Darude (job/solo)

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It had only been a few minutes since Babi had claimed the life and sustenance of the falcon when he began to sense something dangerous that was weighing in the air quite heavily. His long, forked tongue would dark out of his mouth a few times as if to taste something transparent in the air around him. He could sense that a storm was on its way, a sandstorm in this particular circumstance.

He would need to hurry and find shelter or cover as quickly as he possibly can. He had experienced these storms in the city so it was common knowledge of the kind of danger that they present. He had always had places to hide away from the sharp sand particles and rocks but now he is not so lucky. He was in the middle of the desert and had little time to find a proper solution.

He would start slithering at a quick pace away from the oncoming storm hoping to find some kind of cape or even a small gathering of rocks and stones. Sadly he had no luck in any of these prospects and would have to resort to the more drastic options. One would be to grow to his maximum size, curl up, and toughen it out. This took a great amount of risk to harm from the debris and not to mention the insane wind pressures that will hit his body.

Instead of this direction he would go with an idea that was more or less the exact opposite of the previous one. The winds started to pick up and the sand would beginning to hit his body as the edge of the sandstorm had finally reached him. He would shiver in a manner of speaking as it looks like his whole body quivers as his scales flare up a bit, so that they were all angles upwards slightly giving him more of a spikey appearance The large snake man would then shrink to his smallest possible size before attempting to burrow through the sand. He could burrow through the sand deep enough that he was certain he would be unaffected by the brunt of the storm. He was capable of holding his breath longer than a person and when he would need air he would quickly dart his face up to the surface before slithering back down below.

This would last for the better part of the night which was actually convenient to the snake like creature since the heat absorbed by the sand was proving to be enough to keep him warm through the freezing temperatures of the night. Once he felt the vibrations up above come to a cease he would  surface to find himself in an unfamiliar landscape. This did not alarm Babi however since he was aware of the shifting nature of the desert, he had just never experienced it himself until now.

He would smile grimly at surviving this natural event but knew it was time for him to find a true shelter to live in, something suiting his form and isolated nature.
516/500WC
110/120 stamina

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