"Claude von Riegan" (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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shellphones2025-07-08 06:33 pm
deepstar) wrote in shellphones2025-07-08 06:33 pm
Entry tags:
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Type: Video
Sender ID: Khalid |deepstar
To: General
Subject: Hatching Time
Warnings: None
[ Initially, only Claude's face appears on the feed, alongside is wyvern. She is resting her chin on his shoulder and that hand of his is giving her a pat pat pat. So much patting. ]
I'm sure you all remember me talking about this several moons ago, but hey! The time finally came. I was starting to get a little worried, considering I have no clue what the incubation time for wyvern eggs are here. Everything went smoothly though, I promise. They actually hatched a few days ago, but I wanted to give them some time.
[ Now the video feed shifts, away from Khalid and Azita, and onto the little baby wyverns. Special guest star Leona is also present, already holding a small lizard in his arms. Seems like it's already attached. There's another one, in Claude's arm. ]
Leona and I are going to be co-parenting these kids for a little while so -
[ Unfortunately, Claude gets cut off. With Leona shoving the man's face, ears folded back. ]
Don't say it like that.
[ Too bad Khalid is unbothered, catching Leona's hand and winking. ]
Sorry, gorgeous. I meant co-parenting the hatchlings. [ Another laugh and moving right along. He's looking at the camera once more, ignoring the grumbling from behind him. ] As you all can probably tell, one little one is spoken for. I don't know about this one, so we'll just have to wait and see.
Ironic that they'd hatch while we're having issues with wild wyverns.
Sender ID: Khalid |
deepstarTo: General
Subject: Hatching Time
Warnings: None
[ Initially, only Claude's face appears on the feed, alongside is wyvern. She is resting her chin on his shoulder and that hand of his is giving her a pat pat pat. So much patting. ]
I'm sure you all remember me talking about this several moons ago, but hey! The time finally came. I was starting to get a little worried, considering I have no clue what the incubation time for wyvern eggs are here. Everything went smoothly though, I promise. They actually hatched a few days ago, but I wanted to give them some time.
[ Now the video feed shifts, away from Khalid and Azita, and onto the little baby wyverns. Special guest star Leona is also present, already holding a small lizard in his arms. Seems like it's already attached. There's another one, in Claude's arm. ]
Leona and I are going to be co-parenting these kids for a little while so -
[ Unfortunately, Claude gets cut off. With Leona shoving the man's face, ears folded back. ]
Don't say it like that.
[ Too bad Khalid is unbothered, catching Leona's hand and winking. ]
Sorry, gorgeous. I meant co-parenting the hatchlings. [ Another laugh and moving right along. He's looking at the camera once more, ignoring the grumbling from behind him. ] As you all can probably tell, one little one is spoken for. I don't know about this one, so we'll just have to wait and see.
Ironic that they'd hatch while we're having issues with wild wyverns.
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"Who knows if things will change in the future."
And for the briefest of seconds, of all the things Leona could have said in response, Azul really wishes that Leona had not said that. Because, even if only for one second, it allowed Azul to even consider the possibility of something that he had been about to accept as unattainable, to consider a future where Leona is suddenly no longer content with what he has and actually reaches out to Azul to take that "helping hand" in his own...
... and Azul finds he hates himself for it, for even allowing such a petty, envious, selfish thought that almost feels like a disgusting form of hope to spring to mind at what would otherwise be a rather shrug-worthy statement. In fact... it even scares him a little.
Azul is greedy and can be rather cold when it comes to his opinions on certain matters--hell, he's taken advantage of other people with these exact emotions before, even calling the legend that his people are so fond of regarding the mermaid princess and everything she wanted and felt as "naive"... and yet, here he is, acting and feeling like those same idiots who were desperate and hopeful enough to actually turn to a witch like him and sell their voice or hair just to get the person they wanted the most to notice them...]