"Skip! Skip, listen to me! Think about what you're doing!"
The raptorial shriek he got in response was not the kid he knew.
Her deep brown irises were narrowed to animalistic slits, teeth bared as she tried to wrestle him out of the sky. She was looking for a meal, and she had found one.
"You're better than this, Skip, snap out of it!"
He couldn't take his eyes off hers; the silver accents of her uniform bottoms and the primal look in her eyes was harrowing. To become feral was like a disease, starting slow until it overtook your mind completely. He had seen many synths succumb; not even the highest-ranking Diamonds were immune to it.
But his kid...
They spiralled towards the dusty grassland below. Not sixteen hours ago they were skipping rocks, the pastime that had borne her name, and now she didn't know him.
She warned him, she warned him days ago, he knew it. He had joked and she did not laugh.
Birds I've drawn for ornithology. The colored ones are ones I've seen while out on walks and the black and white sketches are for an assignment focused on foraging adaptations :>
Behold: In no particular order, and for no particular reason, I give you thirty of the most dramatic, elegant, and visually interesting black-and-white bird plumages on planet Earth.
top bird photographs of 2023. i didn't necessarily choose the best photos that i've taken, but rather the ones that i like the best. 2024 is the year i'm going to start heading out further and further and finding new habitats - most of what's surrounding and near to me is forest and broad-leafed woodland and, well, it shows. more wetlands, more deserts, more ocean, more grasslands
from left to right: african harrier-hawk, collared sunbird, juvenile burchell's coucal, mocking cliff-chat, white-fronted plover, golden-rumped tinkerbarbet, amethyst sunbird, scaly-throated honeyguide, diederick cuckoo, african oystercatcher, groundscraper thrush, cape batis, black-headed heron and tawny-flanked prinia
The secretary bird is an African, primarily terrestrial, bird of prey. It is related to birds like vultures, hawks, and harriers.
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