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 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:18 pm
Teocipactli was lurking today. He was hungry, so he was lurking in alligator form. This was the form he stayed in most often. This was the form best adapted to the wet and fetid swamp that he called his home. It was not an easy area for a soquili to travel in, not even a purewalker soquili. The weight of his soquili form always sank his webbed feet into the mud, making it difficult to walk in. Of course, it wasn't as easy to hunt as a soquili either. There were plenty of things for an alligator to eat in the swamp. Less for a soquili.
Within him, he could feel the hunger gnawing. Even when he stayed in his metabolically more efficient alligator form, he still grew hungry. He'd been looking for a meal for the past couple day. He'd had a few fish. He'd even crunched on a turtle, though he found getting through the shell to be more trouble than it was worth. None of those small lives were enough to satisfy his hunger. He wanted something bigger. Something like a pig. Or a deer. Or a soquili. Or a human.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:24 pm
Only a flying soquili could have made it here. That made Mina more than a little smug. She wasn't a great warrior. She was beautiful, though she knew others more lovely than she. She wasn't an artisan or a craftsman, she didn't speak languages, and she didn't keep many close friends. What she did do was find places like this, little hidden places where no other soquili would step foot.
She breathed in deeply. The smell of the wetlands permeated the area. It was a smell of decay, but also of life. In the late summer, the landscape was awash with deep greens, the last surge of life before autumn took hold. It was unruly and unclean. She found it very beautiful.
She stepped up towards where the water met the soggy earth. Her hooves sunk in slightly, but not enough to mire her. Downwards she looked into the water. She could see little tadpoles flitting about in the shallows. In the deeper water just off the shore, she saw something different, something with red eyes.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:26 pm
Teocipactli had sneaked up on the stupid mare as she was busy staring around. He'd slipped through the water, quiet as an eel, until he was resting on the bottom almost within striking distance. He moved closer... closer... until he was almost ready to lunge. That's when she noticed him, her own golden eyes widening in shock and alarm. He'd lost the element of surprise, but still had the first move. His tail thrashed and he shot forward, jaws gaping wide.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:29 pm
Mina didn't even have time to scream. She reared up on her back legs just as the alligator sprung out of the water. She'd never seen something so fast, and immediately thought she wasn't going to make it. Instinctively, her wings flared outwards, frantically flapping to try to take her away from the danger. She didn't have the presence of mind to go aloft. All she could do was wing herself backwards, away from those teeth and certain death.
Of course, flying backwards while you still had two hooves on the ground was never a good idea. She was off-balanced, and maybe about to fall...
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