Jigano shook his horned head a second time to finish knocking the headband askew, letting it catch on the tip of a curled horn in its flight to flutter in the breeze. Deimos had managed to free himself as well, he saw, and he took a moment to carefully stretch and assure himself that he hadn't sprained anything in that last unplanned dive into the snowbank, where the ground fell away beneath its layer of icy white and loose powder swallowed a body up rather than supporting it like the denser hardpack on the crown of the little hillock.
Overwhelming was a good way to put trying to keep track of all the sounds and scents that had surrounded them. That trick with the animals was a good one, he agreed, rueful amusement in his inflection. I couldn't pinpoint you amid all that noise at all. The General had scored a touch on him with that, though he couldn't really be chagrined when it had been so well-earned. Shall we head back to town? We can pick apart what went right - and wrong - and maybe work up some more training ideas for the future, he suggested. Preferably at the bakery over hot tea and scones. A slyly selfish suggestion; his sweet tooth always seemed sharper in the cold months, and the bakery was warm and bright and an excellent place to warm up and dry off.
Overwhelming was a good way to put trying to keep track of all the sounds and scents that had surrounded them. That trick with the animals was a good one, he agreed, rueful amusement in his inflection. I couldn't pinpoint you amid all that noise at all. The General had scored a touch on him with that, though he couldn't really be chagrined when it had been so well-earned. Shall we head back to town? We can pick apart what went right - and wrong - and maybe work up some more training ideas for the future, he suggested. Preferably at the bakery over hot tea and scones. A slyly selfish suggestion; his sweet tooth always seemed sharper in the cold months, and the bakery was warm and bright and an excellent place to warm up and dry off.
