He settles a bit while she dries his hair, listening to an explanation that he doesn't fully understand. He only sort of vaguely grasps it from having seen a city not unlike what Julie is describing in the visions he shared with Sam so long ago it seems a lifetime past—but it's still new to him, the idea that a city would be so packed, so full, that it had no room for a few stables. Even the largest city in Redania has them.
Farms, on the other hand. That he's familiar with. ]
Sounds peaceful. [ Whether or not that's true, it does so to him. A small farm with a horse or two—yeah. It's not a life he's ever experienced, not really one he's imagined much. For the most part, he tries not to let his imagination wander towards places he will never go himself. Every now and again, though, he thinks...if he'd have liked it, a quieter if shorter life amongst some crops. Or would he have found it dull, yearning ironically for a chance to travel? ]
Few places on the Continent are short of farms. [ The land is not always fertile or worth tending, but people will try. ] But I learned to ride on the mountains.
[ She's been by, he knows, those mountains. Only one person that glittering collar could come from. He will not admit it, but the absurdity of the thing on a wild wolf does make him smile. ]
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He settles a bit while she dries his hair, listening to an explanation that he doesn't fully understand. He only sort of vaguely grasps it from having seen a city not unlike what Julie is describing in the visions he shared with Sam so long ago it seems a lifetime past—but it's still new to him, the idea that a city would be so packed, so full, that it had no room for a few stables. Even the largest city in Redania has them.
Farms, on the other hand. That he's familiar with. ]
Sounds peaceful. [ Whether or not that's true, it does so to him. A small farm with a horse or two—yeah. It's not a life he's ever experienced, not really one he's imagined much. For the most part, he tries not to let his imagination wander towards places he will never go himself. Every now and again, though, he thinks...if he'd have liked it, a quieter if shorter life amongst some crops. Or would he have found it dull, yearning ironically for a chance to travel? ]
Few places on the Continent are short of farms. [ The land is not always fertile or worth tending, but people will try. ] But I learned to ride on the mountains.
[ She's been by, he knows, those mountains. Only one person that glittering collar could come from. He will not admit it, but the absurdity of the thing on a wild wolf does make him smile. ]