"I hope they'll pull through, sir," they said politely. "I don't know if our world was always such a dangerous place or if something happened to make it this way. It'd be interesting to try to find out, but... well, I don't even know how to begin to begin, if that makes sense, sir?" They winced at their own awkward phrasing.
"Loreseekers, to me, they're... you're heroes a-and Adventurers and I don't really have those sort of skills. I can read, do my numbers, and copy letters well enough, and I just am... well, Mom would say I'm 'too curious for my own good'. It doesn't feel like... enough?" they ventured. But then they followed it up immediately by asserting, "But I'll do anything! I'll... copy books or study or... or sweep floors! At first," they tacked on, because if that was all it took to make them happy, they'd have stayed home.
"I just want to learn. About... linguistics," they pronounced it correctly this time, "and the history of our world and why it is the way it is, and the people who came before us, and the Gods, and the people who come from other worlds, and... and just everything."
"Loreseekers, to me, they're... you're heroes a-and Adventurers and I don't really have those sort of skills. I can read, do my numbers, and copy letters well enough, and I just am... well, Mom would say I'm 'too curious for my own good'. It doesn't feel like... enough?" they ventured. But then they followed it up immediately by asserting, "But I'll do anything! I'll... copy books or study or... or sweep floors! At first," they tacked on, because if that was all it took to make them happy, they'd have stayed home.
"I just want to learn. About... linguistics," they pronounced it correctly this time, "and the history of our world and why it is the way it is, and the people who came before us, and the Gods, and the people who come from other worlds, and... and just everything."
