flynn & foxe.
Foxe couldn't hold back his laughter at the girl's comment. He'd been called such things before. The young, especially, tended to get wide-eyed and bandy about words like, "awesome!" and "cool!" It was one of the very few aspects of his job that never got old. "Well," he thought for a moment after recovering from the laughter, "our missions are like this sometimes, yes." Hopelessness was nothing new to a Dragon Rider, but Foxe wasn't going to say such a thing aloud. The last thing any of his companions needed was to be reminded of how bad their mission was. "Typically, we're called in for a quick strike and less for retrieval. Unless something's being guarded away in the mountains and no one else can reach it. Or the foe guarding it is very powerful." A pause. "So I suppose not at all unlike this."