Not too long after, Rose would appear maybe ten or twenty times zipping by like a void missile dropping pieces of paper about in Theron's where never he is at what ever time. Could be taking a bath, could be in the loo, could be eating and maybe accidentally eat a piece of paper? Who knows! Either way, once all the papers were gathered they'd spell out. "hey there Theron buddy, just saying hello' Love Ily. ( PS. Glad you didn't die. Hope darky isn't barky!) (finger gun picture)
The sudden impact of the bird against the side of hisshoulder sent Theron stumbling sideways. His hands had already come together,manifesting an orb of black shadow energy before he was attacked from the otherside. It sent a numbing sensation downhis arm, still bruised from the hit a tentacle of massive proportions hadmanaged to land on him not days ago. Asmall huff of pain escaped him,raising his hand to ward of his attacker.
The raven went throughhis hand and him, disappearing intothe space immediately behind him. Bemused, he turned, hoping to catch a better look only to hear anothersoft pop come from in front ofhim. As if she were a missile shot outfrom the Void itself, Rose appeared with a devilish glint in her eyes.
Aiming straight for him, she pulled up at the last second onlyto release a piece of parchment in front of his face. Physics would carry it far enough to slapagainst his forehead. One of her talonsbrushed one of his horns before she disappeared once more.
“What in the bloody blazes is going on?” He yelled at no onein particular, letting the attack he had prepared dissipate only to peel offthe piece of parchment that was on his forehead. At this point, he believed Rose had lost hermind to be doing such a thing. Though itwas curious how the raven was using realm and space travel so quickly. She would appear as a black and violettorpedo again, flying so close to his ear that he dodged and saw yet anotherpiece of parchment drop down.
“What cocked up game are you playing at?” Some tinge of fearcoiled in his stomach at the possibility of his familiar being corrupted or stolen from him. Though he would have felt her absence if thatwas the case. She was too important tohim to not know what happened to her. “Rose. You come here this instantand tell me what wanker put you up to this.” He was getting irate as even morepieces of something were delivered.
When finally, it all seemed quiet, he gathered the pieces ofparchment Rose had delivered. There weretwo words here, one word there and a multitude of combinations. It was amessage but it was ripped into several pieces. The scowl grew as he wentthrough them the first time.
“Just saying Love didn’t die. Barky! there Theron Ily buddy. hey isn’t darkyyou Hope.” The picture of a finger gunwas the last thing in the pile but it did not aid in deciphering themessage. It did tell him who would do such a thing. Rose appeared once more but this time shecomfortably settled on his shoulder, laying her head on top of his.
She was proud ofherself.
“Ilyea Cole.” He muttered out loud with the message stillscrambled in his hands. The short clipof Rose’s beak was the simple answer he needed. “You are going to be spending more time with Ryssa nowadays. Ilyea is turning you into a nutter.” Theraven managed to make a sad sounding croon. “No no. Do not give me that….”Rose was imitating someone crying at that point.
“No more of these shenanigans.” He waved her off his shoulder. Angrily, she took flight and cawed at him,searching for another perch before she eyed him with one eye contemptuously. “I am going to assume this was anill-conceived joke on her part. Bloodyarsehole is what she is…” He held up thepieces of paper and waved them at Rose. “Nomore. You understand?” Rose merely turned her head away from him asif she did not see him, he was not there. “Right. I have a pretty cage inone on of the vaults if you are so keen on ignoring me.”
“Crraawk! No cage!”
“Then quit acting like an animal!” Hemuttered, still sorting through the pieces of paper to make sense of them. ~hey there Theron buddy, just saying hello' Love Ily. ( PS. Glad you didn't die. Hope darky isn't barky!)~ Finding the correct message, he slowlyblinked and rubbed the bridge of his nose. He was still having issues but at least he had some semblance of control and this dark raven entity was notvisiting people using his likeness. Not that he knew anyways.
“Come. I have a present for you to deliver to Ilyea. Make sure she is the only one that takes itfrom you. I’d drop it into her waiting hand if I were you and disappear quickly. She’ll have a shining weekafter it.” Rose would carry one mysteriousegg back Ilyea. It was the likes ofwhich was typically seen during the Noblegarden Festival. Colorful and beautiful to behold with roses printed on the outside. Seconds after she touched it, however, itexploded into a rainbow of sparkles and rose petals that both would leave her sparkling andsmelling of roses. She would have tolive with it or take multiple baths.
Oh the horror.