Of course Sam had been weird about Zeph to his friends. But that was part of Sam's charm, and Jigano took it in stride, offering his friend a sunny smile. "I promise," he assured him. "Would it be weirder if I said you'd never mentioned him? Or should we say you just mentioned that he was a friend you'd made in Torchline?" Ah, coming up with a cover story felt a little like cheating. Jigano usually tried to tell the truth, but for Sam's sake a little white lie surely wouldn't hurt?
The birds on their shoulders sat calmly thanks to Jigano's deft use of his Attuned ability, allowing them to wander over the shallow waves, never getting too far from shore but exploring the ocean in a most unique way beneath the moonlight. The bard listened eagerly to the tale of first meeting (and love at first sight?) and his grin grew wide enough to nearly split his face as the story unfolded. Sam's dilemma with the Voice wasn't far from his thoughts, but he wanted to give his friend the happiness of this conversation for a while, and so focused on the more interesting aspects of what the bookmaker revealed. "Ohhhh? And what did you do next?"
The birds on their shoulders sat calmly thanks to Jigano's deft use of his Attuned ability, allowing them to wander over the shallow waves, never getting too far from shore but exploring the ocean in a most unique way beneath the moonlight. The bard listened eagerly to the tale of first meeting (and love at first sight?) and his grin grew wide enough to nearly split his face as the story unfolded. Sam's dilemma with the Voice wasn't far from his thoughts, but he wanted to give his friend the happiness of this conversation for a while, and so focused on the more interesting aspects of what the bookmaker revealed. "Ohhhh? And what did you do next?"
