Once we're fed, we shall disappear rapidly [- Whale Harvest-]

[Malak]

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✯ — Run along now, don't be glum. Get you gone, now, have some fun

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[div style="width: 360px; margin-left: 6px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; color: black;"] The bird had been pretty busy as of late, his wings were beginning to tire and the bucket became heavy within his beak, winter slowly laid her icy grip upon these lands from many moons north of here. Maybe he'd walk?

Malak floated down to the wet ground and the bucket toppled over with a clank, ocean mist lay like a blanket within the tree's branches and the land's moss and rocks. The whale, however, would not be hard to find due to the smell. Oddly enough, the whale hadn't been sitting there for very long. Hobbling over gnarled tree roots and odd shaped rocks, the dark feathered bird finally reached the dirty sandy shore of the coast. Blue and blubbery, the whale lay on its side. Seagulls and vultures circled above it, cawing a cackling as Malak flapped onto the dead ocean creature.

The avian maneuvered his wing so the ditty bag between his shoulders would fall to the side, Malak stuck his head inside and pull out what looked like a shark piece of broken bone. Harvesting this whale wasnt going to be an easy job nor would it be clean, but Alithis needed the blubber to boil down into oil for the lamps, and the meat to eat for this winter. And Malak didn't have a whale bone strung up in his tree yet!

He shoved the bone into the side of the whale, praying to whatever god was up there that the whale wouldnt burst open. The bone cracked and broke, Malak tumbling back a bit. "Of course, why would it be that easy." the bird grumbled to himself. He should have known though, blubber is very hard to cut through and the bone broke too thin. Depending on the species of whale, the thickness of the blubber can vary dramatically from 1 inch up to 11 inches thick, and Malak was sure that his beak wasnt long enough nor sharp enough to cut through 11 inches of whale blubber. "Hm.." the corvid muttered, hobbling back down to his ditty bag. Nothing in here would be sharp enough to cut into the whale.

[FAKHIRA CIPHER.]

[glow=white,1,400]WOULD YOU BITE BACK IF GIVEN THE CHANCE ? — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]

If it were for Fakhira taking her time to walk around to get used to her new home, perhaps she would have miss the horrid smell that came from the dying creature. But alas, the she-cat was nearing the beach and that sort of scent definitely wasn't something she could ignore. Fakhira recoiled and wrinkled her nose as she halted in her steps, having half the mind to just return to camp and forget about the dead whale - until a voice caught her attention.

"Hello?" Fakhira called out to Malak, unaware he was something within the group. She quickly snapped her mouth shut as the scent of the whale was forced into her mouth and she hissed, trying to get the rancid taste out.[glow=COLOR,1,400] ━ ✧*:･ﾟ[/glow]

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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. unknown age - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family/general. courting delilah evergarden & halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, and laeglin. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette.

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the dragon had been doing a round, flying up high in the clouds, using the drafts of warm and cold air to keep them aloft, eyes closed peacefully as they navigated the one space that they felt no threat in, relaxed and enjoying their trip before a peculiar scent reached them and their eyes flew open upon the scent reaching their orifices. rumbling, the dragon dove from the high skies, up in the clouds, down towards the sea with a deep and booming roar, landing far down the shore. they had smelt the whale, horrid as the stench was, overpowering the scents of the other two present at the carcass. rumbling as they strolled towards the carcass, their ears picked up on the sound of fakhira's voice, "fakhira? did the scent bring you too?", they rumbled as they came over, unable to pick up on malak's scent through the scent of the oceanic creature washed up onshore. nose wrinkled at the stench, they rumbled, running through their memories, "a whale .... we need to harvest it or it'll just be a humongous problem that we do not wish to deal with. my, my. we could trade or use everything from it.", they rumbled as they thought, fighting against gagging on the stench.

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          The smell of death drew Sam to the spot and she was close enough o hear Bai speak now and observed everything once she got there. "That thing stinks I dont know if much of it is still useful but we do have to take care of it because its dangerous. Also be careful when you do it can explode." Sam's voice was tense with this but she dose agree that there is parts that are trainable.