"But is it what you want to be?" The question is posed carefully, but not as carefully as the next. "Who you want to be?"
It's a lot of question. Nari knows it's a lot of question.
"You don't have to answer now," she says. Abandons the lunch in favor of stretching her hands across the table to cover his. They're cool and dry as they search out and touch the calluses of years. Sword hilt. Bowstring. Thinks of her own. How she would happily let the places on her hands that daggers have rubbed go soft, keep only the ones for making.
"If you want to join the Watch, I want you to. I just want to know you want to." Its awkwardly phrased, really, and she thins her lips in a small wince at it. But it's as close as she can get to what she wants to say.
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It's a lot of question. Nari knows it's a lot of question.
"You don't have to answer now," she says. Abandons the lunch in favor of stretching her hands across the table to cover his. They're cool and dry as they search out and touch the calluses of years. Sword hilt. Bowstring. Thinks of her own. How she would happily let the places on her hands that daggers have rubbed go soft, keep only the ones for making.
"If you want to join the Watch, I want you to. I just want to know you want to." Its awkwardly phrased, really, and she thins her lips in a small wince at it. But it's as close as she can get to what she wants to say.