Gyrfalcon's Keep Asteroid

i know i said i wasn't going to continue old threads in my scaling back thread but i was planning on using this as a trade thread. <3

is that not my duty? rusalka asks her, pushing the snake's corpse away from him with a paw. he peers behind him, following her gaze, turning to face the nest of small eggs.

he studies it without empathy for the unhatched eggs or the mothers whose life he'd snuffed. cruel, perhaps, but rusalka has become desensitized to the feelings of his prey beyond the moral obligation not to let anything suffer and to make death swift.

he supposes, though, he should harbor some sort of feathering sympathy, his most recent conversation with solveig at the forefront of his mind. he would be a father in the near future and then he would understand the desire to protect something so fiercely that his own life was not even a consideration.

but he is not yet aware of that love.

it is still for the best. she is no danger any longer and they never hatch. it is safer. especially with cubs on the way.