30 Fall 504
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Stalking down the sloping passage of a dank cave, Shausha cornered her prey. She held herself close to the ground and approached, fangs bared and ignorant of the fact that several of her teeth were missing. She could hear the target's small cries for freedom, but did not oblige with mercy. Her tiny clawed hand shot forward and grabbed her victim around the throat. “Ha-HA!” Shausha 'roared' in her tiny, callow voice, “Time to die!” Leveling eyes with her adversary, she tried to strike fear into its very soul; Her tiny wings wobbled and she squinted malevolently.
Pop! She twisted the mouse's neck. Completely complacent, Shausha tossed her hair and held the creature aloft as she paraded it through the caverns. When she arrived at her family’s section of cave, she stuck her juvenile, rounded belly out and presented her kill proudly to the slave that raised her.
“Shausha, Shausha,” her maternal slave clucked, “Look at you, covered in filth. Go right now to the spill pool and wash yourself. Just because you’re an animal, doesn't mean you have to look like one. Yes, thank you for the mouse.”
“It’s a rat!” Shausha countered, proudly. The woman tilted a brow at her warningly and Shausha had no choice but to obey. Scampering off, she took as many detours as possible to delay the washing.
Making her way to the puddle where rainwater run-off flowed, Shausha paused before sitting down. She scratched the back of her leg with a foot. Already there was a small girl about her age. At first, she thought it was a slave, but as she neared the pool, Shausha realized she had seen this girl before. Many times she had noticed this girl trotting after B'sentos, a man from a different patriarchal line than hers. With a grimace, Shausha remembered the time he had thumped her for pilfering a goat’s leg from his family’s meal pile.
Shausha sat across the pool from the strange girl, washing her feet and stealing glimpses. This girl was very strange; She looked like a Zith, but didn’t; She had no wings and her claws were rounded.
“Hey.” Shausha blurted, breaking the silence, “Who are you? Are you a Zith or what?” Before she could answer, Shausha continued, “Anyway, I’m Shausha. I just killed the biggest rat ever. I bet you’ve never killed anything half your size. Do you even know how to fight? I do. I win against the boys all the time.” She poked her bottom lip out and narrowed her eyes, waiting to see what this strange girl would do.
oocBear with me, I’ve never roleplayed a child before xD Hopefully it won’t come out too corny or cookie-cutter.
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