10-03-2021, 05:54 PM
The boy’s bicolored eyes flick back and forth across his mother’s face, reading her emotions with practiced ease. It is safest to know their emotions, Malik had learned early, and neither of his parents were very good at hiding them. She is amused by his tentative suggestion, but the emphasis on allowing a shifter a choice is equally genuine.
Malik nods agreeably. They will be given a choice first, that is right. “And then after, if they make the wrong choice, then we get to make them stay.” The black colt nods to himself as he speaks, knowing that this is the way of things.
Mazikeen laughs at the suggestion of trading away Myrna, and Malik wonders if perhaps she is not worth a dragon shifter. He’s never seen her turn into a dragon, after all, and she is still very small. Maybe when she is older? His mother suggests trading away his father instead, and Malik’s orange and blue eyes watch with eagle-like intensity when she glances away.
He has not asked about his father, but Malik knows he has left Hyaline. Suspects, also, that he is not coming back, but has not yet been bold enough to ask.
When Mazikeen turns back to him, she has done a good job of smoothing the emotions from her face. He can still see the way her orange-again eyes are overbright and glittering, and knows that now is not a good time to ask where Gale has gone. There is no indication of this awareness on his own face, which still wears a smile. A smile that brightens when his mother suggests the caves beside the sea.
“Let’s go!” He says, shifting his weight excitedly from side to side. What shape should he take, he wonders? A leopard? A bear? An eagle? Whatever his mother takes, he decides, surely she knows how to battle a dragon!
@Mazikeen
Malik nods agreeably. They will be given a choice first, that is right. “And then after, if they make the wrong choice, then we get to make them stay.” The black colt nods to himself as he speaks, knowing that this is the way of things.
Mazikeen laughs at the suggestion of trading away Myrna, and Malik wonders if perhaps she is not worth a dragon shifter. He’s never seen her turn into a dragon, after all, and she is still very small. Maybe when she is older? His mother suggests trading away his father instead, and Malik’s orange and blue eyes watch with eagle-like intensity when she glances away.
He has not asked about his father, but Malik knows he has left Hyaline. Suspects, also, that he is not coming back, but has not yet been bold enough to ask.
When Mazikeen turns back to him, she has done a good job of smoothing the emotions from her face. He can still see the way her orange-again eyes are overbright and glittering, and knows that now is not a good time to ask where Gale has gone. There is no indication of this awareness on his own face, which still wears a smile. A smile that brightens when his mother suggests the caves beside the sea.
“Let’s go!” He says, shifting his weight excitedly from side to side. What shape should he take, he wonders? A leopard? A bear? An eagle? Whatever his mother takes, he decides, surely she knows how to battle a dragon!
@Mazikeen