[ It's very likely impossible to see at such a very great height difference, but even though Sabine's posture doesn't shift, the curve of her mouth does. There's the combination of feeling everything clearer and cleaner in the Horizon and knowing Istred so familiarly at this point that she can hear it—the surprise in his soft, polite, yet very few words.
(It's not that she can't surprise anyone, though that number is few. Kyle knows the most of her. Then, Istredd, Yennefer, and Kell. People who know enough to know there's so much more than what they can see. But it's nice to simply surprise someone in a 'normal-human-way' sometimes.)
There's no surprise to her in his presence here or reaction to hers, her choices, either. Everyone else seems to fall mainly in the categories of considering it holy divine or to be pulled down, or some grey uncertain middle. She's yet to meet another person who regards it as just one more great power in an omniverse full of them.
There's no hesitation or embarrassment in her response. ]
no subject
(It's not that she can't surprise anyone, though that number is few. Kyle knows the most of her. Then, Istredd, Yennefer, and Kell. People who know enough to know there's so much more than what they can see. But it's nice to simply surprise someone in a 'normal-human-way' sometimes.)
There's no surprise to her in his presence here or reaction to hers, her choices, either. Everyone else seems to fall mainly in the categories of considering it holy divine or to be pulled down, or some grey uncertain middle. She's yet to meet another person who regards it as just one more great power in an omniverse full of them.
There's no hesitation or embarrassment in her response. ]
Listening.