Northern Plateau - Grylra
The most noticable feature here is an immense water-filled crater, 30 to 40 meters across, in the dead center of the area. A clean and sparkling stream flows from a hidden spring in the western rockface, and flows downhill to the glass-walled crater, filling it completely, the overflow splashing onwards downhill. On closer examination, the pool is quite deep - 8 meters at least... but along it's edge is a nicely stepped set of ledges, shallow enough for a gryphlet to wade in.
The ground here is hilly, and scattered with the green of grasses, shrubs, and bushes here and there. Immense boulders are scattered about near the east and west sides of the plateau, a fair number of them having been Shaped into perfectly formed couches, exactly right for gryphons to lay about on in great comfort. Blackened marks extend far up along the cliffs on the east and west, evidence of an incredible fire that must have swept through here sometime in the past.
The cliffs and hillsides are peppered with hundreds of caves - the homes of the gryphons that live here.
Tobi says, "chirrup?"
Dove smiles and ruffles the downy head of the little toddler, Tobi.
Tobi raises uneasily onto hind legs to headbutt nuzzle the underside of Doves beak. Then walks towards Faekawn to repeat with the same greeting. Tobi falls over backwards while coming up a couple inches short of Faekawn's beak.
Dove looks up from her papers long enough to gently return Tobi's affectionate greeting and goes back to said papers, scribble-stick in claw as he tries to greet Faekawn.
Faekawn peers down at Tobi curiously. "Well, hello..." she chirps, smiling. "Who're you?"
Tobi says, "chirrup?!?!?!"and prances.
Faekawn aaaahhs understandingly. "Chiurrup. A fine name..." she teases playfully.
Tobi hunkers down low to the ground as not blinking as he spots a pillbug.
Dove looks over, half-listening to Faekawn's reaction to Tobi. She doesn't bother to look up as she answers for the child, "You know, I don't think that's what Meerith and Kayzon had in mind for naming their child..." She grins and continues her paperwork as though she never said a thing.
Tobi begins moving forward slowly towards the pillbug . He carefully stays low to the ground.
Tobi freezes still and prone except for the highly raised flanks that begin wiggling back and for becoming more rapid in tempo.
Faekawn giggles softly as she watches the little one stalk the most inoffensive of possible prey. "Hmm? Ohhh... he's Meerith's? Neat... do you know his name?"
Dove answers from her paperwork, "Tobi...I think. Cute kid, but with Kayzon constantly on watch duty and Meerith busy with the mages, they don't get to spend much time with him. I offered to watch him today."
Puff lays streched out on a rock, sleeping.
Puff streches, starting to wake up, his partly feathered wings twitching, and stroking a little through the air as his beak gaps wide in a yawn.
Puff looks seriously underdeveloped compaired to his sisters, scrawny and still mostly covered in downy feathers and fur, only recently has his featheres started to come down.
Tobi pounces a few inches forward onto the pillbug , then bounces into the air shocked when the bug rolled into a ball.
Faekawn giggles softly at Tobi's reaction... remembering her mother's second clutch, and how they all learned to hunt, too. "Wait 'till you start finding crickets," she says, to no-one in particular.
Tobi scampers back to where the females are lounging. Seeming to get his confidence bolstered by their presence.
Dove looks up, confused, muttering "...crickets...?" Then she realizes that Fae was talking to Tobi. She smiles and chuckles, back to her work...almost done. Her scribble-stick scritching away on the papers before her, scroll case nearby in claw's reach.
Faekawn chiurps comfortingly to the little one. Leaned comfortably on her side, almost leaned against Dove, but not quite. Relaxing, for once... and it's a nice feeling. And nice to watch a youngling play, who she's not so terribly responsible for, as well!
Tobi crawls on top of Dove's scroll and curls up comfortably.
Dove ahhs! softly as a fuzzy butt is plopped right down in her work! She looks at him as though he's a silly gryphlet and then reaches her beak down to try gently shoving him off her work. "Scoot, you. Go harass Faekawn for a minute. I'm almost done, you little brat." She says this all affectionately despite her words.
Puff slowly gets up onto his feet, being extra carefull, the last time he fell and nearly hurt himself. He shakes himself out, dust filling the air, then glances around, when he spots Faekawn he chirps up, loudly, and happily, "Mama!" Then scrabbles off the rock and bounces over to her.
Tobi crawls behind Dove, slowly peeking out as he sees the barely familiar fledgling pads up.
"Faekawn," she chirps to Puff, reflexively and uselessly correcting him, yet again. "How're you doing, little'n?"
Puff giggles a little, "I am ok mamafaekawn. Did not fall off the rock this time!"
Tobi crawls around Dove using her as cover.
Dove decides to have a little fun with the gryphlet behind her and flicks him gently with the fluffy tip of her tail.
Faekawn grins, and touches beaks with Puff. "Good! No more busting your head open like that, okay? You going to look before you leap, next time?"
Tobi stares at Puff's moving tail as Tobi's rear begins to wiggle. Tobi is about to pounce as he is startled by Dove's tail.
Tobi screeches and jumps straight up.
Puff bobs his head a little, "Well, it looked like food, how was I to know it was a pet or someth...." He starts, rather violently at Tobi's screach, hoping clear over Faekawn and twisting about to see what caused such sounds.
Faekawn flicks her head around in startlement at Tobi's sharp exclamation, then laughs, grinning and shaking her head. "Something get you, Tobi?" she wonders, now leaning away from Dove, enough so that she finally just flops over onto her side. She looks at Puff, upside down, grinning at his reaction, too. "Have you met... uhm... Tobi, I think his name is, Puff?"
Tobi is hyperventilating and looks at Dove with a hurt look.
Tobi pounces on Dove's back.
Dove just chuckles and finishes the last page of her paperwork.
Puff blinks and shakes his head, all his feathers puffed up hugly, trembling a little with shock and startlement still, eyes wide.
Faekawn grins, and chiurps at Puff. "Can you believe you were that small, just last summer?"
Tobi begins chewing on Dove's eartuft.
Puff bobs his head slowly to Faekawn, "Yes mama, seen others sometimes too."
Faekawn doesn't even bother to correct Puff, this time. "So this is his first summer, your second, and my third..."
Puff bobs his head slowly, "Why is it important to know how many summers you have seen?
Dove acks! dropping her scribble-stick as her eartuft is attacked by midget pygmi...oh, wait, it's just Tobi. She twists her head a little, trying to look up at him and picks up her stick, scratches one last thing on her papers before begiunning to roll them all up to stick in the scroll case nearby.
Tobi hops down temporarily distacted by another bug.
This time Tobi is following a butterfly.
Faekawn shrugs her shoulders slightly, tail curling and sliding slowly across the dirt, watching Tobi harrass Dove. "Well, it's not, really, I guess. It's just something I thought about. I don't guess it really matters much."
NightFlyer has arrived.
Puff bobs his head a little, then settles besides Faekawn, "Ok mama, I was wondering, some others have asked me how many sesons I have seen, and I told them I have seen enough for now."
The butterfly is safe for now.
Aubri has arrived.
Aubri leaves his cave with a few blinks at all the activity around Dove. He pads toward her, Fae, the gryphlets, and so on...
Faekawn ruffles her beak in Puff's neckfeathers lightly. "Nope, you've got a whole bunch more to see. Think how old poppa is, after all! You should see that many, at least!" She chirps slightly as she sees Aubri approaching, smiling.
Tobi crawls under Dove's wing and hides.
Dove finishes rolling her paperwork and stuffing it in the scroll case. She opens a small side pocket and puts her scribble stick in it. She sets it aside so she can pay attention to the gryphlet she's babysitting. She smiles as she sees her mate walk up.
Tobi yawns.
Aubri settles beside Dove before saying anything. "So..." he begins, eyeing the gryphlet pointedly. "Have I been out of the loop THAT long?" he wonders.
Puff giggles and shakes his head, "Ment seen enough for now, not that I not see more too.
Dove chuckles and shakes her head saying, "No, silly. I'm just watching him for his parents, Kayzon and Meerith. You know Kayzon, he's in one of your wing units. The one to the west, keeping an eye out for any more bugs..."
Tobi stands up long enough to nuzzle Aubri's leg, noting Dove's scent on him.
Faekawn giggles at Aubri's comment, rousing, and flicking her tail. "That would be kind of out of touch..." she agrees, dragging Puff a little closer, so she can work on some pinfeathers along the back of his head. "You need to excercize more, and eat better," she chastizes the 'little one'.
Tobi yawns.
Aubri chuckles and nuzzles Dove lightly. "I think I know the scouts," he chuckles, then blinks and peers down at the gryphlet nuzzling his foreclaws. "Are you SURE...?" he asks with a mock-worried expression.
Tobi settles back down, eyes blinking.
Puff shakes his head, squirming in Faekawn's grip, "Don't wanna mama. The others are all bigger than me and thay don't like me, and thay keep trying to push me around and everything."
Tobi begins nodding off.
Faekawn chirps, "Hold still... and anyway, if you get bigger and stronger, you'll be able to stop them from bugging you so much. Or at least be able to fly away from them or something."
Tobi says, "chirrr..snore"
Puff squirms even more as he is told to hold still, "But then I won't be able to hide from them so easy Mama, I would have to fight them, and I don wanna fight them, don wanna feel them getting hurt because I bit them back and stuff.
Dove just smiles and reaches down to lick Tobi's downy fluff of a crest and then answers Aubri softly, "You know that can never be the case, Aubri. So I make up for it from time to time by watching the young of others...."
Faekawn patiently explains, "If you beat them up badly enough, they'll leave you alone eventually. That's what I had to do. I don't guess you remember Shoriseen? She teased me so bad it drove me crazy! Until I put her in the healers..."
Tobi barely wakes up long enough to stretch his fore limbs to touch her beak and push it slightly for a moment.
Aubri cups his wing over Dove and murmurs softly to her. "You don't KNOW that.." he mutters, then gently strokes the chick's head. It's an old conversation. He glances at Faekawn with a slight smile, listening to her questionable (though probably correct) advice.
Tobi yawns and closes his eyes again.
Puff shakes his head, "Don' wanna do that mama." He shakes himself, scratching the ground with a foreclaw.
Dove just wingshrugs lightly and gently pulls Tobi closer to her, between her front paws, using her beak. From there, she tries to get him settled and starts preening him softly, licking his feathers straight and settling his ruffed fur back smooth.
Faekawn sighs, releasing Puff, the worst of the pinfeathers taken care of for now. "Well, get good at hiding then... that's a pretty useful thing to know how to do, too, after all." She glances to Dove and Aubri, and smiles a little bit at how tenderly Dove tends to the young gryhon.
Tobi rolls onto his back sprawling.
Puff bobs his head slowly, "I try mama, but, its harder, getting to big for all the safe little places I used to hide."
Faekawn giggles, and ruffles Puff's backfur. "You are getting kinda big, puff. And you need a name, too! If you're not going to get your own, I'm gonna figure one out for you, and you'll be stuck with it! I'll have to go to the core, and find other language words for Big Puff Who Can't Hide In Little Places Anymore..." she teases.
Puff shakes his head, his eyes widening a little, "No mamma, I wanna find my own name, I just have not felt anything is right, yet."
"Faekawn..." the young hen corrects out of habit. "Alright... you'll probably find one when you're flying, anyway. Next time I go hunting... with a group, so there's like, any chance at all we catch anything... I'll bring you back some more entrails, to help you get your feathers in a little better." She stretches out, on her side, pushing her hindlegs backwards and stretching her talons out toward Dove, then relaxing again, her tail twitching and flicking slowly. "How're you this evening, Aubri?" she wonders.
Puff blinks, feathers and dwon pufing up a little, "Entrails? Really? Oh yes! Please mama? Don't forget?"
Nightflyer gives out a loud predatory skree!
Aubri watches Dove care for the little Tobi with a gentle smile, tinged with regret. His eartufts perk a bit at Fae and he turns toward her. "Hmm? I'm all right," he replies, smiling a little.
A loud skree echo's from down on the southern plateau. And it'd be very familliar to people who new the owner of the voice..
Tobi wakes with a start at the skree and burrows under Aubri and begins trembling.
Puff yawns a little and streches out, settling besides Faekawn.
Dove smiles and continues taking care of Tobi. She thinks to herself, 'Cute, but these guys require a lot of time and effort to take care of.' She startles back as Tobi jumps and hides. Motherly instinct kicks in and she looks up sharply, eyes slitted, looking for the source of the cry.
Faekawn giggles softly at Puff's eagerness, and bobs her head. "I promise..." she says to Puff. She doesn't entirely miss the slightly odd look to Aubri's eyes as he looks up to her, but her attention's caught by another cry from further away down the plateau, and she glances after the source. "Ohh... Nightflyer," she says softly, leaning up against her brother.
Yes, it's Nightflyer! The terror of the night skies! all must bow.. er.. no, Nightflyer herself wanders onto the plateau after a moment, then just sits and dosen't move, waiting to see what Faekawn will do, since she hasn't seen the 'chick' in /a long/ time... Puff 'n stuff either..
Puff yawns, snuggling close up against Faekawn, "I sleepy mama, gonna rest little while."
Faekawn nods to Puff. "That's a good idea... you sleep well, okay? I'll try and come find you and check on you before I got to nest. Where are you going to be?" She nods slightly to Nightflyer as she speaks to the young gryphon, just letting her know that she sees and recognizes her.
Dove snorts in NightFlyer's general direction and leans her head under Aubri's wing and tries to convince the chick there that it's safe to come out with soft croons and whistles.
Tobi pokes his head out from under Aubri to look at the newly arrived gryph.
Nightflyer gapegrins finally and starts forward with a happy greeting to Aubri, Dove, and Puff, "Well.. who have we here...?" Even when this hen's grinning, it can be scary, particulary for a young chick as the new arrival seems to be...
Aubri chuckles at Tobi and leans down to nuzzle a little, coaxing him out into the open again..
Tobi backburrows under Aubri whimpering.
Faekawn giggles softly. "That's Tobi... Dove's watching him, for his parents... they're awful busy. And I'm not helping at all!" She laughs a little at that, and fluffs.
Aubri leans over toward Fae with an indulgent grin. "You just keep that up.. I'm sure I can find a hyperactive chick to saddle you with.."
Puff yawns and settles right where he is, snuggled up close to Faekawn, sleepily he cheeps up, "Right here mama."
Faekawn snorts softly. "Alright... I'll probably wander off later, but I'll check you before I sleep. I may come back here to sleep, too... it's a nice spot."
Nightflyer tilts her head in an almost upside down angle "It's okay youngling..." and plunks down near Faekawn and Puff "You can come out, I'm not gonna eat you.."
Faekawn grins at Aubri, and shakes her head. "No no no... if I'm gonna do that, I'm doing it with my own, and I don't think that's gonna be for a while yet! Hi Nightflyer... that's right, no eating the babygryphs."
Dove looks quickly up from under Aubri's wing. Eating what???? She looks again at Nightflyer, wondering just how much is play and how much is not...Tobi was put in her care and she's gonna take it seriously.
Nightflyer raises an eartuft at Dove, the equivalent of raising an eyebrow and gapegrins reassuringly.
Tobi trembles now only a beak and eyes giving away his presence.
Faekawn whispers to Nightflyer, "He's really very shy... he jumps at every sudden motion. Irubin was kinda like that for a while, but he grew out of it, too."
Aubri gives a soft sigh and glances up at Nightflyer. "You're REALLY not helping," he says quite bluntly.
Dove just glares at Nightflyer, not at all reassured and decides better of it. She turns and tries to comfort Tobi, sticking her beak slowly back under Aubri's wing.
Aubri keeps his beak clear, letting Dove work to comfort the little gryphlet.
Nightflyer blinks and looks slightly affronted "I said hello .. " she ..well.. glares at Aubri, but turns her head so Tobi can't see her glaring...
Windshadow sweeps down from above.
Windshadow has arrived.
Tobi slowly crawls out from under Aubri and nestles between Dove and Aubri.
Faekawn is laying on her side, foreclaws toward Dove, with Puff going to sleep at her back. A little uncomfortable by the tension between the three other gryphons... even though she understands Dove's protectiveness very well. One of the many reasons she's glad not to be the one watching after the gryphlet Tobi.
Tobi tries to make himself as small as possible.
Faekawn leans foreward, and puts her beak right down next to the ground, so she's not so 'big' at Tobi. "It's okay," she trills soothingly. "Dove'll keep you safe, promise. And I'll help, and so will Aubri, so you're gonna be extra triple safe, until your parents come get you, okay?"
Tobi steps cautiously out from between the gryph couple, eyes staring through Faekawn, as he notices the butterfly sitting on her crest.
Faekawn blinks, pale nictating membranes flicking closed first, as she notices the unsettlingly intent expression on Tobi's face. A familiar expression, at that. "Uh oh...." she chirps faintly, glancing up at Dove emploringly.
Tobs steps closer to Faekawn, putting a paw on her beak to hold himself up while his other paw reaches after the butterfly.
Faekawn remains very, very still, feeling a bit cross-eyed as the little one comes way up closer than her eyes will focus. Unfortunately, however, her curiosity about what the gryphlet is doing makes her crest flare up slightly...
Aubri watches the little drama with a grin, keeping still and quiet, as if the world were holding its breath..
The butterfly takes flight and Tobi gives chase across the plateau. Tobi forgets temporarily about the new gryphs.
Dove watches silently as Tobi forgets his fears and starts after his lost butterfly. She sits back and chuckles at the simplicity of it all.
Faekawn aaacks, giving her head a quick shake after the little paws and claws have had their quick run across it.... turning to see... "Ohhh... another butterfly. Silly thing..." She smiles a little, watching the carefree chase, rolling back over again, so that her back is close up to Dove and Aubri, foreclaws pointed toward the sleeping Puff.
Aubri purrs and cups his wing over Fae, preening her crest feathers gently back into place in Tobi's wake. "Hi," he chirrups softly.
Tobi trips over puff's tail and sprawls beak first into the base of a nearby couch.
Faekawn rouses, giving a soft purrrr, and looking up and back over herself, at Aubri. "Mmmmmm... Hi...." she trills in answer, her tail giving a slow curl back and forth.
Tobi sits up sniffling.
Dove half-stands as she sees Tobi go beak first into a stone couch! "Tobi? Are you okay?" She's very concerned about him, but she won't let herself panic over every little thing.
Tobi pads up to Dove and Fae a small scuff on the top of his beak the only damage.
Aubri squawks softly as Tobi takes a tumble, lifting his head from Fae's feathers. His wing shifts on Faekawn's back as if preparing, perhaps, to get up as well.
Dove hmms and looks Tobi over. He seems fine and isn't crying, that's good. She pulls him back to his spot between her forelegs and starts licking him more, paying attention to his scuffed beak. She croons as she takes care of him.
Faekawn smiles, relaxing. "Gotta watch out for rocks," she chirps, amused that Puff didn't even stir, from getting his tail tripped over. "They're no good at getting out of the way. See? Now you've got a nice scrape to show off..." She knows that Dove's really the watcher here, but... she's discovering the habit of watching out for the young is awfully hard to shake. And something about the way Aubri tensed and prepared makes her smile just a little.
Tobi begins wrestling during his bath.
Aubri relaxes again and settles in, smiling again as Tobi starts to fight with his mate's beak as she preens him.
Dove just keeps up the licking, dodging her beak around him, letting him catch her now and then. She'll stop, but then continue when Tobi let's his grip relax each time.
"When do you expect his folks back, Dove?" Faekawn wonders idly. "Or do you have him overnight?"
Aubri gives Fae a wide grin and scratches her chest with one claw. "Good question," he rumbles with a smirk.
Tobi says, "chirr?"
Faekawn oooohs, and rolls a little bit more over, stretching her forelegs apart.... definitely liking Aubri's scritches. And, of course, the motion leans her lightly up against Dove as well... another nice thing.
Dove pauses in her bathing of Tobi as she's bumped into. She leans over and starts preening Faekawn a little like she was just doing to Tobi before grinning and finishing with her tiny charge.
Tobi escapes.
Tobi steps into the unfinshed caves.
Tobi has left.
Faekawn ooohs, and half-closes her eyes, burrrrbling happily... one foreclaw flicking out in a futile attempt to catch the escaping gryphlet. She sighs as she misses, however. "He's fast...." she mutters.
Dove sighs and nods, sadly standing up slowly. She sounds a bit miffed about this, "Tell me about it. I'll be right back." There is a noise from the caves. Dove quickens her pace.
Unfinished Caves - Grylra
A dry, fairly open set of caverns. The ceiling is black with soot, though the walls have been cleaned, and the sand of the floor recently sifted and smoothed.
Contents:
Tobi
Pile of Crates
Tobi stands atop a crate one has fallen from the stack.
Dove starts looking around, calling out. "Tobi? Where are you, you little pest?" She sees the pile of fallen crates and walks up, now eye-level with the wandering gryphlet. She looks him in the eye and asks with a bit of light sarcasm, "Are we done yet?"
Northern Plateau - Grylra
The most noticable feature here is an immense water-filled crater, 30 to 40 meters across, in the dead center of the area. A clean and sparkling stream flows from a hidden spring in the western rockface, and flows downhill to the glass-walled crater, filling it completely, the overflow splashing onwards downhill. On closer examination, the pool is quite deep - 8 meters at least... but along it's edge is a nicely stepped set of ledges, shallow enough for a gryphlet to wade in.
The ground here is hilly, and scattered with the green of grasses, shrubs, and bushes here and there. Immense boulders are scattered about near the east and west sides of the plateau, a fair number of them having been Shaped into perfectly formed couches, exactly right for gryphons to lay about on in great comfort. Blackened marks extend far up along the cliffs on the east and west, evidence of an incredible fire that must have swept through here sometime in the past.
The cliffs and hillsides are peppered with hundreds of caves - the homes of the gryphons that live here.
Tobi walks out with tail between legs and head down...
Faekawn sighs contentedly, stretching out a bit under the stroke of claws. "That's good...." she purrrs, then leans her head over as Tobi comes out, Dove behind him. "Ohhh... looks like she caught him, alright..."
Dove comes out with gryphlet in tow, or rather, in front. She nudges him in the rear with his beak back to everyone else, "Okay you, back to the rest of us."
Windshadow's broadwinged shadow circles the plateau, spiralling in on the group of gryphons as he descends from higher altitude.
Faekawn giggles a little. "He'll fall over soon enough," she trills, "Momma's last clutch always got really hyper, just before they'd all tumble up together in a big ball and fall asleep."
Tobi scampers quickly under the nearest gryph , as his courage disolves under Windshadow's shadow.
Aubri chuckles a bit as well and nods at Fae.. "I hope so," he rumbles, digging his claws into her feathers and combing them down.
Tobi yawns and blinks.
Dove sighs and nods, settling back down. "Oh, I do hope so." She looks up at the approaching gryphon, unable to twll who it is from this angle...the sun's behind him and turns him to a dark shape to her eye.
Faekawn purrrs sleepily, Aubri's nice combings just relaxing her furhter. "I may tumble up in a big ball myself, soon..." she chirrrs, smiling up at Aubri.
Windshadow straigtens out and stalls as he nears the ground, backwinging to a deft landing and tucking his wings.
Tobi yawning walks to dove and nuzzles and preens her shoulder apologetically, before being startled by the new gryph.
Dove settles herself down, legs stretched out to the side, back up against Aubri. She leans over just enough to grab Tobi by the scruff and pull him gently over and into her forearms, giving him one final lick before just relaxing against the warmth or her mate as he preens and skritches Faekawn.
Aubri chuckles and leans down to nibble Fae's cheek with a coo. "All right. I'll probably do the same.."
Faekawn chrrrrs softly, waving one foreclaw vaugly at Windshadow, before she rolls over just a little bit more, so she can nuzzle at Dove's shoulders. "Right here?" she wonders of Aubri... because it's such a comfortable moment, to be together with this other two... and she can keep an eye on Puff, too.
Aubri trills quietly. "If you prefer it to my cave, certainly... unless it starts to rain.."
Windshadow lifts his beak in greeting to Faekawn, and pads closer to the gathering. "Fledgling duty?" he asks with a note of humor in his voice.
Faekawn smiles. "If it rains, I'll kick Puff into poppa's cave for him to deal with, and join you two in your cave... if... uhm... that'd be okay?"
Dove mutters over to Aubri, "I doubt it'll rain yet for another few days...and if it does, it won't kill us, it's just water..." She looks up sleepily to Windshadow, recognizes him and nods, "Yep, Kayzon and Meerith's chick, Tobi, for me and Faekawn's got her own there as Puff."
Dove tilts her head, her body is too comfy, "Sure, you know you're always welcome there, Fae."
Aubri rubs her neck. "Of course it'd be okay," he replies, then chuckles at Windshadow. "Only because she likes to," he winks.
Tobi rolls slightly nuzzling deeper into Dove and Aubri.
Windshadow laughs and nods, chirrping affectionately and the little ones. "She's got a knack for it, certainly..."
Faekawn rouses happily at the kind gesture of friendship from the other two, and feels just wonderfully snuggly and comfy. And it shows, on her face and the posture of her whole body, her foreclaws starting to snuggle down into puffed-out chestfeathers. It's been a while since she's been in a nice gryphonpile like this. "Hiiii, Windshadow," she murmurs lazily.
Dove starts to doze off, mate at her side ball of furr and feathers in her arms, friends nearby. Yep, doesn't get better than this...snnnzzz.
Aubri arches his neck over to nibble on Dove's neck. "Good night," he murmurs gently as he curls up with them.
Windshadow has had a long day of things, and a nap on the plateau with friends and featherballs is just what he needs. He decides to join in, settling down close by with his wamrth available if the weather turns too chill.
Tobi says, "chrrr....snorrr"