What The Tide Swept In
11-21-2015, 12:39 AM
I'M GUNNA PICK UP THE PIECES
AND BUILD A LEGO HOUSE
›if things go wrong we can knock it down‹
Walk | Talk | Think
What irritation and indignation Gale felt as she heatedly responded to Rudy was very quickly extinguished the second she saw him react. With his jaw dropped, he did not entirely strike her as the frightened, or even concerned, father that she expected him to become over the news, and following the crowing laughter of the cat she realized why. Rudy had no children. For a moment, the windswept wolf felt foolish. Had she really missed the mark in thinking this wolf was Eilan's father? But the signs were all there!
The cat seemed to think she was wrong, but as her grey-green eyes lifted back up to peek at Rudy again she thought he looked less convinced, as if he was considering the plausibility of the claim. Had he...had he not known about the child? But Eilan knew so much about him... It struck Gale as strange, perplexing even, but mostly uncomfortable. Her job had only been to retrieve the kid's father, not break the news to him that he was one.
Feeling awkward, the messenger chewed on the inside of her lip and shifted her weight from one side to the other as she waited and listened to Rudy put the pieces together. Somehow they involved something - or perhaps someone? - called Maeva, and eventually, as if remembering she was there, the brown wolf addressed her again. Her brow furrowed again, and her gaze became uncertain. "Well, I'm...not," Gale explained, feeling somewhat unhelpful, "but he described someone who looked like you. Brown fur, green eyes. He mentioned," - as she motioned toward the cat, she rethought referring to her as such - "your companion. And he knew you were named Rudolph." Which he had responded to, if a bit oddly. "That is your name, right?" Or was Rudy, as the cat had referred to him, short for nothing?
What irritation and indignation Gale felt as she heatedly responded to Rudy was very quickly extinguished the second she saw him react. With his jaw dropped, he did not entirely strike her as the frightened, or even concerned, father that she expected him to become over the news, and following the crowing laughter of the cat she realized why. Rudy had no children. For a moment, the windswept wolf felt foolish. Had she really missed the mark in thinking this wolf was Eilan's father? But the signs were all there!
The cat seemed to think she was wrong, but as her grey-green eyes lifted back up to peek at Rudy again she thought he looked less convinced, as if he was considering the plausibility of the claim. Had he...had he not known about the child? But Eilan knew so much about him... It struck Gale as strange, perplexing even, but mostly uncomfortable. Her job had only been to retrieve the kid's father, not break the news to him that he was one.
Feeling awkward, the messenger chewed on the inside of her lip and shifted her weight from one side to the other as she waited and listened to Rudy put the pieces together. Somehow they involved something - or perhaps someone? - called Maeva, and eventually, as if remembering she was there, the brown wolf addressed her again. Her brow furrowed again, and her gaze became uncertain. "Well, I'm...not," Gale explained, feeling somewhat unhelpful, "but he described someone who looked like you. Brown fur, green eyes. He mentioned," - as she motioned toward the cat, she rethought referring to her as such - "your companion. And he knew you were named Rudolph." Which he had responded to, if a bit oddly. "That is your name, right?" Or was Rudy, as the cat had referred to him, short for nothing?
