sons, daughters, you've been made not to fade

[onblackwings]

WHO: DRAGONS OH BOY. aka Aurican and Khisanth!
WHERE: SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY
WHEN: tonight
WARNINGS: none
SUMMARY: Those conveniently color coded dragons meet up and do like good and evil tend to: not get along very well.
FORMAT: quicklog

[ She never wants to go to France again. It had taken entirely too long for herself, Parker, and Isaac to get back again, and she's more than had her fill of traveling. Unfortunately she still has to return to her swamp, but... well, she's going to put that off for a few days. She can survive in the City until then.

And first on her list of things to do, while she'd procrastinating on the return flight home, is to revel in the fact that she can finally take her true shape again, without being diverted to the form of a small dog. Man that had been annoying.

So Khisanth is currently a dark shadow perched at the edge of a 10 story building, wings folded to her sides, and simply enjoying the evening. And she'd made sure to find herself a meal outside of the City, so as not to be tempted by the smells of the City's most populous creature. She's really not feeling keen on another confrontation with anyone who might object to her picking off humans for dinner. ]

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[returnsmagic]

Old. I might have gone through a millennia, but I never had a way to tell time when I was young.

[ He spent a thousand years in the grotto without seeing the sun, he really has no idea. ]

And of you?

[onblackwings]

[ A millennia? He doesn't look it. Pteros had been just under a thousand years old, but that was only because the Sleep had granted him more years, and he was feeble and flabby when she first found him.

She's not sure if she should be amazed or skeptical, but she is sure that she won't be answering. She has no idea what her age is, but she knows she's spent no more than six of her years conscious. ]

Look at us. Chatting like old friends. [ There's a toothy grin in place as she says it, and her body takes on a bit more of a comfortably looping curve. ] There's something wrong with this picture, don't you think?

[ She's half honestly asking it, even as it's out in a teasing purr. They are supposed to be at each other's throats, aren't they? ]

[returnsmagic]

I prefer talking over risking setting this land on fire or drenched in acid. We are children of the gods, power is our natural element.

And as I much as I dislike your kind, I don't see a reason to resume any fighting.

[ He replies just as breezily as he gave a pause, then added: ]

Unless you give me one.

[onblackwings]

[ Don't see any reason for fighting? That's an unexpected answer, and it drops her straight back into confused hesitation again. But... but it could be a trick. No one had ever told her if golds were known for scheming or not, but she decides not to trust the answer anyway.

Gods, this is confusing. ]

I've lived here for more than a year. I've learned the best ways to avoid unpleasant situations with the locals and imPorts alike, and those ways don't include burning or melting large parts of the City.

[ This disinterest in fighting may not wholly acted anymore. There's definitely some truth in her words, as she would really like to avoid being locked away again. ]

[returnsmagic]

Very wise.

[ Due to Aurican awful lack of understanding sarcasm, it's hard to tell if he's being genuine or being rather dry with her. ]

Takhisis' philosophies have never been practical.

[ YEP HE WENT THERE. ]

[onblackwings]

[ OH NO HE DIDN'T. Her eyes narrow, and-- what if he's trying to get her to attack first? She wouldn't expect a dragon to be privy to how human laws work around here, or to need to depend on them to settle disputes, but she knows next to nothing about metallics. It could be bait.

So in a second she relaxes, folding her wings calmly into her body. She's not going to fall for that. ]

Takhisis is just as absent from this realm as Paladine is.

[returnsmagic]

[ While it is true that Aurican isn't familiar with the laws of this land, he does now that laws - just laws, anyway - have a process to prune out the scrabbles among the true crimes. He simply has to learn how the law is being processed here. ]

Fortunate as we are that we don't have to be their soldiers.

[ Aurican loves Paladine, but he makes no qualms to the fact while he is a beloved child of Paladine, he is a soldier as well, willing to slay evil wherever he sees.

Wherever he sees. ]

[onblackwings]

[ She can admit that she's not about to start any wars for Takhisis, but she's not about to claim being glad about it. That's just a little too far for her pride to manage. ]

Fortunate for you, maybe. I'd always heard that metallics were a cowardly lot.

[returnsmagic]

If you confuse of being merciful for cowardice, then I'm afraid you have a lot to learn on the true meaning of bravery.

[ But then, she never will understand.

Chromatics never do. ]

[onblackwings]

And if you consider not fighting me an act of mercy, then you have a lot to learn on the nature of Corrozus's descendants. And on the best and brightest of them, in particular. [ Oh yeah, she's humble.

Her wings half unfurl, but she knows better than to use her favorite exit strategy with this one. Leaping straight toward people that she isn't allowed to kill to make them cringe and duck, only to fly harmlessly overhead, may work well in most cases, but she'd really rather not get a faceful of fire for her efforts. ]

We'll meet again, gold.

[ She's leaping into the air with that, spiking about sharply to wing in the opposite direction. ]

[returnsmagic]

[ Aurican cannot help himself but smile humoringly at her boasting, mainly because it is so draconic and true to their kind - all dragons, including himself, feel that way to themselves. ]

We shall.

[ He watched her fly away into the darkening sky, her scales blending her into the emerging night. As soon as he can tell she is not going to swoop back ot teleport back for a fight, Aurican leaps and climbs into the air, his scales gleaming by the City's lights like a piece of a sun has fallen from the sky. ]