04-29-2015, 08:05 PM
Perun was lost in the lullaby of rumbling thunder, lightning flashes muted by his eyelids into a flickering nightlight. The raindrops that reached him in the shelter of the great tree fell gently onto his soft, fuzzy coat, cool fingers stroking him as he drifted toward sleep. The rain washed the world clean, nourished life that grew all around him...and reminded him of home. He slept peacefully, the corners of his lips curling up with contentment as the storm's song continued.
A discordant note entered the song, rhythmic rustling, two beats twining around one another that made his little dark ears flick even as he slept, swiveling toward the strangers coming his way. His breath rose and fell, chest expanding and contracting and—ooh! A soft touch to his ribs jolted him to wakefulness, surprise sending a static charge along his skin that made his hair stand on end just as a mouth about the same size as his own grabbed onto his scruffy little mane and tugged.
The touch sent a shock arcing between them, a tiny flash of lightning to echo the sky’s storm song. His eyelids flew open, and wide storm-cloud eyes met clear-sky blue ones as a happy voice greeted him. You look just like the sky! And so did she, soft greys and bright blue eyes like the summer sky peeking through big, fluffy clouds. “You too,” he said, and when he spoke his voice was the quiet patter of the rain gently falling down around them. His silver-grey eyes looked the little girl over with a quiet solemnity and he blinked slowly once, twice, before grinning and clambering to his feet.
“Hiya. I’m Perun. What’s your name?” he asked, before he caught sight of somebody much bigger than the two of them. His eyes widened and he blew out a nervous breath, his ears flicking back and forth uncertainly and his hair standing on end. “Oh! Um. Hello.”
A discordant note entered the song, rhythmic rustling, two beats twining around one another that made his little dark ears flick even as he slept, swiveling toward the strangers coming his way. His breath rose and fell, chest expanding and contracting and—ooh! A soft touch to his ribs jolted him to wakefulness, surprise sending a static charge along his skin that made his hair stand on end just as a mouth about the same size as his own grabbed onto his scruffy little mane and tugged.
The touch sent a shock arcing between them, a tiny flash of lightning to echo the sky’s storm song. His eyelids flew open, and wide storm-cloud eyes met clear-sky blue ones as a happy voice greeted him. You look just like the sky! And so did she, soft greys and bright blue eyes like the summer sky peeking through big, fluffy clouds. “You too,” he said, and when he spoke his voice was the quiet patter of the rain gently falling down around them. His silver-grey eyes looked the little girl over with a quiet solemnity and he blinked slowly once, twice, before grinning and clambering to his feet.
“Hiya. I’m Perun. What’s your name?” he asked, before he caught sight of somebody much bigger than the two of them. His eyes widened and he blew out a nervous breath, his ears flicking back and forth uncertainly and his hair standing on end. “Oh! Um. Hello.”