Bluebird

I laid on the pale blue grassland of one of Dratenchya’s many plains in the bright yellow sky of midday and the ghostly blue sun glowing on my skin.  A slight breeze in the area made my feathers dance in the wind and my jewelry clink against eachother, making beautiful chiming noises.  This was all interrupted by a grumpy noise coming from a Neloth.  How wonderful, another pest I thought as the red and black Neloth approached me.  I glanced the unfamiliar Neloth over, he had a red and black hide with a clear separation of the two colours, and some random dapple of red and black.  He also had a pure white underbelly, though I made sure not to stare too far down.  Gradient spines ran across some parts of his body, and two pairs of horns of the same shade grew across each side of his head.  Locks of tentacles grew down his scalp like hair, and he had yellow slitted eyes, pawpads and tongue, a nice highlight to his dark pelt.  My thoughts were interrupted by a growl coming from the Neloth.  It seems like it was trying to communicate with me, how funny.

“Hey, shiny-arse, you listening?” It had said rudely.  And just with that, I felt like I had to spit on his face, but I held back.

“Yes yes, what were you saying,” I answered.

“What is your name”

“Rajiir, how about yours?” I asked.

“Rave.” It mostly snarled out.

‘Rave’ Then showed me a crude treasure map of some sorts, and promised to share half of the treasure found if I help him find it, but I mustn’t show his apparent brother named ‘Strobe’ who looked like Rave, but with a different coloured skin.  He had also said that there were others helping find it, lowering the reward, but he’d promised that there was a ton of the treasure, so I agreed to go with him.  But, while walking with Rave, I realized that I had seen a neloth that fit Rave’s description of his brother, and he was talking about the so-called treasure.  It seemed that Strobe was also going to be looking for the treasure, and Rave did not know.  And from what Rave has said to me before, his personality would not believe me if I told him, so I kept quiet.

As we walked to the meetup location, Rave hadn’t said a word to me, though I haven’t either, it was quite lonely and quiet, not fun at all.  I tried to start small talk, but it just seemed like an awkward waste of time, Rave also seemed quite tired, so I suggested we should take a nap once the sun went down, and the moon woke up, but Rave had explained that he was Moon affinity, so I suggested that we travel only during sunset and sunrise, and Rave hesitantly agreed.  Though, we decided to just keep on going until sunrise.

Many days past as we walked to the meeting point near the shore, going through plains, forests, deserts and hillsides until we reached our destination.  When we got there, there were several Neloth, many with extravagant traits and colours, although I always have my pride with me, I felt like a boring ant next to these elites, though I will not let it show.

Throughout the day, I became familiar with the Neloths that would become my teammates for the hunt, some had fangs, hoods, beautiful colours, extravagant patterning, and such long wings that it seemed like they would stretch across the entire sky.  I tried to shake these thoughts from my head because it would shatter my concentration, but it seemed like it wasn’t working, so I just shoved it into the back of my head and just listened.  I hoped that this wouldn’t come back and hinder me in the search.

As the yellow sky started to fade to an orange glow, Rave started to explain what we were going to do, and how we were going to go there, though we still haven’t decided on how we are to get to the treasure.  It seemed like I was the only one of the knowledge of Strobe’s seeing of the route, I decided to hold off on telling anyone for now, since I doubt anyone would listen to the tiny bluebird’s chirps.  I think I will just keep this knowledge for myself, and hope someone else will say it instead of me.  Though there was one good thing about this whole mess, I met some Neloths and talked with them instead of just shaking them off, even though I had a feeling that at one of them would betray us, it was nicer than I’d ever had in my lonely field of wind and grass.