[Palamedes blinks; everyone who wakes up in Trench experiences some kind of loss, he knows, some kind of lack of the people they cared for back "home," before this, but it's the phrasing that sticks out to him. Something closer to the actual loss and not simply the lack, and Palamedes is pretty sure that most other worlds that dump their Sleepers on these shores do not maintain a necromancer-cavalier system with such rigidity—
people would ask him far fewer questions if so—
Which is all to say that it's not an "I'm sorry," and he appreciates it more for that, and he wonders precisely how deep this empathy goes. He'll put a pin in it.
First: giant bugs.]
At the risk of sounding like I don't get out much, I read it in a book. [ha... shrug.] About the butterflies. A local tipped me off in passing, and I had to know the rest for myself.
[Arguably for everyone else, too, given what he's doing right now.]
There's that method. But really: your best bet is to pay close attention. Sometimes it's down to dumb luck — sometimes it isn't. Nearly every road leads to corruption, so learn the signs, and then it's mostly a matter of getting into everyone else's business.
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people would ask him far fewer questions if so—
Which is all to say that it's not an "I'm sorry," and he appreciates it more for that, and he wonders precisely how deep this empathy goes. He'll put a pin in it.
First: giant bugs.]
At the risk of sounding like I don't get out much, I read it in a book. [ha... shrug.] About the butterflies. A local tipped me off in passing, and I had to know the rest for myself.
[Arguably for everyone else, too, given what he's doing right now.]
There's that method. But really: your best bet is to pay close attention. Sometimes it's down to dumb luck — sometimes it isn't. Nearly every road leads to corruption, so learn the signs, and then it's mostly a matter of getting into everyone else's business.