Backstory
Lior was a human once
In his earlier years he used to visit a water garden with his father and sibling, spending many a summer enjoying the wilds and what the area had to offer inside a hut built upon the shore. While here, he and his sibling took to feeding a small wolf pup that had been left alone and was struggling to survive near to where the hut was. They fed the poor creature for a time, but eventually their father found out about the behavior and quickly shut it down- demanding they leave the poor creature alone and let nature do as it will, let it starve, and perhaps even let it be hunted by the humans prowling the perimeter. The two children left the water garden that summer and never saw the pup again- naturally so as it had undergone a Transformation and became an esk, known as Tassi.
Life continued on after that as you might expect, he grew up, completed school, got his heart broken once or twice, and tried to make something of himself...... but things seemed to never quite go they way that Lior planned, and eventually he lost his job, his house, and near everything in his possession- along with himself.
He was left to wander the streets and the road for several years, losing contact with everyone he ever knew and even his won family. Life was lonely and aimless, people would not look at him, few ever spoke to him, and he eventually began to lose faith in anything and found it impossible to find even a shred of happiness. He was left only to wallow in his failures, and memories of happier times that seemed a world away.
He grew frail and malnourished as he lost his way, his feet taking him ever closer to the water garden and lake to which he'd used to visit as a boy with his sibling and his father. Without realizing what he was doing, he'd come here to try and reclaim a bit of the happiness and joy he'd found in this place, yearning for a sensation of which he hadn't felt in much, much too long.
He approached the edge of the water and sat down, losing himself in the gentle lapping of the waves and the soft breeze in this quiet, peaceful place. It brought back all those memories of his youth, the fun he had had in the vegetation around, playing with his sibling, enjoying the water and the buzz of dragonflies- and even memories of that little wolf pup he had once tried to care for. It was a wonderful little respite from all the hardship he had had to endure for so long, to simply be able to sit there and look back on it at all, the world peaceful and calm.... a good way to end a life that had been so hard for so long.
Tassi was there, instantly aware of something intruding his Boundary, but more than the intrusion there seemed something familiar about this human, though Tassi was not quite sure what. It was a little pull, a tug in Tassi's core at the sight of this human.... subconsciously he recognized this frail, weathered, and old person as one of those children that had fed him in his past life, and for it there was a connection between them that Tassi didn't quite understand.
Tassi didn't recognize Lior as that child, not all the way- since Tassi remembers nothing of their passed life- but regardless, there was this strange sense of knowing and familiarity that came when Tassi saw this human, and he couldn't walk away. He got closer, drawn in and almost lost in the sensation- Tassi Transformed the human without consciously knowing it, or intending to. It was something that happened in a moment of suspended feeling and emotion from both Lior and Tassi, recollection and nostalgia, wishes and hopes and wisps of things one remembered all too well, and one couldn't remember at all.
In his earlier years he used to visit a water garden with his father and sibling, spending many a summer enjoying the wilds and what the area had to offer inside a hut built upon the shore. While here, he and his sibling took to feeding a small wolf pup that had been left alone and was struggling to survive near to where the hut was. They fed the poor creature for a time, but eventually their father found out about the behavior and quickly shut it down- demanding they leave the poor creature alone and let nature do as it will, let it starve, and perhaps even let it be hunted by the humans prowling the perimeter. The two children left the water garden that summer and never saw the pup again- naturally so as it had undergone a Transformation and became an esk, known as Tassi.
Life continued on after that as you might expect, he grew up, completed school, got his heart broken once or twice, and tried to make something of himself...... but things seemed to never quite go they way that Lior planned, and eventually he lost his job, his house, and near everything in his possession- along with himself.
He was left to wander the streets and the road for several years, losing contact with everyone he ever knew and even his won family. Life was lonely and aimless, people would not look at him, few ever spoke to him, and he eventually began to lose faith in anything and found it impossible to find even a shred of happiness. He was left only to wallow in his failures, and memories of happier times that seemed a world away.
He grew frail and malnourished as he lost his way, his feet taking him ever closer to the water garden and lake to which he'd used to visit as a boy with his sibling and his father. Without realizing what he was doing, he'd come here to try and reclaim a bit of the happiness and joy he'd found in this place, yearning for a sensation of which he hadn't felt in much, much too long.
He approached the edge of the water and sat down, losing himself in the gentle lapping of the waves and the soft breeze in this quiet, peaceful place. It brought back all those memories of his youth, the fun he had had in the vegetation around, playing with his sibling, enjoying the water and the buzz of dragonflies- and even memories of that little wolf pup he had once tried to care for. It was a wonderful little respite from all the hardship he had had to endure for so long, to simply be able to sit there and look back on it at all, the world peaceful and calm.... a good way to end a life that had been so hard for so long.
Tassi was there, instantly aware of something intruding his Boundary, but more than the intrusion there seemed something familiar about this human, though Tassi was not quite sure what. It was a little pull, a tug in Tassi's core at the sight of this human.... subconsciously he recognized this frail, weathered, and old person as one of those children that had fed him in his past life, and for it there was a connection between them that Tassi didn't quite understand.
Tassi didn't recognize Lior as that child, not all the way- since Tassi remembers nothing of their passed life- but regardless, there was this strange sense of knowing and familiarity that came when Tassi saw this human, and he couldn't walk away. He got closer, drawn in and almost lost in the sensation- Tassi Transformed the human without consciously knowing it, or intending to. It was something that happened in a moment of suspended feeling and emotion from both Lior and Tassi, recollection and nostalgia, wishes and hopes and wisps of things one remembered all too well, and one couldn't remember at all.
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