Fur and Feathers [Ranulf & Soren]
+1 Riding Starter for @felinebr
Horses, pegasi, wyverns, kinshi, and now riding wolves and griffons - the monastery’s menagerie keeps on growing, and the stables can barely contain all of them anymore! The Church calls students, Professors and Knights alike to help ensure that all of these animals have proper care. It’s also important to them that everyone knows how to take care of and handle all of these different species, in the name of versatility, broader horizons, and preserving harmony. Perhaps you will take this chance to bond with a new mount you’d never even considered before? [Grants Riding +1]
Soren hadn't thought it possible for one creature to have so much fur. He'd spent what felt like forever brushing one of the new huge wolves, the brush somehow always coming out with more fur from the wolf's coats. He sighed, continuing his brushing as the wolf clearly enjoyed the treatment, grey and white tail wagging as he cleaned the brush out.
As a student, he was required to put up with chores. He'd long accepted that the price to pay for staying a student as was most inconspicuous for the age he appeared to be was some indignities such as this, but this wolf seemed to have more fluff than even the Fodlan pegasi.
"You live like this?" he muttered to the wolf, dragging the bristles through again. His uniform was covered in wolf fur, light on black to make matters worse.
Light blue in his peripherals caught his eye and he looked up mid brush, blinking in surprise.
It was still difficult to comprehend that he felt about as comfortable around Ranulf as he could around anyone. Given some of the more recent arrivals from Tellius, he ought to be dancing for joy over his recently lowered bar of expectations. Even so- think about it all too hard, and he might ruin the relief that allowed his shoulders to sag. Soren kept brushing the wolf, aware he even had fur in his own hair.
"I'm afraid that you're in for a long wait if you wanted to be next."
