iridian
Iridian understands the way this woman looks around, the way her lantern eyes are wide and searching, studying every part of a world that likely makes no sense. But there is nothing Iridian can say that she hasn’t already said, nothing that will further soothe this woman’s coiling unease. So she merely waits, watching with soft, quiet eyes until this woman comes to whatever conclusion she must. Iridian has no ability or desire to trap her here, and should she decide to wake, to fight, to pry herself from this place, Iri won’t stop her.
But then she speaks a phrase of gratitude and there is an instant smile on the pale white and chestnut of her mouth. “You’re welcome.” She says, tracing the woman’s gaze back to where they now trace the shape of those giant drooping flowers. “It’s nice to meet you Mazikeen.” She picks the full version of the name, and she isn’t sure why except that it feels like some strange form of butchery to shorten something that feels so beautiful on her tongue. “I suppose you could call me Iri if you wanted.” It is a gentle kind of musing as her mind rejects the concept of Mazikeen’s nickname. “No one else does but I wouldn’t mind.” Maybe it is expected to carve names into something smaller, something that fits more easily on the tongue.
Iridian beams at those next words though, something like the warmth of a shy sunrise reaching across those delicate pink lips. “Thank you.” Because it feels like a compliment more personal than Mazikeen had likely meant it, if only because this world had been crafted entirely by her. “I wasn’t sure what real life is like, so I used some of what my brother told me about and then made it,” a short pause, and she has the sense enough to flash Mazikeen a bashful smile, “well, bigger.”
Her wings lift and stretch behind her, the blue and chestnut feathers like a chorus of whispers in the periphery of her hearing. “Do you want to take a closer look?” Because it seems like a politer thing to ask than 'what were you running from' or 'why were you so frightened'.
@[Mazikeen]