Cryptids Do Lurk

[Shirad]

<center><link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dynalight|Lora" rel="stylesheet"><div style="width: 500px; background: url('https://i.imgur.com/OZW17Jl.png'); padding-top: 5px; background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: #343a5e;box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000;border-radius: 450px 450px 0px 0px;"><div style="width: 490px; background: url('https://i.imgur.com/OZW17Jl.png'); padding-top: 10px; background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: #1a1d26; box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000;border-radius: 450px 450px 0px 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Dynalight', cursive; font-size: 60px; opacity: .86; color: #5b919d;padding-top: 240px;margin-bottom: -17px;padding-left: 310px;text-shadow: .5px 1px 2px #223659, 0px 0px 20px #a865b5, 0px 0px 6px #223659, 1px 1px 2px #223659;">Shirad</div><div style="width:450px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding: 10px; opacity: .9; font-family: Times;color: #699ba4;font-size: 12px; line-height: 140%; text-align: justify; border-radius: 20px 20px;background-color: #202636;margin-top: 0px;border-top: 4px solid #699ba4;border-bottom: 4px solid #699ba4;">She is coaxed away from Tauber and her mother by the melody; it crooks a finger at her, drawing the small teal filly into the forest. She glances back at Sylva (but only briefly) with wide amethyst eyes and then suddenly she is gone, off on another adventure. Her trip is short, or so it seems, as the ominous songs pull her further and further. She stops only when she comes upon the unique collective, a group of misfits who have heeded the call.<br><br>The fairy is beautiful, awe-inspiring. And even as the foreboding, magical music trails into silence, Shirad can't help the whimsical smile that has found her lips.<br><br>There is a loud pop, and suddenly she is very close to the ground. The teal girl tries her hardest to look back over her shoulder, but finds that she can't, for her anatomy has changed. The daughter of Aditi squeaks, bolting forward (hopping is more like it) towards a small spring she had spotted. The young girl peers into the mostly-calm water and goes slackjawed at the sight. Her body screams <i>rabbit</i>, but the feathered wings, antlers, and fangs say otherwise.<br><br>Her purple eyes are wide with fright and confusion, but... those wings seem pretty cool, she realizes, and soon Shirad is opening her rabbit-mouth wide to see the fangs that protrude from her gums. They are razor sharp and she runs her tongue over them gingerly before spreading her small wings out, wondering of what use she will be in this new miniature body. She could be a spy, perhaps - she was small enough now, and had grown to learn stealth in the undergrowth of Sylva. The young girl sighs in acceptance of whatever magic the fairy had dusted over them all, wondering now if she will have special shadow powers, just as her twin does.<br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Lora', serif; color: #5b93ae;text-transform:uppercase; font-size: 10px; opacity: .9;text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #000;padding-bottom: 5px;">If the morning light don't steal our soul, we will walk away from empty gold.</div></center>

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