ORIGIN

(Disclaimer: Gembound have no idea what time it is. Gembound have no clocks. Also--this takes place before the EYES quests.)

Giggle was making her way swiftly along the worn paths of Canis, keeping her eyes upward.

"AZA'ZEL?" she called, now and again.

So far she'd worked the circuit, all the way around Canis's outer edges; she'd passed her bone pile twice, and now she was working her way into the fortresses.

Where is he...?

She was looking for the Bone King for conversation, but of a specific type. She had things to discuss, and damn it, her King seemed absent. She let out a shrill cackle of frustration, trotting up past Mau's tower and toward the far wall, calling out every now and again and hoping the lammergeier would finally appear.

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ROLL THE BONES

@Azazel

Off again and away from Canis was Azazel, as per usual. He knew he should stay around the Bonebound more, rather than run off fighting dragons and finding newly hatched Gembound. He should either do that, or relinquish his hold on the clan. But... the lammergeier didn't quite want to. Something in him wanted to keep pushing, to keep trying. So he would. Meanwhile, he would focus on trying to get the smoke out of his lungs. It had been about two days since the battle in Polaris. Azazel was constantly checking on his burned and charred feathers, just to be sure that they were healing back alright. It wasn't a major amount of feathers that were gone, but better to be safe than sorry...

He'd been in his nest, but he lifted his head and tilted his head at the call of his name. Masculine, baritone. Only Giggle had that deep of a voice, as far as anyone Azazel knew. Her voice was even deeper than that big mean dragon. But Giggle was a girl. To be honest, the lammergeier never had been able to put a finger... toe on how she sounded so manly, and was so big and muscular. Blinking away grit in his tear ducts, he stood up and readied his wings. Flapping them slowly, then quickly diving down, he approached the hyena. Soon, he landed upon the earth with a click of talons and stood before the soothsayer. "Yes, Giggle?"

@Giggle

There he was! Giggle paused and squinted up, then huffed softly, both annoyed and appeased at the Bone King's sudden appearance. She watched as he flew down, glad that she wouldn't have to shout up to his nest. It would be awkward.

"There you are. I wanted to talk about a few things, if you have the time?" she began. She glanced around, making sure the pair were alone and unwatched, then looked to him and lowered her voice.

"It's about Canis. About all the young we have, and a few things I want to address. A stranger who might be dangerous, maybe introducing all the members in a meet-up or something instead of leaving all the young ones to run loose and alone, and then... maybe defenses. We have all these hatchlings running wild and nothing but Kerberos to stop them. He never leaves his post, except to eat or sleep. He must be exhausted. And if something gets past him..."

She shrugged, a little. She wanted to tell him all about Aleera, and Ambrus, but first she needed him to know why she was here--and to see if he even had the time to speak.

"Have you got the time to talk about it now?" she asked, matter-of-factly.

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ROLL THE BONES

@Azazel

Giggle

Azazel (Original)

Giggle