You settle down into a distinctly frog-like squat, your body steady upon the large boulder as you lean forward to peer boldly (and precariously) into the water below. The mention of pretty, shiny stones makes you perk up, though, your brown eyes wide with misplaced excitement as you remember your last real conversation with Jigano, and the value of knowledge and exchanges. "Oh! I got a lotta nice rocks!" you announce brightly, your strange choice of personal belongings finally serving some amount of use. "If I trade 'em to you will you gimme some of the Loreseeker knowledge?"
Yup, you've figured out this bartering thing for sure.
Plopping down onto the large boulder, you remove your pants from where they are tied around your shoulders. From the pockets emerge a truly impressive collection of little stones: some colorful, some oddly shaped, some glittering, some with no apparent features of interest that you deemed interesting for reasons nobody else will ever understand. "How come you need rocks an' fish?" you ask as you lay out your wares, not looking back up until a small thing lands in front of you.
But when it does-- "Oh!" you exclaim, awed and delighted, a hand extended immediately toward the curious little griffin, adoration all over your freckled face. "Oh, wow, another griffin! An' a snow owl an' feline one! You're beautiful!"
Yup, you've figured out this bartering thing for sure.
Plopping down onto the large boulder, you remove your pants from where they are tied around your shoulders. From the pockets emerge a truly impressive collection of little stones: some colorful, some oddly shaped, some glittering, some with no apparent features of interest that you deemed interesting for reasons nobody else will ever understand. "How come you need rocks an' fish?" you ask as you lay out your wares, not looking back up until a small thing lands in front of you.
But when it does-- "Oh!" you exclaim, awed and delighted, a hand extended immediately toward the curious little griffin, adoration all over your freckled face. "Oh, wow, another griffin! An' a snow owl an' feline one! You're beautiful!"
there's no time to be bored
in a world as beautiful as this
in a world as beautiful as this
