The night was quickly deepening, alarmingly faster than any other night he had experienced in his life, causing his deep blue eyes to look up towards the sky and a concerned frown pulled at his dark lips. The moon was full and appeared larger than normal and for some reason seemed brighter and more ethereal. The stars also seemed to stretched out across the sky as if they were racing past with the accelerated night. The man shook his head and began to wonder if he had inhaled some sort of poisonous gas in the air when the sound of fast approaching paws caught his attention and made him bristle.
His dark face swung towards the sound but any flash of fangs or rumbling growl stopped short as he saw the concern on the female's face and her words of warning floated in the air. Drachen glanced back down to the glowing plant beside his black paw that he had been careful not to touch before then back to the woman. "I agree with you." He replied, his voice almost hushed as if he did not want to wake a slumbering beast but still held a confident air. "I have been to this oasis before and this plants did not glow like this then. I was going to investigate closer to pool to see if the water had been changed as well. Careful not to touch them, of course." He continued, his oceanic blue eyes traveled back to the large pool at the center of the oasis, confirming from here that the water was indeed now glowing with what seemed like a light of its own. His body relaxed and the black fur at the top of his muscular shoulder flattened once again when the female gave a friendly wag of her neatly bowed tail.
Drachen looked back at the woman and observed her features closer, traveling from her antlers to her silvery pelt that seemed to shimmer like a precious metal, then to the bag that her companions took off her shoulder, then back to her silvery eyes. She was a stunning creature and he would have believed she was some sort of apparition had he not already met Aurielle who glowed like the moon and her son who glowed like embers every time the boy moved. Politely, Drachen moved his eyes to her companion and gave then a nod of greeting before looking back at the woman who he assumed was a healer based on her bag and her comment about the glowing plants. "Do you know what would have caused these plants to glow like this?" he asked her, his tone still soft spoken but friendly as he took a closer look at what appeared to be a normal patch of grass surrounded by moonlight.
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think
Drachen has a female Red-Tailed Hawk companion named Enzi that is always with him unless otherwise stated
