ORIGIN

Callista stood under the ceiling of Orion and looked up, curious. She had never really considered the "stars" of Orion before, unable to even get close to them. She didn't have wings or anything and didn't exactly have the kind of magic to get her up there. But she knew they couldn't be stars...not when there was a ceiling.

As a kid, hatching here, she really had thought that there wasn't anything but the ceiling. And those stars were the only stars that existed. She knew better now, stories of Noctua, of the surface, but she had yet to go. It was so far, but she'd heard the descriptions - an endless beyond, glittering stars so distant it doesn't seem real.

These were not stars. Which meant they could get knocked down.

She reached down and grabbed a pebble off the ground, turning back towards the ceiling. Tossing the stone in her paw once, she gathered energy into her arm and then made to throw it as hard as she could. As the stone released, the energy surged from paw to rock and shot upwards towards one of the "stars". There was a distant fracturing sound as the stone hit one of the lights and then bounced off, to immediately hit the ceiling, scattering shards of rock down towards the ground.

She huffed. So close.

She had leaned down to grab another pebble, perhaps a lighter one to give her better aim, or to go faster. But then footsteps distracted her - something large was coming.

She straightened up as a a reptilian creature approached - young, by the gangly look of it, but still larger then most reptiles you would expect to see. She stared, tensing for a moment, wondering if it had come to attack or something. But then a flip of its head, a swing of its tail, and another pebble was soaring through the air.

She watched it with her eyes as it arced through the air above them, not coming anywhere close to the ceiling, but a respectable toss for someone without magic. A smile split her face as she reached up to grab another pebble. An idea was coming to her mind.

"I toss to you, you hit it?" Her thinking was that if she combined her force with his, maybe they could have enough to knock down a crystal! Callista had no idea how physics worked.

She followed his gaze up on instinct and tossed the stone lightly in the palm absentmindly. He didn't see where it was going? She'd thought that he'd maybe figured what she was doing, but it made it funnier to her that he's just seen her throwing rocks up and decided to join along. A smile broke her expression. "I was just throwing them. I can throw them hard with magic. And then if you hit it and add your strength, it could go higher maybe."

A game? Yeah, this could be a game! She hadn't really played games in a long time. Just a lot of hunting, drinking, reading, etc. etc. She stopped tossing the stone and gripped it in a paw, waiting for his go-ahead to throw. "We win if we can knock down one of the stars." She pointed up towards where the ceiling crystal twinkled under the lights. "We gotta work together."

She smiled as the dinosaur readied himself, large tail at the ready. It was the perfect shape and size, too, to hit rocks towards ceilings. She wondered if it had been made with that intention in mind, or something similar. She gripped the rock in her paw and wound up, grinning at Brother as she did. "It's gonna come at you hard and fast!" As she swung, the energy released.

She tried not to go balls to the wall this time, as she was throwing it at someone instead of at the ceiling, just to see how well this was going to work. It still shot from her paw much harder then a rock should really be thrown all things considered, but it wasn't a bullet. Thankfully.