Boreal had, indeed, been having fun in the mud but beneath the heavy muscle and scale was a dainty lady - when she wanted to be. And Ru was also treated as such, the dragon careful not to rub her muddy paws or limbs against the Valkyrie in her happy greeting and receiving of her rightful due of scritches and praise.
Meanwhile, Tal was learning how the word was pronounced and uh. Yeah. He was really glad he hadn't tried to say it the way it'd been spelled in the book at the Guildhall. He turned his scowl outwards towards some of the bone piles around the tree. "I need its shell," he admitted, the words pulled out reluctantly at first. "For a thing Ludo's gonna make me." That whole 'thquithy' thing, and being less so.
But he couldn't help but glance back at her, like poking at a sore tooth, and he wasn't sure whether the softening of her expression helped or made things worse. "I get not stickin' around for Deepfrost," he muttered. Especially since she wasn't native to that cold. "But y'didn't come back afterwards, either." And there was the heart of the matter.
Wait, did that pile of alligator bones over there just shiver?
Meanwhile, Tal was learning how the word was pronounced and uh. Yeah. He was really glad he hadn't tried to say it the way it'd been spelled in the book at the Guildhall. He turned his scowl outwards towards some of the bone piles around the tree. "I need its shell," he admitted, the words pulled out reluctantly at first. "For a thing Ludo's gonna make me." That whole 'thquithy' thing, and being less so.
But he couldn't help but glance back at her, like poking at a sore tooth, and he wasn't sure whether the softening of her expression helped or made things worse. "I get not stickin' around for Deepfrost," he muttered. Especially since she wasn't native to that cold. "But y'didn't come back afterwards, either." And there was the heart of the matter.
Wait, did that pile of alligator bones over there just shiver?
