Have you read of their [ he frowns, pauses, looks over his shoulder back at her as he searches for the word. the temptation to slide the name into syllables that sounds more quenyan or sindarin is high but eventually he settles for: ] Shartan. He aided the woman they call Andraste.
[ it's a tangent, because he's soon back to the main topic, letting his hand rest flat on the cool stone of the windowsill. ] Which do you think best? They grant us what we wish in wartime; we are accused of using suffering to advance our cause. We wait until after; they say no agreement was brokered, and nothing is owed.
[ she is an elf, she can decipher the little gestures that seem alien or otherwise too small to notice to other eyes. the little shrug to show he is conflicted, the tightness to his lips of annoyance. ] We— you and I and Legolas— may content ourselves with a fifty year wait to see plans unfold, but the elves here do not have that luxury.
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Date: 2016-05-13 06:08 am (UTC)[ it's a tangent, because he's soon back to the main topic, letting his hand rest flat on the cool stone of the windowsill. ] Which do you think best? They grant us what we wish in wartime; we are accused of using suffering to advance our cause. We wait until after; they say no agreement was brokered, and nothing is owed.
[ she is an elf, she can decipher the little gestures that seem alien or otherwise too small to notice to other eyes. the little shrug to show he is conflicted, the tightness to his lips of annoyance. ] We— you and I and Legolas— may content ourselves with a fifty year wait to see plans unfold, but the elves here do not have that luxury.