Topic: The nightmare

Othala

Date: 2009-06-05 08:39 EST
Huddled in the safety of the lair, against her new mommy and daddy, the tiny hatchling had almost seemed to have been sleeping soundly. If one had gotten a closer look at the hatchling though, she was starting to kick fitfully, squirming more against her "daddy", before tiny jaws parted and she cried out in fear.

Nightmares, she was still quite new to the orphannage, new to the world, and to momma and daddy, barely out of her shell when she'd been found and brought to this place.

A safe place, but nightmares still plagued the tiny form, and again she cried out in fear, calling to her parents, even though sleeping right beside them.

Dark things plagued the hatchlings dreams, why she didn't know, trying to bury herself against her parents as if that might make the terrors stop.

Teeth, fangs, she was picked up and wriggling within the nightmare, held in a grip and not released, knives, whimpers, then pain, oh the pain, as if she'd been stabbed, or was being flayed.

Perhaps, she was to have been a meal, teeth gnashing, the darkness, or that it held, descaling her, but it was all a dream, a nightmare, and she bolted awake with a start, shivering and trembling against her parents.

Aurthur Shimmerscale

Date: 2009-06-06 08:47 EST
::Aurthur was awake in moments at the cries of one of his own. He lowered his head down to the hatchling and cooed to her soothingly, trying to ease her back into sleep. But her eyes were still clenched tightly closed, and he did his very best to keep from breaking into her dreams, to try and banish them. But he told himself that nightmares were part of growing up, he himself had to endure many when he was a child.

When at last she had awakened, he nuzzled her softly to assure her of her safety.:: "It's alright, little one, you are home, and you are safe. It was only a bad dream that you were having. But you don't have to worry. You are safe here with your mother and I, and we would never let anything happen to you, I promise."

Othala

Date: 2009-06-06 22:13 EST
Blue eyes peered at daddy as he nuzzled her, and she let out another little frightened whimper, huddling against him, as if he could chase away the bad dreams.

Soon though, those eyes drifted shut and she was sleeping again, not as fitfully as before, but looking a few times as if trying to flee something from those dreams.

Aurthur Shimmerscale

Date: 2009-06-07 23:51 EST
::He curled his wing closely around his daughter, laying his head down by her small huddled form. He would chase away the dreams if he could, and he hoped that his aura so close to her would ease her. Everytime she kicked and whimpered, he would whisper to her soothingly, hoping his words cut through the darkness of the nightmare.::

Othala

Date: 2009-06-08 09:11 EST
Hearing the soft words and feeling her father so close, she gave another frightened whimper, before finally calming down. A look of peace upon her tiny muzzle, perhaps he had chased the nightmare away.

One blue eye drifted open sleepily as she snuggled even closer, feeling much, much safer now in her daddy's embrace.