Kennels
KARTYN'DRYOSO CAVERNS
You step through the dark entrance to the cave and enter a dark corridor. All around you a chill wind blows coming from the end of the passage deep within the earth. You gulp passed a lump in your throat and trudge down toward a light you can see, seemingly miles away....
You make it there in far less time that you thought it would take, and you are even becomeing accustomed to the cold by the time you reach the opening at the passage's end. You stumble out onto a balcony-like jutting of rock from which ice-covered step extend down one side of a huge cavern wall. The vaulted cieling is covered in blue, transparent stalactites of ice, frozen vapors pouring off of them and making a mist that covers the ground. In places the mist clears and you see a thick layer of snow covering the floor of the cavern, out of which ice stalagmites of great height protrude. The entire setting is a wintery wonderland like nothing ever depicted in old Christmas carols and folk songs...breathtaking. The snow is not untouched, though, with ruts of broken snow, pits and sinks all about as if a creature has been burrowing underneath it or running about on top of it...
You look over the edge into the cavern, not making any movements that could scare acreature, but still excedingly curious. You wait silently a moment, breath billowing in front of you, until your patience pays off! A small canine creature emerges from a burrow in a deep snowdrift, its silver coat nearly blending into the background of ice and snow...
It sniffs the air tenatively and stops dead, not more than two feet out of its burrow-den. Its glassy eyes turn directly toward you and you stare, breath stopping as your heart skips a beat. It flaps its wings hard and lifts off, winging up toward you until it is so close you feel the chill wind from its little wings! "Rutir! Hello, wanderer! I am Windchaser of the EarthFire Denn of the Kartyn'Dryosose, and these two..." She turns around to show two little 'Dryoso kittens holding on to her longer back fur. They are wingless, but extraordinarily cute!
"...are my new charges! The tiny brown is Dennsteader, of the two honorable Kartyn' Pawcharmer and Earthwatcher. And the little silvery one is Stonesteader, of wild lineage! They just arrived here and were utterly inseperable ever since!" You listen to the lovely crewatures pure sweet voice and smile as the little male kittens manage to claw their way up to the flapping female's shoulders. The little ones stare mistified at the ground as if they never thought such a thing as flight was possible! You ask the female when her charges' wings will grow in and she laughs gently. "Not all 'Dryosose have wings, dear travelor. In fact, most do not. It is a rare mutation that has recently been cropping up quite a bit, but no more than that. Neither of these two will fly, but they really do enjoy hitching a ride!"
The cold begins to get to you and you shiver slightly once...then again...and the second time Windchaser notices. "Oh goodness but you must be freezing in this place, travelor! Oh, you go now - don;t let us keep you - before you freeze off an ear!" The little 'Dryoso nudges you forward and bids you farewell as you readily go, goaded on by the bitter chill of the place.
You take in the beauty of the setting one last time before vowing to come back to visit the young creatures when they are more grown and able to understand and speak with you better. Slowly you turn away again, careful not to slip, and make your way back down the dark passage toward the Fyreal Foothills.....
NAME: Windchaser GENDERr: Female AGE: Adult SPECIES: Kartyn'Dryoso TYPE: Winged SIRE: Unknown DAME: Unknown ORIGIN: Earthfire Denn |
NAME: Dennsteader GENDER: Male AGE: Kit SPECIES: Kartyn'Dryoso TYPE: Normal SIRE: Earthwatcher DAME: Pawcharmer ORIGIN: Earthfire Denn |
NAME: Stonesteader GENDER: Male AGE: Kit SPECIES: Kartyn'Dryoso TYPE: Normal SIRE: Wild DAME: Wild ORIGIN: Earthfire Denn |
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