Prometheus yelped when Hades shot up into the sky with a powerful leap, and hurried after him, his own powerful hindquarters, combined with his bulky wings, launching him up rapidly enough to catch up to Hades after a few beats of his wings.
Unlike Hades, who seemed to effortlessly glide after catching the thermal currents, Prometheus had to maintain a consistent, heavy pace with his wing beats, his body weight too heavy, and his wingspan too blunt and short, for his wings to carry him even on the shortest of glides. It was why he tended to keep his flights quite short, just long enough for him to scope out a meal and haul it back to his old cave...
Plus, admittedly, he was kinda out of shape. All that gorging and hibernating and gorging again, plus his lazing about on Hades's island after his heat ended... yeah, he wasn't the fittest of dragons at the moment, a fact that he hoped Hades wouldn't notice.
So, after thirty minutes in, Prometheus's breathing started to get visibly... heavy.
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Prometheus yelped when Hades shot up into the sky with a powerful leap, and hurried after him, his own powerful hindquarters, combined with his bulky wings, launching him up rapidly enough to catch up to Hades after a few beats of his wings.
Unlike Hades, who seemed to effortlessly glide after catching the thermal currents, Prometheus had to maintain a consistent, heavy pace with his wing beats, his body weight too heavy, and his wingspan too blunt and short, for his wings to carry him even on the shortest of glides. It was why he tended to keep his flights quite short, just long enough for him to scope out a meal and haul it back to his old cave...
Plus, admittedly, he was kinda out of shape. All that gorging and hibernating and gorging again, plus his lazing about on Hades's island after his heat ended... yeah, he wasn't the fittest of dragons at the moment, a fact that he hoped Hades wouldn't notice.
So, after thirty minutes in, Prometheus's breathing started to get visibly... heavy.