Winter Star [AW]

The stallion watched with bemused eyes as the cobra fled a furious hawk that he might have mistaken for Isolde if she hadn’t dropped to his back with a click of her beak, large eyes watching as well. The three of them, stallion, lemur and hawk could hear the hissed, frantic words the snake cried to the hawk.

Reading? Taliesyn tipped his head to cast a glance back at his two friends, brow lifting. Isolde groused quietly to herself, pushing off and arrowing in on the other hawk, striking with precision upon the distracted creature as the cobra fled, locking talons with the other bird and throwing them into a twisting spin through the air before she wrenched free and back-winged, forcing the hawk to abandon his anger and retreat as the stallion trumpeted an added warning and he caught sight of the glowing creature as Taliesyn reared slightly.

The hawk beat a quick retreat, though the warning had been double pronged on Taliesyn’s side, both the hawk and to the snake, warning the cobra through a flash of teeth not to get too close. While they had not been common snakes where he was from, humans long gone had once had pets, and those had escaped into the wild. Rattlers were far more common, and detested.

Taliesyn sidled to distance himself from the cobra, tail switching. It was odd to see a snake in the snow. Most serpents thrived best in the sun, and many hibernated during the winter so far as he knew. While his warning was a promise, Taliesyn was neutral beyond that. So long as the snake kept his distance and made no threat – and judging by the lack of counter-strike against a bird attacking him directly, he must not be likely to bite – Taliesyn would refrain from stomping him into the snow.

“I take it you made a hawk angry.”

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think