"Oh, I do the same thing," Jigano assured his friend with a wry grin. "Should a miracle occur and we ever have enough time on our hands to be bored we can always keep it tucked away as an afternoon outing idea." As if that would ever happen! Not with the way Caido seemed to careen from catastrophe to festival to emergency to LongNight and back again, never giving them time to catch their collective breaths for more than a few days before they were off again.
Part of the problem was that they were meddlesome busybodies, of course. But even if Safrin was right and he was a nobody, neither hero nor villain, it didn't mean that he wouldn't try, even as a 'normal' citizen of Caido. Even when he was weak and needed to stap back a bit, he hoped that he would always find his way again, back to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his friends in the fray.
He grinned as Loren suggested they continue, winking in shared excitement. "Might as well make the trip worth our while since we've come all this way!" he declared, heading off in the direction of the lowest concentration of distant squirrels. It was another right, curling around in a tighter spiral now, and he gestured to the gentle curve of the hedge walls, no longer able to run straight. "The herb is said to grow near the center, so we shouldn't be far now. Finding another patch should only bring us closer still." Of course, they walked in shadow now from the arching boughs that were beginning to knit the maze together from above, but that was hardly an issue for their Attuned eyes. "Have you had a chance to explore Halo further since our last visit?"
The rodents looked on without even a soft chatter of teeth now, much less a word, and they kept their distance behind the pair as far as the last curve in the maze, the hedge walls offering protection against the magics used against them earlier. Others followed within the walls of the maze itself, little more than shadows within the dark green leaves. It was hard to guess how many had gathered with how they hid, but they were there.
Watching.
Waiting.
Part of the problem was that they were meddlesome busybodies, of course. But even if Safrin was right and he was a nobody, neither hero nor villain, it didn't mean that he wouldn't try, even as a 'normal' citizen of Caido. Even when he was weak and needed to stap back a bit, he hoped that he would always find his way again, back to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his friends in the fray.
He grinned as Loren suggested they continue, winking in shared excitement. "Might as well make the trip worth our while since we've come all this way!" he declared, heading off in the direction of the lowest concentration of distant squirrels. It was another right, curling around in a tighter spiral now, and he gestured to the gentle curve of the hedge walls, no longer able to run straight. "The herb is said to grow near the center, so we shouldn't be far now. Finding another patch should only bring us closer still." Of course, they walked in shadow now from the arching boughs that were beginning to knit the maze together from above, but that was hardly an issue for their Attuned eyes. "Have you had a chance to explore Halo further since our last visit?"
The rodents looked on without even a soft chatter of teeth now, much less a word, and they kept their distance behind the pair as far as the last curve in the maze, the hedge walls offering protection against the magics used against them earlier. Others followed within the walls of the maze itself, little more than shadows within the dark green leaves. It was hard to guess how many had gathered with how they hid, but they were there.
Watching.
Waiting.
