sign of the times
Askan
07-10-2020, 11:51 AM
For some reason or another her question disarmed Askan, stripping away his frosty facade as he nodded eagerly in agreement. Finally someone else had put it into words. When he said it no doubt it seemed as though he was being pretentious and maybe even a little judgemental, but when she spoke it sounded as reasonable as could be. Like she was just stating facts.
"I know, right? I met a wolf the other day, glowing as white as the moon and with...long flowing hair. Something about this place, wolves are just different here. He shrugged, as it was all rather beyond him. But really he looked like an old lady, getting all giddy over exchanging gossip.
And then she asked another question, one that required a bit more thought. His lips smushed into a thin line as mulled it over, he'd met a lot of wolves during his time on Boreas but he doubted that she needed to know about them all. But of course, Askan couldn't help himself from spitting his biases, she should have expected as much when asking such a question.
"A few." His ear flicked, his annoyance obvious."If you go to the east watch out for the Ashen Armada, or the Ashen. Whichever. Bunch of haughty pricks if you ask me." A confusing bunch for sure.
Rhaegara then went onto give a story of her own, a little anecdote about a woman she'd met.
"It was probably nothing, some people get worked up over nothing. Or at least he hadn't run into anything that had rattled him to his core.