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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


    and I can still remember just the way you taste; reave/any
    #1
    lior

    He can’t remember much other than the sun warming his back, the scent of Nayl on his skin as he listened to her gently snore. They had just had a mock tussle in the salty waves of Nerine, nipping and driving at one another in a roguish ballet before beaching themselves to dry. He does not know how much time has passed before his own eyes drew heavy and he was soon slumbering beside his lover, his queen.

    It is nightfall when he has awoken. No longer on the beach, no beautiful Nayl at his side. He is in his cave with the fresh teardrops of condensation the only sound within the hollow womb of the earth. He lay near a small burning fire, his own creation, with the soft purring and occasional pop of a dry knot to echo the cave’s depths. Had he been dreaming again? The dark stallion sighs heavily with the pang of longing disrupting his heart beat for a few moments flutter. He thinks, perhaps, he should leave his cave and see what lay just beyond the mouth of it.

    Sunlight has began to drip through tangled tree limbs at the entrance. His silver-white eyes focus with a slight twinge of anxiety. How long since he had roamed Nerine in the daylight? His home now filled with strange scents, the faces no longer know as he watched them. Lior had been happy to slip into the unknown and to be forgotten…but in this day, a feverish desire to move along the tree line, to be seen, grips him.

    The stallion emerged from the cool cave, dusty and tangle-haired. The gunmetal blue of his skin glinted in patches where dirt and dust had covered the rest. He can taste the salt in the air as the familiar crush of waves on the white sand drew an absentminded smile to his dark lips. In one fluid movement, he leaps into the air to shift to a black dragon except something is different. He is used to the feeling of his body becoming light, bones becoming something fluid as he would take to his usual dragon form but this time, as he casts a silver eye to the ground, his shadow is huge and rippled by scale and horn. The dark dragon blots out the sun as he opens his throat to expel a roar except now hellfire rips through his belly and shatters the sky.

    Lior titters in the air, losing his balance to crash into the ocean before. The power that ignited his blood sears in his bewilderment and suddenly he is a black hippocampus, an ink stain upon the pristine water. His mind races and he thrashed wildly. What sorcery is this?! The dark male inhaled the water as he struggles to understand but instead of a sweet and murky drowning, Lior can breath easily. His body feels foreign and unattached despite his brain screamigg bf to hold his breath. He splits the water rapidly as the nature hippocampus in his blood takes over. He races under the glitter water to break the surface, hurtling up and out and once again the dragon cracks the sky on thick leather wings.

    Lior behind the wonder what else he could do. In a series of humorous shifts, he finds theee is nothing out of his reach. Mythic or equine, he devastates his strength before having to find himself once again upon the solid ground of Nerine. Panting, he returns to his cave to rest. Tomorrow, he would try it all again.

    The days past as he hones his new skill. He does keep to far off shore to not frighten the residents of Nerine for he does not wish fear or devastation but he would only come to them when he himself no longer feared this magic. With the passing of another few weeks, he will finally be able to rest easily and comfortably in this new body.

    Lior wakens from a dreamless slumber and leaves his cave, unsure if he will return, feathered feet plodding thickly along the deer paths as he scents the air. His senses are acute and he can pluck something masculine from the molecules. There were others near as well but not many.

    Good.

    Lior finds the edges of their civilization to offer a few baritone notes, not looking for war or surprise. He has darkened himself in inky black, thick haired and heavy but nearly as natural as the day he was born. The silver-white eyes seem to glow and float against his skin as he soon sees another. Lior offers a low nicker of greeting. ”Hello there.” His voice feels grating, tongue thickened, but he approaches the other calmly enough with ears politely flicked forward.

    but i can still remember just the way you taste

    #2

    i am the mace, the map, the fall and the high

    Reave had seen this, though he hadn’t been sure it was real. In the days that Lior had been exploring his own new talents, Reave had found his sight shifting and expanding. Growing to encompass the new and unknown. It is impossible to know what is real and what is not. Indeed, it had taken him what felt like ages (though in reality was only a day or so) to differentiate past and present from future. But now, after having submerged himself deliberately rather than wait to drown another day, he recognized the slightly different flavor the flashes of future left behind.

    Still, whether they were true or not, he is entirely uncertain. At least, until today.

    This had been a small and simple one, with so few branches it seemed the safest to test. Though the once-dragon cannot know it, the sharp eyes of a distant, soaring eagle follow his ascent from cave to cliff. Reave had witnessed this stranger’s transformation days ago, drawn by the furious burst of confused fire. And he had seen snippets of the days to come - a greeting between strangers, a hermit retreating to his cave to relive old memories, a departure. They could not all be true. Even then, Reave had known it. It was simply impossible.

    And, after surfacing from the whirlwind of his own internal battle to understand this new ability, he had waited to see which would come to pass. Now, watching the dark stallion come towards him, he knows which one it is. For a moment, a triumphant smile creases his lips, brilliant blue eyes gleaming with an internal fire.

    The other stallion’s greeting causes his smile to widen. Tossing his head to clear his eyes of the tangled strands of his flaxen forelock, he eyes the stranger with blatant curiosity. The bone mask half-ruptured from his features throws odd shadows in the light of its own glow, rimming the edges of his jewel-bright gaze.

    “I’ve been expecting you,” he says by way of greeting before a small and delighted laugh escapes his lips. When it slips into a grin, Reave eyes him with speculation. “I’m Reave, the new protector of Nerine.”

    reave



    @[Lior]




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