(Nice! Enjoy the break!)

"Hey! Aestus is not an idiot!" Caligo crossed his arms and called out, outraged.
Aestus shook his head, ignoring the comments "she seemed to like us, or at least to be intrigued"

"You’re the one who stopped us!" Caligo replied.
Aestus turned to leaves, gently pushing Cal to do the same. Caligo paused to pick up something before catching up to his friend.

They greeted the knights, and followed them into the city.
"You are right, they do look a bit creepy" Aestus whispered to Caligo at some point in their journey.
For once, Caligo had to be the one to keep Aestus on track as they got distracted by how many new things they could see. "I…didn’t realise, how exhausting this was. I’ll listen next time I run off, when you ask me to wait for you." Caligo said, already tired and having taken residency on Aestus’s shoulder, as usual.


(Najaka?)

(Ooooo neat!)

They kept following the knights, having more difficulty moving around the city.

"By the way. What did you pick up earlier?" Aestus asked Caligo curiously.

Caligo held up the object for Aestus to see "my horn!" He smiled, while Aestus let out a horrified "WHAT"

"It’s not the first time I broke a horn! Sometime they fall on their own. Pretty sure they were due to fall by now." Tugging at his remaining horn, sure enough, it too pop off. Aestus remained shocked for the rest of the way.

(Have lore I made up on the spot)

They both thanked the guards, Caligo saluting back as well, before entering and entering what they assume is the forge.

They looked around, hoping to find Shard without too much trouble.

(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?"

(I like shard, she fun, also Cal can be very dumb when he want to, and when he doesn’t want to)

"I’s alright, remind me of Ast back in the day. *sigh* good times." Caligo replied, reminiscing on the ‘good ol’ day’.
’We might remember those times differently.’ Aestus though "Anyway, we were wondering if we could pick up Crimson’s weapon?" The sun asked, Cal snap his finger, suddenly remembering something "we forgot! You were making something for me no?" He seem, unsure, only vaguely remembering.

"Hmmmm nope! But can we help you?" Caligo asked.
"Wait, we have stretchy metal, could you use that?" Aestus interrupted.

(Bit of lore soon maybe)

(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)