you are terrifying and strange and beautiful
"Mm, they do." Frey also makes some awful things and does even worse, in Ronin's experience, but he decides not to mention that in this first meeting. Getting the woman - Lena, it turns out - on her feet, he offers her a polite smile and glances back up at the sapling, particularly interested as she reaches out and it offers the same sort of reaction as when he brushed his fingertips over the needles.
"Nice to meet you," he offers, stepping back a bit to give others a chance to see the strange thing; besides, the sapling seems to thrive on attention, and far be it for Ronin to deny it. As for what brings him here? He's not really in the I am a demigod and I am here to prepare the city for war mood, he settles on the most simple.
"I was just taking a break. I train with the Dragoons." He lifts his mug of mulled wine, as if to demonstrate. "How about you?"
"Nice to meet you," he offers, stepping back a bit to give others a chance to see the strange thing; besides, the sapling seems to thrive on attention, and far be it for Ronin to deny it. As for what brings him here? He's not really in the I am a demigod and I am here to prepare the city for war mood, he settles on the most simple.
"I was just taking a break. I train with the Dragoons." He lifts his mug of mulled wine, as if to demonstrate. "How about you?"
The huntsman
