WHO: six, marcus, marcoulf, barrow, matthias, laura & derrica WHAT: escorting some stranded orphans back to ostwick WHEN: firstfall 9:45 WHERE: on the road to ostwick NOTES: n/a.
If she is poked, she will poke right back--neither hard nor in a vital place, but she is not opposed to the judicious threat of claws, should the need arise. (She is not, perhaps, a model childminder.)
"If we are killed, they can run." It is not the ideal outcome to this mission for a number of reasons, but it is within the realm of possibility. And it seems to her reasonable that the children might be able to survive on their own, if required. "They are small; they can hide."
"A knife in the hand won't make them faster or smaller."
It's said dismissively while shifting the lay of the cloak across his shoulder. Then, because the disapproval has been clearly stated and he isn't here to debate the finer points of arming orphans, he cuts to: "A rotation has been decided, and I'm to post up on the other side of the camp opposite this one." Their party being large enough that it makes more sense to keep two sets of eyes open. "Should you need anything, call out."
"But it will let them cut things." They will be able to move quickly, stab nugs, cut firewood, and dig little lines in the dirt. There are reasons to want to do all those things, if they want to survive in the wilderness.
But it does not matter. Marcoulf sounds as though he is uninterested in talking further; if he was, he would not bring up the fact that he is supposed to be standing someplace else. "I will," she tells him, and then adds, "and you should, too."
(They should teach the children to manage for themselves, she decides. If the worst happens, at least one of the group should know how to survive. She will start to give the orphans advice in the morning, once they are awake again.
The look he gives her is narrow. Or maybe that is just his face - faintly pinched and drawn, the corners of his mouth turned faintly downward behind the scratch of his ginger beard. It says nothing at all except for perhaps 'Noted.'
The, with a nod and a leading tip of the head, he is off. Opinion and purpose stated, there's no reason left to linger in the girl's company.
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"If we are killed, they can run." It is not the ideal outcome to this mission for a number of reasons, but it is within the realm of possibility. And it seems to her reasonable that the children might be able to survive on their own, if required. "They are small; they can hide."
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It's said dismissively while shifting the lay of the cloak across his shoulder. Then, because the disapproval has been clearly stated and he isn't here to debate the finer points of arming orphans, he cuts to: "A rotation has been decided, and I'm to post up on the other side of the camp opposite this one." Their party being large enough that it makes more sense to keep two sets of eyes open. "Should you need anything, call out."
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But it does not matter. Marcoulf sounds as though he is uninterested in talking further; if he was, he would not bring up the fact that he is supposed to be standing someplace else. "I will," she tells him, and then adds, "and you should, too."
(They should teach the children to manage for themselves, she decides. If the worst happens, at least one of the group should know how to survive. She will start to give the orphans advice in the morning, once they are awake again.
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The, with a nod and a leading tip of the head, he is off. Opinion and purpose stated, there's no reason left to linger in the girl's company.