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"We're gunna be late and fall behind." Aspalath complained, for once running slightly ahead of his rider in an effort to beat then next candle mark.
No matter how nervous the blue was, his anxiety over not keeping their schedule topped it. The blue dragon simply hated being late to anything.

"I know, I know. I'm coming. But it's fine, we can make up time on the chore, so we won't be late to next class." He promised trying to placate his dragons fretting, it had not been his fault that the previous chore had been cutting up meat for the next few days feedings. Butchering a large herd beast carcass was till a relatively new skill for him. It had taken time to wash away the gore sticking to his hands after, and he had not wanted to attract undue attention by running through the halls looking like he had just departed a murder scene.

He felt Aspalath calm but he still didn't cease his quick trot towards the storage closet and Erastan had to jog behind him to keep up. At least changing glows was a fairly simple task, easy enough to make up time on if they hurried. However as they passed a time candle Erastan noted they were only a few minutes behind anyway.
However both dragon and rider were under the shared illusion that they would be completing the task alone.

When Aspalath reached the open storage door and saw who was inside he instantly skidded to a halt. His eyes suddenly tinted yellow in alarm and he tucked his wings and tail in protectively to his body turning shy. Luckily Erastan was close behind and arrived to offer him support. Aspalath quickly wound himself around his riders legs, taking comfort from contact.

Erastan put a comforting hand to his head without thinking but his gaze was transfixed by the pair inside the small supply room. "You're that gold." Erastan stated bluntly "The one that made my sister cry." He frowned. "Not a very bad cry though." Erastan, ever the sparkling conversationalist. The lessons Liat was trying to impart on him about how to deal with people had a long way to go. The golds new rider was largely ignored.

Erastan sighed and his insides shriveled with guilt. He had not meant to put the burden of his twins sadness on the little gold. "Not your fault." He promised her. "It was because I left her. I had to. But it was very hard for both but easier for me because I had Aspalath to go to." He looked down at the blue and ran a hand down his neck so he knew it wasn't his fault either. Before the blue the twins had been near enough codependent. They still were in many ways, but now he had another precious life to take care of they had been forced apaart, and that had broken them both a little. "When you spoke to her it just...." He trailed off struggling to find the words. "Made it hard to hold back the sadness." However he was pleased that this gold to seemed to have a firm belief his sister was meant to impress. Just like Vosin's great queen when she had searched them.

However gentle the voice Aspalath still shied away from it. He always felt slightly nervous when talk of the hatching came up, the separation of the twins. It had been his fault, even if Erastan insisted other wise. However he did not want to seem rude. "Greetings sister. I am well thankyou." He promised while he remained closer to his riders side and mostly hidden. He just felt better having a block between him and others.

Erastan did not engage with the young queens rider, instead he eyed her up and down then slowly reached out to take one of the full basket of empty glows, plus an empty one which he handed to Aspalath to hold between his teeth so the young dragon could feel like he was helping, though he would relieve him of it once it started getting any real weight to it.