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Rated: 13+ · Interactive · Fantasy · #1562917
A young slave encounters another prisoner in the castle that isn't human!
This choice: Falcon head (The gryphon is a male half-falcon half-lion)  •  Go Back...
Chapter #4

The Need

    by: Bruce Lee Gifford Jr. Author IconMail Icon
The giant head above Felix was of a kestrel, a type of falcon. The feathers on its head were a grayish white and is eyes were large and pure black. The feathers below and above its eyes were black as if it had a scar on each side, but that was just the shape the black feathers made. The beak was curved like more birds of prey and the hooked part of the upper beak was a beautiful silver color. The entire front half of the gryphon was a bird and its front legs were bird's legs with sharp talons. The feathers on its chest were a light brown, almost white, with black spots. It wings were folded to the side and where a darker brown but still light enougth to almost seem like a tan color and it had black spots on the wings there too.

However, the gryphon's head was the only thing in the light and Felix didn't really pay attention to the details. He didn't see a beautiful creature, only a giant monster that wished to eat him.

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The gryphon didn't really want to eat Felix. It only wanted comfort from the only human that didn't hurt it. However, the gryphon was starting to realize that the human feared him. "He's scared of me," the gryphon realized, "Is that why he doesn't come near me and doesn't hurt me? Because he's afraid? Why is he afraid of me?"

The human was right underneath the gryphon's head and the gryphon could have lowered his head fast and pluck the human up with its beak. The gryphon could stop the human from running away and bring it to the back with him, but what good would that do. It would just scare the human even more. However, the gryphon need comfort. He had been alone in the cell for weeks without his family and friends. The gryphon was sad, lonely, and hopeless. He needed just the littlest bit of hope to go on. He need someone to care about him.

The gryphon began lowering his head to pick the human up by its shirt.

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Felix fell backwards when he saw the gryphon's mouth open. He watched in horror was the opened beak began lowering itself to him. Felix was too frightened to run or move. "I should have brought the deer first. Maybe it would have ate that instead of me," Felix thought.
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