Aphaderuiondur
Aphaderuiondur listened to the half-stranger, half-friend. Unlike the older one, Haulokki was born in the capital city of human race. Aphaderuiondur nodded with an impressed smirk on his face when he heard that his companion's father had been a soldier. Aphaderuiondur thought that it was such a great and honorable job - just not for him nor for his family. His father had been an original worker, hunting, fishing and stuff. Selling things. Rarely fighting. Maybe that was why his sons never caught interest in army or using physical power. Aphaderuiondur couldn't avoid hearing the embittered tone in Haulokki's voice when he finished talking about his family. The smirk on Aphaderuiondur's face faded and he kind of wanted to pat this feminine fellow on the shoulder, but didn't dare to do that. Instead he just moved his eyes from Haulokki's face to somewhere in the distance and kept listening.
So, it appeared that Haulokki had just accidentally bought himself another form, which was to be a raccoon. That sounded very odd to Aphaderuiondur who had been a shape-shifter all his life and shared the ability of changing form between a few creatures. The same applied to his brother, mother, father and other relatives. Aphaderuiondur turned his face back to the younger one when he told Aphaderuiondur to look at his stone. The man smiled and nodded, again with that slightly impressed smirk.
"I see. It is pretty - and I really like the blue colour, can you imagine?" he laughed towards the end of the sentence and shaked his head a little. It was probably obvious.
"I wonder what the talisman would do to me as I am a naturally born shape-shifter. Would I lose my other shapes? Would I just become a raccoon?" he wondered out loud and gazed through the rain again. He had just accidentally told his new companion that he had more forms than the tree, but it was okay. He probably knew that already, because just turning into a tree would be pretty lame. That was more like what the spirits and forest maidens did. Aphaderuiondur hadn't yet understood why a tree had become one of his and his brother's shapes.
"But I don't want to try it, don't worry", he then added and shared a quick, firm look with Haulokki.
The story continued. The jewel had most seemingly been sold at a low price. It made Aphaderuiondur slightly annoyed, but he couldn't tell why. Perhaps because he thought shapeshifting was an ability to be approved and not to sold with a pair of coins. It also had it's responsibilities. He decided not to say anything about it, because Haulokki surely wasn't thinking about consequences when he bought the stone. And that was what Haulokki himself told at the same moment.
"I understand. I hope it hadn't brought you too many problems. Being able to shift your form is cool and somehow liberating but also gives you many things to worry about, as we saw in the woods", Aphaderuiondur noted smiling and stretched his back a bit - as much as the rathole gave in.
"So the talisman works when you panick or when you want to turn into a raccoon? Does your fear always activate it?" Aphaderuiondur probably sounded a bit too interested, but he was. He didn't know whether it was odd to ask this many questions about other people's problems (or blessings) but he couldn't hold himself now that they were both trapped in boringness anyway.
The older one was just about to ask how Haulokki had looked before he turned into a raccoon human, but Haulokki kind of gave him the answer before he managed to ask. Brown hair. Aphaderuiondur tried to imagine that and wondered if it would have made him more masculine or feminine.
"Do you ever miss your old self?" the blue one then asked purely because he was interested. Aphaderuiondur imagined that the only thing Haulokki probably missed was his normal way of looking, but he couldn't be sure. Not everyone wanted to be a raccoon.
//Joo eihän mullakaan mennyt kuin vuosi onneksi, höhhöh :d Oli vähän intensiivisempi kouluvuosi. Ja kysymykseesi vastatakseni E tuli! c: