-A Few Minutes Beforehand...
"So basically, I can't go back to my room because I'm such a ginormous fucking idiot that I had to fall in love with the one person who is physically incapable of loving me back.
So I need a place to stay because I invited her to live in my room when things were good, but now that they aren't, I don't want to put her out because I've realized that I don't like conflict very much, and I don't want to see her either because that'll probably make me cry, and..."
As Helios listened to the nearly indecipherable speech filled with the woes of a late-blooming dragon, he started to get war flashbacks from when Yara was still a teenager.
His eyes glazed over. Her words changed to the sound of bombshells and cannon fire within his ears.
All the while, Thrudd just kept going without even being able to stop herself. Even she probably did not recognize what was happening to her.
