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Calyx · 1/9/2026, 12:08 AM

The haze persisted, and Calyx allowed his mind to wobble. Pupils would dilate, his vision dancing in circles as the lazy, eternal smile still lazily spread across his dark lips. It was only the sudden motion of another being that drew him from his trance. It was a man, he thought, one much larger than he — much more Cedar-sized.

Those eyes, the color of blood, drew Calyx's gaze toward him — a moth to a flame. And Calyx would stare, burning in the depths of crimson intensity for a few moments before he realized that this ... man ... was trying to communicate with him.

And yet he uttered not a word, instead releasing a series of grunts before tossing a soggy piece of fur on the ground.

Oh, a pile of goo! The boy would rise, claws digging into the branch of the tree as his voice slithered from between grinning teeth. With a slender, slow-moving stretch, he would leap to the ground, paws landing on the earth with a dulled huff as curiosity drove his nose toward the clump of fur and saliva.

Goo.
Wolf goo.

With a hum, he faintly recognized the distant scent of Envy, but he did not know her by name ... only as Sauron's toy. But Calyx was not aware that Envy was currently being held captive in Jakten by one of Nyra's children.

Oh, I see, (did he?) he'd start again, voice airy and eyes wide from the effects of his medicine. The smile did not waver. Everyone's always losing something. Most often their minds, I've found. The red gaze of the other burned deeply into Calyx with an unyielding sense of power — and danger. Calyx would paw gently at the fur pile, pushing it back toward it's owner.

I wonder, oh I wonder, which way did they wander? His voice would lilt, monotone and yet holding the quality of a strange song. And he would blink, the edges of his lips still curled upward into an eerie grin.

Perhaps the stranger knew! Oh, then he and Calyx could go on a lovely adventure together!

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