[BWP] tremble, tremble, tremble

Blackfeather Blue · September 09, 2019, 11:50 AM

Blue hadn't gone with Maegi and her children to look for the missing boy. He figured she'd have her paws full enough already with Anansi and Sakhmet; to have to deal with him on top of that would be nightmarish. He missed her each and every moment she was gone, but there were things to do here.

Things like settling disputes among the crows, who had grown particularly rancorous as of late. There was a schism in the murder, a sort of "he said, she said" debate, and as a neutral party (and as literal wingman to the canine ruler of the forest) Blue had been brought in to, in a sense, of arbitrate the whole affair.

Kind of stupid, given that he was nowhere near fluent in corvid. But whatever.

Will you shut up? he shouted in annoyed grackle at two squabbling crows, arguing about rights to a particular branch on a particular tree. Gods' sake, you're not helping me at all! Now, tell me—

A sudden tremor, a slow shift in the earth. Alarmed, the murder scattered, as did Blue. . .though he didn't know why. He took wing, a tightness in his belly, alarm coursing through him. Up he flew, as far away from the ground as possible, and only when the feeling of unease ebbed did he return to the canopy, landing feather-light on a branch and glancing around him.

Something was coming. He didn't know quite what. . .but something was coming. And Maegi was gone. Damn it.

references this nearby quake