( He answers simply. And if that call does not come, then that will be that.
But it is not death. It is not a goodbye. And so long as things do not end between them through the full severance of G'raha's life - in a way Hwylryn can see, mind - then he will flow onward, just as he had said, thinking that they may meet again one day, for better or worse.
Because, so long as they both remain alive, there will always be a chance.
To this final statement, Hwylryn takes a moment before he answers: )
It has been only a month. ( That they remember, at least, but. ) In my long life— to you... perhaps that is only about ten minutes of your time. I am learning. I have not learned well. I will need time. And it will not be easy.
( He crosses his arms one over another in a strange line, a little X, a little ways back. It's unclear what emotion this expresses, if any at all. )
Perhaps I can understand why your peoples have been warring with the dragons of your home, if this is how it goes. ( Maybe not down to the minutiae, but. ) It must be frustrating for mortals to think they've wasted their time, and dragons to feel as if they've just begun.
( And so G'raha has now experienced this first-hand. He will thus circle back to their first conversation, which had been largely theory - and can now be re-examined in practice: )
Do you think it is better off, then, if they never speak to one another? That, perhaps... the work is agonizing, and the fruit not worth the labor?
no subject
( He answers simply. And if that call does not come, then that will be that.
But it is not death. It is not a goodbye. And so long as things do not end between them through the full severance of G'raha's life - in a way Hwylryn can see, mind - then he will flow onward, just as he had said, thinking that they may meet again one day, for better or worse.
Because, so long as they both remain alive, there will always be a chance.
To this final statement, Hwylryn takes a moment before he answers: )
It has been only a month. ( That they remember, at least, but. ) In my long life— to you... perhaps that is only about ten minutes of your time. I am learning. I have not learned well. I will need time. And it will not be easy.
( He crosses his arms one over another in a strange line, a little X, a little ways back. It's unclear what emotion this expresses, if any at all. )
Perhaps I can understand why your peoples have been warring with the dragons of your home, if this is how it goes. ( Maybe not down to the minutiae, but. ) It must be frustrating for mortals to think they've wasted their time, and dragons to feel as if they've just begun.
( And so G'raha has now experienced this first-hand. He will thus circle back to their first conversation, which had been largely theory - and can now be re-examined in practice: )
Do you think it is better off, then, if they never speak to one another? That, perhaps... the work is agonizing, and the fruit not worth the labor?