I'm on the outside looking through

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I can see through you, see your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly, you're ugly like me

Some children are incredibly foolish. Sickle does not fall under that category, she is a suspicious and untrusting child and he can relate, being a suspicious and untrusting man himself. Her birds departure is noticed by all of them but he keeps his eyes on her, unbothered and remarkably patient as she blurs before him into a variety of shapes in her distress. When she steps away and finally lands into the body of the small blue dragon, he simply smiles and runs his gaze across her scales with familiarity as he recalls a black and gold dragon gliding across a blood-red sky.

His own scales shimmer and a few more find a place along his star imprinted chest as he regards the reptile. The two adults beside him are silent but he doesn’t need magic to feel the Lord’s disapproval or know what’s lurking in Aela’s mind. Personally his thoughts run the same as Wherewolf’s and he wouldn’t disagree with the logic there. Gale could easily destroy them all but to think that there would be anywhere to run, that there would ever be anywhere safe to hide from the cursed thing in Hyaline, was an even more foolish thought. They had been doomed the moment Gale had sliced open Aela’s chest and sampled her flesh like an hors d’oeuvre. It didn’t matter if they returned Sickle or not at the end of the day. He had known that the moment Gale had opened his mouth.

As long as the indigo stallion lived and breathed, there was no such thing as safety.

Better to take a chance then roll over with an exposed belly. 
Better to take a stance on the board of this "long game" they were all playing.

And perhaps this child was their chance. There had to be a reason that Hyaline hadn’t collected her themselves. There was a reason the child was in Tephra to begin with. This girl that collects all the colors of the flowers and scatters them across her scales. What else could this changeling child do?

She asks about her brother again and there is a flicker of irritation but he drives it down, choosing to simply shrug instead. “I don’t know.” He responds honestly. “I did not see him when your father asked me to find you.” He thinks that’s a good enough response for both questions and he’s sure he has her curiosity now. “Do you want to be found Sickle?” His voice is still smooth and quiet as he looks down at her with his glittering stare. "Do you want to go back to your father?"

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@Aela @Sickle @Wherewolf