Hmm. Roma answered more for the heart kind of feeling than the body kind, but that was good information too. It didn’t tell her what it physically felt like to have feathers, and these whole extra limbs that let you fly through the air, but it was still very interesting. So Kali nodded and smiled back at her friend.
“That makes sense. I didn’t know you used to have wings. That was before I was born, huh? Dad told me about that once, about the world changing so much all at once. He said he even wasn’t shiny for a little while, that he was just a normal horse. Or, well, as normal as Dad could ever be. He was still painted just like me and Khari and Kylie, and he was still him. He said he hit on a fairy and she smashed him in the face with his shiny. She hit him so hard he gave five whole other people back their magic just by touching them. Including the dragon who lives on one of Ischia’s smaller islands.”
Maybe she should ask him what wings felt like.
“Did you like being able to change shape? Oh or does talking about that make you sad now when you can’t? We don’t have to, if you don’t want to.” Roma was just looking down at her though, golden eyes calm and steady and knowing like she could see all the way inside Kali’s head like Khari could. “Do you do anything else other than shape-changing?” Probably Kali would’ve seen it by now, if she could read minds some. For maybe the first time, she hoped not. It felt private, the things Khari had said would have to be secret. Like something just for the two of them, and she didn’t want to talk about it.
Instead, she jumped on the sort of subject change. “Hmm. How about you tell me yours, and we’ll see? It’s really not a big deal, and I’d much rather hear what you’re thinking about.”
“That makes sense. I didn’t know you used to have wings. That was before I was born, huh? Dad told me about that once, about the world changing so much all at once. He said he even wasn’t shiny for a little while, that he was just a normal horse. Or, well, as normal as Dad could ever be. He was still painted just like me and Khari and Kylie, and he was still him. He said he hit on a fairy and she smashed him in the face with his shiny. She hit him so hard he gave five whole other people back their magic just by touching them. Including the dragon who lives on one of Ischia’s smaller islands.”
Maybe she should ask him what wings felt like.
“Did you like being able to change shape? Oh or does talking about that make you sad now when you can’t? We don’t have to, if you don’t want to.” Roma was just looking down at her though, golden eyes calm and steady and knowing like she could see all the way inside Kali’s head like Khari could. “Do you do anything else other than shape-changing?” Probably Kali would’ve seen it by now, if she could read minds some. For maybe the first time, she hoped not. It felt private, the things Khari had said would have to be secret. Like something just for the two of them, and she didn’t want to talk about it.
Instead, she jumped on the sort of subject change. “Hmm. How about you tell me yours, and we’ll see? It’s really not a big deal, and I’d much rather hear what you’re thinking about.”
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