Celebrimbor Helyanwë (suntdracones) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2015-09-30 19:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: ashton hartley, character: jae song, location: by the ocean |
Thread: A Hunter Must Hunt
WHO: Jae & Ashton
WHEN: Sept. 30 around midnight
WHERE: By the ocean
When a dragon was happy, his wing beats were brisk and sharp, cutting through the air like a dolphin cut playfully through the waves of the ocean. When he was angry, his course took him directly to his destination like an arrow, fast and deadly in its approach. Ashton was to learn from Jae how to hunt and it was the first time someone would be taking the risk, on purpose, of seeing the dragon on the prowl with the explicit intent of killing what he found. He was experiencing many emotions about it. Excitement, nervousness, pride that almost canceled the whole affair. But ultimately the dragon's wing beats as he flew on the night sky under the light of the waning Harvest Moon were decidedly happy.
A hunter must hunt. The thing about a dragon hunting in such a small area was that he would scare away all of the prey for all the other hunters. Celebrimbor was a growing adolescent dragon who had never been taught how to use stealth to work for his meals. In fact, Ashton rather preferred to be handfed by the school. Since the Headmistress preferred this as well, it was how he had lived at the school for the past two years, eating entire cows or deer once or twice a month. But the instinctive desire within him was to hunt. His attempts at capturing smaller prey had been futile. Rabbits were one of his favorite treats, but they were too quick for him. Deer had learned how to dodge behind trees. Cows did not wander wild in the forest. Ashton had resigned himself to experimenting on the rare occasion when Barclay would go with him up the coast to pick off some stragglers in the herds.
Tonight. Tonight he would get some real practice in. Some real instruction. A predator recognized another predator, and Ashton had long ago seen Jae as the hunter she was. He'd accepted that about her, respected it, and they had formed a sort of trust and understanding. Their prey wasn't the same, and so they coexisted in the territory quite naturally together. He didn't know what she was, exactly, and it didn't matter to him. It wouldn't change anything. Jae may not be a dragon, but Ashton knew her instruction would be invaluable.
He looped through the wind as a black serpentine shape, folding his wings to drop towards the coast where they had planned to meet. Long talons dug into the sand and rocks and Ashton kept his tail up to keep it from getting wet in the splash of waves. He picked his way along the shore, coming to find a tall perch on a boulder where he could see the whole inlet and wait for Jae.