[private] i feel a bad moon rising; wolfbane

[Wolfbane]

- Are you thinking of me when you love him? -

Admittedly it’s been a while since anyone’s invigorated his sense of competition. In his youth he and Gansey often went against one another as brothers are apt to do, and Tephra was almost impeccably perfect for the unlearned Pegasus. Once grown Bane had trekked inland and found a ribald stallion of similar age named Trekori - the Ischian - who’d given him a run for his money.

Ever since then he’s been on his own in the sky; childish games were for children, after all, but the instant Lepis takes off he doesn’t hesitate, copping a jerky rear in retaliation to her buck before diving off over the hanging precipice. They look like a pair of thrill-seekers, plummeting recklessly through hundreds of feet with only whooping laughs. As intent as Wolfbane is on beating his Cleric to an inevitable death, she manages to pull up from the descent without him noticing.

It’s only when he jerks up to coast frighteningly low above the ground that he realizes she’s disappeared. Before he can call out she reads his mind, dipping gracefully from the cover of a heavy cloud to take point, and by then he’s far from hiding the pure elation gleaming on his youthful, handsome face.

“I highly doubt you’re the type of princess that needs rescuing,” Bane replies, a lazy, toothy smile settling over his lips to match the tempo of his wingbeats, “I’ll indulge you anyways. Only because I like you so much.”

Entranced, the drake watches her arcing maneuver with an impressed sort of demeanor, flicking his wings perfectly straight alongside his body to curve up to her left before tucking them close again and barrel-rolling right underneath her blue-barred legs. On the other side he stretches them full again and rights himself, swinging a bit like a pendulum before leveling out.

“I went looking for Wishbone. We grew up inseparable on Tephra; it seemed only right. If I had up and disappeared there’s no doubt in my mind she’d try to follow.” He shrugs, flapping a few more times, “Some things don’t like being found, I guess. Arthas could only assume I wasn’t coming back … until I did.”

For a moment he toys with his invisibility, flickering in and out of transparency, deciding in the end to settle on being whole. It mirrors his inward annoyance at the once-Nerinian Queen, but with a casual glance towards the alluring mare beside him he brushes the emotion away and favors present company above friendships lost. “Talk to me about Hyaline, please.” The floating stallion requests next, “I admire your effort, find humor in the backfire, and have some thoughts about how we could work it into our favor.”

WOLFBANE

@[Lepis] favor returned lol