So I stared at the far distant 1912 Model T schoolbus that was approaching the mile long rickety wooden bridge that
connected the mainland to the island this
poor griffin riding academy was located
on.
Though I couldn't read or write ( or do rithmetc for that matter)
my superior griffin vision allowed me to easily
see the metal plate located at
the front
of the human vehicle.
Another anomaly popped
up and I knew the meaningless squiggles
on that metal plate
said "BRTSL 4321" and I 'knew ' that because in my future
grandmother was going to find that
school bus with
'BRSTL 4321" and the ancient bones of human children mixed with it
all long hidden under tons of earth and rock.
If this schoolbus started to cross this bridge someday grandmother
would find it at the bottom,all rusty,broken up
and with dead human children aboard said
my anomaly thought.
So I just sat there with the others
staring at the human vehicle
approach the rickety bridge
when a less anomalous thought hit me
'Bird Brain,what are you just standing here for?Stop the human
vehicle!"
So I leapt into the air and landed in front of the bus
all 24 tonnes of me ( I'm thinking Temeraire sized His Majestys Dragon here)
and shouted in griffinese
"Please stop the bridge will collapse if you cross it
and the human children will become ancient bones for grandmother to dust off
at a archaeological site"
The human bus driver didn't understand
griffinese but
she did understand
24 tonnes of griffin
and slammed on the brakes before she hit me.
Suddenly the earth swayed and behind me
I could hear lots of earth and rock move as the bridge collapsed.
The human driver and her bus of
human children slowly staggered out of the school bus
and stared up at me in
terror and wonder.
"Frail tiny little things we used to be ,eh?" said Riptalon as
she pointed a griffin talon at a little
human girl in
"Edwardian' human clothing"
"Oh,by the goddess" I realized
"I'm naked except for my fur and feathers"
Around me,the other four griffins who had
come to join me
laughed
""Welcome to Serra" said the 4rth griffin