Ariadne had never been very good with figures of speech. After some practice, she'd managed to pick up some of the phrases that the Elves back home used. But she was still constantly thrown off guard.
It was the most drastic flaw in her otherwise seamless, Human disguise.
And it was bad enough that she slipped up. But Ariadne also had a tendency to question some of the stranger turns of phrase. "I can't imagine anyone using up all their breath. All they'd have to do is take another. Unless...they died in the middle of a sentence, I suppose..."
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Ariadne had never been very good with figures of speech. After some practice, she'd managed to pick up some of the phrases that the Elves back home used. But she was still constantly thrown off guard.
It was the most drastic flaw in her otherwise seamless, Human disguise.
And it was bad enough that she slipped up. But Ariadne also had a tendency to question some of the stranger turns of phrase. "I can't imagine anyone using up all their breath. All they'd have to do is take another. Unless...they died in the middle of a sentence, I suppose..."