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if i come without a thing, i come with all i need. - ghaul - 01-27-2020 GHAUL
i can take you there, but baby, you won't make it back
He drifts in the open skies on warm air currents, his leathery wings spread wide with his talons tucked close to his chest. A blur of red marks someone crossing the border into Pangea and he follows from a great distance above them. Is this one Brine, he wonders? He can’t quite tell from here and so he circles them for a while like a vulture eyeing a pitiful creature nearing death. When he had stolen her from Nerine, it had been her feathers that drew him. The memory of another’s wing crushed between his teeth is fresh and he is eager to learn if all of them taste so sweet. His vile tongue runs along the pointed edges of his teeth before he tucks his wings in halfway to begin his descent. Ghaul’s forelegs reach forward for the ground rushing up to meet him and he lands with a heavy thud near the stolen stranger. Brine’s scent confirms her identity and he feels a wide grin smear across his face. His talons claw into the earth with each step, leaving a clear trail behind him as he closes the gap between them. Personal space has always meant so very little to him and so he is quick to let his sides press against hers. Her body is smooth and unscaled, as he had guessed, and some secret piece of him is disgruntled at the discovery. But her wings are soft and he runs his lips along them with a chuckle of delight. He can’t see her, but he thinks she is beautiful. It is a dangerous thing, to be beautiful in Pangea. “I am Ghaul, prince of Pangea. You are mine for one year,” he explains in his rasping voice. The drake traces his nose from her shoulders and up her neck until he reaches the curve of her jaw. He memorizes her features and croons softly against her ear. But he wants to draw this out, to savor every moment with a captive plaything. Jenova had died too quickly to really relish the flavors of her death and such mistakes cannot be tolerated now that he has matured. RE: if i come without a thing, i come with all i need. - Brine - 02-02-2020 brine I turned off my light, harder to find RE: if i come without a thing, i come with all i need. - ghaul - 02-04-2020 GHAUL
i can take you there, but baby, you won't make it back
It might hurt his feelings to know that she thinks of him as ugly, but he is not blessed with mind reading as his dear brother is. Ghaul remains oblivious to the feelings and opinions of others. He nods when she repeats the name of his home and he grins despite the sound of disgust she carries so fiercely in her voice. He loves this kingdom despite its rough appearance and the reputation it has begun to build – it is the cradle that fostered his growth and strength. When the winter had threatened to tear him down, he always found a warm little nook to curl up in. “Afterlife?” His turn to repeat with a questioning tone, though his voice is merely curious. “Pangea is my paradise. The only safe place in the world.” The rest of Beqanna had never been kind to him. In the meadows or the rivers, they called him monster. In Loess, he was scum. But here, in the canyons and red clay, he is a prince. It is the place where his father left him and in exchange it gave him Anaxarete and her aliens. It never took without giving him something else. If the afterlife is like this, then he doesn’t mind to go. “Nerine is cold and dreary. You will like it here,” he says with a slow nod. He absent-mindedly lips at her neck as he imagines what it would be like to tear her open. She has some fight to her, like Sochi had, but he doesn’t think she has what it takes to claw his face open the same way. Ghaul traces his tongue along the roof of his mouth and exhales slowly to try and center himself again. “You will like being mine.” RE: if i come without a thing, i come with all i need. - Brine - 02-18-2020 brine I turned off my light, harder to find @[ghaul] RE: if i come without a thing, i come with all i need. - ghaul - 02-19-2020 GHAUL
i can take you there, but baby, you won't make it back
His grin fades when she replies, as though she has never known safety. His expression does not sour but rather takes on a look of innocent curiosity. Had Nerine not been her nest, the place she felt safe to breathe between the chaos of this world? It had never occurred to him that perhaps others do not find the same relief he does in the canyons of Pangea. A kind of chittering forms in the back of his throat, so quiet it might be easily missed, as he mulls over the thought a little longer. “Why does Nerine not feel safe to you?” he finally asks, tilting his great head. “In Pangea, we are one family. They are my brothers and sisters, by blood or by bond.” And this much is true. While Draco and Darkling are his siblings through birth, he has come to accept Greta and the aliens as his siblings simply because he has grown to care for them. Even Gospel is his sister in his mind, even while she spits venom at him and curses him for leaving her alone for so long. This means, of course, that they each defend one another with a ferocity that is unmatched in other regions. She does not gnash her teeth beneath his touch and he wonders what other oddities this woman is hiding. Brine does not behave in any sort of way he expects but the surprise is pleasant. When she bristles at his words, he laughs and settles in beside her, relaxing completely at last. “Maybe you will like Pangea without being captive. Gospel left the north for this place when she was small,” he explains, as though she has any clue who he’s speaking of. He pauses for a long while, turning his head to observe his home and the various outlines that wander about. The hunger in his belly has quieted as their conversation twists and turns, making it easier to think. “What do you think of when you say safe?” |