Meryl shook his head slightly when Ceal said it was funny. He guessed it was somewhat, but he couldn’t say that when he was there at the time it was enjoyable. The boy tilted his head slightly as she said that her uncle was similar, but he had to feel a little bad when she had said she favored her sister Danny. The sad part was that Meryl understood exactly what she meant. It was the same with Azrael. He definitely preferred his own sons over him any time of the day. He didn’t hate Meryl, but it was clear that if he had to pick between Guardian or Starfall and himself, well he would pick them any day. He couldn’t blame him though, they were his blood after all and Azrael didn’t have a choice when it came to taking him in.
”I know the feeling, sadly. But I understand sometimes others just have the advantage is all. It took me the better part of 2 years before Azrael started seeing me as a son.” Meryl admitted with a shrug. And really that had only happened after the birth of Starfall and Guardian. Still it didn’t bother Meryl, Azrael was really the only father he had ever had and for that he was greatful and did love Azrael. It was just he expressed it quite differently than he did with Andromeda.
Meryl averted his gaze from the white fem when she exclaimed that what Iromar was doing was terrible. Didn’t he know it. He became very quiet and somber as she asked if his mother and siblings were okay. ”I am not sure just yet. My mother is worried sick, but I think most of my siblings are not really sure what is going on, especially my little sisters. “
However his somber expression and tone vanished as she wriggled around happily declaring he was a brave boy and how girls would be lucky to have him. He wasn’t too sure about that last bit, and he gave quite the sheepish look when she had said it. ”I-I dunno about any of that. I am not very much compared to the males who fight and go to war… I can’t stomach that sort of thing.” He stared down at his paws for a moment shifting slightly on them. He wasn’t sure what he thought about that, her compliment really did touch him and he wasn’t sure if he could look at her without his stomach feeling like butterflies were in it.
His tail wagged though as she happily offered to help him again sometime and hopefully next time it would be so dire of a situation. ”Yeah we should.” He said smiling at her his tail waving. ”I will miss you, Ceal. I will try to come over to Spirane sometime after all of this mess is over with, but I got to get moving to prepare all of this. He moved up to her giving her a firm hug, wrapping his neck around hers not really wanting to go. He rather liked being in denial about this whole war situation, but he had to go.
Pulling back he gave her a soft smile, picking up the fawn pelt bag in his maw before bowing himself out. He would miss her, Ceal was his closest friend. Thankfully the demons of Iromar would be too busy to be bothering her today, she would get home safely he was sure of it.
Meryl
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