Aire came flying up, circling the top of the mesa before landing softly next to Dune, who was exhausted and just wanted to sleep right then and there. Aire had a dead cantapodi carcass in her jaws and dropped it next to Dune's claws. "Hungry?"
"Heh, yeah. Thanks," Dune said, craning her neck down to tear a chunk off. "Is everyone ready?" She asked, chewing the meat and swallowing.
"Yep," Aire said, looking up at the sky. "Everyone's pretty nervous after Sane informed everyone it was an army and not just one Sar'hingaro." Aire's shoulders slouched and she let out a shivery sigh. "Even I'm nervous."
Dune intertwined her tail with Aire's and turned to give her a reassuring smile. Or, at least she tried to smile without showing too many teeth. But that was difficult in itself. "It's okay to be scared, Aire. We're going into an actual war," Dune explained, waving a hand in the air. "Sure, we got a lot of strong tier fives. But like Diala said, they aren't impossible to kill. We just need a strategy."
"Ooh, I know! How about we put the Gyrodouses in the front lines?" Aire said, standing up and pacing in a circle. Her wings twitched excitedly, and she had a confident smile. One Dune could look at forever while she ranted on attack plans. while pacing back and forth, the moonlight illuminating her silky white fur "They could use their earthquake abilities to bring down the stronger, tougher Sars. And the Jotunhels and sochuries can use their breaths to really debuff them. We'll definitely need Anies with them, and then we'll have the bleeders cleaning up the downed sars. Minawiies will be expendable. They will be bitten once, and run. And-"
Aire looked at Dune, who was listening intently and smiling. Her spined tail waving across the sandstone and dusting grains of sand around her. She saw Aire's smile falter from confident to nervous. "W-Why ahare you looking at me like that?" Aire asked, shrugging her shoulders and glancing at Dune every few seconds. Dune could tell, even if her eyes were a white, glowing abyss.
"You've grown so much ever since I've left," Dune said, feeling her heart sell at Aire's shy reaction by tilting her head down. "Maybe it was a good thing I left, otherwise you wouldn't have become so independent."
"Heh, yeah, you're probably right," Aire said, looking up at the sky. The deep blue of the sky was dotted with many, beautiful stars that were as bright as Aire's eyes. Dune saw that the moon was right above them. 8 hours until Sar'Hingaro would be here. Aire spoke up again, catching Dune out of her trance. "Still, I really missed you. I could have used your comfort here."
Dune could feel her heart swell at those words. "Y-You did?" She stammered, shifting her claws in the cracks of the sandstone. "I- You didn't send any search parties though, didn't you?"
Aire gave Dune a confused glare. "Of course I did! I sent, like, ten in the time you were out!"
"Then why didn't I..." Dune asked, trailing off.
"See them?" Aire finished, laying down on her back and staring at the sky, then up at Dune. "Because I just assumed you were somewhere in the desert. I kept sending a bunch over to Coelienth pond, some over to my old home, and I had some creatures check the tunnel systems under the dunes." Aire sat up again, spreading her wings. The morning air was calm, and brushed against her fur, making it look soft. "Why wouldn't I send a search party?"
Dune sighed, looking down at her claws. "Because I'm just another creature in your land? And now that I look like a walking, glowing nightmare, I just assume tha-" Dune was cut off by sand being flung at her face. She sneezed, and looked up at Aire who had stood up and had a talon-full of sand in her claws. "Why did you do that!"

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Creatures Of Sonaria: Sands Of Time
FanfictionDune cares about Aire's saftey so much, she'd fight every terrible creature in the lands of Sonaria. But after the war of the pero bloodline, and the death of Igiris, none of them knew of Igiris's even more dangerous vin'rou friend, Gher, who had es...