"A lightning strike?" he said curiously. Ball of lighting was such an... innocent phrase.
Gaze falling down to the leg she was so obviously favoring, he noted the missing patch of fur and singed skin. "You're lucky it didn't kill you," he stated matter-of-factly as she sidled on over to him and curled up at his side. She was so much tinier than he, the size difference so readily apparent with her nestled up to him. Especially laying down, she looked pitifully vulnerable and timid.
He wasn't sure how he felt about that.
Regardless, he let her cuddle up to him, her body so very cold compared to his radiating heat. As she mused of her past, his head leaned over hers, lips brushing the plastered bit of wet forelock away from her face and behind the wings.. should she not duck away from his touch, that is.
Her fear of storms, and how they ravaged her home land, was surprising to him. "Would explain the running and general panic," he mused, leaning his head down to rest upon the medium sized boulder in front of him. Nature was a fickle beast.
"My nation revered storms," he reflected, peering at her out of the corner of his eye. "But they were more welcomed reprieves than natural disasters." Tilting his head towards her, he rested his left cheek on the boulder so he could rest and watch the bespeckled mare simultaneously.
Staring at her for a few long moments, in a pregnant silence, he eventually looked back towards the mouth of the cave. "Was nature the reason you left your homeland? To then come to the... Night Court?" he paused, and then mumbled "- I'll pretend like I know where that is."
He wasn't much for words or small talk. It was never his strong suit - truth be told, few people in his empire wanted to talk to him. For obvious reasons, although that never bothered him in the slightest. At least there, he knew what he had and had what he wanted.
Here, he knew not where he stood, what he had (if anything), or who surrounded him.
Action. Thoughts. "Speech."
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