Lio can't help but smile in response to that grin. How could anyone not smile in the face of something like that? The enthusiasm is almost contagious, though Lio's reaction to it is more sedate than Galo's exuberance. "Okay. Then... good."
And there might be a brief smugness in the lift of his chin at that. "I'm tougher than I look." Most dragons are, or well, tougher than their human forms look. Dragon forms look indestructible, and sadly that is not the case. They're all too mortal, in the end.
"I'm behaving. I'm being a good patient." He has to be. He has to heal enough to make the journey back to his people. He's no use to them broken and battered on death's door.
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Date: 2020-05-12 01:27 am (UTC)And there might be a brief smugness in the lift of his chin at that. "I'm tougher than I look." Most dragons are, or well, tougher than their human forms look. Dragon forms look indestructible, and sadly that is not the case. They're all too mortal, in the end.
"I'm behaving. I'm being a good patient." He has to be. He has to heal enough to make the journey back to his people. He's no use to them broken and battered on death's door.