[private] consider how to find a place to stand | nashua

[Gale]

Gale this is going to break me clean in two -- this is going to bring me close to you Nashua doesn’t recoil in horror at Gale’s admission of less-than-fatherly feelings, and some of the tension that the brindle stallion holds so firmly softens. Perhaps this is not so terrible an admission as he had thought? Gale is sure that he has been worrying about admitting a great truth to someone close to him, and he’d been wondering if this was it. The brindle stallion rolls his shoulders, but when Nashua begins to speak he returns all of his attention to his more experienced sibling. ‘It changes everything’. Yes. yes, that feels right. But is there something else causing changes? There is a shadow of worry at the back of Gale’s mind, a half memory that is snatched away from him before he can do anything but frown slightly. ‘It’s like you can’t imagine how life was before’ Yes, that feels just as right. Gale can still imagine though, because he is still living a life before the existence of children. The osprey’s warning about the girl had come as a welcome distraction from his own thoughts, and Gale blinks his blue eyes a few times in the bright morning light before looking through the woods to find the girl with a garden. Gale very much enjoys flowers (mostly for eating) and the image of a frost dragon in a garden is a wonderful one, and he smiles. When Nashua mentions being a wild bunch, Gale thinks he must be referring to the dragon, and chuckles appreciatively in a way that will seem as though he gets the joke. He is most definitely sure Nashua is being funny, Gale thinks; that is an expression he had quickly mastered interpreting because he so enjoys seeing humor in others. The brindle stallion has been quiet as the Hersir spoke, but he’s clearly been listening. Afterward, he is quiet for a while as they walk, and then says: “Twins must run in the family. A magician told us that they’d both be shifters.” @[Nashua]