四 - sì

[getsomesleep]

[A deft and swift hand is sketching across the paper. The image takes form quickly, and when done, looks something like this.

Beneath the rather freakish vision, Huo's neat handwriting:]

Appearances do not necessarily reflect character.

True colors make one wonder.



[OOC: Mod word sez, can see thestrals even if don't remember having seen someone die. Thanks, mods!
Picture not mine, linked with permission. All credit to the original artist.]

Comments

[hanakioku.livejournal.com]

Horse?

[speeding]

Wow, someone get that pony a sandwich.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

I saw a couple of those flying around.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

No, something else. A creature from the Wilderness.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

There are a number around the castle in the Wilderness. I believe that they're called thestrals.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

As far as I was able to ascertain, that is their natural appearance.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

I think I saw one of those from far away but damn.

[live_ringer]

Impressive sketch. [If a bit unsettling.]

What sort of character would you say is there, then?

[crimson-seeker.livejournal.com]

You're an artist as well, I see.

Those things seem to keep to the woods down there. Can't say I'm sorry about that, fascinating as they look.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They are shy, and their appearance does them a disservice.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Does them a what now?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

It appears that I am, though I had a ready model.

They are startling, true, but in fact they are tame. I think they may even agree to be ridden.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Merely the product of observation.

I would wonder at a realm in which such a misshapen beast can have such an agreeable temperament.

[crimson-seeker.livejournal.com]

You don't think those wings would actually work? They look not a little atrophied, but so does the whole creature.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They have the appearance of monsters, but the behavior of tame animals.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I have seen them fly. Whether they could do so with a man's weight on their backs, I cannot guess.

[iattractmushi]

Nicely drawn.

Any idea what they are, other than interesting?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

A book I have found calls them thestrals; they are supposed to be very dangerous, but I have observed them to be tame, even friendly.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you get the opposite too.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Have you been down to the castle, Smoke-jūn?

Oh fudge timeline

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

At first, not the castle itself. I was thinking of women, primarily, when I said that.

[iattractmushi]

Thestrals.

Does the book say anything about what they eat?

Eek, did that joss any plans of yours? O_O

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I would say the principle holds true not only for women.

No we just haven't actually *logged* going to Hogwarts yet

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Just take this place for example.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They are meat-eaters; but so are dogs and cats.