as bright and LOST as fireflies in jars.[Tyberius]

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The city had slowly gone to sleep, as Saturday night slipped into the wee hours of Sunday morning. The blackened sky above the earth shone with millions of glittering stars, only dimmed by the light of the streets across the distance. The moon was full, casting pale, white light along the darkened roads of the the abandoned warehouses and factories in the industrial district. No lights were cast from the buildings here. Only those who moved, eyes able to see through the debris of old wreckage with only starlight to guide them, were safe in this place.

Sharp, gray eyes were cast down as wings beat against the air. At two in the morning, it was a single raven's cawing that broke the silence and stillness of the night above a factory. His silken plumage took on a bluish glow under the moonlight, the night's colors bouncing off the perfect ebony of his feathers. He soared above smoke stacks, free as the wind, singing in the voice of the clever raven. His existence was a lovely, but lonely one. He had no flock following behind him, no murder of crows tailing him.

He circled under the moon, following the lines of its bright halo against the cold winter air, then swooped down. His clawed feet fell out first, as he steered himself down. They hooked onto a heavy metal pole that hung, lining the edge of the window, the rusted remains of the bars that once stood tall and protective over each glass pane. The window was broken inward, dusty glass covering the floor behind him as the bird folded his great wings, and looked up. He cawed out again, serenading the moon. The wind blew through the empty building, whistling as it went.

But Sinner's eyes did not turn toward the noise. Their gray color remained on the sky, counting the stars as he sang, letting random notes leave his black beak. He was restless, unable to let sleep claim him. His hope had been, if he used the great muscles in his chest to lift off into the air, and flew away his troubles, that he would finally be able to lay himself to rest. But even now, after having spent several hours amongst the clouds, he had not found the drowsiness he so searched for. His song to the moon, and the calm it brought him, were perhaps his last remaining hope to get some sleep before the sun began to creep over the horizon and assault his eyes with its unholy, fiery light.
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<div style="background-color:#42413c;height:300px;width:100%;overflow:auto;font-family: georgia; font-size: 11px;color:#fff;"><div style="width:130px;height:130px;-webkit-border-radius: 130px;-moz-border-radius: 130px;border-radius: 130px;margin-top:5px;border: 5px solid rgba(210,20,20,0.4);background-image:url('http://i.imgur.com/3UZxQNn.png');float:left;margin-left:5px;"></div>Perching on the window sill of his dorm room, Ty let his feathers ruffle around in the wind. The temperature was cold at night, and Tyberius could tell that it was getting close to snowing once again. He was all puffed out, he looked more like a little cotton boll perched on the edge, instead of an actual bird. Pale blue eyes surveyed the kingdom below, and he shifted his weight downward, wings extending as he prepared to leap. Pouncing off into the unknown, long wings caught the current of air, and carried him higher, far above the concrete buildings.

His beak opened for a moment, clicking together in a single snap. Not wanting to repeat the bug incident, Ty kept his mouth shut, coasting along over the tops of the trees and circling around the school. Originally, he had only intended to make a quick circle around the school and return to Levi. He knew his roommate didn't like sleeping alone, and Ty had come to dislike a lonely bed as well. A bug splattered against his chest, and he shuddered internally, even though a large part of his brain insisted he eat the bug.

Before he knew it, a seemingly abandoned building rose up before him, and Ty wondered how he had managed to come this far along without noticing. He didn't know if he was up for any kind of adventure, and very nearly circled back around. Adventures were more of Levi's thing, anyway. Something pressed him to make the landing, though, and Ty dove a little lower, his wings hesitating as he hovered, finally hearing the raucous cries of another raven. He was awfully territorial, and immediately felt a fight coming on. A similar, more aggressive noise sprung from his throat, finally catching sight of the other bird.

An odd, hissing noise choked off the warning noises, and Ty fluttered a little, his feet grabbing onto a street lamp as he wobbled for a minute, trying to find purchase on the slick aluminum. Another angry hissing noise came, and he ruffled his feathers once again. He didn't like when other ravens came up to sit on his island. He knew he didn't exactly own it, but that didn't lessen the blow at all.
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The being, older than the settlements of these very islands, was aware of the rise and fall of wings. He heard the bird's call before he saw the airborne beast. Sharp, piercing gray eyes turned up toward the creature as it made its descent from the skies. His warbling disappeared, a glint touching Sinner's eyes as he heard the other male's hissing tones.

A mere child, this uppity bird. If Sinner had been sitting in a form capable of it, he would have smirked. He had lived on this island, flown across these skies, longer than this chick had been alive, if he had to guess. And though Sinner wandered, floated into other skies, he always returned to this land. The home of he and his dear, old father. He felt no need to have a pissing match with a newly minted bird, fresh to the island from where ever he'd come from. These were his skies to fly, just as the forests were his to prowl, and the streets his to roam. This city belonged to him more than anyone else.

He didn't puff up, and his hissing reply was terse, short lived but clear in its answer. <i>"This is my island, too."</i> It warned. He gave a caw at the other ebony figure. <i>"Now, play nice or go play elsewhere."</i> Clearly, he saw no threat from the other other bird, though his size was formidable enough that a truly wild raven might have. Sinner, too, was rather large for a raven, though his size was not entirely unheard of in captive birds with longer lifespans.

He returned to his song, purring caws and the clicking of his beak combining with strange sounds, almost akin to a meow. The shape shifter had been testing the limits of each of his forms' voices for years, seeing what strange or unusual sounds he could make in each of them. Over the millennia he'd been alive, the creatures that he had taken on had come to adjust to his own characteristics. His raven made noises most did not, mimicking the roar of his tiger, or the howl of his wolf. The animals he ran in most were every much a part of him as he was of them.

He added to his song, verses about a rowdy youth, flying under the night sky, coming to challenge him. Silly little baby bird, did not know what he was doing, trying to scare him by the light of his moon. Where did such bravery come from, Ms. Moon? Kids these days...
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