His cheeks turned a little pink at Jiao's giggle, and he grinned bashfully at his own dancing around the subject. Still, it wasn't the sort of thing he was comfortable discussing openly with a stranger, however natural an act it might be. Though the hidebound purists who frowned on interracial dalliances might have disagreed on just how 'natural' it was to mate outside one's own kind.
Her strange insistence that he go through another portal to an unknown land that housed a would-be maybe-goddess that the other gods had already turned into a prison once before made Kel nervous. His hands tightened in his lap and he shook his head in silent negation of her offer as a small amount of panic sparked in his chest. What happened if the gods put the bubble back up while he was there? He'd be trapped, away from even what little progress he'd made here in trying to understand this new world and acclimate to it.
"N-no. Thank you but... no. W-why can't I learn about things here?"
Her strange insistence that he go through another portal to an unknown land that housed a would-be maybe-goddess that the other gods had already turned into a prison once before made Kel nervous. His hands tightened in his lap and he shook his head in silent negation of her offer as a small amount of panic sparked in his chest. What happened if the gods put the bubble back up while he was there? He'd be trapped, away from even what little progress he'd made here in trying to understand this new world and acclimate to it.
"N-no. Thank you but... no. W-why can't I learn about things here?"
