10.Feb.19, 02:31 AM
F’drel was about to ask how Halomirth’s head knobs looked any different from any other dragon’s head knobs in particular, but he paused when R’dal hugged him, figuring it would be better to just roll with it at that point. Crisis averted, R’dal had bounced back to his normal happy self with little issue, which meant F’drel didn’t have to feel guilty about upsetting him. Not that giant snowballs being a fucking pain to move was in any way his fault. Whatever. Better work on making a dragon neck and head.
Because of course R’dal picked the easier end. A head was a lot more complicated than a tail. Did he do that intentionally? Did it even occur to the bluerider? F’drel wondered about that as he started to build up the neck, curling it back in towards the main snowball-body. He pulled the snow in to build the hill that was the neck, then carved out the bottom edges so it rounded the neck out a bit more. For the neck ridges F’drel made a few small snowballs and shaved of the edges, before centering them on the ‘neck’ and smoothing them down to stick to the other snow. The head was a little tricker, but he ended up making one larger snowball for the back of the head, then two smaller snowballs for the nose, which he packed snow around to make it more like a single shape, not three snowballs. He poked little holes for the nostrils, and then moved on to the head knobs. Two smaller snowballs soon took form, the smallest yet, and F’drel made two little mounds on the back of the snow head and then placed the tiny snowballs on top, packing in a little more snow to get them to stay in place.
He was trying to figure out how to do the eyes — just have them be closed maybe? — when F’rel realized R’dal was no longer working on the tail and was in fact just sitting on the ground watching him.
“What is it?” he asked. Had R’dal decided making snow creatures wasn’t fun again?
Because of course R’dal picked the easier end. A head was a lot more complicated than a tail. Did he do that intentionally? Did it even occur to the bluerider? F’drel wondered about that as he started to build up the neck, curling it back in towards the main snowball-body. He pulled the snow in to build the hill that was the neck, then carved out the bottom edges so it rounded the neck out a bit more. For the neck ridges F’drel made a few small snowballs and shaved of the edges, before centering them on the ‘neck’ and smoothing them down to stick to the other snow. The head was a little tricker, but he ended up making one larger snowball for the back of the head, then two smaller snowballs for the nose, which he packed snow around to make it more like a single shape, not three snowballs. He poked little holes for the nostrils, and then moved on to the head knobs. Two smaller snowballs soon took form, the smallest yet, and F’drel made two little mounds on the back of the snow head and then placed the tiny snowballs on top, packing in a little more snow to get them to stay in place.
He was trying to figure out how to do the eyes — just have them be closed maybe? — when F’rel realized R’dal was no longer working on the tail and was in fact just sitting on the ground watching him.
“What is it?” he asked. Had R’dal decided making snow creatures wasn’t fun again?