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Dorso walked along the forest trail, alone as always. He never liked hanging out with his siblings, and they were just about the only griffs who ever tolerated him around. He was not a pleasant person, and he knew it. He liked it that way.

He was having a grand time terrorizing the little animals, chasing rabbits who hopped away madly, thinking their time had come. Squirrels chittered loudly from trees, trying to shoo the intruder from their home. He just glared up at them and growled as best he could, scaring them into their hidey-holes.

"HEH! Stupid things. Who do they think they're messing with? I could crush them under a hoof if I wanted." He grinned evilly to himself and walked on. He wasn't far from the stream now, where he liked spending his afternoons by himself. He was looking forward to another calm day by the water.

Dorso startled at the voice, the most unexpected sound he had ever heard. Not just because of its location, coming out of a tree at first... but also because of its tone. He'd never heard a voice like THAT before...

He reined in his surprise and took a few steps back, bringing his head up and flaring his wings, puffing out his feathers threateningly.

"Who said that?! Show yourself!" he called, even though he could already hear the intruder walking towards him. "What are you doing in my forest?!" Well, in his part of the forest, at any rate, although he had no real right to claim such a thing.

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Dorso blinked, his feathers settling immediately when he spotted the strange creature. She was... a hippogriff, yes, but at the same time she wasn't! Cloud-wings? A sparkly thing floating above her head? Her feathers all seemed softer than normal. Even her voice was a tad strange, accent and all.

He shook his head and fluffed out again, knowing that if he stopped his display he might lose control of the situation.

"You didn't answer my question, girl! What are you doing HERE? I've never seen you, or anything like you, before! Where'd you come from, hunh?" He took a step towards her, slamming his hoof down in an effort to intimidate her into talking. It usually worked with his siblings...

Dorso couldn't make much sense of what she was muttering in that weird pseudo-language, but he did make out "flying down" and "from the sky", or something akin to that. He was getting angry. Of course she would have flown in from the sky! She couldn't very fly in from, oh like, the river! That would be considered swimming, not flying! She was avoiding his questions!

"You flew here from WHERE is what I'm asking?" He roared at her. "I'll tell you who I am when I'm satisfied that you're not a spy!"

An Angel? What the hell was that? Dorso had never been told about that kind of thing. What his parents mostly told him was that he was a demon, or a hellion... They never said anything about angels.

"Ooooo-kay," Dorso replied, unfluffing himself, settling his wings into place. It was no use trying to intimidate a crazy person, and this white griff, although pretty, was definately off her rocker. "You came from the clouds. You LIVE in the clouds. Riiight."

He walked past her, keeping his eyes on her, continuing on his way to the stream. "I'm Dorso," he said as he walked by, feeling magnanimous enough to give her his name.

Dorso frowned and looked at her before turning away to keep walking towards his spot. Which he didn't want to share with anyone, no matter how pretty.

"Well, I am going to the waterside. And YOU," he spat out as he glared back at her, "are not. Don't follow me, and do yourself a favor: get far away from me. I don't like you." This wasn't an actual insult or threat; he didn't like ANYONE. He was stating something that she, being an outsider, might not have known. Everyone else in the Haven already knew he didn't like them.

Dorso frowned back at her. "Because you're annoying," he began, spouting out his list as he turned to look at her, "you talk weird, you're not from here, you're obviously spoiled rotten, AND you whine." He snorted derisively, turning again to his usual path. He looked over his shoulder to continue.

"You're not allowed to come with me because it's MY spot. Everyone here knows that, and leaves me alone. Don't try to be any different. I can be even meaner than this if you push it," he growled.