08-25-2015, 02:12 AM
Annihilate
burn everything you love then burn the ashes
Well. She was bored. Bored, bored, bored. Yes, yes, the jungle was safe. But Anni was quickly coming to learn that safe was how grown-ups said NOTHING EVER HAPPENED. Oh, sure, she’d gotten to play with her very extensive family. Aunts, uncles, grandma, lots of fun people who were all about the playtime and the cuddles and of course there was Maul. Her twin was pretty much the best person ever. Well, although Daddy did have fwoosh, and that was pretty badass. But Maul. Yeah, probably Maul won.
But Maul was busy, and sitting alone in a boring jungle where nothing ever changed was getting old, okay? So with a mischievous little grin and a glance around to make sure everyone was distracted, little miss Annihilate snuck into the extensive undergrowth and crept silently away. Well, as silently as a kid her age could manage, anyhow. Hey, she was pretty decently sneaky for a girl only a few months old. So maybe her legs sometimes got a little tangled up in tricky vines, but it was rare now! Sneaky enough to slip past the watchful eye of her babysitters, anyhow, so there!
It was a game they played, or at least that’s how she liked to think of it. A game called How Close Are You Watching? She’d slip out of sight, and see how far she could get before there was a falcon flying overhead, or a cloud of mist where there shouldn’t be, or a hoppy little blue frog blinking up a her with an expression somewhere between amusement and exasperation. And it usually didn’t take very long, but everyone was quite distracted today. Maybe they really didn’t see her sneak away, or maybe they decided to let her have a bit of fun while they watched surreptitiously from the sidelines. Probably at least someone was tailing her, because she’d never gotten far.
But no one stopped her this time.
Well. Either she’d succeeded in escaping, in which case she deserved to have a bit of fun! or the fact that no one stopped her was basically permission to continue, in which case it would be a tragic waste to do anything else. So Anni bounded off toward adventure, with really no idea where she was going. She kept right on bounding along until she found other horses. At which point, she lit up with a playful grin and pounced on the nearest of them.
“Hello, new friend! My name is Annihilate, destroyer of peace and quiet, terror of the eight kingdoms, and all around good-natured hooligan.” Or at least that was various family members had managed to call her, all pieced together-like for the sake of formal introduction. “D’you want to play with me? Oooh, I bet we could climb people! D’you want to try?” She looked around for the tallest, broadest body she could find, and chased after an unsuspecting ginormous stallion, not even noticing that her new ‘friend’ had mostly stared at her and then turned away and she was therefore chasing a strange man all by herself.
Without a word, she raced up to the drafty stallion who was built a little like her uncle Drow, launched herself into the air, and scrambled to hook her front legs over the stranger’s back and drag herself up onto him. Which might have gone a little better if he hadn’t promptly shrieked like a banshee and bucked, sending her flying off back into the crowd. “Ow, dammit,” she grumbled as she collided with someone quite solid and slid her way to the ground. “Thanks for the catch,” she muttered, looking up at yet another stranger as she lurched back to her feet. “I’m Annihilate. Who’re you?”
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