Aurican turns his head back to Crucible, his expression blank - but it is a blankness that is not of Aurican's more carefully controlled expressions, but rather an expression that showed all lost feelings and control, staring into an imaginary abyss before him.
When Burll, Smelt, and Blayze died, it was the eggs, the females, and Darlantan's presence that comforted Aurican in his grief.
But now, among Burll's descendant and his abandoned great-grandchildren, that comfort has been taken away from him.
"I heard enough. I'm done with this conversation."
But it is never over, he knows. He just can't bring himself hear more of it. He can't feel any gratefulness for the exit Kang and Crucible had given him.
He walks toward the direction of the cave's mouth, the blood from his jowls still dripping into the stony floor in small splatters.
Reaching toward the mouth, Aurican's head twitch, as though he is about to turn around but caught himself. With one coiling leap of his legs and a heavy beating of his golden wings he is gone, quickly disappearing into the night sky.
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When Burll, Smelt, and Blayze died, it was the eggs, the females, and Darlantan's presence that comforted Aurican in his grief.
But now, among Burll's descendant and his abandoned great-grandchildren, that comfort has been taken away from him.
"I heard enough. I'm done with this conversation."
But it is never over, he knows. He just can't bring himself hear more of it. He can't feel any gratefulness for the exit Kang and Crucible had given him.
He walks toward the direction of the cave's mouth, the blood from his jowls still dripping into the stony floor in small splatters.
Reaching toward the mouth, Aurican's head twitch, as though he is about to turn around but caught himself. With one coiling leap of his legs and a heavy beating of his golden wings he is gone, quickly disappearing into the night sky.