Sleeping Dragon Getaway

The child's questions were an effective distraction. Although she wasn't particularly knowledgeable on the subject, Wildfire decided she'd do her best to explain. She idly wondered if Freyja had had the talk with Gyda but doubted it if the Feisripa still seemed in the dark about something like hormones.

"I'm no expert but I think you have hormones all the time. They're part of you, like your blood and bones. But when you're reaching, ah, sexual maturity"—she glanced at Freyja to confirm her suspicions—"then they might go a bit out of whack. Like, they get imbalanced and make you act weird. And I don't think there's much she can do for me," she added in reference to Portia. Wildfire had mentioned the issue to the Skayona but there had been much more pressing medical maladies to address at the time.

"I'll be okay, though," the Bandrona assured Freyja, glad that her eyes had stopped leaking and that her cheeks were drying now.