I would recommend reading this chapter on AO3.
Morning came like it always does, slowly and filled with the sounds of thousands of crows.
Mizar rather wished it was more like other mornings, where although there certainly were plenty of crows making plenty of noises they weren’t anywhere near her personally. The crows would have relatively quiet stretches where they kept a fairly even level of calls, but every now and then a squabble would break out or a hawk would fly overhead and the world would become a cawcophony of cawing.
Tag: nav
Nav and Plessy from A Better Birthright, whose next chapter is almost complete and actually a reasonable length for once and I’m sorry it took so long I got distacted by my other fic.
I imagine reptilians actually having more humanoid faces then that but i really couldn’t get the neck to look right.
A Better Birthright – Chapter Five
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 AO3 Link
The post-storm plane was a strange place. Fallen grass stocks were strewn about like bodies on a battlefield; long enough had passed that the majority of the grasses could no longer deny the reality of their own death.
Things were still. The wind was calm. The humidity had evened out to something fairly reasonable.
Despite the stillness it was impossible to miss the storm’s absence. The scattered plants were intermingled with the frozen stone replicas of their former brethren. Small amounts of ash drifted through the air from an unidentifiable source. A fine layer of crystal covered the ground, cracking and crunching when disturbed.
Plessy led Nav and Mizar with a modified compass. A few flakes of rust on the needle tip would ensure that it would always point to the sled. At least, it would under normal conditions. It was currently being difficult, skittering away from whatever direction it had been facing whenever it seemed to get a fix. Plessy was leading about as much by memory as she was with the device.
“So…” Nav said, as they passed a strange mound of crystals and greenery that smelled disturbingly meaty. “Fred. She’s got to be the Stormwaker, right?”
A Better Birthright – Chapter Two
Nav looked over at their datemate. Plessie was standing rigidly, staring at the dusty, twilit horizon. Nav couldn’t see anything special among the long shadows of the sparsely growing weeds, but they knew quite well that what they could see was only a fraction of what was there.
They slowly walked in front of Plessie, who didn’t respond to their presence. The reptilian’s inner eyelids covered her dilated eyes.
“Plessie?” They slowly moved their hand towards her. “You see anything I should know about?”
As they gently set their hand on her shoulder, Plessie flinched. She looked at Nav with unfocused eyes, not seeming to recognize them at all.
They retracted their arm. “Hey. It’s okay. It’s just me. Only your Nav.”
Plessie relaxed, her lanky body resuming its customary slouch.
“We need to get out of here.” She said, her deep voice shaking slightly. “Something’s coming. Something big. Fast.”
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