[ She was banking on that as well, after hearing about the bond. It's reassuring to know that she can still support him deprived of the resources of home.
The fact that both men seem to be feathered to some degree - and the moment of tension as they take each others' measure - has her glancing between them as they walk. Alert, maybe, for a need for adjudication. Being used to doing so when accompanying her brothers, it doesn't slow her in the slightest. Neither does being herded into the middle of a group of three.
Habitually, she finds herself making conversation. As she skirts around a seller whose stall has spilled out into the concourse: ]
Why do the tools here have unexpected side-effects, have you heard? [ If she's to learn to make anything like them, she'd prefer to avoid inflicting her mistakes on her family. ]
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The fact that both men seem to be feathered to some degree - and the moment of tension as they take each others' measure - has her glancing between them as they walk. Alert, maybe, for a need for adjudication. Being used to doing so when accompanying her brothers, it doesn't slow her in the slightest. Neither does being herded into the middle of a group of three.
Habitually, she finds herself making conversation. As she skirts around a seller whose stall has spilled out into the concourse: ]
Why do the tools here have unexpected side-effects, have you heard? [ If she's to learn to make anything like them, she'd prefer to avoid inflicting her mistakes on her family. ]