The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind
She nods at that. ”It does indeed. Bonds are forged in blood and ice here.” Literal blood, not just family ties. Your family becomes those you hunt with, those you trade with, those you check on when the winds howl and the storms rage. Family here is shaped by a mutual need to survive, bonds made all the stronger for it.
Weaver chuckles at that. ”How chivalrous of you.” Her tone is equally humorous, though one will find she is rarely serious. Even when she is, it does not last for longer than it needs too. Life is too short for that. ”These days?” she asks, turning his words into a question. One that’s easy enough to worm out of. Loren had cut back on his drinking, so why not his brother also? Still, given what little bits of information she does know, it leaves her wondering.
She chuckles wryly at his last statement though, shaking her head slightly. ”And yet to simply accept everything they say without question is to walk into a trap blind far too often.” Not that they ever got much information, but at least, she could be wary, could keep her eyes open. ”So then, why keep the position? It seems to me the bargain did not require you stay.” The way she says it though makes it clear she is not saying he should go, but merely trying to understand what held him here. In a land made of ice and snow, in a land he owes nothing to, with a people he does not know. It would be easy enough to leave, as all the other Wardens did.
Weaver chuckles at that. ”How chivalrous of you.” Her tone is equally humorous, though one will find she is rarely serious. Even when she is, it does not last for longer than it needs too. Life is too short for that. ”These days?” she asks, turning his words into a question. One that’s easy enough to worm out of. Loren had cut back on his drinking, so why not his brother also? Still, given what little bits of information she does know, it leaves her wondering.
She chuckles wryly at his last statement though, shaking her head slightly. ”And yet to simply accept everything they say without question is to walk into a trap blind far too often.” Not that they ever got much information, but at least, she could be wary, could keep her eyes open. ”So then, why keep the position? It seems to me the bargain did not require you stay.” The way she says it though makes it clear she is not saying he should go, but merely trying to understand what held him here. In a land made of ice and snow, in a land he owes nothing to, with a people he does not know. It would be easy enough to leave, as all the other Wardens did.
Weaver
