Akira, whirlpools, the water, the voice—it all hits him at once and it comes back like a wave from the depths, the coral and seaweed from Adams Island swelling and dragging him back to that moment of tension, of desperation.
It hasn't even been that long. A few weeks, at best? It's been a busy few weeks, training and missions and drills and diplomatic tasks leaving the finer details (really, could an entire dragon be brushed aside as a finer detail?) darker as they sink to the depths, his memory now sun-baked, dusted with coconut, warm with the knowledge that he'd "done well..."
It's reflexive: Hwylryn playfully splashes Cain but memories of Borda Island have him on full alert. The water hits his face and he lunges forward, shoulder colliding with Hwylryn's torso to shove him out of Cain's personal circle. The dragon pops into existence. He still doesn't recognize him.
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Akira, whirlpools, the water, the voice—it all hits him at once and it comes back like a wave from the depths, the coral and seaweed from Adams Island swelling and dragging him back to that moment of tension, of desperation.
It hasn't even been that long. A few weeks, at best? It's been a busy few weeks, training and missions and drills and diplomatic tasks leaving the finer details (really, could an entire dragon be brushed aside as a finer detail?) darker as they sink to the depths, his memory now sun-baked, dusted with coconut, warm with the knowledge that he'd "done well..."
It's reflexive: Hwylryn playfully splashes Cain but memories of Borda Island have him on full alert. The water hits his face and he lunges forward, shoulder colliding with Hwylryn's torso to shove him out of Cain's personal circle. The dragon pops into existence. He still doesn't recognize him.
That's who Owen was fighting, huh? ]
What— How did you get here?!