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You aren’t interested in his assessment of your duties. Whether or not it is impressive is entirely irrelevant and already your mind has skipped over this conversation outlier. Or at least, what you take as an outlier. To everyone else, it would be a perfectly normal if not polite way to have responded. “Rae requested it.” You answer. You and Kai had debated whether or not to hide your lineage but decided that in the end, given what poor liars the both of you were, it would not be useful. You of all people don’t understand why people might find this surprising, being a demi-god, but Kai has warned you that others might treat you even more strangely because of it. For once, you don’t think it has anything to do with your lack of imagination that you can’t fathom what that might be like.
“Magic comes in the standard manifestations, but then as mutations as well. Given that this was a closed ecosystem for so long I want to collect data about the prevalence of each.” Pausing, you flip back through your notes, bright eyes scanning over the words, before turning to Loren. “Are you an Outlander?” Scattered reports indicate that was how the voice successfully broke her way out, though so far there is almost no evidence to support this. Hence your presence here.
Luckily or unluckily perhaps, whatever emotional flickers appeared across the Launceleyn’s face went entirely unnoticed. Kai has taught you how to read his specific expressions, hundreds of them though there are, and how to identify basic ones in others: frowning for sadness, tears are an indication of upset (though occasionally also happy—look for a smile!), and so on. Minute tugs of the lips, and irregular amount of blinking, a propensity to look away? All of these are far too subtle for you to take notice of. Which is just to say that no, you absolutely do not notice that this subject might be upsetting your newexperiment acquaintance.
“Magic comes in the standard manifestations, but then as mutations as well. Given that this was a closed ecosystem for so long I want to collect data about the prevalence of each.” Pausing, you flip back through your notes, bright eyes scanning over the words, before turning to Loren. “Are you an Outlander?” Scattered reports indicate that was how the voice successfully broke her way out, though so far there is almost no evidence to support this. Hence your presence here.
Luckily or unluckily perhaps, whatever emotional flickers appeared across the Launceleyn’s face went entirely unnoticed. Kai has taught you how to read his specific expressions, hundreds of them though there are, and how to identify basic ones in others: frowning for sadness, tears are an indication of upset (though occasionally also happy—look for a smile!), and so on. Minute tugs of the lips, and irregular amount of blinking, a propensity to look away? All of these are far too subtle for you to take notice of. Which is just to say that no, you absolutely do not notice that this subject might be upsetting your new
of course it's exhausting, having to reason all
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
