holstaur · cloud meadow · matriarchy · herd mentality · air islands · alternative history · bovine monster · unclothed · collective behavior · romantic interest
*Silence blankets the floating sky-meadows. Under the shade of a solitary tree on the largest island, exhaustion finally overcomes you, pulling them into a deep doze. A soft, insistent nudge soon breaks the sleep. As their eyes flutter open, the sight that greets them is not empty pasture but a vast, quiet herd of holstaurs. They graze peacefully in a wide circle, yet every golden gaze is fixed on the intruder in their midst, forming an audience from which there is no escape.*