Using one of the fallen stone slabs as a makeshift tablet, Maki's tongue lolled out of the side of her mouth as she stuck her paw out and with great focus began to draw with wide and dramatic sweeps. He was very strong, so she made sure to draw bulging muscles, hunky shoulders and a shapely rump. Yes yes good, exactly what she'd imagined. His teeth were very long and sharp, ears thin and narrow, pointed up like someone had clipped them to make him look even more angular, even more blade like. Sabre, what a handsome man. Maki's Mums wouldn't approve, he'd done some bad things in his dark and tragic past. Since the day he'd been born, his life had been nothing but a tragedy...

So dark..so mysterious...

Truthfully, Delphi had been minding her own business. For once, staying within the confines of Heidinn lands to avoid trouble. Which, for someone like Delphi, seemed hard to do. So here she was, wandering the steppe, minding her own business until... Maki came into view.

What was her sister up to?

Delphi instantly changes her course and marches up to her larger sister. Standing in front of the rock as Maki swept paint across it, Delphi tilts her head. "Who the heck is that?" She demands, her eyes moving up from the image to Maki. While she loved her sister... she sure was a weird one. "He your boyfriend or something?" There is a teasing smirk on her lips as she leans in closer to get a good look at mister tragic mystery man.

"Speech"

Maki wagged her tail as she heard Delphi's voice, it was always a good time to have family around except- oh no! She tried to step in front of her stone slab painting, block it from her sister's view, but it was too late. She knew.

"NO!" She flustered, face aghast that her sister had narrowed in on the truth so easily. He totally wasn't her boyfriend, cause as much as she daydreamed and fantasied about stuff she wasn't like crazy or nothing. She could distinguish between reality and fiction, she just much preferred the latter. But totally, if he was real he'd be super-duper smitten with her, and they'd be in love and he would deffo be her boyfriend. For real.

She tried to side step again, cutting off Delphi's line of sight.

"He's nobody. Shoo." A very weak protest, even Maki realised that.

Maki was rightfully larger than Delphi so stepping in front of her had been too easy. Scuffling back a few steps in outright confusion, Delphi turned narrowed eyes up at her sister. The obvious look of fluster and desperation on Maki's face almost made Delphi laugh. What was so secretive that she had to hide it from her? Didn't Maki trust her with her life? With everything?

Falling back on her rump, she continues to stare at Maki, but her expression shifts. Narrowed eyes widen into large doe-eyes that glisten with tears. Her lower lip trembles as her sister tries to shoo her away. "B-but Maaaaaaki," Delphi whines, even lowering her ears and tucking her docked tail under her thigh to appear even smaller and sadder. "He's just sooooo handsome," Delphi leans to look around her sister's leg at the drawing. "I just wanna get a look at him!" She says quickly, her expression morphing once more as she pops up and zips around her sister.

Darting over to the rock, Delphi hovers over the painting with a wide grin and a teasing laugh. "You can't get a real boyfriend, huh? Gotta draw one for yourself?" She peers up at Maki, mischief in her eyes as she continues. "You know, you could just study my boyfriend if you need reference," Delphi teases, more laughter hiding her tones as she looks back down at the... oddly muscularly drawn wolf.

"Speech"

Could Maki get any pinker? Clearly. She spluttered as her attempts to block of Delphi were in vain, her mismatched eyes drinking in the sight even as Maki tried to push her away in a last ditch effort to salvage this mess. Too late. Abandon ship. Set the whole house on fire and move to Mexico.

Maki spluttered, a jolt running down her spine like Delphi had just tasered her. Her words were equally as sharp and painful, the smug grin showing off Delphi's teeth in all their pointy glory. It wasn't that she outright minded people knowing about her stories, it was just it didn't feel good to get this kind of reaction. It was all new and foreign to her, and she was floundering, like she'd been tossed into the deep end and didn't even know how to doggy paddle.

"Delphi stop!" She protested, still doing the silly back and forth dance, trying to cut off her sister as if that would spare her at this point. "S'-s'not funny!" And she tried her hardest to sound stern and serious, but frankly she didn't have that in her. Some people have shiny silver spines and Maki's was a dry noodle, only to get all floppy and limp at the slightest sign of discomfort.

And maybe she didn't know how to interact with boys, did Delphi really have to rub that in? In her imagination she thought she'd get along well with all of her characters. Or at least that's how all of her little scenarios usually went, self-indulgent fantasies she intended to keep to herself.

Her sister's floppy attempts at sounding stern only have Delphi stepping back slightly to shoot her a furrowed brow look. She was only teasing Maki. As if she really cared what her sister did in her spare time. Well, maybe slightly because what the heck? Looking Maki up and down, her brow still very much furrowed, she gave her head a soft shake. "Nah, not gonna stop," she says finally before dancing back around Maki to get another good look at the wolf.

"You gonna answer my question? Who is he? Is he real? Or is he part of your stories?" The questions come like bullets, fast and sharp. Didn't Maki know she could easily get a boy of her own if she just tried? Look at her! All big and pretty and not small and shrimpy like herself! Letting out a huff, Delphi gives up trying to get closer to her sister's drawing and instead sits back on her rump. "You ever think you wanna meet someone like him in real life?" Delphi asks now, big eyes turning up to her sister with a raised brow.

"Speech"

Maki made a face, her expression smushing into a grimace almost. She didn't want to say and had been thinking of a better way to deny it, a more believable way except it was obvious that Delphi knew he wasn't real. So why even deny it? Even Maki thought it was kinda dumb, and most things were worth her while in some form or another, yanno? She didn't confirm but her silence spoke volumes, he was made up. An OC that lived rent-free in her head, not the only one but one of many who she just thought about, wondering how they'd react to this or that scenario.

"I dunno." She admitted with a lame shrug of her shoulders. Maki supposed she'd never thought about it much before, had been happy enough with her little fantasies. It felt fulfilling, like it was enough, but was it? "Maybe. He's kinda cool.."

Delphi really looked at her sister. The lame shrug, the scrunched brow, the almost pathetic look on her face. Was Maki really content to stay wrapped up in her daydreams instead of meeting wolves in real life? What was so much better in her head than what was actually around her? Did her sister not lead an exciting (albeit dangerous) life that she also led? Maybe... if she were a better sister, she could take Maki on some of those adventures.

Letting out a sigh, Delphi reaches forward to pat her sister on the shoulder. "Maki, it's okay," she says with a soft shake of her head. "If ya wanna stay in your head, I won't stop ya," Delphi says, a glint of a smirk on her lips. "I'm tellin' ya though, real life is just as cool," she promises her sister, tilting her chin up to look at Maki with a twinkle in her eyes. What trouble could she really get Maki into?

"Speech"

Maki wrinkled her noise, mismatched ears flicking in thought. Maybe she had isolated herself too much from the world at large, but no one had ever really told her not to, you know? She didn't feel like she was missing out though, since everything was so vivid and poignant in her head, sometimes it was easy to just be swept up in the fantasy of it. When in reality she didn't leave home much at all, didn't know many folks outsider her family. But to be fair it was a big family, stretched all across Boreas all the way to Auster, apparently.

"Easy for you to say," she pointed out, not sounding bitter or accusing Delphi of anything. But it was easy for her, or at least on the outside it looked effortless. She found herself leaning into Delphi's side, taking care not to smoosh her smaller sister. Dad went out and made friends easy-peasy, so why couldn't she? "I'm kinda busy though, I have loads to write down." Or rather, she'd talk at her rat who'd take notes for her, same difference really.