Friday, March 04, 2022

The Memories of Needles

We came in towards the Crater in formation. 

Formation! We might as well have been polished and preened with wax on our antenna! 

I still don't know how they knew where we were coming in, but they did. 

They were waiting - dark shapes that should have been harmless moving in icy communal union, their symbiotic weapons responding to the touch of a black armoured limb. Snouts designed by nature to grub in the dirt, humped skyward and snorted flame. 

Fire and venom. 

Venom and fire. 

I survived, as you see. My fur damaged, my wings scarred. So, spare some nectar?


(After, THE WEB PLANET)

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