Snow digger [Fellicya Strongmouth]

[Krënl]

Time and Date:: February the 10th

Weather:: Thick layer of snow, still snowing. The sky is covered by thick clouds.



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The changewings did a hard work at getting rid of the snow covering their lair, doing their best to protect the eggs from the cold. Days of work finally did something as the snow mostly vanished from the small island they were living on... Actually, only the area where they lay eggs was freed from this white, cold powder. Unfortunately, snow will come back soon. Changewings knew it when looking at the sky. Their efforts would be endless...



Not everyone was working. There were changelings wandering away from their island for many reasons : hunting, exploring, looking for a mate even if Snoggletog ended. Krënl did not really care about mating right now. His first concern was absolutely different. If anyone asked him about it, he would reply 'I want to know what I can do with that cold powder falling from the sky'.



Walking across a thick forest, constantly moving around trees, Krënl decided it was not worth it to cloak himself since he noticed the pawsteps and the trail left by his tail over the snow. Anyone being a tiny bit smart would know there was something there in the end. So why would he hide ? There seemed to be no one around him but wildlife and trees anyways.



Wandering around like that was useless to the changewing. Krënl doubted he would find out what could be useful with snow but tracking down creatures. Leaning his snout toward the ground, he sniffed some at the white floor and takes a small bite of it. The dragon shivers a bit, surprised by the cold over his tongue, but it quickly became liquid and refreshing. It was water. Krënl smirked some and let out a low purr, happy to have found this. It was so easy to discover... There must be something else.



What happened to the ground beneath ? Did it vanish ? Did it get eaten by the cold white powder ? The changewing laid down and started digging into the snow, soon reaching the frozen grass and dirt. Nothing happened to it there. How about further ? Digging his snout into the snow, Krënl started crawling forward, pushing the snow to the sides as he progressed. There must be something !



Everything he found was a tree. A poor tree that only wanted peace. And suddently a changewing headbutted it. It was mean ! Nature decided to avenge itself by making the snow over the tree's branches fall over the dragon, burrying him beneath it. Krënl whined a bit at being surrounded by more cold and shook himself strongly, sending snow in every direction. Stupid weather... But there must be something beneath that layer of snow ! Determined, the changewing kept doing this over and over. Maybe exhaustion or lack of patience would make him stop someday.

[Fellicya Strongmouth]

Or maybe a small human would.

Fellicya had been sneaking in the snow alone for once, something that was quite unusual considering how you never saw one of them without the other, when she was suddenly assailed by a large shunk of snow. She brought her arms up to cover her face, yelping as she staggered backwards and finally sunk into the large amount of ice powder under her.

This would have never happened if SwiftBite and BlazingHeart had been with her. If the ScuttleClaw hadn't taken the hit the Typhoomerang would have dragged her backward to avoid her getting burried under all this snow. But saddly they weren't here. It had been too cold and they were far too tired to join her, preferring lazying around instead of tagging along to protect her from random aggressive snow.

Whoever had done this she was going to get revenge on them. It took a lot of flailing on her part and scattering on the snow's but in the end she did manage to get back up on her feet. Immediatly her eyes began searching for the source of her misfortune.

She hadn't thought that her eyes would immediatly be met with the sight of what seemed tob raised rear of a Changewing who appeared to be... Digging? Well if that wasn't one hell of a random encounter.

Slowly she started circling the dragon, on the tip of her toes even thought the snow would have silenced the noises of her footsteps, until she was standing at his right before she tried making her presence known. "Hi there." All of her muscles were tense, ready to make he pounce away in case she would sitll surprise, in the wrong way, the dragon.

"Looking for something?" She said, keeping her voice as smooth and gentle as possible.

[Krënl]

The more Krënl digged, the longer and more noticable was the trail made by the dragon into the snow. Anyone could track him down over some distance with ease. For someone who did not like to be noticed it was not a good thing to do.
Because someone would see him. And even speak to him.
The changewing suddenly stopped moving when he heard a voice. Slowly rising his head out of the snow, his eyes locked on a scaleless, one of these bipedal creatures doing so many things with their strange small paws. But it looked like this one saw Krënl since she stared at the dragon.
For several seconds, nothing happened.

Eventually, the changewing would just lower himself and cloak as if nothing happened. As he was not there. After all, this scaleless could not have seen him, right ? It was impossible. So impossible that the snow over his back was absolutely not showing there was something invisible beneath it. Nothing to see here. Krënl seriously hoped this hatchling trick would work since his parents were always acting like 'where are you son ?' whenever he did this. If only he was smart enough to get that it was all about a game.

If he didn't move, the scaleless should just leave, right..?

[Fellicya Strongmouth]

Since the Changewing's behavior was far from aggressive, Fellicya assumed it wouldn't spit a puddle of acid at her. They both stared at each other until it tried to hide itself, playing it off like she hadn't actually seen him in the first place. The dragon's antics made her snort loudly before she managed to restrain the sound.

With a large smile on her face, one that would hurt her cheeks later, she slowly lowered herself into a sitting position. Legs crossed under her, elbows on her knees and head resting in her hands as she stared at the blurry form of the Changewing in the snow.

Don't get her wrong, she hadn't fully lowered her guard. From the size of it, it might have been a small wing. It might have reminded her of SwiftBite from a certain point of view. But no matter what it was still a wild dragon.

Okay, maybe more like an adorable baby wild dragon.

A couple of seconds had passed when she decided to try approaching it again. "Hey, I can see you, you know?" She laid a hand in the snow and suddenly had a brilliant idea. Her fist closed around some of the ice powder and she casually threw it toward the dragon, tense and ready to flee if it's reaction wouldn't be a good one.

[Krënl]

It looked like this very poor tricked worked since the scaleless did not do this much thing. As if Krënl never has been here. Maybe the creature actually spotted something else that was behind him ? It could only be that, right ?
This feeling easily vanished when Fellicya took another position as if she was getting more focused on the Changewing's head. The dragon had troubles to understand how things were going. He was cloaked. She could not see him.

Well, maybe he was overestimating his ability to hide.

The scaleless made a noise very close to all scalelesses's. Krënl knew they often tried to communicate with non-scalelesses but there was no one but him. Was the bipedal talking with herself ? It is way more than possible after all. Insanity stroke anyone at any time these days. But having her eyes locked toward his head made the dragon think it might not be that at all.

'I am cloaked' he thought. 'She cannot see me.' This was the only reason why the Changewing had troubles to accept the fact he got burned by snow. It would not take this much time however to make him wonder is she actually saw him.

There could be many explanations.

She was a mutated scaleless able to see through walls, darkness and camouflages. She could be an extraterrestrial. Or maybe a creature from the underground.

'Or maybe she is a changewing trapped in a scaleless body ?'. Krënl would panick some at the thought of a dragon being in a scaleless and a scaleless being in a dragon. That would lead to messed up situations such as this one.

Conclusion, Fellicya was cheating because she was not revealing her true identity.

Shaking himself a bit of excitement about this 'way more acceptable answer' than the others, Krënl unwillingly got rid of the snow over his back and looked back into Fellicya's eyes, attempting to see the dragon within her. But it was a failure.

Just in case, he started pushing snow in front of him in order to 'try' to make a kind of wall before hiding his head behind. Nooooow she could not cheat !

[Fellicya Strongmouth]

When the snow fell from the Changewing's back Fellicya feared she would lose his track. Luckily his constant shuffling made the snow around and under him shift with his own body. She chuckled lightly when slowly he built up a small pack of snow.

Other than that it didn't seem like she would get more reactions from the dragon.

At least it was now certain that it wouldn't harm her either, so maybe she could try and step up her game. All tshe needed was a tactic, a strategy to lure the dragon closer to her, but how was she supposed to do that? The girl started mulling over her options while tracing small incoherent patterns in the snow with the tip of a finger.

First, there was the dragon nip stocked in her gloves but that sounded too much like cheating to use it form the beginning. Of course she would use it as a last resort if nothing actually worked, that's just how determined to befriend this Changewing she was, but in the mean time she would keep the dragon nip for more serious situations.

Throwing more snow at it, albeit hilarous, wouldn't do anything useful. Expect maybe annoy the dragon until he flew away, wich was something she would really like to avoid. And even if it stayed hidden without so much as shifting from time to time, something
told her that spending your day throwing snow at a non-moving creature wasn't very productive.

Maybe she could try a more dragon-ic-ish approach? Sure, she'd look completly stupid but she already did, what with the snow that had melted into her clothes and the fact that she would appear like she was speaking to no one.

Well it was set then! Dragon approach it would be.

Fellicya shifted until she was standing on fours, immitating SwiftBite's crooning noises as best as she could. She was actually proud of the result, it didn't sound so bad!