Tal didn't yelp. Yelping wouldn't have been very brave or dignified and it definitely wasn't cool.
But the courier might have flinched and levitated a few inches off the ground as the low rumble of another voice cut through the twilit shadows of the Celestine. Using some magic known only to men who had started out as very scrawny, underweight boys he managed to turn his entire body one hundred and eighty degrees before coming down again on the balls of his feet facing the demigod.
"I thought this thing was s'posed t'bring me straight t'the Celestine," he whispered, pale eyes showing the fright and tension of his flight travel through the city, though it didn't stop him from shifting closer to Noah for safety in numbers. "It dropped me right outside th'Tower's door!" Where any passing Dahlia might have plucked him up and spirited him away, never to be seen again.
But the courier might have flinched and levitated a few inches off the ground as the low rumble of another voice cut through the twilit shadows of the Celestine. Using some magic known only to men who had started out as very scrawny, underweight boys he managed to turn his entire body one hundred and eighty degrees before coming down again on the balls of his feet facing the demigod.
"I thought this thing was s'posed t'bring me straight t'the Celestine," he whispered, pale eyes showing the fright and tension of his flight travel through the city, though it didn't stop him from shifting closer to Noah for safety in numbers. "It dropped me right outside th'Tower's door!" Where any passing Dahlia might have plucked him up and spirited him away, never to be seen again.
