Watching Bert eat ice cream while talking about the horrible business of losing his home and nearly everyone in it was … Odd. Kaine decided early on that she didn't like it, but Nariko was apparently just fine. She grabbed the little bowl that held the mango flavored ice cream, and kept listening. Kaine waited a moment after Bert finished, just to be sure he was done, and then went on.
"None of them wanted to listen to Bert, of course, so I just pantomimed what I overheard. I didn't think any of them would go along with it but they did. I put Yonah with Eunyce and sent them off. Ignis and Agni lead the Guardians. None of the rest would go back to Farim without you, or at least Roland. Connor and Agni were …" Kaine paused here and very obviously considered her next words. " … I didn't feel so bad about 'accidentally' putting the latter out of his misery. I don't think it's any big secret that I wasn't very fond of Roland until he did what he did, and then more so last night, but even if that hadn't been the case I wouldn't have agreed with what they said. To me it didn't really matter if they were kidding or not."
Nariko raised a brow, "Show me later." But her tone had a nasty bit of understanding, as if seeing in whatever way she could would only confirm a thing or two. Kaine, knowing that to be the ultimate truth, shrugged as if resigned to her friends need for that confirmation.
"How long has it been for you two?" Now was an opportune subject change. Kaine opened her second bowl while she asked, and Nariko leaned into Roland without realizing, a wordless request for touch.
"Three full days." Meaning there wouldn't have ever been any hope. Farson came directly after Roland had gone. Even if they'd been dropped in the Valley they wouldn't have been able to make it. That there was really nothing to have been done about it stung more than hearing what happened. "So Alain not only used a book of spells that's been passed down through one bloodline since the literal days of Arthur Eld and didn't die or become physically misshapen for it, but was actively saved by something that's said to act outside of ka." Kaine nodded, though she had no idea who the hell Gan was. "And by the time we've made it back, it'll have been two weeks." Another nod from Kaine who was eating at a far more normal speed. "Well, I suppose it's an uncomfortably fitting punishment."
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"None of them wanted to listen to Bert, of course, so I just pantomimed what I overheard. I didn't think any of them would go along with it but they did. I put Yonah with Eunyce and sent them off. Ignis and Agni lead the Guardians. None of the rest would go back to Farim without you, or at least Roland. Connor and Agni were …" Kaine paused here and very obviously considered her next words. " … I didn't feel so bad about 'accidentally' putting the latter out of his misery. I don't think it's any big secret that I wasn't very fond of Roland until he did what he did, and then more so last night, but even if that hadn't been the case I wouldn't have agreed with what they said. To me it didn't really matter if they were kidding or not."
Nariko raised a brow, "Show me later." But her tone had a nasty bit of understanding, as if seeing in whatever way she could would only confirm a thing or two. Kaine, knowing that to be the ultimate truth, shrugged as if resigned to her friends need for that confirmation.
"How long has it been for you two?" Now was an opportune subject change. Kaine opened her second bowl while she asked, and Nariko leaned into Roland without realizing, a wordless request for touch.
"Three full days." Meaning there wouldn't have ever been any hope. Farson came directly after Roland had gone. Even if they'd been dropped in the Valley they wouldn't have been able to make it. That there was really nothing to have been done about it stung more than hearing what happened. "So Alain not only used a book of spells that's been passed down through one bloodline since the literal days of Arthur Eld and didn't die or become physically misshapen for it, but was actively saved by something that's said to act outside of ka." Kaine nodded, though she had no idea who the hell Gan was. "And by the time we've made it back, it'll have been two weeks." Another nod from Kaine who was eating at a far more normal speed. "Well, I suppose it's an uncomfortably fitting punishment."