Aestus looked confused "is Praxis your mother? I have heard that offsprings often find their parental figure annoying" he moved a little, mostly reoriented himself to be facing Crimson, more, he is not used to moving his head so much to look at people and his neck is starting to hurt a bit.
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"Wow you look nice Fang! Also ‘m stuck… please help?" Caligo said, somehow? He certainly didn’t open his mouth to talk. Fang’s dress looked very nice at least, he can definitely it’s very good quality, he think Aestus would have liked it… maybe he should have stayed with his sun. He wouldn’t be stuck if he did…

"Gah! Why" Aestus jumped in surprise when flames entered his vision, his wings opening wide, almost hitting Crimson in the face, it didn’t burn his skin thankfully, some advantage to being the literal sun he suppose.
"What’s with the cryptic message all if a sudden? The only thing above me are my creators and I would rather they not be here if that’s what you’re implying is happening."

Aestus mostly tuned out the Kyng, too focused on trying to find any trace of Cal or his magic.
So focused in fact he did not think to look at where he was going and walked straight into a wall
"WESTER DAMNED- fuck." The sun yelled and held his now bleeding nose, he recoiled a little at sight of the golden liquid on his hands but quickly went back to applying pressure on his nose, Aestus didn’t even bothered folding his wings, who had flared up and opened at the sudden pain, against his back, letting them brush against the ground instead. They are already covered in dust from the forge and his feathers are out of place from Gren’s attack, so he doesn’t see much of a point in keeping them off the pavement.

Aestus huffed "he is his own person, if he want to run off what am I suppose to do? Keep him on a leash?" He rubbed his antennas, hoping to be able to catch the scent of Cal’s magic if he could just get the dust from the forge off them.

Edit: (would it be funny if Cal turn up in his beast form?)

Aestus shrug "it happen sometimes, I think it’s some weird residual instincts? Best case scenario he is just stealing stuff" Aestus explained, as if it didn’t raise more questions than answered.

(Making lore on the fly because that’s the best way to make lore-)

(Eheheheh the gay beasts)

"Oh, well-" Aestus started before being interrupted
"We got attacked by Shard’s bird! That beast is ferocious like wow! I feel so alive! I want to fight something." Caligo looked ready to run off and cause chaos on his path, and that is exactly what he does.
"CAL! Uh we also got your stuff?" Aestus quickly handed the case to Crimson before turning to stop the moon gremlin. Only to see him already gone, and he currently can’t track his smaller conterpart.
The sun could only groan "I am so sorry, I guess am gonna have to catching the moon" he said with a resigned sigh, this clearly isn’t the first time this happened.

(F it, CHAOS)

Aestus did his best to avoid the bird, and with both hands full he had to resort to using his wings to shield himself and Cal from the assault, while the latter tried in vain to get the bird away from them.
Despite this, they still took the time to help Shard up before running out of the forge, hoping the flying menace would not follow.

(Oh! I am glad it’s all ok now!)
Aestus nodded in understanding at Shard’s explanation, until confusion spread at the last part "What does someone’s tool have to do with this?"
"I bet it’s like that Icarus story!" Caligo interjected, guessing it to simply be something from this world they don’t know about, before thinking about what the strange bird said "so Praxis is the bad one?" The smaller god asked, a little confused still.

(It’s ok! I am just glad you are ok! Or um okayish? Going to be ok? Meh medical stuff not fun I can agree on that)
Caligo wanted to ask who this praxis was, he can’t remember if they were mentioned before or not, before shard put the case on the ground shaking the whole forge.
"is there a whole planet in this?" Caligo jokingly asked instead seeing both what it did to the forge, and Aestus having to put some effort into picking it up.

(Sorry for the delay, welcome back!)

Cal was visibly embarrassed and at the mention of him digging up tombs.
"the gremlin definitely ate far too many metal in the time I knew him for there not to be some" Aestus said with a sigh, far too used to these type of shenanigans.

(Oooo interesting lore)

I don’t have the finish design yet but have this sketch showing their height difference

Thanks you all!

(It’s alright! Family is important)
"That sound gross, and weird…is that why the knight  are called blood knights?" Caligo said
"Hmm I can try to make a uniform." Aestus said absentmindedly

While Aestus was lost in thought, Caligo pulled many pieces of metals from….somewhere and showed them to Shard "it’s my old braces, they did the job better than what I have now but they are not comfy at all."

(When I told my friend about the stretchy metal. I was told it sounded like plasteel, I never heard of it before, but what Cal got is basically the fantasy version of it)

This one is set many, many millennia in the past, juuuuuust a little bit after they met, give or take a couple months. This is basically how their friendship first started. Enjoy! (Colour coded again, because I liked it last time and it’s easier to tell who speak)

Also thanks @wolffighting3768 for the idea!

Footsteps echoed down the halls of his home, the incarnation of the sun sighed, there is only one person who come bother him up here, and he isn’t thrilled about it.

Sure they are counterpart, two sides of one coin made to work with each other, yet, he can’t trust them. They are the same age yet only met after a few hundred years of existence apart.

A few hundred too many, he doesn’t know what sort of people the moon met, but the sun sure hasn’t had good experience with anyone so far and he isn’t going to give friendship another chance, ever.

Someone should try and tell the moon that, because this little beast sure isn’t listening to him.

"Sunny!" The moon called, the footsteps slowly to a stop right next to him, he sigh. "Don’t call me that." He told the other god.
"I will, when you tell me your name!" He can heard the smirk in that reply, Aestus groan and tried to go back to his reading.

"Whatcha reading?" Unfortunately it seem this disturbance to his day only wanted to stay and annoy his further. ‘Ignore them,they will go away.’ They thought. He can heard them walk around the room, probably snooping.

"Don’t you have other people to annoy." He said exasperatedly.
"Hmmm nope…just you." Oh. That shut him up good. Guess they are lonely, no wonder they come up here. No no no don’t go and get attached you know what happened last time.

There was a clink on their desk. When did the little beast got so close? "Is for you." Was all they said, curiosity

(A walking forge?!? That sound so cool, I just imagine the forge getting up and walking away after Cal and Ast leave, to their disbelief)

"A…talking bird?" Aestus said, astonished that such a creature could exist. "You’re a talking bird, maybe it’s just a really small sapient species. Like the faecris." Caligo retorted back.
"Flare didn’t mention them when talking about other species." Aestus told the smaller god before trying to talk to the pheonix-eagle "excuse me, do you know where we can find Shards?"