[Relief, quiet but fervent, suffuses through him. His trust in Riftwatch is still such a tentative thing, but to hear that this girl has been treated with kindness is a balm in ways he did not quite expect. Assuring, even if it does not assuage all his fears.]
Yes.
[It's less answer and more faint echo of what she says: weapons do not make choices, oh, yes, he knows that feeling very well. His eyes aren't soft, for pity is never his way, but . . . sympathetic, perhaps. Sympathetic and pained both, radiating out from him unintentionally.]
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Yes.
[It's less answer and more faint echo of what she says: weapons do not make choices, oh, yes, he knows that feeling very well. His eyes aren't soft, for pity is never his way, but . . . sympathetic, perhaps. Sympathetic and pained both, radiating out from him unintentionally.]
Which king do you refer to?