Well. Guess he was right; he hadn't mentioned that detail. Lio doesn't expect that expression though, and for a moment he's ready to go on the defensive. But it quickly becomes clear Galo isn't reacting badly, just... frazzled?
Lio looks somewhere between confused and surprised, head canting at a curious angle. "Properly witnessed? By the forest?" By the elements themselves? He tries to think back on what he's heard of the times before, when dragons and humans coexisted, when dragons and healers and mages would stand together like the two sides of the same whole that they should be. He vaguely remembers...
"...tattoo?" He feels that pressure at his back, looks back at the branches of the trees and takes the hint. "You need to be marked for this?" Marked by him? He wonders at himself at the way something in his chest flips pleasantly. But he continues on following Galo down the newly revealed path.
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Date: 2020-05-28 02:15 am (UTC)Lio looks somewhere between confused and surprised, head canting at a curious angle. "Properly witnessed? By the forest?" By the elements themselves? He tries to think back on what he's heard of the times before, when dragons and humans coexisted, when dragons and healers and mages would stand together like the two sides of the same whole that they should be. He vaguely remembers...
"...tattoo?" He feels that pressure at his back, looks back at the branches of the trees and takes the hint. "You need to be marked for this?" Marked by him? He wonders at himself at the way something in his chest flips pleasantly. But he continues on following Galo down the newly revealed path.