10-13-2020, 08:36 AM
[align=center][div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11.5px; width: 310px; text-align: justify; line-height:120%"]Ceaseless traveller, devoid of home, cast adrift without guiding wind. Or what they must believe him to be.
Fine the craft of lie pressed atop caged tongue, held between points that dug into pliable muscle, slight shift of jaw only visible evidence such motion was ongoing. Stilted that porous prisoner, base the grasp he encircled common tongue with, a double edged knife poised. Untroubled the mind that gently threaded along simple thoughts, strands delicate and interwoven, hushed chorus made a singular voice, behind words lax with faux sweetness threat unheeded.
You are nothing but a loner.
And it was such that traversed grounds grown thin, dwindling the arcing illumination until snuffed each in turn, mere candle flames awaiting extinguisher, barren the circumference leading down into shallow indent. Unassuming the beast that tread with steps heavy, unlike the rest this one who bore the ebony rosettes of one and the scraggly, growing mane of another, upon lip halting for brief moment. Assembled others, spoken introduction for those lacking presence in prior gathering, lost on ears that swivelled with each new vocalisation.
Information useful to the cause. Intel, as the ivory behemoth had deemed it. Poor his assistance in such gathering, a stepping stone this, however, made apparent he was no threat, here merely to learn. Into the crater did Tyke slip, never still as he turned to each and assessed their positions, one within particular drawing vision touched with dawning curiosity. A creature once caged, an oddity to be gawked at behind iron bars, peculiar the sights he had seen. Different this all the same, forking protrusion of necks adorned with their own cranium.
One spoke, both moved. Proximity drew ever closer, nostrils flaring as personal space was rejected, duel coats inspected. Supposedly recalled manners forgotten in bout of curiosity, back drawn though always janus kept in line of his vision, hushed words a rasping, odd drawl, apparent his poor skill with spoken communication. "Two head."
Fine the craft of lie pressed atop caged tongue, held between points that dug into pliable muscle, slight shift of jaw only visible evidence such motion was ongoing. Stilted that porous prisoner, base the grasp he encircled common tongue with, a double edged knife poised. Untroubled the mind that gently threaded along simple thoughts, strands delicate and interwoven, hushed chorus made a singular voice, behind words lax with faux sweetness threat unheeded.
You are nothing but a loner.
And it was such that traversed grounds grown thin, dwindling the arcing illumination until snuffed each in turn, mere candle flames awaiting extinguisher, barren the circumference leading down into shallow indent. Unassuming the beast that tread with steps heavy, unlike the rest this one who bore the ebony rosettes of one and the scraggly, growing mane of another, upon lip halting for brief moment. Assembled others, spoken introduction for those lacking presence in prior gathering, lost on ears that swivelled with each new vocalisation.
Information useful to the cause. Intel, as the ivory behemoth had deemed it. Poor his assistance in such gathering, a stepping stone this, however, made apparent he was no threat, here merely to learn. Into the crater did Tyke slip, never still as he turned to each and assessed their positions, one within particular drawing vision touched with dawning curiosity. A creature once caged, an oddity to be gawked at behind iron bars, peculiar the sights he had seen. Different this all the same, forking protrusion of necks adorned with their own cranium.
One spoke, both moved. Proximity drew ever closer, nostrils flaring as personal space was rejected, duel coats inspected. Supposedly recalled manners forgotten in bout of curiosity, back drawn though always janus kept in line of his vision, hushed words a rasping, odd drawl, apparent his poor skill with spoken communication. "Two head."