Tucking his hands into his capacious sleeves to try and retain some warmth in them - not likely, not with the blight still stealing the warmth from his skin, though not as much as it had before - he made himself as comfortable as he could in the light snow to listen. His lips quirked towards a faint smile at hearing 'a bit of everything.' Such decisions were rarely simple or made on a whim, but the core of what had driving it would still prove enlightening, and so he waited.
Nor was he disappointed. Young and impatient? He could understand that. Not wanting to fight to the death again? A far better reason, in Jigano's opinion. That wasn't a price anyone should have been asked to pay once, much less twice. It spoke well of Sunjata, and he nodded slowly, a smile starting to curve his lips. He reached up to brush the snow from his shoulders and hair, but the motion paused as the other man continued. It seemed that his tale was not yet done, and the bard tilted his head, brow arching in renewed curiosity.
"Everything else?" he coaxed gently, sensing that it wouldn't be pretty. Otherwise the other man could have ended with 'and it worked' and called it a mostly-happy ending. 'Everything else' made it sound like it had stopped working, and with a rebellion in play that could only mean that things had gone metaphorically south.
Not all rebellions were successful, after all.
Nor was he disappointed. Young and impatient? He could understand that. Not wanting to fight to the death again? A far better reason, in Jigano's opinion. That wasn't a price anyone should have been asked to pay once, much less twice. It spoke well of Sunjata, and he nodded slowly, a smile starting to curve his lips. He reached up to brush the snow from his shoulders and hair, but the motion paused as the other man continued. It seemed that his tale was not yet done, and the bard tilted his head, brow arching in renewed curiosity.
"Everything else?" he coaxed gently, sensing that it wouldn't be pretty. Otherwise the other man could have ended with 'and it worked' and called it a mostly-happy ending. 'Everything else' made it sound like it had stopped working, and with a rebellion in play that could only mean that things had gone metaphorically south.
Not all rebellions were successful, after all.
