up up and away

Memories of his last encounter with a species such as this one washed over him, anger replacing the passionate defensive fear in his chest as he remembered the eagle who'd tried to take his own life - and his father beheading it in his place. Zephyr could kill this predator, but it would not be the same as punishing the one who had tried to harm him and who had killed his mother owl so long ago. He could have no vengeance today, though Vanta, she could.

Folding his wings tight against his body, the Argentavis dove. Reaching the ground at such a high speed that when he threw forward his talon and swung and released the bird he held toward the ground, the eagle had no opportunity to recover at all. It's wings spread to try and catch the air but it might have well been a statue as it crashed into the dirt in a puff of feathers and down.

Zephyr followed it quickly, placing the puppy back down upon the ground and taking a winged leap back onto the eagle, his talon swiftly coming over the avian's neck to pin it there. It was stunned so heavily it hardly moved, but was unmistakably still living. "The kill is yours, Princess." Zephyr told the pup softly. "Should you want it, that is." These things were important to wolves, or so Zeph had been told.

It seemed he had found his offering for the feast - he would craft something with these feathers, and while no wolf would think of it as symbolic in any way, Zephyr would always remember it as a show of his own strength. No harpy eagle would ever harm him or his again, he was no longer small enough to allow it. The avian boy would return Vanta to the safety of the castle and work tirelessly through the daylight on his decoration. Two pillows, their outside covering a plush and soft pelt sourced from the Hallows' stores, the inside stuffed with feathers from his kill as well as from his own massive form. He did not take many for himself (as without his down he'd grow cold, and Zeph hated the cold) but he wanted them there regardless, to mingle with the eagle's and tell the story to the Gods that much clearer.

"Zephyr"