Awakening [Any/All]

[Longclaw]

LONGCLAW

-I close my eyes, ignore the smoke-

“There were others …” She says, and Longclaw can feel the ebb of his irritation as it fades from his mind. Visually he relaxes; it was easy to exhale and slacken after Zephyr decides to speak plainly. That was what he’d asked for, was it not? The flick of her pale eyes towards him rouses a grin, he can easily detect the traces of annoyance on her mauled face. When she laughs, it only serves to further his thoughts on the matter: One, that she belonged here, and Two, that this could mean good news for the return of his long-awaited canary, Marigold.

His little bird had yet to fly home, but if Carnage has seen fit to release Zephyr then it could mean her arrival any day. And, if what Zephyr was insinuating to be true actually was that - true - then who knows how Marigold might have been gifted.

“That wasn’t so hard, was it now?” He smiles broadly, once the pale mare has fallen into silence. “Thank you, Zephyr.”

In an instant, the cage is gone. The bird, the roaring flame - all have vanished without so much as a blink of effort on Longclaw’s part. Only the black, glass ring of sand around them is left to show what he’d created. Tephra herself seems undisturbed, even Molotov seems to have gotten the message.

His job finished, the blue guard of Tephra nods quietly before turning to move away. “Oh, He says rather suddenly, pausing in his exit to turn back with gusto and a wicked smirk, “Welcome home.”

@[Zephyr]