Carja tilted her head and cooed, tail flicking back and forth, ”Oh wow... you and Attikias together could make so many cool things! Maybe you could update my saddle with metal rings to tie the straps with... but I'd love that.”

She flopped her head down, happy to be used to lean on, staring out into the jungle, watching the rain fall.

”I can fly you there,” she offered, ”It'll be quicker. But after the rain stops because I don't want to fly soaking wet.”

She loved flying in the rain but it got uncomfortable after a while with the added weight of water and a soaking wet saddle chafing her scales. She much preferred short flights in storms by herself, and even if they did head out now, Talys would have to defend himself against the wind and the rain.

Not ideal.

@Talys

He grinned. "I'd be happy to try it. I guess I should pick up the pace, huh?" Talys kept wringing his hair out. "I'll probably dry myself out once I get back to Leo and then start looking around for my scraps. Take 'em down to the Blacksmith, see if he'll teach me how to work it. If not, I guess I can just figure it out. Can't be too complicated, to be honest. Melt the metal and make it into shapes, right?"

He'd already found that some scraps of what looked like metal that could be warped or outright melted in fires; it wasn't too crazy of an assumption to think that he could manage in other ways. Talys stretched. "I need to figure out a comb for my hair. It tangles so badly that I can barely stand it, and all kinds of stuff gets stuck in there -- I need a way to put it in, like, braids or something." At the moment, it was a somewhat helpless mess of an afro, unaided by combs, product, or anything else to that could've lessened the impact of the weather upon it. He'd figure it out, though -- he always did.

"Anyway, keen to wait out the storm?"


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@carja

Carja bumped his shoulder gently and laughed merrily, ”I look forward to seeing what you make! I look forward to it.”

She stared out at the rain, the two of them safe and sound under the tarp and in her nest, her lips drawn back in a human-like smile.

”Yeah. It's always better to watch the rain with a friend,” she said, and lay down to doze.

@Talys
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