Darkside softly poked at the burning fire he had just made. It was cold out tonight and he had just hunted deer for his dinner, it’s meat still cooking over the fire sending a delicious smell through the air. This didn’t however, block out the strong scent of something familiar yet foreign to him. He then began to stretch and opened his large metal wings causing them to pop at the joints, he hadn’t flown in a long while and his wings were tormenting him for it, the itch to fly was almost unbearable. He let out a soft yawn, it had been at least 3 days since he slept and he was exhausted, silly him for hiking in unfamiliar territory. He sighed and lay back against the cold tree and wrapped his wings and cloak around him to keep himself warm on this cold night, the smell, whatever it was felt threatening but he didn’t care, he thought that if someone wanted to kill him out here, that’d they’d better do it in his sleep, he was vulnerable now. He passed out a few minutes later, the fire dying down, his scorpion tail gently moving, a soft snore coming from his tired body underneath the soft blue light of the moon shining on his pure black skin, his dark brown hair moving in the cool wind of the night. The scent was getting overbearing, to the point of making him sneeze, whatever the scent was, it meant bad news, but being as stubborn as he was, he just slept.