#01. sageospirit

[flockrest]

♡ / @sageospirit

     There's a whole lotta things about Master Mineru that Tulin still can't wrap his head around. Both in the wow, that sounds UNBELIEVABLY COOL sense and the wow, that kinda means nothing to me sense — but he can at least appreciate how welcome she makes his curiosity feel an equal lotta the time!

     It's a bit funny, really. With how much it's like she's holding her words close to herself, carefully picked and carefully shared, and the way some of those words sound — maybe it's just 'cause she's really, really old, but each of her answers to the questions she's willing to tend to is like she's an elder telling him a story from the Songs, and he's gone back to being a chick who fervently believed every line.

     "—You can fly?" Awed wonder clings and lingers here, too: so much so that he rocks forward from where he's perched upon her shoulder, practically looming over her head. He pats at that Zonai-construct head and shoulder with incredulous, playful wings. "This can fly?"

     Some distant part of him squawks over how, y'know, not very polite he's being right now, and hopes Master Mineru won't make him get down from where he's probably making a feathery mess of her super cool body. All the other parts of him are too busy thinking things like no way and no WAY and MAGIC?? to care.

     That last thought in particular has him trapped in trembling excitement — a delight he eagerly crows to the skies as he laughs and tries to imagine what this feat would look like. "You've gotta show me!"