YOU MAY BE THE LAST TO BELIEVE / THAT THE STRONG SHOULD STAND UP FOR THE WEAK
Toro smiles lazily at the little dragon; a bow is a bow in all languages and he thinks it funny that the creature should know such a thing so young. Isra laughs and it makes him smile more - there is a beautiful thing that comes from her and it makes him nervous and soft at once.
She is quiet as he speaks, but then she mentions an ”Eik” and Toro recalls a snowy and uncomfortable walk with a snowy and uncomfortable man. (Whether that was himself or Eik will remain unanswered, to Toro, anyway.) ”That was nice of him,” is all Toro says, because little else was notable of that strange day except how he felt and that is certainly not something he has ever sought to discuss.
”If you could change the world around you, what would you make?”
He tries to think for a moment, in all his hazy warmth and alcohol, and in a brief and lucid second he says, ”Somewhere the weak could go to be strong,” and then he thinks maybe that is not something for magic that turns marble to wood to make. He laughs sharply, empties his glass, and says, ”Or another drink.”
@Isra Strawberry Moon
"What I say,"
What I think,
