#𝑯𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 (V: WingedVash)

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@divinepunishment | Eldritch Plant Breakout | Design elements heavily drawn from HERE

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He's been here as long as he can remember.

He doesn't even know where here is, but he knows he hates it. It's dark and cramped where he lives, and when they let him out its loud, violent. It always smells of damp and copper. They shove him into a brightly lit ring, a crowd of voices yelling and jeering and he's not allowed to leave until the other in the circle stops moving.

Every day the same. Agian and again, only allowed to rest when he can't keep going. Too valuable to let die, he hears them grumble, like it's a hardship, a burden.

Vash wishes he wasn't so valuable to these humans sometimes. He misses when they were afraid of him, worshiped him. Before they found out he wouldn't fight back if they forced him to do what they wanted, found out they could chain and use him.

He want to see the sun, something he's only ever imagined. He wants to have the space to let his wings spread to their full length without brushing a chilled stone wall and fly away from here.

And he wants to take him with him.

His only light in this place, Wolfwood, Nico. The boy he grew up here with. The only one who didn't fear, hasn't hurt him.

Instead he treated Vash with kindness, warm hands and gentle words. He'd be there to help care for his wounds when he was old enough to start fighting, sit and talk to him for hours, bring him extra food.

Nico was the one to teach Vash to speak, learn to translate the clicks and whistles that came naturally to the Plant and patiently built a language in the middle, all their own. They bonded over the years, understanding eachother in a way no other could. Nico is the first an only human to let Vash into his mind, and Vash was all too happy to open his own in turn, warmed by the feedback loop of their connection, even if he'd hated how it had hurt the human at first.

Vash would never dare to even attempt to leave anymore if he wasn't certain he could safely bring Nico with him. He'd never let them get seperated, he was Vash's bonded, his human and he wouldn't let anyone part them.

So it was no wonder his absence currently had Vash on edge, pacing the length of his cage with an agitated stride. His wings rustled as he shifted them anxiously, pulling at petals and feathers in a descructive, self-soothing motion, leaving little piles on the floor.

Nico was late. Vash may have had no way to tell the time exactly, but he'd developed an internal clock for their routine, it was always the same, something he'd come to rely on, taking comfort in the monotony.

Changes in the routine meant trouble, danger, something was wrong.

Vash whined, a loud warbling call from the back of his throat, only flashing his fangs at the burly human who whacked a stick at his door and snapped at him to shut up.

He didn't care how pissed off his noises made them, he was worried, he needed Nico.