03.Mar.13, 06:10 PM
“Torath.” Bordtai repeated as he pulled down the rag cloth and shoved it into his pocket along with his hands so that they were out of the way. It was done, however, to keep himself from reaching out to the dragon without permission. Some rider’s didn’t mind you showing affection to their dragons, but other’s seemed to get bent out of shape over it. With both the rider and the dragon towering over him, Bordtai didn’t care to upset either one of them by acting out of turn.
“I’ve seen you two fly before, but you look much bigger this close.” He said softly, his eyes on the dragon were giving the slightest hint of a sparkle despite his slumped shoulders. Scuffing a foot across the wet gravel path again, it took a moment before he tore his eyes away from the mighty bronze to look back at N’kal. “Bordtai, sir.”
Speaking to the bronze rider forced the short boy to crane his neck when he was this much closer to the pair and not watching from a great distance. The next words out of his mouth really couldn’t be helped, he was frustrated and discouraged and the words that formed were said with a bit of exasperation coloring the edged.
“How did ya’ll grow so big? What did you eat?” he couldn’t help but ask. The man was over six feet tall, but Bordtai was the smallest boy in his age group and he’d heard the crèche women more than once comment that he’d be a small one if his feet were any way to tell. Of course, Bordtai had no idea what his feet were talking about – but surely there must be something he could do to find a growth spurt that all the rest of the boys seem to have already hit.
“I’ve seen you two fly before, but you look much bigger this close.” He said softly, his eyes on the dragon were giving the slightest hint of a sparkle despite his slumped shoulders. Scuffing a foot across the wet gravel path again, it took a moment before he tore his eyes away from the mighty bronze to look back at N’kal. “Bordtai, sir.”
Speaking to the bronze rider forced the short boy to crane his neck when he was this much closer to the pair and not watching from a great distance. The next words out of his mouth really couldn’t be helped, he was frustrated and discouraged and the words that formed were said with a bit of exasperation coloring the edged.
“How did ya’ll grow so big? What did you eat?” he couldn’t help but ask. The man was over six feet tall, but Bordtai was the smallest boy in his age group and he’d heard the crèche women more than once comment that he’d be a small one if his feet were any way to tell. Of course, Bordtai had no idea what his feet were talking about – but surely there must be something he could do to find a growth spurt that all the rest of the boys seem to have already hit.