The twins are lucky that their parents have fostered independence in them. This, of course, does not come with a lack of love (though Halcyon is much more apt to display it outwardly), but it has afforded the pair the opportunity to develop their own personalities without the fear of being dampened. Nekane has heard stories of overbearing guardians, has twisted her feline face in disgust at the idea, and finds herself wondering briefly if Asena will act the part of doting chaperone in their parents’ absence.
It must run in the family, this independence and bravery ─ Asena does not shy away from the topic of monsters, and instead ups the ante for the young tiger cubs.
The sun disappears beneath the outstretched wings of a giant flying beast. A dragon, Asena calls it. Neka’s toothy maw drops open in awe at the power that radiates from the flying wyvern, at the glint of its sharp teeth and the balefire glow of its leather plating. The great brute shifts in the air and suddenly begins to plummet towards them, its mouth ajar and ready to swallow them whole.
Only peripherally aware that Volos has bounded in front of her, the young tigress hunkers down and curls her lips upward to hiss, as ferociously as she can muster, at the dragon before the invisibility she hadn’t known she possessed pops her striped body into nonexistence.
Just as suddenly as it had appeared the wyvern explodes into glitter and birds, leaving behind only their memory of the creature and their rapidly beating hearts. Volos is the first to speak, the shakiness in his voice apparent for only just a moment before it is replaced with excited incredulity. Nekane laughs aloud, the disembodied sound emanating from her still-lucid body, “I want one!” she shouts, remembering Titanya telling her and Volos about those who had animal companions, “Can we go get one in Pangea?!”
I will raise hell
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@[The Monsters] - Whoops, is Nekane’s Density Manipulation under fire?????