Swiftcurrent Creek sparking up my heart

Her answer wasn’t what he meant – but he was partially to blame for that, as his words continued to beat around the huge elephant in the room. Still, her report of the once happy family caused him to flinch slightly, his ears sliding back atop his crown. ‘Their stories will be so wonderfully plain.’ Her words at the time had held a sorrowful passion within them – and he recalled his own answer with perfect clarity: ‘Until we manage to ruin them as well.’ Except it had not been the Creek’s doing – instead, it was likely ruin would fall upon Paarthurnax’s puppies, and the crossfire they were about to be born in to.

He did not respond on the Sveijarn family – they hadn’t been particularly fond of him, and he had no place for judgment. Instead, the ivory dove seemed to clue in to what he really meant, and while she stumbled over an answer, he simply cast her a blinking stare before giving one quick sweep of his muzzle in a finalized nod. As he stood before her, he knew it wasn’t the same between them – and it likely never would. Perhaps,. One day, they could settle on friendship instead.

“I do,” he responded, his own tone hushed before his shoulders rolled back in a light shrug to accompany it. “The Creek will always be your home.” But sometimes he wondered if it would be so for him.