"It didn't feel very heroic at the time, but few heroic things actually do."
Not none, just few. His own tangle of anxiety tripping him over, the mistakes that led them to her eventual rescue, his inability to say anything eloquent during or after—but so it goes. Still, no argument from him, a quick smile for her comment that more or less agrees.
But, on the subject of ships.
"After that, myself and my party travelled to the very south of Tassia. There are these temples, you see, each of them maintaining elemental balance, and that which governs earth had been corrupted. Well, they all had, but we started there. The temple itself is situated in this horrible desert, you can't really survive the surface of it for more than a day, and far less during its storms."
He gestures, loose-wristed and elegant, "And so of course, once we were finished, the temple collapsed, and we were forced to its surface, being torn apart by a storm. Which is when my sending crystal came to life, and it was my mother demanding to know where I was.
"And it didn't even occur to me she'd be nearby, but I sent up a signal, and through the sand clouds appears this massive bow dipping in from the sky, sails flared and gems glowing, and a ladder, hanging. It was a rescue, but, you know. In the wake of a different very interesting thing that had happened."
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Not none, just few. His own tangle of anxiety tripping him over, the mistakes that led them to her eventual rescue, his inability to say anything eloquent during or after—but so it goes. Still, no argument from him, a quick smile for her comment that more or less agrees.
But, on the subject of ships.
"After that, myself and my party travelled to the very south of Tassia. There are these temples, you see, each of them maintaining elemental balance, and that which governs earth had been corrupted. Well, they all had, but we started there. The temple itself is situated in this horrible desert, you can't really survive the surface of it for more than a day, and far less during its storms."
He gestures, loose-wristed and elegant, "And so of course, once we were finished, the temple collapsed, and we were forced to its surface, being torn apart by a storm. Which is when my sending crystal came to life, and it was my mother demanding to know where I was.
"And it didn't even occur to me she'd be nearby, but I sent up a signal, and through the sand clouds appears this massive bow dipping in from the sky, sails flared and gems glowing, and a ladder, hanging. It was a rescue, but, you know. In the wake of a different very interesting thing that had happened."