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Myoa placed herself right next to Degewi. This was one strange foal.....

The crows.

Regal and formidible looking even in the vulnerability of sleep, it was the manic cawing of the crows that roused him. His eyes snapped open, his pupils narrowing to razor-thin verticle slits amid a see of blazing emerald. "Why are they sounding? It must be one of us...feeding."

Very few beings, human and soquili alike, understood the true nature of the kalona. He'd seen terror in the eyes of the two-leggers princess when their paths had crossed. She knew the truth. Beyond the gruesome appearance and unapologetic carnivorism, the secret appetite of the Kalona was for the souls of living creatures.

But as far as he knew, and due to the roguish nature of his kind that wasn't very far, none of them would be...especially at this early hour. Soul devouring was a treat best savoured in the dark of night. So the question remained...what was making the crows caw?

He pulled himself briskly onto his hooves and shook the lingering vestiges of sleep off with a shudder. Something was not right, and he could feel it. Calamity, from the moment of his birth into the world, had always felt an innate sense of mastery and control over his surroundings.

For the first time in his life, Calamity was uneasy.

...

Choteka watched the growing flurry of excitement in the heart of neighboring village from the stillness and quite of her own teepee at the edge of her village. The morning was bleak and pallid, as if the sky itself felt ill at new danger.

She'd had a dream, like she did many nights. She possessed no form of precognition or like talents, but the panic and fear she'd felt was sign enough. She turned back into her teepee, pulling the warm, furry animal skin clser around her shoulders. As the dread began to bubble up in her gut, the fur had a simple but effective calming power.

She would help them.

Her resolved voiced loudly if not a little shaky, she dug around her possessions and pulled out a knife in a holster she tied securely around her thigh, and her spear.

Armed though still feeling terribly vulnerable, Choteka set off at a decent clip towards the village, trying her best to stay well out of sight until she could acertain the nature of the emergency.

"Maybe. But it still is bothering me that the 'thing' could still be running around." He paused and couldn't help but chuckle, "Magical? A skin? I don't know... We'll see though. It's something new..." He sighed and hoped that everybody would calm down. "Yea... it even disgraced the fallen two-leggers and destroyed the burial ground. Odd..."

Nagual looked around, it seemed things were settling down a little... but why weren't they chasing this man out? The more she thought of it, the more he smelled of blood and death. Of course, they hadn't slept last night in their dash to the village. "Yei.... " Nagual whispered, her eyes still on the pelted man, "umm.... yeah, but who was he looking at?"

The mare felt eyes on her, and turned her head ever so slightly. Who was that with the mare that greeted Yei ((she means Cloud)) and why was he looking at them like that? "Yei, who is that?"

Jeevita walked around with Alsoomse still on her back. Things were getting out of control. Who knew what might happen next. Her ears were flat to her head as she looked around. Something wasn't right. It made her feel frighted, though she normally wasn't. Perhaps, it was because she knew that more soquili would get hurt. The question was. Who? She lowered her head as she walked. She knew that Alsoomse would soon want to get down and help, but it was two dangerous. Her wings where tight to her boding traping the young girls leggs to her side, but gently enough to keep them from hurting.

"It could be anywhere really... or anyone of us. Though I doubt it's one of us. If anything, I would pinpoint this crime on a stranger, who doesn't enjoy the peace the soquili bring." Not that Inali herself was such a peaceful soquili, but it was the thought that counted. "Yes... a magical skin seems strange, doesn't it?" At least she was able to bring some levity into the situation. "It destroyed their burial grounds? How awful! How will their spirits rest now?" The thought of hungry ghosts didn't phase Inali too much though- she didn't believe in them, but others could panic.

((I need to run out for a bit, but I'll respond when I get back. <3))

Tehya moved through the crowd, whinnying angrily at the dog she stumbled over carelessly. But still she prowled around, looking for something, some clue she may have missed last night as to what may have happened the night previously.