There weren't many with the patience to get beneath his rough exterior, and Tal didn't know what he'd done to earn the half dozen or so that he'd found in recent years. Sohalia would always be a little special, though. She'd taught him to swim, after all, and probably saved his life with those lessons!
He saw her wince but it was too late to unsay the words. After their last conversation over lanterns he couldn't help but be curious about how things were going, but at her firm end to the topic he nodded, giving her a sheepish grin. "Yeah, sorry. Just... y'can talk to me, if y'need t'let some steam out. But since we're not talkin' about that t'day..." He rose beside her as they got their kites in hand and he checked the wind direction. "How's life with Tarak goin'?" he asked with a grin, glad that his own scaly companion was off hunting blink hares through the flowers beneath the old staircase.
Taking his kite, he tossed it in the air with a whoop and started to run, letting the string spool out behind him as the wind caught the sail and the diamond of paper and light wood rose unsteadily in fits and jerks into the sky.
He saw her wince but it was too late to unsay the words. After their last conversation over lanterns he couldn't help but be curious about how things were going, but at her firm end to the topic he nodded, giving her a sheepish grin. "Yeah, sorry. Just... y'can talk to me, if y'need t'let some steam out. But since we're not talkin' about that t'day..." He rose beside her as they got their kites in hand and he checked the wind direction. "How's life with Tarak goin'?" he asked with a grin, glad that his own scaly companion was off hunting blink hares through the flowers beneath the old staircase.
Taking his kite, he tossed it in the air with a whoop and started to run, letting the string spool out behind him as the wind caught the sail and the diamond of paper and light wood rose unsteadily in fits and jerks into the sky.
