Yodox had finally ventured out of Monoceros. The sound of his hooves rang clear and echoed down the tunnel. His eyes moved from wall to wall. It was very interesting. Fearsome creatures lived in stone on the walls.
To be fierce enough to find honor in being carved in these walls... His thought trailed off. The calf had big dreams. This place he lived seemed as though it was a place where a good fight could lead to a good set up for survival. Of course, he had no idea to fight. The power to do so ran through his veins, he could feel it. But using it was still the mystery.
This is why he moved on from Monoceros. He was sure he would return, but right now his world was small and he wanted to see just how big it could get.
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A voice rang clear in his ears. At first, he thought the carvings on the walls had awakened to deliver news of some old world. His eyes, however, disputed the thought.
As if the walls would come to life... The calf silently shunned himself for such an abstract thought.
Ahead of him stood a creature of white fur with a blue face. It was small,
a mammal. His mind chimed in. As they moved closer it became apparent that they had been through many battles. Their small white body was littered with scars that seemed to slide like snakes through their pale fur.
"Lost?" Yodox took a few confident steps forward, but remained a respectful distance.
"I am not lost. I am expanding my world." The low timber of his voice held a hint of curiosity and wonder.
"What do you mean there are demons? What is a demon?" The way she told him to stay sharp led him to believe it was an enemy.
Did the demons give her those scars?
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The calf remained standing, listening eagerly to what this small mammal has to say about demons.
Fear, anger, and uncertainty.. These seemed more like emotions than actual things. But seeing that he had no idea what demons were, it seemed very likely that such things
could be demons. Yodox pictured dark creeping things that would climb into the body of another gembound and make them bad. The calf nodded in agreement, Demons do indeed sound like bad things.
"I was just in Monoceros." He paused, mulling over what war cries might sound like.
"All I could hear what was the howling wind... Do they cry out in the wind?" He tilted his head to the side.
"...Or maybe they sound like the wind."
As she spoke of her duty, Yodox's curiosity heightened as she spoke of her duty. His previous thought about her scars seemed to be confirmed. She most often be battling those demons, for that he admired the small mammal. It seemed to be a selfless act.
"Did demons give you those scars then?" He lowered his head as a gesture to the mammals whole self. Then he began to wonder,
"How do you fight a demon?"
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The more she talked about these demons, the more the calf grew to dislike the thought of meeting one. To have to wait until they infected the ones you cared about seemed tragic. The calf shifted his weight from one side to the other, unsure of what to say to the mammal. It wasn't until her brief moment of silence that he thought of a question.
"How do I prepare to for meeting a demon?" He took two steps forward, closing the distance between them. He thought of another question to follow,
"Does everyone have to fight the demons?" If everyone had demons to fight, what would they do if they were too weak. What would a demon do? Questions began to form one after the other in the young bovines head. But, he did not wish to overwhelm the older gembound with question after question before an answer was delivered.
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