Her brusqueness is not unfamiliar, so it’s a lucky thing that Caden doesn’t know when to quit. It helps that she is both pretty and the only other human he has encountered in days.
[say]“I see that now,”[/say] he admits with a huff of a wry laugh. [say]“Though I was hoping there’d be more rubies where people hadn’t mined it to death, so hopefully it will be worth it.”[/say] He’s not quite stupid enough to ask why she’s here if there’s supposedly no path, because she looks more than capable of kicking him back down the rocky hill without flinching.
[say]“Well, because she asked us to. And because - well -”[/say] he begins to struggle immediately, defenses rising habitually as the prospect of talking so openly about being Abandoned comes to the fore. He chokes his way past it stubbornly. [say]“Many Abandoned wonder if she will be more accepting than the other gods. I want to investigate that for myself.”[/say] Okay so maybe he failed the ultimate goal, the allusion to being Abandoned pale at best, but all things take time.
[say]“Are you not celebrating?”[/say] And if so, why?
[say]“I see that now,”[/say] he admits with a huff of a wry laugh. [say]“Though I was hoping there’d be more rubies where people hadn’t mined it to death, so hopefully it will be worth it.”[/say] He’s not quite stupid enough to ask why she’s here if there’s supposedly no path, because she looks more than capable of kicking him back down the rocky hill without flinching.
[say]“Well, because she asked us to. And because - well -”[/say] he begins to struggle immediately, defenses rising habitually as the prospect of talking so openly about being Abandoned comes to the fore. He chokes his way past it stubbornly. [say]“Many Abandoned wonder if she will be more accepting than the other gods. I want to investigate that for myself.”[/say] Okay so maybe he failed the ultimate goal, the allusion to being Abandoned pale at best, but all things take time.
[say]“Are you not celebrating?”[/say] And if so, why?
