[private] A certain darkness is needed to see the stars [Gale]

[Gale]

Gale this is going to break me clean in two -- this is going to bring me close to you Gale’s earlier reminder to himself to be more cautious results in a wide and playful grin when she bites back about his presence in Hyaline. He might have pushed back harder, his well-muscled shoulder against hers, but he also sees the way she falls still at the mention of the monster in the lake, and realizes what he had said. “She’s a kelpie.” Gale adds swiftly. “Not a siren.” He doesn’t want to have ruined her trip to Hyaline so quickly in a moment, so he steps forward to reassure her, simultaneously showing her what he has Seen of the creature in the lake. A white mare with teal along her topline and a pair of glittering wings; seeming not at all a creature of nightmares. Gale has always assumed that because Sabal was Mazikeen’s friend that the tales of kelpies and their unending bloodlust must be false. Ciri will be as safe beside the water as she is up here on the mountain. “I’ll even go in first,” he adds as he pulls away again, and there is a playful sparkle in his eye again, as if the worry of a moment ago has just been forgotten. “Or!” he exclaims, having found another idea, “You ever seen baby rock sheep before? They are very cute.” Gale had thought he’d seen a cloud sheep with them in the fall, and he is curious if it had made it through the cold mountain winter. @[Ciri]