Rexanna, Isuma thought, was wonderful. She couldn't say it in so many words, but the jumble of emotions that filled the bond between companions conveyed a sense of approval/delight/joy as she was petted and scratched. Rexanna's laughing admonition earned a chuckle from the bard, and a roguish grin. "Of course you're right, dear ladies," he agreed, placing a dramatic hand to his chest. "I must have been mistaken! Surely it was some other adorable gryphlet who was begging when she wasn't supposed to be!" Isuma might not have understood the words, but she knew her companion was making fun of her and she fluffed her wings and refused to look at him, instead turning her considerable charm on Rexanna with utter shamelessness.
Jigano chuckled again more quietly as he went back to work, considering the next banner they might make and beginning to cut rough pieces accordingly. "I prefer smaller dogs myself," he admitted, but Rexanna's comment on the fox had him smiling, even as Isuma reep!ed agreement with her statement. "The only Attuned I've seen shift is Remi," he said lightly. "But I don't know if he's, ah, typical of the type. Between being an Outlander from a place where shifters are normal and... everything else associated with his shifts. He doesn't seem to mind being petted in his animal form or his human one," he finished wryly. "But perhaps there are some Attuned, just like some humans, who don't like being touched so casually?" Especially not when they were soaking wet, covered in worm-slime, and as far from their best as they could possibly be!
"Everyone's worlds are so different," he murmured when the talk switched to eggs and dragons and gryphons. "Myths on one world are real on others, and vice versa. Gryphons are real on my world, though I never saw one... but the descriptions of them are quite a bit different than Isuma," he added with a fond smile for the gryphlet, who had settled finally into a curled position on Rexanna's lap and purred quietly when she was petted. "They were hybrids of lions and eagles, large enough for an armored man to ride but fiercely intelligent and proud. Isuma is... much, much smaller than what I would have expected," he admitted, though if anything he seemed pleased at her diminutive size that allowed him to cuddle her and let her ride on his shoulder. "And far cuter than the sleek predators I saw illustrated in the bestiaries!"
Jigano chuckled again more quietly as he went back to work, considering the next banner they might make and beginning to cut rough pieces accordingly. "I prefer smaller dogs myself," he admitted, but Rexanna's comment on the fox had him smiling, even as Isuma reep!ed agreement with her statement. "The only Attuned I've seen shift is Remi," he said lightly. "But I don't know if he's, ah, typical of the type. Between being an Outlander from a place where shifters are normal and... everything else associated with his shifts. He doesn't seem to mind being petted in his animal form or his human one," he finished wryly. "But perhaps there are some Attuned, just like some humans, who don't like being touched so casually?" Especially not when they were soaking wet, covered in worm-slime, and as far from their best as they could possibly be!
"Everyone's worlds are so different," he murmured when the talk switched to eggs and dragons and gryphons. "Myths on one world are real on others, and vice versa. Gryphons are real on my world, though I never saw one... but the descriptions of them are quite a bit different than Isuma," he added with a fond smile for the gryphlet, who had settled finally into a curled position on Rexanna's lap and purred quietly when she was petted. "They were hybrids of lions and eagles, large enough for an armored man to ride but fiercely intelligent and proud. Isuma is... much, much smaller than what I would have expected," he admitted, though if anything he seemed pleased at her diminutive size that allowed him to cuddle her and let her ride on his shoulder. "And far cuter than the sleek predators I saw illustrated in the bestiaries!"
