Solaris The Map Maker

Chapter 4
Siblings?

Solaris awoke with the feeling of being nudged awake. “Mmh-I wanna sleep more mommy. Please?” he mumbled. The nudging stopped and thrumming could be heard. Solaris’ ears perked at the sound. He rolled over and two sets of serpent eyes were staring back at him. Both looked exactly like Selenya but much smaller. One had green eyes like its mother and the other had blue eyes the blue eyed one edged closer to Solaris. He backed up only to back in to Selenya’s wing that was draped over top of him. Almost as soon as he touched it the wing lifted to show Selenya’s gentle eyes looking down on him. Her tail began to write THESE ARE MY HATCHLINGS. She turned to the two little wind wyrms and thrummed at them. The two separated and she wrote their names next to them. The green eyed one had SPRITE written next to it. The other had SHAKKEN next to it. He looked at the two names; “Hello, I’m Solaris” Both looked at him and thrummed. Instead of a low tone these were high pitched almost like a chirp. *rumble rumble* this new noise came from Solaris. He tucked his wings in tighter and lowered his head. He could feel his face getting red with embarrassment. *tick tick tick tick* he looked up at Selenya and the clicking started again. “Was she laughing?” Solaris thought.

She stretched out her body and her wings and slithered away to the edge of the clearing. Selenya tucked her wings in front of her almost like a bowl and she latched on to a branch with her mouth. Her muscles coiled and relaxed and began to shake the tree. She came back and dumped a small pile of a pinkish colored fruit on the ground Shakken and Sprite both came to the pile and selected a fruit and started eating Solaris looked up at Selenya almost asking for permission. She looked back and nodded, Solaris also chose a fruit, leaving 7 more. He took his first bite. It was very sour at first but quickly turned sweet by the time he had finished the fruit he was feeling full. Selenya scooped the remaining in her mouth and munched away. Some of the fruit was splattered on her face Solaris looked up and giggled at her. She looked odd at him then she realized what he was laughing about. She licked the fruit off her face and the clicking sounded from her, even the two hatchlings joined in.

Solaris spent many days there in the grove. Selenya treated him as her own son and Solaris and the hatchlings quickly grew close. Shakken and Solaris were inseparable. For the first time in his life Solaris could smile and it wasn’t a fake one. However all moments of happiness must come to an end.