KORBIN
Remember when I swore
That you and I would never die
That you and I would never die
His gaze flitted down to the paper as she wrote a single word. Korbin assumed a look of mock outrage.
"I do not lie!" he assured her, long habit of storytelling and oft-delivered fibs bringing some melody to his voice, though it was rusty and imprecise. "They will stalk you for hours, miss. Trail your every step, until you get so used to their presence that they manage to slip underfoot. Before you know it, you'll trip and fall. Knock you out cold, and that's death in this climate." There was a certain gravity to the last bit that somehow made the whole thing sound rather credible.
"They bite too," he added, with a very serious expression. "Gang up on you, and nip at your heels until the boots are pecked clean through. Every once in a while, there's a culling of the beasts, just to ensure they don't get so plentiful that they can overrun us all. The Palace is especially full of them, or so I hear."
A light of dark amusement came to light in his gaze at the mention of the Palace ningos; a private joke he still found rather amusing.
"I do not lie!" he assured her, long habit of storytelling and oft-delivered fibs bringing some melody to his voice, though it was rusty and imprecise. "They will stalk you for hours, miss. Trail your every step, until you get so used to their presence that they manage to slip underfoot. Before you know it, you'll trip and fall. Knock you out cold, and that's death in this climate." There was a certain gravity to the last bit that somehow made the whole thing sound rather credible.
"They bite too," he added, with a very serious expression. "Gang up on you, and nip at your heels until the boots are pecked clean through. Every once in a while, there's a culling of the beasts, just to ensure they don't get so plentiful that they can overrun us all. The Palace is especially full of them, or so I hear."
A light of dark amusement came to light in his gaze at the mention of the Palace ningos; a private joke he still found rather amusing.
Remember when you swore
we had it all?
we had it all?
