What he said sounded familiar enough, she didn’t really expect that anywhere in the world would be different. Half her clan froze to death before they reached adulthood, if they didn’t get attacked by a predator or accidentally trampled by the reindeer. ”Much the same back home. My logic is, if we’re all just a bad day away from dying anyways, I ought to try to enjoy it as much as I can. I made a pretty miserable reindeer herder, always looking for something more exciting, I was going to get more than myself hurt if I stayed.” Her smile turned sardonic. ”And that’s the one thing I don’t want to do, screw up anyone’s chance at living but my own.” She had had so few conversations with strangers, that she didn’t really know or care where the line of what conversation was normal and what was strange lay.
Tala frowned, she had feared as much when she saw whatever the rubble at the center of the village, which she now knew to be the palace, was. ”Ah, that’s a shame. Though I suppose there were worse things to lose.” She made a mental note about the loreseekers. ”Do you know anything else about them? The loreseekers, I mean.”
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