Willows
05-21-2020, 04:44 AM
She snorted faintly at the strange word, "yurt," but otherwise listened silently. Her ears perked as he added the bit about the Nomads taking it upon themselves to teach freely, and plenty of them taking on a wandering role. That was certainly interesting... and certainly a little more attainable than trying to take lessons half-way across the continent, or the world.
They settled into a comfortable silence, and after a couple of heartbeats, Malalia felt herself getting to that place between sleep in the waking world. She was nodding off, feeling slumber pull at her eyelids... and that simply wouldn't do! She wanted to stay awake, at least for a little while longer. She reached over to gently poke Cairo's forepaw with her own. "Would you... teach me a song?" Had she been a little more awake, she might've been a little embarrassed at her brazen desire to stay up with her new friend, to draw out the night a little longer. But as it was, she didn't care. She was too sleepy, the fire was too warm, the Valhallan's voice too soothing, for her not to ask again.