Kurach Origins
"How do you plan to get the kurach to be like you again? They're nothing if not very stubborn and headstrong, not to mention territorial. Forcing them out of their homes isn't going to win you any favors," Shanku said. "We still have a lot of you in us."
"What of the calopi?" Hilael asked. "They seem to follow you everywhere and do your bidding. Do they not keep you company?"
"But you are mine," Kleu growled. "I made two of you, whereas the calopi were just assigned to me for the duration of this conflict. In the beginning, you were my playmates and you followed me everywhere. We chased things, hunted things, and we helped things. We were a nice little pack. Then the fae got jealous. The things they had tried to make ran away, chasing each other through the night sky and never returning to the ground. So they decided to break us up. They tricked you into thinking it would be more fun to be like 'real' animals, and took away your immortality. You couldn't come back to the nether realm with me."
"...Then how did you plan to take all of us there?" Shanku asked.
"It's been a long, long time. That initial spell has grown weak, and I can counteract it," Kleu explained. "But now you're a whole species! And have lived in this plane for so long that now you're under the rule of the spirits that guard life here. I wasn't allowed to come near you unless you started getting as unruly as you used to be, becoming like me again, that I could take you back to where you belong."
"What if we don't want to go? What if we're happy here?" Shanku asked.
"Can't be all that happy if you were about to cause another war across the whole of L'aernth," Kleu said flatly.
"Well, about that," Shanku said sheepishly. "We almost had it resolved. Our grandsire is on the council and he told us that the clans had been working out lots of ways to fix things. That brawl earlier today was an isolated incident since it's going to take some time to get used to the new way of things. Or old way of things, as I understand it."
Kleu huffed and looked down sullenly. Shanku sat down and scratched her head. Hilael leaned back against a tree as he continued to watch the two interact. Shanku studied the lonely old hound for a while before speaking again.
"Even though I'm in no position to barter on behalf of my people," Shanku began slowly. "What if there was a way you could regularly start spending time with the kurach again, without us getting swept away to who-knows-where?"
"Given that my name has not been allowed to be spoken out loud for so long, I doubt any would be willing," Kleu remarked. "It's why my only option seems to be to trap you so you can see for yourselves I am not the monster the fae made me out to be when they originally took you away. I don't appreciate how that lie has stuck."
"I'm here, aren't I?" Shanku asked as she grinned broadly.
November 16, 2017, Thursday
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Hilael - Kleu -