You hear tales about that sorta thing all the time, a Dragon that roamed the land and kept the forest in check. When he first joined the Wilders, he thought he'd have to be more on guard, but turns out there's nothin' to worry about -- no Dragon's been seen for centuries out thataway, least of all one the color of summer... they'd know if there was an infected Dragon about too, they dive right into sources of magic to feed at that point.
Dewaint's steadily bein' looked into. You've got people who wanna push in more, dangerous as it is, but they're clearin' out as they can. The path Eren mentions from the dream's familiar though, treads like that stay long after the feet that beat them down have rested, and Darrus decides to throw Eren a deal: In exchange for not pressin' too hard into Wilder business, he'll bring Eren to the area it sounds like and do a bit of a look around with him.
The paths that the dragon once walked are familiar in deja vu to Eren, if overgrown to the point of not looking the way they had in dream; there's what amounts to a deer trail at their feet, one that Darrus follows with stick in hand, making sure to sweep low in front of them in case anything's awaiting in the brush.
It's always been a path well-walked by vermin and the like, he mentions. Something larger may've tread here, given the wide berth the older trees give the path, but they've long past. Pretty interesting rock formation at one section, further in where they haven't cleared, but he's not sure it's wise to bring a dragonkin into that sorta place. If Eren's wanting to, he won't deny him though.
The rock formation appears to be just a large boulder at first, with nothing special to its mossed edges, but Darrus points out certain unusual features on the surface. Maybe it's just his mind foolin' him, but these curve like horns, don't they? And this part here -- like wings folded, small as they are. Course, could just be the way the boulder formed, but...
Well, he waves his hand, it's not as if they've got any mountains or anythin' like that round this area, nothin' that could've rolled this big ol' stone down anyway. Unless someone moved it themselves or whatever, it's pretty much impossible to think it's all that natural, you know?
For Eren's part, it does have a remarkable resemblance to a dragon. Perhaps one that may have walked the forest centuries ago. The moss certainly has the same shade of green, and there's the faintest smell he may recall from his dream clinging to the surface of the boulder as well, but it could rationally be thought of as, well, the environment itself, if one were rational. However, it doesn't seem to be alive... Or, at the very least, awake.
On closer inspection around the boulder, there's dark spots at the base of it, akin to a Cwyld infection. Following these faint lines shows that they do in fact go from bottom to top, almost like the veins of a flower bud. It won't be possible to chip through to study them, as a note, but even that's something Darrus considers suspect -- there's no way a normal boulder would be this hard to break, so it's definitely something else.
It's just that they've no idea what, nor where to begin to figure it out.
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SEPTEMBER 2019 (DARRUS + EMERALD DRAGON)
You hear tales about that sorta thing all the time, a Dragon that roamed the land and kept the forest in check. When he first joined the Wilders, he thought he'd have to be more on guard, but turns out there's nothin' to worry about -- no Dragon's been seen for centuries out thataway, least of all one the color of summer... they'd know if there was an infected Dragon about too, they dive right into sources of magic to feed at that point.
Dewaint's steadily bein' looked into. You've got people who wanna push in more, dangerous as it is, but they're clearin' out as they can. The path Eren mentions from the dream's familiar though, treads like that stay long after the feet that beat them down have rested, and Darrus decides to throw Eren a deal: In exchange for not pressin' too hard into Wilder business, he'll bring Eren to the area it sounds like and do a bit of a look around with him.
The paths that the dragon once walked are familiar in deja vu to Eren, if overgrown to the point of not looking the way they had in dream; there's what amounts to a deer trail at their feet, one that Darrus follows with stick in hand, making sure to sweep low in front of them in case anything's awaiting in the brush.
It's always been a path well-walked by vermin and the like, he mentions. Something larger may've tread here, given the wide berth the older trees give the path, but they've long past. Pretty interesting rock formation at one section, further in where they haven't cleared, but he's not sure it's wise to bring a dragonkin into that sorta place. If Eren's wanting to, he won't deny him though.
The rock formation appears to be just a large boulder at first, with nothing special to its mossed edges, but Darrus points out certain unusual features on the surface. Maybe it's just his mind foolin' him, but these curve like horns, don't they? And this part here -- like wings folded, small as they are. Course, could just be the way the boulder formed, but...
Well, he waves his hand, it's not as if they've got any mountains or anythin' like that round this area, nothin' that could've rolled this big ol' stone down anyway. Unless someone moved it themselves or whatever, it's pretty much impossible to think it's all that natural, you know?
For Eren's part, it does have a remarkable resemblance to a dragon. Perhaps one that may have walked the forest centuries ago. The moss certainly has the same shade of green, and there's the faintest smell he may recall from his dream clinging to the surface of the boulder as well, but it could rationally be thought of as, well, the environment itself, if one were rational. However, it doesn't seem to be alive... Or, at the very least, awake.
On closer inspection around the boulder, there's dark spots at the base of it, akin to a Cwyld infection. Following these faint lines shows that they do in fact go from bottom to top, almost like the veins of a flower bud. It won't be possible to chip through to study them, as a note, but even that's something Darrus considers suspect -- there's no way a normal boulder would be this hard to break, so it's definitely something else.
It's just that they've no idea what, nor where to begin to figure it out.