Things she is good at: keeping track of time even without a timepiece, having a good instinctive muscle-memory for how long things take. She’s lived her entire life out in woods like these, with nothing but the slow movement of the sun and passing of the clouds to mark the minutes. It’s a skill.
What she is very bad at: telling if someone’s lying to her face.
She’s gullible, and tends to assume the best of people, thinking everyone operates from the same baseline standard of straightforward honesty with each other. She’s bad at lying herself; it’s always written all over her face. And so while Talin’s answer is an evasion, and she notices it’s an evasion— she snorts instead, and pours some tea into a second mug and holds it out to him.
“Started thinking maybe you’d gotten ganked by a Tevene patrol.”
This, too, isn’t actually an answer. (She did miss him. She misses most people. Despite being comfortable out in the wilderness by herself, with only the sky and the trees for company, having one person to talk to is preferable.)
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Things she is good at: keeping track of time even without a timepiece, having a good instinctive muscle-memory for how long things take. She’s lived her entire life out in woods like these, with nothing but the slow movement of the sun and passing of the clouds to mark the minutes. It’s a skill.
What she is very bad at: telling if someone’s lying to her face.
She’s gullible, and tends to assume the best of people, thinking everyone operates from the same baseline standard of straightforward honesty with each other. She’s bad at lying herself; it’s always written all over her face. And so while Talin’s answer is an evasion, and she notices it’s an evasion— she snorts instead, and pours some tea into a second mug and holds it out to him.
“Started thinking maybe you’d gotten ganked by a Tevene patrol.”
This, too, isn’t actually an answer. (She did miss him. She misses most people. Despite being comfortable out in the wilderness by herself, with only the sky and the trees for company, having one person to talk to is preferable.)