He's unimpressed and wholly disinterested in the more mundane components of her explanation, though he does follow the mares gesture to the large unidentifiable avian hovering nearby. There's an obvious mysticism to the creature and having lived in Helovia for more than a year now, he knows that the likes of magic and dragons - and just as likely princesses trapped in massive stone towers somewhere - are much more than imagination and children's stories within these borders. The unnatural is more common than the natural here and so he guesses that the bird is nothing overly extraordinary despite its majestic appearance, equating it to a feathered version of the glowy, deer-like companions he's seen here and there. The black and gold asshole has one called 'Duir' and the Basins old Haruspex had had two of them.

"Crystal?" He asks, picking out this one detail as worthy of interest among the rest of the word vomit the mare emits, but an unexpected apology and the suggestion of her leaving quickly follows. The stallions weathered head cocks, watching her emotions, or at least the outward expression of them, change so rapidly from one pole to the other. She comes across as genuine though, so he cocks one hind hoof up on its toe and lazily turns an ear forward to her, as much of an invitation as she's likely to get from his sour old features.

Resting alone in his cave, submerged in the hot springs, or leaning against the smattering of trees in the Aurora Basin makes for dull and lonely days, though to be fair he's spent a great deal of these past few weeks sleeping heavily, letting his body put all of its effort into healing, but now that the mare is landed and planted squarely in front of him he's loath to send her away and return to his solitude so soon. He lifts his muzzle to point at a small charm affixed to a silver chain just peeking out from between the long strands of the mares mane. "Did you make that?" He asks, bringing her back to the subject of his interest while mentally comparing the small floral pendant to the more robust oval disc tucked away in his scarf.



"Alby talks" 'Strom talks'
OOC // So I stalked her profile a bit and saw that she had a crystal rose necklace. I wasn't sure if she wears or not but I hope this is okay? I can change if not. @Sohalia.