The shrill scream becomes a laugh, and at the laugh Malik frowns.
He knows that laugh.
It has been a long time since he had heard it, but he knows it. He recognizes the sound, the voice, the face of the blazing phoenix as it soars overhead, pawing at his bright shield. That shield grows dim as he turns, and his smile does the opposite.
There’d been no word of Vital since the sinking of Hyaline. Malik had tallied his friend among the dead, knowing that a thousand leagues of magic sea might be the only thing capable of quenching phoenix flame. To see him here, very much alive?
His heart warms, as if the fires of the burning creature had reached inside his very chest.
“I thought you were dead!” He replies, shaking his head with happy incredulity.
The night that stretches beyond them is as dark as it had been earlier. It seems smaller, somehow, and Malik spares it only a glance before looking back at @Vital.
He knows that laugh.
It has been a long time since he had heard it, but he knows it. He recognizes the sound, the voice, the face of the blazing phoenix as it soars overhead, pawing at his bright shield. That shield grows dim as he turns, and his smile does the opposite.
There’d been no word of Vital since the sinking of Hyaline. Malik had tallied his friend among the dead, knowing that a thousand leagues of magic sea might be the only thing capable of quenching phoenix flame. To see him here, very much alive?
His heart warms, as if the fires of the burning creature had reached inside his very chest.
“I thought you were dead!” He replies, shaking his head with happy incredulity.
The night that stretches beyond them is as dark as it had been earlier. It seems smaller, somehow, and Malik spares it only a glance before looking back at @Vital.