Even Mel cracked a grin, laughing into her wrist at this as the anxiety bled from her and the fear of water subsided again a mere murmur. The following silence was pleasant and familiar, her attention drifting into the room and its shelves, studying the cascading rays of sunlight and suspended motes of dust, preserving that brief bubble of hope before they crushed it again by way of discussing reality as they knew it.
"When I raise my armies you can stand among them," Mel teased, clearing her throat. "That won't be for some time I suppose, however. I'm only barely on my feet - it'll give you time to train." Certainly this was for his benefit and not her own that she delay her plans of becoming the very model of a modern major-general. Honestly, she didn't even really know what being a general entailed off the top of her head, though perhaps that was the rock-to-the-face talking.
Levity settled from the air, and Mel took the opportunity to further her agenda of discovering all she could. Are looked capable enough and had been here for some time that she reasoned he must have some experience outside of the ruins that had been the sum of her first-person knowledge of Caido. "What have you learned then since being here? Jigano told me of squirrels, gods, spirits, labyrinths..." She counted on her finger the various cautions that had been thrown her way. "Do you have anything to warn me about? There might be a promotion in it for you."
"When I raise my armies you can stand among them," Mel teased, clearing her throat. "That won't be for some time I suppose, however. I'm only barely on my feet - it'll give you time to train." Certainly this was for his benefit and not her own that she delay her plans of becoming the very model of a modern major-general. Honestly, she didn't even really know what being a general entailed off the top of her head, though perhaps that was the rock-to-the-face talking.
Levity settled from the air, and Mel took the opportunity to further her agenda of discovering all she could. Are looked capable enough and had been here for some time that she reasoned he must have some experience outside of the ruins that had been the sum of her first-person knowledge of Caido. "What have you learned then since being here? Jigano told me of squirrels, gods, spirits, labyrinths..." She counted on her finger the various cautions that had been thrown her way. "Do you have anything to warn me about? There might be a promotion in it for you."
