";_; Oh Laurence... He's lost a lot of his confidence. The others need to help him build it up again." Yes, they do, and his confidence is pretty gone. He was the practical mind all through Tem's idealistic "we will change how dragons are treated here" ideas, and now he knows what's probably going to happen. They'll need him, he's a fire-breather, and at least partially-trained, but they'll separate him from Jane and Tem and most of his crew, and he doesn't know anybody senior enough to take charge of him, so it would be some stranger that might not know he used to be human-- the thought might have been to call him a defector from France, but NOBODY would trust him after previous events, so he's probably an egg hatched and raised at a different covert and kept quiet as the fire hadn't taken immediately.
"That is an AMAZING line. Please include it. XD" Laurence is immensely pleased that it's his mother's name, and probably ends up staring at her and getting all melancholy all over again that he can't hold her. "We needn't have the name right away, darling, and as soon as the ninnies have established that I can certainly hobble outside with minimal assistance, we'll have the two of you properly introduced--you are quite lucky to be entirely beyond changing nappies, they can be rather vile."
"Also, side note: I would look up historical window sizes to see what's physically possible in the regency era. It may be fairly small, only enough for Laurence to press up one side of his face (dragon eyes don't face forward and are on opposite sides of the face!) to it so he can barely see what's going on." That's what I was thinking, some small window they can open up while he squishes his face against the second story. Mirrors were still VERY expensive then, too, and Azula's mirror in Avatar? Holy shit that's a lot of money she destroyed.
"XD Yes. Also, hiring musicians like they did in the books would help Laurence feel a bit more human again. :)" His mother thinks of that one, and knows her son's usual tastes. If Lady Allendale is staying for some time at the covert to meet with friends and wants music, who would ask?
"Oh yes. She's practically first in line to captain one of TWO impressive dragons. She has first pick. ;)" The dragons probably share her back and forth, too. I think she typically rides Tem for battles (Laurence would be even more of a nanny then), but she and her dad fly a lot.
"Laurence is a dragon. How on earth are we going to deal with this? Let's find out." That could practically be the summary. ;)" It might be the crack summary, actually, then a more serious-looking thing under it.
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Date: 2011-02-28 01:25 am (UTC)"That is an AMAZING line. Please include it. XD" Laurence is immensely pleased that it's his mother's name, and probably ends up staring at her and getting all melancholy all over again that he can't hold her. "We needn't have the name right away, darling, and as soon as the ninnies have established that I can certainly hobble outside with minimal assistance, we'll have the two of you properly introduced--you are quite lucky to be entirely beyond changing nappies, they can be rather vile."
"Also, side note: I would look up historical window sizes to see what's physically possible in the regency era. It may be fairly small, only enough for Laurence to press up one side of his face (dragon eyes don't face forward and are on opposite sides of the face!) to it so he can barely see what's going on." That's what I was thinking, some small window they can open up while he squishes his face against the second story. Mirrors were still VERY expensive then, too, and Azula's mirror in Avatar? Holy shit that's a lot of money she destroyed.
"XD Yes. Also, hiring musicians like they did in the books would help Laurence feel a bit more human again. :)" His mother thinks of that one, and knows her son's usual tastes. If Lady Allendale is staying for some time at the covert to meet with friends and wants music, who would ask?
"Oh yes. She's practically first in line to captain one of TWO impressive dragons. She has first pick. ;)" The dragons probably share her back and forth, too. I think she typically rides Tem for battles (Laurence would be even more of a nanny then), but she and her dad fly a lot.
"Laurence is a dragon. How on earth are we going to deal with this? Let's find out." That could practically be the summary. ;)" It might be the crack summary, actually, then a more serious-looking thing under it.