[There's some misgivings laden in those two words. She had heard more than one person make a promise with the Emperor, things as binding as contracts or even more so, and that had soured her mood more than a little. It was one reason she has simply left the Throne Room after, unwilling to hang around and discuss things. She needed to walk and think, collect her thoughts and her options.
Her brows rise a little at that final bit of punctuation. And then she hums a little under her breath, turning the information over in her mind.]
Sounds rough. Not that surprising though.
[What mystical, magical being out there didn't expect some price to be paid for information? Whether it was through proving oneself or maybe paying in a pound of flesh so to speak, information wasn't free whether the creature was a dwarf with a penchant for shiny bobbles or a God.]
If they live near the God Woods though, they must be pretty powerful. Or at least really in touch with nature. That place didn't exactly feel friendly.
[Her brow now furrows a touch gently.]
Are you going soon?
[She doesn't want to outright ask if he like some others needs to wait for abilities to filter back but there's a light lacing of concern to her tone and expression, much like when she had stopped near that lake to check on the girl wading out into it days earlier. Yeah she barely knows him but that didn't mean she wanted to see him (or a lot of others here) go out and get themselves hurt.]
no subject
[There's some misgivings laden in those two words. She had heard more than one person make a promise with the Emperor, things as binding as contracts or even more so, and that had soured her mood more than a little. It was one reason she has simply left the Throne Room after, unwilling to hang around and discuss things. She needed to walk and think, collect her thoughts and her options.
Her brows rise a little at that final bit of punctuation. And then she hums a little under her breath, turning the information over in her mind.]
Sounds rough. Not that surprising though.
[What mystical, magical being out there didn't expect some price to be paid for information? Whether it was through proving oneself or maybe paying in a pound of flesh so to speak, information wasn't free whether the creature was a dwarf with a penchant for shiny bobbles or a God.]
If they live near the God Woods though, they must be pretty powerful. Or at least really in touch with nature. That place didn't exactly feel friendly.
[Her brow now furrows a touch gently.]
Are you going soon?
[She doesn't want to outright ask if he like some others needs to wait for abilities to filter back but there's a light lacing of concern to her tone and expression, much like when she had stopped near that lake to check on the girl wading out into it days earlier. Yeah she barely knows him but that didn't mean she wanted to see him (or a lot of others here) go out and get themselves hurt.]