stay this simple

And isn't it just so pretty to think
All along there was some

”Well, the most common thing I’ve seen on the beach itself are people swept out to sea by rip currents,” Lyra says. ”It’s kind of like you said - the locals know how to deal with them, but tourists often don’t, and they end up drowning or attacked by something in the water if we can’t get to them quickly enough.” She hates those cases, especially because so often it’s impossible to recover the bodies for their loved ones. ”But aside from that, we see a lot of folks stranded because they don’t know how to work a sailboat, or passing out far from civilization because of heat exhaustion, or just people plain getting lost.”

She could go on about the dangers of Torchline, but she doesn’t want to dominate the conversation, and she might have offered a different query or topic, but then Deimos asks again. ”I’m fairly well-versed in self-defense,” she says. ”Although I’ve been fortunate that I’ve rarely had to use it. I usually carry the kinds of things that would be helpful in multiple ways - so, like, hatchets, for example - and avoid extraneous weapons because I can move faster without the extra weight.” And she wants to figure out the best way to maximize those things she does carry, perhaps with the help of the gods - after her current quest is over, that is.

Invisible string
Tying you to me?

Lyra