He hadn't intended his mention of Remi to make his friend so uncomfortable. The bard's eyes softened as Sam's speech grew strained with awkward pauses when it came to the alchemist. "I'm sorry, Sam. I had hoped that you had managed to reconcile after his memories were taken. I can only imagine how hard it's been for you." To remember loving a man, and for that man to remember nothing of it... once, such pain would have been an exercise in sympathy for him, but now that he, too, had someone he was afraid to lose he found himself empathizing much more with his friend's plight. "You don't have to ask him anything, of course. He and Ronin are close, yes? With Remi raising his daughter while he was... ah. Indisposed? Now that Ronin is back, you can go to him for help, and I'm sure he will tell Remi."
He withdrew his hand, sipping his tea and actually tasting it this time as he considered the sheer magnitude of the task that lay before them. "Perhaps you could let Maea know as well, tomorrow morning? If you see her at the government building before you head out. So that she knows that her people are being taken and that our northern border is not as safe as we hoped it would be." The grimness was back in his tone, but it was softer than it had been, some of his anxieties assuaged by the bookmaker's courage. "We should make sure we have enough supplies to last us in case we get trapped within the woods as well. You might not need food, but I'm guessing there aren't any shrines to the Voice out there. I'll bring first aid supplies as well, in case... in case anyone needs them," he finished softly, knowing he was avoiding saying that 'Amalia and Caiside might need them,' but suspecting that he wasn't fooling Sam at all.
He withdrew his hand, sipping his tea and actually tasting it this time as he considered the sheer magnitude of the task that lay before them. "Perhaps you could let Maea know as well, tomorrow morning? If you see her at the government building before you head out. So that she knows that her people are being taken and that our northern border is not as safe as we hoped it would be." The grimness was back in his tone, but it was softer than it had been, some of his anxieties assuaged by the bookmaker's courage. "We should make sure we have enough supplies to last us in case we get trapped within the woods as well. You might not need food, but I'm guessing there aren't any shrines to the Voice out there. I'll bring first aid supplies as well, in case... in case anyone needs them," he finished softly, knowing he was avoiding saying that 'Amalia and Caiside might need them,' but suspecting that he wasn't fooling Sam at all.
