chasing figures ● illusions & border run-in

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[color=#7E354D]BAI SHI
" do you want to burn in hell with me? "

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they had been asleep for the first time in weeks, the golden dragon curled up in the hot desert sun, head down and eyes closed, ears listening to every sound around them, tense and stressed out just the slightest, tiniest bit.

stirred from their sleep by a voice like chimes and bells, their head lifted from the ground and their barely working eyes brought them to see a black figure standing before them with brilliant blueish eyes, and they felt their body respond in kind, tensing and relaxing and becoming weak. before them was truly an illusion, but their mind held them steady enough to believe that their deceased mate was standing before them, speaking in a language that they could not understand but it became clear that he wanted them to follow him.

getting up, the dragon followed after the illusion at a break neck speed, twisting and diving, never able to close the gap between them. as they approached the border of the jungle, they sped up to follow after the trick of their mind, getting themselves tangled up in the thick trees, talon like claws gouging the trees, their voice whining out in a broken and agonized way, "Chickadee!" they bellowed after the quickly vanishing black shadow that they could barely see. their wounds had mostly healed and the infections that had plagued them from the dirt and sand in the claws of the pirate who had attacked them, had finally began to clean up.

(wait for idyllfields to post then you can~!)