"Hold Your Horses"

January 2022

“I can’t have yeh goin’ off an’ bein’ a hot-head!”

“A hot-head??” Her veins pulsed with light.

Thomas thrust out his hand. “Go on—prove my point, why don’t’ya?”

She gnashed her teeth. “I’ll show you a hot-head!!”

Hudson saw the fire flickering in the air and promptly scooped his wife from the ground.

“Ghh—put me down!!” She writhed in his arms as tongues of flame curled around her and her eyes glowed white-hot.

“Hold your horses, love,” Hudson winced as she continued to attempt to climb from his grasp. Despite the fire billowing around him, he knew he would never be burned by Gemini’s flame; but that didn’t stop the heat of her anger from forming sweat upon his brow. “We can talk about this without you burnin’ out,” he held her firmly, “or without any name-callin’,” he added with a glance toward Thomas.

Both the mayor and the Aravasti rolled their eyes and submitted to the preacher’s words. The fire cooled and Gemini’s green eyes faded back into view while Thomas crossed his arms and shifted his expression to a dull smolder.

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I'm not 100% sure what's going on to cause this scene, but it hit me visually before I got any context, and it was just too amusing not to draw 😆 Hudson takes full advantage of being able to yoink Gemini from the ground at any point in time, even if she's in Wildfire-mode ^^'

Also Thomas and Gem do get along quite well, they just have their moments where they're both a little hot-headed, lol

Tags: Westfall