just rub some dirt on it
zagan
12-15-2024, 11:03 AM
He mulled over what Zagan said. From where Atoll was sitting, they seemed about as different as could be: two sides of a rusted up coin, one dark and one light. He'd never see quills like that, or ears like, or really anything that remotely had looked like Zagan ever in his short life. Perhaps he meant alike in their heritage. His mother was dead, too? Or did he have two moms? Atoll tried to come up with something to say but found nothing. At the very best of times he wasn't good at being in tune with his emotions, much less when a bat-eared stranger was looming over him. Instead, he tilted his head in recognition of Zagan's words and rolled up his piece of moss all the way. Maybe if he focused on everything else around him, that vice grip of cold fear around his heart would loosen.
Atoll glanced over Zagan's shoulder, eyes trailing up the cavernous walls of the deep underground place they'd found themselves in. That eerie blue glow suffused everything, the contrasting color to that sickly red which painted everything else outside. Mushrooms dotted the walls, their caps curling gently. If he stopped to stare at them long enough, he swore it looked like they were breathing. At Zagan's words, how lucky, Atoll refocused his gaze back on the older boy. It struck him that Zagan looked quite at home in this cave, as if he'd crawled out of some dark hole between the stones and moss. An involuntary shiver raced up his spine. From the mouth of a cave he could faintly hear the wind whistling outside, beckoning him home. "Pretty lucky, yeah," he said nonchalantly, eyes darting between Zagan and the exit. "I always land on my paws. I'm a quick thinker," Atoll rambled, always fond of talking himself up when he could.
It was gratifying that he had the Syndicate heir's full attention, and so Atoll returned the gesture, finally pulling his eyes away from the door and gazing up at Zagan in earnest. "An ice worm? Hmm, a fire worm definitely sounds scarier to me... but I don't really like being cold much, so," he muttered, shivering again. "Where did that one crawl up? You're right, I think they have to be connected. Lightning doesn't strike twice in one place and all that..." he said, giving a thoughtful hmmm. "If they traveled over land there would at least be rumors about them by now. Someone would have had to seen one, even if it was a long time ago. But I don't know," he paused to look around, the whites of his eyes gleaming for a moment in the dark, "I mean, regular worms dig through the dirt..." Dirt and rocky scree that they were currently surrounded by.
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