Rezo takes a quiet breath. Ah. He’s heard similar words before.
(A warm spring day, standing atop a hill, the laughter of happy children echoing from below as a young man assures him that “We're proud to be of service to Red Priest Rezo, the great sage!”
A heated summer afternoon, seated on a shady bench in a manor’s garden, trying to explain things to an innocent girl who easily states “To me, following your orders is good, and all else is bad.”
They’re not the only oaths he can recall.)
Lioriley will be able to see the faint lines around Rezo’s eyes that deepen with worry he’s not entirely able to repress, the way his lips press together as his smile wavers ever so slightly.
“That’s… quite a heavy promise,” he says at last.
He had assumed, without realizing it, that as long as Lioriley thought of Rezo as just a normal priest, perhaps even a feeble one at that, that he would not be inspiring any pledges of devotion. Hearing this should be flattering, but instead he’s… concerned.
“It’s a very kind one, of course, but…” Another quiet breath. “Please, don’t say anything that you will regret.”
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(A warm spring day, standing atop a hill, the laughter of happy children echoing from below as a young man assures him that “We're proud to be of service to Red Priest Rezo, the great sage!”
A heated summer afternoon, seated on a shady bench in a manor’s garden, trying to explain things to an innocent girl who easily states “To me, following your orders is good, and all else is bad.”
They’re not the only oaths he can recall.)
Lioriley will be able to see the faint lines around Rezo’s eyes that deepen with worry he’s not entirely able to repress, the way his lips press together as his smile wavers ever so slightly.
“That’s… quite a heavy promise,” he says at last.
He had assumed, without realizing it, that as long as Lioriley thought of Rezo as just a normal priest, perhaps even a feeble one at that, that he would not be inspiring any pledges of devotion. Hearing this should be flattering, but instead he’s… concerned.
“It’s a very kind one, of course, but…” Another quiet breath. “Please, don’t say anything that you will regret.”