break some bread for all my sins
Her laughter is contagious and it crinkles Dahmer's eyes with laugh lines. Her willingness to tolerate, even encourage, his banter was something that he did not happen upon often, and he instantly wants to see how far he can push the limits. Ever the instigator, he is.
She feigns disappointment and furthers their game, pleasing the black beast to no end. After a moment, though, he can see where her genuine excitement is cracking through the mask of disappointment, but then she turns swiftly and is off without him. Laughing to himself, the black thoroughbred takes off after the peafowl mare in his own brisk trot.
Dahmer's blue eyes move almost continuously between Lucrezia and the earth beneath them, paying special mind to any other lava streams that decided to run out in front of them. He comes up the mare's left side and settles his gait so that they are moving comfortably side-by-side. The volcano looms before them, their sight of it obscured here and there by Tephra's trees.
"How close have you gotten to the top?"
He makes sure not to ask how long ago it had last erupted.
Their hooves beat dully against the soft earth at the base of the volcano, the slope of the hill just now increasing. A flying organism of some sort attempts to flap its way into one of the stallion's nostrils, making Dahmer toss his head and snort until it removed itself. He grumbles briefly, before flicking his blue eyes to Lucrezia, a grin playing on his lips.
"I'd still rather deal with the flying bugs than the snow."
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