Caden
Her brusqueness is not unfamiliar, so it’s a lucky thing that Caden doesn’t know when to quit. It helps that she is both pretty and the only other human he has encountered in days.
“I see that now,” he admits with a huff of a wry laugh. “Though I was hoping there’d be more rubies where people hadn’t mined it to death, so hopefully it will be worth it.” He’s not quite stupid enough to ask why she’s here if there’s supposedly no path, because she looks more than capable of kicking him back down the rocky hill without flinching.
“Well, because she asked us to. And because - well -” he begins to struggle immediately, defenses rising habitually as the prospect of talking so openly about being Abandoned comes to the fore. He chokes his way past it stubbornly. “Many Abandoned wonder if she will be more accepting than the other gods. I want to investigate that for myself.” Okay so maybe he failed the ultimate goal, the allusion to being Abandoned pale at best, but all things take time.
“Are you not celebrating?” And if so, why?
“I see that now,” he admits with a huff of a wry laugh. “Though I was hoping there’d be more rubies where people hadn’t mined it to death, so hopefully it will be worth it.” He’s not quite stupid enough to ask why she’s here if there’s supposedly no path, because she looks more than capable of kicking him back down the rocky hill without flinching.
“Well, because she asked us to. And because - well -” he begins to struggle immediately, defenses rising habitually as the prospect of talking so openly about being Abandoned comes to the fore. He chokes his way past it stubbornly. “Many Abandoned wonder if she will be more accepting than the other gods. I want to investigate that for myself.” Okay so maybe he failed the ultimate goal, the allusion to being Abandoned pale at best, but all things take time.
“Are you not celebrating?” And if so, why?
If he's home, I've got a message for the man above
Getting out is not enough if nobody else can come
Getting out is not enough if nobody else can come
