in tenebris est veritas.
Her rocking gaze tips up and down as well, estimating the height of the cavern and observing the patterns of cracks and veins in the stone. The path is a difficult one to retain, but her feet are trained to remember as she counts her steps in idle habit. She pauses only to better hang the gore crow over her shoulder, her breath steady and determined as the Sword’s caveats are assured. "If I am to bond with any creature, it will be a capable one. Self-sufficient." She nods in Belial's direction, invoking the peryton’s qualities as well as that which can be so rare in various others.
But the final explanation recalled the first question, pulling Chaele inward in a hesitating quiet. She opens a door that she had only just closed, mind reeling backward as her feet persist forward. She clarifies, “I have traveled far enough, but rarely to places with many others around. I have learned to hide and flee when needed, and to hunt and compete in the wilds. If I have seen an enemy like the ones you suggest, I have not faced them. But you…” She shakes her head, stepping as if there were needles in her boots. “They were nothing to you, the gore crows. Your power is unlike any I have ever seen. I do not need your sympathy, but I must acknowledge that I was careless in my ambition. That I desired to... contend.”
But the final explanation recalled the first question, pulling Chaele inward in a hesitating quiet. She opens a door that she had only just closed, mind reeling backward as her feet persist forward. She clarifies, “I have traveled far enough, but rarely to places with many others around. I have learned to hide and flee when needed, and to hunt and compete in the wilds. If I have seen an enemy like the ones you suggest, I have not faced them. But you…” She shakes her head, stepping as if there were needles in her boots. “They were nothing to you, the gore crows. Your power is unlike any I have ever seen. I do not need your sympathy, but I must acknowledge that I was careless in my ambition. That I desired to... contend.”
