Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Of Kin
Act III: Griffin
Chapter 17
Silvermane waited for the dust to clear, making sure to keep enough distance between him and the griffin that he could get away safely. As the dust settled, a winged silhouette appeared, coughing.
"Oh! Hi, hi, hi," came an excited voice. It wasn't a griffin, it was an argent.
"Goldie!" Kald shouted, "You gave me a heart attack. I thought we were about to fight a griffin!"
"Sorry, uncle Kald," the argent laughed. She was the color of pale sand, save for the occasional streak of white. Only when the sun fell on her feathers did her name make sense. In the sunlight, she shined like gold. "I thought you were a trio of sabers."
"Sabers," Kald scoffed. He turned to Riot and Silvermane. "This is Goldie, commander of Griffin's Kin."
"Commander?" Silvermane said, a little shocked. She couldn't have been older than he was. In fact, she looked a little younger.
She smiled, "I've been 'commander' since I was a juvenile, which I'll admit, it hasn't been that long. My parents died, so I took over. My mom's best friends, Mingzhi, has been my acting advisor." Goldie leaned in and lowered her voice to a whisper, "This is actually my first solo mission."
"Well, we cant get much luckier than this," Riot chuckled. "We thought we were gonna have to sneak past those griffins to get to you."
"Well, it's a good thing I bumped into you! Or dived to you, rather. C'mon, I'll take you up one at a time."
[Introducing: My favorite charcter!
TRIVIA: Goldie has to take the foreign argents up the mountain one at a time because griffins will not attack argents they are used to. Griffin's Kin argents are slowly acclimated to griffins from birth, but youths are not allowed to venture from the mountain until they are juveniles. They aren't allowed to venture out ALONE until their adolescents.
Griffins pay attention to the argent in the lead, and if they recognize that argent, they will diaregard the other. If more than one argent had flown up with Goldie, it would have been harder for the griffin to see her first, and they would have attacked.
(This is why most of my stories take so long for me to write, because I'm thinking of all this freaking logic and technicalities.You have no idea how hard it was for me to come up with a logical way to kill the Máng Nú.)
I could have said this through dialogue, but I didn't want to write all the back and forth lol.]
~CL1