balconies of grace ● delilah

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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. unknown age - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family/general. courting delilah evergarden & halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, and laeglin. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette.

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her voice gentle unto their ears, they let their eyes partially close, relaxing there in her presence and under her touch. remaining still as she did her work, they exhaled softly, letting their senses relax. "brought back?", they breathed, lost in the intricacies of her scent, mixed with a tender touch to her cherry blossom perfume, a mother's scent mingled ever so faintly that they could not tell it apart. they were unknowing of her pregnancy, but even they could tell that she was gentle and careful with her own movements as she laid down near their vicinity.

their own tail twitching the slightest at her joking, they gave a casual grin, "no ghost? you who are as like a ghost, moving so quietly, are definitely not such a finite existence, held to this world by your own ties and bonds.", they chuckle. holding their head still as they sensed her attention move, they rumbled at a low volume, warm and curious of her. she intrigued them in ways that no other had for some time.

"i am no easy existence to remember. i am best suited for swimming in the waves of time long gone. but you remember me. i would hope i had left a unique impression. a feline, now given a body of brimstone and sulfur.", they mused softly, "i for one, am glad of your gifted return, if for the company and the gifted touch you possess. i have left the pitt, yes, my mind found no peace in that bloodied stretch of sand. the few i had thought comrades were double coated and backed by spineless lies.", they would murmur, voice soft as they let themself drift back into a time when they had been younger and foolish to this world.

a gentle breath of wind would ripple through the area surrounding the two dragons, bringing a fresh burst of her scent to them, their own foreign scent lingering upon their scales. how strange to be comforted by the swampy hints under her cherry blossom fragrance, bringing with it a pleasant feeling that had long gone dormant in their chest. she asked of their wounds, how they had obtained them and in order, an unspoken question of how they had wandered to this point.

amusement sparked deep in their unseeing eyes, "a bloody tale lays behind these wounds upon this body of mine. it starts some time ago when i fell ill and thought myself to be dying, life leaving my bones in a way that bore nothing good for those i would leave behind. i recovered over many months, but i returned to the land i had called home, had been invaded by the enemy. my daughter returned not long after me, but she is young ... and i am blind. her claws and teeth are meant to feed and to take down prey, not to defend her home and nest, not while so tender and young. i have been surveying parts of my land, driving out the enemy where i find them. i am only one giant walking a land of slumbering creatures, and as the giants before me, i too am susceptible to a single stone.", they rumble, the faintest of growls hilting their voice.