The Isle Of The Griffins Chapter 20

The griffin barely looked surprised when Lolite uncamouflaged, simply pushing an elegantly carved pawn two cells forward.

"Hello again, Goldenbeak, Grappleclaw. I see you've brought some interesting creature back from wherever you ended up" he said.

His voice sounded somewhat amused, making Lolite wonder if this was the first time something similar had happened.

"Who might you be?" he asked, looking up from the board for the first time as the glowtail leapt one of it's Ichthyornis to the griffin's Wyvern,

Lolite noticed that his eyes were split between light sky blue and an earthy shade of orange down the exact centre of his irises.

"Well, I might be queen Carnelian of the crystal wyverns, but then again, I might also be a glowtail, but the highest probability is that I am Lolite"

The griffin blinked, just once, but it took almost a minute and a half.

"I see"

he said using a Triceratops to take the glowtail's exposed General, prompting his diminutive opponent to lick it's eyeball in either frustration or triumph, moving a Pawn forward by two cells to free it's Guard for the next turn.

"I am Blink, or at least I think I am"

Blink quickly moved a second Triceratops so that it would be able to take the Messenger if the glowtail's Guard moved.

'I don't trust this griffin' said the pessimistic and entirely negative voice in Lolite's mind, it wasn't so abstract now, it had it's own voice, unsettlingly devoid of any emotion.

'you don't trust anyone, not even ourself' said the other, this one too now had a voice, so infinitely hopeful and optimistic in it's tone that it was unbearable and inspiring at the same time.

'oh, be quiet, if you keep bickering like this who's to say we don't forget we're all the same' said a new one, Lolite noticed with surprise that it was his own voice, the others quickly both mumbled something that sounded like 'that's probably best' but they cleared off anyway.