like the sea, constantly changing from calm to ill.
He can read that she is slightly irritated, a side-eye glance perhaps, at his concern but it was not a true concern for her. The concern was placed with him and how he would act or choose not to act on it. If he's in the right state of mind to make a conscious decision, that is. Loam, he thinks is a different name. It seems so neutral, unlike his. What was his mother thinking? It means mischievous...lately, he has not lived up to that name but it is not because he isn't capable.
As her observes the mare a little longer, he calculates that she appears disappointed with his arrival. She mentions 'of nowhere' and he wonders how that can be, you always are from somewhere; even if you're on your way elsewhere. Sarcasm? Perhaps, it was a gift lost on Rapscallion. The buckskin finally decides that it is a social norm (he's learning) to respond to those you meet. "You seem to be a little disappointed," he says, bluntly, "Not finding what you want? And really, you can't be from nowhere - even the magicians here spawned from atoms and other assorted things."
Always so technical.
.r a p s c a l l i o n.