"Gabe's a griffin?" Daniel halts, frowning sharply at some distant point between the trees. "No, okay. He's an archangel, so that - that actually makes sense." Sort of, anyway. He imagines it has something to do with the whole celestial origins thing, which stirs up a few memories of the other curiosities he's run into here and there.
"Some of these soul-animal things, these bits of ourselves? I guess they can get pretty intense," he remarks, watching Aliyah sniff at an innocuous root with a concentration that's not fully warranted. "Like okay, get this - met a guy with this big red cat that had wings. And an anatomically correct Lycian chimaera. I guess they're representations of us, you know, reflections of our inner selves."
Daniel's uncertain of the meaning of having a snow leopard as the physical extension of his soul, but he doesn't particularly mind it either. Aliyah operates in good synchrony with him, right down to the scintillating, blazingly perceptive stare.
And then there's the matter of her name. Whether it's something the dream picked out or a fundamental fact of Daniel, he finds its meaning to be unsettling and reassuring in equal quantities.
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"Some of these soul-animal things, these bits of ourselves? I guess they can get pretty intense," he remarks, watching Aliyah sniff at an innocuous root with a concentration that's not fully warranted. "Like okay, get this - met a guy with this big red cat that had wings. And an anatomically correct Lycian chimaera. I guess they're representations of us, you know, reflections of our inner selves."
Daniel's uncertain of the meaning of having a snow leopard as the physical extension of his soul, but he doesn't particularly mind it either. Aliyah operates in good synchrony with him, right down to the scintillating, blazingly perceptive stare.
And then there's the matter of her name. Whether it's something the dream picked out or a fundamental fact of Daniel, he finds its meaning to be unsettling and reassuring in equal quantities.