ABASI
Abasi chuckled, sheepishly looking off to the side. "I have always been focused on the task at hand. It needs to be completed before anything...for entertainment, anyway." Not that Loren was just 'entertainment', but it was the best word he could find for the moment. Eager to move on from this subject, he nodded a 'you're welcome' to Loren then looked over the mud again.
Taking a shovel, he began to take out chunks of the mud and throw it away, hoping no one was on the other side of the window. It was still cold and the work made him sore almost immediately, but he was determined to see it through without complaint. "I hope the change is not a bad sign of anything to come. Sometimes in Egypt you could tell from the texture of the sands if a flood was approaching."
Stepping a little deeper into the room to get to one of the larger piles of mud (for it kept sliding down onto work he'd already done, making it feel endless) he nodded to Loren's question. "Yes. I have selected a building I think will be suitable. It will need work to be made appropriate for the job, cleaning and so on, but..." Hopefully, he tilted his head side to side. "It seems promising. Then of course, I need to make sure people trust me enough to leave me their dead. There is more work than just the building and supplies."
He'd never been massively charismatic, but he'd have to try. He could not rest on a Priestly title here. "I have noticed a new power emerge inside myself. I think perhaps that might help to convince them."
Taking a shovel, he began to take out chunks of the mud and throw it away, hoping no one was on the other side of the window. It was still cold and the work made him sore almost immediately, but he was determined to see it through without complaint. "I hope the change is not a bad sign of anything to come. Sometimes in Egypt you could tell from the texture of the sands if a flood was approaching."
Stepping a little deeper into the room to get to one of the larger piles of mud (for it kept sliding down onto work he'd already done, making it feel endless) he nodded to Loren's question. "Yes. I have selected a building I think will be suitable. It will need work to be made appropriate for the job, cleaning and so on, but..." Hopefully, he tilted his head side to side. "It seems promising. Then of course, I need to make sure people trust me enough to leave me their dead. There is more work than just the building and supplies."
He'd never been massively charismatic, but he'd have to try. He could not rest on a Priestly title here. "I have noticed a new power emerge inside myself. I think perhaps that might help to convince them."
Do not raise up intimate companions
For nothing is to be gained from them
Let your own heart be watchful over you
