Worse? A silver brow arched as he glanced back to Astra worriedly, but the reveal drew a soft gasp and an instinctive pulse of reassurance towards the little luxere. "How could anyone see her sweet face and think 'dinner'?" The question was rhetorical, the bard shaking his head even as he sat back, pushing long hair behind his ears. "No, I get that Halo is harsher, but still... after depending on the luxere during LongNight in the Grounds, the thought of eating one is..." He shivered, wrinkling his nose. Repulsive.
They owed the creatures too much to treat them with less respect than that.
He grinned, sipping his own slowly to savor it as Loren joked with him. He nodded gratefully at having an age to put with the face, mock-scowling and pulling his face back into the 'old geezer' lines of the caricature. "Now see here, Leroy. Seventy-three is a perfectly respectable prime!" Prime number, that is. On account of Jigano being a nerd.
If even Loren with his stubborn kind streak was declaring the other people on the expedition 'untrustworthy' it sounded like a proper clusterfuck, and Jigano toasted his friend back ruefully. "Then I'll repeat what I said before about watching your back. Is there anything I can make for you before you set out? Tools or knives or something like that?" Deimos was always very big on handing out knives, and maybe there was something to that.
They owed the creatures too much to treat them with less respect than that.
He grinned, sipping his own slowly to savor it as Loren joked with him. He nodded gratefully at having an age to put with the face, mock-scowling and pulling his face back into the 'old geezer' lines of the caricature. "Now see here, Leroy. Seventy-three is a perfectly respectable prime!" Prime number, that is. On account of Jigano being a nerd.
If even Loren with his stubborn kind streak was declaring the other people on the expedition 'untrustworthy' it sounded like a proper clusterfuck, and Jigano toasted his friend back ruefully. "Then I'll repeat what I said before about watching your back. Is there anything I can make for you before you set out? Tools or knives or something like that?" Deimos was always very big on handing out knives, and maybe there was something to that.
