Post by Zen on Mar 5, 2021 5:32:09 GMT -5
Podrell
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He wasn’t terribly deterred by her refusal, and then pointedly calling him lordling again. “Mm, well… I managed to get you to say it once… I’m sure I can find a way to coax it out of you again.” The suggestive grin that followed would probably give away plenty of indication of just how he planned to do that. In his own mind, so many scenarios, dangerous scenarios he wanted so badly to play out but knew he shouldn’t. They all ended with her begging my Lord eventually. He ran his hand through his hair in some attempt to physically snap himself out of those thoughts. He needed to be calming down not riling himself back up again with thoughts like these. A quick dip in the lake was seeming to be more and more of a necessity. He clearly needed some sort of shock to his system to put a stop to these invasive ideas that kept popping up, unbidden.
He wasn’t quite expecting another bugle from the green, who was apparently quite pleased at his acceptance of her offer to join their game. He all but ignored Siorreya’s sarcastic comeback. It was such a weak thing it was hardly worth acknowledgement. Was she losing momentum? It would be a pity if she was. Amagetith explained the game, apparently quite eager to return to it, and he wondered again at the dragon’s antics. It was very much like a game of hide and seek, which was a game likely every child on Pern had played at least once in their lives. Great Faranth, when was the last time he’d played it? Before apprenticing, to be sure. He wouldn’t even humor his younger sisters with a game, but here he was humoring a dragon.
He heaved a sigh as the green called him ‘lordling’, but didn’t attempt to correct it. He was sure with Siorreya encouraging her, there was no hope of him getting her to stop. He shot a glance through narrowed eyes at Siorreya, “You’re a terrible influence.” He was sure she would find it incredibly amusing. But now he had to figure out where to go, and he wasn’t terribly familiar with this part of the island. He’d been spending most of his time in the fisher caverns, which was where the candidates for Lordship were being housed. Well, he supposed for now just getting away from the dragon would suffice. Surely something would present itself as a hiding place at some point?
“Well I wouldn’t want us getting separated during the run!” So he grabbed her hand and tugged her after him as he took off in the direction of the lake, because it was really the only landmark he knew. Of course, it was also a pretty obvious place on the island, so he didn’t intend to stay too near it or Amagetith would surely be able to figure out where they were. Shells but this would give him and Siorreya plenty of opportunity to continue playing their own game as well. He shouldn’t have agreed to play, but it was too late now. He’d agreed and he wasn’t going to go back on it, nor show any fear at being alone with Siorreya again. He could control himself… or so he thought.
Past the lake was the edge of the massive redwood forest, and it was the first place that occurred to him as a possible hiding spot. So he continued running toward them and tugged Siorreya behind one near the edge of the treeline with him, finally releasing her as he ducked down behind it and sat back against the rough bark. The girth of the tree was plenty wide enough to hide them both behind it. He grinned up at her, patting the ground beside him, “Well? Unless you’d rather sit on my lap?” He raised a brow and stretched his legs out pointedly, lacing his fingers behind his head as a sort of pillow against the tree. He cast a look upward, sure that the branches offered their position decent cover from the sky. The green wouldn’t spot them easily if she decided to fly overhead. If he had picked too easy a place to find, he was sure Siorreya wouldn’t waste time in deriding him for it. But he had also heard that wild whers and felines sometimes came prowling from the forest, so he didn’t intend to take them any farther in.
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