* chapter i: darkness / abandoned & strained kit

[elijah]

[div style="margin: 0 auto; border-width:0; width: 70%; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 9pt;"]While the wings of his other siblings were too small to carry weight, Elijah was able to fly. He enjoyed the feeling of spreading his appendages, letting his feathers touch the brief skim of wind before beating them and launching off the ground. The feel nothing beneath his feet was exciting. He was like a true dragon slayer, able to his family's foes through the air. It was the sensation of air in the control of his wings, flapping gusts of wind towards the ground, that made him feel like a master of the elements. It only fed through the child's imaginative mind, the boy patrolling about the beach as if he were a superhero flying across the sky, looking down at the pirates below him. "Praeberi fari illic videbis?" he would ask his rabbit companion, the doll held between his two forepaws. He held the inanimate object tightly, ensuring he didn't drop it. His mind was already stopping to imagine what he wanted the lighthouse to be: a distant castle, a tower to heaven, a clock tower. Elijah begins circling the top, landing on its roof before looking around. "Omnes tantilla..." he breathes to his friend, noticing the tiny figure of pirates dappled across the beach.

Something, however, had caught his attention. A young child, dressed in a coat of ebony, crawling towards the shade. The brown ragdoll holds his rabbit toy between his teeth, spreading his wings again to fly towards the mysterious kitten. As he approaches, narrowing the gap between the lighthouse and the stranger, he sees his sister already there. He doesn't say anything when he lands gently beside the two, paws sinking into the sand as he puts down his companion and scans his baby-blue eyes across the child's figure. They looked so small, looking around for any adult but only noticing a basket. It looked empty now when he walks towards them, tilting his head to the side. He tries to help nudge the child closer to the shade, raising a wing to block the excess sunlight from leaking towards them considering that the child appeared to be hot. "Are you okay, little one?" Elijah asks softly. Like Kaisa, he is still too young to be able to comprehend what to do with the situation. "Stay here while I look for mama or papa." He decides that it's his best call, not quite comfortable with seeking just anyone immediately when the young boy takes off again to look for one of his parents and tell them about the child he and Kaisa had found.

[member=1660]JUNJI[/member] [member=1517]Luca[/member] [member=1489]MARCELLUS[/member]