[ The first part of what she says mostly goes over his head, though Claude thinks he grasps the general idea of it all enough to not ask too many details. To him, it won't change that they're stuck wherever they are with apparently no way out thanks to the mountain's rather unkind method of resetting itself. It helps to be inside, with someone he knows, so he's about to say something roughly equating to that much when what Wanda says next startles him. ]
Crops are failing, huh. There's been some food shortages in Cadens lately, but I thought that might be due to everything that's going on with Thorne. It'd make sense if something was happening to harvests or even what they trade with Solvunn for.
[ No stranger to wartime shortages meant that was the first place Claude's mind went, all too familiar with needing to find what they could to feed an army. But an army's much smaller than the whole of Cadens, and that food insecurity worries him for the citizens and what it'll mean in the long run while Libertas also recovers.
He takes a deep breath then and lets it out slowly, the poorest disguise of all time for a heavy sigh. ]
We do. They've been crawling out of the graveyards in Cadens and... unburying themselves in Libertas. We've had to prevent them from roaming both cities. [ He's silent again as she reaches forward and watches out of curiosity as her magic works. It's not the same as Faith, Claude can tell that much - knows that much from seeing her magic in action other ways - but the relief it brings is still quite real. He tests it again and there's marked improvement and he smiles. ] Thanks for that.
I only know a couple people in Thorne and I haven't asked them what might be going on there. But it stands to reason that if you're seeing some of the same things in Solvunn that we're seeing in the Free Cities since I'm assuming Aquila also has this going on, then Thorne must have something.
[ His words are punctuated by the wind abruptly picking upside to a near howl, to the point where the door rattles as if something wants in - or to let them out. Claude just grimaces instead of commenting on it since no need to point out the obvious: whatever's controlling the mountain seems to not like the idea of them taking shelter. ]
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Crops are failing, huh. There's been some food shortages in Cadens lately, but I thought that might be due to everything that's going on with Thorne. It'd make sense if something was happening to harvests or even what they trade with Solvunn for.
[ No stranger to wartime shortages meant that was the first place Claude's mind went, all too familiar with needing to find what they could to feed an army. But an army's much smaller than the whole of Cadens, and that food insecurity worries him for the citizens and what it'll mean in the long run while Libertas also recovers.
He takes a deep breath then and lets it out slowly, the poorest disguise of all time for a heavy sigh. ]
We do. They've been crawling out of the graveyards in Cadens and... unburying themselves in Libertas. We've had to prevent them from roaming both cities. [ He's silent again as she reaches forward and watches out of curiosity as her magic works. It's not the same as Faith, Claude can tell that much - knows that much from seeing her magic in action other ways - but the relief it brings is still quite real. He tests it again and there's marked improvement and he smiles. ] Thanks for that.
I only know a couple people in Thorne and I haven't asked them what might be going on there. But it stands to reason that if you're seeing some of the same things in Solvunn that we're seeing in the Free Cities since I'm assuming Aquila also has this going on, then Thorne must have something.
[ His words are punctuated by the wind abruptly picking upside to a near howl, to the point where the door rattles as if something wants in - or to let them out. Claude just grimaces instead of commenting on it since no need to point out the obvious: whatever's controlling the mountain seems to not like the idea of them taking shelter. ]