♢ Sadija // Female // 28 // Rogue Fighter // Human // Location: Jezzabel's stables // Tags: Jezzabel, Lukas
- A long, drawn out sigh leaves her lungs as she heaved a doe carcass atop Ceberus's back for safe keeping. The large dire-wolf like creature shifting every so slightly at the weight before glancing back at his owner, tongue rolling out and wetly panting in excitement. Sadija answered his goofy expression with a grin of her own and patted him heavily in apprication.
"Yeah buddy, we did good." She agreed, as if she understood the gentle wag of his tail and expression.
With her hunt concluded, Sadija kept her hand buried in the thick fur of Ceberus's neck while she led them back towards civilization. A simple hunting bow was de-strung and clipped on her back with her quiver, her rapier gently shining in the light of the morning sun as she simply enjoyed the walk back that she'd taken more than a hundred times at least in her lifetime.
It just so happened that it brought her past Jezzabel's, and she gave Ceberus's shoulder a signal pat before she made to look if the women was home. She spied her almost immediately and gave a sharp whistle, waving in greeting from her place off the property and on the dirt road. Ceberus himself seemed interested, ignoring Sadija's silent command of "stay" and sniffing about.
♢ Varis // Male // 95 // Dragon // Location: Jezzabel's stables // Tags: Jezzabel, Lukas
- His very bones shook with the roar that woke him entirely from his slumber. As sudden as a downpour of cold rain. It echoed in the caverns he called home once, and his pupils expanded wide to take in his surroundings. Stalactites dripped stagnant water slowly onto eroding stone and Varis lifted his body sluggishly from it's prone place on the floor to find himself covered in the dampness. Nearly an inch of water covered the flooring where he rested, and he shivered at the dampness of his body.
Desperate for warmth, he shook himself off and sniffed the air, testing it for the breeze he was so use to smelling.
And halted, his blood cooling as he realized just how different the air tasted from the last time he'd been coherent enough to remember.
Another deep breath had him winding his way through the system he remembered, first at a trot then a gallop, and eventually a sprint. Panicking ever so slightly when he found passages he knew that led out of the system, collapsed. He tried all the ones he knew and finally - finally - found a passage not eroded by time. Relief warmed him and he peered outside the small opening, wiggling ever so slightly and scraping his scales against the sides of the narrow passageway as he pried himself from the darkness into the sunlight of day.
A quick glance around showed him the ocean he so loved, and no prying eyes to see his departure. More relief flowed over him like the tide, and he lept into the air and ascended, snaking his body and ascending almost silently into the sky. A familiar scent clung on the wind - another drake. Not one he recognized, but his curiosity got the best of him.
His stomach growls in response and his pupils narrow as he realizes how hungry he also happens to be.
And descends to the world bellow, keeping to the tree branches rather than the forest floor- no trace of tracks in the dirt... It would be safer for him that way, to not be tracked.
Eventually, a clearing appeared. The smell of the other drake was heavier, and Varis stilled his breathing and his body.
