Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31986068-20160429231407/@comment-31986068-20161230020628

oyo looke

There was also a large, grey box, and a furnace next to it. When Alex opened it, a cold gust burst through the room. Alex drew out a large chunk of meat, grabbed the flint and steel lying on the furnace, and got the fire going. After it grew large he threw the thawing meat in.

“How many animals live here in the mountain?” Sparrow tried again.

“One hundred-fifty, at least,” Alex replied. “Right... I should tell you ‘bout the animals living near you. There’s a room to your left, occupied.”

“Who lives there?”

“A great fat bear called Maxim, and the sabertooth, Oak.”

“There are prehistoric animals here?” Sparrow asked.

“Why, ‘course, I’m an Andrewsarchus,” said Alex. “There are animals you humans deem ‘mythical’ too, there’s a jackalope here and I believe there’s what people call the Loveland Frog at Cuyahoga Station...”

“Cuyahoga Station? Where’s that?”

“In Ohio... You see, there’s at least one Deltean base in every state. Many of us believe in Christianity, so everyone knows there were animals before humans. There were tribes for each letter of the Greek alphabet, and each tribe nowadays has two heirs: a human one, and an animal one.

“At each base, there’s either a concentration of Delteans, animals rescued, Deltean Christ missionaries, sea-mags, or Druid refugees.”

“Druid refugees?”

Alex shivered. “I’ll tell you about it later.”

He checked the meat. “Nice and smoky,” he reported. Alex noticed Deser sulking in the corner. “It’s not my fault I’m the more talkative one,” he told him. “It’s your fault, in fact, that you spoke up and...”

Deser buried his face in his paws. “Oh God, here we go...”

“....And took these humans here. In fact, it’s amazing how you didn’t question their sudden appearance...”

“I overheard...”

“That’s what you say, eh...”

“You overheard too, else you’d be questioning all this--”

The door burst open. Sparrow and Rain whipped around from the rather entertaining scuffle to come face-to-face with a large, brown sabertooth.

“That’s enough, Deser, Alex,” she growled testily. “Maxim’s hearing you. He’s getting stressed out again and he’s trying to eat his bed--”

Deser’s smirk had returned. “No doubt after he’s done choking down the frame he’ll eat his way through the walls to find Oak the sabertooth, his savior...”

“Kindly shove a cork in it,” the sabertooth replied shortly. “Maxim’s a little unsteady, that’s all. Also, the door for the room of Condor and Nanna is jammed. After this I’m going to help them out, and if you’re still bickering I’ll have her come in here with her drawer rails. It’s a wonder you didn’t hear her before.”

The room was silent. Not too far off, Rain and Sparrow could hear loud, fast slamming noises, like someone trying to kick a door down.

“Yes, yes, of course, Oak,” said Alex quickly after whoever making the noise gave an angry yell.

“Who’s Condor?” Sparrow asked nervously. Oak turned to her. “Oh, you’re one of the humans,” she said admiringly. “Yes, as you may gather, my name’s Oak, I live in the room next to the one reserved to you... Oh right, Condor is a human, like you, she’s just a little feisty.”

Alex sliced the meat into chunks and gave them to Rain and Sparrow. Oak said it was “time to rest” and shooed them out of the room. The two girls bid Deser and Alex farewell, Sparrow laughed a bit cruelly at Alex’s attempt to impress Oak, and they entered their room.

The beds were a lot more comfortable than Rain thought. She suddenly realized how tired she was. After a short commotion outside consisting of Oak’s voice, a few angry protests from someone else, and a softer voice that Rain couldn’t recognize, she found herself falling fast into sleep.

feisty ahahhahahahaha that's funny oak like you don't know how condor is

aquilo might get assaulted by drawer rails later