A pulse of magic erupted from the starchild and lightened her weight against the sand. With strides lengthened into floaty, ground-swallowing leaps she quickly caught up to Umbra and caught him just as he tried to jump up after the gourd in the woman's arms.
[say]"No,"[/say] she repeated sternly, embarrassed and disappointed by the unsightly display. The dragon didn't care; he scrabbled and strained in her arms and stretched a long neck as far as he could to sniff at the strange plant-creature. It might have been cute, if not for the claws that gouged red lines in at her arms or the bared fangs, and she only tolerated it for a few moments.
When quiet soothing didn't connect, the raven-haired girl's expression darkened and with a determined set to the mouth she knealt to place Umbra down on the ground, and shifted the focus of her ability. The blue dragon squawked in protest when gravity suddenly pinned him to the sand. No amount of straining would let him escape from there, and his companion would not let go before he began to listen.
[say]"I am so sorry about that,"[/say] Seren said as she looked up on the other person. [say]"He is young and overeager, but that is no excuse for rudeness. It doesn't look like it, but he really mean no harm. Are you two alright?"[/say] With some curiosity she looked over the muttering vegetable, but held back on questions; this had not been the best introduction.
[say]"No,"[/say] she repeated sternly, embarrassed and disappointed by the unsightly display. The dragon didn't care; he scrabbled and strained in her arms and stretched a long neck as far as he could to sniff at the strange plant-creature. It might have been cute, if not for the claws that gouged red lines in at her arms or the bared fangs, and she only tolerated it for a few moments.
When quiet soothing didn't connect, the raven-haired girl's expression darkened and with a determined set to the mouth she knealt to place Umbra down on the ground, and shifted the focus of her ability. The blue dragon squawked in protest when gravity suddenly pinned him to the sand. No amount of straining would let him escape from there, and his companion would not let go before he began to listen.
[say]"I am so sorry about that,"[/say] Seren said as she looked up on the other person. [say]"He is young and overeager, but that is no excuse for rudeness. It doesn't look like it, but he really mean no harm. Are you two alright?"[/say] With some curiosity she looked over the muttering vegetable, but held back on questions; this had not been the best introduction.
