[Her soft hum is a meditative thing, sympathetic in a sense. Eventually what she says is--]
It seems the dream was kinder to me than to you, then. I rather like to imagine I could be so ready to learn a new trade when the circumstances required it. I'm not so certain I could be anything but what I already am.
After all this time, I've gotten practiced at the whole thing.
Scribing, clerking, accounting. Lover of fine shirts.
[All of this she carries off in a tone of easy good humor. It is only after that some of the artifice falls away. A little trace of regret or wistfulness or something else tinging the edges of the low gravely voice which speaks over the crystal.]
A little more tender hearted than I'd like, I think.
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Mostly languishing in the swamp with the other malcontents. It was damp all the time, my knees ached, and everything was all wrong.
[He scratches idly at his stubble. That's not that funny.]
As for the other one, you know, just... the usual.
[Being a Templar and miserable about it, nothing anyone needs to hear outright.]
Glad none of it was real.
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It seems the dream was kinder to me than to you, then. I rather like to imagine I could be so ready to learn a new trade when the circumstances required it. I'm not so certain I could be anything but what I already am.
After all this time, I've gotten practiced at the whole thing.
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[No trace of irony or suspicion-- the question comes from a kind place.]
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[All of this she carries off in a tone of easy good humor. It is only after that some of the artifice falls away. A little trace of regret or wistfulness or something else tinging the edges of the low gravely voice which speaks over the crystal.]
A little more tender hearted than I'd like, I think.
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Mother always said kindness is what matters. ...then... well, she drowned in the flooding of Old Crestwood while bringing food to the sick, so.
[That wasn't that funny. Shit.]
...maybe kindness is a hazard of its own.
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I've always thought it so. But I find my nature a compelling force.
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If not that then there must be something, [she agrees.] I'm exceedingly charming.
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[He tries to stifle a yawn, but fails; the deep breath in and out can be heard over the crystal.]
Mm, I'm fading. I hope your dreams tonight are sweeter, you pretty thing. Please try not to kill anyone in mine.
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Then I suppose I'm at your mercy.
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