It would have made sense for him to be likewise returned to how he had been, true. Why he had not been is yet a mystery, but he is hardly privy to the inner workings of the summonings, much less how it may have changed in the months since his own arrival. Still, for all that it is very much an oddity, he cannot claim to have disliked Solus' form. Not enough to raise any significant complaint, and even if he did he hardly expects that it would make any difference besides.
(To say nothing of the fact that even he cannot deny that it will hopefully serve to provide some insight as to when Elidibus himself should happen to be from.)
Elidibus' first comment earns him a soft noise of understanding, albeit one still slightly tinged by Emet-Selch's persistent grumpiness. Not enough to be any sort of concerning, mind, but enough to simply mark that it's there, for good or for ill - and perhaps to serve as further confirmation that this is indeed Emet-Selch. Still, past that he says nothing as Elidibus takes a brief moment to consider, Emet-Selch taking careful not of what he can see in turn. The lack of immediate calculation. The implication - slight though it may be - that there is emotion too in Elidibus' consideration; emotion beyond what he had come to expect. Both things that offer some indication as to Elidibus' current state, if not necessarily what he might know.
"You need not thank me for that. It was only reasonable to expect Hythlodaeus might wish to open our home to another."
Especially in this case, though neither can he truly deny that he would have made a similar offer had he been the one to come across Elidibus instead of Hythlodaeus.
"I could say likewise. Though I cannot entirely claim it to be under the best of circumstances."
He has been torn from his rest at the end of his long duty, and Hythlodaeus has only but recently been himself again, before being brought to another world. And as for Elidibus? Well, time will tell on that front, though either way the world on which they have found themselves is not their world, for all they have been asked to involve themselves with its affairs.
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(To say nothing of the fact that even he cannot deny that it will hopefully serve to provide some insight as to when Elidibus himself should happen to be from.)
Elidibus' first comment earns him a soft noise of understanding, albeit one still slightly tinged by Emet-Selch's persistent grumpiness. Not enough to be any sort of concerning, mind, but enough to simply mark that it's there, for good or for ill - and perhaps to serve as further confirmation that this is indeed Emet-Selch. Still, past that he says nothing as Elidibus takes a brief moment to consider, Emet-Selch taking careful not of what he can see in turn. The lack of immediate calculation. The implication - slight though it may be - that there is emotion too in Elidibus' consideration; emotion beyond what he had come to expect. Both things that offer some indication as to Elidibus' current state, if not necessarily what he might know.
"You need not thank me for that. It was only reasonable to expect Hythlodaeus might wish to open our home to another."
Especially in this case, though neither can he truly deny that he would have made a similar offer had he been the one to come across Elidibus instead of Hythlodaeus.
"I could say likewise. Though I cannot entirely claim it to be under the best of circumstances."
He has been torn from his rest at the end of his long duty, and Hythlodaeus has only but recently been himself again, before being brought to another world. And as for Elidibus? Well, time will tell on that front, though either way the world on which they have found themselves is not their world, for all they have been asked to involve themselves with its affairs.