#all that dragonstone business and rafal didn't get to use it? i can change that /j

[rafent]

"Nonsense. Do not speak of such efforts lightly. It was by the doing of your lead that I was kept apart from all those I threatened to harm." Rafal's attentive gaze took in the sight of Matthias' exhaustion, a new edge to its appraisal, so possessed of analysis that it didn't waver an inch. Up until the moment that he closed his eyes at least. His mouth curled with a smirk, soundly concluded.

"You led me here for that very reason, did you not?"

Luckily for Matthias, a worthy reason it was at that. For respectable cause alone, he would spare the human before him of aptly dealt punishment. Priceless and sacred his dragonstone was, immense though the crime of pilfering it, the lives continuing onward with neither scratch nor severance were host to equal value. It was not only they who should be thankful to Matthias, but Rafal who was given no further opportunity to sully his hands. How close he had come to another mountain piled atop the tall massif of his sins.

The sobering thought gave rise to his stand. Brushing off his knees, he gave no indication that he'd heard the other at first, his request answered merely - and succinctly - by the sum of more concrete action. As was Rafal's way.

Faceted gem glowed to activation. White to black, from the slight figure of a young pale-haired man emerged the towering serpentine form of his birthright. With a stretch of his neck and leathery magenta wings, the obsidian dragon chuffed with disdain. Humorously equivalent to a human snort by squinted measure.

"You insult me. It is not I who is in need of rest but you. Now clamber on with those little legs and let us be off. Unless you'd prefer the long and scenic walk back?" At least humans and dragons chuckled the same. "Heh. That too can be arranged."

✦ 𝐙𝐎𝐎𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐒 ✧

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