A Light in the Dark Hours
[Coran]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1136
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
|
His paws tread softly on the den floor as he made his way to his brother’s side, settling down beside him. For the moment he was silent, forepaws crossed at the wrists as he mulled over everything.
Finally, his lips parted and he turned his eyes to Coran, offering softly, “If you need to talk, I’m here, brother.”
And listen he would do, however much his littermate and only blood brother might talk. If it would help him process what he’d gone through, and find peace, Ardyn would take in every word.
Many might say it wasn’t masculine to be emotionally open, but Ardyn felt there was a certain strength in being able to voice your fears and feelings and being able to cry, instead of hiding behind a wall of stone-facedness. He’d done his own crying a fair bit lately. He’d probably be doing plenty more.
Far from merely being the duty of the eldest sibling, he wanted to be there for his siblings in their darkest moments.
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.
CooperativeArdyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1136
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
|
Coran did speak, and Ardyn listened. The mental image sent a shudder through his frame, and he leaned into his cream-colored sibling, ears folding back as he pondered on his words. It was one hell of a valid question. And it was one he had no good answer to.
From what he’d heard, those monsters were capable of wiping out a large group of wolves and, as Coran had said, dismembering them with very little difficulty. How did you fight something like that effectively, without sacrificing your fellow comrades in the process?
His lips felt gummy as he opened his mouth, paused for a long moment, then said softly, “I wish I had an answer for that, but… I don’t. They're unlike anything I've ever heard of, aside from scary bedtime stories told to particularly fractious pups...”
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1136
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
|
Coran’s fidgeting and paw movements didn’t go unnoticed, though Ardyn was tactful in his observations. If he’d been through the same horrors, he figured he’d have a few nervous tics. However his brother’s scent carried a distinct sting of fear to it, something that rang a bell in Ardyn’s memories.
As far as he could recall, Coran hadn’t been home during the Long Night. Hopefully, he’d been fully unaffected out there on his journeys, but Ardyn had a strong recollection of the fever dreams, and irrational fears that plagued him, and the voices. Could Coran be experiencing something similar?
Coran, as if hearing Ardyn’s musings, spoke up, and Ardyn’s ears perked forward, eyes sharpening as he listened to what his brother described about a wolf riddled with worms, and the word bursting had an emphasis that suggested that the term might have been quite literal… a vivid mental image of a wolf, swelling and exploding with worms trailed through his mind and he shuddered reflexively.
“Agreed… Would you like me to get Legacy?”
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1136
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
|
Ardyn nodded as Coran confirmed his desire for a healer and rose, padding softly to the edge of the den entry and howling softly for Legacy or Eramaya; he was pretty sure he’d seen them heading to the river for water, so it might take them a bit to arrive.
Summons sent, he turned and shook out his coat, briefly illuminating the interior of the den as he moved to settle side-by-side with his brother, nudging softly into the side of Coran’s muzzle with his nose as he stated simply, but firmly, “You won’t die, not if we have anything to say about it. You’ll pull through.”
His tone was bracing, warm with encouragement. He’d make sure his sibling made it through this, no matter what it took.
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.