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revivalproject2023-06-15 10:50 pm
quintet) wrote in revivalproject2023-06-15 10:50 pm
Catibrations
WHO: Quintet and YOU
WHERE: Quintet's Calibrations Room
WHAT:xenofiction Furry Nonsense™
WHEN: Calibrations Time
WARNINGS: tba
Entering Quintet's room, is like exiting a dark tunnel. At first the scene is too bright to discern more than vague shapes, outlines and shadows, the sun washing out all detail into white. Then you adjust.
Dirt floor— no, it's just dirt. Packed flat and cleared of plants and all debris, it's a wide, open clearing, surrounded by tall grass. Taller than you are, even, grass that towers twice your height or more, and giant trees and all around are a series of enormous cavern entrances. Or perhaps, they're other doors?
Animals filter in and out of them, walking in twos or threes, sometimes riding on one another's back, chatting amicably, with a relaxed air despite the strange combinations. Why are rabbits riding on lions? How can wolves be laughing alongside a hopping pair of robins. What's with the anteater, so obviously lecturing an entire group of rats and mice as he walks along, like a professor conducting a walking tour?
And Quintet is there, sitting at the edge of it all, just near the door, watching people come and go, hunched in on herself, tail coiled tight. Just watching.
Come to think of it, for a cat, she's exceptionally large, wouldn't you say?
Perhaps this is the moment when you realize: whatever you were, you aren't anymore. Like everyone else in this society of animals, you also have paws, or wings, or talons, or claws. You also walk low to the ground, and have a snout of some description. In this Society, there are no humans, and precious few apes or other hominids.
And, that means you, too.
WHERE: Quintet's Calibrations Room
WHAT:
WHEN: Calibrations Time
WARNINGS: tba
Entering Quintet's room, is like exiting a dark tunnel. At first the scene is too bright to discern more than vague shapes, outlines and shadows, the sun washing out all detail into white. Then you adjust.
Dirt floor— no, it's just dirt. Packed flat and cleared of plants and all debris, it's a wide, open clearing, surrounded by tall grass. Taller than you are, even, grass that towers twice your height or more, and giant trees and all around are a series of enormous cavern entrances. Or perhaps, they're other doors?
Animals filter in and out of them, walking in twos or threes, sometimes riding on one another's back, chatting amicably, with a relaxed air despite the strange combinations. Why are rabbits riding on lions? How can wolves be laughing alongside a hopping pair of robins. What's with the anteater, so obviously lecturing an entire group of rats and mice as he walks along, like a professor conducting a walking tour?
And Quintet is there, sitting at the edge of it all, just near the door, watching people come and go, hunched in on herself, tail coiled tight. Just watching.
Come to think of it, for a cat, she's exceptionally large, wouldn't you say?
Perhaps this is the moment when you realize: whatever you were, you aren't anymore. Like everyone else in this society of animals, you also have paws, or wings, or talons, or claws. You also walk low to the ground, and have a snout of some description. In this Society, there are no humans, and precious few apes or other hominids.
And, that means you, too.
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"Link," he says. Because guy isn't his name. And he will indeed go for it, thank you - though this time, he's going to look for something he can leap off of. Maybe one of those trees?
He's not sure how he'll climb the tree when he's a bird - but he starts hopping over towards it.
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But surprisingly serene, for all it's strangeness. Quintet breathes, and inches down to lie on her belly instead, watching him go.
It's good, just for a little while, to find some peace, amongst all this.
"I'm Quintet."
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Link, however, is stubborn. It takes him a while to figure out how jump up, using his talons to claw into the bark. He falls down many, many times. But eventually, he manages to reach the lowest branch.
He readies himself. Grips the branch out with his talons. And then spreads his wings, and leaps.
Finally, he manages to fly. Not high, and not with any real speed. But he flies, making a low circle around Quintet on the ground.