Of Kin

Act I: Chapter 1

The argents dropped Corvi to the ground. She quickly picked herself back up, but before she could fly off, she was pinned down again by argents. She looked around and found she was on the large mountain in the redwoods, surrounded by argents. A dark grayish-blueish argent with orange accents stepped forward. "Well, aren't you strange looking. One solid color, highly unusual for a wild argent."

The dark blue argent that helped carry her there stepped forward. "She smells like human."

The blue-gray argent nodded, "Yes. Well, where are my manners? I'm Flink, leader of Scarlet's Kin."

Corvi sneered, "What's Scarlet's Kin?"

Flink gestured to the circle of argents around them. "This is Scarlet's Kin. The flock of the redwoods. But," he said, looking back at Corvi, "you're a tame bird." He spat out the word "tame," with contempt. "I can't expect you to know the flocks." He nodded to the argents holding Corvi down. "The burrow."

They lifted her again, and dropped her into a deep hole that looked to be an abandoned purlovia den. Before Corvi could make her escape, a large rock was rolled over the opening, with a little space left to give light and oxygen. "Let me out!" she shouted, trying to push the rock. It didn't her long to realize she was wasting energy. She collapsed in exauhstion.

She hadn't been away from the beach one whole day, and she'd already been captured. Corvi closed her eyes and tried to return to the sleep that had been interrupted. Shouting and screeching jolted her awake.

[TRIVIA: No secret lore or easter eggs in this one!]

~CL1