by Hopeflower » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:17 pm
Steeltalon and Silver drank hurriedly, knowing it was dangerous to stay too long.. Somewhere, she knew, Darkclaw and Greeneye were fighting. Steeltalon was worried, but she didn't go to help Greeneye. Now that she had Silver to protect, things were different. Steeltalon couldn't race off to the aid of her allies. Silver needed her.
"Hey," Silver chirped as she licked water droplets from the her tiny clawed hand when Steeltalon turned. "You'd be a great mother someday." Steeltalon looked away.
"I'm not intersted in a family," she growled. "Not a mate or a child. I'm a loner, always have been . . . and always will be."
"But you're not a loner now," Silver pointed out. "You're not alone. You've got me, and I'm as good as family . . . right?"
Steeltalon sighed. "I'm not as old as I look," she snapped, causing Silver to twitch with surprise. "I was only hatched three years ago." She stared at her collection of scars, from rexes, spinos and even other raptors. "I've just had a hard life."
Silver growled, "Keep telling yourself that. Aren't you the positive one?"
"I never was the happiest of my siblings," Steeltalon admitted. "But I would come up with games for my brother and I to play. And we would play until our mother and father got annoyed or we got tired." She closed her eyes, pained. "Who knew a game of hunter and prey could wipe out an entire pack?" Silver's eyes widened.
"You said that to Darkclaw," she remembered. "Your family was killed."
"Mm, yes and no," Steeltalon muttered. "They were murdered by Riptide's pack."
Silver didn't say anything else, apparently deep in thought.
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Hopeflower on Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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