[Training] fire and ice

Deimos The tone received caused a narrowing of his eyes – a warning – while she tangled further into the folds of the vines. Without awareness of whatever caused the spark of anger and indignancy, he could feel the bestial wake of his own hostility, rage, and contempt rising in his chest. She’d asked him for assistance, for guidance, for instruction, and while he’d withstood several recent occasions in the volley of another’s wrath and belligerence, it was beginning to wear down the lines of his own composure. How many others’ tempestuous eaves did he have to stand within? How many times did he have to be the rock, the monolith, the tower, while everyone else growled and barked? Absorbing their ash, their cinders, their dust and disarray? A mask of stoic indifference shifted, the piercing, penetrating weight of his stare offering the only caution sign she’d be granted – jaw feathering, tightening, arms folding across his chest. He watched in absolute silence while she finally conquered the vines, the flames flowing once more, the vengeance conspiring, lending, blending into the fallen greenery. They twisted and turned, stung and withered, decayed and dismayed, until they were only burnt edges, and receded back into the void – decimated and gone. Then more sour notes headed his way, and he stood in the wake of her hardened gaze with his own. There was certainly more to be done, and her tenacity was something to be guided, but there were other factors at work simultaneously, and he wouldn’t be proceeding any further without addressing the blatant alterations in demeanors. “Take a break.” Zuriel snorted from her claimed grazing spot, and while he ignored the unicorn, the mare pinned her ears in Aurelia’s direction. He tilted his head, but didn’t give way on his prowess, on his potential for ruin and demolition, settling and setting a boundary before they proceeded. “I do not deserve your temper.” His spine drew straighter, taller, rigid, unyielding, every inch a blade. “What is the issue?” Out of sight and out of mind Make everything alright So let the sky and sea collide Just not in our lifetime