there was no where for me to stay, but I stayed anyway
Blinking as if this might somehow encourage his mind to connect the word with their surroundings in a way which made sense, Everest is left only making himself slightly sun blinded. "Shiny.." Pausing, the aviator looks down at his notebook and writes the word in precise little letters as if it might be some clue over which to puzzle later.
Though the war was over and done with, as were the ascended, Everest still found himself incredibly uncertain about the morality of what and how everything had happened such that the mention of his instrument potentially being ascended tech had the boy swallowing hard. "Oh, no. It's just...it's called a quadrant." He explains, both looking and sounding a touch guilty as if the insinuation alone that it might be ascended tech was enough to render it improper to have.
"This part here is called the plumb bob, and this is a spirit level." Holding it up to demonstrate how the various components were meant to capture the rise and fall of the Righteous Road and how it slanted back down toward the sea, Ever glanced to Koa to see if the dragoon believed him.
Though the war was over and done with, as were the ascended, Everest still found himself incredibly uncertain about the morality of what and how everything had happened such that the mention of his instrument potentially being ascended tech had the boy swallowing hard. "Oh, no. It's just...it's called a quadrant." He explains, both looking and sounding a touch guilty as if the insinuation alone that it might be ascended tech was enough to render it improper to have.
"This part here is called the plumb bob, and this is a spirit level." Holding it up to demonstrate how the various components were meant to capture the rise and fall of the Righteous Road and how it slanted back down toward the sea, Ever glanced to Koa to see if the dragoon believed him.
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