Bigger than you know

Artorias' rich laugh shook the raptor gently from his perch upon the wolf's broad spine. The sand wasn't going to eat him? Zephyr directed an uncertain, suspicious glare to his guardian, but Artorias had never lied to him before and Zeph doubted he'd start now. He clacked his beak a few times as he gathered the courage, and then maneuvered down once more hurriedly before he had the chance to change his mind. His talons sunk into the warm sand, its tiny granules rising in between his toes and covering the tips of his claws.

Like Artorias before him, Zephyr gave a few timid hops upon the unsteady ground. "It isn't eating me!" He breathed, wonder and relief clear in his tone. Without the feeling of impending doom, the Bifrost's beauty became all the more enticing. He waddled carefully across the sand alongside Artorias, curved beak tipping this way and that way as the wolf explained the sights.

Following Artorias' paw out into the big water Zephyr swore he could see birds, both flying overhead and ducking down beneath the waves. He absorbed their movements awhile before turning back to his guardian. "I can't swim?" He asked, trying not to sound overly disappointed. The raptor had had a brief interaction with water in the Hallow's baths and had swiftly decided he hated the concept of it, but now that he was told he couldn't go into it, the prospect of swimming seemed more intriguing. "There are birds out there like me, why can they swim?" The longer he spoke, the more his question became a pout. "... can you swim?"

The little bird's heart warred between the prospect of swimming the vast oceans and visiting the adjoining continent in the foggy distance. If they had friends out there, why were they on this little strip of sand and not visiting? "Can we go to Boreas now?" He asked, tipping his beak up and giving the wolf an innocent and excited wiggle of anticipation. "I want to see your birth-castle, and our friends!" Zephyrus adored the wolves who'd taken him in, loving them with his whole heart even before he knew there were others out there to meet. More friendly wolves would only improve his quality of life, surely. "Why don't they come live in our castle and then we have all our friends and family together forever?"



"Zephyr"