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Soolee meets Tutsi, Rowi, and Yappa!
Soolee had been scouring the beach for hours, reluctant to venture deeper into the dense island jungle lest her long slender wings get caught in the brush. Besides, there was plenty of interesting tidbits to snack on in the shallow puddles that lingered after the tide went out.
She'd been following these pools for several hours when suddenly in the distance, her sharp eyes caught the sun-lit curve of a bulky, curved figure. At first thinking it might be a beached whale (hoping for another unique snack) she bounced across the sands, tongue salivating at the thought of fresh whale meat.
But when Soolee arrived, it wasn't a whale she found but some large wooden structure the likes of which she'd never seen before. Huge tree trunks stuck out of its sides with ragged swaths of cloth flapping in the wind, half-buried in sand. A keel, much like a gryphon's skeleton she'd seen once, stuck out the opposite side. It too was made of wood.
Soolee was confused. Structurally it bore some similarity to birds, but if those reams of burlap were supposed to be wings, they were all wrong. And it wasn't even symmetrical. In fact, as she prowled around the big wooden whale, Soolee wondered if it was perhaps tipped on to its side.
Several slabs of water-logged wood lay scattered around the "whale" and Soolee had to watch her step lest she step on something splintery. But as she scanned the ground checking for a safe place to walk, she spotted something glittery and gold. It lay by the vast bulk of the wooden whale beside a crack in its hull, covered entirely in sand except for a small corner. Soolee fluttered over to the golden object and brushed away the warm sand, revealing a device that lacked description except that it was like circles within circles which rotated around one another, mounted on lacquered cherry-wood. Entranced, she attempted to yank it out hoping to bring this amazing pretty back home to show.
"HAI!" squawked a raspy voice from within the huge wooden whale, "GEET AWAY, DIS OUR TREASURE! ACK ACK!" Jumping out from behind the crack in the whale's side was a Tookie Islander, a cassowary-kangaroo with a mean-look in his eyes. Following him was an equally perturbed kiwi-otter and a tiny buzzing hummingbird-jerboa.
"What do you mean your's? Tookies don't make things like this," she said, pointing to the golden circle-thing. "Actually I don't think Tookies make anything at all, do they? I don't even think real gryphons can make this. You'd have to have some REALLY fine skill in metal-work to make anything this detailed and I don't believe it's really gold, it's too hard, and the forges we got don't accomodate for anything but fairly soft metals like gold or silver and maybe at most iron. But then how does it look so like gold if it's not-"
"AH shut up!" shouted the cassowary gryph, grabbing its kangaroo ears in apparent annoyance, "It's on Tookie Island, it's for Tookie! Now give back!"
Soolee scowled. "No, it's not your's!"
"It's our's and we take!!" screamed the cassowary gryph and all three launched themselves at Soolee.
"Hey!," said Soolee, "let go!" the two larger flightless gryphs yanked on the circle-thing while the tiny hummingbird gryph circled her head, pecking at her sensitive ears. But Soolee held fast on the cherry-wood base, pulling back with all her might. For any adult gryphon, it would be no-contest. Even the largest among the Tookies is no bigger than a cat. But Soolee, being young and from smaller stock, was barely larger than her antagonists. The only thing working for her was her tremendous wings.
She tried jumping into the air with the circle-thing in tow, hoping the Tookies would drop off like any reasonable animal. But Soolee hadn't counted on the tenacity of Tookie Islanders. She fluttered a just barely off the ground for hundreds of feet along the beach before the kiwi-otter gryph, with her poor grip, finally slipped off. The tenacious cassowary-kangaroo though was far more determined and it took Soolee smacking him in the head with her back feet a few times before he finally let go. It was the tiny hummingbird-jerboa that followed her the longest until Soolee headed to sea, the little terror stabbing her with his tiny vicious beak until the last.
By the time she returned to Twistoult, exhausted and lacking a few head feathers, she barely had the energy to crawl back into her nest. But the circle thingy was her's, and that was all that mattered. And in the fading twilight, her sharp bat-hawk eyes read an engraving underneath the cherry-wood base. The language was human, not her best subject, but she decoded one mysterious word
"Astrolabe"
"How curious," she thought as she nestled down to nap before her twilight meal, "I've never heard of such a thing." And as Soolee tucked her head under one tired wing, she made a note to check the Twistoult records for what, and how, would make such magical devices.
Soolee meets Tutsi, Rowi, and Yappa!
Soolee had been scouring the beach for hours, reluctant to venture deeper into the dense island jungle lest her long slender wings get caught in the brush. Besides, there was plenty of interesting tidbits to snack on in the shallow puddles that lingered after the tide went out.
She'd been following these pools for several hours when suddenly in the distance, her sharp eyes caught the sun-lit curve of a bulky, curved figure. At first thinking it might be a beached whale (hoping for another unique snack) she bounced across the sands, tongue salivating at the thought of fresh whale meat.
But when Soolee arrived, it wasn't a whale she found but some large wooden structure the likes of which she'd never seen before. Huge tree trunks stuck out of its sides with ragged swaths of cloth flapping in the wind, half-buried in sand. A keel, much like a gryphon's skeleton she'd seen once, stuck out the opposite side. It too was made of wood.
Soolee was confused. Structurally it bore some similarity to birds, but if those reams of burlap were supposed to be wings, they were all wrong. And it wasn't even symmetrical. In fact, as she prowled around the big wooden whale, Soolee wondered if it was perhaps tipped on to its side.
Several slabs of water-logged wood lay scattered around the "whale" and Soolee had to watch her step lest she step on something splintery. But as she scanned the ground checking for a safe place to walk, she spotted something glittery and gold. It lay by the vast bulk of the wooden whale beside a crack in its hull, covered entirely in sand except for a small corner. Soolee fluttered over to the golden object and brushed away the warm sand, revealing a device that lacked description except that it was like circles within circles which rotated around one another, mounted on lacquered cherry-wood. Entranced, she attempted to yank it out hoping to bring this amazing pretty back home to show.
"HAI!" squawked a raspy voice from within the huge wooden whale, "GEET AWAY, DIS OUR TREASURE! ACK ACK!" Jumping out from behind the crack in the whale's side was a Tookie Islander, a cassowary-kangaroo with a mean-look in his eyes. Following him was an equally perturbed kiwi-otter and a tiny buzzing hummingbird-jerboa.
"What do you mean your's? Tookies don't make things like this," she said, pointing to the golden circle-thing. "Actually I don't think Tookies make anything at all, do they? I don't even think real gryphons can make this. You'd have to have some REALLY fine skill in metal-work to make anything this detailed and I don't believe it's really gold, it's too hard, and the forges we got don't accomodate for anything but fairly soft metals like gold or silver and maybe at most iron. But then how does it look so like gold if it's not-"
"AH shut up!" shouted the cassowary gryph, grabbing its kangaroo ears in apparent annoyance, "It's on Tookie Island, it's for Tookie! Now give back!"
Soolee scowled. "No, it's not your's!"
"It's our's and we take!!" screamed the cassowary gryph and all three launched themselves at Soolee.
"Hey!," said Soolee, "let go!" the two larger flightless gryphs yanked on the circle-thing while the tiny hummingbird gryph circled her head, pecking at her sensitive ears. But Soolee held fast on the cherry-wood base, pulling back with all her might. For any adult gryphon, it would be no-contest. Even the largest among the Tookies is no bigger than a cat. But Soolee, being young and from smaller stock, was barely larger than her antagonists. The only thing working for her was her tremendous wings.
She tried jumping into the air with the circle-thing in tow, hoping the Tookies would drop off like any reasonable animal. But Soolee hadn't counted on the tenacity of Tookie Islanders. She fluttered a just barely off the ground for hundreds of feet along the beach before the kiwi-otter gryph, with her poor grip, finally slipped off. The tenacious cassowary-kangaroo though was far more determined and it took Soolee smacking him in the head with her back feet a few times before he finally let go. It was the tiny hummingbird-jerboa that followed her the longest until Soolee headed to sea, the little terror stabbing her with his tiny vicious beak until the last.
By the time she returned to Twistoult, exhausted and lacking a few head feathers, she barely had the energy to crawl back into her nest. But the circle thingy was her's, and that was all that mattered. And in the fading twilight, her sharp bat-hawk eyes read an engraving underneath the cherry-wood base. The language was human, not her best subject, but she decoded one mysterious word
"Astrolabe"
"How curious," she thought as she nestled down to nap before her twilight meal, "I've never heard of such a thing." And as Soolee tucked her head under one tired wing, she made a note to check the Twistoult records for what, and how, would make such magical devices.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Gryphon
Size 893 x 674px
File Size 464.9 kB
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