#desolateisle

[niveousnightmare-blog]

"Can you hold something for me really quickly?" Cormack asked, his expression perfectly casual. Without any sense of decency, however, he removed his head and tossed it at Odette, the severed cranium wearing a wicked grin as it flew into her hands.

She wanted to say no, but she wasn’t a rude young lady. At least not outwardly, even though the Dullahan did nothing to deserve her respect or kindness. She sighed a little and held out her hands, tiny as they may be. “Yes, I suppose so.” She said, expression dull. It took her a few seconds to realize what had happened but as soon as she did, the poor girl released a startled, high-pitched shriek and threw the disembodied head as far away from her as possible.

“What in God’s name is wrong with you?!” She demanded to know, waving her hands as if trying to rid them of something disgusting. “I have never in all my years met someone so vile and horrid! You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself, you unholy muck snipe!”

[bathadh-blog]

☹ from Iona

“Do you have to do that?” The kelpie asked, peering at Iona with a confused expression. “Wanderin’ so far from home is dangerous. Well, everywhere is dangerous, but so far from the sea? No oceans up here, lass. Just rivers and kelpies and ugly humans.”

[bathadh-blog]

☹ from Wisp

Lochlan had seen and heard of wisps before, but never actually engaged one in conversation. This one was starting to get on his nerves though with its lack of communication. “I dunno what you want me to do!” He snapped, throwing his hands up in frustration. “Speak! Say words! Tell me somethin’, anythin’! Just use your damn mouth!”

[bathadh-blog]

☹ from Cormack

“I’m not yelling!” Lochlan insisted, his voice definitely raised above its usual levels. “If I wanted to yell, the whole damn forest would hear it.” Yeah, like they didn’t already. The kelpie frowned and sat back down on the closest rock, properly trashed off the alcohol he’d retrieved from his last human meal’s bag. “Now, you’re either joinin’ me or you’re not, make up your mind!”

[niveousnightmare-blog]

“Cormack? More like bore-mack.”

[bathadh-blog]

Iona had a little knowledge about kelpies, but she supposed each one was a little bit different from the next. "Are there other kelpies around here?" she asked, looking one way and then another as if it would give her the answers. It appeared that the two of them were alone for the time being, but that didn't mean there weren't other creatures hiding in the deeper parts of the river.

“Naw.” He answered simply enough, tapping a hoof against a scratched up river rock. “I don’t care much for company or big family groups. Too much potential for trouble and makin’ the humans even more suspicious. I make sure to chase away anything I don’t like messin’ around in my territory.”

[bathadh-blog]

◎ "Um, sir?" Wisp spoke up so quietly it was almost impossible to hear them. Their fingers tapped together, held up underneath their chin, as timid and bashful as ever. "Have you ever met a human that you liked?"

Oh, this teeny thing again. At least they were talking more than a single word at a time. Lochlan, being the nice guy he was, crouched down to be closer to their level and waited patiently for their question. “Naw, cannae say I have. They’re all the same, no point in tryin’ to save it.”

[bathadh-blog]

◎ If there was one thing that Cormack was always interested in, it was the subject of the atrocities humans and creatures inflicted upon one another. "Tell me, kelpie beast." he started, casually adjusting the bloodied cloth around his neck. "Do you remember the first time you ever killed?"

Kelpie beast? That wasn’t a very polite way to refer to someone that would gladly snatch his head off and take it under just to see if he’d drown, body attached or not. “Aye, don’t you always remember the first?” He didn’t know just how long this guy had been in existence, but Lochlan had been terrorizing this river and the loch it fed into for hundreds of years. “I was just a wee colt. Dragged this young lass down and made a necklace out of her bones.” He finished with a nod and proud smile.