26.Aug.12, 04:40 AM
While he had been slightly trying to turn the subject onto Andi, the last thing he expected was for the young girl (not really that much smaller than the scrawny Bordtai) to suddenly throw her arms around him in a quick hug. Her happy giggle mixed with the sharp intake of breath that cut through his teeth as he winced, but held still for her to finish her hug and move away. A hand replaced where one of her arms had wrapped over his left shoulder and he ever so gingerly touched the area hidden beneath the tunic too large for him.
Batting away the grass thrown at him, Bordtai pulled himself into a bit tighter of a ball as the rider-father kissed his daughter and spoke of her ‘good-habits’ doing homework. He wanted to spit back that he’d do the homework if he could. It wasn’t a matter of him skirting the homework as much as the simple fact that no matter how much time he spent on it he never got any further.
This time, as B’jin lifted the boy’s chin, the boy’s eyes were a little darker and he kept a hand protectively over his shoulder as he listened, almost begrudgingly to the man. “S’not what everyone else says.” He muttered, the term Dimglow coming distinctly to mind. Even so, what little progress B’jin had momentarily made asking about what Bordtai was good at was shattered in the light of unexpected physical pain. Of course, he wasn’t going to tell THAT to the man or the girl.
Bordtai didn’t lie often, but there were a few things he’d lie about to keep other things from happening. One of them happened to be teetering lightly on the edge of actually happening and the boy was suddenly very ready for the two before him to forget he existed once more.
Batting away the grass thrown at him, Bordtai pulled himself into a bit tighter of a ball as the rider-father kissed his daughter and spoke of her ‘good-habits’ doing homework. He wanted to spit back that he’d do the homework if he could. It wasn’t a matter of him skirting the homework as much as the simple fact that no matter how much time he spent on it he never got any further.
This time, as B’jin lifted the boy’s chin, the boy’s eyes were a little darker and he kept a hand protectively over his shoulder as he listened, almost begrudgingly to the man. “S’not what everyone else says.” He muttered, the term Dimglow coming distinctly to mind. Even so, what little progress B’jin had momentarily made asking about what Bordtai was good at was shattered in the light of unexpected physical pain. Of course, he wasn’t going to tell THAT to the man or the girl.
Bordtai didn’t lie often, but there were a few things he’d lie about to keep other things from happening. One of them happened to be teetering lightly on the edge of actually happening and the boy was suddenly very ready for the two before him to forget he existed once more.