09-25-2016, 02:19 PM
I was here before the Mountain rose too.
So it was new, this Mountain where he’d awoken all too recently. He looked back again, studying the looming shape in his mind’s eye though he couldn’t see it through the trees. He looked, and he wondered. “I have no idea,” he admitted quietly, gaze distant and thoughtful. “All I remember is waking up there just now. Or remembered. But I’ve hunted, I know that much. I felt it in the heat of my blood when you spoke of the chase. I’ve spread my wings and soared, dove and snatched up prey and crushed the life from its chest with my talons. So I must have been something before I woke, at least.”
With effort, he returned his gaze to the stranger, body still aching for the freedom he’d had atop that strange peak. “Perhaps I was, then. Or perhaps I was somewhere else entirely. Nothing is familiar here, but that might not mean as much as I thought it did. Or is the Mountain all that’s new?”
So it was new, this Mountain where he’d awoken all too recently. He looked back again, studying the looming shape in his mind’s eye though he couldn’t see it through the trees. He looked, and he wondered. “I have no idea,” he admitted quietly, gaze distant and thoughtful. “All I remember is waking up there just now. Or remembered. But I’ve hunted, I know that much. I felt it in the heat of my blood when you spoke of the chase. I’ve spread my wings and soared, dove and snatched up prey and crushed the life from its chest with my talons. So I must have been something before I woke, at least.”
With effort, he returned his gaze to the stranger, body still aching for the freedom he’d had atop that strange peak. “Perhaps I was, then. Or perhaps I was somewhere else entirely. Nothing is familiar here, but that might not mean as much as I thought it did. Or is the Mountain all that’s new?”