"You'd better listen to her, mate. She knows knives. And if she says you'll be safe, you will be."
Matthias has a cape to match Laura's. Mere coincidence. He'd raided Riftwatch's stores just as she had. Stands to reason that something as simple as a cape would be there in bulk for them to take and use. It fits him well enough. Capes are difficult to get wrong, even on someone half-grown half-done-growing as Matthias is.
He grins at her orphan as he unbuckles the strap that keeps his staff fixed to his back. Doesn't like kids very much, mostly as he has to try really hard to distance himself from them, so as to remain wholly and very visibly separate, lest he risk being mistaken for a kid. He's not. Neither is Laura. They're in charge here, and that aspect has given Matthias a certain authority to be the bigger one here.
Physically, and, you know. Metaphorically as well.
"Tell you what. If you're particularly lonely, you can kip in my tent, and Laura can come by after her watch is up and take you back. 'Course, you'll have to wake up, then, and go out in the cold... and it'll be cold by then. So maybe you'll want to just stay. Dunno."
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Matthias has a cape to match Laura's. Mere coincidence. He'd raided Riftwatch's stores just as she had. Stands to reason that something as simple as a cape would be there in bulk for them to take and use. It fits him well enough. Capes are difficult to get wrong, even on someone half-grown half-done-growing as Matthias is.
He grins at her orphan as he unbuckles the strap that keeps his staff fixed to his back. Doesn't like kids very much, mostly as he has to try really hard to distance himself from them, so as to remain wholly and very visibly separate, lest he risk being mistaken for a kid. He's not. Neither is Laura. They're in charge here, and that aspect has given Matthias a certain authority to be the bigger one here.
Physically, and, you know. Metaphorically as well.
"Tell you what. If you're particularly lonely, you can kip in my tent, and Laura can come by after her watch is up and take you back. 'Course, you'll have to wake up, then, and go out in the cold... and it'll be cold by then. So maybe you'll want to just stay. Dunno."