Ari

Hope is but a waking dream

The lion lay inside the base of his new home. It was dim inside, but light filtered in through small window-like openings in the walls of the treehouse. They were on each level of the treehouse. Two large ones were in the walls of base level letting in abundant light from the orbs outside. Each level had a ramp made of sturdy branches from the tree’s and thick vines wove together to make ramps up to each platform above that was also woven out of branches and vines all woven together. The treehouse itself was empty save for the sleep lion in the base level.

The lion yawned as he rolled to his belly as he inhaled deeply and let it out in a rush. The lion opened his eyes looking around at the bare walls and grass floor. He knew he needed to go back to Orion today to get Legs and the first load of his and Sun’s stuff to be moved here. Eagerly the lion rocked to his paws and trotted to the door of his new home. The lion pushed Through the vines that formed the door and out into the clearing that was now his yard.

The lion started his trek towards the tunnel that led to Orion. His pace even but not in any true hurry. And by no means was he being anywhere near quiet as he moved.

@Yewberry

Yew had been watching the trees that seemed to spring out of nowhere in Eridanus. Though she had never caught sight of the one that lived inside - the hybrid had not been watching long. Perhaps having nothing to do made her sit. Not doing much. That was anyway, until the lion walked out of the vines that was covering the opening to one of the trees. Her heterochromatic eyes followed the gembound as he began to walk away.

"Did you make this?" She asked quietly, maybe he wouldn't even catch it.

Yew didn't like speaking with strangers - but she was curious. About this group of trees that didn't look like they grew on their own. This is a bad idea.

@Aristotle

Ari

Hope is but a waking dream

Aristotle moved at a slow pace. He was in no real hurry and had no idea that he had been being watched for the short time that he had appeared from his home. He had no reason to think that anyone would be watching him. I mean he had made huge trees grow over the last week, but he didn’t really think it would draw anyone’s attention. However he was sorely mistaken.

Before he ever hit the edge of the clearing a voice net his rounded audits making them shift in the sounds direction. His head quickly followed as he came to a stop. He had caught the voice only because he listened to the world around him more often when he was just taking a stroll. The lion perked catching the sight of a strange but vibrantly beautiful creature that reminded him a bit of the rainbow spinners common to Eridanus. ”Yes I made the tree-house. It’s for my family.” The lion responded warmly to the bird canine thing. For a moment the lion stood inspecting the creature. He couldn’t help but wonder what they were. They were brilliant! He wondered if it would be rude to ask if they knew what they were.

@Yew

Yew, if she were like how she was before, may have called the lion an idiot for expecting no one to notice the trees that had sprouted up out of nowhere. Except she wasn't like that anymore, if anything she was cursing herself for even asking the question in the first place. Especially seeing that this guy seemed curious in conversation. It was kind of Yew's fault for that, too. Either way, she asked and now she couldn't get out of talking.

She blinked, though her bird eye didn't appear to do it from the transparent eyelid it bore. The other, did blink though, cutting out half of her sight while keeping the other half. It wasn't something she ever found weird, just part of her body. Along with those teeth that were used for too many bad things that made her shudder, and the scars on her body tingle. The mention of family left a ping in Yew's heart. Yeah. Family.

"Is there many of them?" Yew was curious, even if she didn't want to be.

@Aristotle

Ari

Hope is but a waking dream

Aristotle looked at the strange creature before him, his curiosity peaking as he noted the canine features mixed with the bird. They were an interesting creature. Something he had never come across himself. Though he wanted to ask about them, he thought it would be rude to just come out and ask what they were or if they had mutated like James had in a chrysalis. Had they been born a wolf, or a bird? Or had they hatched as they were? So many questions began to swirl in his head as he gazed at the brightly colored creature.

Aristotle watched as the creature blinked only a single eye. Were they… WInking at him? Or did they only have one eye lid? This made him even more interested in them. Did they have different eyes? He couldn’t help but wonder if they had a bird eye and a normal eye. He wondered what it would be like to never be able to close one eye.

The creature spoke again, this time asking how many of them there were. ”Oh no, not really. There was but some of them decided they preferred to wander. There’s me and my son. Though there may be a few of us later on.” The lion explained in a gentle voice. It was true that it was only him and Sun now, but they still had Abraxas and the other five stones he had found that contained magic. He was going to revive them and make them his new family if they wished to stay with him. He would care for them and they could live together and be a family. He knew Sun would like having family again.

@Yew

The lion seemed inherently curious, to which Yew could see why. Their thin form was but a mixture of a canine and a corvid, an unusual sight. At least, she thought it was. Didn't canines eat birds? She might have answered his questions if he chose to ask them, but then again, with her one non torn ear pulled back, Yew might have looked closed off. Or maybe it was the scars? Yew did have a few scars on her body, most notably on her face and down her chest. But there were a few spots of missing feathers, too.

Just thinking about it made her want to hide.

Except the Lion began to speak again, and Yew did look to him when he spoke. Something about children choosing to wander, and more children may be around soon. Yew wondered if he was going to get someone to give stone for him, or if he was just going to find random ones that always seemed to litter the caves despite gembounds seeming to live forever.

"I see..." She voiced out, more a mumble than anything else.

@Aristotle