They could not fly, as Lukoith's hide was still on the mend, and just at the cusp of 'barely healed'. He holds little regret for the setback, the flaying of his hide a small price in favor of claiming yet another gold. News of Southern's Hatching is fed through the draconic gossip 'vine', with one name standing out in particular. As he relays it to his rider, Divale leans back against his foreleg. She'd been working quietly on mending their straps, but now her gaze is drawn skywards as she begins to laugh, dark and hollow, to the night cloaked skies.

Relapses are expected but there'd been hope that he was over the worst of it. I'dre knew himself better than anyone and though he tried, he could feel all that hard work crumbling. It began when his friend was given their clearance to return to their Wing. He tried to feel happy for them, but the bitterness still took root; that undeniable thought he'll be forgotten now. Then it so happens that a gold rises and he finds himself in the arms of that very rider … and yet happiness eludes him still. Conflicted, it feeds his temper and his anger, left to fester beneath a tenuous grip on control. Trivial though the cause may seem to others, for I'dre it is everything.

A brush with death would sober some and, for a time, Va'os was too. The first night since his injury saw sleep disrupted by vivid replay of that particular Threadfall. One moment, he felt nothing but Tsiroth's pain and then doubled as he was struck a heartbeat later. That nauseating, mind numbing, soul crushing breadth of panic as the world filled with nothing but the sense of agony and burning. Then the world tilted on axis, cold realization of what was occurring snapping them back to reality; long enough to skip Between to haven and safety… and not oblivion. Those dreams faded in intensity, just as some wounds heal with time and are largely forgotten over the span of days. For now, Va'os is confident of his full recovery. Surely it'll all be behind him now and they'll all laugh about it for Turns to come! What other repercussions could there possibly be?