Teba and Saki had finally agreed to let you stay over. You and Tulin had been begging them for weeks to let you have a sleepover, and they finally cracked after Tulin promised to study properly for the rest of the week instead of going to the flight range.

You and him had been friends forever-- you'd hatched in the same period of time, and you grew up together. He'd always been the more extroverted of the two of you. You were the crybaby (at least, according to him).

So now you two were reading in his hammock, flipping through a book about the Stormwing Ark, snacking and talking about trivial things like the snow or the other children in the village.

"Hey." Tulin says suddenly, staring at you intently. "Huh?" You look up from the book. "You're pretty." There's a pause. So suddenly? Out of nowhere? He thinks you're pretty? You stare at him, he stares at you.

Then you both turn red. "I meant, you're... your feathers are... nice! Today! And... erm..." Tulin tries to backtrack. "Sorry! Too sudden? Was that weird? I'm so sorry--"