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The man eyed the bird, feeling with each passing second the claws digging deeper. He simply remained; letting him inflict what damage he wanted as he ignored the pain thinking it some contest to win. But it didn’t last as his own bird started pecking at the side of his head, taking it’s queues from the older bird. A low bellowing growl escaped him, it was enough to scare his bird into stopping but the older bird simply unfurled it’s wings and then went back to perching on his shoulder. It wasn’t until it struck forward with its beak against his nose that he physically jerked causing the pain in his shoulder to erupt tenfold.
He snapped his maw toward the bird but the slowly mending bone that had been the source of all physical pain lately caused him to stop. Damning it all, and knowing he really had no choice his feet started moving once again. And it was the look of satisfaction that ate at him more than anything else that the old owl seemed to have about him. The den would soon come into view, a place he had exiled himself from for weeks now. He had taken up sleeping in the shop, the cold concrete floor wasn’t comfortable nor was it a loving embrace. He had come to feel something he hadn’t felt since knowing the golden woman. If he where honest it had been the most damaging break, no bone had been broken from this one, just his heart from knowing what he had said.
Once he had arrived the birds didn’t leave, they only stayed perched looking at him expectantly. Saluce shook his agitated head, and called out to the dreaming queen. Hoping her able ears would picked up the sounds of her flawed mate.
“X’yrin?”
Image courtesy of Frau Böb@Flickr; table by the Mentors!
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