Cuthbert raised one eyebrow, considering this for a moment. "Should I be saving my questions for the end," he asked primly, "or is now a good time to mention that I understood maybe half of that? You have the advantage of me, seeing as I've never even read of your place in books."
Some of it, he could piece together, from her tone if nothing else. But he was curious by nature, and there was a lot that he was already wondering about. What Spectres were, for instance, or how Nariko had got there. Most of all, how it felt to know something like that. He was used to dealing death, and had grown perfectly able to face his own short life expectancy with good cheer, but that didn't mean he was comfortable with the idea of death itself; what she was describing sounded nightmarish to say the least.
But he shook his head, pulling a face. "Never mind. I'm a terrible listener. Go on, so you needed her to talk to this dinh...?"
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Date: 2015-02-19 09:47 pm (UTC)Some of it, he could piece together, from her tone if nothing else. But he was curious by nature, and there was a lot that he was already wondering about. What Spectres were, for instance, or how Nariko had got there. Most of all, how it felt to know something like that. He was used to dealing death, and had grown perfectly able to face his own short life expectancy with good cheer, but that didn't mean he was comfortable with the idea of death itself; what she was describing sounded nightmarish to say the least.
But he shook his head, pulling a face. "Never mind. I'm a terrible listener. Go on, so you needed her to talk to this dinh...?"