06-08-2020, 09:52 PM
She is fast asleep, curled up against her mother’s warm scales, when the shift comes upon the mountain. She doesn’t awaken just yet but the two older dragons stir, sharing a concerned glance as a strange dust travels across the midnight sky. Clarissa reaches for Ghaul and brushes her muzzle against his for comfort, and soothes her mate back to sleep with a gentle song. The sound of her mother’s voice causes Ciri to stir and she mumbles in her sleep, trying desperately to cling to her dreams.
Clarissa murmurs something to her as well, and then gasps, fully rousing the girl from her sleep. She blinks against a sudden, startlingly bright light as Clarissa tugs at Ghaul incessantly, who jerks awake with a swiftness that startles the sleepy child. Gar and Phyx are awakened by the sudden movement and noise as well, and when Phyx’s eyes widen, Ciri realizes that something about her has changed. “What’s wrong with me?” Ciri whimpers, staring between her parents as if this could simply be explained away.
But Clarissa is beaming down at her, her white scales glittering in the sudden light. <i>“Absolutely nothing, my little angel,”</i> she whispers as Frenzy snores loudly in the corner of the nest, undisturbed by all of the commotion. <i>“You are just as perfect as you were before you went to sleep, my darling.”</i>
Placated and sleepy, Ciri nods her head and closes her eyes again, curling tightly back into her dam. Clarissa, beaming around at her children and her mate, gestures to them all. <i>“Come here, my family, and let me sing you back to sleep.”</i>
With her parents and her siblings curled around her and keeping her warm, Ciri doesn’t stir again until morning.
<i>cirilla is claiming a halo <3</i>
Clarissa murmurs something to her as well, and then gasps, fully rousing the girl from her sleep. She blinks against a sudden, startlingly bright light as Clarissa tugs at Ghaul incessantly, who jerks awake with a swiftness that startles the sleepy child. Gar and Phyx are awakened by the sudden movement and noise as well, and when Phyx’s eyes widen, Ciri realizes that something about her has changed. “What’s wrong with me?” Ciri whimpers, staring between her parents as if this could simply be explained away.
But Clarissa is beaming down at her, her white scales glittering in the sudden light. <i>“Absolutely nothing, my little angel,”</i> she whispers as Frenzy snores loudly in the corner of the nest, undisturbed by all of the commotion. <i>“You are just as perfect as you were before you went to sleep, my darling.”</i>
Placated and sleepy, Ciri nods her head and closes her eyes again, curling tightly back into her dam. Clarissa, beaming around at her children and her mate, gestures to them all. <i>“Come here, my family, and let me sing you back to sleep.”</i>
With her parents and her siblings curled around her and keeping her warm, Ciri doesn’t stir again until morning.
<i>cirilla is claiming a halo <3</i>