Wait, is that not your default mating call? Fuck, man, El Quarantini really did a number on my social skills.
（ ha, ha, it's funny because he actually did spend a long fucking time being a feral goblin, whoops. elfalis really had his work cut out for him, all those millennia ago. ）
Oh yeah?
（ he cants his head, listening to her as she talks. there's a story there, he thinks. she's gentle, but guarded. cautious. someone who grew up in wartime is going to know grief and loss, and it's almost like a moonlit shimmer around her, a desert mirage of misery.
he knows these things, at times. not always. but enough that he suspects — ）
cw: rl/current events mention in the shape of covid jokes
（ ha, ha, it's funny because he actually did spend a long fucking time being a feral goblin, whoops. elfalis really had his work cut out for him, all those millennia ago. ）
Oh yeah?
（ he cants his head, listening to her as she talks. there's a story there, he thinks. she's gentle, but guarded. cautious. someone who grew up in wartime is going to know grief and loss, and it's almost like a moonlit shimmer around her, a desert mirage of misery.
he knows these things, at times. not always. but enough that he suspects — ）
You wanna talk about it?