the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
”Well met indeed.” She listens to the rest curiously. The things he talks about happened before she ever made it to Beqanna, which meant either he had been young when these things happened, or like so many, his age had been tampred with by the magics of the lands, like so many around her in a way. So when he asks about Hyaline, it’s the story that she remembers from Nyxa that she has to compare with. ”As far back as my memory goes on these things, Hyaline was always a sanctuary. It’s not a subkingdom any longer as I have been told it was before, and also no longer sends those of adulthood away. Instead we welcome any kind of refugee, and try to secure our borders for those refugees we harbor.”
Easing into kingdom talk, she hardly sees his shift of weight, thinking instead of the kingdom he mentioned. ”I’m afraid Taiga is still considered inhabitable since the Reckoning. Have you heard anything about the other kingdoms in the lands since that time?” she wonders. It seems his self-seclusion after the loss of a friend, however reasonable, had left him a bit behind on kingdom matters, and she would be happy to help him catch up. At least, if he was still interested in the kingdoms anyway. But if he wanted out of the deeper part of the forest, he needed some basics perhaps.
@[Aten]