Sam listened raptly to Jigano describing his friends, as if he were listening to a storyteller lay out the characters for an epic tale. The names were unusual, foreign to him, which only added to the mystery and interest of it.
"People...o-other than humans? What...were they, then?" Fantastical images from storybooks he'd read as a child came to him, cats in waistcoats and talking trees. Sam had always thought talking to a tree would be dreadfully dull, but in fantasy tales they always had so much to say.
He noted that Remi was absent from Jigano's list of friends, but didn't comment on it. He'd often forgotten things sometimes and had hoped no one would point them out.
"I...t-tend to meet people outside. N..not in the Ra-Rathskeller." Whenever he'd met someone new, it tended to be in the fields or woods. "B...but I'm not s-so scared of strangers. Anymore. They...can b-be friends. You were a s...stranger once, right? Then.." Sam smiled. "We were trapped in a b-book."
"People...o-other than humans? What...were they, then?" Fantastical images from storybooks he'd read as a child came to him, cats in waistcoats and talking trees. Sam had always thought talking to a tree would be dreadfully dull, but in fantasy tales they always had so much to say.
He noted that Remi was absent from Jigano's list of friends, but didn't comment on it. He'd often forgotten things sometimes and had hoped no one would point them out.
"I...t-tend to meet people outside. N..not in the Ra-Rathskeller." Whenever he'd met someone new, it tended to be in the fields or woods. "B...but I'm not s-so scared of strangers. Anymore. They...can b-be friends. You were a s...stranger once, right? Then.." Sam smiled. "We were trapped in a b-book."
