03-07-2022, 09:19 PM
Could you help me push aside all that I have left behind
The way her bright blue eyes look over him in concern makes his grin turn more lopsided, eager to put her at ease as she moves closer. She reaches for him, her dark muzzle finding his shoulder, and the look on his face is one of awkward uncertainty. He had only ever been touched by his family before. The embraces from his parents, the rough tumbles he would take with his sister when he would hide and surprise her in his bear body. It’s unexpected but not unwanted, he finds. Her voice is soft, soothing in its breathiness, and he is stumbling in his response as he looks at her with increasing warmth glinting in the gold flecks of his dark brown eyes. “N-No. I’m ok. I swear.” His grin loose and stupid, unraveling beneath the attentions of a pretty girl. Wanting nothing more than to chase away whatever guilt she might be feeling. Blissfully unaware that she felt none at all.
It wouldn’t occur to him to be upset with her even if that sliver of pride had managed to work its way through. Magic is a wonderful thing after all. Oh, he knows that there were evil powers that could hurt him and he should be more on guard, Ledger’s faint voice echoing somewhere in his scattered brain. Knowing of them and experiencing them were two separate things. The threat the father had tried to impress on his son lost in the ether when the boy was so clueless. A child that had never felt true physical pain or knew what fear tasted like.
Why should he be afraid of someone with such a beautiful face just because she had broken a branch from a tree?
The pretty stranger seems shy and demure, pulling away from him. Admitting that she had in fact been the cause behind his fall. By accident, of course. He hadn’t thought otherwise. Stargaze. Her name is Stargaze and looking at the winking constellations dappled across her cobalt frame, it fits her like a glove. She glances away from him again and his heart stutters slightly in his chest. Weird. “I’m Link. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” He says politely, exactly as he had been taught by his parents. Diplomacy was a skill that came easily to him, one that he had taken more interest in then he had in the art of war despite the claws he could wield. That was more of Lillibet’s line of interest to the point where she had taken private lessons with their father against his better judgement. Lil didn’t have the magic that flowed through the rest of their family though, the only reason why Ledger had eventually given in to her persistent pestering.
“I think it’s cool by the way.” He says, his tone encouraging and kind. “That you can do that. I can only shift and glow.” He adds with a little laugh. “Is there anything else you can do?”
It wouldn’t occur to him to be upset with her even if that sliver of pride had managed to work its way through. Magic is a wonderful thing after all. Oh, he knows that there were evil powers that could hurt him and he should be more on guard, Ledger’s faint voice echoing somewhere in his scattered brain. Knowing of them and experiencing them were two separate things. The threat the father had tried to impress on his son lost in the ether when the boy was so clueless. A child that had never felt true physical pain or knew what fear tasted like.
Why should he be afraid of someone with such a beautiful face just because she had broken a branch from a tree?
The pretty stranger seems shy and demure, pulling away from him. Admitting that she had in fact been the cause behind his fall. By accident, of course. He hadn’t thought otherwise. Stargaze. Her name is Stargaze and looking at the winking constellations dappled across her cobalt frame, it fits her like a glove. She glances away from him again and his heart stutters slightly in his chest. Weird. “I’m Link. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” He says politely, exactly as he had been taught by his parents. Diplomacy was a skill that came easily to him, one that he had taken more interest in then he had in the art of war despite the claws he could wield. That was more of Lillibet’s line of interest to the point where she had taken private lessons with their father against his better judgement. Lil didn’t have the magic that flowed through the rest of their family though, the only reason why Ledger had eventually given in to her persistent pestering.
“I think it’s cool by the way.” He says, his tone encouraging and kind. “That you can do that. I can only shift and glow.” He adds with a little laugh. “Is there anything else you can do?”
Link
@Stargaze