There's a certain nagging familiarity about this voice, but having only met the boy once and hearing just the one sentence now, it isn't quite clicking yet. Break even tilts his head a little at him, as though he can guide the marble that is his thoughts into the proper hole in his brain for clearing up this mystery, but no. Nope, he will need a few more minutes.
"I'm quite fine," he says amiably, leaning over the wall of the canal. "Hey, hey, look here. Do you suppose this thing is a turtle or a crocodile? We can't figure it out."
He points down at the lump in the canal which has caught both his and his omen's attention -- Baltus is likewise staring at it, standing on his hind legs with his front ones draped over the wall at Break's side. The creature in question is about the size of a cat, enjoying what little sun it can get on a nice flat rock at the water's edge. It seems to have a shell, like a turtle. But it also seems to have a crocodile snoot, and rather too many horns all over regardless. Some sort of nasty corrupted beastie thing, perhaps, but if it started out as something else before it became what it is, what was it, exactly?
This is a very refreshing problem to be having in Trench.
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There's a certain nagging familiarity about this voice, but having only met the boy once and hearing just the one sentence now, it isn't quite clicking yet. Break even tilts his head a little at him, as though he can guide the marble that is his thoughts into the proper hole in his brain for clearing up this mystery, but no. Nope, he will need a few more minutes.
"I'm quite fine," he says amiably, leaning over the wall of the canal. "Hey, hey, look here. Do you suppose this thing is a turtle or a crocodile? We can't figure it out."
He points down at the lump in the canal which has caught both his and his omen's attention -- Baltus is likewise staring at it, standing on his hind legs with his front ones draped over the wall at Break's side. The creature in question is about the size of a cat, enjoying what little sun it can get on a nice flat rock at the water's edge. It seems to have a shell, like a turtle. But it also seems to have a crocodile snoot, and rather too many horns all over regardless. Some sort of nasty corrupted beastie thing, perhaps, but if it started out as something else before it became what it is, what was it, exactly?
This is a very refreshing problem to be having in Trench.