Jigano grinned at Jiao's display of godly disapproval, laughing quietly at her zapping noise, which Isuma followed with bright, golden eyes, trying to see what Jiao was shooting at. "A lovely goddess with a fiery fist?" he teased. "But I suppose a deity that grand has loftier concerns than a mere mortal can come up with," he agreed with a nod for Jiao's perspicacious point. "The mountains... I saw a map once, with mountains west of the Greatwood." He said it casually, but he sighed a moment later. "And there are storms south of us, too. How long have the storms you mentioned raged?" Something else that dated to the fall of the barrier? Or were these older?
He tilted his head at her rather personal question, lips quirking in a wry smile as he remembered how Eliza had also poked and pried at what made him tick. "I gave them my dreams for a time, in exchange for their agreement not to play tricks on a... on someone dear to me," he said, expression softening for a moment before he regained his usual composure, offering a light shrug. "And I would like to do something about the monsters that roam during Long Night... at least, within the barrier there were monsters." He raised a quizzical brow, wondering if Jiao was familiar with them. "Some of them seem to be disembodied spirits or angry ghosts, and so I wanted something that might serve to capture and hold them, until they could be returned to Mort."
He tilted his head at her rather personal question, lips quirking in a wry smile as he remembered how Eliza had also poked and pried at what made him tick. "I gave them my dreams for a time, in exchange for their agreement not to play tricks on a... on someone dear to me," he said, expression softening for a moment before he regained his usual composure, offering a light shrug. "And I would like to do something about the monsters that roam during Long Night... at least, within the barrier there were monsters." He raised a quizzical brow, wondering if Jiao was familiar with them. "Some of them seem to be disembodied spirits or angry ghosts, and so I wanted something that might serve to capture and hold them, until they could be returned to Mort."
