[Ralston's hm of acknowledgement is a low thing, a brief notation punctuated by some minor rise and fall of his dark eyebrows. If he doesn't seem particularly transfixed by these scattershot suspicions, it's because he isn't. There is nothing quite so dull as a dozen ideas meant to account for all possibilities.
For a moment, it seems quite possible that the unremarkable man across the table from Sasarai who has spent so much of the evening saying hardly anything at all may use this moment and his apparent disinterest to slide back into obscurity. Like he might here turn his attention elsewhere and so succinctly disengage from the this fledgling conversation rather like a surly child unimpressed by a toy. Instead—he lifts his chin from the support of his curled hand.]
What manner of study? I take it the workings of the arcane are a familiar concept in wherever you're from.
apologies; work schedule devouring me
For a moment, it seems quite possible that the unremarkable man across the table from Sasarai who has spent so much of the evening saying hardly anything at all may use this moment and his apparent disinterest to slide back into obscurity. Like he might here turn his attention elsewhere and so succinctly disengage from the this fledgling conversation rather like a surly child unimpressed by a toy. Instead—he lifts his chin from the support of his curled hand.]
What manner of study? I take it the workings of the arcane are a familiar concept in wherever you're from.