I'm gonna take what comes my way
"You look about as saddle-sore as I feel. Does everything hurt, or is it just my turn to be dramatic?" he said, cracking a kind of smile that came from muscles still aching and sleep that hadn’t quite finished its work. The luxere watched from their enclosure, antlers casting soft light, unbothered and familiar. Their calm settled something in his chest.
Marcus sat and worked his boots free, wincing as stiff fingers fumbled with laces. "If Safrin wants us to do this properly, I think she’d forgive us for not doing it in the cold. Plus, Evie told me once that magic was just energy transfering from one place to another. So maybe we can maximize it by being really in the water." Marcus hesitated before pulling his socks off. "What do you think?" He asked, shrugging his pack frrom his shoulders as he waited for the Raeling's response.
Marcus sat and worked his boots free, wincing as stiff fingers fumbled with laces. "If Safrin wants us to do this properly, I think she’d forgive us for not doing it in the cold. Plus, Evie told me once that magic was just energy transfering from one place to another. So maybe we can maximize it by being really in the water." Marcus hesitated before pulling his socks off. "What do you think?" He asked, shrugging his pack frrom his shoulders as he waited for the Raeling's response.
Marcus
