Mutual Acquaintances

*Ankaios* · 04-04-2017, 06:30 PM

If the girl was opened by the shock of his revelation, she quickly receded back behind her mask of mistrust. Ankaios could hardly fault her for it. If it weren't for that brief moment of unguarded surprise, and her rattling off a volley of familiar names, all presumed dead, he himself would probably still consider her an assassin in waiting. Mithras and Faria, he thought with an inward chuckle. Not surprising in the least. He, his hellion sister and the small blue girl had been inseparable in their youth. And now that she mentioned it, the girl before him was Faria's spitting image. If with a bit of Mithras' bulk. “I understand your reluctance to trust me,” he began quietly. “I do. But if you've been told what our homeland was like, I'm sure it won't be hard to imagine that I felt the need to leave as well?”

It was the truth. Seeing an entire branch of your family wiped out could do that to a wolf. Perhaps it had been a selfish urge, one borne of self-preservation than a sense of familial justice, but it was in the past now. His home was here now, and he wanted nothing to do with those heathens. “I'd be willing to prove it to you. Did your father ever tell you about the time he and Caia attempted to drag an albino bear back to show their parents, still living?” He of course had only heard of their exploits after the fact, sitting outside the healer's den as they were being patched up. He also knew it was one of his cousin's favorite stories to tell and he would be incredibly surprised if his daughter hadn't been told as well. Gods knew he'd heard it often enough.

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