He accepted her answer with calm equanimity, nodding in understanding at the difference. Priests were an uncommon breed - and often unsettling. Followers, however loyal, were far more common and tended to be less... uncomfortably fanatical.
Usually.
He turned his head to follow the fish's procession with curiosity before Lena's question drew his attention back to her. He didn't - quite - sigh, but he tilted his head in an acknowledgment that bordered on the rueful. "I am a smith. Or at least... I have trained to be one." A lifetime of training, as it turned out. "But I do not have a seaforge or tools of my own. I must borrow time in my mother's forge." An increasingly uncomfortable situation. "Are your parents also Caretakers?"
Usually.
He turned his head to follow the fish's procession with curiosity before Lena's question drew his attention back to her. He didn't - quite - sigh, but he tilted his head in an acknowledgment that bordered on the rueful. "I am a smith. Or at least... I have trained to be one." A lifetime of training, as it turned out. "But I do not have a seaforge or tools of my own. I must borrow time in my mother's forge." An increasingly uncomfortable situation. "Are your parents also Caretakers?"
