(Don't worry she's not dying.)
Some part of you wanted to run to your sister and show off your current progress in the remaining daylight. However in the end you silenced it, practice makes perfect and there was still at least fours hours of daylight left before the sun took it's nap.
So after taking a moment to catch your breath, you dived back under the water and found a comfortable patch of silt to lay in where the pink fish was still visible.
The fish themselves didn't even bother to scatter, after so many hours in your presence without causing harm they had lost interest in you. Unless you got to close to them, then they would disappear in a flurry of flapping fins.
The pink fish from your observations, had a tendency to hog any beams of light chasing out any smaller fish (Not that there were many as all the fish seemed to be of similar size). Something that benefited you greatly, seeing as you were trying to copy it's sparkly-ness.
Anyway you settled yourself into a comfortable space in the silt, where you could look at your own scales and compare them to the pink fish without much issue.
Then your scales started to shiver they always did when you changed color, and you began to try an match the much smaller creatures pattern. The vibration of your scales sending the fish closest to you, into a flurry of motion as they increased their distance before settling again.
Soon the world blurred into a mix of failure and further attempts, by the time your were knocked from your own single mindedness you'd managed to get almost as shiny as the pink fish!
If you took out your odd marks, made them sparkle more, and made you far, far smaller, you'd be a perfect match! You'd even found that by concentrating you could make the odd pattern of your scales harder to spot!
It was really hard to do though, and it made your scales ache like your muscles had when you found the lagoon. When you stopped an let your scales settle back to their normal color they kept twitching.
The twitching was annoying, but somehow it left you feeling satisfied.
Putting that to the back of your mind, you looked around to see what had drawn you from your own little world. You were stunned to find the sun was almost to point where it would retreat back to it's own nest. You were sure that much time hadn't passed, but that wasn't really important.
No that would be your sisters worried cries that you could hear clearly, even if the sound was dampened by the water.
With an almost negligible push from your tail you shot out of the water, and slammed into the ground feet first. A mere moment was given to ensure your balance didn't fail you, before you blurred into the forest towards your sisters cries.
What you found stunned you.
Morada was Running around in an odd twitchy manner as she seemed to search thin air. Her scales shivered in a disjointed fashion from hue to hue never making a complete shift before another rippled through her scales, while other scales refused to change at all, leaving black spots scattered about her form. The normal ring of purple around her eyes was missing completely, consumed by her pupil and her every breath was labored, but taken quickly.
You could hear her heart beating at a frantic pace, thundering like a beast trying to escape it's cage, the scent of panic suffusing the air in a dreadful scent.
Then she saw you.
With movement that was fast enough your brain didn't truly register it, she was beside you. Twittering like one of the sky creatures as she seamed to inspect you for damage at a frantic pace.
It was surprisingly difficult to coral the smaller dinosaur as your wrapped yourself around her in scaly prison and tried to calm her before she gave herself a heart attack. It seemed to work as you felt her heart beat begin to move in a smoother, less panicked fashion.
However, what confused you the most were your sisters trills as you calmed her down.
Why would she be making the trills of an abandoned hatchling that wasn't fast enough to keep up with the pack? She had you after all.
Dino Do what? (Don't worry Morada isn't dying at the moment, that comes later, unless you guy pull off the required godly level write in.)
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