TAKE YOUR TIME / intro

[wormwood.]

☆ HUNG PICTURES OF PATRON SAINTS UP ON MY WALL TO REMIND ME THAT I AM A FOOL. TELL ME WHERE I CAME FROM, WHAT I WILL ALWAYS BE: JUST A SPOILED LITTLE KID WHO WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL —

It wasn't often that Aurum heard singing when he was out on a walk. It wasn't that any of his fellow Tanglers especially disliked music or singing, it just wasn't something one normally did out of the blue. Besides, what the proxy was hearing wasn't exactly a song, at least not any song he had ever heard. Instead it just seemed like a strange call for help, sung out by a young and pleasant voice. He heard the call for someone named Miriam, and knew that he was very much not the person in question that the bard was looking for, but was still filled with concern. Whoever this kid was, he was on Tanglewood territory, and he sounded pretty disoriented, even in his energetically sung words. With this in mind, Aurum deviated in the course he had in mind before, wincing a little when the voice and a strange new scent led him to the crater. He never enjoyed going inside the crater, infinitely wary of the unseen threat of radiation that lingered all over. Despite this, he knew that the voice had come from downward, and the strange scent had only gotten stronger the closer he stepped. He couldn't avoid the place this time, unfortunately.

The lion moved to the edge of the sharp incline that signaled the drop down into the true crater, spreading his wings and leaping down to glide to the ground. Landing with a grunt, Aurum then turned to face Kiwi – pausing when he did so. The other was some... strange hybrid of creatures. His bottom half was fluffy and pawed, like a feline or raccoon, yet his upper half was that of... a bird. The angel wasn't sure exactly what kind of bird, but it was the color of sunlight, and the combination of two different creatures was... odd to see, to say the least. Still, Aurum had seen stranger, and he didn't want the boy to feel uncomfortable, so he just gave a little shake of his head, moving minutely closer and clearing his throat. Seeing the not insignificant size difference between them, Aurum sat down on his haunches and folded his wings back inward, trying to reduce his size as much as possible. Once this was done, he spoke in a calm rumble from deep in his chest, "Hello there, little one... you're interesting, aren't you? I'm sure you're confused, but could you tell me your name? You're on Tanglewood territory, and... unfortunately you're in a pretty unpleasant part of it." He wasn't exactly sure what radiation would do the combination of creatures currently laying before him, but he found that he had no desire to find out.

[div style="text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #1B1B2F; font-size: 24px;"][color=#44437F]— AURUM

#psychosocial.