living beyond your years, acting out all their
fears
There he was, casually picking his way through the woodland surrounding the falls whose source sprang up from the high slopes of the mountain Peak to the north, when he glimpsed her through the trees. She was alone, but more than that Starscream didn’t know. But, like a hungry predator fixed upon the scent trail of prey, there was nothing that could turn him aside. But… But, he’d have to proceed with caution, and take care to tread lightly upon this soft earth. If he could find success here, as he might have with Faelyn and Arden, in time he’d have much more to offer Naydra, Farosh, and the child he hoped his Queen carried.
As it was, though, he ambled along, matching the pretty white speckled buckskin mare’s pace, making it seem as though he were naught but a casual, curious wanderer, beholden to no-one, and interested in nothing except her. He trails his way to the stream, aware of the slender figure but never once looking at her. Not until he’d slaked his thirst and surmised how he might take measure of her.
“Why hello there, dear thing,” he said, voice silky smooth as it carried over the murmur of the creek. He inclined his head elegantly and finally settled his gleaming eyes upon her, a crooked smile spreading across his lips. Starscream watched and waited, taking a moment to try and gauge her reactions. The woodlands were quiet, and the storm had passed. He had grown used to being hemmed in on all sides by the dense, thorny Thicket in which he’d found his place with Naydra. If this curly eared beauty tried to run… Starscream would savour the chase. He took a bold step toward her, one hoof in the stream, ready to leap across the small distance that remained, if it should come to that.
But for now, he adopted a calm, charming demeanour, and his copper ears twisted forward in clear interest. “You cannot know how long I’ve been looking for someone like you,” Starscream all but purred, and settled where he stood, curious to see how she would take his forwardness, and how this most fortunate turn of events would unfold.
xoxo
STARSCREAM