12-11-2021, 11:53 AM
Bolder has been a permanent presence in Myrna’s life, as much an older brother as a cousin. If he trusts this strange dragon, then surely the dragon is trustworthy. He says he’s lived here before too, and surely her mother wouldn’t ever let something dangerous live in Hyaline. Not even way high up here in the mountains.
So she accepts his answer with a nod, and looks up at Bolder. No, she looks down, for he’s become a lizard, and Myrna laughs and lowers her head so he might settle atop her poll. He’d done it so quickly, with a speed that the golden filly envies. Someday she’ll be that fast, she knows, as long as she keeps practicing. He’s just had more time.
Later, she’ll ask him to show her how to be a lizard. The shifting that they share runs in the family, though Myrna has begun to realize that her powers are more like those of her mother than of her brother and cousin. Maybe her abilities come from the other side of the family, from the set of grandparents that she has tried - and failed - to find.
The reminder of that brings a faint frown to the girl’s pale face, and she focuses instead on the question that Bolder asks. She knows only that the mountains are her home, and has never wondered at their history. What had they been before her mother had been here? And Breach?
Will it be a good story?
She hopes so, and resttles her hind end into a feline shape, one that is more suited to sit and listen to what she expects to be a grand tale. Maybe it will involve fire as well as dragons.
@bolder
@Leilan
So she accepts his answer with a nod, and looks up at Bolder. No, she looks down, for he’s become a lizard, and Myrna laughs and lowers her head so he might settle atop her poll. He’d done it so quickly, with a speed that the golden filly envies. Someday she’ll be that fast, she knows, as long as she keeps practicing. He’s just had more time.
Later, she’ll ask him to show her how to be a lizard. The shifting that they share runs in the family, though Myrna has begun to realize that her powers are more like those of her mother than of her brother and cousin. Maybe her abilities come from the other side of the family, from the set of grandparents that she has tried - and failed - to find.
The reminder of that brings a faint frown to the girl’s pale face, and she focuses instead on the question that Bolder asks. She knows only that the mountains are her home, and has never wondered at their history. What had they been before her mother had been here? And Breach?
Will it be a good story?
She hopes so, and resttles her hind end into a feline shape, one that is more suited to sit and listen to what she expects to be a grand tale. Maybe it will involve fire as well as dragons.
@bolder
@Leilan