video; un: weishappened

[weisshappened]

Type: Video
Sender ID: weishappened (Davrin)
To: All
Subject: Horse Training
Warnings: N/A


[The video is of a rocky shoreline, under a grey autumn sky. A small handful of the demon horses can be seen grazing on washed up seaweed.]

[Davrin slowly lowers the camera back down, turning it to face himself. Both he and Assan the griffon, are perched on a couple rocks higher up. Out of immediate view of the horses.]

I know we're supposed to be gathering clippings from these things but... call me crazy.

[Assan lifts his head from where he'd had it balanced on his foreclaws, looking skeptical.]

- Not you. [Then back to the camera.] Anybody tried maybe... taming one of them?

[They're no halla, but maybe it'd be a good idea to have a horse around for land-based travel.]

Comments

[weisshappened]

Shells. As in... Seashells? Or eggshells?

[seasaltkeys]

Seashells. Like...clam shells, stuff like that.

[He sounds a little disappointed. He collects those sometimes.]

[weisshappened]

Huh.

Deer sometimes go after bird eggs, or small animal- [He ALMOST says "animals" and leaves it there, but he can't do that to Roxas.] bones... Guess it makes sense these things go after what they can find on the shoreline.

[seasaltkeys]

[He's tough, he can handle it.]

Yeah, and there's usually a lot of them. Guess everything's gotta eat something.

[weisshappened]

[Nope we're not discussing deer's omnivorous habits.]

Just as long as they're not hunters themselves... we should probably be all right.

[seasaltkeys]

Doesn't look like they are...according to this book. I don't think.

They might fight back though, if threatened.

[weisshappened]

That... I can handle.

Worse comes to worse, Assan can bail me out. Right, boy?

[seasaltkeys]

Assan?

[He should probably know who this is.]

[weisshappened]

[From behind Davrin, the griffon shoves his face forward, resting it on his guardian's shoulder.]

This featherhead. Say hi to Roxas, Assan.

[And Assan squawks.]

[seasaltkeys]

[There's a small noise of surprise from Roxas at the appearance of Assan. He can't say that's who he was expecting.]

Um...hi?

That's a...griffon, right?

[weisshappened]

Yeah, he is.

[With Assan's head on his shoulder, Davrin reaches up with one hand to scratch his fluffy ears.]

I've been looking after him since he hatched.

[seasaltkeys]

[His reading has payed off!]

Is that part of being a monster hunter to?

[weisshappened]

Hah! No, not at all.

Assan... him and his siblings were kind of a surprise, all around. Griffons are supposed to be extinct. But somebody hid a nest of eggs in magic stasis, until the Wardens found them.

[seasaltkeys]

And that's how you got to be taking care of them?

Like how many?

[weisshappened]

Me and a couple other Wardens.

There were thirteen, counting Assan. He's the one that really bonded with me.

[seasaltkeys]

So you all got griffins?

[weisshappened]

No. We didn't...

[Weisshaupt happened. His friends died. The griffons were stolen. Truths came out... the list went on.]

A lot happened. The griffons live in the woods of Arlathan now, looking after the wild places.

Assan wanted to stay with me, didn't have the heart to say no.

[seasaltkeys]

[Given what Roxas knows of Davrin, that tracks.]

Oh. So, they got to go back to the wild.

But it's nice that Assan stuck around.

[weisshappened]

Yeah. They did. My uncle's looking after them while they're young, but after that, they're free to go wherever they like.

Y'know, I tried to send him with the others? He wouldn't go.

[seasaltkeys]

Sounds like he's really attached to you. If he didn't want to leave.

[weisshappened]

Yeah... I think you could say that. Weird little guy liked the idea of being a monster hunter's partner.

[seasaltkeys]

I can kinda get that.

He's a good partner, right?

[weisshappened]

Yeah, but you didn't hear that from me.

[seasaltkeys]

Right, got it.