9th of Fall, 514 AV
They had decided to remain where they were for the day after the attack, if only to see if the attackers would return and as it stood their current position was already easily defensible. Night was now beginning to fade as the light started to peak out from behind the green and leaves, but for the moment Evalin cared little for such things as light and warmth. With the aid of Gresshal they had drug two of the bodies closer to the tree in which now the Dhani rested, having gotten little sleep during the night for fear of the Hounds return.
The bodies rested now on the jungle floor, spread out before the Immortal and her Familiar who hovered over the bodies as he inspected them. The creatures when on all fours would have reached to Evalin's waist. Their powerful muscles were knotted and well visible under the short fur that covered their bodies, but what stood out most to the nuit was their teeth... They did not appear to have any lips and so the Immortal could see where the teeth were embed into the gums. Large soulless eyes completed the picture and gave the beast an overall skeletal appearance.
"Fierce they were..." Evalin whispered, reaching forward to run her fingers over the beasts face, pausing to trace one extra large tooth with the end of one long nail, "Wonder I from where they come."
"Native to this place I would assume." the Irlyid replied with a tone that said it mattered to him little if at all, "Hunters of a pack, adapted to corner prey in the darkness of night and to slip through the jungle with such ease as to be nearly undetectable were we not looking for their approach."
Shifting Evalin came to her hands and knees, crawling closer to look and inspect, "Be it but a thought but... My dear Tsenrika, what believe you to be the extent of my abilities as they are now?"
"In what way do you ask?" he floated closer to rest over the nuit's shoulder.
"Wonder I..." Evalin crawled closer to the beast until she nearly straddled it, not heeding the blood that still dripped from its opened wound created by the stone spike sent through is skull the previous night. Leaning ever closer Evalin pulled upon the strands of her djed and began to finger and prod them to place as an artist might mold the clay or pain upon a canvas.
She focused on the one aspect of the creature she was intensely familiar with, its teeth, and with a mental shrug she pulled the image her eyes showed her and overlayed it over her own mental picture of her own face (aided of course by the Familiar who floated close enough that she could see herself through his eyes.
The Immortal grinned, stretching her lips as thin as she could as she pressed upon her djed with silver hands of her will, massaging and molding and smoothing them over so that her lips became thinner and thinner, conforming and becoming one with her gums. The transition was slow, but there was no rush as Evalin took her time ensuring the change was even throughout her lips and mouth region, running hands carefully over where her lips had been to ensure there was no edge or wrinkle.Her finger then traced down and fingered the edge of her inscisors, tilting her head as she took note with interest that the Akila hound in fact had very few teeth, but rather a handful of larger ones which somehow gave it an even greater and fierce expression. It's jaws were wider, more jutting and it looked as though raw tendons were exposed on either side of its jaw, obviously used to increase is overall biting strength.
There was a tingle along Evalin's jawline as she began to play with the djed of her teeth, pulling pairs and sets of teeth together, trying to to use their collective mass of djed to form bigger, singular teeth instead of the smaller multitude. Floating around Tsenrika observed the work as it commenced, adding his own consciousness to the process to aid and guided the nuit's will and djed as the teeth were shaped, rounded and then elongated until each was as thick as two of her fingers and as long as her longest finger. As she worked Evalin steadily widened and expanded her jaws as she did with her Banshee model, but this time she was certain that it was only just enough that she could fit all of the teeth and still close her mouth. The muscles of her jaw she began to work on next, working and adding djed to strengthen and thicken them so that they could support the increased weight of the new shape. Tsenirka circled her head slowly, adding his own touches as they went to slightly angle a tooth so that they would slide over each other more easily, and shifting muscles and skin back and forth where need be to make opening and closing her mouth.
Pressing then upon the djed that moved up on her cheeks and over her nose she began to flatten out and extend those features, nearly getting rid of her nose entirely as she formed a short snout. She paused though before she reached her eyes, leaving only from her nose down transformed as she turned her head to look at Tsenrika and her own reflection there.
"Awahf dah yah thahnk?" Without lips she could not form words properly, which was perplexing and made the nuit's eyebrows raise but she shook her head, What do you think...?
"Truly hideous... but that is expected."
Evalin chuckled, the sound odd and gruff when coming from her large teethed face.
They had decided to remain where they were for the day after the attack, if only to see if the attackers would return and as it stood their current position was already easily defensible. Night was now beginning to fade as the light started to peak out from behind the green and leaves, but for the moment Evalin cared little for such things as light and warmth. With the aid of Gresshal they had drug two of the bodies closer to the tree in which now the Dhani rested, having gotten little sleep during the night for fear of the Hounds return.
The bodies rested now on the jungle floor, spread out before the Immortal and her Familiar who hovered over the bodies as he inspected them. The creatures when on all fours would have reached to Evalin's waist. Their powerful muscles were knotted and well visible under the short fur that covered their bodies, but what stood out most to the nuit was their teeth... They did not appear to have any lips and so the Immortal could see where the teeth were embed into the gums. Large soulless eyes completed the picture and gave the beast an overall skeletal appearance.
"Fierce they were..." Evalin whispered, reaching forward to run her fingers over the beasts face, pausing to trace one extra large tooth with the end of one long nail, "Wonder I from where they come."
"Native to this place I would assume." the Irlyid replied with a tone that said it mattered to him little if at all, "Hunters of a pack, adapted to corner prey in the darkness of night and to slip through the jungle with such ease as to be nearly undetectable were we not looking for their approach."
Shifting Evalin came to her hands and knees, crawling closer to look and inspect, "Be it but a thought but... My dear Tsenrika, what believe you to be the extent of my abilities as they are now?"
"In what way do you ask?" he floated closer to rest over the nuit's shoulder.
"Wonder I..." Evalin crawled closer to the beast until she nearly straddled it, not heeding the blood that still dripped from its opened wound created by the stone spike sent through is skull the previous night. Leaning ever closer Evalin pulled upon the strands of her djed and began to finger and prod them to place as an artist might mold the clay or pain upon a canvas.
She focused on the one aspect of the creature she was intensely familiar with, its teeth, and with a mental shrug she pulled the image her eyes showed her and overlayed it over her own mental picture of her own face (aided of course by the Familiar who floated close enough that she could see herself through his eyes.
The Immortal grinned, stretching her lips as thin as she could as she pressed upon her djed with silver hands of her will, massaging and molding and smoothing them over so that her lips became thinner and thinner, conforming and becoming one with her gums. The transition was slow, but there was no rush as Evalin took her time ensuring the change was even throughout her lips and mouth region, running hands carefully over where her lips had been to ensure there was no edge or wrinkle.Her finger then traced down and fingered the edge of her inscisors, tilting her head as she took note with interest that the Akila hound in fact had very few teeth, but rather a handful of larger ones which somehow gave it an even greater and fierce expression. It's jaws were wider, more jutting and it looked as though raw tendons were exposed on either side of its jaw, obviously used to increase is overall biting strength.
There was a tingle along Evalin's jawline as she began to play with the djed of her teeth, pulling pairs and sets of teeth together, trying to to use their collective mass of djed to form bigger, singular teeth instead of the smaller multitude. Floating around Tsenrika observed the work as it commenced, adding his own consciousness to the process to aid and guided the nuit's will and djed as the teeth were shaped, rounded and then elongated until each was as thick as two of her fingers and as long as her longest finger. As she worked Evalin steadily widened and expanded her jaws as she did with her Banshee model, but this time she was certain that it was only just enough that she could fit all of the teeth and still close her mouth. The muscles of her jaw she began to work on next, working and adding djed to strengthen and thicken them so that they could support the increased weight of the new shape. Tsenirka circled her head slowly, adding his own touches as they went to slightly angle a tooth so that they would slide over each other more easily, and shifting muscles and skin back and forth where need be to make opening and closing her mouth.
Pressing then upon the djed that moved up on her cheeks and over her nose she began to flatten out and extend those features, nearly getting rid of her nose entirely as she formed a short snout. She paused though before she reached her eyes, leaving only from her nose down transformed as she turned her head to look at Tsenrika and her own reflection there.
"Awahf dah yah thahnk?" Without lips she could not form words properly, which was perplexing and made the nuit's eyebrows raise but she shook her head, What do you think...?
"Truly hideous... but that is expected."
Evalin chuckled, the sound odd and gruff when coming from her large teethed face.