A Cruel Twist of Fate [closed]

[wickedchase]

WHO: Twisted Fate, Nerva, Korrin, Zevran, Beleth, Cyril, Ruby, Sera, Katniss, and special sending crystal guest star, Sina!
WHAT: A companion quest and elven relations all wrapped up in one.
WHEN: Post-Illness plot. The band of merry travelers will be gone from Clouch 23 to Clouchreach 28.
WHERE: Traveling to and from the Serpentine River.
NOTES: The plotting post.

Comments

[arlathvhen]

...Are you really happy? Not having a clan? Being out here, with the humans and the city elves?

[ It could sound accusatory, but Twisted Fate is probably skilled enough at reading people that he can tell there's something else behind it. Her expression is genuine curiosity, tone probing. As if, perhaps, she wants to know if it's really possible to be separated from your clan. ]

[wickedchase]

[For a moment, he wondered if it was accusatory, as it had been in the past. But there is a different tone, and he looks in her eyes.

This isn't her judging him. This is her asking, with sincerity.]

For all that I have experienced, I would not change my lifestyle. Humans, city elves, Vashoth, the occasional dwarf -- I am as happy as I could be.

I understand that having a clan can give you a sense of knowing you always have a place to belong, a place to go home to. Not that I've necessarily had the experience myself, but I can comprehend what others feel regarding that. But for me, there's too much of the outside world to see for myself to really consider joining a clan again.

[arlathvhen]

[ She listens quietly, and doesn't nod, because that would be too much like agreeing, and she can't agree, not yet. But she doesn't frown, or huff, or do anything negative, either. She is as deliberately neutral as she can be. But then she glances at him, and tilts her head. ]

Don't you get lonely?