Snippet #2437374

As night came on, Nathair awoke from a restless sleep. She had been having the nightmare again. The same nightmare that she had been having almost every day since she fled her clan. Hands drenched in the blood of her kin, the frightened faces of her mother and sister, looking in the mirror only to see the face of a monster. She wondered again what might have happened to her family after she fled. Surely they couldn't have been persecuted... right?

Nathair uncoiled herself and slithered towards the outer cave. It seemed that the Bat who had been staying here was out for the night. Wait... no, maybe not. She could feel creatures moving inside the cave. Large creatures, likely human. She moved in the direction of the vibrations and before long she could hear people talking. There were three of them - all male by the sound of it. Driven by curiosity, she cautiously continued moving towards the males, stopping once she was close enough to see them all. She recognized the Bat but not the two others. The one with green hair felt familiar somehow. Perhaps he was cold-blooded like herself. The other one - Nathair reflexively raised her head and neck into a defensive position. He was an Avian! She could smell it on him. She instinctively rattled her tail to scare him off, stupidly revealing her position.