It's a pleasant day for travel, and Deka's enjoying it - just enough clouds in the sky to cut the early summer heat, a nice breeze, birds singing in the trees, the clop of her draft goat's hooves on the trail, the twittering of her griffon friends as they flit from tree to tree overhead, keeping pace with her cart. She's excited, too: She's on her way to wizard college, but she's decided to check with any wizards she hears of along the way, as well, to see if she can find an apprenticeship, and the people in the last village she passed suggested she try here, at the arboreal mansion she's surely just a few minutes from being able to glimpse through the trees.
a Dusk meets a Nova
firefox
One waits a long moment until he's sure she's gone.
"Don't- I don't wanna- get you in trouble?"
firefox
"-Oh." One is quiet for a moment, starting to melt a little under Phantasm's ministrations. "I- She won't be mad?"
"You aren't eating enough." He punctuates this with a fluff of his head-feathers. "It'll make you sick."
firefox
One is still for a moment, and then one paw, very cautiously and hesitantly feels along Phantasm's back.
It's not bony, like his, but padded out with muscle and a little bit of fat.
"Feels different?"
firefox
"Oh." Prods a little at himself, and how bony he is. "I- didn't know? I- It felt like enough?"