Thread: Awakening  (Steel Quill and TennTenshie)

Eva stared at him. Hed fallen? Fallen into a Sanctuary? He was also terrified it seemed. Climbing, someone had been climbing the mountain? It was easily 500 feet from the base of this mountain to the first usable entry, after all the avians flew. You fell human? She repeated as she walked to him the other mace joining the first on her hips. When she reached him, she glanced at the Avian hed been examining. She smirked slightly, Black as a crow could get, wings and hair almost blue it was so dark. Rave would have been amused to know hed startled a human. She grabbed him by the shirt yanking him at least back to his feet, and dragged him outside of the sacred sleeping area. Youre not to be in there, human. She looked back into the room, one of them was lost, one of the weaker ones finally letting go of the dreams, the memories, the world. She looked at the human she had by the back of a vest maybe? She dragged him under the hole hed fallen through, large wings opening she tilted her head. Hold tight. She then brought her wings down once, twice, three times and they lifted into the upper current of air through the Sanctuaries and back towards the level hed fallen from one of the few tunnels that wouldnt have first stopped him at the nesting chambers. They rose in a circular rising pattern, mostly gliding on the updrafts that where almost invisible outside of the tunnels. She didnt just drop him back at his pack at the entrance, she turned into the cave and a few quick beats had her flying back to the center, the market place, where the food was kept safe and the goat and Eagle where. She landed, just before the feeding pit, dropping him unceremoniously on the ground beside her. Why where you climbing the mountain? She asked, expectantly she watched him. The harpy hed seen earlier lifted from its perch to come land on Evas bare grey shoulder, leaning in inquisitively to this human whod been brought before it again, The little goat peeking out and coming to her as well, hobbling. She waited, hands on her wide hips. The maces easily reachable if she needed to remove the human whod begged her not to kill him when hed fallen to his hands. He was in the social center of these creatures, The massive 30 foot room narrowing with the slope of the mountain was beautifully carved, the Roosting points visible due to the tourches Eva had finally lit, and the small central fire in the feeding pit, with the dear carcass shed been working on for a few days. The smell of the decomposing animal didnt phase her or the Eagle too much, with the other harpies beginning to join itd be gone within a day, nothing but bones left in the pit with the rest, breaking down slowly into the fine dust that covered the edge, it would normally have been used in corsets and other items such as hilts of daggers, decorative points on other forms of weapons. But for the past few centuries, theyd just been allowed to break down. Around him, the rock stalls, carved into the outcroppings of the mountain housed still useable weapons, mostly useable leather items, Eva knew how to make what she wore, most of the avians made their own corsets and pants, the boots she took the utmost care of, as she was a poor cobbler. Another Harpy was swooping in from another entrance Shrieking its arrival, it ignored the human, landing on the dear in the pit and ripped up its first meal taking to the air again to find a roosting point to eat the mass of meat.