Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32273133-20191009152839/@comment-32460917-20200213072753

It was difficult to follow up what had just happened. It felt like anything he suggested— ''let’s go look at the phoenixes, maybe MJ is around? Oh, could you show me those magic circles again—'' seemed to cheapen into mere distractions. But wasn’t that what he wanted? Clay wouldn’t shrink back inside his head if he had something to do. So after returning the hug as best he could, Calidi used his voice again. “How big do you think this forest is?”

Once she’d finished bobbing her head a couple more times, Choco hopped away. Like her owner, the silence drove her from the couple. There was nothing to blow up at anymore— it was just silence and stillness behind her. It set her feathers on edge (if that were even possible) and she tried not to break the quiet when she bounced off somewhere into the forest.