The wind was a playful thing, and it whispered to Linnaeus.
They'd felt it on the breeze and in the baying branches; in every breath they'd taken and every beat of wing, they'd felt Ohr's thrumming pulse carried through its whistling melody. They'd locked deathly still upon their post, eyes wide and glittering standing upon the highest branches of the highest trees. It had been still and silent then, but they were not kept waiting long. At once the wind had kicked to life and the sky buffeted and battered from every angle, a message thrumming through their skull and flying out above the treetops to swirl up up and away into the clouds.
Find it.
They'd laughed then, shrill and sharp above the howling gales, and spread their wings to catch the current and blow asunder, whipping wildly through the bare branches like a comet entering the atmosphere. Linnaeus felt it in their bones, their soul, their very being! A flash of brightly colored exhilaration catapulting through the woodlands and following the wild winds to where he knew they'd deliver, to where they knew they had to be!
It was how they'd landed before Gabriel then, nearly crashing at his paws with a spray of feathers and shrieking lupine laughter.
"For what was said
above the trees
below the clouds
within the breeze
Find it! Find it!
Instructed he!
Find it which calls
and bring to me!"
Linnaeus was never one for specifics; thankfully, that was left to the shamans. It was thanks to them that now Linnaeus found themself trailing after their king and another of their kingdom, Flame. Excitement thrummed through their little body, every feather standing on end as they danced and hopped on thin little legs. Gabriel had instructed them to stick close by, so they'd stopped trying to hop between the higher mushroom caps above as they had earlier. It was harder to feel the wind across the forest floor, but the strange little fox fluttered their wings and grinned, gaze bouncing between Flame and Gabriel as he hummed his thoughts.
"Now now,
To what it was
I cannot say!
The wind has blown it all away!"
They'd felt it on the breeze and in the baying branches; in every breath they'd taken and every beat of wing, they'd felt Ohr's thrumming pulse carried through its whistling melody. They'd locked deathly still upon their post, eyes wide and glittering standing upon the highest branches of the highest trees. It had been still and silent then, but they were not kept waiting long. At once the wind had kicked to life and the sky buffeted and battered from every angle, a message thrumming through their skull and flying out above the treetops to swirl up up and away into the clouds.
Find it.
They'd laughed then, shrill and sharp above the howling gales, and spread their wings to catch the current and blow asunder, whipping wildly through the bare branches like a comet entering the atmosphere. Linnaeus felt it in their bones, their soul, their very being! A flash of brightly colored exhilaration catapulting through the woodlands and following the wild winds to where he knew they'd deliver, to where they knew they had to be!
It was how they'd landed before Gabriel then, nearly crashing at his paws with a spray of feathers and shrieking lupine laughter.
"For what was said
above the trees
below the clouds
within the breeze
Find it! Find it!
Instructed he!
Find it which calls
and bring to me!"
Linnaeus was never one for specifics; thankfully, that was left to the shamans. It was thanks to them that now Linnaeus found themself trailing after their king and another of their kingdom, Flame. Excitement thrummed through their little body, every feather standing on end as they danced and hopped on thin little legs. Gabriel had instructed them to stick close by, so they'd stopped trying to hop between the higher mushroom caps above as they had earlier. It was harder to feel the wind across the forest floor, but the strange little fox fluttered their wings and grinned, gaze bouncing between Flame and Gabriel as he hummed his thoughts.
"Now now,
To what it was
I cannot say!
The wind has blown it all away!"