"you just liked having another cardinal," matthew said, teasing.
nash laughed. "if that's what you think, so be it! we'll see how you do it without your corvid bro."
"this is the first for both of you, then?" matthew asked jeremy and i.
Avian, Bird, Hawk, Transformation
Are you... a cardinal or parrot of sssome kind?"
volcan swallowed, briefly wondering how to answer that question without losing his composure. "well, i'm _not_a parrot, i guarantee you that," he said, tapping the tip of his beak.
Phoenix, Sentinels, Short Story, Snake, friendly, liquor
The blue cardinal that was occupying it flies out and bumps him in the head, causing him to lose balance. cal catches the fox in his arms. "thanks. i didn't see anything in the trees."
"you're telling me."
Food, Relationships, Search, Vikings, ancient, race, reality, travel
As with all the other fledglings, glecion was wearing a magnetic collar around her neck to block out the twisted magnetic field lines that would confuse her internal compass, but that only suppressed her sense of cardinal direction.
Action, Adolescent, Adorable, Adventure, Amputee, Avaeria, Blind, Blindfold, Character Development, City, City of Wings, Cub (clean), Cute, Dragon, Dragoness, Epic, Excursion, Exploration, Eyes, Field trip, First Time, Fledgling, Flight, Flying, Friendship, Scavenger Hunt, School, School outing, School trip, Small, Teenager, Teenagers, Young, cripple, danger, disabled, expedition, friend, friends, imagination, outing, slice of life
These were still burning and aligned with the four cardinal points.
to the left edge of the altar, there were two skulls. one larger than the other. it was as if one used to belong to an adult and the other to a children.
Character Development, No-Yiff, Raptor, Wolf
A cardinal fluttered out from its perch in a small tree, its crimson body turning to black silhouette as it passed between the calico's squinting eye and the cracking sky.
"s'cuse me, sweetie," called a buttery voice from behind.
Boy, Calico, Cat, Character Development, Classroom, Elementary school, Feline, Female, Gender identity, Gender issues, Girl, Kitten, Male, Male calico, School, Story Progression, Story Series, Teacher, Young boy, Young girl, calico cat, class
Each one boasted over a hundred and thirty floors of luxury apartments, serving as cardinal points to help dragons orient themselves while flying.
Anatomically Correct, Character Development, Clean, Dragon, Dragoness, Family, Female, Feral, Flight, Friendship, Horns, Male, Modern, Non-Anthro, Quadruped, Realistic, School, Slice of Life, Story, Story Progression, Story Series, Teacher, Wings, Young
The clear, bell-like whistles of the cardinal, yes. the lilting promise of the meadowlark. full of spring and harbingers of things. giving this place a 'youth' that shouldn't realistically be there. the station was decades old, probably.
Character Development, Mouse, Otter, Rabbit, Rat, Romance, Sci-Fi
But without a further word, they began to walk, in cardinal directions or as near to them as the town layout would allow: tiltimann went south, jack north, the antelope east, the horned lizard west. none in statfeldt ever saw any of them again.
Armadillo, Coyote, Crow, Fantasy, Ferret, God, Historical, Magical Realism, Possum, grackle