[AW] Sam's Town

He shifted slightly and raised his head. “An interesting outlook, if I do say so myself.” His chest rose and fell again with another steady breath and he rose from the ground. “All of this talk and I don’t even know your name. Forgive me for that.” He cleared his throat and bowed, chest sinking to the earth, one paw outstretched and the other tucked toward his chest, just as he had been taught to do in Clout Rube’s court. “I am Church Ballister” He said, his voice a low rumble.

He had given the same introduction to his then future wife and had promptly fallen to the earth, succumbing to his various injuries. Once he was well enough to speak she had remarked that it was an odd gesture, and the two had laughed about it at the time. She had made him forget his old ways as time progressed but now, in this strange and foreign place the mannerisms held by Clout Rube’s armada returned to him easily.

Speech