Death and Rebirth: Roleplay with TheNovaSwag #2

Chapter 84

M:   "No, the dumbass couldn't keep his mouth shut and provoked the fatherly wrath," Esha grumbled from her spot, "Mandoria gave him a well-deserved left hook to the jaw after he started talking trash about Prudoria, or something like that."

"Yeah, that's about the long and short of it," Mandoria agreed, "right now we're just going to stay away from him and let both of us cool down a bit, because even if it was deserved, doesn't mean it was necessary."

N:   Anglo slowly nodded, making a mental note to ask his grandson later about the details, but he ignored the issue for the moment as he walked over to Esha.

"Is there anything I can get you that can help Aslan," the Englishman proposed, "anything at all?"

M:   "Maybe a snack for being such a good boy," Esha said, scratching Aslan under his chin, "though actually, I do need a bit of fabric to mend his wings, it's an old leather-wing trick, if you're wings are ripped or have a chunk missing, you sew some fabric into where the missing membrane is and then cover it with a layer of clay made with unicorn water, then after about two weeks you take off the clay and the fabric would have transformed into viable tissue."

"Wow, that's impressive," Rowen commented, "that would be a nice trick to show Wales, you never know when he might need it."

N:   "I agree, that will definitely be useful if he were ever to be injured," Anglo nodded before turning back to Esha, "I think there may be some spare pieces of fabric in the tailoring room, and I will definitely get some snacks for Aslan."

The Englishman left the room, and after a while came back with some fabric draped over one of his arms while he carried a bag of food for the manticore in the other.

"I wasn't sure of what Aslan would eat," the country commented as he handed the materials over to the Eternal, "but I brought some food that a feline might eat, since he is part lion."

M:   "Perfect, manticores are basically just lions with extra bits, so they'll eat whatever a lion does," Esha said, pouring out the contents of the bag for Aslan, "and besides, Aslan was most likely a normal lion at some point, weren't you buddy."

Aslan purred in response, licking Esha's face with glee, earning some laughter from the eternal, "Who knew manticores were so cuddly, it's a shame Eternals were a natural prey to them, they would have made great guard animals."

"Why is that a normal statement for you," Mandoria asked, "being natural prey to something, did eternals not really care when their peers got eaten?"

"Well of course we did, but it was all part of nature," the draconic entity said, "being prey to something meant that we couldn't overpopulate, that way the other creatures would be able to keep their natural territories and we wouldn't need to expand so much. Once you stop being prey to something, once you break the food chain and are no longer having your population being controlled, that's when you need to destroy other creatures just to provide for your species. The humans have always been against nature, nothing will change that, but now that Eternals are taking their side, I expect the next extinction event to happen much sooner than the last one."

N:   "But hopefully not too soon," Anglo added, "even if it is inevitable, I would like to live a bit more before being swept up in the next extinction event."

"Same here," Johann nodded, "I would very much like to grow old, but you," he pointed at the Englishman, "you've been around for a long while."

"Not as long as Esha and Mandoria here," the country chuckled, "but touché."