A question of balance

Trust | Confidence | Control | Strength | Bravery

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Meeka's journal #19

    It's been a few weeks since Meeka became the center of my attention. I had to slow down my studies in order to take care of her properly.
    The professors still look at me with leery eyes when they see me around the bird. They said that what happened in the forest was just the way of nature, and that I had destabilized it by interfering and saving Meeka...They're probably right, back there, I must have robbed a nice meal for any carnivorous animal that had been luring nearby. But whatever, I know this Stryx did not deserve that kind of fate. I mean, aside from depriving me from my invigorating, long nights of sleep, she didn't bring me any problems.

    That is, until now.

    As soon as the future handler ended her line, she came face to face with her young, hyperactive Tyto. She grew up fast, and went from a haggard baby to a maybe little too excited Stryx.

    « How do YOU get to be so fidgety while I'd KILL for some sleep ? » Said the young girl, snapping her diary close.

    Meeka was her lovely little bird, her dearest cute and small dragon, her adorable daugther. Nothing she could do would make Felicity loathe her, but come on, the young girl's room was looking more and more like a nightmare, and Meeka didn't even know yet how to walk.
She learned to move around by walking like some kind of quadruped baby, leaning on the two little appendices that were at her carpal, yes, she understood she could push herself with her feets, but the best she has done with them was tearing off her handler's furnitures by planting her already big claws in the wood in order to advance.

    Right now, she was creeping on the ground, eager to discover her new world : a bizarre mix between a study and a bedroom.

    « Now now now, perhaps it will be a huge mistake in the future, but I guess it'd be nice to teach you some basics. » Said Felicity while joining her hands together.

    The dark haired girl took a deep breath, then, she grabbed her dragon who only responded in a giggly screach, to finally put her down on the white carpet.
    She cleared her throat.

    « Listen. Walking is just about finding balance, you are not made to walk with those little fingers, if you did, I think your specie is very lucky to be alive right now. »

    Meeka tilted her head, she did not understand a thing, she wasn't going to.
    Wathever, she'll learn one way or another.

    « You have body mass, Meeka, you kind of discerned the fact that you can walk with your feets. » She said while poking the said feets affectionately with a stick, only to have a shriek in response. « Now, you just have to know where to put them properly. You have to think about your center of gravity.»

    Felicity bowed close to her Stryx and put her hand on Meeka's belly, with a gentle push, she helped her standing on her two feets.
Instinctively, the brown fowl opened her wings, which helped her staying put. Slowly but surely, Felicity removed her palm.
The sight of the bird standing by itself was very gratifying.

    « Good, good. » The girl pat her bird's hair so that she understood she did well. « Now, you bend slowly to the right while raising the oposite feet, alright ? » Felicity added with hopeful eyes.

    The wings took more and more width, the left talon delicately left then ground, the angle inclined gradually to the right and... Meeka walked like a real bird.

    For the span of 3 seconds.

    She proceeded to walk back again like a weird wyvern.

    Felicity grabbed the bird.

    She snapped her stick against the blackboard.

    « Maybe it has to do with your bones ! »

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For the Basic Training tier 2 : confidence

You must learn to walk before you can run, and a Stryx must learn how to run before they can fly. Young dragons are often rather clumsy, and must learn how to center themselves. As well, learning to walk and run steadily will prepare them for hunting on land, and chasing down prey. Draw your Stryx jogging or running, following after its rider or another Stryx.

Hiya! How you guys doing? 
Here's the following of Meeka's and Felicity's life! Kind of a chaotic beginning, indeed, but it will get better eventually.
To be honest, I'm not sure if this entry can reaaaally count for tier 2, as Meeka is not clearly running in the picture and as she is not really successfull in the text neither. But I wouldn't mind making another thing for this tier at all, cuz I'm not really proud of it :'). 

Sooo, Felicity's room! She accused Meeka of making it messy, but it was already a bit like that before eheh. Felicity collects a lot of things, and never really does anything with them, that will change in the future, first because she will get rid of some of them before Meeka impales herself with a spear, second because she'll be less about bird, more about experience!
I like to think of this room as some kind of big bedroom for those two that is in her school, though that seems a bit too impossible. Sooo maybe I'll make it her huge house, that has one room... blblblbl

Also, Felicity knows very well all the theory, but it's the first time she tries to apply what she knows to a real bird. 
She does it badly, at first. She'll get better.
^{No more indoor background for me.}

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I'm not sure if biorythm can count on this? I tried to give those reddish/yellowish tones to the piece so that we could guess it is pretty late in the afternoon.

Fullbody: +1 | Colored: +2 | Shaded: +1 | Background: +2 | Biorhythm: +1 | Personal work: +1 | Rider: +2 | Training: +1 | 656 words: +3
Total = 14

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Meeka 6983 © Hoowy
Felicity © Hoowy
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