Sol needed to make Dray understand. It was a present to make them happy and now they were just about the opposite of happy. Or was sad the opposite of happy? Dray wasn't sad anymore, and that was what Sol had been going for, but angry wasn't what he wanted either. "But it was going to! It was going to be a surprise and now I told you and it's not a surprise anymore."

"What do you mean 'surprise'?" Dray planted their foot on Sol's shin and grabbed onto one of his shoulders. Within seconds they had clambered up Sol's torso.

"I'm fixing your staff. ...Surprise!" Despite Dray's display of human parkour, Sol was having fun. Hey, maybe Dray would want to start an acrobatic act with him. Now that Etri was going to be Adair's sentinel, he probably wouldn't be performing much and Sol was going to need a new partner.

"It. Doesn't. Need. Fixed." Dray hoisted their way up past his shoulders until they sat astride the back of his neck. Sol waved the staff around, wondering how well Dray could keep their balance. He was pretty sure they were holding on entirely with their knees.

The door to the wagon swung open followed by a voice Sol knew all too well. "Freeze, you two!" 

- excerpt from "Stuck With You"

Dray and Sol are an explosive disaster waiting to happen. Literally. Both have fire magic and a tendency to cause mischief-- Dray intentionally, Sol because he's not so good at thinking things through. Together they constantly get on Blythe's last nerve, but really she has no one to blame but herself. She's the one who had become honorary siblings with Dray. She's the one who took on Sol as a roommate. It was inevitable that the two of them were eventually going to meet and cause about 98% of her problems. Sol and Dray got on pretty well from the start. Sure, there was a short conflict when Sol tried to fix one of Dray's beloved performance props without asking their permission, but once those boundaries were set, there was no going back.

Sol thought it was so cool that Dray possessed similar magic and wanted to be friends so that they could share fire tricks with each other. Once he learned Dray was also a performer, he immediately began planning out an act that they could share together on stage. And when he figured out that Dray was Blythe's sibling-by-choice, he was ecstatic because Sol himself thought of Blythe as a sister. Basically from the get-go, Sol wanted to keep Dray around, much like he did when he met Adair. Sol is very good at collecting people he considers his "importants". Dray didn't warm up to Sol quite as fast, mostly because Dray has such a habit of trying to keep people at arm's length and frankly Sol's bubbly personality was a little overwhelming, but Sol weaseled his way into Dray's heart just as surely and quickly as Adair did. Dray wouldn't admit it, but they appreciate having such sunshine-y people in their life.

Dray loves pranking people, particularly Etri, and can almost always rope Sol into it. With Etri it's never mean-spirited, just part of the bickering contests he and Dray share, so Sol doesn't mind doing this to his twin. (Etri will frequently retaliate by using his shadow magic to snuff out Dray's fire, so he never really minds.) Dray encourages Sol's inventions, partly because they enjoy seeing the mischief Sol can get into with them, mostly because they just like seeing Sol happy. Sol, in turn, gets a lot of satisfaction out of designing new and interesting performance props for Dray. Dray also becomes almost like a co-owner to the tiny light elementals that have followed Sol around for years as a kind of pet. Dray doesn't always appreciate them because the elementals tend to be chatty and clingy, but Dray is sort of flattered that the elementals trust them so much. Sol and Dray work out a way to use these elementals to communicate with not just each other, but the rest of their found family and carnival troupe and will probably train them to do more tricks. If those tricks are to cause playful trouble for other people, well, no one would be surprised.