He knows what that's like. Learning about White hadn't been enjoyable and that hadn't had any magic frogs involved. He can't tell where her attention is now, but he wouldn't want it on him if he could.
There was another thing that learning about White had shown him. It was that there'd never been any hope at all of going home.
"But there was still something worth fighting for. Even if you thought you lost it all." The word come out quiet, his eyes boring through the earth.
And then, suddenly, he's shaking himself out. "Well, I don't know anything about time either but it sounds like you've gotten smarter for all that, so at least there's that. Plenty of fools who'd just keep beating their head against a wall and calling it progress."
He turns his knife over and flips it in his hands. It's an obvious topic change but better than an apology. "You mentioned a sword before. Does that mean you know where there's just some laying around?"
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There was another thing that learning about White had shown him. It was that there'd never been any hope at all of going home.
"But there was still something worth fighting for. Even if you thought you lost it all." The word come out quiet, his eyes boring through the earth.
And then, suddenly, he's shaking himself out. "Well, I don't know anything about time either but it sounds like you've gotten smarter for all that, so at least there's that. Plenty of fools who'd just keep beating their head against a wall and calling it progress."
He turns his knife over and flips it in his hands. It's an obvious topic change but better than an apology. "You mentioned a sword before. Does that mean you know where there's just some laying around?"