It was time. Bast didn't know what that meant. Only that she was consumed with an overbearing sense of finality. The blue egg that had housed her so long was cracking, she felt cold air against her too warm skin. Straining, breaking, grasping. Life, that's what it was time for, no more loneliness in this hollow space, she could leave now.

With it's charge now pushing to free itself as well, the delicate shell was no match, and soon the tell-tale sounds of glass shattering and flying in all directions could be heard. In the middle lay a young pup, confused, unsure, and curious as dark orbs opened to take in the world around them curiously.

Slowly the young pup climbed to her feet. Was there no one here? Was she just born from nothing? It seemed strange but, she was hardly in a position to question it. She still felt sleepy, half there, and it was taking all she had to stay on top of her tiny limbs. Yet compared to most she looked strong, well developed, her time in the egg, however short, was well spent.

Padding over to a nearby stream she leaned down and started lapping at the water, she could use some food to but....what? She didn't see anything or anyone and it felt....empty and lonely, beyond words. She stared out into the openness and let out a bark, but all she could here was the sound of her own voice.

Alone.

Equinox wandered through Polaris for the first time in many cycles, the paths she trod stirring up only the vaguest semblance of memories under her skin. A soft, throaty rumble throbbed in her chest, her jaws parted to take in the wondrous sight of so many lights, all fragmented and broken in her bejeweled vision.

Soft thuds echoed when she placed her paws, the soft drip, drip, of fluid dripping from her draconian form. Her beaked head swayed slowly upon a serpentine neck as she moved.

And then, a sound, so out-of-place in the deathly quiet, caused her to freeze and raise her neck high in curiosity, scanning with a glowing eye across the terrain around her. Her skin rippled, a scaled texture rushing over her. And then she followed the sound of the voice, so young and new, her limbs carrying her fast towards the source. Like an immense black shadow, Equinox emerged, towering over the small one with a curious rumble. she lowered her long neck, opening her jaws wide to peer at the puppy, a friendly gurgle forming in her throat. She tilted her head slowly.

They were so small...

She blew a warm breath at the pup, scattering a few black droplets of oily slime.

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"Speech looks like this."
"Thoughts looks like this."

tags: @Bast
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