"Ah, a swordpoint wedding?" he asked with a knowing grin. It wasn't hard to imagine Adam despoiling maidens fair... but then, Heidi sounded like she might have done some despoiling of her own, when it came to the rogue. "Are they from an animal's claws?" A line of five like that could have come from clawed fingers, too, though he didn't know what sort of beasts - two-legged or otherwise - walked Adam's world.
He snorted at Adam's sly question, taking a moment to savor his cider as thoughts clashed and swirled in his head. He was glad he had when Adam spoke again, and Jigano nodded soberly. "She's Queen of the Ascended," he said with a shrug. "She'll help out everyone else as a side-effect of that... but her loyalties are to her goddess first, her race a close second, and everyone else? A very distant third, I'd say. And she's shit at any attempt at actual diplomacy or negotiations." He held back the lingering anger with help from the booze warming and relaxing him from within, and the shift to talking about lost loved ones quenched it before it could ruin an otherwise-enjoyable evening.
"Mmm. My parents died several years back, and I didn't have any other blood family that I knew of. But... yes. Some close friends who I walked away from in an attempt to punish myself, without realizing how much I was punishing them as well." He sighed, swirling the liquid in his bottle before taking a longer drink. "Isuma is named after one of them. Hiraku was another. Val. Casandalee..." He trailed off with a sigh, raising another toast to them before turning his attention back to Adam. "What of you? Any good friends or companions on the roads you traveled? Brothers in arms, or in trouble?"
He snorted at Adam's sly question, taking a moment to savor his cider as thoughts clashed and swirled in his head. He was glad he had when Adam spoke again, and Jigano nodded soberly. "She's Queen of the Ascended," he said with a shrug. "She'll help out everyone else as a side-effect of that... but her loyalties are to her goddess first, her race a close second, and everyone else? A very distant third, I'd say. And she's shit at any attempt at actual diplomacy or negotiations." He held back the lingering anger with help from the booze warming and relaxing him from within, and the shift to talking about lost loved ones quenched it before it could ruin an otherwise-enjoyable evening.
"Mmm. My parents died several years back, and I didn't have any other blood family that I knew of. But... yes. Some close friends who I walked away from in an attempt to punish myself, without realizing how much I was punishing them as well." He sighed, swirling the liquid in his bottle before taking a longer drink. "Isuma is named after one of them. Hiraku was another. Val. Casandalee..." He trailed off with a sigh, raising another toast to them before turning his attention back to Adam. "What of you? Any good friends or companions on the roads you traveled? Brothers in arms, or in trouble?"
