I am magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment
Seren nodded, suppressing a grateful smile for now, and turned her own eyes to the dragon as well. With three pair of stares directed at him, Umbra twisted and huffed smoke where he stood, looking rather trapped for all his majestic wings.
Refraining from more mental nudges, the girl merely let him stew in indecision for a while. Until, finally, something snicked into place within the hatchlings mind. He padded up to face the woman and her gourd, and spread the membraned wings wide, while simultaneously dipping the nead, neck and forelegs down in a bow that was almost courtly in its elegance. A low, mournful sound emanated from his throat, and rather than stare back the Blue closed his eyes.
Then - in a move that frankly astonished Seren - the proud, fierce young dragon toppled over and twisted until he was on his back. Baring stomach and throat to the girl, the most vulnerable parts of his armored bodice - as if inviting another blow from that staff.
Refraining from more mental nudges, the girl merely let him stew in indecision for a while. Until, finally, something snicked into place within the hatchlings mind. He padded up to face the woman and her gourd, and spread the membraned wings wide, while simultaneously dipping the nead, neck and forelegs down in a bow that was almost courtly in its elegance. A low, mournful sound emanated from his throat, and rather than stare back the Blue closed his eyes.
Then - in a move that frankly astonished Seren - the proud, fierce young dragon toppled over and twisted until he was on his back. Baring stomach and throat to the girl, the most vulnerable parts of his armored bodice - as if inviting another blow from that staff.
Seren
