"I don't know if it's 'fancy' so much as just a well-known name here," the bard reassured the thief with a wry grin. "Though... I suppose it won't be anymore." Damn, things were getting depressing fast. He drank some more from his own bottle, nodding in agreement to Adam's opinion of Maea and wishing he had gotten more cider while they had the chance... cold blooded as the thought was. He raised a silent toast to the missing Loreseeker, drinking again in her honor before he shared the grim mood with Adam and the tragically lost tall boots the man seemed to favor.
"Still, keep up the leather with some care and polish, and all you'd really need is re-soling every few years," he suggested thoughtfully. "Good boots will last a man a long time with a bit of work." Not that Adam seemed the type to seek out work, but his diligence in learning to read proved he could do it when he was motivated, which was part of what endeared him to Jigano in the first place.
"Hm? Bastien? I assumed he just did it for the appearance of being hoity-toity still," Jigano admitted with a chuckle. "That, or habit. I couldn't believe it when I found out he had become an Ascended. A man who loves hedonism, taste, touch, food and wine... always seemed strange to me, that he'd trade it for a body that couldn't appreciate so many of life's pleasures." He shrugged, though, for he had never known Bastien well and Rex seemed to think there was more to the man than just the pursuit of sensation and pleasure. There was a thought... if Bastien had never Ascended, would Rex have chosen that road without him to push her down it?
An unpleasant thought echoing a recently unpleasant conversation with a friend, and one he didn't want to dwell on at the moment. "Actually, I was the son of a fairly modest smith in a town that had too many smiths," he told Adam with a chuckle, relaxing back into his chair. "We were respectably modest by the local standards. Not poor, but never with much extra after the necessities were paid for. I loved to learn, though, and explore, even as a boy. Spent a lot of time in the temple school learning from Konor. I ended up a wanderer, though, so I actually didn't have nearly as many books as I wished I could carry with me." His smile turned wry as he watched the companions playing by the fire. "Money came and went with my travels, but I was poor more often than I was rich, and never noble." He glanced back at Adam with a raised brow. "What about you? Did you ever come across an unattended large sum of money? And what did you do with it, if you did?"
"Still, keep up the leather with some care and polish, and all you'd really need is re-soling every few years," he suggested thoughtfully. "Good boots will last a man a long time with a bit of work." Not that Adam seemed the type to seek out work, but his diligence in learning to read proved he could do it when he was motivated, which was part of what endeared him to Jigano in the first place.
"Hm? Bastien? I assumed he just did it for the appearance of being hoity-toity still," Jigano admitted with a chuckle. "That, or habit. I couldn't believe it when I found out he had become an Ascended. A man who loves hedonism, taste, touch, food and wine... always seemed strange to me, that he'd trade it for a body that couldn't appreciate so many of life's pleasures." He shrugged, though, for he had never known Bastien well and Rex seemed to think there was more to the man than just the pursuit of sensation and pleasure. There was a thought... if Bastien had never Ascended, would Rex have chosen that road without him to push her down it?
An unpleasant thought echoing a recently unpleasant conversation with a friend, and one he didn't want to dwell on at the moment. "Actually, I was the son of a fairly modest smith in a town that had too many smiths," he told Adam with a chuckle, relaxing back into his chair. "We were respectably modest by the local standards. Not poor, but never with much extra after the necessities were paid for. I loved to learn, though, and explore, even as a boy. Spent a lot of time in the temple school learning from Konor. I ended up a wanderer, though, so I actually didn't have nearly as many books as I wished I could carry with me." His smile turned wry as he watched the companions playing by the fire. "Money came and went with my travels, but I was poor more often than I was rich, and never noble." He glanced back at Adam with a raised brow. "What about you? Did you ever come across an unattended large sum of money? And what did you do with it, if you did?"
