06-06-2017, 06:42 PM
He follows her passively, his blue eyes searching the darkness as the different shadows begin to make sense to him, slowly forming shapes before him. Suddenly, just as her tail flicks playfully before him again and he is about to nip lightly at the onyx of her hip instead, light appears. It is soft and glowing, lighting their path until they were near on top of it, then disappearing and relighting itself before them again. Immediately Warrick’s ears fall forward, his eyes trained on the floating flames as the light their path, with such intense curiosity, that his pace beside Jinju now quickens. His head is now at her shoulder, then equal to hers, then further ahead. He reaches his muzzle out without much thinking (obviously) but just as his lips were about to touch the flame, it would go out and tease him a few lengths away. He laughs, his voice deep and reverberating against the tall solid trees that surround them. “That’s you?” He asks, though he already knows the answer. “Brilliant.” His voice is almost breathless.
Warrick waits only a second, his eyes watching the next floating flame admirably, so that may fall into step beside her. He was becoming more confident as they make their way through the deep forest, never doubting his guide. She teases him for coming into the darkness of night to see Taiga. Perhaps it had been his fault, not considering the travel time from Tephra to the forest. Whatever the reason, he is glad that he is here, especially in the darkness, with the curious girl with flaming eyes to match the flames that float quietly above their heads. He returns her laugh with his own, chuckling almost embarrassedly, though he wasn’t really. “If I had come during the day, would the chances of you greeting me have been lowered? Surely there’s no one else in Taiga that I’d be interested in meeting.”
His crystal blue eyes fall to her as his grin spreads across his indigo lips. Though he was in a foreign world, he felt like a welcomed guest among the dark and silent trees of Taiga. He watches her for a moment as they walk, then his eyes flicker to the soft crackling of the lights that float in the distance. He narrows his lids for a moment in thought. “You know,” he says thoughtfully, “if you came to Tephra at night, you most likely wouldn’t need to light your own way. The lava does it for you.”
Blue eyes peer out from beneath a mess of tangled and black forelock, curiously watching her for a reaction.
Warrick waits only a second, his eyes watching the next floating flame admirably, so that may fall into step beside her. He was becoming more confident as they make their way through the deep forest, never doubting his guide. She teases him for coming into the darkness of night to see Taiga. Perhaps it had been his fault, not considering the travel time from Tephra to the forest. Whatever the reason, he is glad that he is here, especially in the darkness, with the curious girl with flaming eyes to match the flames that float quietly above their heads. He returns her laugh with his own, chuckling almost embarrassedly, though he wasn’t really. “If I had come during the day, would the chances of you greeting me have been lowered? Surely there’s no one else in Taiga that I’d be interested in meeting.”
His crystal blue eyes fall to her as his grin spreads across his indigo lips. Though he was in a foreign world, he felt like a welcomed guest among the dark and silent trees of Taiga. He watches her for a moment as they walk, then his eyes flicker to the soft crackling of the lights that float in the distance. He narrows his lids for a moment in thought. “You know,” he says thoughtfully, “if you came to Tephra at night, you most likely wouldn’t need to light your own way. The lava does it for you.”
Blue eyes peer out from beneath a mess of tangled and black forelock, curiously watching her for a reaction.
like the sun,
swallowed up by the earth
warrick