01-22-2022, 03:45 PM
through the fire and the flames
If only he had known that the young mare before him knew his friend. It would have been a small comfort to know that Lies was alive and ok at the very least. Alas his many talents don’t extend to mind reading and so he can only note those little similarities and acknowledge the thread of worry that winds around his heart when he thinks of her. It eases slightly when the stranger tilts her head and looks at him with a rather teasing grin. One that makes his heart ease from worry into something warmer and confusing. Enough so that the flames along his back rise just as her gaze shifts to them and his soft smile turns into something more loose in his embarrassment and bewilderment.
“I could ask you the same.” He says with more confidence then he truly feels, his strange yellow eyes seeking out her own amber gaze again. Trying to understand what that sensation had been when she had looked at him so playfully. “But since you asked… I was looking for someone.” He doesn’t find her inquisitive nature rude by any means, it makes sense to wonder what someone was doing out here in the darkness by themself. He would have been curious too. In fact he is curious himself to what she was doing out here in the middle of the night and remembers that Pangea was suppose to be a sacred land according to Aela. Touched by the god Carnage who his mother admired so much. For all her high praise she had also warned him to be cautious, that looks could be deceiving in this place.
Was she what she appeared to be? Or perhaps one of those alien horses that Aela had told him bedtime stories about? He's about to throw her own question back at her again when through the haze of their mutual glows he catches the small shiver that runs along her spine and nearly chokes when she turns those gold flecked eyes to him with that question and rather suggestive smile. The flames flickering along his back flare around him like a lions mane as he tries his best to compose himself, swallowing hard as he presses his lips together to keep himself from leering stupidly at her. “I don’t.” He finally says after snapping his fiery tail against his haunches as one might do to pinch themselves. “But if you’re cold…” He pulls from the flames along his back until three small fireballs are freed and sends them to orbit around her. Just close enough to keep her warm but not to scorch her iridescent skin.
“I could ask you the same.” He says with more confidence then he truly feels, his strange yellow eyes seeking out her own amber gaze again. Trying to understand what that sensation had been when she had looked at him so playfully. “But since you asked… I was looking for someone.” He doesn’t find her inquisitive nature rude by any means, it makes sense to wonder what someone was doing out here in the darkness by themself. He would have been curious too. In fact he is curious himself to what she was doing out here in the middle of the night and remembers that Pangea was suppose to be a sacred land according to Aela. Touched by the god Carnage who his mother admired so much. For all her high praise she had also warned him to be cautious, that looks could be deceiving in this place.
Was she what she appeared to be? Or perhaps one of those alien horses that Aela had told him bedtime stories about? He's about to throw her own question back at her again when through the haze of their mutual glows he catches the small shiver that runs along her spine and nearly chokes when she turns those gold flecked eyes to him with that question and rather suggestive smile. The flames flickering along his back flare around him like a lions mane as he tries his best to compose himself, swallowing hard as he presses his lips together to keep himself from leering stupidly at her. “I don’t.” He finally says after snapping his fiery tail against his haunches as one might do to pinch themselves. “But if you’re cold…” He pulls from the flames along his back until three small fireballs are freed and sends them to orbit around her. Just close enough to keep her warm but not to scorch her iridescent skin.
Fyr
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