[ His sister had entertained a cat until their mother found it, and, scandalized, got rid of it. He doesn't know what happened to the cat, but he's reminded of it now, in the way the dragon reacts and sounds.
It's idiotic to compare a dragon, a legendary dragon at that, to a cat, but it sticks in his mind nonetheless, gaining permanence. The deep, resounding sound has the same vibrations, albeit heavier, as a cat's purr, and Niall has given himself over unchecked.
It's happiness, that sound, but Alain would never speak that.
His hands carefully begin their movements again, slower, trailing further, curiously, where no mortal alive could say to have touched. ]
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It's idiotic to compare a dragon, a legendary dragon at that, to a cat, but it sticks in his mind nonetheless, gaining permanence. The deep, resounding sound has the same vibrations, albeit heavier, as a cat's purr, and Niall has given himself over unchecked.
It's happiness, that sound, but Alain would never speak that.
His hands carefully begin their movements again, slower, trailing further, curiously, where no mortal alive could say to have touched. ]
...It pleases you.