A drop in the bucket

While Sam knew that Wessex and Jigano did not get on (after all, he was making this protective device just for her) he had not expected such a bitter reaction from the usually calm bard and he looked up in surprise. "Oh. I...did not really mean if you spoke as friends. I meant...if she demanded to know." He clarified, with an awkward huff of not-really laughter. Keeping Jigano's device secret felt like it could hurt his people later, but Sam believed in bites being something special, something that should, unless in desperate situations, be consensual...it sounded like all the amulet would do was block unwanted bites, and he could not object to that. "I will, as long as it only stops unwanted bites...if it hurts Ascended some way, when they're not trying to bite you...you'll...stop using it, right?" Samuel He took a step but then felt tired He said, I'll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn't a child