Kylie

@koshka

Moth

Moth gave Ari a slow, bright-eyed smile. Then his brows knitted together and he melted back into his normal, dead serious expression. He sucked the honey from his fingers. “I’m sure you’ll be a great archer. What else do you intend to get good at?”

@whalekeeper

Ari

Breaf and honey. His mouth curved up despite himself. He took the food.

“I don’t think so, or at least…”

At least, not compared to the legends of his dead cousins.

“… Not yet.”

His fingers burned at the remembered thrum of wood, sinew, and feather singing from shot and shot. He shoved a bite of bread into his mouth to…[Read more]

@koshka

Moth

Ari sounded like he didn’t care about making friends, or at least, didn’t want to. But as he absently looked around the room, he didn’t look half as abrasive as before.

Moth got up and started unpacking the few boxes next to his sleeping bag. He found more packaged food. “You like archery? Are you any good?”

He broke bread in…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

“Depends on how you define friends. There’s a fellow in archery that doesn’t seem to mind practicing with me.”

“People usually don’t stick around after our first meeting.” Although, he didn’t typically end up sitting on a student’s bedroom floor talking about family and friends. He studied the dust swirling around them.

How did he get here?

@koshka

Moth

”I’ve only met two other people, at dinner. What about you?”

@ellette-giselle Good. =D

@whalekeeper

Ari

His mother? He sat down and folded his arms across his drawn up knees.

This boy didn’t know about his family. His chin came up a fraction. There would be no misinformation or preconceived motions to combat.

“She’s a beautiful woman. Gracious, gentle hearted, a true queen. She’s a noblewoman by birth…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle :]

@koshka

Moth

“A lamp or two. Yes.” Moth hung from the window by a hand, then dropped on all fours to the floor. He settled down peacefully in the middle of the room, cross-legged. His body, so brightly colored, almost lit up the dingy room by itself.

“What is your mother like? Did she send you here?” he asked.

@whalekeeper

Oh my word. O.O

Ari

It was perfectly normal for people to walk up walls. Definitely. Ari’s unhinged mouth had nothing to do with it.

Definitely.

Black stars.

The window screeched open, letting in a want of misty night air. Ari managed to snap his mouth shut. Moth was talking again in his quiet way, crouched two feet over Ari’s…[Read more]

@koshka

Moth

“But people don’t want dust on their clothes. I ought to get furniture, do you think?”

Ari wanted a window open; he had pointed at one of the squares in the multifaceted skylight.

Moth put his foot on the wall, then the other. The bottoms of his feet invisibly attached to the papered plaster. He walked up the wall, then hung…[Read more]

@loopylin

Acharis

A voice rang out, sounding unnaturally loud against the surrounding quiet. Acharis slid his mask back down as the… thing? stepped out of the shrubbery, spouting some nonsense about humans being ugly.

Look who’s talking, Acharis thought as he studied it through eyes that were narrowed in suspicion. His hand shifted closer to t…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Ari

This place was old. Or maybe just forgotten. Words had never been his strong point.

It was also bare besides the coat of dust hanging around them, but Ari didn’t notice. His gaze was latched on the dim square of glass in the ceiling.

“Does it open?” He looked back at Moth. The boy had said something…ah.

“The floor’s a place…[Read more]

@koshka

Moth

“No. But I’ll let you know if I do.”

Moth moved aside so Ari could see the gray door guarded a tiny, dilapidated staircase. The two of them walked up, steps creaking as they went.

At the top, Moth gazed at the empty attic-like room set before him. The darkening skylight cast little light in the corners and against the peeling…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Ohhhhh….   O0O

She is the great and terrible. XD

Ari

“I, err…” He brushed his hair back. Hang? Wasn’t that a form of execution? But no, the students here used it for something else. He had mentioned food. Ari nodded, the movement sending his hair back over his eyes. “Need someone beat up?”

@koshka

Moth

“You would have me fall into pride?” Moth joked, bowing thankfully.

He brightened, then checked himself. He waved an arm through his door. “Would you like to… um… hang out? Y-Yes. I could use some help with something. I have food, and I can entertain. Whatever you like.”

@koshka

Unless this was what you had been messing with…

I did do that. >:]

(Your name is hilarious)

Oh my word, I just realized the dog in my pfp looks like Toto from Oz. That was not intentional. I gave myself Oz’s title because I’m visiting my Midwestern childhood home, and I feel as if I am Dorothy, returned from a magical land to a famil…[Read more]

Ohh! It just let me actually see it. It had you as “Anonymous” with no pic.

Unless this was what you had been messing with…

@whalekeeper

Ohh! It just let me actually see it. It had you as “Anonymous” with no pic. (Your name is hilarious)

XD

Ari

His eyes widened.

“King? And that man put a watching spell on your door? Black stars.” He shook his head, cursing under his breath.

Here was a king who actually wanted to help his people and the school treated him like…[Read more]

@koshka

I was messing around with it. Don’t worry, I’ll put the same pic back. :]

Child of nobody. Well, that was certainly an improvement on his own situation.

I have to say, this is so edgy coming from Ari and I am invested in that. XD

Moth

“Yes. That’s right.” Moth’s voice quieted. “King of the fae.”

@whalekeeper

What had happened to thy profile pic? =|

Ari

“Eh…” He shrugged, eyes on the emptying hallway. “Net necessarily middle children. My father was technically the second born of the stories are true. But things happen to annoying little brothers.”

Things no one wanted to explain to the next generation. That was fine. Ari would find…[Read more]