Day 015.1: Finding Junis
Athvor had forgotten that he had dropped Junis. It wasn’t ‘til he smelled his friends body in the forest that he remembered. He has dropped his friend from several thousand feet up. There was not going to be anything pretty left of his body, that is if the scavengers had not picked his bones clean before now.
“Junis is around here somewhere. He needs a proper burial.” Eeno agreed in silence. He knew that there was no need to share any kind of sympathy/. It would not have helped. He just wanted to help his new friend. He stood on the big dragon’s back and started looking around. By this time he had picked up the rotting stench of the body. It was close, very close.
“Up there.” Eeno pointed. Athvor looked back at Eeno for a moment then up into the trees. He was hanging upside down, his ankle caught between a couple of branches. There was a buzzard perched on a nearby branch. One of its talons were gripping into his side while it gorged itself on Junis’ guts. Several other buzzards were looking for a way to get in on the feast.
An anger filled rawr came from deep within Athvor. Eeno was forced to jump to the nearest tree as Athvor’s wings opened and he flew at the buzzards. They scattered quickly as Athvor’s talons grabbed hold of the tree trunk. He grabbed hold of the branches that entrapped his friend, then lowered him gently to the ground.
Athvor by
Robert T Gasperson is licensed under a
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