Ouroboros Spine because chaos is all they know

the homesick kivaluk peers up at his name; feeling a soft swell of surprise that in his wave of melancholy he'd missed stratos' firekissed form. a slow blink is given and a jovial wag of his tail in greeting as the other boy comes up to him.

for the moment — and the sake of his host — he pushes aside the heavy feeling of longing for home.

hiya stratos! kivaluk chirrups though even he can hear the lack of his whole heart in the greeting. a soft noise is given, hoping that the other boy doesn't notice. okay — kivaluk says though he senses ( without perhaps fully understanding it as such ) that it was a rhetorical suggestion and he was going to hear his bardling cousin's song regardless.