"I think your gods are far more active than most any 'gods' I've heard of, but that just makes your home unique, doesn't it? Convenient, and inconvenient."
No need to expound on it; but he's from a culture where war has defined generations, time and again, and his own was remade by it, and lives through the shaking down of various foundations. He's supposed to be seeing the resettling now, but he's here, and not so long that he could be worried one way or another. Or believe, erroneously, he's necessary in some inimical way back home: he has friends who are, he's learned, but he can't say with any sense of reality it's the same for him.
"Not quite at one majority, but old enough for a courtesy name back in my home. You're learning, growing, still gathering knowledge and experience. I think all this," he said, gesturing to the dark forest, the hints of the camping sali and other Voidtreckers, "Gives you more to bring back to your kingdom when you get there."
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"I think your gods are far more active than most any 'gods' I've heard of, but that just makes your home unique, doesn't it? Convenient, and inconvenient."
No need to expound on it; but he's from a culture where war has defined generations, time and again, and his own was remade by it, and lives through the shaking down of various foundations. He's supposed to be seeing the resettling now, but he's here, and not so long that he could be worried one way or another. Or believe, erroneously, he's necessary in some inimical way back home: he has friends who are, he's learned, but he can't say with any sense of reality it's the same for him.
"Not quite at one majority, but old enough for a courtesy name back in my home. You're learning, growing, still gathering knowledge and experience. I think all this," he said, gesturing to the dark forest, the hints of the camping sali and other Voidtreckers, "Gives you more to bring back to your kingdom when you get there."