Gale
this is going to break me clean in two --
this is going to bring me close to you
He can feel the change in Bolder, the way the light of the boy’s power is constrained now in a smaller lupine shape. He opens his eyes again to see the copper colored young wolf in front of them.
Gale grins, and every one of his ivory teeth glint in the last bits of the sunlight.
“Well done.” He says, and his lightning eyes flash eyes across the young wolf, finding no part of him unchanged. The first two words had been the truth, and the next are certainly not. “A few more weeks without shifting might’ve harmed your development permanently.”
But it hadn’t, his satisfied nod says. Mazikeen will be agreeing as well, Gale is certain, and a glance at the white wolf beside him inspires his next suggestion.
“Mazikeen and I usually go for a run once it gets a little darker.” The glowing wolf says. He gestures north with his muzzle, toward where the forests keep the deepest snow off the fir thick mountainsides.
Their run usually ends in a hunt, and he does not look at Mazikeen when he suggests it. They usually hunt deer, but perhaps he can persuade her to hunt Bolder tonight instead.
“Why don’t you run around as a wolf for a little while, and if you’re feeling up to it you can join us? I’ll tell your mother where you are, and let her know that they’re all welcome to visit you here.” He does a remarkable job at imitating Gale, but it feels uncomfortable, like something that digs at the edges of tongue whenever he uses his brindle host’s voice.
He doesn’t like it, and he is eager to get away so he does not have to do it again. Perhaps Mazikeen will stay, practice with Bolder for a while or show him Hyaline. But Gale glances once at them both and then takes to the sky.
Teleporting three horses had drained a significant amount of his energy and magic, and the Curse intends to recharge before this potential run with the boy. Even if he doesn’t end up joining them (and Gale’s casual tone and expression have made it clear that it’s an invitation that he’s free to decline) there is always the chance that the boy knows more than he pretends.
Families tend to get desperate when he hunts their bloodline long enough, and the Curse wonders as he soars away from Hyaline if Bolder’s kin might already be sending assassins. The boy is a remarkable actor if they are, he thinks with a dark smile.
@Mazikeen
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current appearance: glowing perlino timberwolf with blue scarring and lightnings -> something with wings that flies away
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