Monsters

The pallid youngster watched with unabashed delight as the other boy let another tendril of drool drip from between his teeth and then drop unceremoniously into the dirt. The movement of a paw coming up to wipe away the dampness on his muzzle registered in his peripheral, though the child was more interested in the slow fade of the glow from the little puddle of drool. It reminded him of the time he watched one of the crystals be knocked free from his mama's face, and slowly lose its light until it was no more than a translucent stone on the floor of the den. Weird!

It was not entirely unexpected for Veigar to be happy to see the sun come back, though it was definitely not a point in the boy's favour. It was the "mostly" part of his statement that caught Viscera's attention, and he tipped his head curiously to one side as he scrutinized the glowing boy. When he didn't elaborate on it, the frown deepened for a fraction of a second before his features slackened and were complacent again. The awkward silence didn't really bother him, even as it stretched on for a moment or seven. His siblings were kind of terrible at communication, he just assumed that was par for the course of holding conversation at this point. He blinked curiously at Veigar as he mentioned his own difficulties seeing as well, curiosity renewed. This was his new best friend, no way around it. They were both kind of blind! When Veigar mentioned the details of his own difficulties with seeing, the slate dappled youth hummed thoughtfully.

"Kinda?" he offered, rather unhelpfully. He frowned at his paws for a moment trying to remember how it had been explained to him. "Mom says that it's because one of my eyes is pink like this," one sharp taloned paw lifted towards his left cheek, and an obsidian dark claw alighted on the thin fur just below his cherry red optic. "it means it can't handle the daylight, so when it's bright out I only see like.. really dark shadows, and super vague blobs. At night the light isn't so bright, and it works just fine. I didn't even know about that until the sun came back, it was so weird." he explained, brows furrowed with the kind of intensity that could only be offered by a child who was very intent on explaining something he'd just learned, and was proud of knowing. He dropped his oversized forepaw back to the terra, and shrugged lightly. "My black eye is fine though, so I usually just turn my head a lot to see what's going on if I go outside when it's light out." the child offered up as an absent addition to his big spiel about his weird vision.

When he realized that the older boy was looking at him with a bit more intensity than before, he found himself losing some of his usual bravado. A lopsided, bashful smile was the best he could muster up to offer the other child. "I don't know if that helps you though, huh?" he said after another awkward silence. Oopsies?

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