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Efflo nodded, understanding just how the other boil felt. It had been agony to be away from Gabby, and though his heart fluttered a little to know Gabby had missed him just as much, he wished that Gabby hadn't had to go through the same misery.

But the lack of any true sincerity in Gabby's next apology was hard to miss, and Efflo tugged him forward by the collar of his jacket with a loud huff, giving his boilfriend a swat.

"No, I think you've done enough of that for a little while. Eyes on the path, Gabby."

He hadn't forgotten the nickname either, and the hint of a smirk twitched at the corners of his lips as he said it.

"What, did I say something wrong?" Efflo teased him, sticking out his tongue at the dragon. But then he was throwing both arms around him, clinging to Gabby and making it effectively awkward to walk. Still, he did it anyway, snuggling his face into the shoulder of Gabby's jacket as they shuffled along. It smelled like Gabby, of course it did, and he exhaled contentedly, he'd missed that smell.

"Some fighting, yeah, mostly against weird little monsters. I'm pretty good at it now though, so you better watch out," he grinned giving Gabby's middle a playful punch. Something had flickered at the edge of his mind, like he was forgetting part of the story, but he ignored it, trying to wrap himself even more around Gabby. It was impossible, however, and he only succeeded in pushing the both of them off the path.

"This isn't working," he whined, tilting his head to give Gabby his best possible pouting face.

Gabby was right, but Efflo hadn’t expected the boil’s next gesture. He tried to hide the little excited squeak that escaped him, but his smile said everything as he hopped happily onto Gabby’s back, hugging onto him tightly. This was much, much better.

Then he smirked, and nudged Gabby’s sides with his heels.

“Yah, horsie, yah!”

Efflo giggled, squeezing his arms around Gabby's shoulders.

"That's right, you're my widdle dwagon, aren't you?"

He was definitely in good spirits, better spirits, in fact, than he could ever remember being. Efflo settled into the proper dragon-riding position, and fought the urge to nudge Gabby again. He was enjoying this too, being carried like this made him feel special, and he was thrilled that Gabby had offered to do so. It definitely was much better than trying to climb onto him while walking. Still, something was bugging him, something was just not quite right...

He leaned forward as far as he dared, nibbling at the edge of Gabby's ear before whispering, "You do do some horsie stuff, though."

There, all better.

Efflo clung to Gabby as the boil fell to his knees, holding on tightly so he didn't tumble right over top of his boilfriend.

"What?" came the innocently sweet voice from behind Gabby's ear. "It's true. And aside from this particular horsie thing, you're usually pretty good."

It was difficult to hide his smirk.

Efflo was fully prepared to continue their trip but he suddenly found himself standing on the ground, and before he could protest, Gabby's lips were on his neck, and his hands on his behind.

"Gabriel!"

He narrowed his eyes at him, squirming against Gabby's hold.

“You know full well what you’re doing,” Efflo warned, placing his hands over Gabby’s in a futile attempt to push it off of his rear. He knew the look in the dragon’s eyes, and it wasn’t as though he was totally unaffected himself, but they were in public and he had no intention of fuelling the fire dancing in his boilfriend’s eyes. He might be a happier horse, but he wasn’t stupid. He wouldn’t stand a chance.

“Let go.”

A kiss on the nose wasn’t nearly enough to pacify him. With an impish grin, he trotted after Gabby as quietly as possible and when he finally drew close enough, Efflo pounced, trying to clamber back onto his boilfriend.

“Hyaaah!”

One way or another, Efflo was determined to tame his wild dragon.