Welcome back, gang. Continuing from the previous chapter this is Dalv's conversation with Pumyra. Also here is a tidbit for you. Prior to this I had planned adapting Macbeth into ThunderCats and would have had an evabon not unlike Dalv in the role of the Witches. Enjoy.
Wisdom of an Evabon
Dalv looked at Pumyra. He looked at her with those emerald eyes. He seemed to be looking into her soul. To the cats, the evabon were no more alive than the weaponry carried by their soldiers. So why did a cat come to him for wisdom? "What do you want to know?" Pumyra breathed and sat before the bluish grey evabon.
"Dalv, I come to you because the prince of Thundera is mocked for believing in technology." Dalv's eyes seemed to lack pupils and irises. When Pumyra looked at those green orbs, she saw her reflection in them, unable to know what he was thinking. "I alone believe in him. Please, I want to know for his sake, what is to be done?" Dalv looked at Punyra with those green orbs, never blinking. Pumyra knew the stories about Dalv. They said he would judge anyone who came to him for wisdom by looking into their soul. With eyes like that she believed them.
"The world is a big place with creatures never seen before." Dalv didn't turn his head to look around. Pumyra felt so small, so vulnerable. Those eyes, she wished they'd stop starring at her! "The hippocamp, the bunyip, the hydros 'neath the ruby tree. There are things that you cats call fairy tales and nightmares that do exist." Dalv just continued to stare at Pumyra. "Know this, technology is both life and death, and death comes for us all eventually."
"What are you talking about?" There was no emotion in Dalv's eyes. Only in his voice warning Pumyra to be ready!
"Be ready for it." Pumyra couldn't help but look into those emotionless eyes, those mirror like eyes that peered into her soul. She was afraid of them but she didn't know why. "Fall, Betrayal, Slavery, Newfound hope and trust, you will find it all."
"How do you know these things?"
"My eyes are on the past, present and future." Dalv's eyes seemed different to Pumyra when he said that. They seemed like they were constantly watching time. "That power is fading now. By the time of the fall, I'll have lost it and my eyes will return to the way they once were."
"But what of the wisdom I came for?"
"It will come to you in time, just remember that the world is far larger than what you know." Pumyra looked into Dalv's eyes and then nodded, understanding him.
"Thank you, Dalv." Pumyra placed a hand on the evabon's shoulder. "You have taught me that wisdom comes from experience which I have none of." Dalv looked down in sadness.
"Don't thank me." Pumyra looked at Dalv in shock. "Curse me! You won't be happy and in time you'll come to forget my teachings."