The egg

Kami smiled, either it had worked or he was getting tired of following her. Either way she smiled and chanced a glance at Mydar. He was grinning, obviously not adverse to her running into the montains.

"You have a deal." She said and yanked at her hands, "That is if you unhand me." She said and let an ounce of royalty enter her voice, it worked well for commanding people.


Mydar raised an eyebrow at the two of them in question, "What exactly is in the mountains?" They obviously knew something he didn't and were keeping it to themselves. Perhaps they had heard a tale from a traveler or she had told him a tale because he knew Egle wasnt going to escort her just to make sure she didn't end up in her own kingdom again, there had to be something else happening.
 
Egle completely let go of the woman, hearing the demanding in her voice. He watched her with keen as he stepped aside from her to give her room. He was not happy with his choice, but, he figured it would ease himself and her. Egle glanced at the pondering Mydar and lowerd his head in formality hand over chest in respects.

"I am sorry, Mydar, for I must take her." his tone was blank but had slight rhythm in it, a way you'd address to a king. He stood up straight and placed his hand to his side, he nodded before turning to his profile. He expected the woman to follow him to his horse. He walked past the prince, expression focused on his horse behind the trees.

"Calypso." he called under breath and it was as if the horse came to his immediate whisper. The horse jumped over shrubs gracefully and walked to his rider's side. Egle jumped onto the saddle. He glanced at the woman.
 
He bowed, the stubborn warrior bowed. Kami stood and listened, his tone reminded her of her own guards. She gasped when she figured it out.

"You're a prince." She said and stared, he had the respect, the stance and he had that annoying habit of all princes; to look attractive even when they were in the middle of nowhere.

She glanced at Egle, "He is isn't he?"
 
"Yes." he replied in almost sternly. He looked to Mydar in hopes he did not mind the informal introduction of him. Egle turned away, in hopes the woman would come near his horse to begin the journey.

"Please, Mydra, tell someone to tell my family I will come back in one peace!" he almost smiled as he said it, still waiting for the woman. Egle Glanced at her, in hopes she did not get the idea of getting on his horse. Egle looked onward to the trail before them... He did not know where the mountains that lead to the human territory is as he did with the demons. He figured he had to follow the woman's lead, but, he would not let her walk in front of him, or behind him for that matter.
 
Mydar laughed, "Have a safe passage." He said, "And let her ride your horse Egle, she's a woman." He smirked, he knew how protective Egle was of his horse and almost laughed because he knew how much trouble he had just caused. He figured he had better head home soon or his father might send others out to look for him.

"I will inform your mother myself." He said and shifted, he ran before he could hear Egle complain.


Kami stared up at the warrior, daring him to disobey his own prince. "I could fly if you can keep up." She offered and shrugged.
 
The words of the prince did dawn on him and made him sigh. He knew she was only a woman, but, a woman of human alignment... Not that she cared much for the human race it seemed. Egle glanced down at the apposing woman, his itching dignity and loyalty made him give in to letting her ride. It would be much faster... Egle was a patient man and could walk ti'll be fell off the earth if he knew there was a purpose to it, but, he did not want the fragile woman to be in exhaust.

He heard her dare him with a 'if you can keep up' if she would of been a woman of demon blood, than maybe he would consider a race. But, at a mind set that was serious he shook his head... He caved in more than he would have liked.

"You'll ride with me.."
 
Kami stared for a second before smiling, "Thank you." She said honestly, "You'll have to help me up, this'll be my first time." She said, it was true and that fact made bite her lip in embarasement, in her own home she had never traveled far and when she did it was normally by flight. Or in a caravan carried by soldiers with her father.

"I like your prince," She said, trying to draw the conversation away from her lack of experience on horseback. "He seems to be a free spirit." To be running around outside the city without a guard got her into serious trouble, she wondered if he got in trouble or was allowed to run around the countryside alone.
 
Egle quickly took her with one hand and pulled her on to his horse, sitting to the back of him. He glanced over to see if she as sturdy enough to ride side saddle. Calypso was fine with inexperienced riders, that is, if an inexperienced rider is at the reins. He already felt uncomfortable with this, his negative feelings through the roof, something that would make a calm man like him into an agitated man. Egle heard her compliment the prince from before. He smiled a little that, in irony, she took appreciation to a soon King. Egle looked forth to the path before he spoke to her.

"He is... He does not need guards or protection. Demon society cherish their rulers, but, have full confident in their strength... That is why they are leaders in the first place. No?" he spoke. He figured it was quite the opposite for her, that everyone does not leave her the Independence a ruler needs at a young age. So he thought.

"It's the security of people being lead by a strong person, that reassures us that our strong leader will put as much independence in his people." Egle spoke on, not sure what got into him. Maybe it was his duty self that got the best of him, maybe the pride of his kingdom, whatever the reason he soon felt funny in the pit of his stomach once realizing who he was talking to. Egle said no more words and began to ride on, hoping Kami was smart enough to hold on.
 
Kami hugged his waist as tight as she could, terrified she was going to fall off and die. She decided to focus on talking about politics, it kept her mind of possible death.

"In the human kingdom there's to much uncertainty, the best they can offer is a solid alliance to the shifters. They choose one of the royals from each house and the human king chooses a liaison ruler." She said shaking and grabbed him tighter as the horse jumped over a fallen tree, or something. "One for humans one for shifters to keep the balance in the capital." She sighed, there was never balance, the last human king had been trying to start a war with the shifters but he hadn't wanted the blame placed on him so he tried every chance he got to goad the shifters into a war. It had failed in the end because the shifter king had played nice and taken all the stabs at his honor and they had both died while peace existed.

The new king was choosing his liaison in three months, it was rumored that Kami was his favorite. Something about how she didn't follow the rules well, and reminded him of himself.

The horse jumped again and Kami grabbed tighter still, of course if she had her way she would never see any of them again until her father gave up his stupid ploy to marry her off.
 
Egle listened while still focusing on the trail, the horse running along. She felt the woman hold in for dear life. Egle was thankful that he was able to tolerate the restrain of her small arms around his thick body. He huffed, as the subject of politics only appealed slightly too him, for he knew too much about it than he would like. He never really complained to himself, for he figured it was his duty.

"Balance.." he scoffed when he heard the human race was affiliated with such a thing. Egle glanced a look at Kami figuring she got his input. He figured the Shifters there were as segregated with their own lands among human civilians. He thought of the segregation coming the point where they had to have their own king... Egle didn't make a comment on it. Calypso leaped high in the air as she jumped into a hill of rocks and dirt, skidding almost but landing harsh. Egle kept sturdy, but soon enough felt the limp grip get tighter. He was getting a bit uncomfortable... The fact she is even touching him made him itchy, but, he knew there was no choice.

"In the kingdom of Demons there is declared One ruler of all... No Shifter king... Only duties to their own. The Capital in Jazar takes pride in it's Shifters, as all the rest of the cities and villiages." he started to realize the two worlds of shifters were quite opposite over each side of the fence. He paused before speaking again. Calypso soon came to an opened feild of tall grass and few trees, the ride was now less bumpy.

Egle dozed off thinking about the war, how his father was always a man of fairness, a man with reason. His father was probably the only shifter that took kindness towards the other alliance of shifters. To his father they are no different than their own kin... Egle went back into reality, his father's words of wisdom started to become relevant at this moment.

A possible enemy of same blood. Is the same possibility of being a friend. The words echoed in his skull, the visual of his father tucking him in at night before he left to do his personal mission. Egle realized he had fallen silent for a long time and snapped back into reality and realized his surroundings. Egle stopped Calypso to a hault, the horse skidding to a stop. Egle looked around fratikly...

"We shouldn't have gone this way..." he muffled.
 
Kami heard him talk about how close the shifters and demons were in his kingdom and fell silent, it sounded so much better than her home where they were all in political games with one another, any second an action without a thought could cause a war. She bit her lip to keep from saying that, he has no rights to her personal thoughts at this point. They weren't friends, they only had a common purpose. She had to remind herself of that, she should treat him as she treated any other shifter from her own lands, with cold indifference. However she didn't sense him playing mind games with her, which lead her to treat him fairly and try to be as truthfully as she could without getting herself killed.

Egle pulled the horse to a stop and she grabbed him tighter again to keep from falling off, he mumbled something and she couldn't help but remember all the lessons she had received on the subject. 'Speak up or don't speak.' She had been told on many occasions.

"What?" She whispered, sensing something wasn't right.
 
Egle looked around the vast land, prairie of grass, around them. Everything was quite, too quite. Egle knew he had to explain but the uneasiness of the area, the story told of the area made him unsettled. Calypso turned with a dash and soon enough was back in the brush than it had run in the clearing. He slowed Calypso to a stop again and turned her to face the clearing. Egle watched the field with a form of fear, like a muskrat hiding from a mysterious predator it could not see. Egle heaved a heavy sigh. He looked over to Kami with his grey-blues. He felt almost vulnerable having to show some form of fear towards an alliances-shifter, but, he tried to shake it off him before coming up with the words to explain. He looked at her in the eyes this time, making sure she understood clear.

"The field eats people that wonder." he knew he sounded crazy when he said it, but, he also knew he had to explain it in more detail. "The demons... Everyone, even animals of the demon vally know not to go there." his eyes looked at her without a blink in all seriousness. "They say a fog comes... When it smells of flesh, living or not. It takes them away, hypnotizes them..." he went on. He knew that these weren't one of the most scariest things of the valley, sadly, the territory of demons is known to it's peculiar weathers, and creatures that fit the name 'demon'. He knew if any rumor was true about demons, the rumor of them living in a hell would be the closest of truths.
 
She felt his fear come through his voice and couldn't help but be annoyed, they had to travel north and the field was in the way, she was not about to surrender to a field.

"Can we go around?" She asked, if she could she'd like to avoid anything that scared Egle, he was a warrior and she didn't think he scared easily. Meaning whatever was in that field was probably more than she could handle, on the other hand, she really hated when things were in her way.
 
Egle looked away and tried to clear his mind. He tried to not think of the witness of the actual act, at the age of twelve, a shifter; third brother of the second house. He went into the field, dis-trusting the words of his elders. They had warned him of the field and how it was a living thing in disguise. Egle remembered how he went with him... How he didn't do anything but stay away, reminding himself of his parents, but let him go into the field. He watched him be consumed in the fog, die before his eyes. Egle had grown from it and learned from it; for in all honesty he knew there was nothing he could of done. Egle glared out into the endless opening, how it taunted him. Egle faces fears with boldness, but the unknown was something that always held him back.

Egle began thinking of the stories more and glared out blankly at the apposed land. He heard her ask of another way... Sadly there was no other way he knew of.

"No... The field stretches far and wide... The only way you can go is at night. It is a time where you can hear it breath in sleep..." he explained. He looked to the sky and had realized the sun was going down soon anyways. Egle jumped off his horse determined, ignoring Kami, he knew they had to camp until the sun went down...There was no other option.

"We are staying here for a while..." he said as he walked into the forest, not bothering to explain he was getting wood. At this point Egle made himself unattached to the woman from further talking. He knew his main purpose for this journey was mixed and rattled by many reasons, he needed to go alone to find the wood...


Mani was still on her slow mount getting to where Mydar and everyone was... On the way there she had ran into Mydar's shifter form leaping from tree to tree above her, she was a bit flustered that she never got to ask where her brother went. She sat on her tortoise-of-a-ride while she grumbled and spoke in anger to herself. Soon the over casting shadow of a huge eagle above her caught her eye. She looked up in amazement, she looked to Davis and back at the bird.

"Hmmm..." she pondered as the Eagle circled around her, possibly looking for mice. She came to a light bulb, shouting a few words of compliments to herself before jumping from her donkey-mix. She shifted in mid air into a brow ferret, she turned to Davis with a flick of her fuzzy tail.

"Go home! I found something better..." she demanded, but saw the huge bagging, she thought of the waste and how Davis probably will disobey and just bum around the field. But, of course she realizes her hitching ride is flying somewhere else, she ran off...
 
Kami shivered at his explanation, you could hear it breath. He jumped off the horse and walked into the forest without a word. She sensed he was keeping something to himself, she wondered about it but decided to ignore him and try and get off the horse.

She swung her foot over and slid down, when her feet touched the ground her legs have way and she fell. "That's perfect." She mumbled and tried to stand again, she had to lean against the horse and she couldn't help but look at the field, it didn't look that intimidating. She didn't bother trying without Egle, with her luck he'd be right and she would end up being eaten alive.

She thought about what her luck had been like for the past day or so, first she's told Imar had set the date, then she had been stupid and flown west instead of east, then the one second she's in her human form Egle finds her and ties her up and takes her to a prison cell. Her luck better be on an upswing, she didn't think she could handle much more.
 
Calypso stayed sturdy for Kami, as gentle of a horse she was it was hard to believe she was a warrior's horse. Calypso shook her head when she felt the woman keep touching her side.

Egle in the woods had already torn down rotted wood that would burn easily. He knew that they would have to wait until they heard the sound of it's breathing would be the only time they could run across it. He have heard it was the only way traders could trade with other villages that are across the plane... If Egle had realized the direction he was going sooner, he would have took his decision more wisely. Egle snapped a branch on his knee and added to the pile...


Mani was soaring in the clouds riding on the back of an Eagle. The Eagle earlier had tried to swipe down and take Mani as food, but, to her luck that is what she wanted. Which she had leaped onto his back and stirred him to ride, grabbing on gruff of feathers and controlling him with pinches and biting. Mani felt on top of the world, in the moment she had wished she was born a flyer, not a scavenger. Mani saw how the trees loosened below her and she soon realized the direction they were heading. Mani was startled that her brother might had been consumed by the freakish grasslands without a name. Mani had soon realized, after looking down for a long time, she had noticed a black equine figure-Calypso. Mani was more scared noticing there was no rider, she tugged and jumped for the bird to swoop down, which made him agitated, but finally did as she pleased.

As she swooped down she made sure the Eagle had landed on a branch, or ground. But the landing was not soft and the discomfortable bird skidded across the ground before trying to stable it's landing stance. Mani soon jumped off and scurried to where the horse was. After ducking through logs, brush, and fine grass she soon peeked around a stump, to her dismay instead of seeing her brother she saw the female human he had rode off with.

"Wow... So, my brother did run off with a woman?" she questioned herself, thinking of how out-of-character it all was for her brother to do such a thing, for a woman- a woman that allianced with Humans. She just watched in the distance as her brain started to hurt about the situation. She thought that her brother was probably a doppelganger in disguise, this was the only logical reason for her.
 
Kami saw the eagle swoop down in the distance, she smiled to herself, she wasn't it's bait anymore and could be as visible as she wanted. Her legs were starting to work so she took a few cautious steps forward, they felt like they weren't there but they held.

She heard a mumble behind her and spun around, her unsteady legs giving way beneath her yet again, she hardly felt the landing, probably from falling so much lately, her rump was numb. Turning her attention back to the mumble she had heard, she scanned the area and saw nothing, she considered shifting but thought better of it, a small bird would be far better prey than her human form.

"Hello?" She called, praying to her goddess that nothing answered back.
 
Mani watched as the woman had fallen a few times and looked around frightened. She giggled a little at how startled she was by just hearing a few words. Mani scurried closer camouflaged by sticks and a fallen log. Gee you'd think he'd be with a lady that had more balance...she thought rudly in her head. Mani soon had an idea, she snickered beneath her breath before adjusting her voice. Making it low and growly

"I am the spirit of.... Mu." she had paused for not coming up with a name sooner, but hoped this voice was convincing enough to stir Kami's ninnies. "I am un-pleased with your presence. You have made me very very angryyyyyy." she put emphasis on the 'angry'. She tried her very hardest to not giggle or laugh from all this. She now listened for a response.
 
It was the pause that caught her, some spirit dwelling in this area should at least know it's own name. She still didn't know who or what was speaking so she didn't shift knowing that whatever it was might eat her other form, even though that was all she wanted to do, fly up and away.

She kept her mouth shut and took a deep breath, this was not a spirit but might still be dangerous, she didn't want to actually anger anything so she stayed silent and curled her feet beneath her and wrapped her arms around herself. She wondered what Egle was up to, he would know what. Was making noises in the woods. They were his woods after all.

She looked down at her dress and got momentarily distracted, why did it have to get so muddy, she had shook it out and tried to get the mud out and it hadn't worked at all. She wondered what it took to get mud out of silk, probably something you couldn't find in a forest.

She looked up again nervously, hoping whatever was out there went away, she was getting tired and really just wanted to sleep, she saw one of the trees near her had a nice perch, even if she was in human form, she really just wanted to collapse at this point.
 
"Are you trembling to your knees before me? You are only making me more angry!" Mani went on getting a bit more worked up this time. She was now getting quickly bored of the silent woman. She decided it was better off she let off the tension and revealed herself... But of course, she had to do it in a better way than just sneak her head out. She knew that the woman feared of what she was, and of course, Mani had to play it. Mani darted to bushes rustling them and tugging them as she got closer and closer to Kami. She decided to stay on a perch above Kami's head and watch her reaction. Mani wagged and flicked her tail for the gran finally. Mani dashed quickly down the trunk and into the brush behind her without a peep or slight rustle. Mani watched from the brush. Some woman runs away with my brother out of the blue... Doesn't even get my permission. she grumbled in her head, kicking dirt back preparing herself to leap.

Mani had Kami's shoulder on target. Mani scurried behind her and leaped onto one of her shoulders gently and wagged her tail out of eruption.

"Hello!" before Kami could get startled she pounced off her shoulder and began to giggle on her belly and back.
 
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