Omelettes [Poptart & Eve]

Ardos let out a surprised laugh-squeal when the little one started gumming on his finger. It didn't have any teeth yet, so it was more uncomfortably wet and squishy than anything. He removed his hand and gave it a brief pat on the head. He wanted to listen to his more rational side, cut off attachments before it starts being dangerous, but Ardos was rarely a rational person as much as he hated to admit it, and he found the dragon hard to resist.

The dragon and the mother, really. Ardos usually thought most situations were stiff and unpleasant, but even deep in a dark forest with possible threat of danger all around them, he was the most relaxed he'd ever been.

"To the town it is. There are a few groceries near the forest. There might be one selling goat milk."

The implications of that made Ardos' head fizz out for a few moments. He found that he liked the scenario — Amphy as the mother, Ardos as father, and their small dragon child. He watched Amphy kiss the dragon, and felt nothing but deep fondness for the two.

"You think I'm handsome?" he said, maybe a little more hopeful than he intended. He cleared his throat, but he wasn't able to get rid of the smile on his face. Man, was this what smiling felt like? It was painful. "I — er, I wouldn't mind raising the little button with you. A couple pair of hands can't hurt."

Ardos walked ahead of them, following the 'path' they took to get there from Amphy's house to the opening of the forest, mostly because he didn't want Amphy to see the stupid smile on his face. Why won't this wear off. Ugh.

At Ardos pulling away a low throaty grunt that sounded like a strange cross between some indiginus sea bird and a seal pup. It sounded rather unhappy and a little sad as its paws reached for Ardos.

This noise was silenced upon Amphy pressing a kiss to the top of her fuzzy, it was like kissing cashmere. Little paws reached up though unable to reach as a soft noise that sounded like a quiet, yet content grumble came out of her. Effectively hushing the noises she made.

With a wide yawn and a long stretch the little one caught sight of her tail and managed to latch onto it. Paws wrapped around tight and into her mouth the fluffy tip went.

A small and effectively startled yet mildly pained cry came from her as she let the tip of her tail go.. But, almost as if she couldn't figure out WHERE the owie was coming from this process was repeated repeatedly. It was until finally the little one simply sucked on the tip as a pacifier did her icy blue eyes settle up on Amphy. A small shiver passing though her little body.

"Huh." Ardos was aware of his supposed attractiveness and mostly treated it as a liability back in the drow city instead of a positive quality but... he liked that Amphy thought he was handsome. "You're not half-bad looking yourself."

It was an understatement, really. He thought he was breathtaking, already did since the moment they met, but he wasn't going to bring that up any time soon.

As soon as they exited the forest, there were several 24/7 stores lit in the distance along with some less than savory establishments that Ardos was unfortunately familiar with because of work.

Holy goddamn son of a —

Ardos winced. He still needed to get used to stupid surface lighting. Why did they have to make everything so bright? At least his frown was back.

He patted his pocket to make sure he was carrying enough money. There was a familiar lump inside. He let out a sigh of relief. He went ahead to go look at the refrigerators at the back. As expected, there were bottles of milk lined up in the dairy section. Ardos pulled out one — and another, just in case they underestimated how much baby dragons actually drank.

He looked at the massive lump in Amphy's shirt and made a thoughtful hum. "We can heat these up at my place. It's not far off... but how are we going to feed it? With a dish?"

At being placed into Amphys hoodie it was like being put into a new place to explore! each new crevasse each new fold a small maze that was wonderfully interesting. Amphy would feel and watch as the little gremlin that was set loose in his hoodie crawl using tiny claws.

Only after a little while did a highly static charged Storm came out.. There was something different about her though. While normally her fur was cashmere soft and white, it was now standing on end and it has significantly darkened to almost a grey.

However, the little dragon look completely unphased as it looked from Amphy to Ardos before crouching down low and wriggling her rear.. As if she was about to jump.
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@"Anzellous" , @"Poptart"

"Baby bottles?" ...That made sense. Ardos didn't know anything about taking care of animals, but he helped take care of Zen all those years ago. It shouldn't be that hard.

He practically jumped and hit his head on the rack of drinks inside the refrigerator, sending a couple of cartoons dropping to the ground. Ardos picked them up immediately and returned them, closing the refrigerator to see what was happening.

Oh. It was playing. That was probably dangerous inside a grocery store. Well, it looked like the cashier and the guard on duty were too tired to care, but Ardos would feel really bad if they wrecked their store. He was going to help, but he caught sight of cheap baby bottles in another aisle.

"Hold on." Ardos walked around them, heading to the baby bottles so they could take the little one out of the grocery store and somewhere else she was allowed to wreck, like Zen and his dingy apartment.

@"anzellous" , @"poptart"

At seeing Ardos walking off after making a more than interesting noise Storm chirped in response.. As if to mimic the noise of Ardos hitting his head. No attention was paid to Amphy's hand and words of warning as she leaped as far as she could. Front paws and back paws outstretched as if in flight, even her little wings are outstretched.

These little things would of mattered, if she didnt go two inches before practically plummeting. Even as she fell she held the same pose that was akin to that of a belly flop. Upon Storm touching Amphy's hands it was as if getting a small zap after scooting ones feet across a carpet in socks.. Or some other akin method of static shock. The charge once released turned Storms fur back to white and it laid down as it was prior before she was stuck into his hoody.

Though, when the charge even minor, was released it made a loud popping noise. Which caused the little dragon to make a throaty noise that sounded like a cry of a seal pup. Out of fear. Ardos was forgotten in this moment as the infantile dragon clung to Amphy.

Ardos took the items and nodded, carrying them all in one arm.

Without thinking, he reached out to hold Amphy's electrocuted hand into his own, rubbing the fingers with his thumb. His eyebrows furrowed in concern as he looked at the now calm baby dragon and its mother. "Are you all right? Do we need to get something for this?"

If they did, he wasn't sure what to get, exactly. He was never good at this healing stuff.

They should go pay for this.

"Amphy, if you're hungry, grab whatever you want and let's pay for this," he said as he let go of Amphy's hand and grabbed a carton of ramen and a can of orange soda, making his way to the cashier. He placed everything on the counter and pulled a fifty from his pocket.