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 Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:23 am
The dark buck tilted his head, blue eyes wide and searching. They blinked to the sodden pulp behind, then back to the grey in front of it.
"That was a..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:24 am
"Crocodile," Who supplied, reluctant, only after it became apparent recognition would take some time.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:25 am
Blue widened further still, briefly. Then dark lids shuttered, lowered as he bowed.
"You saved me. Thank you. I am Flickering. I apologise. I do not see very -"
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:27 am
"I know," he cut off the apology, the beating fear in his chest that his companion's bloodlust had not been sated growing by the second, "please, leave."
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:28 am
Flickering did not argue. He merely nodded, and, with a strange, dreamy trace of a smile, bowed once more and wandered off who knew where.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:29 am
This, too, Who watched, and held firm as the other pressed up behind him.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:29 am
Cryptic etchings now trailed outwards from the body, a mix of shallow channels and drawn splashes, dragged across the ground by skilled hooves. The collection was just that bit rough, as if afflicted by an uncontrollable emotion that bled out at the edges.
It was novel to hear him speak to a stranger, and speak so much.
But strangers usually didn't last quite so long in his own grasp.
"Flickering, is it." He said, muzzle brushing past the feathery mane.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:31 am
"You will not seek him," he said, as if it would make a difference.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:31 am
There was nothing to be said. There was only one final laugh, amused and giving, but most certainly foreboding.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:31 am
"I will make sure of it," he said, almost a sigh, and picked his way back through the bloody troughs, in the opposite direction of the hapless wanderer’s.
He paused, just once, almost clear of the killing field, before he loped off in pursuit of the hunt, knowing the darkness would follow. He paused, turning an alien eye back to return the shadowing stare.
"You are evil," he said. And for all that it was broken, there was an edge of reverence.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:32 am
" So I am." He chuckled, and smirked with affection of an unhealthy sort. He cast a glance down at the vanishing piece, then followed after the owl and his solemn party. END
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