It means something else now. Those six weeks in the Circle (already tense, its edges fraying) look another life. He'd wager he's seen more action than some of the senior knights took in a career.
There's a hand on his shoulder. There have been so many.
It's a certain kind of pleasure, that smell off the sea: Vast and stinking with life. In the Plains, his nose always tasted like iron. It's nice up here. Quiet. Maybe that's what finally pulls it out,
"Dunno how much you saw of the March," Can't say when Barrow left the Order, doesn't recall spying him in Riftwatch's camp. "But it feels like running in place."
Is that it? Maybe. Maybe not all of it. Trevis was ugly -
"I want to have an answer. When we're called, I mean to have something to say."
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Date: 2024-04-02 07:55 pm (UTC)It means something else now. Those six weeks in the Circle (already tense, its edges fraying) look another life. He'd wager he's seen more action than some of the senior knights took in a career.
There's a hand on his shoulder. There have been so many.
It's a certain kind of pleasure, that smell off the sea: Vast and stinking with life. In the Plains, his nose always tasted like iron. It's nice up here. Quiet. Maybe that's what finally pulls it out,
"Dunno how much you saw of the March," Can't say when Barrow left the Order, doesn't recall spying him in Riftwatch's camp. "But it feels like running in place."
Is that it? Maybe. Maybe not all of it. Trevis was ugly -
"I want to have an answer. When we're called, I mean to have something to say."