[ Aymeric flashes him a smile normally reserved for politics — for convincing wealthy men to give up knights and arms and sums of money. They are friends now, according to this smile, and friends are bold together.
Probably by morning it'll be as transparent as waxed paper, and Julian-the-unlikely-theologian will have seen through him — but it won't be from an infirmary bed.
Still, all that depends on keeping him distracted long enough for the drink to loosen its hold over him. Aymeric reaches out to stop a passing man dressed in the native fashion (and more discreetly than either of them, and he shoots a surprised glance at both)— ]
Pardon me — I have heard of an "entertainment district..."
[ The man shrugs, nods, points them in a direction. "Not far that way," he says. Aymeric thanks him, and half-turns to Julian as he pulls him along: ]
You see? Entertainment.
[ Whatever that refers to. Gambling? Ishgard's entertainment consists of pretentious banquets, the occasional tournament, and sometimes drunken bouts in the cold; his frame of reference is narrow. ]
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[ Aymeric flashes him a smile normally reserved for politics — for convincing wealthy men to give up knights and arms and sums of money. They are friends now, according to this smile, and friends are bold together.
Probably by morning it'll be as transparent as waxed paper, and Julian-the-unlikely-theologian will have seen through him — but it won't be from an infirmary bed.
Still, all that depends on keeping him distracted long enough for the drink to loosen its hold over him. Aymeric reaches out to stop a passing man dressed in the native fashion (and more discreetly than either of them, and he shoots a surprised glance at both)— ]
Pardon me — I have heard of an "entertainment district..."
[ The man shrugs, nods, points them in a direction. "Not far that way," he says. Aymeric thanks him, and half-turns to Julian as he pulls him along: ]
You see? Entertainment.
[ Whatever that refers to. Gambling? Ishgard's entertainment consists of pretentious banquets, the occasional tournament, and sometimes drunken bouts in the cold; his frame of reference is narrow. ]