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Unable to truly comprehend what the female was saying, the boy had merely repeated one of the things she had said, reshaped into a question. He was curious about it, though he did not understand the full meaning of the words, and listened carefully to her response. It was a good thing to know what to know, and Gotham didn't think that anyone had told him before. The pup had learned many things, not solely through being taught, of course, and Urma's first statement was not something that surprised him greatly. His parents kept him safe and the lands of Crimson Dreams were a rare safe haven. If he ventured off alone, it was possible that the monsters in the forest or in the ocean could get him. What about when he was older, though? Could he go then? The boy longed for adventure, and though for now just a trip to AniWaya was epic, in not too long he would ache for the air of a different world entirely.
As he listened to Urma's voice, Gotham's eyes moved across the obsidian surface of the water, tracing the faint ripples that the wind pushed around so effortlessly. The words that she was speaking seemed to become ominous and fearful, and when she stopped he turned his head to her, brows furrowed. When she had mentioned a spell to prevent harm, he wondered if Crimson Dreams had one of those, too. It should. But then Cambria never would have been hurt like that, and wouldn't have been sad for so many days. Spells should be able to keep everyone happy, as well as safe.
Gotham bought into the suspense the storyteller created, despite his thoughts on spells, and he asked gently, "En what happened to him?" Maybe it was the fact that his decision was sudden that got him into trouble, because otherwise he could have planned ahead. Would he have been able to make new spells, to keep him safe? If they were good at magic and whatnot they probably could have! But it didn't sound like that was the case, judging on Urma's tone. The ebony pup worried for the boy that wandered away, because he could see himself in this story.
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