#sootsouls

❝ i’m not! i’m just, uh…offering critique. ❞ blackwall tries his best to up his vocabulary, though he could never amount to dorian and his fancy words—fingers run idly through his beard while dorian fiddles with his new attire. he’s never understood fancy clothes. rhinestones and silk have never amounted to much in his mind, having only experienced harshness on the open road, but seeing the mage dress up like that opens him up to the idea.

though he’ll never say it out loud.

❝ why white? if you’re going to dress up, add some color. green, purple—get crazy. ❞

“I would have thought even your simple, southern eyes could see why.” For all the pains Blackwall was going through to sound scholarly, he was falling short of the mark. The effort, Dorian thought, was meant to offend him; and he met insults with his own smarting words.

INTRODUCTIONS ARE TYPICALLY his strong suit. However, Ludwig doubts that there are many that can dispute the concerns that have him faltering in his greeting, slightly-widened eyes sliding from his records to meet the eyes of the boy – the one that the messenger from Administration says is their new scout.

Medic has little communication with their superiors, nor with the messengers themselves; locked away into his lab for most of the day as he is, Ludwig often hears his information second-hand. From what he can tell, the scout’s entrance at the RED base was unexpected, his introduction given by the messenger rushed. Nonetheless, it’s not an issue for Ludwig – scheduling medical check-ups require only a bit of shifting his own schedule around.

… but seeing Jeremy Jenkins for himself is another matter altogether. The information has all been provided before him in his files, but it does little to ease the jarring connection from the man in his files to the boy standing in his infirmary.  ❝ You’re – the team’s new Scout? ❞  

❁ ❁  “  Pepita, no.  ”

Ignore the fact that a large cat is gently tugging the skirts of a skeleton’s dress, because she wasn’t going to submit to it anytime soon.

“  Suéltame, por favor. We had enough fun for today, mamá has to go inside now.  ”