Ianto
Talk of Arduinna was sure to get Ianto into a quiet and brooding mood, the fox torn between wanting to protect the people he had so recently connected with, and not risking the ire of his Fae patron. "That is not for me to say. She has different prices for different people. The ways through the woods may come more cheaply than they did when I bartered for them." His fingers had subconsciously drifted to the leather collar about his throat as they talked, the fox noticing too late and dropping his hand again.
He took a visible couple of steps away as she was suddenly so furious with him, and while Ianto felt the frustration bubbling up in his chest and throat, he tried not to roar it out in return. "I didn't," he said instead, softly, quietly. "I didn't betray anybody, or get anybody trapped. I wanted to show you through the forest."
Rubbing at his eyes, when Ianto glanced back to Amalia it was to see her accompanied by an infant starwhale and its song, the merchant's blue eyes widening considerably at the sight of such a creature. "You don't see that every day..." He cleared his throat, trying not to get distracted.
"I thought I was alone when I got here. Like... alone, for good. Only recently, I learned that some of my friends are here too, and the people I hold dear. I don't want to put them in danger. Believe that if nothing else. Besides... the Fae aren't bad. They just... are. They care deeply about the forest and the Old Gods."
He took a visible couple of steps away as she was suddenly so furious with him, and while Ianto felt the frustration bubbling up in his chest and throat, he tried not to roar it out in return. "I didn't," he said instead, softly, quietly. "I didn't betray anybody, or get anybody trapped. I wanted to show you through the forest."
Rubbing at his eyes, when Ianto glanced back to Amalia it was to see her accompanied by an infant starwhale and its song, the merchant's blue eyes widening considerably at the sight of such a creature. "You don't see that every day..." He cleared his throat, trying not to get distracted.
"I thought I was alone when I got here. Like... alone, for good. Only recently, I learned that some of my friends are here too, and the people I hold dear. I don't want to put them in danger. Believe that if nothing else. Besides... the Fae aren't bad. They just... are. They care deeply about the forest and the Old Gods."
