There’s an arch humour to the man now as he takes his seat, instantly warming in a way that he’s been careful to not exhibit too much around the others yet. Cards held close to his chest, a careful guarded gathering of information after arriving at Riftwatch. But at the mention of the Walrus, something else creeps into his expression: warily impressed.
The Shadow Dragons’ intelligence reports, of course, had been especially interested in the pirate activity outside Seheron. Supply shipment thefts and slave uprisings, perpetual thorns in the Empire’s side, deeply relevant to their own goals in the region. Figures of notoriety, ones he’d respected from afar, and evidently she’d at least known them well enough to learn the language from —
“I imagine that might earn you respect in salty Nocen taverns, even if not Magisterium parlours.”
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There’s an arch humour to the man now as he takes his seat, instantly warming in a way that he’s been careful to not exhibit too much around the others yet. Cards held close to his chest, a careful guarded gathering of information after arriving at Riftwatch. But at the mention of the Walrus, something else creeps into his expression: warily impressed.
The Shadow Dragons’ intelligence reports, of course, had been especially interested in the pirate activity outside Seheron. Supply shipment thefts and slave uprisings, perpetual thorns in the Empire’s side, deeply relevant to their own goals in the region. Figures of notoriety, ones he’d respected from afar, and evidently she’d at least known them well enough to learn the language from —
“I imagine that might earn you respect in salty Nocen taverns, even if not Magisterium parlours.”