10-09-2023, 03:55 PM
Three more siblings.
Her mother and father would be busy. She wondered what her brothers made of them. Yet pinning them down to find out seemed impossible these days.
So she busied herself with tasks so that her mother and father would not have to worry. Her patrols were hardly done in the way of a paladin, but she did remain watchful of the lands. Especially the ones that touched the mountain home.
The garden was familiar by now. Enough that being lost in thought was not so dangerous to where she stepped. However, how could she have ever expected the unexpected? The smell of something sharp in the air, reminiscent of meals or injuries. She associated it closer to food for the distinct lack of canine scent.
Yet as she moved around a few berry bushes, she found the source tucked between some tangles of thorns.
Antlers.
Large and fresh, without the animal who lost them anywhere around. Had the blood come from them or a hunter? If it had been a hunter where were they to flaunt their trophy? Perhaps, if neither prey nor predator was here, she could make them her trophy...
Her mother and father would be busy. She wondered what her brothers made of them. Yet pinning them down to find out seemed impossible these days.
So she busied herself with tasks so that her mother and father would not have to worry. Her patrols were hardly done in the way of a paladin, but she did remain watchful of the lands. Especially the ones that touched the mountain home.
The garden was familiar by now. Enough that being lost in thought was not so dangerous to where she stepped. However, how could she have ever expected the unexpected? The smell of something sharp in the air, reminiscent of meals or injuries. She associated it closer to food for the distinct lack of canine scent.
Yet as she moved around a few berry bushes, she found the source tucked between some tangles of thorns.
Antlers.
Large and fresh, without the animal who lost them anywhere around. Had the blood come from them or a hunter? If it had been a hunter where were they to flaunt their trophy? Perhaps, if neither prey nor predator was here, she could make them her trophy...
Random Prompt: On the ground there are a pair of antlers, but fresh blood is splattered around them.
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