bsumone | ❝ Our greatest glory is not in never falling ❞

"Why would I question that? I've met plenty of normal humans who know about us." Sometimes in detail, but mostly in the vaguest of sense. "Of course, an antisocial homebody like you might not know that."

POUT!

"If you won't show me, will you at least tell me if you have one?"

"They shouldn't know about us." Said as though those living in close proximity to the river don't know about him. They may not know that this young man is the dragon, himself (he suspects that many don't believe the dragon is actually real, having never seen it for themselves) but most of them know he's something other than human. Especially the older ones who've been coming to see him since they were children. It's hard to ignore the fact that they all got older but he never did.

"Whether or not I do shouldn't be that important to you."

"You're focusing on the wrong thing!" One in a couple hundred is nothing! One ina couple hundred, isolated from others who know or believe in their existence, is no danger. But that's not even the point!

Gaja puffs out his cheeks and finally stomps his foot before crumpling dramatically to the ground. He flops onto his back and very nearly kicks his legs in a childish tantrum. Then he goes still and huffs a sigh.

"I might die if you don't tell me!"

"No, I believe you're the one focusing on the wrong thing." Because that thing that he's focusing on is under the dragon's clothes and he doesn't like that. Even if it is rather innocent. But that doesn't mean he has to give in to the demands of a silly bird.

Taking a few steps to the side, Nam steps back into the river and takes a seat on a large rock with his arms still circled tightly around his middle. Is sitting in the water being used as an extra layer of defense against the bird's potentially grabby hands, or no more than an easy way to get off of his feet while Gaja has his meltdown? Yes.

"Don't be so dramatic. Besides, you'll die eventually even if I do tell you."

"But I'll die satisfied!"

Gaja lays there for quite a while, heaving sighs and huffing before he pushes himself back to his feet. He actually throws a glare in Nam's direction before stalking away from the river. If the dragon wants to be cruel, that's his business. Gaja doesn't have to subject himself to it.

"I won't bother you again."

It's actually more likely that he'll die with neither one of them even remembering this unimportant conversation. It's one of thousands they'll have before the bird goes up in flames. Even the dragon with his long memory can't possibly remember them all, especially one that's come about as a fleeting interest of the bird.

Nam simply watches Gaja with his huffs and heavy sighs and when he gets up to stalk off, the dragon strongly considers just letting him go. It's not like this would truly be the last he'd see of the phoenix and it would free him of this ridiculous fixation.

"I told you not to be dramatic." Nam not wanting to answer a question would hardly be considered cruel by most. What's cruel is feeling like he's being manipulated into an answer, whether it's Gaja's intention or not. He should just let him go. "I do have one, by the way. There would be questions if it were noticed by anyone who doesn't know what I really am, so it's simpler that way."

Manipulation, indeed. That would require a sort of brain function and no small amount of malic Gaja simply doesn't possess. Nam isn't privy to Gaja's fits of fixation since, well, they've never involved him specifically. Old and wise as a phoenix is claimed to be, he's still just a bird at heart. A very large one. There's a reason why calling someone bird-brained is an insult.

He pauses in his step. Only for a few seconds. Only long enough to mutter a quiet 'thank you' before continuing on. Hadn't he just said he wouldn't bother Nam anymore? Let him keep his word.

❝ Our greatest glory is not in never falling ❞

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I'm so sorry Nam has to deal with this clown

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