Beyza is also curious about what happens when she is touched like this so she does not move - and the softest of laughs escapes her when his nose moves through her cheek. There is just the smallest of sensations, similar to when a feather brushes her side when she decorates herself with wings, and it tickles just ever so slightly.
His question is carefully considered and Beyza pauses for a moment while she ‘checks in’ with the rest of her cells. “Something like sleep, it moves when I do here, but is essentially dormant back in Pangea. Like a shadow, just far away.” She does not fear for her other-self, not in that place. There are far too many that she loves there, and a few more that would look out for her anyway. She has not guessed that the armoured creatures that stalk and guard the kingdom are also her kin - that she is sister and aunt to the eldest of the pair.
Beyza does feel a small flush of pride at the encouraging words from Ghaul - they’re similar to those spoke to her by Ana. She does not have enemies beyond death but (for now) that is a worthy enough cause to encourage her to train. She had fought against it once and won by accident, but should those skeletal hands come for her family again, she does not intend to let any one slip away.
She strains her head a little to peer at the nest when he glances back to it - curious since she had never met anyone younger than herself - but does not move to investigate and quickly returns her attention to Ghaul so she does not seem rude. “I like that set up.” She muses in her calm, matter-of-fact voice, tilting her head in a manner similar to the way he had regarded her as she considers it. “It seems smart to keep your family somewhere safe.”
Although she is very curious about his children and almost asks about them, Beyza asks something else. Perhaps it is a strange thing to ask, but she has not been discouraged from curiosity before and follows it willingly. “Do you have enemies?” Is there someone other than mountain lions and wolves he wishes to keep his children safe from? If so, she does not find it hard to believe that they would tremble before him and leave his hatchlings alone - he is, to say the least, formidable and she has no trouble imagining him a king.
Which is why she asks, she supposes - if he is heir, and Pangea is her home, does that make his enemies hers?
BEYZA
something borrowed into something new |