" it's way past your bedtime " from elric to cyrus with love (◡‿◡✿)
senior citizens need their rest, even if they’re dragons. | accepting
❝ Past my bed time ? ❞
A hollow laugh is spat with a plume of smoke, but the dark circles under your eyes only confirm what he merely points out: you’re exhausted. Your day, the same as every day, was placed to making rounds through the village; through the forest which surrounds it. Hearing out the people, assisting them where you could ─ that was your life as their chief. A tiring and time consuming title, but one you gladly undertook nonetheless. Pointed ivories are ground tight together with Elric’s presence, yet you raise no more than sharpened words which surely could not pierce his hide like you wished. No, you couldn’t fight him ─ you wouldn’t attempt. Your power was only a fraction of his. To bare your fangs with the intent of tearing through his scales would surely spell disaster. If he would not only end your life in the process, he would bring Mohr with you.
❝ Excuse me for putting my energy to doing something other than being a burden, Elric. ❞
You refuse to address him for what he is; your father. A man who played key in your birth into a dying world; one who only peeked his head in every now and again throughout your young life. Granted, with those handful of visits he did leave snippets of things to help your mother do as you did now… Yet a small sum of something was close to nothing in the long run. He unnerved you as a child ─ often, you were seen elsewhere when he visited. At the edge of town climbing the trees when you were younger, or close to your mother’s side when you grew older. Only when you had peaked as an adult did you understand why his presence bothered you. This man (rather, ‘ monster ‘ would be an appropriate word for him) was nothing if not foul intentions personified. Unwillingness to acknowledge his existence and displeasure for your kinship to him soon fell hand-in-hand with one another. And, as naturally, you’re quick to turn him away before he could taint your town with his disgusting stench.
❝ What do you want ? ❞
