"It's the sort of thing I grew up hiding on my world..."
Ingrid sat straight up, her interested piqued: he made it sound like he wasn't born in Caido.
"Did you get here through a portal, too?" she blurted. Hope flickered in her eyes. Ingrid hadn't met anyone like her before (or if she had, they hadn't mentioned the whole portal thing). Could he have come from The Rift as well?
"Gross about the scales, though," she added, realizing that if she was wrong about him, telling him she used to be a horse until she tripped and fell into this dimension would make her sound fucking bonkers.
"I couldn't speak to that. It, ah, didn't come 'up' in conversation..."
"Are you sure? Because if it did come up, it was probably too small for anyone to notice," she replied. Too easy. She listened to the rest of his story with a more sober expression on her face. She wasn't sure she wanted to make a joke about his near-death experience. It might come across as offensive, and he was technically her guild master now (not that she had any respect for authority).
"I don't know how she even knew about them... but she wasn't shy about using it to try and kill me along with Rae's Guardian."
What was it with government officials and defying the Old Ones?
"Wow. Your queen sounds like an asshat," Ingrid said, finding no better word in her vocabulary."I'm guessing my being here means the ascended can use the portals now. Do you know what their goal is?"
Then he offered her fruits and vegetables and brought up all kinds of alcohol. Now that's a menu, she mused.
"I couldn't rightly accept fruits and vegetables, but I'm gonna need the names of all those stalls," she replied. She was Halo hardwired to see any fresh produce as a rare and expensive treat. He might as well have offered her truffles.
"Well, my going rate is usually socks and beer, but I'm open to haggling."
Ingrid sat straight up, her interested piqued: he made it sound like he wasn't born in Caido.
"Did you get here through a portal, too?" she blurted. Hope flickered in her eyes. Ingrid hadn't met anyone like her before (or if she had, they hadn't mentioned the whole portal thing). Could he have come from The Rift as well?
"Gross about the scales, though," she added, realizing that if she was wrong about him, telling him she used to be a horse until she tripped and fell into this dimension would make her sound fucking bonkers.
"I couldn't speak to that. It, ah, didn't come 'up' in conversation..."
"Are you sure? Because if it did come up, it was probably too small for anyone to notice," she replied. Too easy. She listened to the rest of his story with a more sober expression on her face. She wasn't sure she wanted to make a joke about his near-death experience. It might come across as offensive, and he was technically her guild master now (not that she had any respect for authority).
"I don't know how she even knew about them... but she wasn't shy about using it to try and kill me along with Rae's Guardian."
What was it with government officials and defying the Old Ones?
"Wow. Your queen sounds like an asshat," Ingrid said, finding no better word in her vocabulary."I'm guessing my being here means the ascended can use the portals now. Do you know what their goal is?"
Then he offered her fruits and vegetables and brought up all kinds of alcohol. Now that's a menu, she mused.
"I couldn't rightly accept fruits and vegetables, but I'm gonna need the names of all those stalls," she replied. She was Halo hardwired to see any fresh produce as a rare and expensive treat. He might as well have offered her truffles.
"Well, my going rate is usually socks and beer, but I'm open to haggling."
