Dragoncrest Cliffs soldier, take your time

Someone with more interest in social patterns might have found the way Étoille was accidentally merging French into the language of Drageda interesting -- between Wildfire and Thur's litter and Ephraim -- but Étoille is not that man. So instead he only offers a little smile at Ephraim's butchering of his greeting, finding it very cute, and glad to hear that he is doing well. His increase in size does not go unnoticed, bringing with it a set of complicated feelings (how quickly children grow). "Keeping watch," he says, indicating with a broad gesture Hougeda around them. 

"Would you like to explore?" Étoille asks, leaning down to affectionately bump his nose against his head. He does not know if the boy has gotten much of a chance to investigate Drageda and is happy to take the afternoon to walk around with him if that's what he desires.