"What're--" [Is the only bare approximation of a word Axel can get out before he is bodied by several feathered pounds of determined motherly love. He grunts in shock as he is bowled over, the intensity of the fall all the more enhanced from starting it with his eyes closed.]
"All right. All right you're the-- the hug champion."
[He acquiesces, sobering fast. There's no telling how much she can glean being this close to his chest and the Nobody isn't keen to find out. This was careless. He wriggles, trying to wrest his lanky form from her affections, attempting with all his might to embody a dusk.]
"D--" [He manages to get one arm loose, reaching behind him to blindly grasp at the sand, hand sinking deep-- And then suddenly he is somewhere else.
But time doesn't stop, even when your awareness of the present does, and in Axel's haste to roll the duck off of him before his eyes glazed over, the dragonscale is flung, right near where his companion is liable to touch next...]
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"All right. All right you're the-- the hug champion."
[He acquiesces, sobering fast. There's no telling how much she can glean being this close to his chest and the Nobody isn't keen to find out. This was careless. He wriggles, trying to wrest his lanky form from her affections, attempting with all his might to embody a dusk.]
"D--" [He manages to get one arm loose, reaching behind him to blindly grasp at the sand, hand sinking deep-- And then suddenly he is somewhere else.
Still in the desert, sure, but with caravans driving past, echoes of an unseen battle heard all around and A GIANT METAL SNAKE erupting into the sky from under their feet.
But time doesn't stop, even when your awareness of the present does, and in Axel's haste to roll the duck off of him before his eyes glazed over, the dragonscale is flung, right near where his companion is liable to touch next...]