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Nexade has been living on this island since he hatched. He's been alone. He was fine with it ,it's not like he's lonely or anything Why would you say that.
"I'm not lonely Jeremy, I've got you, and everyone else," He says to the rock that vaguely looks like a seagulls face, swelling his wing to point at the other odd shaped rocks piled under the tree that holds his nest.
Jeremy didn't speak.
"See Jeremy! You get me. Obviously you do because we are best friends. Fr."
Jeremy didn't speak.
"We should have makeral for breakfast, you are so right, that's the best fi-"
Nexade gets cut off by the shouting of a human in the distance,
"Land hooo!" The human sings, stand at the edge of a raft pointing to Nexade's island.
"This human sings badly," Nexade sqwaks to Jeremy.
Jeremy doesn't speak.
Strangely enough, there is a smaller raft connected to the humans raft by a large rope, full of nests, some atop poles, some with roofs, some with eggs, and feathers eveywhere. The second raft was chalk full of seagulls.
When the human raft hit shore and laid anchor, many seagulls took flight and headed inland.
In a panic, Nexade grabbed Jeremy and flew up to his nest, hiding the best he could in the leaves. Obviously the other seagulls saw him, both the tree and his nest were very barebones.
They started crowding him, asking questions and talking over eachother getting very loud, which is a lot of stimulation for a bird that's never met another seagull before.
Distress.
This is fine.
I'm not freaking out.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!!" One of the strangergulls screeched, the catastrophe of voices immediately stopping. A gull flew to the front of the crowd, his spiffy tie flapping in the wind. Landing, Nexade could see it had writing on it. To bad Nexade can't read.
"Hello island seagull, my name is Ren, the lore seagull," He puffed out his chest feathers, bringing more attention to her tie,
that Nexade still couldn't read, because he is not an educated seagull. "Would you like to come back to our nest raft with us? Your all alone."
Ren hops in place, looking expectantly at Nexade. "Can I bring Jeremy?" He asks, gently holding up the rock.
"Fr," Ren agreed. "Just follow me, and anyone else who's coming back to the raft, stay a bit behind, give him some flight room."
After noises of affirmation were heard from the others, Ren took off, Nexade following close behind, and everyone else behind or flying to other parts of the island.
Back on the raft, the other seagulls landed in their own areas, dispersing into the group, while Ren led Nexade behind him.
"I'll take you to Ocean, she's pretty much our leader, she does all he healing stuff, and that's super important here. Tons of us get hurt for various reasons, so she's always busy," She led Nexade into a nest on the ground near the middle, it was the largest, enough to fit 8 seagulls, with a leaf roof and door, letting in gentle, green light.
Nexade freezes behind Ren, wide eyed at the scene before him. A seagull wearing a deep purple cloak was chanting over another seagull in a mini-nest. They were partially robot, with dead green patches on the fleshy bit of their body. Black mist was swirling around them, coming out of the chanting seagull's staff.
The cloaked seagull stopped their chanting, causing the robo seagull to wake up with a gasp, flapping their wings all around.
"OH MY ZANE! OCEAN THANK YOU SO MUCH IM SO SORRY I'LL STOP DYING!"
While Ocean is reassuring the robo bird, Ren motions towards the other seagulls in the nest. "That's Ocean, with the staff and sparkly cloak, as i said, they're our medic and I didn't mention the necromancy but he does that to," It points to the robo zombie, "That's Typo, Typo has died many times resulting in the look Typo's got going on," It points to a third seagull that Nexade previously hadn't noticed. They wore a cloak similar to Ocean's, only with the sparkles coming off ass white instead of black. Their wing seemed to be sitting at an odd angle. "And that," Ren said, continuing, "is Lilac, Oceans apprentice. Their wing doesn't work right, so they usually stay on the raft,"
Lilac waved pleasantly, ignoring the chaos of Typo and Ocean. Lilac stood up, pattering her way over to the seagulls by the door.
“Good morning Ren! Who’s this with you?”
Ren and Lilac looked expectantly at Nexade.
“Um, my name is Nexade, I was on the island but now I’m here and everything is a lot,” He introduced himself, ruffling his wings awkwardly.
“I’m sure it is, you were on a little island alone right?”
Nexade nodded.
“well, how about you stay here for the rest of the day to get yourself together, I’ll tell the others about you and get Ocean and Typo to quiet down,” Lilac offered, leading Nexade to another mini-nest near the back. Grateful, Nexade sat down, telling himself he’d get more acquainted with the other gulls and make himself a place to stay tomorrow.