...And The Moon Was Hungry | Bonfire

[wormwood.]

i was born, on the highway, in a train wreck

with a heart, that was beating, out of my chest

Boredom. In all honesty, Aurum considered boredom to be a luxury that he didn't often have. In fact, he could barely remember the last time he had been honestly and truly bored, rather than utterly caught up in something he desperately needed to help with. That wasn't exactly really a complaint, after all, he loved everything he did in and for Tanglewood, but that didn't mean that occasionally he didn't wish he couldn't just be bored for a little while. To just... allow himself to relax, and stare off into the distance without a thought in his mind. Snarl might've thought of that as a curse, or something to desperately stave off with things like this bonfire, but honestly Aurum could definitely see it as a blessing. Still, he knew more often than not the one who was heaping work upon his shoulders was not anybody else, but rather himself, so he supposed that he didn't have too much room to complain. Snarl, meanwhile... well, he didn't know her extraordinarily well yet, but she certainly seemed like the type to do stupid things in order to entertain herself – somewhat along the lines of Feza, although Feza strove to entertain other people – and he guessed that she'd rather be throwing some potentially dangerous bonfire rather than doing something more mundane but useful, like helping out the older members of the group or helping to snow proof everything, even if Tanglewood rarely got too much snow.

Still, Aurum saw no reason to raise his voice or cause too much of a fuss at this point, especially since the others that were coming around seemed pretty pleased with the bonfire themselves. So, he just kept a single shining blue eye on the flames as Snarl responded to the others, ready to use his fire elementals to shut the situation down should it get out of control. Looking up when the hyena addressed him, Aurum tilted his head to one side and listened to her before rumbling softly, "I know you're not a child, but anybody can be surprised by a sudden fire flare up or something like that. I'll just stick around to make sure things don't get too out of hand. After all, I've got my fire elementals to patch everything up if something does go wrong." His tone was genuine, and didn't sound as mocking as his words could've been coming from someone else. Really, he just sounded like a sort of concerned father or uncle, which made sense considering how he had been focusing more on his little family and Tanglewood lately... speaking of, he very much hoped that Roy wouldn't come by, knowing just how much the boy hated fire. Upon hearing Feza and watching as she scrambled her way over, Aurum just let put a soft snort and turned to observe the flames, far too used to Feza's antics to think too much of her rambling. Although... honestly it was fairly amusing just to witness how Feza chose to introduce herself to someone new. As far as the lion was aware, the group party thrower and Snarl hadn't met yet, yet Feza hadn't even bothered making an attempt to introduce herself or her name, instead moving straight into her frantic rambling from subject to subject, starting with s'mores and ending in discussion about the fire itself. Normally, Aurum would've considered that rude for someone to do, and he still sort of did think it wasn't the most polite thing in the world, but he didn't feel to reprimand her. After all, she was trying her hardest, even if her hardest tended to be awkward and out of the ordinary.

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