before a paw splodges right into the centre; dragging out a long neck and tail on either side.

It’s the iguana that Miera had just seen clamber into the pond nearby, but instead - a massive sea dragon pushing through an angry sea of foam and fury - head tall and proud, tail strong and elegant.

She watches the dragon swim for a while, before sighing and closing her eyes, the sun warming fur and pulling her into slumber.

When she opens her eyes again; the canvas is gone, the paint too. But the dragon - now a cloud slowly gliding by - looks back at her and winks.

214 words

[Mercuré]

username:irockwaffleking
kalon name: Friselis
prompt response [500 words max]:

Friselis ever since she was young had wanted to fly. She had been mesmerized by how birds seemed to effortlessly float and dive through the sky. Unfortunately though Friselis soon realized (after attempting to jump off a tree and fly herself) that she couldn’t fly. One day while she was lying in the grass and watching the swallows zip through the air she saw a plane for the first time. Once she found out what it was Friselis was beyond excited. She could be up there in the sky! Yes it might not be the same as exactly flying but it was close enough. She asked her parents and they saved up for her first flying lessons. At first she was unsure if she would be fearful because of the height but once she was in the air she never wanted to come down. Now whenever Friselis isn’t learning she spends her time dreaming she was up again in the clouds. Friselis daydreams about joining a flight school and becoming a pilot. And maybe even further in the future having a plane that she can call her own so she can go up in the clouds whenever she wishes.

[EpicratesPictus]

username: Irrylath
kalon name: Dylan
prompt response [500 words max]: I gaze out the window, and stare at the storm gathering, wishing that I could enjoy it the way I used to. Running, leaping, and twirling without a care while feeling the rain fall and counting the seconds between flashes of lightning and the following thunder, oh how I miss those careless days. Being so carefree is a thing I haven't been able to do in what feels like forever. Ever since that simple day in my gym class when I was hit with a dodgeball to the kidney region, my life has been different. The school nurse thought I was exaggerating my pain, but when I showed him the toilet, he became far more concerned and called my parents and an ambulance. Once they arrived and were informed of my symptoms, I was rushed to a hospital, where they did multiple tests. It was determined that while I was not gravely injured, my digestive tract was in a horrible state. I've been in and out of various hospitals since then for diagnoses and treatments. My current view is out of the hospital room I'm in for an infusion of the newest medication my hospital hopes will extended my life.

[cocoa]

username: cocoa
kalon name: Noelani
prompt response [500 words max]:

Staring up at the clouds, Noelani daydreams of a life far from here. Her worn t-shirt sits between her fingers as her thumb works over a hole torn in the corner from wear; her wispy white hair lays splayed and damp in the dew of the grass. Her limbs ring with a dull ache from consistent days of work.

It makes her mind all the more blank, a canvas for her daydream to bloom in watercolors of pink and blue and yellow. She builds castles from the puffy forms of the clouds, imagines the white plumes of angels that live far above. She thinks of how kind they must be - angels were always said to be so - and how they might sling an arm around her shoulder, guide her to the prettiest places in the clouds...

Her mind drifts, and her daydream shifts. She thinks of all the other realms, how they must be better than here. She dreams of golden fields - grass with tips of molten gold, ore veins of burnt yellow pushing out of the ground. She wonders if the residents might hoard the largest ore patches - if they greedily protect the plot of land or if they tear the ore's life out of the earth. She thinks of how their cities might look - white and marble lined with veins of gold. She thinks of how it must be, to drift through those markets with a silk shawl over her shoulders, buying shining trinkets to take to wherever her home must be - it would be loving, that is sure.

And oh - the stories of the rainbow seas, how the water catches sunlight and morphs it into color, changing as the sun rises and sinks across the horizon. She saw a rainbow once in her life, a faint mirage after a harsh rain. She superimposes that image into her daydream, mixes memory with traveler's tales, and wonders at how deep a sea the color of red or yellow might run. She crafts images of ships that sail upon it's lauded waters, painting elaborate twists of line and design into dark hulls and billowing sails. Her mind soars with that thrill of creation, her heart pounding to the sharp taste of what could be as she imagines herself on one of those ships. Perhaps she would even have a gleaming white sword, fit for a fearless pirate, or an dignified emissary for the queen of the realms!

Her mind hums with pleasure as she cycles through her dreams - angels, golden cities and rainbow seas - her mind building more elaborate scenarios with each second that passes, tension coiling in her muscles with the desire to leap up and make the dreams a reality. To run until she could reach that undefinable place where dreams become reality, where love runs thick and free -

Her eyes snap open to an empty, darkening sky and her heart plunges until all that is left is the hurt in her empty stomach.

[497 words]

[KestrelTheFirecat]

username: KestrelTheFirecat
kalon name: Allia
prompt response [500 words max]: Allia daydreams about being a great singer....

wip

[₊˚ʚ꒷ ₊˚Mallow₊˚ ‧₊]

𝓊𝓈𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒: ₊˚ʚ꒷ ₊˚𝑀𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌₊˚ ‧₊
𝓀𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃 𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒: 𝒞𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓁~
𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓃𝓈𝑒 [𝟧𝟢𝟢 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓍]: 333/500

Coral loves Marine Biology and all of the interesting sea creatures.

As I lay on the sweet soft grass, I start to drift off into a daydream. "It's my first day at the marine place! I better go get ready ah I'm so excited!! I can't wait to see all of the amazing and unique species of sea creatures." Coral looks at the clock and realises that she's late. "Oh No! I'm going to be late I better go get everything quickly. Coral dashes to her motorbike and drives to her job. She finally gets there but her boss doesn't look too happy about it. "I'm so sorry I'm late Sir!" He replies with "it's okay it's your first day after all. Are you ready to go in the water?" Coral replies with "Yes Sir! I'm ready as ever!"

Coral jumps in with a splash and gets welcomed by a lovely stingray with beautiful like angel wings. As Coral is mesmerized by the stingray, she sees a happy looking dolphin and asks if she could have a ride to explore the deep waters of the sea. The dolphin says yes and she replies with a great big grin on her face. She starts to think to herself "I'm glad I got this job it almost feels like a fairytale with all the beautiful coral reefs surrounding me and all the beautiful unique species of fish swimming along the great sea."

"Although I do wish more people would take care of the oceans as its dying due to pollution. People throw anything like rubbish and plastics of any kind into the ocean without thinking twice" She starts to get angry and says to herself "Why can't people understand that all living things on earth are like us kalons and that they have a life too?" Coral starts to get out of the daydream realm and slowly comes back to reality staring at a cloud that almost looks like a fish waving back at her.

[✧ airplane.]

Listened to By by HNNY while I judged this.

HMs go to:

riuus, SilhouetteStation, p i n e a p p l e, headofvecna, & cocoa

The winner is altiora!

Your prose was really poetic and soothing to read!
Congrats! You've been added to the ref.

[altiora]

thank you so much!!! this makes me so happy, i know exactly how im gonna develop them.
congrats to hms 💙