11-18-2018, 11:50 AM
The world is a blur to the boy and it consists of only two things: warm mother and bright sun. When warm mother is is gone (leaning away from him to look up at his father, though the boy can't know this) the world is suddenly wrong. Perhaps it is a reflex, some instinctual reaction to danger, but the boy feels danger and simply disappears.
This does not go well for him, for as his body vanishes, warm mother pulls even farther away and begins to make distressed noises. Eager to find her again, he lurches forward, only to plant his forehead against a tussock of daffodils in a failed attempt to stand. The pollen aggravates his nose and he is suddenly sneezing, once, twice, three sneezes.
At the final sneeze Pteron reappears, seemingly startled out of his invisibility.
His feathered wings are spread wide to either side of him and he sits, dog-like, on a bed of soft grass. Wiggling his soft pink nose, he stands. Unaware that his blinking in and out of sight is the cause of his mother's panic, the little pegasus is content to simply stand beneath her concerned touches as Lepis reassures herself that her son is still whole, and then turns to his father with a playfully relieved reproach about him being the one responsible for this.
This does not go well for him, for as his body vanishes, warm mother pulls even farther away and begins to make distressed noises. Eager to find her again, he lurches forward, only to plant his forehead against a tussock of daffodils in a failed attempt to stand. The pollen aggravates his nose and he is suddenly sneezing, once, twice, three sneezes.
At the final sneeze Pteron reappears, seemingly startled out of his invisibility.
His feathered wings are spread wide to either side of him and he sits, dog-like, on a bed of soft grass. Wiggling his soft pink nose, he stands. Unaware that his blinking in and out of sight is the cause of his mother's panic, the little pegasus is content to simply stand beneath her concerned touches as Lepis reassures herself that her son is still whole, and then turns to his father with a playfully relieved reproach about him being the one responsible for this.