Part of the job meant learning the lay of each region so he would know right where to take deliveries when a commission sent him to a particular neighborhood. It was a lot harder in the Wilds, of course, but it also meant poking around the newer areas of more settled towns. He'd heard of the Last Whisper on his last run to the Domiciles, and since he had some time to kill before he needed to find an inn Tal figured he could do some preemptive exploring.
Still slender and wiry in spite of the whipcord muscles hidden under his warm clothes, the courier had slipped down into the warrens more easily than his broad-shouldered dragon, who grumbled and huffed and finally shook herself free like a scaly cork leaving a bottle as the steps widened out into a shadowy thoroughfare. The pair had only been walking around for a little while before a loud voice caught their attention, though by the time they made it over to the source a child was darting between them and things seemed to be over.
Except for an unexpectedly familiar silhouette nearby, and Tal perked up immediately. "Hey, Noah!" he called, glancing at the shopkeep but biting his tongue against his instinctive need to sass back at the grouchy man. He didn't want to do it while Noah was watching, at least! "What're y'doin' down here?" Given the place's reputation it definitely wasn't where he'd expected to find the happily married new father and demigod of Vi!
Still slender and wiry in spite of the whipcord muscles hidden under his warm clothes, the courier had slipped down into the warrens more easily than his broad-shouldered dragon, who grumbled and huffed and finally shook herself free like a scaly cork leaving a bottle as the steps widened out into a shadowy thoroughfare. The pair had only been walking around for a little while before a loud voice caught their attention, though by the time they made it over to the source a child was darting between them and things seemed to be over.
Except for an unexpectedly familiar silhouette nearby, and Tal perked up immediately. "Hey, Noah!" he called, glancing at the shopkeep but biting his tongue against his instinctive need to sass back at the grouchy man. He didn't want to do it while Noah was watching, at least! "What're y'doin' down here?" Given the place's reputation it definitely wasn't where he'd expected to find the happily married new father and demigod of Vi!
