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Jaskier "old-timey fuckboy" Alfred Pankratz ([personal profile] cointosser) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs 2021-11-17 07:38 am (UTC)

[This is torture.

Engagemenet? En-gage-ment. No, no matter how many times he rolls it in his head, it certainly sounds the same, with the same meaning. An engagement could be. A meeting. Yes. A thing to go to. A party. That's -- that's not close to how she used it.

She's talking. About things. They're very important things!

Really!

He's only a little. Overwhelmed.

Question. It's a good one. A prompt, straightforward one.]


Let me reconsider. I'm not sure eager is the right word. More like willing. And not entirely like they had planned it, but partly as if it wasn't surprising, either.

[Which begs the question of whether there is some sort of history in which a lot of people jumping through portals to fall into your city is not the most important event of the year.]

And Cadens offered limited help, only a place to stay for a night or two. We were only fortunate I have been collecting coin during my time in Thorne from performing. So now we have a tidy little place near their markets. [Before the Horizon, he would have said he could not imagine Estinien in a place that was rural. However, apparently a peasant farmer is the true core of his soul (besides the dragon.) Himeka, on the other hand --

To be fair, he has no idea what to make of her sometimes. She is like looking at splashes of paint on a canvas and piecing together what they form. Idiocy or brilliance? (Many have said the same of him, so it's not an insult.)]
What sort of work are you doing? Er... farmwork?

[How unfortunate.]

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