[ behind the mask, tretij snorts dismissively, flashing eli an image of enormous teeth chasing the dog. --the dog may bite, but tretij bites back and bites harder. so to say. .. not that he'd actually hurt eli's dog. probably, anyway. not if eli seemed attached to it. tretij himself doesn't have a lot of experience with animals, after all; he barely remembers his home village, and he's not had a lot of opportunity to interact with them since he was taken from there.
he pauses at the emotion practically radiating from the older man, suddenly not sure how he should respond. it's so hard for him to actually put words or even concrete thought to what eli is to him, or why he.. cares? about him. he'd only come aboard at all because he'd sensed the older man here. he'd put up with that exam and the thing around his wrist so that he could just see eli again. he's.. very important to tretij. maybe the only person in the world that actually matters to him.
after a moment, he pulses slightly confused and shaky affection at the blond. he's happy to see him, too, even if--to his mind--they were together not that long ago. ]
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he pauses at the emotion practically radiating from the older man, suddenly not sure how he should respond. it's so hard for him to actually put words or even concrete thought to what eli is to him, or why he.. cares? about him. he'd only come aboard at all because he'd sensed the older man here. he'd put up with that exam and the thing around his wrist so that he could just see eli again. he's.. very important to tretij. maybe the only person in the world that actually matters to him.
after a moment, he pulses slightly confused and shaky affection at the blond. he's happy to see him, too, even if--to his mind--they were together not that long ago. ]