Gale squints into the prevailing rain and tries not to curse. There's a strong wind blowing into his face, throwing sharp, pattering rain across his exposed eyes and brow, and completely blotting out the landscape beyond two meters in front of his face. He can barely make out Dragon's head, bobbing up and down as he flies, and he quietly wonders how they hadn't seen this coming. It's not as if a storm of this magnitude can just sneak up on you, provided you're actually paying attention to the weather before you set out. He sighs softly, inside the damp cover of his mask, and lifts a hand to shield his eyes slightly. There's a vague lump in the distance that might be the mountainside, but it's impossible to tell.
In the next moment, Dragon is setting himself down. There's little grace or aplomb to the motion, just a sudden, downwards drop, and Gale lets out an entirely undignified sound as his grip on the dragon's 'mane' slips and he slides abruptly down the side of his shoulder into hard rock, and what feels suspiciously like deep,
deep mud. A low rumble escapes Dragon, and, in the process of slowly extracting himself, Gale turns a baleful glare on him.
"This wouldn't be a problem if you stopped refusing to wear a saddle!" He shouts over the din of the weather, shaking out his hands where the mud has slipped through his gauntlets and stuck between his fingers. Gross. A crack of lightning splits the air and he realises, somewhat late, that Isothaire is landed less than ten feet away from them. Well, that explains the sudden landing, but his point still stands.
Pulling himself to his feet with a muffled groan and a small sound of despair at the state of his attire, Gale moves around Dragon's traitorous legs and approaches dry land, where Alyce is waiting, soaked to the knees in mud himself. That brings him some small measure of comfort.
"You couldn't have found a better place to land?" He asks, pulling at his mask with muddy fingers to expose the quiet grin hiding behind it, "Like, I don't know, a swamp? Or maybe a marshland?"
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