It'sa Sorrel!!! Holy shit he looks amazing!!! And a lot like his dad and it's killing me in the best way??? 😭😭♥️♥️ @AlexCoggonART continues to deliver thank you soso much Alex!!

and then kill him

☀Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much, he died every night to let them breathe☾

Llyr had never seen someone quite like Cassia before.

He had seen himself, and that was close. The wings, spanning longer than his arm length, the horns, growing from his skull and twisting back. The scales, iridescent and coating the more delicate sections of his skin. Cassia was similar, though her wings larger and horns facing front. She was brighter — her pink skin glowing in the light of the stars, and shimmering sword at her side.

In comparison he felt somewhat dull. If she was borne of radiant, healing magic he was borne from poison and acid, with venom running through his veins.

Cassia leaned close, seeming to study him with curious, large eyes.

“Did you sprout from dragon magic too?” Her voice lifted in question, eager and confident.

Llyr took a step back and wrung his hands at his waist. He glanced behind him, where in the distance his father was working outside a large tent.

“Kind of,” he answered, hesitating to look directly at Cassia. She was the Commander’s daughter, and that was something special.

“That’s my dad, over there,” he added, and motioned towards the tent.

Cassia followed his gesture, eyes locking on the individual mentioned.

“He’s got wings too!” She pushed to her toes, then rocked back on her heels in what Llyr took as excitement. “My mum does too. Can you fly with yours? They look a lot thinner than mine. Can I touch them?”

Llyr instinctively pulled his wings against his back in defense. He wasn’t accustomed to such a bombardment of questions, and certainly not requests to touch him. He wasn’t certain if Cassia’s interest was because she was young — he hadn’t spent much time at all around people his own age, like her — or if it was because of the same reason he was curious, in his own way.

“Um,” he started, not wanting to outright refuse her request.

“Oh! I’m sorry,” Cassia broke in, waving her hands in front of her in apology. “I was just curious. Mum says I should think more before I say things sometimes. I’m… working on it.”

Her laugh was like a chorus of bells, filling the small glade with music. That at least put Llyr a bit more at ease, and his wings settled again in their natural, comfortable position.

“It’s okay,” he said, still not sure how to respond to Cassia’s enthusiasm. He pressed his lips together, curled his toes inside his boots. “I’m sure you’ll… figure it out…sometime.”

Even as he spoke Llyr wanted to cringe. He sounded so stiff and awkward next to Cassia, highlighted by the easy way she had about her.

She didn’t appear deterred though, and even tipped up on her toes again.

“Do you want to be friends?”

Cassia’s question hung in the air amid the birdsong and buzzing of insects.

Llyr had never truly had a friend before. He’d sprouted five years ago, little more than a child lost in a land half dead and struggling to grow. He felt that within himself as well, as if his ties to the home of his father manifested in his body. There had been no time and no opportunity to make friends, not with so much to search for and understand about himself.

Was is at simple as this? A question, and his forthcoming answer?

If his first friend were to be anyone, Cassia would be the perfect fit. Perhaps Llyr would learn something more of himself in time spent with her. They were similar: both oddities of the world, both different from others in a way Llyr was still fighting to understand. Maybe more than anyone, the two of them could find answers together.

Letting out his breath as evenly as he could, Llyr nodded. He smiled, still shy and mostly uncertain, but growing stronger.

“Okay. Let’s be friends.”

Sorrel has joined the shiny fam.

@shiverpeakstraveler sent me some keys and I got the wings!!! So baby boy gets to look bamf and join his mum & sister in the wings department ;----; Ty sm Rhi!!! ♥ ♥

Annnnd the whole fam together, since @AlexCoggonART has done them all for Patreon rewards for me! ;P Damn good looking group if I do say so myself ♥

I blame both kids having dragony aspects on their mother’s Branding via Aurene.

HI hello I commed the lovely @fellis-world for some art of my ridiculous sprout kiddos cause I made Sorrel and was like, you know what, I want art of these kids, Felli does kickass Sylvari art, LET’S DO THIS.

...and I have not stopped flailing about it since she sent me it this morning fjbdgkg like omg I’M IN LOVE LOOK AT THEM AHH. Caught by the paparazzo or whatever Tyria’s equivalent is, since I bet they’re a pretty hot commodity - They’re the Commander’s Children, and they’re Sylvari Sprouts/Dragonvari, so y’know?? - and Cassia is always putting on a smile but Sorrel is no get away from us wtf.