Jael's disappointment hit Makari like a rock hitting a bird in flight. Actually, make the rock an entire avalanche. The image of the crushed little bird was basically the state of the Sailfin's self-esteem as the Voidbringer gently denied the Nursery idea.
"A-ah..." Makari answered quietly to Jael's disapproval, looking away in shame.
"I... I-I guess we can start... elsewhere," he mustered the courage to say, although now he was even less enthusiastic about the whole thing. Why had he been picked to do this? He wasn't anywhere near the level of expertise as some of the other Paragon here. Why give
him such a huge responsibility? He could barely get around the Hive himself!
"The... watering hole... A-ah..." Maybe that would work, the Sailfin thought. Not a lot of Paragon stayed around the watering hole or anything, so maybe there wouldn't be anyone to judge him or anything like that. That's what he was afraid of: he was afraid of Paragon judging the fact he was supposed to guide another one. Not to mention that this Paragon wasn't from here, so it was even more responsibility. Ah, what was he supposed to do? It was so hopeless right now.
But as Makari tried to awkwardly guide Jael about his new home, some action was happening not to far away from the two as two Paragon seemed to be making their way through the others, and whom looked like they were going straight for Jael and Makari.
"Hey!" the Deserthorn of the pair called out first.
"You, the Voidbringer there. You Jael?" he asked as the pair reached the two male Paragon.
"We're lookin' for Jael.""Red wingless Voidbringer with some Flame tail," the dark purple-tinted Voidbringer described, narrowing all four eyes at Jael.
"Sounds like him to a T. Don't know any other red Voidbringers 'round here," he added with an excited grin.
"Radical, we got him," the Deserthorn rejoiced as the two newcomers bumped their fists together in a sort of victory.
"Super. Hey there, kid," he continued, craning his neck closer to Jael.
"I'm Tyrone, and he's Colby," he introduced, flicking his Slicer tail towards the Voidbringer as he introduced him.
"We heard some new kid came about here and that, lo and behold.""He was from the human areas beyond this here clan," Colby continued, the two Paragon sounding like they'd been together for quite some time, if they could literally finish each other's sentences.
"So we thought, as two 'gon that come from the human culture too, that we could totally become buddies.""You know what we're saying?" Tyrone added, eventually turning to Makari, whom the two newcomers had completely ignored up until now, but probably because they already knew him.
"And hey, Mack," the Deserthorn greeted in passing before turning back to Jael.
"Hey! I know! We can totally guide you 'round this place! Get ourselves some bonding time. Yeah?""That would be great, man," Colby approved, quite literally smacking the Deserthorn on the shoulder, seemingly his version of a good old friendly pat on the back.
"You in?"When it came to him, Makari simply smiled awkwardly as the Deserthorn greeted him, although his expression did change when Tyrone and Colby offered to guide Jael around. While he didn't want to drop the job so he wouldn't be mocked by the others, the Sailfin did find this to be a great opportunity to avoid all the stress. Ultimately, though, it would be up to Jael since Makari didn't have the guts to speak up about it one way or another.