Awakening for the first time was a strange experience for Apollo. First was a sort of… blackness. The color black was different than nothingness, he thought. Black was something, so it couldn’t be nothing. Then came the sensation of feeling. He had no idea what he was feeling, but whatever it was suspended him in… air? No. If he was suspended in something he could feel, then it couldn’t be air, could it? His eyelids fluttered, but something told him to keep them closed against whatever was suspending him in place. Something told him he didn’t want that liquid in his – liquid! He was suspended… in liquid. What was liquid?

One wing began to move around in the oddly thick substance. What was this stuff? And why was he stuck in it? The wing that was moving brushed against something hard. He immediately brought it back to the hard thing, brushing against it more in order to figure out what it was. But without his sight, he was lost. He moved the other wing about, and it too brushed against something hard. Hmm… He brought both wings down, in a pseudo-flap, and they brushed the hard thing all the way down. He was suspended by liquid that was trapped in… something?

The idea of being trapped in anything did not appeal to him. He was a Bird. Birds were meant to fly, right? Not be trapped inside things. He wiggled his talons around, trying to push himself forward, and his beak bumped the hard thing that held him here – wherever here was. He attempted to push against the… rock? But nothing seemed to happen. He pushed harder, shoving his talons against the liquid in an attempt to gain pushing momentum. That didn’t help. After exhausting himself, he drifted quietly to the bottom of the rock prison, waiting to gain his strength back so he could try again.

Life is precious.

Makyna had hardly stepped foot outside of her den ever since she'd helped breathed life into her and Leon's children. Children. Actual children that would have features of both herself and of her loved one. It was an amazing feeling, one that set her aglow from the inside and made her feel like she was walking on air! The lioness shuddered in pure joy as she trotted along the hall of Pisces. She didn't want to stray too far, she only needed to step outside of Pisces for a little bit. Just long enough to give her muscles a bit of a workout then she would head right back to keep an eye on her unhatched babies.

The lioness grinned as she walked along, blue eyes scanning the earth as she moved... It was then that she noted something on the ground. A chrysalis one that she could hear was ready to hatch. Sometimes it was hard for the babies within to get out and get a fresh breath of air, perhaps her assistance was needed. Perhaps she'd even be needed to help give this new one a home.

Makyna trotted over to the chrysalis and focused on her magic. Hopefully she would be able to break a piece of it off and release the little one within.

"Speech." || "Thoughts."

table by lisa

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tagged: @Apollo
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