(backed up my OC's ages and so thus added one. When I find Character profile again I'll put her info up)
The young Whistling Swimmer, for one of the things they were called at times, with the single rounded crest to her head that aided in the whistling type tunes that gave them that name, squinted as she looked out over the horizon.
"Yep, they're still there".
The young swimmer, Lily, was in her early teens same as her other two...friends, Tylr and Cree. She hesitated since she would call Tylr a friend, the flyer's only other brood mate of what had apparently been the last brood of their parents, his brother, Cree, she wasn't so sure of.
It made sense for why that, still titled the worse earth shake of ever, had robbed the two boys of their parents since the two elder flyers other children were old enough to have children of their own. Cree was saved from being the youngest of all only by Tylr himself, though he acted tough enough to take down a grown sharptooth and acted as if he despised Tylr.
Lily was pretty sure these were both acts.
Now, the early teens flyer laying claim to an entire territory was not so faked. It was just low vegetation near the Big Water, but Cree had decided, since it was uninhabited when the three 'kids' stumbled upon it, that it was theirs and, by definition of his being in charge in the group of just the three of them, his.
This worked since Tylr would never challenge his brother and just went with whatever he said. Lily just rolled her eyes and let the flyer have at it.
This had been challenged, though, when an actual herd of adults came through to claim the land in the midst of problems at their home of the Great Valley.
One of Cree and Tyler's afore mentioned, much older siblings which kids of their own being in the group just seemed to irk Cree more.
They hadn't been kicked out or anything, their sister, who they met once, briefly, before the Great Earthshake, had simply explained the situation and...Cree had been forced to pretend to give in since he didn't want to face any of the other adults, let alone the very mean looking old Threehorn the group had.
"It's not fair!" he cried, "we've been using that land for a very long time, and then just 'cause they're actual adults they get to come through and steal it!".
"Cree, the Great Valley's got problems" Tylr argued, "and plus Tera (name proposed for Petrie's mom) and her kids are in the group, we couldn't turn them away!".
Lily frowned, "That is rather a sad thought, though, the Great Valley having problems, it's suppose to be...well Great".
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Meanwhile, having arrived later with his friends and unaware there was a brooding teenager related to him on the patch of land (or right outside technically) at all, Petrie was...wel hesitating at Ducky's new game really.
"Petrie!" Ducky called to the flyer from one the small pools this land had apart from the Big Water, "come on , jump in, it is deep, it isn't, it isn't, and even if you do sink I will catch you!" she said brightly.
From the rock he was on, about to either jump in or not jump in the water, Petrie frowned deeper at this last part, "But...what if you no catch me in time...".
