#rihak

Surak: honesty/deception, regret, belief (cool, clear bells of truth, discordant notes of falsehood, the heavy weight of certainty in your bones)

Azeraik: very basic positive/negative surface emotions (a bright, cheery blaze; the sputtering hiss of sullen embers that can’t be coaxed to warmth)

Alieth: anger, fear, and sadness - but only when strong (quiet air whipping into angry cyclones, the stopped-breath shock of fear, friendly breezes so familiar they’re hardly felt)

Vaikarik: nervousness, earnestness (the lick of flames, dancing hotter as stress ratchets nerves ever higher; the earnest glow of honest support)

Shael: loneliness, need, insecurity (the hollow, echoing darkness of the truly alone; the faltered step of certainty lost)

Sadzhik: attraction, nervousness, contentment (warm washes of heady flattery like afternoon sunlight; prickling, tickling nervousness that turns to ripe, sweet anticipation at the right look or touch)

Kastra: worry (protectiveness that shelters like a mother’s embrace; the tug and twang that vulnerability plucks on unguarded heartstrings)

Senkar: (dis)trust, fear (the cold knife-edge of terror, pressed close against the throat; wariness that scrapes needles of ice down the spine)

Rihak: botched breed change (jagged crystals of blood and bone digging senseless, sourceless, in mind and mana)

well i’m gonna have to fuss with his outfit for the rest of forever but The Boy is all prettied up now. his name is Rihak and he’s having some difficulties with his magic, the poor thing