Username: solstice roses!
Name: Hovering Shadow above the Rock, Loyal Tarragon (Tar)
Gender: amab he/it
Age: 6.5 years
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here! Prompt: For as loyal as Tarragon is, he's still VERY mischevious. Perhaps its favorite little piece of mischief has been the day it snapped a sand dollar in half and pressed it in the clay close to shore. Tar was going to fake a fossil - something plentiful in the ocean where his pod lived and therefore well-known to collectors in the area. He'd give the fake sand dollar fossil to its younger sister for her hatchday, then when she least expected it... a REAL BONE FOSSIL! The young Hydrafelis -- for at the time, he was nearly two years old -- had already found his fossil: a fully intact rib of a long-dead species of whale. Tar's little sister would love it, he was as certain as the pull of the tides, but for the surprise to mean
more... well, he'd give her a fake fossil of one she already had in her collection, then it'd show her the TRUE gift! So here it was, baking clay in the sun like some kind of humanfolk to make his sister a gift.
It's worth it, Tar thought as his fur burned in the sun,
That silly shell will be so, so happy once I show her the real fossil.Her hatchday had come, and Tar presented her with an impression fossil of a sand dollar. She knew it
meant well, but she couldn't help but feel disappointed when her brother swam out of the room. As she was lost in her thoughts, something poked around the corner... An enormous, genuine, dark brown fossil, one she'd never even SEEN before! Her brother followed the bone, explaining that it was a whale rib, letting her swim circles around him in complete and utter joy. Baleen smiled, her sharp, small teeth glistening in the glowlight -- her dream fossil was right in front of her.
