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Neither subtlety nor patience was the cobbler's strong suit, yet he so desperately tried to live up to virtues instilled. Keeping his tentative questions as vague as he possibly could and not rushing to the point seemed to stand in direct conflict with his need to keep control of what was coming out of his mouth. Not going of on a wildly unrelated tangent but at the same time not blurting out whatever came to mind, like what the whole royal mess had stirred up.
So he went back to work, mouth shut, driving the posts into the hard dirt with enough force to seat them and a few taps of a sledgehammer to really settle them. Looking up at Ronin as he got back, he couldn't help but but picking the brash path. "Look. Roana told me you could be trusted..." he said, voice low and exasperated. Mind grasping at words that slipped by and in their stead came only old things that had to do. "This myk... Are hissed, gesturing vaguely at the door. "A queen? An outlander even. I mean no offense, but there's gonna be trouble, just like last time, when Roana stirred up trouble at the spire. There will be people, angry people looking for somewhere to turn, someone to turn to..." he ranted on and just kind of petered out, leaving the weak statement hanging and kept working to stave off any further ramblings.
So he went back to work, mouth shut, driving the posts into the hard dirt with enough force to seat them and a few taps of a sledgehammer to really settle them. Looking up at Ronin as he got back, he couldn't help but but picking the brash path. "Look. Roana told me you could be trusted..." he said, voice low and exasperated. Mind grasping at words that slipped by and in their stead came only old things that had to do. "This myk... Are hissed, gesturing vaguely at the door. "A queen? An outlander even. I mean no offense, but there's gonna be trouble, just like last time, when Roana stirred up trouble at the spire. There will be people, angry people looking for somewhere to turn, someone to turn to..." he ranted on and just kind of petered out, leaving the weak statement hanging and kept working to stave off any further ramblings.
