At last he pulled back, relaxing in his seat as he considered the elf. Again he reminded himself that he hadn't come here, hadn't really intended to end up here, talking to the man with his wine. But that whole observation, the keeping his mind sharp, it earned the smallest nod.
"I'm sure it's a trick that would work well on plenty of others. Just pick your stories carefully before that. Don't end with the death. No, be a rogue in another way. Leave her intact physically, but speak to how her heart longed only for you thereafter. Romance it up. Romance sells the waif story better."
At last his eyes returned to the wine, before shrugging. From what little he had learned of the man's world, this is going to earn more laughter. Perhaps even more because Nida's not exactly escaping from the expectation.
"It's illegal. Where I come from, it's illegal to consume alcohol before you're twenty-one. Which by my world's calendar would be a bit more than half a year. Though I suppose here less than a month. I've had some non-alcoholic sparkly for celebrations, played at drinking for certain assignments, but there you go."
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At last he pulled back, relaxing in his seat as he considered the elf. Again he reminded himself that he hadn't come here, hadn't really intended to end up here, talking to the man with his wine. But that whole observation, the keeping his mind sharp, it earned the smallest nod.
"I'm sure it's a trick that would work well on plenty of others. Just pick your stories carefully before that. Don't end with the death. No, be a rogue in another way. Leave her intact physically, but speak to how her heart longed only for you thereafter. Romance it up. Romance sells the waif story better."
At last his eyes returned to the wine, before shrugging. From what little he had learned of the man's world, this is going to earn more laughter. Perhaps even more because Nida's not exactly escaping from the expectation.
"It's illegal. Where I come from, it's illegal to consume alcohol before you're twenty-one. Which by my world's calendar would be a bit more than half a year. Though I suppose here less than a month. I've had some non-alcoholic sparkly for celebrations, played at drinking for certain assignments, but there you go."
And the sharp mind.