[Edel PRP] The Unavoidable (Xun Jiang/Adrienne)

[Zero Dream]

The question caught Xun Jiang off-guard at first - the dragon blinked. Once, twice.

Then, even as he rose again and started to walk away from Adi and her tiny little treasure, he smiled.

"Night elves tend to treasure feelings and memories over trinkets." One step. "...Spend time with him. Be with him. Go hunt with him, perhaps - he always likes company." Another. "Through... If you insist on something physical..." Another step. "He does have a weakness for little glass trinkets. And jewelry."

This wasn't exactly a turn of events that he had expected, but perhaps this was for the best. Help me, Adi.

Help me save the man who is, and yet isn't, my son.

He was far enough, now. Far enough to not accidentally warm Adi or scare the winged floox too badly, and so he let go. The act of shifting was similar and yet completely different from the way Illisia had done it. It was too smooth, too practiced to be her, but yet the idea behind the gestures was the same.

Now on four feet rather than one, the dragon completed his step and looked back. "Well ?" He sniffed at the air idly. "Take place, my lady."

Could a dragon grin ? Because it definitively looked like he was grinning.

[Meepfur]

Adi was a little surprised that Xun Jiang seemed to get exactly why she was asking so quickly, but on second thought, it was probably pretty obvious. There was hardly an abundance of night elves around here, so she had to be asking about Elik. The rest probably wasn't much of a leap. "I can do that." It didn't sound so hard, really. "I like making things."

Then Xun turned into a dragon and cut off all her thoughts for a moment. She almost let go of the floox, but once it started trying to take advantage of that by wiggling, she quickly tightened her grip, and it grumbled and lashed its long tail.

"That is SO COOL."

[Zero Dream]

"Never seen a dragon shift before ?" He asked, tone definitively amused. She'd nearly dropped the poor little critter ! But ah, no escape for that floox, it seemed, through that had looked like a close call.

"Well ?" He wagged his tail idly. "Careful, before your little friend here hightails it... I don't think it would be fond of me chasing it." Especially not like this, no.

[Meepfur]

"Nope! I've seen Yu, but he was just...Yu, I think. He still looked pretty cool, though." With all those eyes and horns! What did anyone need with more than two eyes?

In all her excitement, she'd almost missed than Xun seemed to be inviting her to get on him. He was going to give her a ride home? Adi squeaked a little with delight and climbed aboard, careful to keep hold of her fluffy 'prize' - who was decidedly not happy with this latest development. Chirping angrily, he tried to turn his head just enough to bite the hand that held him.

Adi yelped and flicked him on the nose.

[Zero Dream]

Xun Jiang couldn't help but chuckle. Yu being... Yu sounded rather accurate indeed. "My brother does indeed stand out quite a bit."

The floox quick to try to take advantage but also quickly disciplined - Adi did have a chance to domesticate the cranky little thing, if she kept this up. "Hold on my mane with your free hand, if you need to. Don't worry about pulling."

And then he set off, back toward the pantheon - through with a much lighter heart than when he'd left it.

Maybe there was hope to righten all this, after all.