Adelric

The half-child is eager for a response, but he never expects the sort of chaotic half-answer that spurts from the mare’s mouth. It does burn her? He furrows his brow to watch, but perhaps the fire has not yet burned long enough to damage her. Is it strange, then, that the gentle child actually wishes to see the fire begin to affect her? Does that make him a sadist for wishing to see her burn? He does not ponder that question, preferring not to divulge too far into his own confused emotions, soul, head and heart. Instead, he is silently ponders what sort of frilly magic she speaks of, what an upgrade might be, and how he might acquire one. A question for the gods, perhaps. He’s glad she’s given him a moment, though, because the scene suddenly explodes with more winged creatures.

Oh, how he wishes Zunden were here to keep him safe. He shouldn’t have come back on his own.

Tobias, still hidden in the shadows, watches the spotted Pegasus with interested but ultimately decides that she is of no concern to his bonded. She seems to be directing her anger only towards Aurelia. ‘Leave her alone,’ Adelric wants to cry out to Rei, to protect Aurelia for some reason, but a quick check with the deer leaves him as confused as the cervid is. Not that he had time to say it anyway, the leader of his mother’s herd arrives and douses the flames. “Hey!” he calls out angrily to the hovering Czar, though his voice shakes with some amount of fear. He is trying to be like Ophelia has suggested and care less about what the rest of the world thinks of him but it is difficult. “I was studying that!” he adds, though perhaps his voice is lost in all the shouting.

One more comes, one more who ignores his very presence, and he can’t help but feel like an outcast among all of the winged creatures, everyone older and spitting words back and forth. There are clearly politics at play, mention of the Falls and the Edge, of names he doesn’t understand, and he tries to keep up but he can’t keep his mind off the way the fire danced over her body, over the ground, over the bark of the tree. The cerndyr tries to halt the child as he steps forward towards Aurelia, sending him an image of the two of them leaving, but Adelric is determined for the moment. He steps towards Aurelia, not too near, but near enough. “Can you do it again?” The rest have chosen to ignore him, so he ignores them too.

Once he would have been silent because he did not wish to upset them with his voice. Now he has found something that is more important to him, even than being liked.

@[Bellona] @[Rei]